A wonderful bit of dub just released out of the Jah Warrior camp called Lost Dub by I-Lodica. Excellent stuff.

We managed a few hours in the garden this afternoon and it was nice to be able to spend some time out there. We picked our beef tomatoes (above) from the polytunnel, and a couple of hours later a s…

Years ago a good mate of ours (Ricky R.I.P.) always used to tell us that he watched an episode of Crossroads where a punk band (who were recording at the state of the art recording studios down in …

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…

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…

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…

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…

Another big shout out to our good friends across the pond Dr Strangedub and DJ Baby Swiss of the excellent radio show The Echo Chamber on KFAI. We’ve said this countless times, but if you want to h…

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…

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…

Unfortunately, we will be down the south coast later this evening but earlier this week noticed this poster up all around the Farringdon locality. The day features an appearance of the great Swell …

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…

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…

We’ve had quite a few emails of late with pictures of harvests attached that got us thinking, is it that time of the year again or is it a bit earlier (we saw that the brambles were ready a f…

Seen at Herne Hill Market the other week, a great one from the artist called Julie Lomoe from 1969! Great graphics with a wonderful sense of humour about Hip Ski Tripping. Far out! That’s a c…

The polytunnel is now up and we are in business! There’s nowt much in there now apart from some assorted chillies, a few different types of tomatoes and some freshly sown spinach but we&#8217…

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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 …

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…

Young urban seen this morning in SE23 at 7.25am this morning in the neighbour’s drive while the internet shop was being delivered. This fox wasn’t shy at all!

Cheers to our good friend in Cincinnati, Justin Patrick Moore for the pictures of his harvest from the other day, some brilliant eggplants (aubergines) there and is that a small cucumber? Brilliant…

Thanks to Debby H for this great (inverted) image of the eclipse last night taken in north London at the maximum at 7.13 pm. What an excellent photograph! And here’s two eclipse related track…

Strange lighting was the order of the day when we witnessed the partial eclipse of the sun in SE23 around 7.25 pm this evening. The colander was out and reflected said phenomenon onto the fence. Cr…

An excellent rework/re-referencing by Alex Kassian of the excellent E2-E4 by Manuel Göttsching with the Mad Professor’s Qantas Crazy remix heard on the excellent Rhythm Doctor’s Waiting…

Thanks to Debby H for sending us this great “geese crossing” road sign from her locality in north London. “The geese used to live by the pond in North London Business Park. That a…

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 …

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…

Thanks to Adrienne for sharing these photos of her Cosmos that is looking very pretty. This was grown from seed passed on from our gardening friend in north London Debby H. This is what gardening i…

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…

Here’s very chilled 6.04 minutes by High Skies called The Shipping Forecast off an LP called Fluidities by Jonathan Hughes with guests. An excellent ambient track with a nautical theme…

We heard from Debby H in north London yesterday as she sent some great photographs of how her garden is doing. She wrote “We grew Capri Red pepper plants last year and tried to keep the plant…

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…

We don’t usually look back in time but by chance we saw this which originally was posted on Weeds on July 10th 2016. Have a read/listen. Thanks again to Steve Barker for sending us this at th…

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…

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…

On our travels this morning, we passed a plant we’ve seen a good few times. It finally clicked, it’s actually a Marvel of Peru, and a huge one at that, can you believe it? We didn’t know they…

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)…

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…

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?&…

Thanks to Spike from Morschen43 in Le Puy-en-Velay, for sending these pictures of the fruits of his labours and garden. There’s some great looking produce there. That has come around quick hasn&#82…

Earlier this year in March, we germinated some Marvel of Peru (AKA the Four O’clock Plant) seeds that we purchased from Real Seeds as it sounded like a strange plant. As it said on Wikipedia, “The …

We’ve just found this excellent new tune from Cornershop Ft Bubbley Kaur called “Bounce & Salute” and what a great tune it is, with an excellent video featuring some Trojan si…

Great to hear from Debby H in north London yesterday, she’s just back from a break away and sent us pictures from her back garden. She said what with the heatwave “Thanks to our indoor …

We have a bit of a minor leg injury due to carrying heavy stuff about a week Sunday, so we took it very easy in the garden yesterday. After a very light “tip around with a pair of secateurs&#…

Cheers to our good mate Gerry Hectic for sending us a photo of his first potatoes of the season, they’re looking fantastic! He said that they were small, but we have no problem with that as t…

Here’s an excellent film from many years ago well worth watching. It features some historical stuff, Noel Dyer who hitch hiked from Peckham to Ethiopia, The Reverend Hillman, a chap with some…

It’s going to be silly hot today (around 32 degrees C), so we did a bit of watering this morning before it goes too mad. The first (above) is from our Marvel of Peru (AKA Four o’clock p…

We’re a bit behind here with posts at Weeds, the other week we received a message from Kit G5KIT, who said “We had 37 degrees C here in Bristol today. The only ones enjoying it are my c…