Episode 103: houseplants and sustainability part one - peat-free

On The Ledge

Jane Perrone

Houseplants, Leisure, Gardening, Home & Garden, Plants

4.8 • 773 Ratings

🗓️ 19 July 2019

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

We’re all in no doubt that our houseplants are good for us, but are they good for the environment? This episode is the start of an occasional series looking at houseplants and sustainability: I’m starting by looking at peat use - can we find a viable alternative to this non-renewable resource? I talk to Sean Higgs, who's been growing carnivorous plants peat-free for many years. And I answer a question about the aerial roots on a monster Anthurium.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to On the Ledge podcast, the award-winning house plant podcast, hosted by me, Jane Perrone. If I come to your
0:23.7	house, yes, I will be lifting up your pots and checking that everything is not rootbound or waterlogged,
0:29.6	and yes, I do want to identify your mystery plant. In this episode, I'm going to be tackling the topic
0:35.5	of peat and answering a question about
0:38.2	a wayward and thurium.
0:42.5	Thanks to Alex this week, who left a review on the Cast Box podcast app, which made me laugh.
0:50.5	Apparently, I'm sincere and humble. I think you've been listening to the wrong podcast, Alex.
0:55.2	But Alex also said, the show doesn't give that pumpkin spice latte slash Instagram stereotype vibe at all.
1:02.7	Oh, pumpkin spice latte, yuck. I'm much more of a nice cup of English breakfast tea. Thank you very much.
1:09.7	But thank you for leaving your review, Alex. and I really do love reading all the reviews, mostly positive, occasionally
1:17.2	negative. It's all great feedback. So thank you to everybody who has left a review for On the
1:22.4	ledge on your pod app of choice. And thank you also to Nicole, who became a legend this week by signing up to
1:30.7	the $5 tier of my Patreon. One of the great things about Patreon and the ads that I run on the show
1:38.2	is they're enabling me to do more things to get on the ledge out to an ever wider and more diverse audience. And one of the
1:46.3	things I'm working on right now is transcripts of the show. This is really important because
1:51.5	accessibility is a real issue and I don't want anyone to feel like they can't get access to the
1:58.1	show because it's not in a format that works for them.
2:01.6	So very shortly, transcripts of the show will be going up at janeperone.com for every episode,
2:08.0	starting from episode 100 and going on from there.
2:11.9	If I can, I will back date and get as many transcripts up for earlier episodes,
2:16.8	but for the moment, I'm aiming
2:18.5	to get a transcript up for every new episode. This will enable anyone who wants to look at exactly
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