As VE Day 2025 approaches, the legacy of the Dig for Victory campaign serves as a reminder of how communities can come together in the face of adversity. In an era where food security and sustainability are again global concerns, the wartime spirit of self-sufficiency and civic responsibility offers valuable lessons. The 80th anniversary is not just about looking back—it is also about drawing inspiration from the past to tackle today’s challenges with the same determination and solidarity that defined the World War II generation.
To honour VE Day 2025 we’ve put together a special offer including:
- Dig for Victory: Monthly Growing Guides paperback book (RRP £16.99)
- Storing the Harvest eBook (RRP £4.75)
- Rationed Christmas eBook (RRP £2.75)
- PLUS Replica Wartime Leaflets (RRP min £2.50)
- and free UK Postage all for only £7.99!
That’s over £25.00 worth of wartime reading and goodies for only £7.99!
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Dig for Victory: Monthly Growing Guides
Most British people have heard of Dig for Victory and recognise the iconic logo of a boot pushing a spade into the soil. The campaign may not have been as dramatic as the military campaigns such as the Dunkirk retreat or the Battle of Britain but it was just as vital to the eventual victory.
Unlike those military campaigns that lasted weeks or months at most, the Dig for Victory campaign ran from start to finish of the war and for some time after. It wasn’t until 1954 that food rationing finally ended.
The government made land available, creating allotments and plots to enable the public grow their own food supplementing the ration with vitamin-rich fresh foods. As not everyone knew how to do it, they ran an educational campaign to help them.
This educational campaign has had a massive influence on how we grow vegetables for the last 80 years. The government guides from those dark days of the war are often as valid today as they were then.
They’re simple and straightforward but most importantly, they work. By following them, even a complete novice can put fresh wholesome food on the family’s table all year round.
I have collected that original monthly growing advice issued by the government from the war and put it into one volume with a commentary explaining where and why best practice has changed for the modern gardener.
Now available, 80 years after the end of WW2.
Storing the Harvest eBook
If you grow your own you’ll know just how much work has gone into the fresh strawberries or simple potatoes that are now ready for harvest. Making sure that harvest is properly stored and preserved will mean you’re eating your own freshly grown produce all year round.
Along with my wife, Val, I’ve also always tried to make sure the harvest is well stored to keep us going through the leaner months of the year. We both worked hard to pass on the skills of cooking and preservation to our daughter Cara, who has helped by co-writing and editing this eBook with me.
This eBook is aimed to be your helping-hand through the Summer months; guiding you on how best to store each fruit and vegetable as the inevitable gluts arrive.
This full-colour eBook includes:
1. The Root Cellar
2. Freezing
3. Drying & Dehydrating
4. Bottling or Home Canning Your Produce
5. Jams, Jellies & Marmalade
6. Fruit Butters & Curds
7. Chutneys, Pickles & Lacto-Fermentation
8. Oils & Vinegars
9. Sauces & Ketchups
10. Fruit Squashes & Syrups
Rationed Christmas eBook
After 20 years of low inflation, low interest rates, affordable if not low energy prices and cheap food, things have taken a massive turn for the worse. Looking at the way our forbears coped with the privations that war and its economic aftermath brought 80 years ago offers a practical guide to help us today.
With few exceptions, these recipes, created and tested under rationing, cost less than buying ready made highly processed equivalents. Generally, regardless of price, they’re better as well being made of wholesome, simple ingredients.
With Rationed Christmas it is possible to eat very well indeed on little money using these frugal war-time ration recipes. Including commentary by John Harrison.
Wartime Planting Chart
Replica WW2 Dig for Victory Growing Guides
I’ve seen the main leaflet and in some cases just one side of the leaflet for sale on Ebay at a range of prices, usually around £2.50 but sometimes as high as £6.95! So I decided to get some replicas printed to give away as part of this introductory offer.
With each copy of the book, I’m including a replica copy of Grow for Winter as well as Summer – number 1 in the New Series from 1945 and also a copy of Making the Most of a Small Plot, Dig for Victory leaflet number 23. Both on quality, 170 gsm (thick) gloss paper.
Ideal for the shed wall in your war-time allotment or frame one for the sitting room!
Digital Product Information
This contains multiple digital products. When you complete your purchase you will receive an email with download links and instructions for your eBooks. Digital Product sales are non-refundable once completed and downloaded. This eBook is not part of our seed promotion.
eBooks can be read on smartphones, tablets, desktop computers and can be printed out. If you do not already have PDF software on your phone, pad, PC or eReader then this can be downloaded, for FREE, from Adobe.
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