Tag Archives: dead leaves

17.11.39

Still, overcast but not more than a few spots of rain. Transplanted the remaining currant bushes except 2, which still have their leaves rather green. One of the bushes had layered itself. Cut the plant off & planted it experimentally. … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged bushes, compost heap, currant, dead leaves, eggs, lime, weather | 1 Comment

13.11.39

Posted on 13 November by orwelldiaries

Beautiful still, sunny day. Last night not at all cold. Cannot make sure whether when shallots spring out of the ground it is of their own accord or partly done by the pigeons. Sometimes they are about 1’ from where … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged compost heap, dead leaves, eggs, hen, pigeons, shallots, weather | 3 Comments

8.11.39

Posted on 8 November by orwelldiaries

Dry, windy, sunny, not cold. Many goldfinches about. Took the remaining nettles, or most of them, out of the new patch. Put in 2 more stakes for blackberries. Limed another patch. Added 1 sack dead leaves. [Total on facing page: … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged blackberries, dead leaves, eggs, goldfinch, lime, nettles, weather | 9 Comments

4.11.39

Posted on 4 November by orwelldiaries

Damp, but not raining to any great extent. Finished digging the ground for shallots (still very sodden & will need several fine days to dry it), manured the rhubarb, began clearing the new patch of thistles etc. Saw the white … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged dead leaves, egg total, eggs, rhubarb, shallots, thistles, toadstools, weather, white owl | 3 Comments

25.10.39

Posted on 25 October by orwelldiaries

Fine, sunny, cold wind. Began clearing the vacant ground between the old garden & the new patch. Burnt a little of the rubbish. Limed another strip, also the rhubarb patch, but have not turned the lime in here. Collected the … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged beech, brown hen, dead leaves, eggs, hen-run, lime, old garden, rhubarb patch, rubbish, sunny, timber, weather | 4 Comments

20.10.39

Posted on 20 October by orwelldiaries

Fine, still, sunny but not particularly warm. Finished digging the rhubarb bed, prepared the frame for dead leaves, made up a little more of the path, grubbed up the last lot of French beans. T[itley]. cannot get any stakes so … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged dead leaves, eggs, fine, french beans, rhubarb bed, sunny, weather | 5 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

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