victory garden

victory garden
Originally uploaded by dremasimonds

Victory Gardens are all good; fun family activities, good exercise while digging, planting, weeding and harvesting, delicious and healthy food, and money saving.
That is alot of positives all rolled into one.
Here are some places to visit for more ideas.
http://www.eattheview.org wants the White House lawn to offer space for a Victory Garden
Eat the view is a catchy name.
Another source is http://www.kitchengardeners.com
Visit the site http://redwhiteandgrewblog.com and you will be ready to victory garden with the best of them.

Victory Garden at SF City Hall

Victory Garden at SF City Hall
Originally uploaded by mercedesfromtheeighties

Do you love the idea of transforming cement or lawn into Victory Gardens, full of vegetables and fruits that people can eat?

If you are like me, you support this idea fully.
Victory Gardens gained their name during World War II, when food was scarce, in the United Kingdom and the United States and other areas, so regular folks planted some veggies in every place they could squeeze them in.
San Francisco City Hall boasts a Victory Garden and there is a movement afoot to have a Victory Garden at the White House. What a great role model that would be. Tear up some lawn and put in veggies, President Obama, please.
Potatoes, carrots, lettuce, beans, peas, tomatoes.
People planted fruit and nut trees too.
Your own Victory Garden will give you healthy fresh food, and can save you money.
I wrote about two seed companies and their seeds for delicious veggies and lovely flowers (food for the soul) in my online column this month at http://positivelyfeminine.org if you want to get more ideas about Victory Gardens.
http://www.positivelyfeminine.org/Creative/garden/th/victory.htm
Lent in 2009 begins today, February 25, and I wish that each of you has a blessed and transformative Lenten season.

I am guest blogger at Redwhiteandgrewblog.com

Christmas tree of yore
Originally uploaded by life_through_a_viewfinder

There is an excellent blog at http://redwhiteandgrewblog.com where Pamela focuses on the theme of Victory Gardens.
She asked me to be guest blogger today, and so I wrote about growing and selecting living Christmas trees, and a bit about my Christmas book.
Victory Gardens' time has come again.
Isn't this a pretty photo that I found on Flickr? Someone planted their living Christmas tree and it looks so mystical in the snow.
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