[lbo-talk] omg! she's digging in the dirt! go ma belle!

[Carrol Cox]

Up until the '50s anyhow (probably varying from region to region) one
reason some might grow at least a small garden would have been for
luxuries not available on grocery shelves -- leaf letturce, green
onions, radishes. My memory is pretty dim here, but I'm fairly confident
that even large supermarkets pre-war did not have much in the way of
fresh produce. The point during the war was that all canned foods were
rationed, Your ration of sugar was larger if you canned fruit: I think
that was only for fruit farmers.

Carrol