Full Show Podcast: 30 November 2025

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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident build Up Podcast with Peter
Wolfcamp from US Talk Sidby when fizz away, it's time
to get stuck in the garden The DIY Show with
Root climb past call Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty used talk Sibby.

Speaker 2 (00:22):
The house sizzle even when it's dark, even when the
grass is overgrown in the yard, even when the dog.

Speaker 3 (00:34):
Is too old to borrow, And when you're sitting at
the table trying to stop scissor hole, even when we again,
even when you're.

Speaker 2 (00:49):
Therelle dis.

Speaker 4 (01:01):
House sizzle hole, even when those ghost even when you
got around from the ones you love your most screamed
does broken paints, appeeling from the world locals vestball when
they're gone leaving the neighbor.

Speaker 3 (01:21):
House, even when Wilba ben love even when you're in
there lone.

Speaker 5 (01:30):
Yeah, it's lovely to hear your choice of musing their Asiah.
That's great to hear you. Good morning, everybody. My name
is Root clink Pasta. I'm here sitting in for a
young Pete wolf Camp. Simple reason is Peter, I reckon

(01:53):
he can hear us, you know, I reckon. He did
get to the the the the the end of his
first leg of all his flights to the US. Yeah,
I reckon he might be Hello, Peter, goody. I hope
you can hear us. Anyway, Hey, let's have a little
bit of fun in the next three hours. As I said,

(02:14):
Peter's gone, he can't do anything in terms of his
building stuff. So I might do a bit of building
building boxes and things like that, owl boxes, and I'm
just joking. Oh, eight hundred eighty to eighty is going
to be our number. Give us a yell about anything
you'd like to do or talk about. And I'm quite cool.
I'm quite cool with that. Let's have a go. They'll

(02:36):
give you a little example. I've been the last few
weeks a little bit away from home working on all
sorts of stuff in not just gardens, but in the
large gardens as well. Think about huge areas where we're
trying to become predator free, huge areas where we're planting
all sorts of bits and pieces, the areas of schools

(02:59):
and so on and so forth. This is what I've
been doing, and I think it's really nice to talk
about things like that too, So give us a call
on eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. Isaiah will take
your number and put you on air. Not a problem
at all. I think you should do that as soon
as you can because it's going to be busy. I reckon,
there you go. Now, what was that? What was it

(03:22):
that I was doing last week? That's right, Mackenzie Country
just an example, went to Takapo twice an Mount cook
literally working with teachers and kids and doing all sorts
of work in terms of environmental education, in terms of
what lives there, in terms of how can we make

(03:43):
our environment a little bit more happy and healthy and
environmental if you like, it's exactly what that's about. That
was a really cool little trip. Actually, that's that's that's
for instance, one of the little bits and pieces. There's
another little thing that I was doing that wasn't the
y wrap of the week before looking at doing doing

(04:05):
another if you like, documentary, filming a documentary on the
Ruamahanga River. So if you're in the wire wrapper and
you want to talk about that, give us a call. Oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty. All these little things are doable.
And finally we've been in the garden all right, and gosh,

(04:27):
there was so much to do. In this case, we
are looking at spittlebugs. We looked at Fijoa pollination, We
looked at all sorts of stuff. Give us a call
and we'll be with you in a dicky. I see
our first callers are coming up. I love that when
that happens, and it'll be absolutely lovely to do our

(04:49):
first caller. All right, give us the first caller if
you like a Zaiah and I know where I am?
Is that Herbie? Thanks online? Hello Herbie? How are you?

Speaker 6 (05:00):
Yeah?

Speaker 7 (05:00):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (05:00):
Good good? Look I can't go and right this is
I love. This is really don't grow why not?

Speaker 7 (05:09):
I do not know.

Speaker 8 (05:10):
I've got containers. I've got three containers now and then.
And I even bought these ones in Bristos, which on
a strip, you know, we got a strip, yeah, and
that came to nothing.

Speaker 5 (05:26):
What varidea are they?

Speaker 9 (05:28):
Oh?

Speaker 8 (05:28):
I don't know what variety, but the different I've had
three varieties now and two i've got in Minty ten
and the last one I've got in Brisco. They just
will not grow grow up.

Speaker 5 (05:41):
Tell me how you do it, Tell me how you
do it, Tell tell me how you do it?

Speaker 8 (05:46):
Herb, Well, I just I just haven't got them We'll
just show them, you know, as the as the worst
man say, you know, you know, you just get I
put them in a disc and get one at a
time and try and and then I'll sprinkle them and
they grow to live. But there's no bottoms on.

Speaker 5 (06:08):
Them, no bottoms at all, well at all.

Speaker 8 (06:13):
That someone has just got a little time that's a
string and I'll pull them all out. Yesterday a couple
of bigg a couple went a tiny wee things. But
I just know what I've done wrong.

Speaker 5 (06:26):
Tell me what's your soil like?

Speaker 8 (06:28):
Well, it's potting mix mainly.

Speaker 5 (06:31):
Okay, and it's in its outside, is it?

Speaker 8 (06:34):
It's in the tubs I've.

Speaker 5 (06:35):
Got Yeah, okay, have you tried? Look this is this
is the thing about potting mix. If you just use
potting mix, which is an organic material, if you like,
it hasn't got let's say it hasn't got sand and clay,
and it does it No, maybe it might be an
idea to put your seeds in something half potting mix

(06:56):
mixed with say good mineral soil top soil if you like,
and you'll find that that is a lot better material
to put them in.

Speaker 10 (07:05):
Mhm.

Speaker 5 (07:07):
Are you aware of that? Yeah, I think you've made
it too rich for it, you know what I mean? Yeah,
there you go.

Speaker 8 (07:18):
I'm ninety one years older, son, I've got them out
on the deck, and will you know I've got these
old bodies and I'll spend I talked for them.

Speaker 5 (07:27):
Yes, I'm sure you do. But you know what herb
be ninety one? I reckon you can do it.

Speaker 8 (07:33):
Oh well, bloody hope, So never mind. I pulled them
all out yesterday and uh, a couple of you know,
and I said, one of what I've done wrong? Is
there any special will make you forget? But when you
see them in the shop, so lovely, I love that.

Speaker 5 (07:48):
I know, Yeah, I know I can get it now.
But you now know what to do. You need to
mix it up with some real soil, real you know,
little or even some sand. Sometimes you can actually make it,
mix it up quite nicely. I reckon that's the way
to go for you. And I you know, ninety one
or not, I reckon, you'll eat it for the rest
of your life. Book, see you, thank you for your call,

(08:10):
Go well bye bye. Oh that's lovely. That's a lovely
beginning of it all. And there's a little text here
route are they yellow leg hornets in Canterbury? If I
see one, would I report it too? Hi, Cedric, thank
you for that particular little text you can send me.
As far as I'm aware, they are not in Canterbury,

(08:31):
and make no mistake, I'll look out for them here
in Canterbury, in christ Church, and I don't think they've
seen been seen here yet as far as I'm aware.
And yes, if you do find something that looks vaguely
like one of those uh those hornets for crying out loud,
just ring the number for MPI, the Ministry of Primary

(08:54):
Industries and get it, get it sorted out, get it checked.
Always a good thing to do. Good question though, Thank
you all right, our next call, by the way, lots
of people on the lots of spaces left here on
news doug oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty. I think
Laurie is next. Hello Laurie, Good morning, Roode.

Speaker 9 (09:16):
How are you?

Speaker 5 (09:17):
We are good? Thank you?

Speaker 9 (09:19):
That's good. Hey, I've got a problem with my plum tree.
Yeah it's espellio it on the wall. Let's say Amiga
and black Doris. Yeah on the one one thing.

Speaker 5 (09:32):
So you got two of the two of them next
to each other.

Speaker 9 (09:35):
No, no, no, it's all one one on the one steam.

Speaker 5 (09:39):
Oh right, so double grafted, okay.

Speaker 9 (09:41):
Yeah, yeah, and it usually does well. It's got a
lot of fruit formed onnalds, which would be probably fifteen
miles across or something like that. But it's losing all
its sleeves. It's bloody near bald.

Speaker 5 (09:56):
That's not good. Oh how old is it before? How
old is he?

Speaker 9 (10:05):
Oh? In years I suppose.

Speaker 5 (10:11):
Hmm.

Speaker 9 (10:12):
You know, it's cycles. One year it doesn't have much
on and the next year it's got a heap of fruit. Well,
it's it's got a good crop on it this year.

Speaker 5 (10:20):
They do that. Yeah, they do that cycling every now
and then. Yeah, it's the same with something like apples.
That there's quite a few things to do that. Goodness,
gracious me. Now, if you are losing those leaves, that
to me sounds like a warning. There's something not right there,
very not right there. And it might be that it's
come to the end of its life, which I find

(10:42):
strange because these things can be much older than that,
especially if you've got, you know, plum trees that are
maybe not grafted. Maybe that's the one. Maybe they became
weaker in this case, I don't know what to say
about this. And it's the same soil. You haven't mucked
around with it, you haven't, you know.

Speaker 9 (10:59):
What I mean, I haven't mucked around with it. No,
watch got they are flare plants in the garden along
which has been normal all its life.

Speaker 5 (11:11):
Yeah, of course, look to be quite honest, at fourteen
years old, it might it might have come to the
end of its life. I reckon, if you've been growing
this for fourteen years with success, then there is no
need for this to happen unless it's it's literally the
end of it. And in this case, start looking for

(11:31):
something else to plants.

Speaker 9 (11:33):
In alything I spray it with is copper. Yeah, I
forgured what you call it? The liquid?

Speaker 5 (11:42):
The liquid copper whatever? Did you do that recently.

Speaker 9 (11:45):
Again or be probably months ago?

Speaker 5 (11:51):
And this started after that spray.

Speaker 9 (11:54):
That started since the spray.

Speaker 5 (11:56):
Yeah, and that could have been an overdose of that.

Speaker 6 (12:00):
Yeah.

Speaker 9 (12:00):
Well I don't make a very strong brew.

Speaker 5 (12:02):
But with these things like plums and peaches and things
like that, it pays not to spray the young leaves
because that would make them go literally curl over and
go off sometimes quite often in fact, and that's the
course for it. Yeah, Now you've got to be careful

(12:23):
with that, so that could be it. Now in this case,
it's a matter of keep yourself your fingers crossed, see
if it comes back right, and if it does come back,
remember not to spray the young leaves of these plea.

Speaker 9 (12:38):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (12:39):
And the way and the way to deal with the
with the the problems that you have later on when
you get these these typical typical troubles with the peaches
and plums is to do that after when autumn starts,
when the leaves are starting to fall off, that's when
you can ram copper in without any problems at all,

(13:01):
when half your leaves are falling off. So that's a
good point. When half your leaves are falling off autumn,
that's when you spray the copper.

Speaker 9 (13:08):
Not now, okay, I'll remember that one.

Speaker 5 (13:11):
Try that. Hey, good, good luck with that, so that
there's hope for the plant.

Speaker 9 (13:16):
Okay, I'll kick your posted. That's what Peter. That's the
tree stays alive.

Speaker 5 (13:20):
Thank you, Laurie, good good, good one. See lady, my friend.
Bye bye. All right, you're with news talks. There'd be
there's a couple of spare lines thing. Thank you lady
for you call. And I think we should take a
very quick break here and head break and come back
after this. Kevin, you'll be on the You'll be on next.
Stay on the line. We'll be with you in just

(13:41):
a moment.

Speaker 1 (13:42):
Sunday the perfect day for getting into the garden. The
DIY show with Root Climb past call eight hundred eighty
ten eighty us talks, there'd.

