Dig For Victory

[gmcclelland1992]

But, Sir I do like standing in a queue. I can contemplate the meaning of the universe in that time.

[davidhaythornthwaite]

i have had a allotment for over 40yrs now, 1 pleasure in life i really enjoy doing, also keep my own hens and geese its all fun 365 days of the year

[97WarriorGrad]

I love these old wartime reels, especially the ones about gardening and being resourceful, rather than wasteful. When it came to gardening in the ground -- I sucked at it! Then, I made loads of homemade organic compost, poured it into flower pots, added my seedlings (and some mycorrhizal fungi), and soon I had wonderful veggies! Yes, you can start a garden anywhere -- no excuses.

[fernandis86]

Wow! Remember studying about WW2, during school days. "Dig for Victory" was one of our first study projects. I think todays young generation can learn a couple of lessons from these war-period videos to see how lucky they are! Cheers! XD

[hoodz37]

2:27  "for goodness sake, keep your spade clean!"

[Terrra91]

This is inspiring, if you ever wanna lose weight the wartime diet balls to the atkins diet and all that, just eat what we did in ww2.

If we learn from stuff like this and use the Cuban model as a template I bet unemployment would fall from self sufficiency. Everyone always bangs on about British jobs for British workers-well why isn't no one doing owt?

[SuperGareth007]

I'm 17 years old and I have suddenly got the urge to go out and rent an allotment for the council, I want to grow vegtables. The Good Life here i come. Up yours globilization and consumerism, Im growing my own.

[namffocevets]

to me gardening is very relaxing .gives you time to think .go at your own pace.and you don't have some pillock telling you what to do

[rosrychaplet]

isn't an hour in the garden better than an hour in the qeue (line)?

[loisgill]

Ten rods, not 10 feet.

[rosrychaplet]

@loisgill what is ten rods equivalent to?

[loisgill]

@rosrychaplet A rod is 16.5 feet, so 165 feet.

[rosrychaplet]

VICTORY GARDEN 10ft lot helps a family of five.

[emilicon]

As an expat Australian, I've been waiting for ages to have YouTube show videos how we used to watch them when I was growing up, Down Under, thanks YouTube, love the new format!

[mandonka357]

thanks this was excellent.. perhaps the government should be showing similar films and implimenting the same values today!!

[bbbadchild]

@mandonka357 I was about write the same thing... self sufficiency way forward