A garden update and a tune

Thanks to our good friend across the pond Justin Patrick Moore for the sending us a photo update of his back garden. That’s what’s brilliant around this time of year, the garden seems to grow overnight and at a fair rate too. We all should really appreciate this time as autumn will be here before we know it. Above are the “Tiger Lilies gone wild” and below is entitled “When the Compost Takes on a Life of it’s Own” and we all know about that when we get those potato peelings and old onions sprouting! Is that a cucumber/courgette growing and are there a few mushrooms in there too?

And below a nice patch of borage that the bees love and the leaves are a good addition to comfrey if you’re making a liquid feed.

He also sent us a nice tune to accompany the pics from Anna Nacher & Marek Styczyński off the LP entitled Throbbing Plants (the title sounding very Genesis Breyer P-Orridge meets Percy Thrower.)

Thank you for the pics Justin. Please send your garden pics, no matter how small your garden is, even if it’s just a couple of pots on a windowsill, send them in! The address is onedeckpete (at) gmail.com we’d love to see your garden!

Needs must and all that and some radio business

The potato plants are outgrowing their protective covers as you can see. There’s lots of growth coming out of raised beds that have polythene on the top, there’s a small cloche balancing on top of one of the plants (that ain’t going to do much if a frost rears its ugly head) and there’s the newest addition of potato plant protection, a couple of those 99p bargain buckets from B&Q. They’ll do the trick, as long as they are off when the sun’s out!  #lockdowngardening #lockdownfrostfreegardening

And this Sunday 8th May at 1100 UTC there’s a new transmission from DJ Frederick’s Free Radio Skybird on 6070 kHz shortwave via Channel 292 and if you haven’t got a suitable radio it can also be heard on the SDR link on their site here.

This month’s programme will feature DJ Frederick, Justin Patrick Moore’s Radiophonic Laboratory, Radio Emma Toc World Service and our very own One Deck Pete with his Tunes to cheer you up at 28.32. Want an alternative to lockdown? Well tune in and turn on!