Speaker 5 (13:50):
Be Oh here you are, welcome back. Everyone. Give us
a call on our eight hundred eighty ten eighty if
you want to have a chet. We can do everything
from now till now and nine o'clock. While Peter is
either getting out of the plane or still in the
plane or is sneak listening to this particular program, I
love that idea Oki dokie, Who's next? Kevin? How are you?

Speaker 11 (14:15):
Good morning, a beautiful morning in Hamilton, and thanks for
taking my call rude.

Speaker 5 (14:20):
Oh man, you started it. I thought the least I
can do is do it.

Speaker 11 (14:24):
Thanks so much. Look twenty plus year comedia hedges Hamilton
seems to like comedias and yes, two meter high hedges
maintenance three apart from twice a year trim all going well, good, healthy,
plants first, shall we say spring. Ever, someone's taken a

(14:44):
fancy to them. Numerous holes about three four millimeter right
through the leave system and yet never before. What could
be doing it?

Speaker 5 (14:58):
I could be bronze beetle or something like that. Have
you ever had those before?

Speaker 9 (15:02):
Yeah?

Speaker 11 (15:03):
I think so, unlimited numbers, but not not the holes.
But maybe there's a more prolific infestation the bronze beetle.
But I'm not worrying about. And that the trees are
not well, mean, you're not worrying about don't seem.

Speaker 12 (15:17):
To be too much.

Speaker 11 (15:17):
But I just thought there might have been something I could,
you know, spray over or something to upset their diets.

Speaker 5 (15:25):
Yeah, I know what you're saying. I must admit that.
I remember we had bronze beethel and camellias when we
lived in Auckland, for instance. And it comes in, you know,
every now and then you get a really bad year,
and then suddenly it's not that bad. Again, depends entirely
on where you are. But here comes to thing the
way to find that out. And this is the clever
idea Kevin is to go out at night right now?

(15:47):
Is it good? Because this is the time when these
little rotters are going to your plants and eating those
holes in or actually creating those holes, if you like,
on the leaves. If you see them and they're about
let's say, or maybe a centimeter no, slightly less than
a centimeter in diameter as beetles, and the moment you

(16:08):
try to touch them, they jump off the leaf. That's
a clever trick to identify them as well. With they
go down onto the ground. If that's what it is,
I think you it's just a matter of time for
them to literally go down for the next stage, which
will be that they go and mate and lay their
eggs down in the ground, and that means that they're

(16:29):
little babies will start for the next episode, which is
living on your on your root zone of these plants.

Speaker 11 (16:40):
Look that they're not eating them enough full of leaves
to say, hey, we've got to fall off.

Speaker 9 (16:45):
You're cunning me.

Speaker 11 (16:46):
But it's just I thought it might be able to
anticipate a greater problem.

Speaker 9 (16:50):
Oh that's great, just while you're there. I never feed
them or.

Speaker 11 (16:53):
Anything, but occasionally the local barista gives me bags of
coffee grinds and said, oh it's good for comedias. So
I put them all around the ground. Is he right
or am I just getting of his rubbish?

Speaker 1 (17:07):
No?

Speaker 5 (17:08):
I think he's kind of right. But do not go
over the top. I'll tell you we've got I've got
a son in law who used to well, he used
to do this bakery and things like that, but also coffee.
And he had heaps of this coffee. And I remember that,
Julie and I got these bags full of stuff. Go
gentle with it. Don't go over the top coffee. And

(17:28):
if you can, if you can mix it well into
this oil.

Speaker 9 (17:33):
Okay, do you know what I mean?

Speaker 12 (17:34):
Break it down with water first.

Speaker 5 (17:37):
Absolutely, yeah, or even with organic material, Yeah.

Speaker 9 (17:41):
That's easy.

Speaker 11 (17:42):
I was tending to put two or three centimeters all around.
Then of course it on a bit of a mat
which became a bit solid, okay.

Speaker 5 (17:52):
And that is yeah, But hang on, that solidness isn't
isn't evident? Is evidence of the fact that it's been
too thick? Yes, yeah, got it so, so spread it
out as much as you can. But to be quite honest,
the answer to your question is, yes, coffee is actually
quite okay, But don't go over the top. That's exactly
the point. Oh, can I ask you can I ask

(18:12):
you something, Kevin, what is that camellia species? What what
variety is? Do you know?

Speaker 11 (18:18):
Well, look, there was about twenty five years ago there
was a big nursery shutting down in Hamilton and it's
now all houses and do you just dig your own?
And that's lots of different colors and what have you,
all strong plants. But I'm sorry, I can't affect. No,
that's Camia.

Speaker 5 (18:39):
Yeah, I know what you're saying, and I don't know.
I'm just I like them. That's why I like Amelia's.
They're great, great gigs, especially when they come out of
the winter.

Speaker 11 (18:48):
Eight yeah, well the opposite season, not Chinese or something.

Speaker 9 (18:52):
I don't know where they're of life exactly.

Speaker 5 (18:55):
Anyway, Hey, thank you so much for your call. Absolutely
wonderful to do that, and we'll catch you again soon.

Speaker 11 (19:01):
It's not the first time I wrang you, and you're
exceedingly helpful, so I'm grateful.

Speaker 5 (19:05):
Thank you. I'll do my best. See you zoo eh great,
bye bye, get you later. Oh well there you buy?
Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty, I bet you don't.
After it was I wait very long to get on
board here, who have here Mrry As I have a
doors plum tree three years old, maybe four? Is it

(19:29):
true another plum tree is needed to make it fruit? Yes,
it would be good to have some cross pollination with
these things. And the cold thing is, actually it's just
a tip for anybody who wants to plant something later on,
or even know if you want to, if you've got
enough enough time to water them in the summer time.
If you have plum trees, it sometimes pays to put

(19:52):
them together in one hole and treat them as one tree.
Can you imagine one variety on the left, the other
one on the right, and basically you'll have then a
pollinator and you have a complete if you're like mix
of two varieties that do create fruit on their own
time and at their own at their own tempo as well.

(20:14):
But that's the way to go. I think that is
the way to go. Actually, with your promp tree, here
plants one next door to it? Easy, all right, here's
another one, Steven. What does Steven say? Wow? What a tree?
What a tree to have? Three hours of gosh, get
on with it. Met you at the Ellersley Flower Show.
Yeah cool, oh god, that's some time ago. Stephen in

(20:37):
the Monica Gardens goship. Golly, that was something else. That's yeah,
I sometimes missed that that. You know, Why don't we
have that Ellersley flower show anymore? That was always a
big gig for people that were gardeners. You could do
whatever you wanted there. All right, here's another peach question.
Five year old Golden Queen peach tree which had heaps

(21:01):
of fruit two years ago, but lots of the fruit
had a patch of jelly like sticky goo on them.
Oh would that have been the actual fruit anyway? Then
last year hardly any fruit which also had that gou

(21:21):
What spray should I use to prevent this problem? I
don't know. I don't know what it is. I need
to know. That's Chris from Westport. I wondered what it is.
If you can, Chris, give me a call and you
can explain what it looks like, because otherwise I wouldn't
know exactly what to do. I'm not going to recommend
something that I cannot identify, if that makes sense. That

(21:43):
would be silly to do that. So yeah, so that's
all I've got at the moment. Once again, give me
a call anyway. I've got plenty of spare lines here, oh,
eight hundred eighty ten eighty, and we'll have some fun
with that. Okay, what about stray and companion cats roaming

(22:04):
over other people's properties? Oh my goodness, where did that
come from? Suddenly, that's an interesting one. Hornets, we've done
the hornets. Yeah, we've done it. You know what, give
us a call, Oh, eight eighty ten eighty. We'll take
your call right now. I'm going to take a very
quick break now and see you in a tickie. You're
with Newstalk zed B and the time is twenty nine

(22:28):
minutes to seven.

Speaker 1 (22:30):
From World Defences to Wild Weeds will help You Tame
the Garden The DIY Show with Root Climb Past. Call, Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty News Talk z B.

Speaker 5 (22:41):
There you are, Roost Newstalks B. Root climb Past is
my name. We're here till nine o'clock with Peter being
in the States at the stage. Oki, dokie. Yes, let's
take some calls because this is going to be good fun. Jenny,
good morning. Can you hear me, Jenny?

Speaker 7 (23:05):
Jenny?

Speaker 5 (23:07):
I don't think Jenny is listening to me. Oh there
you are? Hello?

Speaker 13 (23:12):
Sorry? Are you hello?

Speaker 9 (23:17):
I'm fine?

Speaker 13 (23:17):
Thank you rude. I have run you because I am
having a plague of blackbirds this season and they are
just slowly destroying my garden. I have had a problem
with them. I have a lementary and a pot, and
I've had to put a whole lot of steak for
inside the pot to keep them out. But my concern

(23:38):
now is for my vegetable garden because it's a bit
harder to stake all that. But every day I'm having
to go out two or three times and clean up
the mess and prop up all my poor little vegetables
that are being destroyed. So I'm really just ringing to
see if you have any ideas as to how I

(23:58):
can keep them out.

Speaker 5 (24:00):
Yep, I can. You should basically have a chat to
my wife Julie, who would ask exactly the same question.
Julie and I said, we talk about this quite often
because there's a lot of people also on other talkback
things that we've done here in the previous weeks. Actually,
she would say the same things exactly that, and she

(24:22):
actually got me to buy some what was it called
Wingo bird repellent that you can use. There's all sorts
of bird repellents available, but I am not sure if
that's you up, but hang on. What she wanted was
that she was always heaved off by the fact that
these blackbirds would take all the mulch out of the
borders and toss them everywhere else. Do you know what

(24:44):
I mean? Yeah, I know, I know, you know. Okay,
So that's one of them. That's stuff that I just
mentioned called wingo bird repellent. I think that stopped these
me that it made the mulch harder to move for
those birds, and it would be it would be less messy,
if you like. But what I would do, yes, it
did work. But what I would do now in terms

(25:06):
of of my vegetables is literally have netting above it.
So I make low netting with fine mesh, you know
what I mean, and and hang them over some posts
that I wake in to the ground, exactly where I
don't want those blackbirds to come. Honestly, you save yourself
so much. Well, I was going nastiness, you know what

(25:28):
I mean.

Speaker 13 (25:29):
Yes, So as they covered and knitting, you would need
to remove messing from time to time to water them.

Speaker 5 (25:36):
Yeah, but that's very simple with a couple of these
staples that you can put on the end of the nettings,
you know, into the ground. Honestly, I tell you it works,
and I hear I love this story. I bit. I
made this particular cage, a berry cage at some states,
to stop all the birds getting into my new my

(25:58):
new berries that were growing in there. And it was fine,
It worked beautifully, and the good netting and all that
sort of stuff, until some silver eyes found a entrance,
right and all and all I needed was by butterfly
net and I caught these things and and but here,
but this is this is the I know that I thought, Oh,

(26:20):
you rottenus. You know, you get well, you use language
you shouldn't use on radio. But anyway, I once that
this happened about six years ago, and I will I'm
telling you the story because it's something that changed my life.
I caught one of those silver eyes, and then I
realized that the one I had in my net, that
I caught in my net had a band around its
legs with numbers. Somebody had caught them and banded them.

(26:42):
So there was a whole group of people in my
neighborhood that does birdbending. And since that day six years ago,
I've become a birdbender. Oh good, right, you know what
I mean, a new hobby and now we're training, we're
training other people to do it as well. It's absolutely brilliant,
but that's beside the point. There you go, netting easiest

(27:03):
way to do it. Jen.

