1942 – More City Farming in the War Years
Victory Garden at Town House. USA
1943. Photographer: Walter Sanders
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Crop Report from Radio City’s ‘Victory Garden’ – New York
by Russell Muloney
New Yorker, August 8, 1942
A Lady who knows a thing or two about farming called us up with a detailed indictment of the victory garden at Radio City Promenade: the tomato plants, she said, appeared to be bearing no fruit, the broccoli had been allowed to go to seed, the squash plants had large blossoms but no squashes, the cornstalks were tied with string to supports, in a way she found effete — “and who, God wot, eats Swiss chard? — she concluded.
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