Winter Work In The Garden - Wartime Gardening 1943 WWII
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- Wartime gardening. Planting vegetables and work that can be done in the garden during winter. Visit www.findaclip.co.uk for more information about this footage.
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I loved watching this video, we need more like this one. I have learned a lot about gardening.
Digging for Victory.
Great Britain really came together. 🇬🇧
I always work in the Garden in my suit, It impresses the crops.
During WW2 onions were a treasure for the British during the war. You could win one as a prize, is how rare they were. At least for the common person anyway.
These movies sure do make you count your blessings. Although, I do like to garden.
Come with me, son. We have gardening to do.
Oh, and don't forget to put on your farming suit
Zombycow 😂🤣😅
Maybe so, but they put boots on for getting muddy.
Thats how people did it then and even Percy Thrower, Geoffrey Smith of UK gardening yesteryear.
Pride in appearance.
N9 bloody jeans or t shirts back then.
Well, a gentleman still has to look his best.
In the middle of the war everything was rationed if you were lucky enough to have a jacket and it was not your best jacket regardless if it were a suit or anything else you felt grateful .you will notice the lady has overshoes which were made to protect the very precious leather shoes as they would not have the ability to acquire new ones once they were worn out. Make do and mend was the order of the day
I am taking advice from this for my vegetable in the present moment.
Priceless old film ❤
I love it ! They both have suits on while in the garden.. I use to see that way back when men went to baseball games..How time had changed..
oblivion nation: My dad always mowed the grass in his grubbies, but it was still kakies and a dress shirt so the neighborhood kids called him the man who mows the grass in his suit. LOL. Thanks for your fun comment.
@@franlooving4203 In the 60s my father wore a suit, white shirt and tie to go to the movies and my mother and sisters would dress up, too. That'd look very strange today.
We also dressed in our Sunday clothes for Thanksgiving dinner.
I forgot to mention that my grandfather wore a plaid or herringbone wool blazer, white shirt and tie every day at home for as long as he was alive. I never once saw my grandmother in pants.
@@happydays1336 Love it. Glad I don't mind looking strange because I love to dress up. I love suits on men and ladies dressed up. Woohoo. Be safe out there.
@ oblivion nation. My father out On his suit and Hat to go to a football game in the big city. Virginia in Ohio
Excellent video! and still relevant today in 2019!
Hank Austin exactly! I put a garden out every year and I learned several new things that I need to be doing. Looking forward to planting season to see the difference.
Excellent old video that I enjoyed watching. I've gardened for most of my life and tillers and other machinery made it much easier than the people in this video had it. Might not have been so bad when I was 30 but I'm more than twice that now and think I'll stick to container gardening.
A delicious way to fix parsnips like my mother used to do: cut them in sticks (like carrots) and saute them in butter, some brown sugar and cinnamon until soft. Yum!
These guys are gardening with suits on...
We've never used chit boxes before. This will be out first year to try them because I saw it in this film. :)
Some people believe in eating seasonally. You only eat what is naturally available. Makes what you do eat the freshest, most nutritious and generally grown locally. Plus gives you something to look forward to in the coming months when you get fresh fruit or vegetables of a different type.
Wasn't this the most beautiful time.
I get a kick of how 👀they struts their suits well' while Garden🌱🌾👍
I’m in awe that they are wearing suits and ties! I remember back in the day when boys wore short pants! (My brothers did.) I’m absolutely loving the “Welles”! (The Long Boots for people across the pond.)
When much of the available food was going to feed the military that was commercially raised people made an all out effort to raise what food they could. There was rationing in Great Britain and America on tires, gasoline, oil, brass and many other everyday items that were readily available in peace time.
6mths from now, i will be 50yrs of growing my own veg, some years, the yield have been shit, but! most of the time, they have been fantastic, already looking 4ward to 2018, march/April i start sowing...
greenfingers gardener congratulations.
I loved it when I turned 50 because, suddenly, I didn't give a hoot about what people thought of me. It was very liberating.
@@happydays1336 I turned 50 this year. I feel the same way. I love it!!
And all that with a tie ;)
Thank you so much for sharing this video. May our Lord bless and protect you.
5:24 This is how I apply ARM & Hammer Deodorizer to my cat litter.
I love listening to these .
Great stuff and with the voice of Percy Thrower !
