Cheers to our good friend John F for passing this little bit of joy on. Free wildflower seeds from certain train stations this monday coming. Cheers Sadiq!
Free seeds on Platform Two on Monday
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SE23 update
We’re days away from the summer solstice and it’s crept up so quickly that we hadn’t even noticed. One minute we’re checking when the last frost will be and now it’s nearly summer, crazy business!
The random sown poppies are popping up all over the place (above) and that mullein plant (below) is sending up its mad flower stalk and it won’t be long until it flowers now!
How does your garden grow? Pictures to one deck pete at geemail dot comm please.
Pelargoniums on platform one
A big shout to the staff at Honor Oak Park train station for maintaining the wonderful display of pelargoniums there. They get a good daily watering and when we have some comfrey liquid ready, we pop some in. We think they’re serious on the annual stations in bloom competition and with that display they should be!
We’ve taken some cutting from said plants (above) and they seem to root very quickly and now flowering after not many weeks.
While we’re looking at flowers here’s a new poppy from this morning!
A Sunday with Stereolab
Here’s a wonderful tune and wonderful video too from Stereolab with their radio and TV related tune, Aerial Troubles. Dance around the coax to this as it’s a good one!
It may be raining but who cares when this is playing
The clouds are going grey and that day of supposed gardening may be not materialise but we found this and things seem to be a lot brighter in our life. It’s possibly the craziest version of Sleng Teng ever! Hats off and umbrellas up to the great Center of the Universe. Cheers to Jesse Yuen for inspiring us finding this.
And if rumour has it, all the secrets to life (and sleng teng) are possibly contained in the first few seconds of this.
Never mind the brollies, have a good Saturday grapple fans.
Quaking grass and shortwave space travel
We’ve had this in the garden before and God only knows how it actually got there (have they self seeded themselves or are they the fruits of our anarchistic “throw them anywhere” sowing method) but it’s the wonderful quaking-grass. It’s only a small plant but is great close up and we’ve just found out that the seeds are good source of food for the birds.
We’ve got a flower on our courgette plant we sowed in a pot when we thought it may be a bit late so it’s always worth trying! How’s people’s gardens going? Do send some pictures please!
Also this weekend on the shortwave bands Imaginary Stations bring you Starship Skybird. The show is broadcast on Saturday 7th June 2025 at 1100 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and then again on Sunday 8th June 2025 at 0900/1300 hrs UTC on 6160 kHz and at 2000 UTC on 3975 kHz and 6160 kHz (via the services of Shortwave Gold).
Start the countdown to this weekend when you can strap yourself in for a trip of a lifetime. Tune in, make yourself a cosmic cocktail if that’s your thing and enjoy the sounds of space.
There’s all sorts of space madness with music (and some great jingles) you may have never heard before from DJ Frederick and Justin Patrick Moore and at 6.15 mins in there’s One Deck Pete presents a ride into space on a 60+travelcard mix. Grab yourself a shortwave radio or tune in via here.
A mullein in Cincinnati
Cheers to our good friend across the pond Justin Patrick Moore for sending us a picture of the mullein plant in his garden. Justin mentioned “I let the plants grow when they pop up, even though some consider them a weed. People smoke the leaves for lung issues and make an oil from the flowers for ear infections. Its a medicinal weed, that in its second year, goes up past the knees!”
And thanks to Justin for forwarding a great tune named after said plant from MF Doom. Cheers Justin!
Music for a Monday night
Cheers to our mate Will for sending us this musical recommendation, a collection called Bootlegs II by Tribilin Sound and there’s 34 tracks for 10 US dollars which is a bargain. The opener The Poor Man Cumbia has a bit of the warped out sounds of an off-centre pressing and is a do over we think of Barrington Levi‘s Poor Man’s Style. Wonderful stuff!
And we love the mad remix of José María Arguedas’ Carnaval De Tambobamba. There’s a little bit of everything on this set from Massive Attack and Madonna and well worth investigating.
Trowels and tribulations
Our favourite gardening trowel went missing this week. It was a christmas present a good few years ago, survived nearly every day use (and numerous knocks and scrapes) and it’s almost like a good friend. We even had to put some plants in yesterday using a large dessert spoon, the shame of it!
We did a daily lap around the garden lifting up leaves and looking behind pots just to see if it have fallen behind something (using the same route every day and lifting the same leaves). The cupboard under the stairs (its usual resting place) was inspected a few days in a row, the Lewisham Garden refuse bin was emptied out twice and we even dreamt about it (the metal part was coming away from the wooden handle in the dream. Was this a sign?)
Today whilst getting the flymo out of its home (a large waterproof plastic outdoor box bought at Argos) we spied said trowel sitting at the bottom of it. What the hell was it doing there? Who moved it to such an odd place? Is it to do with our advancing years? We do rather hope not.
Lost anything in the garden of late and it’s resurfaced somewhere daft? Please let us your tale.
Weeds up to me knees 