Radio IS a foreign country

Cheers to Steve Barker from the excellent On The Wire radio show for letting us know about the wonderful online radio station that is Radio is a Foreign Country here. As it describes itself: “An en…

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More chilli business

The other month we got this great multi-coloured Bolivian Rainbow Chilli Pepper plant from Herne Hill Market that is now housed in the polytunnel and seems to love it in there so much as we are now…

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On a Chilli tip

Thanks to Kit G5KIT in Bristol who sent us these great pictures of his chilli plant and he wrote: “Remember those little chilli seedlings from earlier in the year? We’ve given most of t…

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Morschen43 on the wire

A big thanks to Steve Barker, Fenny and Jim from the excellent On The Wire for playing Morschen43’s Dark Dread / Toi … , L’Homme … at 1 hour in on the show earlier this morn…

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And back over to France again

Here’s news about the new album from our gardening mate Spike Morschen43 from Le Puy-en-Velay, France called Retour En Force!!!   The set released a few days again on Bandcamp features 1…

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From the south coast to the south of France

Thanks to Debby H who’s away on holiday at the moment in the south of France, near Frejus. She said it’s still hot out there with temperatures around 30 degrees C! “Attached is a photo showing that…

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The Village Shop (@braithwaiteshop) on X

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On a worldwide tip

Here’s the latest Lingua Franca (Episode number 10!) with “Songs sung in different languages” from Will Jeff on Love Will Save The Day FM. If you want a nice worldwide mix up journey of…

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Straight to bindweed’s head

Some people get fed up with bindweed and let it get them down. Kit G5KIT in Bristol on the other hand, let said weed influence a 15 minute mix. We wonder if you place a speaker near said the offend…

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One step away

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Trees and pears in north London

Thanks to Debby H for sending us some pictures yesterday. The first is a council planted hibiscus tree (as Debby said, it was common practice for councils to plant London Planes in the capital and …

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Preparation, preparation, preparation

This afternoon we cleared an area (which once housed a greenhouse many moons ago) in preparation for a polytunnel which will arrive sometime this week. Thanks to Alan C who gave us some great advic…

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A harvest report from France

More great harvest pictures are coming into the Weeds news desks. The one above is from our mate Spike from Morschen43 in Le Puy-en-Velay. As we keep mentioning, all his hard work from earlier this…

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A mad one for a Sunday

An absolutely bonkers tune heard on this week’s On The Wire here originally from 2007 by Paul Rooney called Lucy from Lanchashire. Fenny who played said tune, mentioned that Lucy is a spryte …

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The new wave of continuous wave

This great track above was heard on this week’s Echo Chamber on KFAI (here) which is as you know, a great show from our Dub Gardening friend Dr Strangedub and DJ baby Swiss. The track is from…

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BULLET, by Surfin Dead

track by Surfin Dead

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One for the sunrise posse

Today’s picture is the wonderful yellow variant of the Marvel of Peru which we grew from seed. Lots of trumpet flowers this morning, from mostly yellow, some yellow and couple of pure white. Will t…

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Gardening tool of the week

Our old hedge trimmers knackered up the other month when we accidently tried to cut a bit of metal that had been sticking out of the front wall. This week we needed a pair, so bought the above from…

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Commuter stress in a Lake District style

Cheers to Rich in the Lake District for sending us this the other day and wrote “This got me pondering the problems people encounter when trying to get to work on time.” He added &#8220…

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Marvellous!

Bringing down some tea bags to the compost heap this morning, we were stopped in our tracks by the sight of what we think is our larger Marvel of Peru AKA (‘Belle de Nuit’ or 4 O’Clock plant)…

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Pass us some rain down here

Cheers to Rich up in the Lake District for the fine picture of what the weather was like up there today. Looks a bit cloudy, if you have any rain to spare in the lakes, could some be passed down he…

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Tell me why, tell me why, tell me why?

Here’s a book we discovered again in the Weeds gardening bookcase (above). It’s a wonderful book, interviewing gardeners and asking them that one big question “Why do you garden?&…

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