Episode 79: houseplant gadgets, from hand lenses to hygrometers
On The Ledge
Jane Perrone
4.8 • 773 Ratings
🗓️ 11 January 2019
⏱️ 33 minutes
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Summary
One of the boons of indoor gardening is that this hobby really doesn’t necessitate a lot of kit: a watering can, some pots and some potting mix will get you started. But as your plant obsession grows, there are some gadgets that will help to keep your leafy charges happy and help you deal with routine maintenance. In this episode I highlight some of the gadgets I have found useful, from soil moisture testers to hand lenses. And I answer three questions: one about Calatheas, another on Aloe vera and a final one about variegation in Monsteras.
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| 0:00.0 | Soil Slooths and tricky calatheas. This week's show looks at gadgets and answers your questions. |
| 0:29.4 | It's a show of two parts. |
| 0:32.1 | In part one, I'll be telling you about some of the gadgets |
| 0:35.5 | that could help you look after your houseplants. |
| 0:38.3 | Yes, consider me your personal cue. |
| 0:41.3 | Did you know that the character Q in James Bond, the Q actually means quartermaster? |
| 0:47.3 | I'll be talking about hygrometers, moisture meters, snips, scissors, loops, and all kinds of other bits of kit that can help you |
| 0:59.2 | perform maintenance and care of your leafy charges. And in part two, I'll be answering some |
| 1:06.2 | questions. Thank you to my new Patreon, Jennifer, who's joined the gang of more than 80 people who are now supporting the show with a donation every month. |
| 1:21.3 | This means a great deal. It really does help to keep the show going. It's helping me to buy new bits and pieces of equipment. |
| 1:28.8 | And it will also help fund a very exciting new project I've got coming up in 2019. I was lying in |
| 1:35.1 | bed over the Christmas break, half asleep, half awake as you do. And I find this is often a very |
| 1:41.0 | productive time for interesting thoughts. And something began to percolate in |
| 1:45.2 | my brain and i realized that i need a better place to record podcast because although usually the audio |
| 1:52.5 | doesn't sound that bad the room i'm using is shared with my husband and he has been pretty much |
| 1:57.9 | locked out of this office for the past year and a half because I'm using |
| 2:02.3 | it so much. So in order to make some dedicated podcasting space, I am going to be converting |
| 2:09.6 | part of a storage room into a podcast studio. This should mean better sound quality and also a dedicated space where I don't have to |
| 2:19.7 | move my microphone and all that set up every five minutes. So it should make for a much |
| 2:25.7 | smoother operation to the show, meaning more time to concentrate on the content, which is |
| 2:31.0 | the main thing. So do look out for more information coming out about that. I'm going |
| 2:36.4 | to be jazzing up my Patreon and all kinds of exciting things. If any of you have got any top |
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