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Tag Archives: rhubarb
22.3.40
Somewhat drier but a few drops of rain. Planted 3 blackberries (runners) & 2 roots of rhubarb. Began clearing out the strawberry bed. Blue & white crocuses now out. 13 eggs.
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Tagged blackberries, crocuses, eggs, rain, rhubarb, runners, strawberry bed
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1 Comment
13.3.40
Re-opening this diary after a long absence due to ‘flu etc. The day we left, 30.1.40, the roads were so completely snowed up that of the 31/2 miles to Baldock we were only able to do about 1/2 mile on … Continue reading →
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Tagged adco, Baldock, birds, blackcurrants, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carnations, compost, crocuses, cuttings, daffodils, egg total, eggs, flu, frost, gooseberries, grass, hare, leeks, peonies, polyanthi, recurrants, rhubarb, roads, rose, snow, snowdrops, soil, tulips, wallflowers, water-glass
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4.11.39
Damp, but not raining to any great extent. Finished digging the ground for shallots (still very sodden & will need several fine days to dry it), manured the rhubarb, began clearing the new patch of thistles etc. Saw the white … Continue reading →
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Tagged dead leaves, egg total, eggs, rhubarb, shallots, thistles, toadstools, weather, white owl
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19.10.39
Raining almost continuously till late evening. Impossible to do much out of doors. Dug a very little more of the rhubarb bed, cleaned up the remaining bit of the path, which however cannot be re-gravelled till I have got some … Continue reading →
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Tagged apple tree, blackberries, broad beans, chrysanthemums, cinders, coal, dahlia, dead leaves, eggs, elm trees, fruit bushes, fruit trees, garden, grass, hen-run, kitchen garden, lime, michaelmas daisies, naphthalene, owls, path, peonies, phloxes, polyantha, raining, rambler, rhubarb, rock salt, roses, shallots, strawberry bed, turf, weather, weed-killer
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16.10.39
Sunny, very still, fairly warm. I believe there was a slight frost last night. Saw the white owl again yesterday evening. Limed part of the vacant patch, the part nearest the raspberries. That bit is not to be manured are … Continue reading →
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Tagged cockerels, compost heap, eggs, frost, garden path, lime, manure, raspberries, rhubarb, root-crops, runenr beans, sunny, warm, weather, white owl
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14.10.39
Extremely heavy rain all night & in the morning. Cleared up a little in the afternoon. Began digging patch by rhubarb, otherwise impossible to do much out of doors. 5 eggs. Sold 15 @ 3/- score. Total this week: 42
13.10.39
Misty but not cold. Some swallows still about, flying very high. Mowed the lawn. Could not make much impression on it, as it has got long again, but this will probably have to be its last cut this year. Nothing … Continue reading →
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Tagged broccoli, coal dust, eggs, flower garden, hen-manure, misty, paths, rhubarb, savoys, snowdrop, spade, sprouts, sugar cartons, superphosphate, swallows, tealeaves, trellis, weather
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8.5.39.
Visit to Wallington. Plum blossom over, apple full out (a great quantity). First peas 1/2”- 1” tall. First beans 3”. Second beans not showing. Rhubarb growing but not good (? Protection necessary here for good crop; Mr A. [1] has all … Continue reading →
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Tagged arabis, aubretia, beans, carrots, egg total, forget-me-nots, gooseberries, grass seed, narcissi, onions, pansies, peas, plum, potatoes, radishes, rhubarb, roses, strawberries, thrush, tulips, turnips, wallflowers, Wallington, yellow alyssum
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15.4.39.
Chilly, windy in the evening, & light showers. Began clearing out rhubarb patch, otherwise busy moving hen-houses. Evidently it helps a good deal if one can induce them to eat a meal in or very near the houses immediately after … Continue reading →
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Tagged bullace, crab apple, dead nettle, hens, Muriel, rhubarb, swallow, thrush, wild plum
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2 Comments
12.4.39.
Wallington: Yesterday[1] exceedingly warm & fine, said to have been the warmest day for that date for 70 years. Today even more so. We now have 26 hens, the youngest about 11 months. Yesterday 7 eggs (the hens have only … Continue reading →
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Tagged anemones, aubretia, blackcurrants, bullace, celadine, chickens, cos lettuce, crocuses, daffodils, flowers, grape hyacinth, Marx, narcissi, oxalis, pears, peonies, pigeon, plum, polyanthus, primroses, rhubarb, roses, scilla, strawberries, tulips, Wallington, weather, weeds, wildflowers
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