Getting the most from your vegetable garden or allotment was of national importance during the war years.
Today we can always pop into our local supermarket to top up our home grown veg but theres no reason why we shouldn't become self sufficient and grow for the winter as well as the summer.
Author Twigs Way introduces this monthly guide with its historical context and opens each month with useful additional information.
Packed with photographs and illustrations this is just as much a book for the nostalgic armchair gardner as the active grower.
It seems that in these tough economic times there is an awful lot we can learn from looking back at how we coped in the past when earliar generations not only got on with their lives under very grim conditions but looked good as well.
Mike Brown, Author of The 1940s Look, takes the time to tell us a little about the fashion of the second world war and explain what makes it such a fascinating period in history
