Here are some statistics about wartime fruit- and vegetable-growing in England which this book tells us. In 1942-3, there were 1,750,000 allotments, amounting to 100,000 acres, or an area the size of Rutland. But in a 1944 survey, it was discovered that only 34 per cent of urban gardens were growing fruit and vegetables, and only 10.9
Ysenda Maxtone Graham
A Green and Pleasant Land: How England’s Gardeners Fought the Second World War, by Ursula Buchan – review

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