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Tag Archives: pumpkin
26.4.40
Beautiful day again. 1 pumpkin seed coming up (sown 6.4.40). Carrots sown 9.4.40 are up, but not parsnips. Took up all but one row of the leeks, which were not very good anyway, & dug trench for runner beans. Hoed … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged carrots, currants, eggs, gooseberries, leeks, parsnips, pumpkin, runner beans, strawberries, trench, weather
2 Comments
22.10.39
Very misty, not cold, a short spell of sun in the afternoon. No wind. Turned out & examined some of the bags of potatoes. Found that some K. Edwards had gone bad, but no Red Kings, or very few. Threw … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged aubretia, blenheim, cooking apples, eating apples, eggs, king edwards, lime, market, meetrop, mist, potatoes, pumpkin, red kings, savoy, sun, weather
5 Comments
28.9.39
Have not been able to keep up the diary, as I have been away[1]. The eggs are, however, entered in the hen book, though I think a certain number were not recorded. Typical autumn weather, except that of late the … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged autumn, bees, broccoli, butcher, cabbages, chrysanthemums, egg total, eggs, Eileen, hay, hens, leghorn, loganberry, michaelmas daisies, potatoes, pumpkin, rabbits, rhode island red, superphosphate, weather
9 Comments
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
4 Comments
5.9.39
Have not been able to keep up the diary owing to travelling to & fro, dislocation caused by the war etc. The weather has been mainly hot & still. On the night of 2.9.39 a tremendous thunderstorm which went on … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apples, bergamot, bullaces, carnations, carrots, dahlias, damsons, eggs, flowers, goats, grass, hens, hollyhocks, larkspurs, lettuces, marigolds, marrows, michaelmas daisies, milk, onions, peas, phloxes, potatoes, pumpkin, roes, runner beans, sweet williams, thunderstorm, turnips, wallflowers, Wallington, war, weather, weeds, winter vegetables
5 Comments
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
27.7.39.
Hot. A very few drops of rain in the evening. Red mite is bad in the henhouses, partly no doubt owing to one or two hot days. Dealt with them with boiling water & sulphur afterwards, hoping this will be … Continue reading
3.7.39.
Warmer, sunny most of day. Planted pumpkin (somewhat too late, & in a too shady position). Earthed up north[1] side of the maincrop potatoes. No gaps, but some very immature. Lifted tulip bulbs. One early potato withered up – trust … Continue reading
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