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THE FUN TOPIC of the day/week/month/year is the new interest in home gardening.
Even the White House is getting in on the act. Mrs. Obama and some school kids broke ground last week for the White House Vegetable Garden. So much has been written about food safety, sustainability, availability, self-sufficiency in a the recession, I won't bore you with repeating it here. Every news channel, newpaper, blog, radio program, internet site is on board.
In the world of old timey gardeners (by that, I mean me, and anyone who has been gardening the last few years/decades), one of the interesting questions is this: "Will the newbies be bit by the bug?"
In the last five years, the numbers of attendees at garden shows everywhere have been declining, in some cases, precipitously. Retail nurseries have been scratching their collective heads, conducting expensive surveys of thirty-somethings, and trying to figure out how to get Gen X to come play in the dirt. Who knew it would be this nation's disgraceful financial disaster that would ultimately bring folks back down to earth?
Go forward my friends with your sowing and and tending and reaping and harvesting. It will keep your mind off your miserable 401 now 101K. Know this: at least you can feed yourself. Just remember : keep the wild boars out of your garden.
Here are some inpirational nostalgic posters from the Victory Garden programs of World Wars I and II, and thought I'd share them. In the words of Obama, YES WE CAN!
WW I poster
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