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Tag Archives: marrow
12.10.39
Fine autumn weather, as yesterday. Planted out about 25 more wallflowers, a few hollyhock seedlings, 20 bought tulip bulbs (2 black) & about 15 of our own, & about 30 daffodils, some bought, some of our own. Cut leaves off … Continue reading
7.10.39
Misty & still. A very few drops of rain. Beech nuts now ripe. Skinned & took the pith out of a largish marrow (about 18” long), & note that after doing this there is only about 21/2 lb. of flesh. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged adco, beech nuts, briquettes, calor gas, coal dust, compost, egg total, eggs, flesh, marrow, pith, rain, weather
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10.9.39
Warmish, but overcast. Dug the 2 rows of King Edward potatoes (actually most of them are not K.E. but another larger kind, perhaps Great Scott). Again very poor though better than the earlies. The best had 16 sizeable potatoes to … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged disease, eggs, goat, great scott, heat, king edward, marrow, Muriel, potatoes, pumpkin, weather
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16.8.39.
Hot. Ground again very dried up. Hoed onions & flowers in nursery beds, watered pumpkin & tomatoes, cut down broad beans, which have now got too big & are not worth leaving to ripen. Some turnips almost fit to pull. … Continue reading
21.7.39.
Fine part of the day, but overcast & damp in the morning, & a thunderstorm in the afternoon. Wheat yellowing. Planted out leeks (38 make a row.) Weeds very bad everywhere. This morning a female flower of a marrow opened; … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged goat, gooseberries, leeks, marrow, milk-yield, thunderstorm, weather, weeds, wheat
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19.7.39.
Showers, but mostly fine. Everything now growing very fast. Many peas. A few tomatoes about the size of marbles. One or two marrows about size of peanuts. Not certain whether a pullet has started laying prematurely or whether the mother … Continue reading
18.7.39.
Raining almost the whole day. Too wet to do much outside. Female flowers coming on first marrow. 11 eggs.
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