Answer:
The name that was given to these small agricultural plots of land that were farmed by almost any available American, and by allied families, during World War I and II, was the Patriotic Victory Gardens and they were pretty succcessful in helping out the Allied powers during both wars as these Gardens ensured a surplus of food that left commercial farmers free to distrbute more food for the troops that were fighting in the wars.
This movement began in America, shortly before the country entered World War I, as a response to a severe food crisis that started in Europe because of the need to draft farmers into the military. Since the burden of feeding people fell mostly on America, a man by the name Charles Lathrop Pack organized the National War Garden commission and through it campaigns began in 1917 to encourage Americans to use any and all available land for agricultural purposes. So at first these gardens were known as war gardens. It was later on, through propaganda, that the name was changed into Patriotic Victory Gardens. This movement stopped after the end of the first war, but reemerged during World War II.
