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Tag Archives: runner beans
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
10.10.39
Very still, warm & fairly sunny. A very few spots of rain in the evening. Ground greatly sodden, & a lot of chrysanthemums loosened by the wind. Dug trench for broad beans but cannot yet get the ground into sowing … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged blackberry jelly, broad beans, chrysanthemums, clay, eggs, henhouse, manure, onions, rain, runner beans, sand, walnuts, weather, wood ash
15 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
7.8.39.
Finer. In the morning rather cold & a little rain, afternoon overcast & warm. Finished preparing ground for winter greens. Put slugs in prepared box to test what kind of foodstuffs they go after most. Yesterday found dead newt in … Continue reading
5.8.39.
Raining almost continuously until about 6.30pm. Parts of the day rain extremely heavy. Baldock high street said to have been flooded. Marrows swelling very rapidly. French & runner beans 3” or 4” long. Apples growing very fast. Cylinder of calor … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apples, Baldock, egg total, french beans, gas, marrows, runner beans, weather
3 Comments
8.7.39.
Raining much of the day, a fine interval in the evening, very windy. Picked some more loganberries. One hollyhock beginning to flower. A few runner beans show buds. Tomatoes flowering, also several marrows. One or two snapdragons beginning to flower. … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chickens, ducklings, egg total, hollyhock, limping pullet, loganberries, marrows, potatoes, runner beans, snapdragons, tomatoes, weather
3 Comments
1.7.39.
Fine most of morning, very heavy showers in afternoon. Garden mostly in good condition. Some strawberries ripe, a few broad beans fit to pick, onions improving, runner beans just starting to climb strings. Hay is cut & stacked in small … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged ducklings, hay, marigolds, milk-yield, Muriel, runner beans, scabious, strawberries, weather
2 Comments
26.6.39.
Warm sunny morning. Threats of thunderstorms in afternoon but no thunder & little rain. Potatoes earthed up. Gaps filled in French bean rows with extras sown in a box in the frame when the original rows were found to have … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged blackfly, broad beans, french beans, potatoes, runner beans, weather
5 Comments
19.6.39.
Fine most of the morning, raining most of the afternoon. Not cold. Ground now too wet to do much in garden. Put out runner beans to fill up gaps in row, sowed sweet williams & wallflowers, mended frame, substituting windolite … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged carrots, Kate, milk-yield, runner beans, sweet williams, wallflowers, weather, windolite
5 Comments
15.6.39.
Windy, coldish & occasional drizzle. Put up stakes & wires upon which to stretch strings for runner beans. Fixed door of henhouse & supported it off the ground. K.’s milk yield increasing slightly. 15 eggs. (NB began new bottle of … Continue reading
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