Tag Archives: broad beans

25.4.40

Beautiful spring weather. Heard the cuckoo (first time). Many midges about now. Bullace blossom pretty well out. Cut the grass, dug a trench for 3rd row of peas, gave the strawberries a little more manure. These are now free of … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged bindweed, blossom, broad beans, bullace, cuckoo, eggs, grass, manure, midges, milkman, peas, strawberries, trench, weather, weeds | 5 Comments

21.4.40

Posted on 21 April by orwelldiaries

Sunny & warm. The first real spring day. Cowslips starting. Periwinkles out. Blossom forming on forget-me-nots. Still no cuckoo. E. sowed godetias & cornflowers. One or two of the peas (sown on 10.4.40) are showing, but no broad beans. 18 … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged blossom, broad beans, cornflowers, cowslips, cuckoo, eggs, forget-me-nots, godetia, peas, periwinkles, spring, weather | 4 Comments

1.4.40[1]

Posted on 1 April by orwelldiaries

Strong wind, which has dried the soil greatly, but beautiful spring weather in the morning. In the evening overcast, but no rain. Violets out in great numbers everywhere. Larks singing, the first I have heard this year, though most years … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged arabis, broad beans, carrots, eggs, frost, larks, overcast, parsnips, partridges, pea, rooks, seagulls, spring, tulips, violets, wind | 2 Comments

30.3.40

Posted on 30 March by orwelldiaries

Nice spring weather. Sowed 1 row carrots. Finished weeding strawberries, & applied a little manure. Place for broad beans now about fit to sow. One or two daffodils opening in garden. Except for Innes’ meadow beyond the Lodge, it is … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged Baldock, broad beans, carrots, daffodils, egg total, eggs, innes' meadow, lodge, manure, spring, strawberries, Wallington, weeding | 7 Comments

19.3.40

Posted on 19 March by orwelldiaries

Violent wind, & raining slightly on & off. Prepared a row for broad beans & another for cauliflowers, but impossible to get the surface soil fine yet. 16 eggs.

Posted in Domestic | Tagged broad beans, cauliflowers, eggs, rain, soil, wind | 2 Comments

26.10.39

Posted on 26 October by orwelldiaries

A very sharp white frost last night, the first severe frost of the year. The day overcast with a short sunny interval, & rather cold. Water in the hen’s basin frozen solid this morning. Turned it, & this evening there … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged broad beans, broody hen, cold, compost heap, dahlias, eggs, flower garden, goldfinches, grass, haulm, ice, lime, loam, marrows, overcast, shallots, smallholder, sodium chlorate, turves, weather, white frost, wood ash | 4 Comments

24.10.39

Posted on 24 October by orwelldiaries

Evidently a good deal of rain last night. Today overcast, not cold, a few spots of rain in the afternoon. Leaves coming down pretty fast now. Today went into Baldock. Bought small sieve (2/-). Impossible to get iron stakes for … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged Baldock, barn owls, broad beans, brown owl, bulbs, eggs, elm tree, grass, hen-run, hens, karswood, overcast, rain, screech owls, shallots, shell-grit, spade, stakes, timber, weather | 4 Comments

19.10.39

Posted on 19 October by orwelldiaries

Raining almost continuously till late evening. Impossible to do much out of doors. Dug a very little more of the rhubarb bed, cleaned up the remaining bit of the path, which however cannot be re-gravelled till I have got some … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged apple tree, blackberries, broad beans, chrysanthemums, cinders, coal, dahlia, dead leaves, eggs, elm trees, fruit bushes, fruit trees, garden, grass, hen-run, kitchen garden, lime, michaelmas daisies, naphthalene, owls, path, peonies, phloxes, polyantha, raining, rambler, rhubarb, rock salt, roses, shallots, strawberry bed, turf, weather, weed-killer | 5 Comments

10.10.39

Posted on 10 October by orwelldiaries

Very still, warm & fairly sunny. A very few spots of rain in the evening. Ground greatly sodden, & a lot of chrysanthemums loosened by the wind. Dug trench for broad beans but cannot yet get the ground into sowing … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged blackberry jelly, broad beans, chrysanthemums, clay, eggs, henhouse, manure, onions, rain, runner beans, sand, walnuts, weather, wood ash | 15 Comments

29.9.39

Posted on 29 September by orwelldiaries

Cloudy but not cold. The nights & early mornings are reasonably warm at present. Finished cleaning out main flower bed & cleaned out the one in front of the kitchen. “Smallholder” advises sowing broad beans now & planting shallots, so … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged apple wine, apples, broad beans, eggs, flower bed, shallots, smallholder, weather | 4 Comments