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Tag Archives: lime
8.4.40
Cold, overcast & a very little light drizzle. Ground has not dried up so cannot sow peas yet. Dug the limed patch, leaving it very rough. It can remain thus for about 2 months. No more digging now remains to … Continue reading
6.4.40
Sharp frost last night. Beautiful still sunny day, turning rather cold again this evening. Dug some more. Frost has improved the soil considerably. Weeded the patch between the currants & the strawberries, & applied lime. (Paid Titley 6d for about … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged cold, currants, double egg, egg total, eggs, frost, lime, marrows, pumpkins, soil, strawberries, sunny, Titley, weeding, winter greens
3 Comments
22.11.39
Much as yesterday. Dug some more of the limed patch, planted out the remaining black currants. A double egg again today & also an egg of the type the Smallholder describes as pimpled. Tom R. says he saw a rat … 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
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
16.11.39
Some rain last night & almost continuous light rain all today. Impossible to do much out of doors. Limed another strip (lime now running short), transplanted a couple of currant bushes. Most of the trees are now completely bare. A … Continue reading
8.11.39
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
6.11.39
Evidently it rained very heavily during last night. Today windy, a few showers but most of the day sunny. Transplanted the peonies. They are said not to stand this well, but they had withered back & I took a good … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged currants, eggs, gooseberry, lime, peonies, rambler, soil, weather
8 Comments
5.11.39
Some wind in the morning, then nice sunny weather. Ground has dried up somewhat. In the evening violent wind & a few drops of rain. The wind actually blew the roof off the small henhouse. Enormous flocks of starlings, some … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged eggs, elder, elms, gooseberry, henhouse, leaves, lime, sand, soil, starlings, turf-mould, weather
3 Comments
