6. How much?
In Canada, it’s estimated that in 1944, 209,200 victory gardens produced 57,000 tonnes of fruit and vegetables. The same year in the US, 9 to 10 million tons of produce were estimated to be grown by amateur gardeners. In Britain, where gardening was already popular outside of wartime, the number of allotments had doubled by 1943, to 1.4 million.