I remember when gardening was ridiculed by those who thought themselves genius. In fact people were made to feel inferior and incompetent and incompetent if they had a family garden. They were thrown numbers like 25% of a household food which could only feed a household of 4. But what I say to them You're just jealous. When Cuba Was at its lowest point under a dictatorship is tatership people banned together together and used every piece of their lawn and even the roofs of their houses to grow food. It was the people who saved Cuba it was those small 25% small family gardens that brought Cuba back backup from the grave. Plants are living And yes it takes time to get food from a plant. But the reward is a blessing a gift from God brought out by the sun
I have several myself and if I had more time I would have more. Last night I made spaghetti guess what I put in my sauce fresh basil that I grow myself I felt like I had something to do with that and it made me feel good. And my husband liked it
I love this clip, it is still relevant today, though I have a no dig garden myself. The advise to plan ahead for next year and you will never go short is more than relevant today :-) I have sub'd just because you shared this clip :-)
very motivational
I find a lot of good ideas and information in the books of Mr Middleton the man at least in part responsible for the dig for victory campaign. Most of it still as relevant in gardening today as it was at the time.
Farming is farming where ever you live but, of course temps.,seasons & soil very greatly. Where I live here in USA, we have. App. 6-7 months of sub zero & snow( that might be a good year!).
En effet, l'hiver c'est un plus frette icitte qu'en Angleterre
Excellent footage with many tips
Great Video ..thanks😀
Can't believe WWII was 9 years ago now
I learned much.
All that work. No wonder we all just go to Lidl. I wonder what those people would think if they knew that in this century we bought food from German supermarkets in England
Hey it's Mr. Douglas from Green Acres.
GEEZE, can't have it so easy in Wyoming!! Leave anything in the ground and it will freeze solid. Lol.
Lyla, I’m in North-Central Washington State, and I was thinking how easy gardening must be in England. But I’m used to this weather, and I would not trade places with anyone.
@@nealgrey6485 , as in Okanogan or Cle Elm?
It would freeze solid here in Kansas, too, and our winters are warmer than yours are!
How cool she is working in a dress!
In 1968-1969 School Year, I was in kindergarten, the school sent me home because you could not attend school in Southern California as a young girl if you were not in proper clothing. Girls were not allowed to wear pants. Fact.
I graduated in 1970. That was the last year that female students in my district could not wear slacks, only skirts and dresses. It was several more years before girls could wear jeans.
Easy way to rip a dress. One false step.
nice bit of work there, useful information..
I love these Cholmondeley-Warner films. How to do everything for a bob. Top stuff
Not in canada when its frozen 5 feet deep hahahaha
Had not heard a cashe called a clamp before.
Had not heard a clamp called a cashe before!
@@zennor_man cache ☺
@@zennor_man cache ☺
Wow
Grown with care, then Mum boiled the vitamins and flavor out of them.
They likely used the leftover broth so the vitamins are still there and the flavor is split between the two.
The authorities all used to recommend cooking in as little water as possible, often steaming, and, as said above/below, used in the gravy or as stock in other dishes. Same advice as now. 👍
@@1985cjjeeper over-boiling will still kill the vitamins
@@sarahlouise7163
Not necessarily. Vitamins aren't alive, they can't be killed. Maybe some are affected by heat somehow but not all by any means.
What part of England was this filmed in? What was their extreme cold temperature for the winter? When are their last and first frosts? What's their summer extreme for hot weather?
According to another episode, it was filmed in London. First frost is mid October, last frost around the 3rd-4th week in April according to google search.
did you never hear of a thing called a search engine??
The people in the film were not overweight as people are now. Despite all the gyms that are open the people in the past were probably much fitter with all the garden work and active lifestyle.
Kyn Chan
This was the middle of WWII. People didn't get enough food on rations then, especially sugars and fats, to be truly well fed, let alone overweight.
By the end of WWII, British people were more healthy than they ever had been or ever would be again. Things that are less healthy--sugar, fatty meats, etc.--were very rationed. Everyone was encouraged to garden and every yard, park, and wide road right-of-way was turned into vegetable gardens. Everyone's diet consisted in very large part of vegetables with only the bare minimum of meat and fat.
