Does anyone know whether the Poles have/had the same attitude to vegetable gardens as other WP countries? In the research for my Ukrainian campaign I've come across a lot of information about it being common practice in the Ukraine for everyone to grow vegetables in their gardens at home, a practice that arose due to food shortages during the Soviet era.
I imagine that this would also have happened in other countries like Poland and it means that much of the population has experience of growing food crops on a small scale, even if their main occupation is not farming. That means that they have more capability to become self-sufficient than much of the population of western countries.
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