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title: 'Plan and Grow for Winter: Planned Crops for Garden Wealth, Assure the Family''s Winter Health'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-plan-and-grow-for-winter-family-1939/
description: 'Two drawings of a family: parents and three children lying on a rug over a crop-planning chart, then the same family at a table with cooked greens.'
section: Collection
---

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[![Plan and Grow for Winter: Planned Crops for Garden Wealth, Assure the Family's Winter Health, 1939 UK poster: Two drawings](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-plan-and-grow-for-winter-family-1939.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/uk-plan-and-grow-for-winter-family-1939.jpg)

# Plan and Grow for Winter: Planned Crops for Garden Wealth, Assure the Family's Winter Health

Two drawings of a family: parents and three children lying on a rug over a crop-planning chart, then the same family at a table with cooked greens. 'Plain folks' tell: ordinary smiling family members stand in for the viewer, so planting for winter reads as a shared household habit.

## Propaganda techniques used in this poster

[Plain folks](https://propagandaarchive.org/techniques/plain-folks/)

## Text on the object

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

```
Plan and Grow for Winter
Planned crops for garden wealth
Assure the family's winter health
[small print:] Printed for H.M. Stationery Office by H. Manly & Son Ltd. London N.22. 51-2962
```

[← Plan and Grow for Winter: Winter Fruits from Overseas Have Now to be Replaced by These](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-plan-and-grow-for-winter-1939/) [Post Office Telegraphists at War Work - Telegraph Less →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/uk-post-office-telegraphists-telegraph-less-1939/)

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