Speaker 13 (27:04):
Okay, thank you very much for your help, Broude.

Speaker 5 (27:07):
I appreciate this and thank you for your for your call.
It's brilliant, brilliant.

Speaker 13 (27:12):
I'll go and deal to this problem.

Speaker 5 (27:15):
Get you later, bye, okay. Pam christ Church.

Speaker 9 (27:21):
Hello is christ Church?

Speaker 5 (27:24):
Yes, I know that place. I've been there before.

Speaker 9 (27:28):
Okay, Pam chrish.

Speaker 5 (27:30):
Church, Hello, can you hear me?

Speaker 14 (27:34):
Nibbling through my rose leaves?

Speaker 5 (27:37):
Yeah?

Speaker 9 (27:39):
Who is that?

Speaker 15 (27:40):
Big nile? Big nibbles?

Speaker 5 (27:42):
Yeah?

Speaker 16 (27:44):
How do I what?

Speaker 14 (27:46):
What is nibbling through the leaves?

Speaker 5 (27:48):
I don't know. It depends entirely on is it night?
Is it night? Is it day?

Speaker 15 (27:54):
Is it nighttime?

Speaker 16 (27:55):
It's it's it's definitely at.

Speaker 9 (27:57):
Night time, okay.

Speaker 14 (27:58):
And right down to the to the stalk, you know. Yeah,
they just make the whole the whole greenery part away
and just yeah.

Speaker 5 (28:07):
You do the stalk, hang hang on to the stalk.
That is quite a lot.

Speaker 13 (28:14):
Yeah, yeah, okay, we're very good.

Speaker 14 (28:17):
At the moment.

Speaker 5 (28:18):
No, but nor do I if I was eating like that,
My goodness.

Speaker 16 (28:22):
Is it a night beetle or something that's doing that road?

Speaker 17 (28:25):
Do you think?

Speaker 5 (28:26):
I don't know? Do you hear the following sound at night?

Speaker 9 (28:34):
No?

Speaker 15 (28:34):
What's that?

Speaker 5 (28:36):
A possum?

Speaker 10 (28:37):
No?

Speaker 16 (28:38):
No, no possums around me?

Speaker 18 (28:40):
No trees?

Speaker 5 (28:41):
Okay, all right, just checking.

Speaker 13 (28:44):
Yeah, no, no possums.

Speaker 5 (28:46):
Second second suggestion, go out at night with the torch
and see who was on your leaves, honestly, pick them
up or and whatever that might be big, might be
beetles or something like that. Pick them up and take
photos of them if you like, and put them on
I Natura list, which is something you can put on.
Naturalist is an app you can put on your on

(29:08):
your Yeah, and that will identify which species of this
And then at least we can go and a step further,
what would you use to control that particular creature?

Speaker 15 (29:20):
It's my first bloom of roses and it's just.

Speaker 14 (29:24):
They're just the beautiful roses and no leaves on them.

Speaker 5 (29:27):
Oh my god, But that that would rip your nighty,
wouldn't It doesn't.

Speaker 15 (29:31):
I won't tell you what I think it does here.

Speaker 17 (29:34):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (29:35):
Anyway, No, no, go out at night and identify it,
get get some put them in a container, paint of
taker photo I naturalist, and then we're on our way.
Then literally, oh, thanks for that.

Speaker 10 (29:47):
I'm not a knight person, but I will certainly go.

Speaker 5 (29:51):
It'll be really cool going at night in the dark
in your garden and see what.

Speaker 16 (29:55):
Yeah you're telling Yeah, you're telling me.

Speaker 19 (29:59):
Thank you very much.

Speaker 5 (30:01):
Later, thank you for your call. Bye bye, there you go.
Oh one hundred and eighty to eighty regardless, fair line
there Ja, I, how are you j I can you
hear me? I'm wondering why JR Is not awake? What's happening?

(30:22):
Hello there mate? Hello, Mady, I got you, I got you.
I'm here. What do you reckon?

Speaker 20 (30:28):
Just we scientific question that's been on my bucket list
for a number of years. Go on features, nectarines, apricott. Yeah,
when you open an apricot, the stone appears dry. Is
there any scientific reason for that?

Speaker 5 (30:49):
Oh? There might be something missing in the in the
in the way you feed them. If you like, you know,
you look after them normally, they're they're normally then they're
nice and fleshy, aren't they?

Speaker 20 (31:03):
But the fruit is not attached to the stone.

Speaker 5 (31:07):
Nay, Oh, oh what varietea is it?

Speaker 12 (31:11):
Oh? Oh, I'll sing up my.

Speaker 10 (31:17):
Well.

Speaker 20 (31:18):
Now I'm ninety three and I'm afraid I can't remember,
but yeah, no, stones appear to be dry.

Speaker 9 (31:26):
No.

Speaker 5 (31:28):
Ah, And you fertilize the plant the tree regularly or
every now and then. I suppose it's from you know,
spring to whenever. What do you what are you fertilize
it with?

Speaker 6 (31:41):
Oh?

Speaker 20 (31:43):
Oh, I can't remember now, sorry.

Speaker 5 (31:45):
Okay, you know what? So what I'd like you to
do is is and what? So you don't know what
you're fertilize it with, to be quite honest, Okay, get yourself.
Get yourself a fertilizer that is either a rose fertilizer
or a fruit fertilizer. You know what I mean? Which
contains that means it contains a lot more potter, and

(32:06):
that might be exactly the material that holds these stones
in a more moist condition.

Speaker 9 (32:13):
Right, I'll go that, rugie.

Speaker 5 (32:16):
Try that out, lovely to hear you. Thank you so much,
j bye bye Oki Oki. All right, vell, how are you?

Speaker 21 (32:27):
It's an apricot tree, not a peach tree. Apricot tree,
go on, and I'm in Nelson, and last year it
had sixteen apricots. It was sort of wet, so they
had a weave it of brown rot. It's only this
will be the third year. It's only got nine apricots
on it now, and it's three meters high and at
the top it's about three meters wide as well. And

(32:50):
I'm thinking, because I've planted it and didn't expect it
to grow so big, I don't know if I want
it for nine apricots.

Speaker 5 (32:58):
Why not? Well they no not an hang on you no, no, no,
hang on that there's nothing to do with the nine
apricots is to do with the fertilizer. If you give
it a little bit more potash, flowering or fruiting fertilizers
which contains you know, potash, which is np K you
know NP and K.

Speaker 7 (33:17):
Okay, you know what that means.

Speaker 5 (33:19):
NPT those are the three letters you get on this
the way fertilizers work, and it's for nitrogen. P is
for phosphate, yeah, and the third one, K is for potash.
And if you give it a little bit more potash,
you get far more fruit, right.

Speaker 21 (33:41):
Okay, So what can I do about the size of
this that's on a six hundred square meter section I'm huge.
Could I could I someone said you can ring behind
them or something. I'm really seriously thinking about taking it out.

Speaker 5 (33:57):
Have you got well, have you got?

Speaker 9 (34:00):
Have you got?

Speaker 5 (34:00):
Have you got secreturs that can make things prunable?

Speaker 7 (34:05):
Oh?

Speaker 21 (34:05):
It has been pro it's been prone and professionally.

Speaker 5 (34:08):
So next time, ask them to actually go to half
the length, half to half the wit, or have to
height and things like that. You can actually almost well
I'm not saying bonzaie it. It's a bit too late
for that, but you can think along the Bonzaie line.
Make it a lot smaller, you know what I mean?
Bonzai make them smaller.

Speaker 21 (34:28):
I'm not really gardener at all now, Mom, I and
I thought i'd put the hyperquot tree in this. This
man have these nice new apricot trees. I had no
idea that goes so big. So I'm just writing this
down half the size of what it says. Now, I
could cut it back to that.

Speaker 5 (34:44):
Well, anybody that can prune trees, you know, there's a
lot of companies that do that. You can ask them
to have it, and I'm quite sure that'll be fine,
but you'll need to do that on a reasonably regular basis.
Like every other year or so. Okay, yeah, so, or
as you said, get rid of it and plant something.

Speaker 21 (35:03):
Else, because there's amandarin tree the and it's sort of
shading that as well. It has lots of slayers, and
I think, well, it's probably easier for me just to
grow the mandarin in that case.

Speaker 5 (35:15):
Fell You're absolutely right. It is what you like. It's
your garden, and you can actually you're actually in control
of how far and how high and how much. Does
it make sense?

Speaker 21 (35:25):
Yeah it does?

Speaker 5 (35:26):
Yeah, yeah, No, Honestly, I wouldn't be too worried about
it if that's the If I had a tree like
that and there was a pain in the bum, I
would get rid of it too.

Speaker 21 (35:34):
Well, it's a lot of it's a lot of effect
picking up all the leaves and stuff like that. And yeah,
if you cut it too low, they don't fruit. Apparently
you're cutting off all the new growth. So if I
if it was cut half size, now would it have
fruit next year or not because the cut all of

(35:54):
the new growth.

Speaker 5 (35:56):
Yeah, you will. You need to do you need to
do that in the autumn time. Oh okay, yeah, yeah,
that's a good time to do it.

Speaker 21 (36:04):
Okay, Yeah, all right otherwise.

Speaker 5 (36:07):
Otherwise get rid of it, and you know, make that
decision and go for it. There's no time it right.

Speaker 21 (36:12):
Off a bit of foot from the bottom or something like.

Speaker 5 (36:14):
That, and then you fall over it the whole time. No,
I would go even lower.

Speaker 21 (36:19):
Oh not a raise garden. Then it's actually come out
and artificial grass that's on that. Yeah, yeah, you can
do that.

Speaker 9 (36:29):
Yeah, go there, you go.

Speaker 5 (36:30):
Well, success with it.

Speaker 21 (36:31):

Speaker 5 (36:33):
You're more than welcome. See you. Okay, bye bye, bye
bye bye. Okay. News Talks will be a root climb
post here till at least nine o'clock. We'll take a
quick break before we carry on with Carol. Carol. Yeah, yeah,
let's talk about rural they'll be fun. Your new stogs
that'd be back in.

Speaker 1 (36:48):
A moment, suns out tools out. Your summer DIY starts here.
The resident builder with Peter Wolf can call eight hundred.

Speaker 5 (36:57):
Eighty News Talk zed b Ill. We're back again. That's wonderful.
Here your new stalks, edb. We'll go to Carol.

Speaker 16 (37:07):
How are you good morning? Good?

Speaker 6 (37:09):
Thank you?

Speaker 5 (37:11):
Can I help you with the ruru?

Speaker 13 (37:13):
Well, my partner has built me a ruru house and
we have a double heights garage, and he's put it
on the front corner, which is covered by a koi tree,
and I can hear the rurus in the totras which
are behind the house, but like the one of the

(37:36):
totras actually touches the back corner of the shed. And
I'm wondering whether it's too exposed where it is, and
whether it needs to be more private and put into
the tree, into the toutra tree, or whether we'll have success.

Speaker 16 (37:52):
Where it is it.

Speaker 5 (37:54):
So, have you had any ruru in there already?

Speaker 13 (37:58):
No, it's a brand new house that's been built. But
I can hear them in the toutra trees behind me.

Speaker 5 (38:04):
Actually, that's not a bad idea because that's probably where
they'd like to be, to be slightly more covered, you
know what I mean.

Speaker 13 (38:10):
I wonder if they'd like to be more private than
out on.

