Podcasts about dig for victory

Ever thought about a change of change of career? Darren tells us it's never too late to start a new one in horticulture. Christmas gift ideas begin with Mollie and Darren's Christmas Cracker. How on earth do experts find non native Asian hornet's nests? You'll be amazed how! Darren delves in to the benefits of a no dig garden. Lots of your gardening questions answered, with a bit of singing and laughing along the way. Come and join us! Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

In this week's podcast, we travel back in time to 1940s Britain and explore the Dig for Victory Campaign.  We talk about the realities of growing food during wartime and explore the impact that this had both economically, practically but also emotionally.This week we introduce special guests Potaoe Pete and Doctor Carrot.  Listen to the podcast to become acquainted with these wartime characters.

Episode 500: Barrow 0-1 Swindon Town - Bad pitch? Bad weather? Injury crisis? None of them an issue as STFC produce a decent display and thoroughly deserved 3 points in Cumbria. Dan is on the pod once again to discuss. SUH-WIN-DON! 500 episodes fly by when you're having fun - Massive thanks to the contributors, guests, Patreon subscribers and listeners for all of your support throughout the last 4+ years.

Today we celebrate the avid gardener who transformed the gardens at what was once the largest private residence in the United States. We'll also learn about the man who created many new citruses through hybridizing. We’ll hear some January advice from a Dig For Victory brochure from WWII. We Grow That Garden Library™ with a fun fiction book set on an English estate called Winterfold. And then we’ll wrap things up with the story of the man behind the Wagner Tree.   Subscribe Apple | Google | Spotify | Stitcher | iHeart To listen to the show while you're at home, just ask Alexa or Google to “Play the latest episode of The Daily Gardener Podcast.” And she will. It's just that easy.   The Daily Gardener Friday Newsletter Sign up for the FREE Friday Newsletter featuring: A personal update from me Garden-related items for your calendar The Grow That Garden Library™ featured books for the week Gardener gift ideas Garden-inspired recipes Exclusive updates regarding the show Plus, each week, one lucky subscriber wins a book from the Grow That Garden Library™ bookshelf.   Gardener Greetings Send your garden pics, stories, birthday wishes, and so forth to Jennifer@theDailyGardener.org   Curated News Three Friends of Winter Tour | Snug Harbor   Facebook Group If you'd like to check out my curated news articles and original blog posts for yourself, you're in luck. I share all of it with the Listener Community in the Free Facebook Group - The Daily Gardener Community. So, there’s no need to take notes or search for links. The next time you're on Facebook, search for Daily Gardener Community where you’d search for a friend... and request to join. I'd love to meet you in the group.   Important Events January 8, 1828 On this day, Eliza Ridgely married her fifth cousin and son of a Maryland Governor, John Carnan Ridgely. The couple lived on the Hampton Plantation built by John's great-uncle Charles  Ridgely III in 1790. After construction, it was the largest private residence in the United States. Eliza was the third mistress of Hampton and an avid gardener. During the decades following their marriage, Eliza and John had five children, and Eliza spent a great deal of time improving Hampton’s gardens and landscape. In 1859, the horticulturist Henry Winthrop Sargent wrote that “[Hampton] expresses more grandeur than any other place in America.” He was not a fan of that grandeur - Henry preferred a more natural garden landscape. Hampton’s garden landscape history dates back to the late 1780s when Captain Charles Ridgely acquired an Irish-born gardener and indentured servant named Daniel Healy. Daniel oversaw the Great Terrace’s creation with its winding path and the 80x50-foot parterres that make up Hampton’s Falling Gardens. Eliza left her mark on the gardens at Hampton by doing something completely different. She fell in love