PASADENA, CA - APRIL 30: Louella Bellamy, 77, tends her plot in a privately-owned community garden on April 30, 2008 in Pasadena, California. With rising food and gas prices cutting into personal budgets, home gardens are regaining some of the popularity lost in recent decades. Vegetable seed sales have reported risen by as much as 60 percent since last spring in parts of the US and UK and some home gardeners have turned to supplementing their income with sales from their so-called 'mini-farms' to restaurants and at farmers markets. During the Second World War, labor shortages and food and fuel rationing sparked a government-backed trend of citizens growing their own food. By 1945, 20 million 'Victory Gardens' supplied 40 percent of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the US. Getty Images logo Getty Images 19 months ago

PASADENA, CA - APRIL 30: Louella Bellamy, 77, tends her plot in a privately-owned community garden on April 30, 2008 in Pasadena, California. With rising food and gas prices cutting into personal budgets, home gardens are regaining some of the popularity lost in recent decades. Vegetable seed sales have reported risen by as much as 60 percent since last spring in parts of the US and UK and some home gardeners have turned to supplementing their income with sales from their so-called 'mini-farms' to restaurants and at farmers markets. During the Second World War, labor shortages and food and fuel rationing sparked a government-backed trend of citizens growing their own food. By 1945, 20 million 'Victory Gardens' supplied 40 percent of the fruits and vegetables consumed in the US.

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