Speaker 5 (38:13):
The front corner. That's right. I think you're probably right there,
because it's that's what they would do in let's say,
hollow trees as well. You know, when rural get their
little holes in the hollow trees, that is usually around
the trunk and that is the center of the tree.
Therefore they don't get as much rain, they don't get
as much winter, they don't get as much sun, and

(38:34):
they are a lot gentler in their in their home.

Speaker 9 (38:36):
If you like.

Speaker 5 (38:38):
Okay, so good idea. I I totally agree with you,
and that I have exactly the same feeling. And I've
seen it happen with with Andy and and and Liz
in on the Hawk's Bay. We had them literally inside
the trees there. Okay, yeah, yeah, do that all right?

Speaker 13 (38:59):
Thank you very much?

Speaker 5 (39:00):
How hey, success say and it goes that one. It's wonderful.
I love it. You know what we've got in Christ,
You know we've got in Christ here, We've got a
little a little owl that's a German owl that came
from Europe. It's almost half the size of a ruru.
And it goes like that really loud, especially when you're

(39:21):
especially when we're asleep, and it does that right outside
the window of our bedroom.

Speaker 13 (39:26):
We had one that actually hit the ranch slider a
couple of years ago down and he lay upside down
with his he has quite big feet and claws. Yeah,
for a little while, and then he turned himself right
side up and shook himself off and flew away.

Speaker 5 (39:45):
Yeah yeah, yeah. Quite often if they if birds do that,
it pace they have these little stickers on your window
that allows them to understand there's something else then then
just glass or something nothing, you know, but they will
be yeah you know what I mean. Those you can
get those stickers from well, you can get them from wingspan.
There you go, good one, look one.

Speaker 13 (40:06):

Speaker 5 (40:07):
Good on you for doing that. Bye bye, all right,
next quarer John, good morning, Hello, hello John? How are
you good?

Speaker 6 (40:20):
Mate?

Speaker 7 (40:22):
Now plum trees.

Speaker 15 (40:26):
Go there?

Speaker 5 (40:27):
Yeah, I'm right here, yeah.

Speaker 7 (40:28):
Yeah trees. You spoke about two varieties on the one tree,
Well I haven't got that. I've got a Billington and
a Louisa alongside each other. Now the billetine Billington's a
prolific flower and the flowers billy. Yeah, and this year

(40:48):
we haven't had so much rain, so fortunately I've got
a lot of fruit set on it, which was great.
Last year who had a lot of rain and just
washed the flowers away?

Speaker 12 (40:58):
Yeah I was one of them.

Speaker 7 (41:01):
Is that the Billington flowers before the Louise And yeah,
Louise copped the favor of the rain and swashed a
lot of the flowers off. And there's very little fruits
that when I said little, you know, I might be
able to count six?

Speaker 5 (41:19):
John average, John, can I ask you to hang in
there and I'll take you after this particular break because
we've got to go to the news.

Speaker 1 (41:28):
Okay, from summer backyard jobs to big renolds. Let's talk
it through. Call Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty
the resident builder with Peter WILKEV News Talk Zebbie.

Speaker 5 (41:40):
Righty ho, we're back. My name is Ruth climb Paster
fitting fitting the bill here for Peter, who's flying somewhere,
I think, or maybe listen, maybe he's listening. I still think.
So Okay, lots of callers are gather. It might be
an idea to get on with John, because John was
going to ask us all sorts of questions and we

(42:02):
ran out of time. I John, can you hear me?

Speaker 7 (42:04):
I can hear now talking about the plump trees and
the timing of the flowering of them. Yes, and you
gave a hint that you were a bit jervious about that. Well,
because Billington was flowering first plenty of great great guns
and then the Louisa followed after it.

Speaker 5 (42:26):
Yeah, but that's wouldn't that be normal?

Speaker 7 (42:30):
But how can you get cross pollination if one flowers
first and then the other follows later.

Speaker 5 (42:37):
Yeah, but that might not be the right combination in
this case of the two you're talking about. You're talking
about the efficiency.

Speaker 7 (42:44):
Often has loads of fruit on it. And where is that?
Where is the cross pollination happening there? Maybe it neither,
maybe it doesn't.

Speaker 5 (42:57):
But I and we've got no, I haven't got Billington.
Julie's got the other one.

Speaker 7 (43:05):
The Doris, that Doris or the Amiga.

Speaker 5 (43:08):
No no, no, no, no, no, no no no, you
talked about another. Wait, Louisa. That's right, Yes, she's got
a Louise which actually actually flowers later, doesn't.

Speaker 7 (43:17):
It It does?

Speaker 5 (43:18):
Yeah, yeah, that's right, Yes, no problem at all. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
We've got all the other little bits and pieces there.
But to be quite as you're probably right, it's a
later one. What you what would be an idea is
to find out what would be the best combination to
help with pollination. You know, which variety is closest in

(43:39):
terms of its timing.

Speaker 7 (43:42):
Well, that's some let's say advice for all of your
listeners that might be yep, never mind, let's get on
prior mo No, not per perina moth, Parhina moth, yeah
or parina grab sorry yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (44:01):
I know, I know, yeah, but they also become moths
that Don't worry, I know what you're talking about.

Speaker 7 (44:06):
Is now the time to get the granules out and
sprinkle it.

Speaker 5 (44:10):
On the lawn and this time, yeah, you might be
a little bit late, but you can do it. Yep.

Speaker 7 (44:17):
Last week when I'm mowed in the lawn, it was
nice and green, and this week, looking around, it's also
be a lot of grass is turning a little bit paleish.

Speaker 5 (44:27):
Oh really no, but prhina is mostly shown by holes
in the ground.

Speaker 7 (44:33):
Right, yeah, But they eat the roots of the grass
and the grass cries. So I'm just wondering, is it
pale because the parhinam i was starting to eat the roots?

Speaker 5 (44:45):
It could be or it could be too dry? What
was that like?

Speaker 7 (44:48):
And we've had a load of rain mode the lawn.

Speaker 5 (44:52):
In that case, you might you might have them. In
this case, your your hypothesis might be right.

Speaker 7 (44:59):
Okay, Now I was interested and to hear you talking
about the schools and fijoas and all that sort of stuff,
And I've got a row of Fijian trees outside my
kitchen window, and the blackbirds were getting stuck right into them,
and it was really interesting to watch them because the

(45:21):
mother would come along and the babies would be with her.
The young birds and blackbirds have orange beaks.

Speaker 5 (45:29):
Right, yeah, that's right.

Speaker 7 (45:31):
The males, do you, Alyns have black beaks, which seems
to me a bit strange, because why aren't the starlings
in fact called blackbirds and the blackbirds called starlings. Do
you hear what I mean?

Speaker 5 (45:46):
I'm going to give you one little thing before I
go to her next caller, and that is with starlings,
you can tell you know that they have those large
beaks if you like. You can tell males from females
by looking at the color of the beak closest to
where the beak starts. If that color is blue, it's

(46:07):
a boy. If it's pink, it's a good it's visible.
Have a look at it. You love it.

Speaker 7 (46:14):
Well. The blackbirds, they're very territorial, because just the other
day I had an instance were two birds were having
an aerial fight with each other. They were faced off,
wings flapping, bee spashing at each other, and one was
trying to chase the other one away.

Speaker 5 (46:35):
Typical, isn't it. Yeah, they do, they do that.

Speaker 7 (46:37):
Yeah, we're the schools. Now, are they encouraging to have
fijoa trees and other fruit trees planted all around the place.

Speaker 5 (46:46):
We do that at schools. Yeah, But in this case,
what I did with schools is we're trying to get
some native trees back in the landscape where it's needed,
and then actually start putting things in like wetter and
other creatures that belong there, sorry, that belong there originally
or originally. So that's what they do at schools, working
on rec storing the environment of the school as it

(47:10):
used to be, say, two hundred years ago.

Speaker 7 (47:13):
But what about the idea that the pe geometry produces
fruit which the kids can eat, So isn't that something
to be preferred.

Speaker 5 (47:21):
Yeah, some schools do that as well. But there's all
sorts of ways you can look at this. Of course,
you can grow your own food. Some schools do there
themselves too. That was not the problem. But what I
did in these schools where I've been over the last
two weeks, it was about restoring what it looked like
before the schools were established, you know, from the olden days.
And that's a totally different idea, but it was really

(47:44):
cool to do it anyway, John, thank you for your call.
I've got to get on with it, and I am
going to see if Mac is awake. How is Mike?
How are you?

Speaker 10 (47:59):
I'm going to see Mac.

Speaker 5 (48:05):
Can you hear me?

Speaker 12 (48:06):
Make hello?

Speaker 5 (48:11):
Hello? Are you there?

Speaker 12 (48:13):
I'm trying my best, Yeah, yeah there.

Speaker 5 (48:16):
I think we're on some funny delay. I have to
ask as to do something about things here. That's always
the same. When Peter isn't here, things go horribly wrong.
But don't worry.

Speaker 12 (48:26):
You're getting me, are you.

Speaker 5 (48:27):
I've got your boy, I know where you live. Get
on with it, Okay.

Speaker 12 (48:32):
We've got a portyard which has got loose loose Messel Drive,
and in the middle of it, we're desperately trying to
grow a magnolia tree, and over the years to keep
them keep the weeds down, I've sprayed it a lot.
And then I suddenly thought that magnolia tree was looking tired.
And maybe I'm doing a good job of killing the
magnolia tree. Because in the in the courtyard, oozing out

(48:55):
of the stones is a thing that looks like rabbit
poo or say goat poo, dark dark green. It almost
looks like like a seaweed. Oh, it oozes out about
this time of the year, and I've put I've sprayed
and all that, but I don't like doing it because
I'm sure the magnolia tree is suffering this. The water

(49:18):
comes down to the magnolia tree, and I don't like that.
So I don't know what should I do, Like, you know,
it looks like it looks like seaweed, or we'll think
of rabbit spoo, you know, or goat spoof, little dark
black spots that appear out of the drive, soft wet
and I can't cut.

Speaker 9 (49:40):
Is that?

Speaker 5 (49:40):
Is that the stuff that dries hard and is surprise
hard And.

Speaker 12 (49:47):
Yeah, I know, then you've got to hard to sweep
it away. It's you know, it's all a little bit,
but it just looks like seaweed.

Speaker 5 (49:56):
It to look between a dark green, funny strange green,
and black. I forgot. I've forgotten the name of what
it is. It is something. It's actually quite an interesting material,
but it's a pain the bump because it's impossible to
do anything with You can't control it. You cannot control

(50:17):
I tried, I tried, went and forget. I tried all
sorts of things that we had. It went and forget that.
I tried on there and it did not It did
not work. It would not go away. And I still
haven't heard from and I'm sorry, I've forgotten what it's called.
My brain is not working at the moment. But I
know exactly what you mean. You know that that stuff

(50:38):
actually would, for instance, live in Antarctica. It's that tough.

Speaker 8 (50:42):
Look.

Speaker 12 (50:43):
When I sprayed with the spray, it does give it
a damn traffic. It doesn't like that RaSE up and
then next year or six months later, who the patches
as big as a big dining table or bigger. It's
I just don't have to do I put a plane

(51:05):
throw on it.

Speaker 5 (51:07):
Yeah, you absolutely do. You prove the flamethrower on. That's
probably the only way you can do it. But I
would be bloody careful in the summer time.

Speaker 12 (51:20):
Years I've been going to wring.

Speaker 5 (51:21):
You know, he tried, he tried, and he failed. Listen,
I bet you there will be somebody. There will be
somebody that will say it's this, then the other thing
or whatever the name is. Because I've forgotten, and you
keep listening, because if I do hear from somebody on
the text machine. I'll let you know what it's called.

