Victory/Recession Gardens

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Are you worried about the economy & trying to think of ways to stretch your paycheck? Try starting a vegetable garden. Vegetable gardening is rewarding, takes your mind off your worries, & it's a valuable lesson for your children.

I started my first garden in 1973 during the stock market crash, oil crisis & stagflation to save money. When I was laid off in early 90s, the vegetable garden took a large part of the burden off my shoulders, feeding my wife & children.

I hope that those that are interested in starting their own Victory Garden will take their questions to the Living Green thread. Ris & I would enjoy answering your questions, and I know that there are others here on Dims that would enjoy helping newbie gardeners.

Here's a photo of some our produce we picked this last weekend.

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Hard economic times are acting like instant fertilizer on an industry that had been growing slowly: home vegetable gardening.

Amid the Washington talk of "shovel-ready" recession projects, it appears few projects are more shovel-ready than backyard gardens. Veggie seed sales are up double-digits at the nation's biggest seed sellers this year.

What's more, the number of homes growing vegetables will jump more than 40% this year compared with just two years ago, projects the National Gardening Association, a non-profit organization for gardening education.

"As the economy goes down, food gardening goes up," says Bruce Butterfield, the group's research director. "We haven't seen this kind of spike in 30 years."...

 

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