Tag Archives: peas

25.4.40

Beautiful spring weather. Heard the cuckoo (first time). Many midges about now. Bullace blossom pretty well out. Cut the grass, dug a trench for 3rd row of peas, gave the strawberries a little more manure. These are now free of … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged bindweed, blossom, broad beans, bullace, cuckoo, eggs, grass, manure, midges, milkman, peas, strawberries, trench, weather, weeds | 5 Comments

22.4.40

Posted on 22 April by orwelldiaries

Sunny & quite warm, but very windy. On a day like this the opening of a tulip can be watched & a distinct difference noted every few hours. Sowed turnips (2 rows, white), peas (English wonder – a bit early … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged blackthorn, blossom, eggs, English wonder, king edward, peas, potatoes, tulip, turnips, weather, wild plum | 3 Comments

21.4.40

Posted on 21 April by orwelldiaries

Sunny & warm. The first real spring day. Cowslips starting. Periwinkles out. Blossom forming on forget-me-nots. Still no cuckoo. E. sowed godetias & cornflowers. One or two of the peas (sown on 10.4.40) are showing, but no broad beans. 18 … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged blossom, broad beans, cornflowers, cowslips, cuckoo, eggs, forget-me-nots, godetia, peas, periwinkles, spring, weather | 4 Comments

10.4.40

Posted on 10 April by orwelldiaries

A very few drops of rain last night. Today cold & windy. Sowed peas (next lot to be sown about 25th). 17 eggs. Sold 1 score @ 2/-, 1 score @ 2/6 (? milkman).

Posted in Domestic | Tagged cold, eggs, milkman, peas, rain, wind | 5 Comments

9.4.40

Posted on 9 April by orwelldiaries

Fine but rather cold. Hares are mating. Saw sparrow-hawks courting in the air. Sowed carrots (short-horn) & parsnips, 1 row each. Can sow peas tomorrow. 16 eggs.

Posted in Domestic | Tagged carrots, cold, eggs, fine, hares, parsnips, peas, short-horn, sparrow-hawks | 3 Comments

8.4.40

Posted on 8 April by orwelldiaries

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 →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged bindweed, cold, drizzle, eggs, forget-me-nots, ground, lime, overcast, peas, soil, weeds | 4 Comments

7.4.40

Posted on 7 April by orwelldiaries

Fine & most of the day reasonably warm. Ground has dried up a good deal. Apple trees are budding well. Finished digging the potato patch & the place for the peas. Nothing to be dug now except the limed patch. … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged apple trees, arabis, barn owls, eggs, fine, ground, lime, owl pellet, peas, potato patch, warm | 1 Comment

17.1.40

Posted on 17 January by orwelldiaries

No thaw. A little snow in the night, making about 1 inch depth. Last night seemingly the hardest frost of all, as even the village pump was frozen. Snow very dry & crunchy. Dung in the hen houses frozen quite … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged beans, eggs, frost, frozen, henhouses, peas, snow, weather | 6 Comments

16.9.39

Posted on 16 September by orwelldiaries

Chilly & misty in the morning, sunny but not too warm in the day, a shower in the afternoon. Took up & burnt the final lot of peas, & dug over that patch. Arranged to sell off the 8 March … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged egg total, eggs, peas, pullets, weather | 3 Comments

9.9.39

Posted on 9 September by orwelldiaries

Very hot. Dug up 3rd batch of peas & dug over that piece of ground. Red mite again very bad. Most of the leghorns now moulting but not so many of the Rhodes. Notice that the birds’ appetites always drop … Continue reading →

Posted in Domestic | Tagged chicken, crops, egg total, eggs, food, fowl, grain, homegrown, leghorn, newspaper cutting, peas, poultry, red mite, rhode island red, smallholder | 3 Comments