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Sir Winston Churchill said war and gardening were the ‘normal occupation of man’. The two famously came together during the Second World War when the nation was urged to ‘dig for victory’.  Award-winning gardening writer Ursula Buchan relates how the British Government encouraged people to contribute to the war effort by growing fruit and vegetables. And she shows how the act of gardening was more important than simply the provision of food to eat, it helped to combat the shocks of war and reminded Britons that their country was worth fighting for.

Buchan is author of 15 books and was named Garden Media Guild Gardening Columnist of the Year in 2011. She is a regular speaker on the gardening circuit.