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Brits choosing food over flowers for the first time since WWII
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by mtippett | August 10, 2008 at 06:19 pm
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There are times when I really think that this whole wisdom of crowds thing is for real. This is one of those examples. Given the problems we are already seeing with the rise in fuel and the resulting rise in food prices it is refreshing to see people reacting in, dare I say, an organic way:
There has been a remarkable jump in the past year Atlee-Burpee Seeds, our largest seller, reports a doubling of vegetable seed sales in 2008 over 2007. In London it is reported that vegetable seed sales have surpassed flowers for the first time since WW II. Organic Gardening Magazine repots that for the first time in a generation we are growing more vegetables than flowers. A similar finding has been reported in the United Kingdom. Mother Earth Gardens in Minneapolis reports sales of three times as many fruit trees as ever in their history.
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at 19:50 on August 10th, 2008
In Japan, this as always remained part of the family garden and lawn as well as flower beds have never become as popular as they are or where in Europe and North America.
The Japanese Gardens are still around though from the Edo period!
at 19:51 on August 10th, 2008
mtippett, I like this story. It's good stuff.
at 23:39 on August 10th, 2008
The British played themselves in a historic way. By spending a decade becoming the most indebted people in human history, in an orgy of greed, violence, drunkenness and crass, self-serving behaviour, they now wake up with a big hangover. Nobody in the world should feel sorry for them.
at 23:49 on August 10th, 2008
mtippett, I like this story. It's FOOD first, UK having almost the same Home forclosure rate like US, turns to home grown vegetables. In 2 years supermarkets will feel it. Transportation of vegetables from Spain, high Diesel prices, will go down, CO2 down. Planting more vegetables than flowers, mtippett's new economy indicator....
at 19:58 on August 11th, 2008
I'm in the process of putting up a greenhouse and becoming a backyard vegetable engineer.