with the Victorian garden trend of “carpet bedding,” which leveraged plant colors to create designs - like diamonds or circles. Other plants just provided contrasting colors. In his book, The Garden Triumphant, David Stuart said, “In the early Victorian bedding system, plant individualities were of no importance, each individual [plant] merely yielding the color of its flowers to the general show… The obsession with ‘show’ with plants merely as a ‘blaze of colors’ was all.” Regarded as an accomplished gardener and horticulturist, Eliza had grand garden dreams. She installed extensive gardens, and her love for carpet bedding would have been a radical departure from gardening etiquette of the time. Because, before this trend, it was considered poor taste to plant a plant next to another one of the same color and variety. That was a big no-no. In fact, in 1839, Henry Winthrop Sargent issued another dig at Eliza’s formal gardens when he said, they"quite disturb one's ideas of republican America.” He was definitely not a fan. Over 4,000 acres surrounded Hampton House, and Eliza had more than enough room to develop impressive greenhouses, which along with the lavish gardens, were tended by slaves. And many people who tour Hampton today are surprised to learn that. They were not aware that slavery existed as far north as Maryland. During their marriage, Eliza and John loved to travel, and on their journeys through Europe and Asia, Eliza collected exotic trees and plants for her Hampton gardens. Eliza’s love of citrus trees led to creating an orangery to help her citrus collection survive the harsh Baltimore winters. Eliza Ridgely added specimen trees to Hampton’s formal landscape. Today a Lebanon Cedar stands on the mansion’s south lawn of the Great Terrace. And Ridgely family history says that Eliza brought the exotic tree to Hampton as a little seedling in a shoebox from the Middle East. Eliza also selected the white and pink Saucer Magnolias that bloom in the spring and the magnificent fan-leafed ginkgo at the corner of the house. But, the oldest trees on the property are catalpas that predate the home. And although they are quite common now, Eliza brought urns to Hampton. Made of Italian marble, Eliza’s fashionable urns surrounded the mansion. Now during Eliza’s lifetime, the urns would have been called “vases,” and they were meant to add classical beauty to the garden. In 1854, American Farmer Magazine wrote that Eliza’s gardens expressed “more grandeur than anything in America.” The magazine also admired her irrigation system, saying that, “a reservoir at the mansion… radiates to different sections of the garden where hydrants are placed, and by a hose, the entire garden can be watered at pleasure.  Last summer, when all other places in the neighborhood were dry and barren, the flower garden at Hampton presented a gorgeous array of bloom… Petunias, Verbenas, Geraniums, and other summer flowering plants, looked as though they lacked no moisture there.” With the end of slavery after the Civil War, the Hampton estate fell into decline as the family struggled to maintain it.  A little while later, Eliza died at the age of 64. She was buried in the family cemetery on the estate. Today the Hampton estate is a National Historic Site. And if you go to visit it someday, it's worth noting that the plants today are different. Many of the plants that are on the property need to be deer-resistant. The famous portrait of the long-necked Eliza Ridgely standing beside her harp was painted by Thomas Sully - it hangs today in the National Gallery of Art.   January 8, 1892 Today is the birthday of the agricultural botanist and plant wizard Walter Tennyson Swingle. Walter was a very popular botanist during his lifetime. Walter introduced the Date Palm to California, and he created many new citruses through hybridizing. In 1897, Walter made the first man-made cross of a Bowen Grapefruit and a Dancy Tangerine in Eustis, Florida. In 1909, Walter created the Limequat, a cross between the Key Lime and the Kumquat. That same year, Walter created the Citrangequat, a trigeneric citrus hybrid of a Citrange and a Kumquat. Walter developed the Citrange, a combination of the Sweet Orange and the trifoliate orange, as he was attempting to breed an orange tree that could withstand colder weather. Walter was born in Pennsylvania. He knew all about cold weather. His family quickly moved to Kansas, where Walter was home-schooled and ultimately educated at Kansas State Agricultural College.  