(51:43):
But that still doesn't help you getting rid of it,
because no, I know you won't give nor did I.
But at the moment I have kind of have to
say I don't. I actually don't know.

Speaker 12 (51:58):
I'll try something.

Speaker 5 (52:00):
Actually it I think it is edible.

Speaker 12 (52:04):
Probably it looks like that, but it looks bad. It
looks it looks it looks solicter.

Speaker 5 (52:11):
Would you like to eat something that looks like that?
I don't know. There I know exactly what you eat. Hey,
sorry about that, but keep on listening because I reckon
somebody will say something at some stage. I'll bet you go,
well made potati, bye bye. All right, Okay, our next
caller should be Marie. I would say, who is talking

(52:35):
about avocados and wilting leaves, et cetera. What are we
going to do? Marie? Hello, good morning.

Speaker 17 (52:42):
Good morning road. I've got these fourteen foot avocado trees,
so we've got about eight, and there's for three of
them that for some reason the leaves have gone a
light sort of yellow and a wiltering and they look
like they're going to die any manner. So they do

(53:02):
have new green shoots coming up and on the end
of the branches. But they're the middle part of them,
and I've watered them and I've done all sorts of
things to them, but I have no idea why they're dying.
And they're not old, they're young things.

Speaker 5 (53:20):
Did you plant those yourself? Or did you? Did you?
Surely did you? Did you buy them as as you know,
as properties, or did you chuck them from avocado pips?

Speaker 17 (53:32):
They actually self seated themselves. And I've been producing avocados
just abundantly, and one of them is absolutely laden, but
all the leaves have come off one of them, and
the others have gone a terrible yellow light pale green.

Speaker 5 (53:51):
Yep, gotcha? Okay, question, did you have a lot of
wetness this year?

Speaker 17 (53:56):
No?

Speaker 5 (53:58):
No, main, No main, No lots of rain.

Speaker 17 (54:02):
No, the hawks bad doesn't tend to do that.

Speaker 5 (54:04):
No, I get that fair good on. Yeah, that's a
good one. Oh gosh, you golly. I I don't know.
It could be. It could be one of the root rots,
for instance, that starts doing or verticillium wilts that could
do that, which are diseases that can be really really
nasty on these trees, and they are usually cost the

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cause by overwatering. That's why I started with that one on.

Speaker 17 (54:31):
Yeah, no, there would be the least to the problems.

Speaker 5 (54:34):
Actually, yeah exactly. And you do have so you don't
need to do drain your soil. You don't have to
do any of that sort of stuff in that case.
I don't know what it could be, to be quite honest,
I think that phytostra and verticilium wilts are usually the
ones that make those leaves go yellow and literally weak
and go off. Oh my goodness, what else can I do?

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I don't know. I don't know what that could be.

Speaker 17 (55:01):
No, I don't either, And I find it really interesting
that it does produce really new fruit. I mean that
new leave, but all around it it's actually wiltering, all
wilting all its other leaves and things. The only thing
I wonder is we do have quite a bad clay pan,
and it might have hit the clay pan.

Speaker 5 (55:22):
Ah, so there isn't a great deal of if you like,
the clay pen can be hard count it.

Speaker 17 (55:32):
Oh it's terrible. It's like coal crepe that's through the down.

Speaker 5 (55:36):
Yeah. That that now that might be the That is
actually that very good, very good. You said that because
that could well be the problem. In that case, it
would be an idea if you plant new ones to
literally get them into a lot more mellow soil. If
you get you get money.

Speaker 17 (55:53):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I know, because they're so huge and
I've been doing so well and then suddenly it was
like bang.

Speaker 5 (56:03):
How deep is that?

Speaker 7 (56:04):
Leah?

Speaker 17 (56:06):
Oh gosh, it goes down probably about two feet?

Speaker 5 (56:12):
Yeah see that you you'd like a bit more for
for for a big tree?

Speaker 9 (56:15):
Really yeah?

Speaker 17 (56:18):
Yeah, yeah, so that may be it. I just wondered
if it could be bit just weird.

Speaker 5 (56:23):
Yeah, okay, So try try digging out the clay where
you're planting a new trick, and you and give it
maybe a meter of of good soil, so you put
some put some good top soil in it and and
see if that would work better. I bet you that'll
work a lot better.

Speaker 17 (56:37):
Yeah that sounds godk okay, thank you very much, Thanks.

Speaker 5 (56:40):
Thank you for calling. Goodbye, see you later. All right,
do you were a news talk said b I've got
to take a little break, so have a go. We've
got a spare line and we'll have a go at
you in a moment. It's twenty one, not almost twenty
two minutes past seven.

Speaker 1 (56:54):
Sawdust, Sunshine and solid advice. The Resident Builder with Peter
Wolfcave call Oh eight hundred and eighty to eighty News.

Speaker 5 (57:02):
Talkb okay doky, all with us again? Yeah, good morning,
How are you Paul very well?

Speaker 22 (57:12):
Hate rude. Yeah, I've been hanging on for.

Speaker 12 (57:14):
A while, but I was glad to hear about your.

Speaker 22 (57:17):
Filmmaking on the rumor Hunger. And what really fired me
up was I came here about forty seven years ago
from London and John McCosh, who runs my pronunciation, I
think it's got a bit better.

Speaker 12 (57:30):
But Cahu Tara.

Speaker 22 (57:34):
Canoes they called him to a Tara ted he's got
the big taxi dermy museum over there. And to the
group with him on the ruin of Hunger River going down.
He was of ser Milker in those days.

Speaker 5 (57:48):
He's still alive.

Speaker 22 (57:49):
He must have been his mid eighties now. And we
were going down, pulled aside to the side of the river,
and he made us some billy tea and I said
to him, how long have you been doing these trips?
And he looked at his watch and he said, twenty
minutes of our first.

Speaker 5 (58:02):
Group, by the way, cool Tara Kahutara the primary. I
went to Kahutara Primary School next to the lake almost
you know.

Speaker 22 (58:13):
And what is part of the filming?

Speaker 5 (58:15):
Yeah, yeah, well yeah, well no, not filming. I don't
think we filmed there. We filmed with Rethkill College and
we did some other one that country. Remember, it was
just so many of them. But those schools, Gladston is
another one, and Federstone. Those sort of schools are actually
really good. And I must say that it is typical

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for the rapper. They're really good at actually restoring their
own areas and it's wonderful to see them do that
and it's lovely to hear that story of yours too.

Speaker 22 (58:46):
Go on, can I tip what the other thing that
was topical? I go. I'm based actually in Albaha and
I we were out with our Tuesday Trippers walking group
and we were on the other side of the lake.
There's a great couple there, Denise McKenzie and Google at
Tiraku Birding and we've been with them once before and
they do a lot of work out on the spit
on the other on the western side of the lake

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where they get there's a big colony of is it
bittern who come in there and yeah, and it's interesting
how things go. When I first came here from the well,
I ended up doing the marketing at Wellington Zoo and
I helped start the overnight camps there. And I remember
you coming and speaking at a small farmers conference that

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we had in Upper Hut at the old cit So.
And it's funny how things go full circle. I have
a casual job driving the tractor at Stagland's Wildlife Reserve
and I remember dragging you down the area.

Speaker 5 (59:42):
Yes, goodness me.

Speaker 22 (59:47):
John and Sarah are still running Staglands.

Speaker 12 (59:50):
John English.

Speaker 22 (59:52):
He just loves sharing nature. He's been there, he's in
his mid early eighties now and it's been running for
about fifty five years and it has no money from government.
It's run you know, because he just loves sharing nature
with people.

Speaker 5 (01:00:04):
Yeah, well that's what That's exactly what I do. Is why. Actually,
I've noticed that the y Wrap is one of those
wonderful places where you've got all these I call them
hope spots whereby kids are starting to do things. I've
got some kids working there at the moment, working on
cutty post spiders. Can you imagine that that is? And
that was at school. Where is that? Where is that?

(01:00:25):
Roughly Riversdale Beach? You know what I mean? That sort
of stuff, And it's funny Armor school. It's lovely to
see kids doing that exactly.

Speaker 22 (01:00:35):
They should lure you to book Town too. I'm sure
you've got some books around all things. It's because Featherster
is the only book is the official New Zealand booktown city.
And we have some.

Speaker 5 (01:00:50):
That I did not know that Featherston was there. Oh,
good one. Lovely to hear that though. Yeah, it's lovely, dear,
Thank you, Paul, thank you for reminding me all these things. Yeah, no,
it's wonderful. And yeah, go well, I'll see you against
I bet you. That's the way it is, all right?
Who is next to you? Think? Brian? Shall we go

(01:01:10):
to Brian for a change?

Speaker 9 (01:01:12):
Hi?

Speaker 5 (01:01:12):
Brian? How are you? I'm not getting Brian? Can you
get Brian at all? I can't? Where do I go?

Speaker 9 (01:01:24):
Now?

Speaker 5 (01:01:25):
Can you hear me? Brian?

Speaker 6 (01:01:30):
Bob?

Speaker 5 (01:01:31):
Oh, Bob, Okay, let's go Bob Hey.

Speaker 9 (01:01:34):
Okay, right, yeah, he's giving you the wrong nape.

Speaker 5 (01:01:37):
Yeah, I think so.

Speaker 18 (01:01:38):
Yeah. I've got a couple of crab apple trees and
a year or so ago we had a little bit
of a problem with toddling off. And I heard your
treatment of medics three. So that's right, walked out and
bought a one hundred mill bottle of it for something
orb and price, and I seem.

Speaker 12 (01:01:59):
To have got rid of it.

Speaker 18 (01:02:02):
One of the two has got a serious and fit
festation of wooly aphord.

Speaker 5 (01:02:08):
Yeah, this is a wooly aphored year. I reckon Bob
because I found actually into I wrap, I found heaps
of that too.

Speaker 18 (01:02:17):
Oh really, well, so there he was not that far. Yeah,
it's just one one of the trees is clear. The
other one absolutely covered.

Speaker 12 (01:02:28):
And what do I do?

Speaker 5 (01:02:30):
What do I do? It's very white and fluffy, isn't it? Yes,
I would use something that can actually get through that
white and fluffy stuff. Now, I'm just thinking where I
saw it somewhere here, egg, give me a ticky, Give
me a ticky. I'm going to work on this because

(01:02:50):
I I had a look at my old, my old
what do you call it? Bits and pieces that I
did at the Ministry of Agriculture. I think we used,
first of all, you could use a copper and sulfur
type material that actually gets rid if you like, of
the white stuff. But after that you need something for

(01:03:12):
the actual wooly apple aport as well, and you could
use materials such as hang on, I'm bloaded if I've
seen that, where was it? I'm gosh, you've got to
get godly moth. No, that's right, cap and beegel, No,

(01:03:32):
that's not there. Gotscha GOLLI aerosol? Which aerosol?

Speaker 12 (01:03:42):
Was it?

Speaker 5 (01:03:43):
Yes? Get rid of the white stuff with some uh
uh what did I say before? The white stuff with
the I've forgotten what I said just before. It doesn't
matter the other thing. What is it that I used
to say? Oh, that's right. The safe Works aerosol. Get
yourself some safe Works aerosol. So safe Works is a

(01:04:07):
company that is a safety company. It also does stuff
that they use in aircraft. Safe Works ends with an X.
It's in Auckland, Wellington, christ Here. It's all sorts of places.
Get yourself one of those aerosol cans that they use
for aircraft, a residual aircraft aerosol. You spray that on

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that white stuff and you'll find that they're not going
to survive.

