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Tag Archives: tomatoes
15.9.39
Rainy, with sunny & windy intervals. Lifted the remainder of the Red King. Very poor. As well as I can estimate, I should say 300lbs at most (10 row-200 plants). Scrapped the tomatoes. Cut down the nearer row of raspberries, … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apples, blackberry jelly, eggs, grenadier, manure, raspberries, red king, tomatoes, weather
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14.9.39
Overcast, a little drizzling rain, but fairly warm. Finished digging the patch next the tomatoes. Lifted the first row of Red King as the whole of that patch needs liming & it is simpler to lift the potatoes at once. … Continue reading
13.9.39
Overcast in the morning, a sunny patch in the afternoon, then some drizzle. Finished cleaning out potato patch, began digging the bit next to the tomatoes. One or two cockerels almost big enough for market. 7 eggs. Sold 30 @ … Continue reading
6.9.39
Very hot. Rooted up first lot of French beans & dug over that patch, which will do for spring cabbage. Cut side shoots out of tomatoes. These have not done at all well. All leaf & stalk, the plants growing … Continue reading
21.8.39.
Hot till evening, then heavy thunder & rain. Cut side-shoots out of tomatoes, dug in a little ash from bonfire round their roots, cleared & burnt first lot of dwarf peas & began digging over this patch of ground, which … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged antirrhinums, chrysanthemums, ducks, dwarf peas, larkspurs, leeks, thunder, tomatoes, weather
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20.8.39.
Hot in the morning. Then thunder & heavy showers. Raining hard tonight. Goats greatly terrified by the thunder, & M. managed to break loose from her chain. Pinched out growing point of pumpkin. Gave onions their final thinning out. First … Continue reading
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
10.8.39.
Rain during much of the day. Cut side-shoots out of tomatoes (this should have been done much earlier), began preparing another patch for greens, put up another coops for the ducks, as the 7 of them can hardly crowd into … Continue reading
19.7.39.
Showers, but mostly fine. Everything now growing very fast. Many peas. A few tomatoes about the size of marbles. One or two marrows about size of peanuts. Not certain whether a pullet has started laying prematurely or whether the mother … Continue reading
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
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