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A Look Back: Veggies of Yesteryear
| Jennifer Zurko
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>> Published Date: 7/26/2012
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 From March 1943—please note at this time the U.S. was a few years into the Second World War. George J. Ball writes:
Shall We Grow Vegetables?
Altho [sic] the answer is YES, it is still beclouded with quite a few “yes-buts,” “ifs” and “ands.” Our government agencies who assume responsibility for food production haven’t issued any definite ruling or opinion on the subject. The handwriting is very plainly on the wall, however, and advice from responsible trade people is to consider at least small trial plantings for the coming season with enlarged plantings in mind for the year after. Transportation and food shortages are going to make local production a necessary part of our war effort.
Pictured here is Tomato Waltham Forcing, which George wrote was a “valuable introduction among the greenhouse forcing varieties."
The two principal crops that are grown to advantage in greenhouses are leaf lettuce and tomatoes. Get in touch with your local experiment station for information on marketing and cultural problems. The key to flower growers staying in business during this war may lie in our ability to make adjustments and changes that will fit our businesses into the war effort.
Consider also [tying] in with the big VICTORY GARDENING campaign. All indications point to many more backyard gardens than ever before in our history. Your part in this great campaign is to provide good healthy plants at the right time for planting and to help gardeners either individually or thru [sic] garden clubs or other organizations, with encouragement and help. Many of your customers will be gardening for the first time this year and if they are successful this time, they will become steady customers.
 Featured in November 1976:
For Bigger Fruit—Prune Sideshoots
This one frankly isn’t for everyone.
But for the more serious of your gardener customers it’s an easy way to get that extra inch of size. Coupled with selection of a large fruited variety, and ample watering, it’s a way to grow some real jumbos. Biggest fruit in town!
The November 1980 issue was dedicated to the new vegetable “craze,” with pages focused on the best varieties of tomatoes, cucumbers, eggplants and pumpkins to grow.
Clearly, the “growingest” part of bedding plants today is vegetables! They are already one-third of the bedding crop—and all signals point to a steady continuing increase. Note:
A. USDA figures. Unfortunately, the least reliable of their reports, still they say that vegetables are 30%+ of all bedding plants. 
B. More significant, grower reports from all over the U.S. and Canada so typically say, “Vegetables up substantially this year.” They consistently report vegetables a strong one-third of their bedding sales—and growing. Tom Lavagetto, head of the flower shops in the several hundred store Jewel chain said, “Vegetables really moving up in sales—more like 50%. Very definitely up.”
C. The clear #1 item of all bedding plants in flats sold is the tomato—has been for years.
D. The home gardener wants—and is getting—an ever increasing variety of started vegetable plants. Really dozens of kinds of edibles!
E. Breeders the world over are stepping up their efforts in vegetables—especially the new F1 hybrids and disease resistant types—typically with really important results.
F. Crockett Victory Garden TV Show—four million plus viewers saw thirty minutes of the best new Peto vegetable breeding—early this fall. Actually, it was a tour of Petoseed’s breeding work at Saticoy, California.GT
Connecticut grower Ernie Cuzzocreo was featured on the cover of the November 1980 GrowerTalks (above, right) with his 2-week-old squash direct-sown in a Jiffy-7.
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