There was also a huge push to educate the public about nutrition for children and there were special allotments for things like milk and vitamins for children because the government didn't want them made permanently weak or prone to disease because of malnutrition.
And yes, people got loads of exercise. Men who were on the home front worked in factories, mines, or on farms, plus usually did some stuff for the war effort on the side, like homeguard militia training. Women without children (and some with them) worked in factories and there were also "land girls" and "lumber janes" who worked on farms and in forestry. Women with children might look after someone else's children so they could work in the factory or there were loads of programs that ladies participated in, like mass canning fruit or organizing community meals. And some of them also participated in the home guard stuff, spying or manning lookout posts.
Look up the BBC program "Wartime Farm;" it's a really good series where they reenact what life was like for farmers during WWII. But they also cover what was going on in the cities and other areas at the same time.
There were plenty, they just didn't get put into propaganda films about saving as much food as possible.
Why was Mr Turner not away fighting?
He may have been too old for call up or in a reserved occupation. He most likely was in the Home Guard or ARP.
I totally thought that was Timmy from WKUK...
Thought Oliver Twist was going to start after this....
Light on potatoes will cause them to go green, which can be toxic.
was it not differcult to do all with a war on? xx
They were never invaded. Apart from London, Britain was not damaged.
carolineleiden what about Coventry and Liverpool? They were both badly hit. You can’t say solely London was damaged because it wasn’t
@@Tismeabbie sheffield got it as well!
@@BigDangerousDan and Birmingham
Amd Cardiff. In fact almost everywhere with factories or ports. Hull got dreadfully bombed too.
Cant do this gardening during canadian winter
Yea...what winter is it in film? Not even any gloves! LOL!
@@HJG-1019 You'd need a heated greenhouse for Canada XD
And then came facebook, cell phones, burger king, obesity and death.
Great film. Shame about the three unnecessary and intrusive on-screen clock/channel label/REF No. Ruins it in my opinion...
Can anyone attest to the effectiveness of these practices? Would hate to waste a lesson on a good garden.
My Father and Grandfather owned a landscaping business for close to 60 years, and as a little kid, I would help them do this very thing every single winter, so, I know for a fact, it DOES work. Granted, it's hard laborious work, but, the payoff in the end is worth all that effort!
What practices? Clamps do work but in these modern times i use a big gardening bag filled with shredded office paper and keep them in the shed as i have found this is the easiest way to store them, and the paper helps absorb the soil and so they come out clean. then compost the whole lot when empty.
Farming in a suit?
Winter? Why does that young fellow have shorts on?
Google short pants, or English school boy uniforms, etc.
well I think this takes place in the months of Feb and March
Because he was a boy, when he was a man, he was able to wear long pants
I was born in 1951...wore shorts summer and winter, until I started grammar school aged 11. Shorts didn't wear out at the knees was the logic, so saved money. All boys were the same. Girls wore skirts of course.
And, since when do farmers wear a jacket and tie...
It was pretty traditional back in the day, especially the jacket. Google is your friend, especially if you want to learn about the history clothing.
It's England, must not be improperly dressed.
semantics are always a good excuse to fail at gardening... when your parsnips fail to mature you can always blame the tweed coat for it.
They arent ' farmers'. They are city dwellers growing food during WW2
Robin Rocha
They weren't farmers. They were average British folk in the middle of WWII trying to grow enough food to feed their family on an "allotment" of land. He's probably wearing a tie because he's on film, but people did, until about 1965-70 wear ties and jackets simply because folks dressed better then.
Shouldn't his boy be at school...lol
Before school, after school, weekend.
Yes just poision your soul before you plant your food oh jeez
If it was a real winter you would freeze dressed like that and you wouldn't be able to dig in the frozen ground.
Breastfeeding made their noses so tiny. Ask that pretty homebirthed breastfed 90 year old granny!!! Her nose will just be as tiny as she was 89 years ago. All the estrogen in her mothers milk put a brake on her nose growth!!!
@Sheila T. Yep. Small noses are the hallmark of people who have been breastfeeding as infants!!!! Huge honkers are those who were fed from a bottle!! Now you know dear!!!!!!!
@Sheila T. Awww you mean a cute little snub that would fit a newborns face????
I was bottle fed and I have a beak🙄😮😩😒!
@Sheila T.Are you small nosed then?
@Sheila T. Did you breastfeed your boys?