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Tag Archives: overcast
13.4.40
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
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
5.4.40
Overcast but not actually raining. Dug some more, hoed strawberries, planted some more roots of sunflowers. 15 eggs.
1.4.40[1]
Strong wind, which has dried the soil greatly, but beautiful spring weather in the morning. In the evening overcast, but no rain. Violets out in great numbers everywhere. Larks singing, the first I have heard this year, though most years … Continue reading
29.3.40
Sowed onions (3 rows Jas. [Long] Keeping). 2 oz. seed suppose to do 200 feet but only did about 100, no doubt because I sowed too thick. Today cold, overcast & windy, with some rain in the afternoon. 17 eggs.
Posted in Domestic
Tagged cold, eggs, james longkeeping, onions, overcast, rain, seed, wind
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26.10.39
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
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