Speaker 18 (01:04:32):
Okay, that sounds good. I looked up stuff. Then it
says use soapy water.

Speaker 9 (01:04:39):
Use one thing that says.

Speaker 18 (01:04:40):
Don't use iss a super shield.

Speaker 5 (01:04:45):
Well, you, the super shield is not really a great insecticide,
but that other stuff is you've got to have something
that is really mean with insects. I'm sorry, that's what
you need, okay, but but yeah, yeah, you're absolutely right.
By the way, I would use that safe works and
I would check it on and literally you'll find they're

(01:05:05):
having their won't to stand a chance.

Speaker 18 (01:05:07):
Okay, sounds good. I'll go there and try and find.

Speaker 5 (01:05:11):
Some safe work. Yeah, go and find some safe work stuff. Okay,
good he catch it? Bye bye, golly, see you later,
bye bye. All right, there you are. There's some goshap golly.
That's typical, isn't it? Who have we got next? Shall
we go? Is Brian not there? Or am I seeing
or seeing the wrong person there?

Speaker 9 (01:05:32):
David?

Speaker 13 (01:05:33):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:05:33):
Whatever? What do you want me to talk to? Brian?
Shall we try Brian? Brian? Hi there, Tony, Tony? Oh
a different one again? Oh you're going to the top. Okay,
Hi Tony? How are you sorry?

Speaker 9 (01:05:53):
Mate?

Speaker 10 (01:05:55):
This morning?

Speaker 5 (01:05:56):
We're pretty good mate. We've got a funny little delay
thing on our system, but I get you fair. Finally
I did get you go on, we've got.

Speaker 10 (01:06:04):
A problem, rude. We got from quite large gum trees
growing on a coastal headland, and there's some sort of
bug getting into the leaves, like quite a few in
one leaf, and the leafs are bubbling. So I presuming
the bugs eating the interior of the leaf, then the
leaves are falling off and the gum trees are slowly dying.

Speaker 5 (01:06:27):
That's not a very nice thing to do if they
thought that. I can imagine. I know there are creatures
that eat the leaves of gum trees, and they usually
do a little bit of damage, But whooped thee do
They're not going to die from that now?

Speaker 10 (01:06:39):
These are inside the leaves.

Speaker 9 (01:06:40):
The bugs are inside the leaf.

Speaker 5 (01:06:42):
I get that. Yeah, there are things that do.

Speaker 10 (01:06:45):
They think we can spray the ground with the gum
tree absorbed that it would put them off.

Speaker 5 (01:06:51):
No, I don't think that's going to work. Are they
big trees, like, yeah, twenty thirty meters high? Yeah, there
you go. Now, there's very little you will be able
to do by putting it in the ground or in
the root zone area. I don't think you can do that.
You've got any suggestions, No, I don't because I really

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need to know what it is that does it? First?
Is that easy? Is it? Is it easy to find
those things?

Speaker 10 (01:07:23):
You can't pick a gum tree leaf and you can
get there right in front of your face there, Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:07:28):
I get that. But what what do you what is
the creature that you find? What do you call it?
What does the creature look like that you find inside?

Speaker 12 (01:07:36):
Just like a little grub?

Speaker 5 (01:07:38):
Okay, all right, just a bit bigger than they hear.
Oh that's small. Yeah, pass, I wouldn't have a clue.
Lance shaped, I don't know. I don't know. Is it
lance shaped? Is it? Is it very thin? Is it
a very thin gum?

Speaker 10 (01:07:59):
It's probably about ten mile long?

Speaker 9 (01:08:02):
Okay.

Speaker 5 (01:08:06):
I don't think that the tree will die as a
result of somebody eating those things. I reckon that you restored. Yeah,
there's something else. There's a second thing. There's a confusion here. Okay.
I can imagine that there will be creatures that eat
the leaves and and and literally they call them a
leaf for minors in those leaves, but that doesn't usually
kill them. That's ridiculous. There's something there's something else that

(01:08:28):
doesn't work there. If your plants, if your trees are
dying that way. There's something else that does it. It's
not those creatures, I bet you, because that would be
ecological suicide. Hey, if these creatures would kill their own host. Yeah,
that's what I mean. So I can't tell you what
it is. So that's something else, you know what fertilized

(01:08:50):
the countries. But also have a chat to an iborist.
See what they can do for you, because they will
know what's near the root zone. At some states, they'll
they'll ever look, okay, okay, there's probably better. I'm not
going to guess on that now from here without seeing anything.
That's that's impossible. Anyways, Sorry about that, but there you go.

Speaker 9 (01:09:07):
Thank you for your call, you know, thank you for
your thanks, don't you?

Speaker 5 (01:09:11):
Bye bye? All right, let's you know what I'm going
to do. I think I'm going to take a break
because that means we have some time to work out
who was next.

Speaker 1 (01:09:21):
After the break, sorting those summer fixes before the barbecue
crowd arrives. The resident builder with Peter Wolfcare Call eight
hundred and eighty to eighty youth Talk ZBBI.

Speaker 5 (01:09:33):
Okay, okay, your client post here, Andrew, you should be
my next caller. How are you?

Speaker 23 (01:09:40):
This is Brian Rude.

Speaker 5 (01:09:44):
I love this. Hi Brian, how are you?

Speaker 8 (01:09:47):
Good night?

Speaker 6 (01:09:48):
Yeah?

Speaker 23 (01:09:49):
I had as a cousin I Andrew, so it's not him.
I'm rude. We have bananas on our plant for the
first time, congratulations years old, and we have a caados
for the first time, and we're just wondering, as a
new coming parents what we have to do to look

(01:10:10):
after these.

Speaker 5 (01:10:11):
Please give them a little bit of fertilizers an NPK
with a slightly larger K for potash, so you know,
NPK is your general fertilizer, you know what I mean. Hey,
But if there are plants involved with fruit or or yeah,
that actually get flowers or fruiting, which is the reproduction

(01:10:34):
space if you like, of that creature, then you have
to have something that has an NPK with a higher
K level, something like rose fertilizer or stuff you use
for fruit trees yep, okay, and that will make those
particular particular fruits ripen a lot nicer and sweeter.

Speaker 18 (01:10:57):
There you are, right, Thank you very much, thank you.

Speaker 5 (01:11:01):
You're more than welcome. Hey, success with that, Brian, catch
you later, ay, thank you. By now I'm going to guess,
am I going to guess Andrew or David? What do
I do?

Speaker 7 (01:11:11):
Any meaning?

Speaker 5 (01:11:12):
Mining?

Speaker 9 (01:11:12):
Moe?

Speaker 5 (01:11:13):
I'm going to try Andrew. Hi, Andrew, cousin Andrew, Hey,
this cousin Andrew? Are you well? I love it? Finally
got you.

Speaker 24 (01:11:26):
In the previous toll, you mentioned leaf miners. Yeah, I
would like to talk about Indian miners.

Speaker 5 (01:11:36):
We don't have. We don't have those here in Canterbury,
thank goodness. I think at least I don't think, no,
not anymore. We I think there were one or two
here and I think they got rid of them, but
I'm not under percent sure. But anyway, what do you
want to do with Indian minus?

Speaker 24 (01:11:50):
Y do what you've already come and get rid of them?
How do I discourage minus? I'm trying to encourage natives.
Oh yes, but the Indian miners sort almost take over
the place.

Speaker 5 (01:12:05):
I know, I know. Do you have a gun?

Speaker 9 (01:12:08):
Ah?

Speaker 13 (01:12:08):
I do?

Speaker 9 (01:12:10):
Yeah?

Speaker 24 (01:12:10):
And okay, that's the only option.

Speaker 5 (01:12:15):
To be quite honest. They are a pain in the proverbial,
as you will know, and there's very very little you
can do about it. I would not know what to
do with an Indian miner. I think you've got to
be very careful when you, for instance, put food out
for birds that the miners are because they're very clever,
aren't they. You try to get them out of there.
They will learn not to go back there at some stage,

(01:12:38):
but it takes a while. They take a lot of
time to train.

Speaker 24 (01:12:42):
Okay, the other thing you've already talked about, Moon, We
have been talking to us outside the bedroom window last night.

Speaker 9 (01:12:53):
Wow.

Speaker 24 (01:12:54):
What can I do to continue to encourage them?

Speaker 5 (01:12:58):
Well, you know there are many If you go, for instance,
two places like Wingspan, you'll find all these particular boxes
that you can build for ruru to breed in, you
know what I mean. And you find them online as well.
You find them online as well for for our for
our native owls. I think that is a nice thing
to do. I'm doing it the same with not just

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ruru but also little owls. And they do they do,
they do love it. They take it. Get get that box.
Make sure that you get the right box with the
right size, if you like. Ruru has its own sizes.
But also keep that box out of the sun so
that no babies or mums or dads that are incubating
will get too hot in the summer time.

Speaker 9 (01:13:40):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:13:40):
Yeah, there you go.

Speaker 24 (01:13:42):
What about food sauce? Can I encourage a food sauce
for them?

Speaker 5 (01:13:47):
No? I think I think they get their own insects.
They get their own what do you call it, big
moths and things like that. They get their own caterpillars.
You don't need to do anything.

Speaker 24 (01:14:00):
So I thought they were mainly after mice, and oh yeah,
yep as well.

Speaker 5 (01:14:09):
As well, yep, they eat other insects absolutely, because what
I do with with these with these little owls as well,
I get the pellets that they eject from their mouth
and basically check in the pellets what they have been eating,
because you get a complete skeleton out of them, sometimes
a skeleton that kids can glue together as a mouse
skeleton for instance. Oh really, yeah, it's really cool. And

(01:14:32):
and and Rural does exactly the same thing. It's good fun.

Speaker 12 (01:14:35):
Okay, yeah, right, thank you, you got.

Speaker 5 (01:14:39):
It, Andrew, Thank you so much for and thank you
for your yours, for your your patients. I've been trying
get you later eight bye bye. All right, okay, ladies
and jerikins, it's oh, fifteen minutes to the hour of eight.
I think we should take a break and then come
back again with some more calls.

Speaker 1 (01:14:57):
If it creaks, leaks, cracks or squeaks some is the
time to get a sort of call. Oh, eight hundred
and eighty to eighty, the resident builder with Peter Wolfkere
News Talk said, right, Yo day.

Speaker 9 (01:15:11):
Good morning, Yeah, get a red. I've called because we've
got a persistent ant problem. These ants are a bit
smaller than normal, are probably only a couple of them
all long. They like eating the toilet paper and the tissues.

Speaker 12 (01:15:31):
Oh and when.

Speaker 9 (01:15:33):
They crawl on your skin they bite. We put out
ant bait and that sort of clears them off for
two or three days and then they come back again.
So I was just wondering if you could suggest something
different that we could do to try and keep these
ants under control. Well, firstly, what are they and secondly

(01:15:56):
what do we do about them?

Speaker 5 (01:15:57):
Yeah, the white iday is a bit tricky. We've got
about twenty or so species in New Zealand at least,
and they I know, they have different sizes, different different
colors and all that sort of stuff. That somewhere most
of them are introduced, which is always a pain in
the bum. How does things get here? A anyway? Second
question is you made you used end bait. How many

(01:16:18):
end bait stations did you use?

Speaker 9 (01:16:22):
Well, we just use one station at the location that
they are.

