Daisy Dunn

The best podcasts for all your corona-gardening needs

From wartime window boxes to plant identification apps

American Victory Garden poster from 1943. Photo: Swim Ink 2, LLC / Corbis / Getty Images 
issue 18 July 2020
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The American diet was probably at its healthiest in the second world war. Fearing interruption to supply chains, Washington launched a national Victory Gardening programme within a fortnight of Pearl Harbor, and saw two thirds of the population heed the cry to fill their backyards, rooftops and window boxes with veg.

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