February 28

Posted by sydney on Feb 28th, 2009
  • 1793: February 28, 1793 – Planted 50 good cabbage-plants: mended the bed planted in autumn, & eaten in part by the hares.
  • 1790: February 28, 1790 – Violets abound.
  • 1788: February 28, 1788 – Sowed the great mead, & Baker’s Hill with a good dressing of ashes: of my own 31 bushels; bought 54.
  • 1786: February 28, 1786 – The snow is at an average about seven inches deep.  As it fell without any wind, it is lodged much on the trees, so that the prospects are very grotesque, & picturesque.
  • 1783: February 28, 1783 – Rain in Feb: 5 in. 54 hun. Peter Wells’s well ceases to run over. It is only 36 feet in depth, & continues almost full all the winter in wet seasons. A lavant from the hanger fills it. The wells in this part of the street are 63 feet deep.
  • 1779: February 28, 1779 – Gossamer abound.  Frogs swarm in the ditches.
  • 1775: February 28, 1775 – Spiders shoot their webs from clod to clod.
  • 1774: February 28, 1774 – Much wheat rotted on the ground in the clays.
  • 1771: February 28, 1771 – Blackbird whistles. Helleborus viridis emerges, & shows it’s flower budds. Bror Henry’s field opposite his house. was fallowed for barley before the two frosts, all save the headlands: mem: to enquire if the earlier fallowing in that part proved of any advantage.
  • 1769: February 28, 1769 – Raven sits.
  • 1768: February 28, 1768 – Wet continues still: has lasted three weeks this day. Pinched off the tops of the cucumber plants, which have several joins.

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