Tag Archives: leeks

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

26.4.40

Posted on 26 April by orwelldiaries

Beautiful day again. 1 pumpkin seed coming up (sown 6.4.40). Carrots sown 9.4.40 are up, but not parsnips. Took up all but one row of the leeks, which were not very good anyway, & dug trench for runner beans. Hoed … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged carrots, currants, eggs, gooseberries, leeks, parsnips, pumpkin, runner beans, strawberries, trench, weather | 2 Comments

13.4.40

Posted on 13 April by orwelldiaries

Still, not warm, overcast but no rain. Sowed kale, savoys, sprouts, lettuce (cos), radishes. (Not broccoli, as the seed I have is of a late kind, to be sowed about May-June). Also leeks, 10-week stocks, foxgloves. Planted out 1 score … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged awning, broccoli, broken, cos, egg total, eggs, fertiliser, foxgloves, frost, ground, kale, leeks, lettuce, overcast, radishes, rose cuttings, sacking, savoys, sprouts, stocks, woolworths | 2 Comments

4.4.40

Posted on 4 April by orwelldiaries

Thin drizzle early this morning, then sunny & windy, rain for about 2 hours in the middle of the day, then again sunny & windy. Dug some more. Soil is extremely soggy. Applied the nitrate of potash to leeks & … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged drizzle, eggs, fir-cones, leeks, milkman, Mr Hatchett, nitrate of potash, rain, shallotts, soil, sun, sunflower, walnut tree, wind | 4 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

4.10.39

Posted on 4 October by orwelldiaries

Rather cold, violent wind. Picked up the first ripe walnuts today. There are very few, however. Spread the manure. Hoed leeks. Spring cabbages have not taken root very well, owing to the drought. Uprooted the onions, which are very poor. … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged apple ginger, drought, eggs, leeks, manure, onions, spring cabbages, walnuts, weather | 3 Comments

24.8.39.

Posted on 24 August by orwelldiaries

Hot. Planted 2 rows leeks (about 75 plants). There are 5 different colours of larkspurs coming out. 9 eggs (4 small).

Posted in Domestic | Tagged larkspurs, leeks | 1 Comment

23.8.39.

Posted on 23 August by orwelldiaries

Hot. Dug some more of the patch for leeks, transferred the cockerels (5) to the small pen, deloused the hen-houses. Great trouble getting rid of the red mite, which multiplies very fast in this weather. They have to be burned … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged cockerels, henhouse, leeks, nest, red mite | 1 Comment

22.8.39.

Posted on 22 August by orwelldiaries

Drizzle in the morning, rest of day fine & hot. The mist is now very thick in the early mornings. Dug some more of the patch for the leeks, gave liquid manure to larkspurs etc. E. planted some more godetias. … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged chicken feed, corn, ducks, egg book, Eileen, godetias, leeks, Marx, newts, nits, watersnail, weather | 4 Comments

21.8.39.

Posted on 21 August by orwelldiaries

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