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Monthly Archives: September 2009
10.9.39
Warmish, but overcast. Dug the 2 rows of King Edward potatoes (actually most of them are not K.E. but another larger kind, perhaps Great Scott). Again very poor though better than the earlies. The best had 16 sizeable potatoes to … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged disease, eggs, goat, great scott, heat, king edward, marrow, Muriel, potatoes, pumpkin, weather
4 Comments
9.9.39
Very hot. Dug up 3rd batch of peas & dug over that piece of ground. Red mite again very bad. Most of the leghorns now moulting but not so many of the Rhodes. Notice that the birds’ appetites always drop … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chicken, crops, egg total, eggs, food, fowl, grain, homegrown, leghorn, newspaper cutting, peas, poultry, red mite, rhode island red, smallholder
3 Comments
8.9.39
Hot. Blackberries not ripe yet. Have lifted the remained of the early potatoes, which are very poor, only about 5 potatoes to a root. 8 eggs. [NEWSPAPER CUTTINGS] Curing a Goat Skin. – The skin should be as free from … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged blackberries, cured, curing, eggs, fruit, goat, goat skin, newspaper cutting, out-of-reach fruit, potatoes
5 Comments
7.9.39
Very hot. Weeded out first lot of broccoli & dug between. Cut down nettles under the apple tree & applied 1 lb. sodium chlorate. A lot of apples but they are not very good or big, & many windfalls. Made … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apple jelly, apple tree, apples, broccoli, eggs, goldfinches, nettles, Ringwood, sodium chlorate
2 Comments
6.9.39
Very hot. Rooted up first lot of French beans & dug over that patch, which will do for spring cabbage. Cut side shoots out of tomatoes. These have not done at all well. All leaf & stalk, the plants growing … Continue reading
5.9.39
Have not been able to keep up the diary owing to travelling to & fro, dislocation caused by the war etc. The weather has been mainly hot & still. On the night of 2.9.39 a tremendous thunderstorm which went on … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apples, bergamot, bullaces, carnations, carrots, dahlias, damsons, eggs, flowers, goats, grass, hens, hollyhocks, larkspurs, lettuces, marigolds, marrows, michaelmas daisies, milk, onions, peas, phloxes, potatoes, pumpkin, roes, runner beans, sweet williams, thunderstorm, turnips, wallflowers, Wallington, war, weather, weeds, winter vegetables
5 Comments
1.9.39.
Invasion of Poland began this morning. Warsaw bombed. General mobilization proclaimed in England, ditto in France plus martial law. [Radio] Foreign & General 1. Hitler’s terms to Poland boil down to return of Danzig & plebiscite in the corridor, to … Continue reading
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