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Tag Archives: artichokes
28.4.40
Some rain during last night. Today fine, warm & still. One or two nasturtiums up (self sown). Turnips sown 22.4.40 are just up. The fly is already at these & at the seedling of sprouts etc. A few parsnips (sown … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged artichokes, beans, clarkia, eggs, fly, lettuce, nasturtiums, parsnips, sack, sodium chlorate, sprouts, turnips, walnut tree, weather
3 Comments
3.4.40
Seems to have rained fairly heavily during last night. Light drizzle all this morning. Fine most of the afternoon. Sowed artichokes on the new patch, which is very stony but probably good enough for this purpose. This used 7 lb., … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged artichokes, bullace, drizzle, eggs, marrow-bed, pigeons, rain, weeding
2 Comments
2.4.40
Most of day nice weather, but a heavy shower lasting about half an hour in the evening, & a light shower at midday. A few grape hyacinths forming heads. Some wallflowers almost in flower. Saw a bat, the first I … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged artichokes, bat, eggs, flower bed, fruit trees, grape hyacinth, shower, wallflowers, weeding
8 Comments
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