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Ratpacker said:
Planning to cultivate a plot in my backyard.
gathered dandelion leaves for salad . Dandelion root for medicinal tonic.
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You just reminded me that I got the Victory Garden book for my kindle—now I gotta read it 😃
 
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D Powell said:
To support one person requires about 150 sq meters of arable land. So if there are 10 of u, then its 1,500 sq meters, or a patch 75 meters by 20 meters. Doable, just with hand tools.
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If my early morning brain is functioning properly, I'll convert that to square ft.

One person, 1613 square ft, which will be about 30' X 54'.

Ten persons, 16130 square ft, which will be about 100' X 162'.

The last figure is close to a third of an acre. Most families were smaller than this and most back yard victory gardens didn't even meet the third of an acre figure. Many items at the stores were rationed.

Just to keep things on track. A victory garden was not meant to feed a family entirely but to supplement a family's grocery cost output (and support the war effort so our military and allies could be fed). To fully feed a person or family would take much more land and effort than this. The victory gardens rarely accounted for bulk crops such as wheat and rice or accounted for large meat animals. Things like chickens and rabbits were always recommended and that would take extra feed and growing space.
 
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mtnairkin said:
If my early morning brain is functioning properly, I'll convert that to square ft.

One person, 1613 square ft, which will be about 30' X 54'.

Ten persons, 16130 square ft, which will be about 100' X 162'.

The last figure is close to a third of an acre. Most families were smaller than this and most back yard victory gardens didn't even meet the third of an acre figure. Many items at the stores were rationed.

Just to keep things on track. A victory garden was not meant to feed a family entirely but to supplement a family's grocery cost output (and support the war effort so our military and allies could be fed). To fully feed a person or family would take much more land and effort than this. The victory gardens rarely accounted for bulk crops such as wheat and rice or accounted for large meat animals. Things like chickens and rabbits were always recommended and that would take extra feed and growing space.
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Online conversion calc says 150 sq. meters = 492 sq. feet.

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StreetSweeper 12G said:
Online conversion calc says 150 sq. meters = 492 sq. feet.

Online Conversion - Common Length Conversions

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Nope, you didn't figure sq feet, you figured meters vs feet. I rechecked my math and looked on line, one square meter equals how many sq ft. and the multiplier given was 10 point something, which came out to 1614 (which is my number rounded off). (Which is why I said 'about' several times.

There are 3.28....feet in one meter. Squared means 3.28 X 3.28.
 
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mtnairkin said:
Nope, you didn't figure sq feet, you figured meters vs feet. I rechecked my math and looked on line, one square meter equals how many sq ft. and the multiplier given was 10 point something, which came out to 1614 (which is my number rounded off). (Which is why I said 'about' several times.

There are 3.28....feet in one meter. Squared means 3.28 X 3.28.
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You're right!
 
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Victory Gardens were a wonderful campaign from the WWI era. Every county in my nation has a Horticulture agent willing to teach gardening skills.

In my area, it was the Victory Gardens campaign of WWI when the native tribes first learned about growing veggies.

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I didn't realize they were way back to WW1. I guess wars and efforts are continuously repeated.

I got to thinking, I know about slogans like 'Remember the Maine and 'Remember Pearl Harbor' but I don't remember what got us directly what got us involved in WW11. I'll have to look up WW1 slogan.
 
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mtnairkin said:
I didn't realize they were way back to WW1. I guess wars and efforts are continuously repeated.

I got to thinking, I know about slogans like 'Remember the Maine and 'Remember Pearl Harbor' but I don't remember what got us directly what got us involved in WW11. I'll have to look up WW1 slogan.
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I looked up our entry into WW1 and read that it was the continued sinking of passenger and other ships by Germany, contrary to a previous treaty.

Germany decided that the US was supplying the enemies. W. Wilson was president, 1917. The war had been going on several years before that.
 
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