Growing stuff

[Marjoriew]

Grandson and youngest son have built a wooden grow box for our WW2 project Dig For Victory.
It has 3 sections - 2 small ones and 1 large area in the middle.
We've sent off for the free seeds from BBC's Dig In and we're looking for suggestions on veggies to grow [quick growing ones]

[bananabrain]

Do they have to be things that they would have grown at the time of WW2?
I have found beetroot easy to grow. Also courgettes and potatoes, although they take up quite a bit of space and I don't know how big your box is! I haven't found carrots have grown so well for me although I am trying again this year, I expect they would have been grown a lot at the time.
What about some sort of greens? Or peas?

[paisleyleaf]

How big is the box?

[meltedmarsbars]

You would have thought about what was available and what was the most nutritious:

brassicas - pick and come again ones like purple sprouting and kale.

Peas, broad beans, runner beans.

Early nantes carrots, radishes are very quick.

We grow fast new things like Mizuna and rocket, which were not common then, so not very authentic.

Bread and potatoes were not rationed if I remember correctly so no point growing them.

Fruit was very popular - raspberries, strawberries (as previous poster suggested), gooseberries - go for dessert variety, as sugar is rationed so you can't sweeten them!

[meltedmarsbars]

(I wasn't suggesting growing wheat btw - although our school allotment did that a couple of years ago)