Hello and welcome to On the Ledge podcast. I'm your host, Jane Perrone, and this is the place where being called

Sappy is a compliment. It's Potting Mix Ingredients, Part 2 this week, so we'll be finding out

what the initials DE stand for, loving Laker and considering

coyer. Plus I answer a question about watering a lemon or rather a lemon tree. I mean watering a lemon's

going to do nothing. And we have our first new style meet Listener with Teresa.

I hope you enjoyed the midweek bonus number six, in which I unveiled my crowdfunding campaign for Legends of the Leaf, the book that I'm hoping to publish about house plants and the

stories behind them.

It's been amazing the support that I've had already.

And thank you to all of you who've already pledged.

I'm a little bit overawed.

I'm just going to check.

Let me just go and see where we're at.

I mean, not that I'm checking this like every second of the day,

but I'm just going to go and see where we're out with it.

And let's see.

Yep, we're on 13%. So thank you to all of the 87 people so far who have supported the book.

A long way to go, but it's great that within a couple of days of launching, we're already got that kind of support.

So thank you to everyone who's already pledged. If you haven't already pledged, there's plenty of time to do so.

I'm not going to bang on about it too much in this show. I will include a link in the show notes if you want to find out more.

And if you've got any questions about how it all works, then do drop me a line

because obviously crowdfunding a book is not necessarily how you expect these things to go down.

So do ask if you've got any queries, but thank you to those of you who came straight in and

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