Speaker 5 (01:16:28):
Yeah, okay, that makes that makes sense what I'm saying.
But then what you're saying, but you have to remember
that if you've got and colonies, they have their own territory,
and that means that they and if they shift their spaces,
you might get rid of one particular colony that you've got,
but the next one says, ooh that colony is gone,

(01:16:48):
I'm going to move over or extend my whatever, you know,
my my my business. So the idea is to have uh,
different bait stations for different colonies, if that makes sense, right, yeah,
all right, so three four or five, maybe a couple
of meters apart. Sometimes they sit in your ceiling. You

(01:17:11):
might not know that, but they come all the way down.
That's another way of doing it. Okay. So so the
second thing is, uh, the fact that they eat paper
is quite weird. I cannot remember having seen a lot
of ants eating paper. Maybe that's the species that I
don't know from where you are.

Speaker 9 (01:17:31):
That's weird because they're almost seen there on the paper
than they are on the on the end base.

Speaker 5 (01:17:37):
Yeah, that's that's exactly what I mean. It's quite strange.
But if they if you and you don't know, can
you tell me what sort of bait you use?

Speaker 9 (01:17:47):
Yeah, it's the teer ey hear ke.

Speaker 5 (01:17:50):
Okay, yeah, that should that should work basically. Is it?
That's for protein, isn't it.

Speaker 9 (01:17:57):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:17:58):
Yeah I think so.

Speaker 9 (01:18:00):
And they go for it. Like I said, you get
them under control and they never seen it completely disappear.

Speaker 5 (01:18:05):
No, no, no.

Speaker 9 (01:18:07):
And then after two or three days they start coming
back again them to excheck to the same place.

Speaker 5 (01:18:12):
Okay, well, look, it might be an if it does
work and it let lowers the numbers use it. But
if you think that it's not going to work very well,
try something else. Try ants in your pants from when
I forget or something from Yates or what. Some of
these things are based on proteins, others are based on sugars,

(01:18:34):
and then depends and exactly on what this particular group
of ants likes first. But the idea is to have
different places around your house where they where you get
the different colonies feasting on that particular lovely stuff that
you give them. Okay, okay, okay, success with that eh

(01:18:57):
bye bye, okay, okay. Yeah, that's how it works sometimes,
isn't it, with these bits and pieces? All right? So
that was David with his nds. Think Pauline is wanting
to talk wood pigeon from what I remember there there
you go.

Speaker 15 (01:19:13):
Many years ago, I lived in Kerry Carey and I
went out one day. When I came home, my husband said, oh,
a wood pigeon flew into the window. Well, that was
very sad. They said it left a mark on the window.
And I said, oh, come on, you know you're joking,
and were sure enough. When I went in, there was
this big wing outspread mark on the window showing the

(01:19:37):
tips of the feathers, like a hand with the feathers.
And I assume because there's such a fatty bird that
it left the fat the fat mark on the window.
The local editor for the paper came down and took
a photo of it and put it in the paper
because it was so unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (01:19:56):
M that's right. It's quite often that the feathers themselves
have got some materials on them. Some it might be
a fatty stuff that makes that absolutely gorgeous picture.

Speaker 10 (01:20:07):
A there was.

Speaker 15 (01:20:08):
It was Saturday, almost unbelievable. But my husband had said,
is he will have had a massive headache when he
threw away.

Speaker 5 (01:20:15):
Oh, I told you absolutely, I can totally absolutely make
no mistake. And did it did fly away? Though? That
is what's my next question.

Speaker 15 (01:20:24):
Yes, yes, he came out and they had a look
around and there was no sign of it. So it
must have just flown into the window. Thought that's not
the right direction to go. And yeah, flying into my
windows here where I.

Speaker 5 (01:20:38):
Am now, Yeah, And the reason is they can probably
see a window on the other side of your house
and think that they can go through it. Yeah, that's
the point. You know. You can get these little decals
that you can put on the on the flight path
and they go.

Speaker 15 (01:20:50):
Like, oh but dangly things hanging in the window.

Speaker 5 (01:20:54):
To try and get them well done, That is exactly
what you should do with that. And now the reason
I'm saying did it survive is when we as bird people,
you know, we do bird bending, putting around their legs
and not with numbers and follow what they do. But
if you use that on these particular wood pigeons are

(01:21:14):
native wood pigeons, they can suddenly die literally when you
hold them in your hand. They're so quickly strongs, so
you've got to be very careful with these birds, poor things.

Speaker 15 (01:21:25):
I remember the stories of old that they were so
easy to catch because they fed up on the trees
with berries, ate themselves so full that they fell out
of the trees and the marry were able to catch them.

Speaker 9 (01:21:41):
Yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:21:41):
I could should try that myself one day.

Speaker 15 (01:21:46):
As long as that's sit too high on the tree though, No.

Speaker 5 (01:21:50):
Darling, I'll remember. I won't do that. Don't worry about it, Pauline,
it's great. Hey, thank you so much for your call.
That's lovely story. Catch you later, bye bye. Oh well,
there you are. Okay, we're just a little a little
away from our news and weather and all that sort
of stuff. So there we are. So maybe maybe I

(01:22:10):
can tell you that if you still are looking for
passions vine hoppers on your plants, this is probably your
last moment to get yourself an aerosol with any insect
side you can find and spray them on a really
cool morning before they become adults and become before they
become by.

Speaker 9 (01:22:28):
To be final little.

Speaker 1 (01:22:36):
When Pete's away, it's time to get stuck in the garden.
The DIY Show with Root climb past. It's called oh
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty used talk zid be.

Speaker 5 (01:22:46):
Haha, there we are again. Welcome back everybody. It's a
root climb bust year. Six minutes past eight. We're going
on till nine o'clock. And I if Pete hears me,
I'd love them to give me a text to say gooday.
I think that's so cool to do that. I'm basically
trying to do the job for him on this news

(01:23:07):
Dog jet Be segment. It would be good fun. So
I'll be gardening it with a bit of birds, bit
of whatever we can find, lovely, lovely stuff. So give
me a yell. On eight hundred and eighty to eight.
You've got a full board of calls. Going straight into
a chat with Faye. Hi Faye, how are you?

Speaker 16 (01:23:26):
Good morning? Thank you? I'm well. I just ring up
the fruit trees the shooting a lot of fruit on
the ground, So I just wondered, I mean they're quite
hebreleous fruit is just shooting it because it's too much
or water.

Speaker 5 (01:23:42):
So what is the problem with with the trees.

Speaker 16 (01:23:46):
The trees are really heavy and fruit that is a
lot on the ground.

Speaker 5 (01:23:50):
Yeah, that's what they do. That's what they do in
order to stop breaking themselves. I suppose.

Speaker 16 (01:23:56):
Yeah, I just wonder it was a lake of water.

Speaker 5 (01:24:02):
Just wonder what it could be where you're ringing from?
Which area?

Speaker 24 (01:24:07):
Well?

Speaker 16 (01:24:08):
Fast and crush chech.

Speaker 5 (01:24:09):
Okay, No, we're not that dry yet, are we.

Speaker 21 (01:24:14):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:24:15):
Do you think we're dry?

Speaker 16 (01:24:16):
Garden in the morning where I am and yeah, no, you.

Speaker 5 (01:24:20):
Know, I'm i'm in, I'm in, I'm I'm in. Canterbury's
Llan crushes as well on the port Hills. It's yes,
it to be quite as we do. We do put
a bit of water on at the moment because it
is getting a bit drier. But it's not that bad
if you've got a lot of plant. But which are
the fruit trees? What sort of tree? Fruit?

Speaker 1 (01:24:40):
Is it?

Speaker 6 (01:24:40):
Meat?

Speaker 16 (01:24:41):
During apple plum?

Speaker 5 (01:24:42):
I've got everything, got a lot, they're all falling off.

Speaker 16 (01:24:47):
Yes, well, it's still really heavy with fruit that there's
an awful lot on the ground.

Speaker 5 (01:24:53):
In that case, it might be an idea to give
it a bit of water. I don't think. Are we
getting a bit of water this week? I don't know.
I haven't even looked yet. But it might be an
idea if you think it's too dry. You have a
go at it and water it. Yet, good idea. And
also at the same time, you know what, you know what,
get yourself some seaweed tea or seaweed tea from wet

(01:25:15):
and forget. And that is not only water and it
is stuff like but it's also a fertilizer, a liquid
fertilizer that might help those those fruits to hang on
the tree and stay there. That's good, Okay, we go
with that. Good luck with that. Thank you for your call.
Fae bye bye bye, thank you bye bye. That means

(01:25:40):
that Ellen would be I would reckon. Ellen is the
next one that's going to talk about garlic. I bet
you or not?

Speaker 12 (01:25:48):
Now I help help help what Earlier this year in May,
listening to you, I parted my garlic. Early I had
spagging the moss around these little plants and a raised gardens,
plastic raised gardens. So we're doing perfectly well to the
spring come along. I've been attacked by some sort of
a green fly. And when I say I've got literally

(01:26:09):
I've got I haven't got hundreds of I would be
exaggerating if I said I've got millions, and I've actually
had to look, I've sprayed knemore al on them, I
sprayed conquered them, and I've even chopped them off at
about three inches above the ground because we came back
from holiday and they were limp, and so I thought,
what can I do with that? So I cut them off,

(01:26:30):
and they're starting to sprout again, and they're even into that.
I sprayed them with fly spray last night. I thought,
you put garlic and glasshouse to get rid of vaguab love.
These things are attracting them.

Speaker 9 (01:26:40):
What are we doing?

Speaker 5 (01:26:41):
I have that is just bizarre what I hear, because
mine are growing fine and they're actually ready to harvest.
That's how early I did it, you know. So describe
what it is that gets them and where where where
did they eat?

Speaker 12 (01:26:58):
Well, we had the spring where they come along. So
I opened up the windows one time because I burnt
the coast, and then I closed them windows. But the
house was full of these green flies, and I thought
where they come from? So I sprayed them and then
one day I went out the end. He is the
green fly on the on the on all my fire
blots of raised gardens, on all the garlic. So I thought,

(01:27:20):
I want to get the neme oil out because you
said Nemo was fantastic for that side. Sure, I gave
him that. Well, I went back a few days later. Well,
they I think they had all grown muscles. They loved it,
and then so I thought, well I'll use the Conqueror oil.
Then we went away and away, we've got a motor home.
We disappeared for a few days. Come back. Well, honestly,

(01:27:41):
I'm not kidding you. There's billions of them on there.
And I've looked around all my other fruit tree I've looked.
I even had a friend of mine who's an exportard
does he come around and had a look and he
was gobsmacked as well.

Speaker 5 (01:27:53):
I have no idea which a green flush? Are you
talking about the small aphids?

Speaker 12 (01:27:57):
Yes, very small athors that much?

Speaker 9 (01:28:01):
Yeah, I had.

Speaker 12 (01:28:02):
I had the jumbo garlic which is growing as it's
got the head of the top, but the flowers and
that's quite huge compared to the other little ones, and
on them, by the by the hundreds, they have survived.
They're still quite they're still healthy. But the other ones,
they're just they look like they've been poisoned. So I

(01:28:22):
just chopped them all off. In fact, they've taken them out.
I've taken three of them out. I'm just trying to
to harvest too.

Speaker 5 (01:28:29):
And so these guys, these these these avas have been
literally been been what do you call it, sticking their
mouths and mouthpipes into the plant and making them look
awful and things like that.

Speaker 12 (01:28:39):
Yep, the gaps clean out of the galic itself. Yeah,
I can't.

Speaker 5 (01:28:44):
Believe that that, for instance, that the things you mentioned
didn't even work. Crazy.

