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Tag Archives: chrysanthemums
10.1.40
Freezing very hard again. Water left outside has ice on it in only an hour or two. The pond by the church will bear my weight, but not that in the field called the Warren. The reservoir is not frozen … Continue reading
9.1.40
Back home again after nearly a week in London. The frost has now broken but it is still cold, generally damp & misty, & there is still a good deal of ice left on the pools. W.C. has at last … Continue reading
20.11.39
Fine, still, reasonably warm. Planted 6 lupins (paid 9d), said to be mixed colours. NB. that T[itley]. says that with lupins one should spread their roots out & not insert them too deep. Limed & began digging the final strip. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged beech, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, chrysanthemums, eggs, lime, lupins, michaelmas daisies, oak leaves, phlox, roses, savoys, weather, weeds
2 Comments
11.10.39
Still, sunny & fairly warm. Ground a good deal dryer. Planted out 10 Canterbury bells, about 20 sweet williams, 20 carnations, 25 wallflowers (flame). Continue tomorrow if not raining. Added some more to compost heap. Staked some of the crysanthemums° … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apple jam, Canterbury bells, carnations, chrysanthemums, compost heap, eggs, hen-run, raining, spade, sweet williams, wallflowers, weather
6 Comments
10.10.39
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
28.9.39
Have not been able to keep up the diary, as I have been away[1]. The eggs are, however, entered in the hen book, though I think a certain number were not recorded. Typical autumn weather, except that of late the … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged autumn, bees, broccoli, butcher, cabbages, chrysanthemums, egg total, eggs, Eileen, hay, hens, leghorn, loganberry, michaelmas daisies, potatoes, pumpkin, rabbits, rhode island red, superphosphate, weather
9 Comments
21.8.39.
Hot till evening, then heavy thunder & rain. Cut side-shoots out of tomatoes, dug in a little ash from bonfire round their roots, cleared & burnt first lot of dwarf peas & began digging over this patch of ground, which … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged antirrhinums, chrysanthemums, ducks, dwarf peas, larkspurs, leeks, thunder, tomatoes, weather
2 Comments
September 25, 1938
Yesterday morning blowy & overcast, then some fairly heavy showers of rain. Today no rain, but cooler still & windy. The reason for the galls always present on camels’ joints is that these are what they kneel down on, usually … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged Atlas mountains, camel, cannas, chrysanthemums, flies, hollyhocks, lathe, little owl, turtle doves, weather
11 Comments