In short order, Walter began working for the government at the United States Bureau of Plant Industry in the Department of Agriculture. And the USDA immediately put him to work, sending him to nearly every country in the world. Walter brought Egyptian Cotton to Arizona and Acala Cotton to California. However, Walter's most significant accomplishment was the introduction of the Date Palm to America. The Date Palm was something swingle discovered during a visit to Algeria. And this is how we know how clever Walter was - he was indeed intelligent and observant because he noticed that Algeria’s climate and soil mirrored that of California. In fact, Walter was optimistic about the Date Palm's chances in California right from the get-go, writing: “No heat is too great and no air too dry for this remarkable plant, which is actually favored by a rainless climate and by hot desert winds.  The Date Palm can withstand great alkali quantities in the soil- more than any other useful plant…  It is probably the only profitable crop that can succeed permanently.’ Now when the Date Palm arrived in California, the Coachella Valley was identified as the perfect spot to grow them. By 1920, over a hundred thousand pounds of Dates were grown in California. Thanks to Walter Swingle, Dates are one of California's main exports. Today, the total value of the Date crop is approaching $100 million every single year.   Unearthed Words January is a time when you should be thinking and planning, ordering your seed potatoes, vegetable seeds, fertilizers, and so on, and making sure that your tools are in good order and that you are ready to begin gardening in real earnest next month, or as soon as local conditions will let you. — Ministry of Agriculture, “Dig For Victory” Pamphlet, January 1945   Grow That Garden Library A Place For Us by Harriet Evans This book came out in 2015, and this is a best-selling fiction book. I bought this book a few years ago when I saw the beautiful alliums on the cover - I love alliums - and along with many of my fiction favorites, the cover is incredibly appealing to gardeners. A Place for Us is, “an engrossing novel about a woman who, on the eve of her eightieth birthday, decides to reveal a secret that may destroy her perfect family.” Kirkus Reviews wrote: "From an English estate called Winterfold, Martha Winter sends out invitations for her 80th birthday party with a puzzling statement:  'There will be an important announcement. We ask that you please be there.'  Only her husband, David, a well-known cartoonist, knows what this announcement might be.  The Winters have been fixtures in their Somerset village for 45 years, raising their three children, Florence, Bill, and Daisy.  Told from the perspectives of various family members as they receive Martha's invitations, it's clear this family's story is full of unanswered questions.” This book is 448 pages of a heartwarming, true-to-life family saga - the perfect book to blissfully carry you away this winter. You can get a copy of A Place For Us by Harriet Evans (and enjoy the beautiful cover) and support the show using the Amazon Link in today's Show Notes for around $2. Treat yourself!   Today’s Botanic Spark Reviving the little botanic spark in your heart January 8, 2000 Today is the anniversary of the death of a leading botanist in the study of ferns, Warren “Herb” Wagner, Jr. Herb was the founder of modern systematics for plants and animals. Biologists still use "Wagner trees” to classify plants and animals based on presumed phylogenetic relationships and evolutionary history - DNA hard at work! Herb Wagner once said,  "Deer in the winter are nature's closest thing to actual zombies.  They chew everything in their path."   Thanks for listening to The Daily Gardener. And remember: "For a happy, healthy life, garden every day."

