Your garden in war-time - C. H. Middleton

'The gardeners of England can do much to help the nation in its hour of need.'In 1941, when this book first appeared, the war was going badly for Britain, and the Home Front answered a call to arms from Mr Middleton, the nation's favourite gardener. In this collection of his hugely popular radio talks on the BBC he says that 'potatoes and beans are munitions of war as surely as are bullets and shells.' There is nothing for it, then, but to Dig for Victory, raising potatoes, onions and carrots, until the nightmare of war ends 'and the morning will break with all our favourite flowers to greet us once more...'