''The Victory Garden'' is an

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public television program about

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and other outdoor activities, which was produced by station

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in Boston, Massachusetts, and distributed by PBS. It was the oldest gardening program produced for television in the United States, premiering April 16, 1975.

History

The show was originally called ''Crockett's Victory Garden'' for its first host,

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. On each episode, Crockett demonstrates and cares for a vegetable, fruit, and flower garden, shows you how to build a cold frame, and why salt marsh hay was useful as a mulch. At the end of each episode, Crockett was in the

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, as he answered viewer questions about gardening, which were sent in by viewers. Following Crockett's death at the age of 63, Bob Thomson hosted the program from 1979 to 1991 and the show was renamed ''The Victory Garden''. With Thomson at the helm, ''The Victory Garden'' began to broaden its scope. In addition to the regular gardening demonstrations, the show began to make room for more guests and travel features.

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, wife of series producer

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, appeared on the air to do her recipes on the program from 1979 to 2001.

Roger Swain Roger Bartlett Swain, (born 5 February 1949, Cambridge, Massachusetts) known as "the man with the red suspenders", is most famous for hosting the television show, The Victory Garden on PBS. He was the host from the mid-1980s until 2001. He graduat ...

hosted the program from 1991 to 2002,

Michael Weishan Michael Weishan (born 7 August in Milwaukee, Wisconsin) is an American television personality. He was host of the public television series ''The Victory Garden'' from 2001 through 2007. He was the fourth host of the series, and retired after five s ...

hosted the program from 2002 to 2007.

Jamie Durie Jamie Paul Durie OAM (born 3 June 1970) is an Australian horticulturalist and landscape designer, furniture designer, television host, television producer, and author of eleven books on landscape architecture, garden design and lifestyle. He is ...

hosted the program from 2007 to 2010. In 2013, the show was relaunched in partnership with Edible Communities, and it became ''The Victory Garden's EdibleFeast''. It was produced for two seasons.

Major publications

*Crockett, James Underwood. (1981). ''Crockett's Flower Garden''. New York: Little, Brown. . *Crockett, James Underwood. (1978). ''Crockett's Indoor Garden''. New York: Little, Brown. . *Crockett, James Underwood. (1977). ''Crockett's Victory Garden''. New York: Little, Brown. . *Morash, Marian. (1982). ''The Victory Garden Cookbook''. New York: Knopf. . *Thomson, Bob. (1987). ''The New Victory Garden''. New York: Little, Brown. . *Weishan, Michael and Laurie Donnelly. (2006). ''The Victory Garden Companion''. New York: William Morrow. . *Wilson, Jim. (1990). ''Masters of the Victory Garden''. New York: Little, Brown. . *Wirth, Thomas. (1984). ''The Victory Garden Landscape Guide''. New York: Little, Brown. .

References

External links

PBS: ''The Victory Garden''
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