Jerry shares useful lessons from a wartime campaign that saw home gardens repurposed for local food production.

You’ve seen the news: vegetable seeds are selling out. All that quarantine ennui has combined with anxiety about the gaps on supermarket shelves to create a whole new population of city farmers in backyards and windowsills across America. And everyone from the Los Angeles Times to Forbes to CBS has dubbed these brand new beds of beets and broccoli "COVID-19 Victory Gardens." But what war is your pot of basil fighting? This episode, historian Anastasia Day helps us explore the history of urban gardening movements—and shatter some of the nostalgic myths about those original World War II-era Victory Gardens. One thing is true: in 1943, more than 43 percent of the fresh produce eaten by all Americans came from Victory Gardens. So, can a combination of vegetable patches, community gardens, and urban farms help feed cities today? Or is growing food in the city just a feel-good distraction from the bigger problems in our food system? And does the hype about high-tech vertical farms live up to environmental and economic reality? Listen in as farmers and activists Leah Penniman and Tepfirah Rushdan, food writer Tamar Haspel, and researchers Neil Mattson and Raychel Santo help us dig in to the science on urban agriculture, and harvest some answers—as well as a tomato or two.

Join me in today's podcast where in view of the ve day memorial I look back to the dig for victory campaign from ww2. I also share the latest from the plots. Diary Today I have tackled the following tasks weedingwateringdelivery of sweet potato slips and much more on today's podcast. The dig for victory campaign. With the 75th ve day being celebrated tomorrow (if celebrated is the right word) I find myself reflecting on the huge effort people took to feed themselves during ww2. The dig for victory campaign is something I have always found fascinating. For me it just shows how we rely on food in our lifes yet we take it for grantide. part of the campaign was to educate and this was done through various media including some little films shown in cinema. In today's podcast I have some audio from one of these films. We think that the advice is still relevant today. Its only right to acknowledge the imperial war museum of which has this video in their archive and can be found here. I have used this audio under non commercial licence and would like to thank iwm for the use and for keeping this footage available for all.

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As the British House of Commons prepared to vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal , the Spanish government has launched an information website listing the various issues that citizens and businesses will face after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.... Air travel In the air travel section, one of the questions involves flying to Britain with a Spanish airline “that could lose its license, according to media reports.” This is an indirect reference to former Spanish flag carrier Iberia, which is fighting to prove to EU authorities that it is Spanish – it, along with British Airways, is owned by holding group IAG – in order to preserve its flying rights on the continent after Brexit. The southern Spanish region of Andalusia is getting ready for a political change that will be “calm” and “conciliatory,” according to Juan Manuel Moreno, the Popular Party (PP) politician who is set to become the new regional premier. BAILED-out toll motorways are now free to use from midnight until 6am, and from 6.01am drivers will benefit from a 30 per cent reduction in fees. Spain’s previous government began the process of ‘buying back’ motorways run by ailing toll companies, and the new socialist cabinet, which came into power in June, has continued to see the plan through. A train was derailed on the Madrid-Zafra line 500 metres from the Torrijos station in Toledo Monday. THE first flight to land this morning at the latest Spanish airport, Murcia International Airport, was a Ryanair flight from East Midlands.Twenty-five minutes ahead of schedule, the FR1824 Ryanair flight. Theresa May's Brexit deal was dramatically crushed by MPs as she suffered the biggest Commons defeat in history. The PM's grip on power was left hanging by a thread after Tory rebels joined forces with Labour to trounce the plan by 432 votes to 202. ............ When Britain stood alone urged people to grow their own food — a campaign called Dig For Victory......The Dig For Victory drive was a triumph of British resilience, ingenuity and self-sufficiency in the face of great adversity. A British family are to be deported from New Zealand after locals say they wreaked havocthey trashed a beach, left a cafe without paying, damaged their apartment and allegedly stole a journalist's phone.

As the British House of Commons prepared to vote on Prime Minister Theresa May’s Brexit deal , the Spanish government has launched an information website listing the various issues that citizens and businesses will face after the United Kingdom leaves the European Union.... Air travel In the air travel section, one of the questions involves flying to Britain with a Spanish airline “that could lose its license, according to media reports.” This is an indirect reference to former Spanish flag carrier Iberia, which is fighting to prove to EU authorities that it is Spanish – it, along with British Airways, is owned by holding group IAG – in order to preserve its flying rights on the continent after Brexit. The southern Spanish region of Andalusia is getting ready for a political change that will be “calm” and “conciliatory,” according to Juan Manuel Moreno, the Popular Party (PP) politician who is set to become the new regional premier. BAILED-out toll motorways are now free to use from midnight until 6am, and from 6.01am drivers will benefit from a 30 per cent reduction in fees. Spain’s previous government began the process of ‘buying back’ motorways run by ailing toll companies, and the new socialist cabinet, which came into power in June, has continued to see the plan through. A train was derailed on the Madrid-Zafra line 500 metres from the Torrijos station in Toledo Monday. THE first flight to land this morning at the latest Spanish airport, Murcia International Airport, was a Ryanair flight from East Midlands.Twenty-five minutes ahead of schedule, the FR1824 Ryanair flight. Theresa May's Brexit deal was dramatically crushed by MPs as she suffered the biggest Commons defeat in history. The PM's grip on power was left hanging by a thread after Tory rebels joined forces with Labour to trounce the plan by 432 votes to 202. ............ When Britain stood alone urged people to grow their own food — a campaign called Dig For Victory......The Dig For Victory drive was a triumph of British resilience, ingenuity and self-sufficiency in the face of great adversity. A British family are to be deported from New Zealand after locals say they wreaked havocthey trashed a beach, left a cafe without paying, damaged their apartment and allegedly stole a journalist's phone.

