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title: Grow your own, be sure!
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/grow-your-own-be-sure-1945/
description: 'Garden-campaign poster: a red, white and blue V ribbon rises over a heaped display of vegetables and fruit, above the headline ''Grow your own'' and ''Be'
section: Collection
---

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[![Grow your own, be sure!, 1945 US poster: Garden-campaign poster](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/grow-your-own-be-sure-1945.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/grow-your-own-be-sure-1945.jpg)

# Grow your own, be sure!

Garden-campaign poster: a red, white and blue V ribbon rises over a heaped display of vegetables and fruit, above the headline 'Grow your own' and 'Be sure!' and a Garden V for Victory emblem marked 'in 1945'. The national colours and the V join home gardening to the war effort (transfer); no specific claim is made. A blank yellow band at the foot was left for local overprinting.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Glittering generalities](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/glittering-generalities/) [Transfer](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/transfer/)

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
GROW YOUR OWN
Be sure!
GARDEN
V IN 1945 FOR VICTORY
[signature: Grover Strong]
```

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