Victory Gardens

★★★★ · The Constant Gardener · Bill T. · 2005-08-30

Well, at least this movie is more plausible then the the ridiculous 'Gardening' (also found on this site). A family decided to grow it's oen garden because of food rations, and just about grows everything under the sun (literally). Tomatoes! Watermelon! Corn! Collard Greens! Who on earth grows collard greens? Anyways, at least this is more indepth about how to plant these and the care it takes to cultivate these. It also shows us the many, many pests that can harm these and shows us how to deal with them (no bug stamping this time!) Very interesting.

★★★ · Smut is Attacking Our Corn! · Dodsworth the Cat · 2025-01-16

I can't help but think all the nutrients would be sucked out of the soil by this constant planting, even with fertilizers. A large Victory Garden like this must have involved a lot of work, so some easy-to-follow instructions are laid out in this film. Hand weeding and using a horse cultivator with attachments strikes me as labour-intensive. At 10:28 we see that Nazis aren't the only enemies out there. So are food-loving worms, beetles and other parasites. Oh, well. Those home-made, bug-killing chemicals like calcium arsenic wash off, right? If raspberries are so good, why don't we see any…