While doing a shortwave mix the other night we came across this duo we’ve never heard of before called The Secret Whistle. It’s a great name and turns out they’re from Portland, Oregon and they make some fine tunes. Here’s two here.
A big thank you to Katie and all the team at Thompson & Morgan Blog for sending us over these new vegetable seeds to see how we get on with them. They look great, so this afternoon we popped 4 of the chilli seeds into compost to start off. Quick Fire is the variety and it mentions on the pack that you can get up to 100 chillies per plant! We’ll keep you all posted on how we get on with all of them. Cheers again T&M!
And to continue the festive themed soundtrack here’s a clever little number by Bodyswitch from the Stocking Stuffers EP a nice dubbed up version of Carla Thomas’ Gee Whiz, it’s Christmas.
And a lovely dub from from R. Santa on Nou Art Records out of Barcelona called “Time Dub”
Has Gavin & Stacey finished yet? And is it really the last one?
Alongside the pictures of her outdoor plants that have been brought indoors, Debby H sent us a great photograph of her fern that lives permanently indoors and has grown lots since she was given it about 10 years ago. Ferns are something we don’t know a lot about here sadly.
We mentioned that we were thinking of getting some for the bottom of the garden, which is well shady and because we heard they need a lot of moisture were a bit unsure about it. Debby said “There are different sorts of ferns. I only know about indoor ferns. I read that it’s a common mistake to think that ferns need lots of water. Actually they don’t. They do like shade though. I suggest you try planting them at the bottom of your garden. You can tell if they need water as they start to droop. You may just need to give them a watering in the summer if it hasn’t rained for quite a while.” Now that sounds great to us and we may give it a go now.
She also noted “Did you notice the claw-like thing sticking out of the fern on the right hand side? I think this is the equivalent of its flowers, but it doesn’t make petals. You get small round green balls that are its seeds. The seeds turn brown and sometimes black eventually, and the claw sometimes goes orange. If you look in the centre of the plant towards the flower pot, and slightly to the right, you will see one that’s going orange but they can go much brighter orange than that though.” Brilliant stuff Debby!
Anyone else have any ferns?
STOP PRESS: Thanks to elradioescucha, for getting in touch telling us it’s the indoor palm tree Chamaedorea!
A big shout to our good friend across the pond Justin Patrick Moore for sending us pictures of his indoor plants that are now being transferred back into the house after a summer outside in the garden. That’s a great load of plants there.
As we’ve mentioned before, we’re not the best at keeping houseplants here but are getting better with the watering/non-watering days. Great pictures Justin!
Also here’s a great video with Justin giving an interesting talk about his excellent book The Radio Phonics Laboratory, more about that here. If you love radio and electronic music do give it a watch and get the book as it’s a great read.
News just in! There’s a new EP release from Jasmine & Madtone and it’s up on Bandcamp here featuring the two tracks that were on The Rhythm Doctor’s excellent mix on Gilles Peterson’s Breakfast show on Worldwide FM. Expect more new music from Jasmine & Madtone soon!
Cheers to Wlad (US7IGN) in Kyiv for sending us some pictures a fortnight or so which we’ve only got around to posting now. The first is how his good mate Sergiy (UT3UFD)‘s indoor banana plant is doing (above) and as you can it’s looking healthy! Love to know how his date palm is getting on.
And here’s a nice picture of how Wlad’s Dill and Potatoes make a good combination in the same container. We’ve sowed some Dill here a few years ago and actually got it to grow but didn’t really do anything with it sadly as we weren’t into the herb at the time but the Dill above is looking healthy. More on how to grow Dill here. Cheers for the pictures Wlad.
A big thanks goes out to our good friend in Kyiv, Wlad (US7IGN) for sending us some more great pictures. This time it’s his indoor grown potatoes, from harvest to serving!
We seem to forget that to garden you don’t actually have to have a physical garden and Wlad proves this point really well with this great little harvest of potatoes which they look tasty too! All served with a bit of tasty dill that he grew indoors too.
And Wlad has written a great book which we featured (here) a while ago called 
Weeds up to me knees 