http://soundcloud.com/redgallery/balearicos-mix-r3d-market-by
A nice chilled as mix by Phil Mison and Balearic Mike found this morning on soundcloud. One to do the pruning to, that’s if you can prune lying down! Big up “The Grim Reaper from Ibiza.” Nice one Phil!
It’s taken me over a year to get rid of the big pile of clippings and prunings which have been occupying most of the vegetable bed at the bottom of the garden. I can thank the several bonfires and sneaky black bin bags snided at the bottom of the wheelie-bin on a fortnightly basis for that.
Now the space has been cleared, the weeds are doing very well thank you. If all goes well in the next few days if it don’t rain over the weekend I’ll clear the patch and stick in some onion sets and make use of the space over the winter months.
What is bonkers though, is since I’ve cleared one load of clippings, there’s another one starting to pile up not even 15 feet away and getting taller and taller by the week. Mad or what? It’s an never-ending circle this gardening lark!
From Natty Dread magazine 2003
Respect to BBC 1Xtra for their excellent “1 Xtra stories” which this week features one Osbourne Ruddock aka one of the creators of dub, King Tubby. A brilliant programme, well researched and presented by the great David Rodigan. Available on i-player for a few more days and for any self-respecting reggae fan definitely one to listen to! Big up Tubbs!
A big shout to Dr Strangedub for being the first contributor to our “Dub Gardeners of the world unite” feature last week. The next one will feature Med Dred from the sunny island of Cyprus with some nice veg (Ta to Dr Strangedub for the link up and Med Dred for saying yes). Watch this space!
You don’t have to be a dub gardener to send us your pics as we’re interested in all gardeners who like any sort of music! Just drop us an email to the address below with some images and a bit of text and we’ll do our best to feature it (windowsill, allotment or whatever you have).
We’re also on the look out for any companies who want to send us seeds, plants, even gadgets which if we like, we’ll give an honest review and pass the word on to all. If you are a company/nursery and want to send us something drop us an email to onedeckpete@gmail.com
This mad-as-mad mix was passed onto us from a good mate at work. You’re talking eclectic in the most extreme case here! It’s one worth listening to when you are in the right frame of mind and features all sorts from gospel to death metal. Proper bonkers!
Palov meets Ang. Angelides – Waste of time – Carnibal records
Here’s one found last week tucked away on a world music podcast called “boom shaka lacka”. A tune to wish the sun back to!
And by the powers of youtube, here is where the tune is taken from, a lovely calypso from the artist with the great name of Duke of Iron with his Trinidad Calypso Troubadours (and do take the subject matter with a very large pinch of salt!)
Garden of the week: Doctor Strangedub’s plot in Minnesota.
Well, going into the second week of October and Dr. Strangedub still hasn’t taken his garden down. Most years we have had a killer frost by now here in Minnesota. Looks like it will be pretty cool tonight (around 45 F/7 C), but still safe for a bit. In the photos are: some green tomatoes still on the vine; some weeds up to my knees; and some very healthy basil plants. Looks like it’s time to make some Italian pesto with me basil….but the tomatoes must ripen in a box before I can make some salsa.
Doctor Strangedub and DJ Baby Swiss present the excellent radio show “The Echo Chamber” on KFAI weekly.
Heard this on David Rodigan’s 1 Xtra show last week, a lovely piece of laid back roots tunage. It’s great to hear the great Big Youth back again in 2013 and he’s still on top form!
I’m praying that the sun comes out tomorrow as that garden needs a good old tidy!
Bang Bang Boogie – Lebrosk’s Electro Swing mashup – Soundcloud
Heard on this week’s excellent Echo Chamber on KFAI. On a pure bonkers tip, puts us in mind of this one below from many moons ago!
Just because it’s coming up to autumn there’s no need to stop planting in the garden. The other evening I stuck in a couple of rows of the onion sets I got last weekend. They’ll overwinter well and hopefully give us some tasty onions come early summer next year.
They’re a piece of cake to sow, normal preparation of the ground as per and preferably there’s been no compost been put in the ground for a season or two (if there was, they’d make the ground hold moisture over the winter thus leaving the sets open to rotting which isn’t good). All you do is make a hole with a dibber (or the other end of a trowel) and carefully put the set in with the top just very slightly poking out (and the root end downward).
I also stuck some sticks and brambles on the top to stop our cats digging them up and also hopefully keep the birds and squirrels away. I plant mine closer together then the usual (about 4″ apart) so I can thin them out and use them as small onions when they’re ready.
Never mind what they say about “onions being cheap in the shops so don’t bother growing them” as home grown onions are a hundred times better than the ones in the supermarket. Grow your own as they’re cheap as chips to buy as sets!
Weeds up to me knees 