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
- Date
- 1945
- Period
- Second World War
- Made by
- Garden V for Victory campaign (issuer not named on sheet), artist Grover Strong
- Region
- North America
- Country
- United States
- Medium
- Poster
- Issuer type
- Mixed
- Regime
- Roosevelt Administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Audience
- Domestic public
- Purpose
- Mobilize or secure compliance
- Themes
- Home front, Economy and finance
- Event
- World War II
- Regime
- Roosevelt administration
- Leader
- Franklin D. Roosevelt
- Source
- Identified Openly sourced: the speaker is who they say they are
- Source
- U.S. National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 44, World War II Posters, retrieved October 4, 2026
- Rights
- Public domain (U.S. government work)
Garden V for Victory campaign (issuer not printed). National Archives and Records Administration, RG 44, 44-PA-218 (NAID 513660).
Text on the object
GROW YOUR OWN Be sure! GARDEN V IN 1945 FOR VICTORY [signature: Grover Strong]
