Tag Archives: nasturtiums

28.4.40

Some rain during last night. Today fine, warm & still. One or two nasturtiums up (self sown). Turnips sown 22.4.40 are just up. The fly is already at these & at the seedling of sprouts etc. A few parsnips (sown … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged artichokes, beans, clarkia, eggs, fly, lettuce, nasturtiums, parsnips, sack, sodium chlorate, sprouts, turnips, walnut tree, weather | 3 Comments

6.7.39.

Posted on 6 July by orwelldiaries

Very windy & raining lightly most of the day. Too wet to do anything outside. Nasturtiums in flower. Roses now extremely good. Another 2lb. Strawberries. (3 1/2 lb. to date – am noting amounts in order to see what weight … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged nasturtiums, roses, strawberries, weather | 3 Comments

9.3.39

Posted on 9 March by orwelldiaries

Quite hot, but today cloudy. Most of our nasturtiums in flower & everything else growing rapidly. Mosquitoes rather bad. M. Simont uses blood, in considerable quantities (which he can get as he is a butcher) for manuring the orange trees.

Posted in Domestic | Tagged blood as manure for orange trees, mosquitoes, nasturtiums, weather | 15 Comments

18.2.39.

Posted on 18 February by orwelldiaries

Spent a week at Taddert, 1650 m. up in the Atlas, about 95 km. from Marrakech, & since then have been ill for nearly 3 weeks (about 10 days in bed.) Most essential points about Taddert are noted in the … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged almonds, animals, Atlas mountains, barbell, birds, blue tit, dwarf oak, figs, garlic cream, hawk, heather, nasturtiums, raven, rock dove, saxifrage, sedum, sorrel, sweet peas, Taddert, trees, walnuts, wild broom, wood pigeon | 23 Comments

1.1.39

Posted on 1 January by orwelldiaries

Three eggs. The cock pigeon, which at first was rather sorry for himself, no doubt owning to having been confined in a cage & having had his wings bound, is better & trying to fly a little. The female at … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged brinjals, cock pigeon, dead donkey, eggs, lemon blossom, marrows, nasturtiums, orange blossom, pepper trees, storks | 20 Comments

2.12.38

Posted on 2 December by orwelldiaries

The weather has been much cooler, some days clear & fine, much like English spring, sometimes heavy mist. The day before yesterday fairly heavy rain. On clear days the Atlas mountains look extremely close, so that you can distinguish every … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged carnations, catapult, clarkias, godetias, marigold, nasturtiums, pansies, phlox, pinks, poppies, seeds, sunflowers, sweet peas, violas, weather | 33 Comments

23.11.38

Posted on 23 November by orwelldiaries

Weather fine & warm, not particularly hot. Fires some evenings. When it is reasonably clear the snow peaks on the Atlas now seem so close that one would think them only a few miles away (actually 50-100 miles I suppose.) … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged Atlas mountains, horticulture, marigolds, nasturtiums, price of wheat, sweet peas, weather | 16 Comments

14.11.38

Posted on 14 November by orwelldiaries

Planted out nasturtiums.

Posted in Domestic | Tagged nasturtiums | 14 Comments

3.11.38

Posted on 3 November by orwelldiaries

Yesterday one egg. Fine sunset, with green sky. The nasturtiums & marigolds well up. Inside terribly bad in the night. Fairly warm. On silver poplar tree found puss-moth caterpillar about 1” long. Found shell of dead tortoise. Some time in … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged barley, dead tortoise, donkey, marigold, nasturtiums, silver poplar tree, weather | 18 Comments

1.11.38

Posted on 1 November by orwelldiaries

Fine, not at all hot. People ploughing everywhere. The plough stirs the soil about 4” to 6” deep. The soil varies greatly & some of it looks rather good. Large patches which were perhaps cultivated a year ago have been … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged goat giving birth, goats, marigold, nasturtiums, ploughing, pomegranates, wheat | 3 Comments