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Victory Gardens coming into bloom

By adamg on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 1:23pm
Fenway Victory Gardens

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Max Grinnell strolled through the Fenway Victory Gardens this morning.

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Comments

By anon on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 2:17pm.

Nice but does anyone want to talk about the increase in crime in the gardens.

By Irma la Douce on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 3:49pm.

If you do and have stats or other facts, feel free to post.

By Elmer on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 3:21pm.

By Patricia not logged in on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 3:25pm.

that's the first thing I noticed. Flowers are nice but veggies are better

By anon on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 3:39pm.

They are still sleeping in their gardener's windowsills, awaiting transplant this weekend now that we are finally safe from frost!

By Irma la Douce on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 3:56pm.

Some of the Fenway Victory Garden plots do have vegetables, in fact "best vegetable garden" is one of the awards they give out every season. But yes, most plots sport mainly florals and non-veggie plants and the kind of landscape design that you see in suburban back yards.

By lbb on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 4:44pm.

These gardens were created as WWII victory gardens. That war is over and the gardens now are mostly ornamental.

(it's also hard to grow vegetables there because of critters)

By anon on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 6:35pm.

Why don't you visit Victory Gardens before complaining. There are several garden plots that gardeners use to grow vegetables.

By Elmer on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 8:12pm.

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By Michael Kerpan on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 8:26pm.

"Adorable" (or, in Japanese, "kawaii").

By Elmer on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 8:48pm.

The draft called into service young men from nearly every family. Meanwhile; women, children, the elderly, and others ineligible to serve in the military; contributed to the war effort in any way they could — from recycling iron fences, to growing vegetables.

          ( united we stood — divided we'll fall )

By Parkwayne on Wed, 05/02/2018 - 8:51am.

who were jailed in the desert. Sound familiar?

By lbb on Wed, 05/02/2018 - 10:37am.

Not everyone besides yourself is ignorant of how Victory Gardens originated or of other measures that the "home front" took during WWII. We get it. Your point is made.

By Irma la Douce on Tue, 05/01/2018 - 9:51pm.

....unusually revealing? And if he's breaking a sweat, imagine Batman's ordeal under that cowl.

By anon on Wed, 05/02/2018 - 12:03pm.

Oh... silly us, we thought it was the year 2018!