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Tag Archives: wallflowers
11.10.39
Still, sunny & fairly warm. Ground a good deal dryer. Planted out 10 Canterbury bells, about 20 sweet williams, 20 carnations, 25 wallflowers (flame). Continue tomorrow if not raining. Added some more to compost heap. Staked some of the crysanthemums° … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged apple jam, Canterbury bells, carnations, chrysanthemums, compost heap, eggs, hen-run, raining, spade, sweet williams, wallflowers, weather
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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
1.8.39.
Warm. A few drops of rain. Pricked[1] out wallflowers (yellow) & sweet williams. Calculate roughly that each row of peas (about 12 yards) will yield 15-20 lb. Started new cwt. Of wheat & kibbled maize today. This has to do … Continue reading
31.7.39.
Most of day overcast, heavy showers & thunder about mid-day. Weeded onions. Pricked[1] out 35 carnations. The wallflowers planted on 11.7.39 about 3” to 4” high. One hollyhock which is coming into flower is white. There are therefore 4 colours … Continue reading
11.7.[1]39.
Warm but not very sunny. Pricked out 90 wallflowers (flame). T. [2] thinks the lame pullet may have “the disease” (presumably coccidiosis) in which case it would be better to kill her. The infallible symptom is yellow dung, but apparently … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged chickens, goats, Kate, lame pullet, milk-yield, stawberries, wallflowers, weather
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23.6.39.
Overcast & drizzle but somewhat less cold. Did nothing in garden. Wallflowers sown 19.6.39 (in frame) beginning to show & carnations sown a day earlier also germinating. Thanks to the rain, a few carrots beginning to sprout in what were … Continue reading
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
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