This week’s Sounds from the south on Fab Radio International’s The Dirt is about a choice job a mate of mine had years ago. Tune of the week is from Barry Biggs called Work All Day from 1976 and it’s one to do “The chucky” to!
Have a listen on play again when it goes up later this week (14th September show) here for all sorts of gardening and growing malarkey including psychoactive plants. Sounds from The South is about 10 minutes in. Cheers to Si, Ricky and Paul!
Garnett Mimms & The Enchanters – A quiet place – United Artists
Tune in to The Dirt “a gardening programme like no other” on Radio Fab International this Sunday night from 6-8pm for the usual gardening related stuff and our very own “sounds from the south” spot. Listen in from 6pm here to find out more!
Dr Alimantado – Poison Flour
Also a big thanks to A Robbins for letting us know about another great South London Reggae do, this weekend (flyer below). Look’s like it’ll be a good night, the music will brilliant, the pub is ace and Earl Gateshead’s a nice chap too!
A big shout to Simon, Ricky and Paul at The Dirt on Radio Fab International. Tune in every Sunday night from 6-8pm here for “a gardening programme like no other.”
Tomorrow night’s show will feature weeds’ very own “sounds from the south” spot which this week is called “True life bird business.” Listen in from 6pm to find out more!
Thanks to all at The Dirt “a gardening programme like no other” on Fab Radio International for featuring our very own “Sounds from the south” this evening. The topic this week is “Space Station Business.” If all goes well, it’ll be up as a podcast here from tomorrow. Big up “Veg 01” the lettuce in space (above.)
A big thanks to Simon, Ricky and Paul at The Dirt (“a gardening show like no other“) on Fab Radio International for having our “sounds from the south” feature on the show. The Dirt is now available as a podcast on their web page here and also on i-tunes. Great stuff!
Have a listen tomorrow night live on Radio Fab International from 6-8pm if you fancy listening to a great gardening show with a difference, and if all goes well the second offering of “sounds from the south” will be aired around 6.20-6.30pm.
And don’t be fooled by the picture of the “cuddly bird” above, that’s no cuddly bird, that’s the Peckham Parakeet, and it could have your arm off if it wanted to. All will be revealed on tomorrow night’s “sounds from the south.”
The Impressions – Minstrel and Queen – ABC Paramount
King Tubby’s – King At The Controls – Black & White
A big thanks to Si Diamond and all at The Dirt “a gardening show like no other” on Radio Fab International for having us on the show as from tomorrow night as a weekly feature. Listen out for “Sounds from the South” as part of the new format. The show’s going to be good, “something is coming” indeed!
We at weeds will be definitely cracking open a bottle of a major supermarket’s finest and tuning in tomorrow night from 6-8pm, I mean what’s the alternative, Deal or No Deal or Antiques Roadshow? Best of luck to The Dirt!
Big up to Simon and Paul from The Dirt (a gardening show like no other) for having a bit of a laugh with our Borage pronunciation debate on the show on Radio Fab International tonight.
Also a big shout to the show’s gardening expert/gentleman gardener Geoff Garrard for going for “bor-raj”, but we here are still sticking with “borridge” though! I mean it really don’t matter how we say it, the bees will still go mental for it!
The bees don’t care what it’s called but what do you think? The nation decides…
This morning I had a look at the excellent vertical veg website (run by Mark Ridsdill Smith who picked out that corker of a tune from Bessie Banks on The Dirt the other week) and found some great tips for growing tomatoes. I’ve a few plants in the ground, one in a well overcrowded hanging basket (plonked inside another hanging basket, novel eh?) and others in reused ready-mix cement buckets up near the house.I’ve staked them up with bamboo canes, give them a regular water, a weekly feed and take off any sideshoots so all the plants energy goes into making the fruit. When the plant has formed about 4 or 5 trusses I nip out the top except the hanging basket one which I’ll leave. Most have been raised from seed except the ones kindly given to us from Dig This Nursery, who will be having their annual tomato festival on the 9th of August and know a thing or two about toms!On vertical veg, Mark speaks to a guy called Nick Chenhall who runs the website Tomato Growing about growing the ‘umble tom in growbags and containers. Some brilliant tips on the video (see it here) like feeding them little and often (dilute the feed more than you usually would) and one mad one I’ve never heard before, adding a cup of used washing up water to your watering can once every couple of weeks which acts as a wetting agent, and helps bring back moisture to areas that have dried out.
Even better, at the end of the video the guy from Tomato Growing is seen serenading the toms in his polytunnel with a classical guitar. It’s that old music/gardening connection again, brilliant! Me, I will be playing mine some happy hardcore and see if that gets results!
Augustus Pablo – Thunder Clap/ Ken Boothe – Ain’t No Sunshine
In the video above there’s a scene from a pub called The Enterprise which I’m convinced was the one in Camberwell where in the 1980’s I had my first “sunday afternoon stop back” to a soundtrack of old reggae, classic soul and clinking beer glasses plus a free plate of chicken, rice and peas from the generous landlord Louis when everyone else was going home to their sunday roast. In the good old days London pubs used to close at 2.30 then reopen at 7, bonkers!
Talking of which, the weather’s also been bonkers today, while I’m writing this, it’s tipping it down with added thunder and lightning. Yet at just gone 9 this morning the sun was blazing, so a bit of early “tipping about” was in order so I tidied up the beds down the left hand side of the garden. This can you believe was once where a couple of greenhouses stood before one of the previous owners smashed them up. Criminal isn’t it? I’d love a greenhouse (with heating, hi-fi and disco lighting of course!)The beds nearest the house contain peas, one solitary cabbage, onions, rhubarb, parsnips, beetroot and carrots. There’s not much rhyme or reason to the beds, (I mean just one solitary cabbage!) some rows go north to south and some go east to west. The raised bed to the side of them (made from a couple of scaffolding boards found in a skip) contain runner beans and raspberries (I was given a bag of roots with shoots that a friend of mine was going to chuck out when he was thinning out his raspberry patch on his allotment.) The bed furthest away has a dwarf plum tree, three tomato plants, a couple of courgettes, a pumpkin which is now starting to wander, some borage for the bees to the side and a couple of houseplants that are having a “summer break” in the terrarium/fishbowl thing in the middle. Pick and mix jazz-gardening or what? Talking of tomatoes, I heard a great tip on last week’s episode of The Dirt, don’t forget to give your tomato flowers a light shake to help the pollen on it’s way. Good eh?
Cheers to Simon, Paul and Ricky at The Dirt at Radio Fab International for having us on their “gardening show like no other” tonight and for playing Madtone’s “Compost your mind” at the start of the programme. Check out The Dirt on play again here (Go to The Dirt 15th June 2014) Madtones Compost Your Mind is at 1.36 mins, the interview is at 26 mins and the brilliant Idiot Gardener going off on one (in a very funny episode) at 43 mins. Listen in and have a laugh!
Johnny Clarke – Roots Natty Congo b/w A Roots Version (Attack)
Big up Joey Jay (brother of Norman) for playing this track on his Kiss FM Roots Reggae Show many moons ago, another production from the great Bunny “Striker” Lee. If “I am the gorgon” is showing at a cinema near you, do go as you won’t be disappointed (and you will laugh many times while watching it!)
Weeds up to me knees 