KING'S VEGETABLES
FILM OF VICTORY GARDENERS
Wartime gardeners in Buckingham Palace grounds and in London's working class districts arc the stars of a colour film Avliich lias just been released. The film shows the public how not only these gardeners, but A. 1.1.P. Avorkers, schoolboys, hospital patients and housewives arc joining in the "Dig for Victory" campaign in Britain's .1,000,000 private gardens. It is probably the first garden newsrecl, certainly the first hi colour,. A second colour film deals Avith v<'gelable pesls. Avhiio a third about ! uma to-growing "will help lirilish gardeners to replace' Ihe tomatoes usually - imported !'];om the Channel T.ves. Sll ot > ol successful tomato grov. i!!g on ihe roof of a cinema, 'in the yard of a ;>l;'>Ijt• hmi.-e and oiiiside are show n in f.hi> film. I.cel urcr> are on (our with the films answering tjUe>liims put by audiences. I.a.si yeaUiey had XOO n?ee!ings in lai ge towns and small vilag'.s, where they spoke to ."50.(!()'> 'people.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 20, 23 February 1942, Page 8
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161KING'S VEGETABLES Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 5, Issue 20, 23 February 1942, Page 8
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