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title: 'Plan and Grow for Winter: Summer Glut Leaves Winter Short, Take Warning Now and Don''t Get Caught'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/plan-and-grow-for-winter-henrion-1939/
description: Two stacked pictures contrast a vegetable bed crowded with leafy plants with the same bed nearly bare, linked by the words 'Summer glut leaves winter
section: Collection
---

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[![Plan and Grow for Winter: Summer Glut Leaves Winter Short, Take Warning Now and Don't Get Caught, 1939 UK poster: Two stacked](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/plan-and-grow-for-winter-henrion-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/plan-and-grow-for-winter-henrion-1939.jpg)

# Plan and Grow for Winter: Summer Glut Leaves Winter Short, Take Warning Now and Don't Get Caught

Two stacked pictures contrast a vegetable bed crowded with leafy plants with the same bed nearly bare, linked by the words 'Summer glut leaves winter short'. The tell is the closing warning 'Take warning now and don't get caught', which frames inaction as a coming personal shortage.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Fear appeal](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/fear-appeal/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Plan and Grow for Winter

Summer glut leaves winter short,

Take warning now and don't get caught

[signature:] HENRION
Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by H. Manly & Son Ltd. London. N.22. 51-2962.
```

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