  Chatting With Sherri welcomes author David Hair! David Hair is an award-winning author from New Zealand who has written five fantasy series, four of which have been published internationally. The first two are Young Adult novels: Aotearoa, and The Return of Ravana. David also writes epic fantasy, both series to date set in the imaginary world of Urte: The Moontide Quartet and its sequel The Sunsurge Quartet. He was also invited to write a stand-alone novel set in World War One; 1916: Dig For Victory, which was part of a five author series commemorating New Zealand’s involvement in the Great War. The Moontide Quartet has been translated into four other languages and made into an audiobook. David’s first novel, The Bone Tiki, was published in 2009 and won the Best Frist novel at the 2010 New Zealand Children’s Book Awards. The first book of The Return of Ravana series, Pyre of Queens, won the 2012 LIANZA award for Young Adult fiction. 1916: Dig For Victory was a finalist for the New Zealand Children & Young Adult Book Awards 2017. In 2018 David began a co-authored historical fantasy series, Olympus, which concerns Odysseus and his life prior to Homer’s The Iliad.

The New European editor Matt Kelly joins Steve Anglesey to discuss the former foreign secretary's Bannon-inspired burka-bashing. They also unpick the no-deal Brexit scenarios which threaten to send Britain back to the 1940s. Geri Scott attacks Twitter's disgraceful pandering to Infowars' Alex Jones, and asks whether it's time to boycott the social network. And as ever, we crown the worst Brexiteers of the week.

In this video three of the many people involved in the Turning the Pages project introduce the software and explain how the project works.

In this video Dr Alison Milbank reveals exactly who Father Christmas is, and it's far more complicated than we thought!

In this video we meet the team at Item Seven, based in the Portland Food Court, who cook up a very special Afro-Caribbean Christmas meal for their loyal staff and student customers: Kat Higgs, Internal Communications Officer, Communications and Marketing Paul Adeleke, Finance, Accounting and Management (1st Year) David Akata, Mechanical Engineering (1st Year) Kafayat Bello, Sociology and Social Politics (3rd Year)

Professor Elizabeth Harvey explains what life was like at Christmas in a German Prisoner of War Camp in 1944.

Professor Louise Crewe, from The University of Nottingham, talks about how we can think beyond the monetary value of Christmas and still make it special.

Nottingham Hospitals Radio DJ Kev Castle talks about what Christmas is like for those in the city’s hospitals and the ways in which they ensure that patients and their families still have a good Christmas.

Joshua Blake from the University of Nottingham Poetry society reads 'Winter-Lull' by D H Lawrence.

Dr Robert Lambert, lecturer in Tourism and the Environment at Nottingham University Business School,introduces us to the Short-eared Owl.

According to the green-fingered growers at The University of Nottingham's Sutton Bonington Allotment Society, there's no reason why you can't grow your own veg throughout the year -- no matter how small your garden. This video is part of The University of Nottingham's online Advent calendar 2011 http://tiny.cc/UoNadvent

Ruth Kneale from the Counselling Service at The University of Nottingham has been helping with the Operation Christmas Child Samaritan's Purse appeal for nearly 20 years. In this video Ruth talks about the joy the appeal brings to the children who receive the shoeboxes at Christmas time.

Ruvimbo Chidviza from the University’s Poetry Society brings this poem by D H Lawrence to life.

Springwatch executive producer Stephen Moss and The University of Nottingham's Dr Robert Lambert reveal the myths and misunderstandings surrounding our favourite festive bird -- the robin redbreast. This video is part of The University of Nottingham's online Advent calendar 2011.

Five music students perform 'Glee for Three Voices', a musical interpretation by John Percy of winter from William Shakespeare's Love's Labour Lost.