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Schwartz recommends focusing on three kinds of plants for that victory garden — buckwheats, sages and sagebrush, all of which have many varieties to choose from and require little or no water once they’re established.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 13, 2022

And after about 48 years of gardening experience, Ryerson grows squash, beets, carrots, potatoes and more in his northwest Indianapolis victory garden.

From Washington Times • Jun. 28, 2020

During the war, the Mazzas — husband Louis; children Olga, Dorothy, Helen and Raymond — had a victory garden there.

From Washington Post • Aug. 18, 2018

Her plot is the latest and largest descendant of Eleanor Roosevelt’s 1943 victory garden at the White House.

From New York Times • Jun. 3, 2015

One solution to the food scarcity, or shortage, was a victory garden, also called a war garden.

From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2012