Hello and welcome to On the Ledge podcast. I'm Jane Perron, your host, and I'm here to help you help your houseplants.

If you find maiden hares maddening, can't make your birds' nests behave, or have a nightmare nephra lepice.

I'm here to help.

This week's show is all about how to keep ferns, those prima donnas of the indoor plant world.

Well, I was going to say how to keep ferns looking good, but for most of us, keeping one alive for more than a few months would actually be an achievement,

let alone trying to make them look good.

I'll be offering up lots of suggestions for the easiest ferns to grow,

considering how to keep ferns happy, even that maddening maidening maiden hair,

and talking to someone with the most enormous fern.

It's so impressive, I think it really deserves

its own Instagram account to find out the secret of his success. Plus, I'll be answering a question

about a pothos with splotches. Wow, it's a good job I haven't started on the gin and tonics yet.

Yes, a silver pothos that suffered some strange damage is coming up in our question of the week from a listener.

Thanks for all your feedback on last week's show about quick wins.

It's been great to see that some of you are trying to grow your own eddows, lemon grass, fenugreek, coriander. I did actually

totally forget that I'd bought some ginger root to plant as well for the episode. So that's

something else you can do. If you buy a ginger root with some growing points on it, still intact,

then you'll be able to grow your own ginger plant. On the eddo front, my success rate, well,

it's looking 50-50 at the minute. I've had two eddos which have gone spectacularly rotten and

stinky already, so that wasn't so good. I think they must have had some damage to the skin which let

in some infection, but the other two have some hopeful bumps that indicate that some roots are forming,

so fingers crossed. And my lemon grass, well, that's doing incredibly well. It's got roots a galore,

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