plants podcast perone.

It can only be on the ledge.

In this week's show, I'm joined by Claire Rattinon,

a food grower extraordinaire, to talk about her new book, How to Grow Your Dinner Without Leaving the House.

And we also talk about the naughty issue of racism in horticulture.

And I answer a question about a cretula ovarta whose leaves have suddenly got very small. How mysterious. Just a warning,

this show is usually a swear-free show, but for one week only. And in order to discuss a particular

post of Clare's, I've rated this show as explicit because the F word does pop up a few times.

And so if that mortally offends you, you may wish to skip this episode. But otherwise,

keep listening. Because Claire has stuff to say that you need to hear.

Those of you who follow me on social media, specifically Instagram,

may be aware that I was having a little bit of a moment this week about the price of

Sanseverias, certain Sanseverias, I should say, and promised that I was going to say

something about the price of rare plants in the podcast. I'm not

going to do that this week because I want to give full breathing room for my chat with Claretanon.

But next week I will be devoting a whole episode to talking about rare plants. What is a rare plant?

And when does our pursuit of rarity begin to

tip over into something that is a little bit ugly and not so good for the house plant industry?

So I'll be getting into all of that next week. If you've got any thoughts on the matter

in the meantime, do drop me a line.

And thanks to those of you who've been in touch about last week's leaf botany episode about silicon with Dr Julia Cook. I had a really interesting email from my listener called Dave.

He wrote, in the US we could buy silicon pre-blended into compost.

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