THE FAMILY GROWS
ALONG WITH VEGETABLES
By 1945, optimists saw the end
of the war but not the end of “gar
dening for victory.” Even Presi
dent Roosevelt had to ask people
to continue gardening.
Was Victory Gardening suc
cessful? In 1944, 40% of all the
fresh vegetables in the United Sta
tees were grown in Victory Gar
dens. In 1995, vegetable gardens
are not nearly as common. Today,
less than 18% of the gardening
public grows vegetables.
Victory Gardens had the whole
family involved including the
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children. Here’s two victory gar
dening memories of children
working in the garden.
The children did help in the Vic
tory Gardens—there was no lay
ing in bed. The sun rose and you
got up and put on your old boots
and cbthes and went out and
helped in the garden. One of the
more trying times was when the
potato bugs were bad. We got up
before the dew was off the plants.
My father would put lime in a bur
lap sack and we dusted each pota
to plant. The lime would get in our
noses and eyes. We'd be sore be
fore the potato patch was com-
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Being a child in elementary
school during the war, my parents
moved to a Northern York County
home with a I'A -acre truck patch.
I remember feeling like Alice in
Wonderland. I had aisles going
down the middle of tall corn and
sections of peas, beans, and what
ever. You could go out and break
■apod open and wow: a black-eyed
pea. I remember going into a
neighboring corn field andfollow
ing a trailing pumpkin vine to a
huge jack-o-lantern.
Victory gardeners of all ag&
did a lot of raking. They started by
raking out lumps of dirt or stones
that might hinder seedling growth
and development of plants.
When planting small seeds.
Victory Gardeners needed to
make sure their rows were straight
and uniform. They used a string as
a guide. Also, they used the handle
of a hoe and covered the seeds
lightly with 14 inch or so of soil.
Use a hoe or scuffle hoe to remove
weeds while they are small. Onion
sets are sown as eariy in the spring
as possible. Place them about 4
inches apart in the row.
A paper collar around the base
of plants like tomatoes, sunk in the
ground about 1 inch will help to
keep cutworms Grom cutting the
plants off at ground level. A small
piece of paper layed flat on the
soil around cabbage kept cabbage
maggots from attaching the roots.
Large insects like Colorado potato
beetles can be crushed between
the thumb and forefinger.
GETTYSBURG (Adams Co.)
Terri Lynne Packard has been
appointed to the Penn State Uni
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staff as 4-H/youth agent and as
signed to Adams County.
A native of Troy in Bradford
County, she prepared for college
at Troy High School and earned
her bachelor of science degree
from Penn State in June 1993, ma
joring in dairy and animal science.
While in college, Packard was
active in the Dairy Science Club,
served as an advocate for the Col
lege of Agricultural Sciences, and
was president of Sigma Alpha, a
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During the summer of her col
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family farm, Pack-Herd Holsteins,
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Bradford County while the agent
was on assignment in Poland.
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