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Tag Archives: french beans
6.9.39
Very hot. Rooted up first lot of French beans & dug over that patch, which will do for spring cabbage. Cut side shoots out of tomatoes. These have not done at all well. All leaf & stalk, the plants growing … Continue reading
5.8.39.
Raining almost continuously until about 6.30pm. Parts of the day rain extremely heavy. Baldock high street said to have been flooded. Marrows swelling very rapidly. French & runner beans 3” or 4” long. Apples growing very fast. Cylinder of calor … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apples, Baldock, egg total, french beans, gas, marrows, runner beans, weather
3 Comments
5.7.39.
Hot. A short shower in the evening. Bergamot in bud. The white chick looks bad, & the pullet which is limping no better. A few loganberries ripe enough to pick. Started creosoting henhouse. Sowed radishes, cos lettuce, parsley. E. sowed … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged bergamot, chickens, cos lettuce, Eileen, french beans, henhouse, limping pullet, loganberries, parsley, radishes, weather
1 Comment
26.6.39.
Warm sunny morning. Threats of thunderstorms in afternoon but no thunder & little rain. Potatoes earthed up. Gaps filled in French bean rows with extras sown in a box in the frame when the original rows were found to have … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged blackfly, broad beans, french beans, potatoes, runner beans, weather
5 Comments
8.6.39.
Very dry, not quite so hot. Prepared another marrow-bed, this time digging it less deeply & putting on 4-inch layer of lawn-clippings. Shall compare results of this style of bed with the other. Weeded & hoed the French & runner … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apples, Daily Mail rose, delphiniums, french beans, marrow-bed, Muriel, runner beans, weather
4 Comments
5.6.39.
Unbearably hot. Everything is drying up. A sweet william out. Ragged robin out. Sowed peas (English wonder). Mulched tomatoes. French & runner beans have germinated very badly, so am sowing some in a box for fill-ups. New potatoes ready to … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged french beans, hot, peas, ragged robin, runner beans, sweet william, tomatoes, weather
4 Comments
31.5.39.
Fine & warm, but strikes very chilly as soon as the sun begins to go in. Tomatoes (protected from the sun with sacking) are O.K. A few French & runner beans showing. M’s mate no good. When bringing her back … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged french beans, goat, milk-yield, Muriel, runner beans, tomatoes, udders, weather, white owl
4 Comments
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