Tag Archives: grass

29.4.40

I think a little rain in the night. All day overcast, with sometimes fine mist almost amounting to rain, but not exactly cold. Mended the fence, which cannot be done completely as there are not enough stakes. Planted out 1 … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged apple blossom, eggs, fence, frost, full moon, grass, leeks, lettuce, mist, runners, tadpoles, tain, weather | 43 Comments

25.4.40

Posted on 25 April by orwelldiaries

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

19.4.40

Posted on 19 April by orwelldiaries

Evidently fairly heavy rain again last night. This morning overcast, the afternoon still, sunny, & fairly warm. This evening rain again, but more like April showers that the previous rain. Saw the first swallow this afternoon (two. The one I … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged eggs, grass, martin, rain, seeds, sunflower, swallow, weather | 2 Comments

17.4.40

Posted on 17 April by orwelldiaries

Frost again last night. Today still, sunny & fairly warm. Cut the grass, took out some of the worst of the dandelions etc., sowed a few seeds of canary creeper, got places ready to sow clarkia etc. Notice that tobacco … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged canary creeper, clarkia, dandelions, eggs, frost, grass, sparrows, thrush, tobacco powder, weather | 10 Comments

15.4.40

Posted on 15 April by orwelldiaries

Seems to have been a little rain last night. Today very variable weather. Most of day windy, some sunshine but not very warm, a few spots of rain. Then in the afternoon a few flakes of sleet & afterwards about … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged eggs, grass, hail, manure, marrow beds, rain, sleet, tulips, weather, wind | 3 Comments

14.4.40

Posted on 14 April by orwelldiaries

Fine, dry, not particularly warm. Raked the bare patches of the lawn & sowed some grass seed. Put up the wires for the blackberries. Sowed clarkia (in seed bed). Did some weeding. 17 eggs. Sold 44 @ 2/6 score.

Posted in Domestic | Tagged blackberries, clarkia, dry, eggs, fine, grass, lawn, seed, weeding | 2 Comments

11.4.40

Posted on 11 April by orwelldiaries

Sharp frost last night. Today clear, still & sunny, but not particularly warm. Ground now decidedly dry. Cut grass as best I could. Weeded flower bed by the shed. Gave manure mulch to hollyhocks etc. Planted 3 dwarf michaelmas daisies … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged blackbird, broken, eggs, flower bed, frost, grass, ground, hollyhocks, magpie, manure, michaelmas daisies, mulch, nest, peter hollingworth, robin, rook, sunny, weeding | 4 Comments

15.3.40

Posted on 15 March by orwelldiaries

Hard frost in the night & the roads very slippery this morning. Today fairly sunny & warm. Thawing fast, but most of the grass still covered with snow. A few blue crocuses appearing. 16 eggs.

Posted in Domestic | Tagged crocuses, eggs, frost, grass, roads, snow, sunny | 6 Comments

13.3.40

Posted on 13 March by orwelldiaries

Re-opening this diary after a long absence due to ‘flu etc. The day we left, 30.1.40, the roads were so completely snowed up that of the 31/2 miles to Baldock we were only able to do about 1/2 mile on … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged adco, Baldock, birds, blackcurrants, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carnations, compost, crocuses, cuttings, daffodils, egg total, eggs, flu, frost, gooseberries, grass, hare, leeks, peonies, polyanthi, recurrants, rhubarb, roads, rose, snow, snowdrops, soil, tulips, wallflowers, water-glass | 10 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