GARDENS (aka BOMB CRATER, BLITZED GARDENS) (issue title - WHAT GOES ON?)
Thanks to Michael Levenston's blog at City Farmer, I found an excellent British Pathé film of an extraordinary Victory Garden planted by Mr. Hayes in a bomb crater located in "the shadow of Westminster Cathedral. The text has some great slogans:
Everything the average allotment grows on his plot, Mr Hayes grows in his crater.
Mr Hayes certainly how many beans make five.
That patch was one a bomb crater but Jerry didn't know he was going to say it with flowers.
What was once a bomb has now been transformed into a boon.
Ruins into radishes, litter into leeks and do these girls know their onions!
...Cabbages where cabs were ranked, Londoners can take it and grow it!
I am currently looking for photos of Victory gardens in Vancouver. Also, I am wondering if city hall had victory gardens in WWII where the community garden is planted right now. You can comment below or contact me here: beespeaker[at]gmail[dot]com.
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