Hello and welcome to On the Ledge. I'm your host Jane Perona. This week we're getting down and dirty with potting mixes.

If you can't tell your coir from your charcoal or your laker from your leaf mould, then the next couple of episodes are for you because I'm running through an A to Z of potting

mix ingredients and I've got Mr Houseplant aka Vladan to help me explain the different components

that can make up your house plant potting mixes. Plus, I'm answering a question about finding

house plant gifts for some very special people. A shout out to this week's new patrons. Christine and

Amy both became legends and Lisa W.T. Fox and Crystal all became crazy plant people.

And now there's an annual payment for just over $10 a year. You can show your support for On the

ledge. And trust me, every one of those donations is absolutely vital to the show. So thank you to

everyone who has done that. If you're an existing

patron and you want to swap from monthly to annual payments, you should still be able to do that,

and I've sent you a message on how that's achieved. It's a tiny bit fiddly, but if you run into

any problems, do give me a shout and I will help you make it work. Joshua PD, I've got a bone

to pick with you. You left a review for On the Ledge on Apple Podcasts that really gave me a shock

because you titled the review awful, but then you gave it five stars. So I was first scared

and then confused. And you start off

your review by saying, this is a terrible podcast, bad Jane. But then things get better. I've been

buying plants hither and yon. Is that a phrase? I think it's an American phrase. Here in the UK,

we'd say hither and thither, strangely enough.

Recklessly adding to an already way too large plant cacophony.

I love the idea of a plant cacophony.

I've had to cast out into the wilderness old plants to make room for the new hip-happ happening varieties.

Oh, the humanity.

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