Daily Archives: July 2, 2025

A shortwave slow down

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Imaginary Stations will be bringing another Downbeat on Shortwave this weekend (cheers Fred!) on Saturday 5th July 2025 at 1200 hrs (UK Time) on 6160 kHz and on Sunday 6th January 2025 at 1000/1400 hrs (UK) on 6160 kHz and at 2100 (UK) on 3975 kHz/6160 kHz.

Our good dub gardening friend Jesse Yuen from Perth, Australia and One Deck Pete from Brockley Village, London will be bringing you two 15 minute downtempo mixes each in a back to back downtempo style.

Tune in your shortwave radio this weekend or if you haven’t got one, via an online Software Defined Radio here (tuned into 6160 kHz) at the right time in AM mode and listen in and chill out to their slow-mo selection.

Why buy seeds when you can dry seeds

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It’s great to hear that Gerry Hectic is taking on a new seed saving project after tasting a strawberry that was so nice he got given one that he is now saving seed from and trying to grow a plant from it. He is now trying the same method on the above!

We will keep you posted on how he gets on! Fascinating stuff though and more free plants if they take. We found a great link about seed saving here. Good luck Gerry.

Pollinators in full effect

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Thanks to Mike & Julia for sending us some pictures of some pollinators doing their thing (cheers to Mike for the blog post title). Talking of pollinators, we were told this week that bees, flies and whatnot are not supposedly that keen on geraniums/pelargoniums.

We have not heard that before and just checked with AI “Bees, in particular, often avoid pelargoniums, especially those with double blooms, due to the difficulty of accessing the nectar”. That’s a new one on us!