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Tag Archives: weeding
14.4.40
Fine, dry, not particularly warm. Raked the bare patches of the lawn & sowed some grass seed. Put up the wires for the blackberries. Sowed clarkia (in seed bed). Did some weeding. 17 eggs. Sold 44 @ 2/6 score.
11.4.40
Sharp frost last night. Today clear, still & sunny, but not particularly warm. Ground now decidedly dry. Cut grass as best I could. Weeded flower bed by the shed. Gave manure mulch to hollyhocks etc. Planted 3 dwarf michaelmas daisies … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged blackbird, broken, eggs, flower bed, frost, grass, ground, hollyhocks, magpie, manure, michaelmas daisies, mulch, nest, peter hollingworth, robin, rook, sunny, weeding
4 Comments
6.4.40
Sharp frost last night. Beautiful still sunny day, turning rather cold again this evening. Dug some more. Frost has improved the soil considerably. Weeded the patch between the currants & the strawberries, & applied lime. (Paid Titley 6d for about … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged cold, currants, double egg, egg total, eggs, frost, lime, marrows, pumpkins, soil, strawberries, sunny, Titley, weeding, winter greens
3 Comments
3.4.40
Seems to have rained fairly heavily during last night. Light drizzle all this morning. Fine most of the afternoon. Sowed artichokes on the new patch, which is very stony but probably good enough for this purpose. This used 7 lb., … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged artichokes, bullace, drizzle, eggs, marrow-bed, pigeons, rain, weeding
2 Comments
2.4.40
Most of day nice weather, but a heavy shower lasting about half an hour in the evening, & a light shower at midday. A few grape hyacinths forming heads. Some wallflowers almost in flower. Saw a bat, the first I … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged artichokes, bat, eggs, flower bed, fruit trees, grape hyacinth, shower, wallflowers, weeding
8 Comments
30.3.40
Nice spring weather. Sowed 1 row carrots. Finished weeding strawberries, & applied a little manure. Place for broad beans now about fit to sow. One or two daffodils opening in garden. Except for Innes’ meadow beyond the Lodge, it is … Continue reading
Posted in Domestic
Tagged Baldock, broad beans, carrots, daffodils, egg total, eggs, innes' meadow, lodge, manure, spring, strawberries, Wallington, weeding
7 Comments
2.8.39.
Most of day overcast & rather chilly. Only weeding etc. 12 eggs (2 pullets?). Sold 30 @ 2/6 score.
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