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Tag Archives: beans
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
17.1.40
No thaw. A little snow in the night, making about 1 inch depth. Last night seemingly the hardest frost of all, as even the village pump was frozen. Snow very dry & crunchy. Dung in the hen houses frozen quite … Continue reading
16.6.39.
Heavy rain in the night, raining on & off most of the day, till about 5pm. when it cleared up. Too wet to do much out of doors. Placed strings for beans (much too low), began preparing a patch for … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged beans, Canterbury bells, cream cheese, goat's milk, grass, grit for hens, heavy rain, newspaper cutting, potatoes, pullets, recipe, strawberries, weather
7 Comments
14.6.39.
Bought 8 new R.I.R.[1] pullets, 3 to 3 1/2 months old, well forward 4/6 each. Finished putting up new house, which however is not creosoted or roof-felted yet, also the door needs adjustments. The old hen guarding the first lot … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged beans, broody hens, Eileen, goat, Kate, milk-yield, peas, pullets, Rhode island reds
4 Comments
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