Speaker 12 (01:28:52):
I've just I just I sprayed them with flies pray,
as they said, try flies pray. And this morning I've
been out there and it looks like they've snooked them.
It's softened them up a bit. They're there, They're there there.

Speaker 5 (01:29:07):
I can't I can't believe. No, I no, I would
have said the same thing. I would have taken all
the knee oil and that sort of stuff, absolutely, and
on the on the basis of once a week type thing,
you know.

Speaker 12 (01:29:18):
Yeah, well, the great order to come around to water
the plants. And she told me, she wrote me, said,
oh your plants are covered and black.

Speaker 16 (01:29:23):
Thing.

Speaker 12 (01:29:23):
So I got my mate, he's a gardener. He came around.
I told him where the conquer oil was and he
put on the right royal.

Speaker 9 (01:29:30):
Dose of them.

Speaker 12 (01:29:31):
But Tommy got back. Look, they were there and droves live. Well,
I wouldn't say all of them are alive, but they
were back. They were there.

Speaker 5 (01:29:39):
Grief, good grief. Now, to be quite honest, that that
would be the that sort of those of oils are
the best on those on those sort of buggers that
do that, that's ridiculous.

Speaker 12 (01:29:51):
Yeah, I've got some success there. I didn't want to
put that on because that goes into the plants itself.

Speaker 5 (01:29:55):
No, not necessarily. Success does not go into the plant.
They think it's not. It's not. It doesn't go in.
It only does to come, isn't it ted?

Speaker 12 (01:30:05):
Isn't that?

Speaker 5 (01:30:06):
No, it's not systemic. I don't think it's a systemic. Well, no,
no it's not. I don't think it is. We have
a go with a little a little patch to see
if that works. I'm actually amazed that you that the
oils don't work. That's ridiculous.

Speaker 12 (01:30:23):
So it was the orchids that you put garlic in
glass here to get rythm bugs.

Speaker 5 (01:30:26):
And he said, that's right, that's what I mean. Is
this something new? Oh God, no, not the game? Please
not again?

Speaker 12 (01:30:34):
Pause literally they unbelievable.

Speaker 5 (01:30:37):
You've got yeah, try it, try try some of the success.
Just try it a little bit. See if that works.
Don't go over the top, don't do it too heavy ever,
go it'll be fine.

Speaker 12 (01:30:49):
Thanks again, man, Well that's crazy.

Speaker 5 (01:30:52):
Thank you so much for your call. That is bizarre.
This is ridiculous. Goodness me. Oh well that was Ellen.
I think I might go to Peter if he's still awake.

Speaker 7 (01:31:02):
Hi, Peter here you going here?

Speaker 6 (01:31:05):
Peter from Wellington speaking. I transplanted a a rose, a
standard rose because it was in a too windy position.

Speaker 9 (01:31:17):
Two.

Speaker 6 (01:31:18):
It would be about two months ago and unfortunately it
seems to be dying and I've sort of scratched the
bark there. Sometimes that springs the roads alive. But there's
about two two or two steams that where the buds

(01:31:41):
should come. But it just it just seems to be
idle green and nothing else. I don't know what this
was to do.

Speaker 5 (01:31:49):
So this was that this was at the time, when
this was in spring, when you when you to yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's that's the time to do it. Uh you watered it,
I'm sure, but not too much.

Speaker 6 (01:32:03):
No, And I've sort of done the print King Charles
talk to it to make it grow?

Speaker 5 (01:32:16):
Ye, God, oh, here we go.

Speaker 6 (01:32:19):
All right, you've been impatient it all probably will, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:32:23):
But there's more to it than that. I mean, honestly,
when you do rose, when you do a rose translocation,
if you like, you know, the care you have is
you don't you water it, but don't over water it.
You give it a bit of shade, you know, that
sort of stuff you prune to reduce the stress. If
it is too big, for instance, don't fertilize it yet

(01:32:45):
until now when it's sixtually established.

Speaker 6 (01:32:48):
I think I did put some fertilizer.

Speaker 9 (01:32:51):
Yes, you're right, Okay, that's okay.

Speaker 5 (01:32:54):
That doesn't mean it should die. But it's it's like
when you go into hospital. You know, you get an operation.
The first thing you don't think about. You don't think
about versus having a messive meal, do you You know
what I mean. I'm just making it up like that. Okay, yes,
So the so you give it time, you check for
new growth, and if that works, then you slowly start

(01:33:17):
to give it a little bit of fertile and say, look,
you can do it.

Speaker 19 (01:33:20):
You know.

Speaker 5 (01:33:22):
Obviously I don't know, but was there enough roots? Stuff?
On the system there.

Speaker 6 (01:33:28):
I thought it was, and I put a bit of
a bit of a mounding there, you know when you
replant there, and I stamped it down and I've got
at stake there and that's so maybe I've got to
talk to King Charles and see how get new new
words or something.

Speaker 9 (01:33:45):
Is it?

Speaker 5 (01:33:46):
Well, look apart from you know, so apart from the
feeding of you know, of the plant and the fertilizer,
I think you've done everything right. I can't believe it.

Speaker 6 (01:33:58):
No, Okay, well I'll try and be more patient.

Speaker 5 (01:34:00):
I suppose, yeah, I think that might be an idea,
but just go gentle on.

Speaker 7 (01:34:04):
Okay, Yes, thanks through me?

Speaker 5 (01:34:06):
Hey are you're more than welcome? Sorry, that's all I
can say at this stage. Oh my goodness. Well there
you go. That was that was typically something that needed
to be done there. I suppose who is next? I
would say, that could be? Is it Peter? Well have
I had Peter, I've had Peter. I'm going to end.

Speaker 9 (01:34:27):
Hello.

Speaker 5 (01:34:28):
Hello, you've got I knew you were waiting, yes, hoping.

Speaker 14 (01:34:32):
That the help. We've got a large quince tree, and
it is a large one and a orchard surrounded by apples.
The tree bark is flaking off in sheets. Starts to
crack first, and then it just sort of peels off
the drunk trunk. Seems that instead of going the grain

(01:34:53):
of it going straight up, it's twisting around. That's about
the only way I can say it. Believe they look
pretty good, but this morning and they've got a bit
of a yellow tinge about some of it, and it's
insand there's been plenty of water around, so I don't
think it's dry. And we lost a large prince tree

(01:35:16):
last year through the same thing. So I just wondered
if there's anything I can do to stop it.

Speaker 5 (01:35:21):
I think there's a back It's back damage, isn't it.

Speaker 14 (01:35:27):
Oh, definitely, yes, there's a material.

Speaker 5 (01:35:31):
There's a disease that comes to mind. It's called hypoxilant
hypoxilan canker from memory. Oh my god, what do you do?

Speaker 15 (01:35:41):
I don't know.

Speaker 8 (01:35:42):
I'm hoping that you Yeah, yeah.

Speaker 5 (01:35:45):
No, I've seen it, hea En, I've heard about it.
But is this something that is a big gig Oh gosh,
you've got it?

Speaker 9 (01:35:55):
Does it?

Speaker 5 (01:35:56):
Is there any other symptoms that you think? You know?
The leaves are falling off, blah blah blah.

Speaker 14 (01:36:01):
Well, going by the last one, Yes, but they aren't
at the moment. It's got quite a bit of fruit
on it, you know, just a normal amount of wouldn't
say it's overlighter, but it's looking good when you stand
at the distance. But then when you get up close
and you have a look at the why the trunk
is twisting around and it's got a lot of liking

(01:36:21):
on it. I don't know whether that's a symptom.

Speaker 5 (01:36:24):
No, the liking, I don't mind the like, and the
liken is usually a sign because liken doesn't harm your trees,
let's put it that way. It's more a sign. It
could be a sign that there's not enough leaves to
shade your treasons and branch.

Speaker 14 (01:36:41):
They've got come for your growing around it.

Speaker 5 (01:36:46):
I don't really know what to do with that stuff
that I just mentioned that. That's funny. That's funny. Canker
hypoxilon canker. Goodness, gracious me. I don't know. I don't
know what you can do with that. I don't know
if you can do anything with that. Canker. It's a
bit like fire light, isn't it.

Speaker 8 (01:37:08):
I don't know.

Speaker 5 (01:37:09):
Yeah it is. It's nasty. It's nasty. If if let's look,
let me put it this way. I don't know exactly
what to do with that. I can tell you that
for free, but at least you can if you can
google it yourself, you might find that you can find
some some ways to to deal to it. What I
do know is that don't plant another tree in the

(01:37:31):
same spot of that particular tree, you know what I mean,
No other no other queens, because that would immediately get
infected again as soon as you put it on the
same spot.

Speaker 14 (01:37:46):
So right to put some other orchard tree in there?

Speaker 5 (01:37:50):
Yeah, absolutely, I would say. So that's quite. It's quite,
that would be that would probably be possible at Yeah.
But but queen quins, no, don't.

Speaker 14 (01:38:00):
What about the wood that's left divers Should we try
and burn that?

Speaker 5 (01:38:04):
Or if you've got a fireplace here we have here? Yeah, yeah,
get rid of it.

Speaker 14 (01:38:10):
Okay, well, let me down a little bit on that.

Speaker 8 (01:38:12):
But no, mister Google.

Speaker 14 (01:38:14):
Sounds like a good tribe.

Speaker 10 (01:38:15):
Next hot.

Speaker 14 (01:38:16):
The other thing is we've got a twoy out here
for about the last three weeks, and instead of doing
the usual beautiful twoy chortling, it's sort of excuse me,
this isn't an exact replica, but it's the closest I
can get sort of goes, and it doesn't. It doesn't

(01:38:38):
quite have that sort of purr in it that I
put in. But it's a chorten one, that's all it does.
And it goes from morning more early morning till later
at night. And it's definitely a tooy.

Speaker 5 (01:38:53):
Oh my god, I should give you the number of
my doctor that he helped the toy, Yeah, or maybe you,
I don't know. I think this is funny, Okay, now, yeah,
And I must admit they have got weird voices sometimes,
don't they. Good grief.

Speaker 14 (01:39:14):
Well, look, I'm just continued, and I haven't heard any
other twoes around. Usually there's several tooies around, but this
is the only one, and he flies in different places
and it's just the same same voice all the time.

Speaker 5 (01:39:28):
I think it's hilarious. It sounds really funny. I wish
I heard that because I would record it and then
play it back and it gets all shitty.

Speaker 14 (01:39:39):
Yes, well, if I could, yes to get the time
of the year, because I've never noticed it before, not
in such a long period of time.

Speaker 5 (01:39:49):
Yeah, A good story there on, And that's great. It
is absolutely wonderful Hey, thank you so much for your call.

Speaker 14 (01:39:55):
You've got no answer for that either.

Speaker 5 (01:39:58):
Look up, look up hypoxylon cancer and high is with
a Y.

Speaker 9 (01:40:02):
So h y p O x y l O.

Speaker 14 (01:40:07):
Okay, we'll try that. Thank you very much, Take care.

Speaker 5 (01:40:11):
Bye bye, see you later. Oh my god, that's funny
that tooy. The hypoxyllant cancer isn't but the tooy was.
Oh goodness, gracious me. It's twenty four minutes past eight,
and we will take a break right now and we'll
come back with more of your calls on Newstalk Sidby.

Speaker 1 (01:40:29):
Sunday, the perfect day for getting into the garden the
DIY Show with Root Climb past call. Oh eight hundred
eighty ten eighty neu stalk zedb.

Speaker 5 (01:40:38):
Okay, donkey, Welcome back everybody. Twenty seven minutes past eight,
almost twenty eight minutes past eight. You're with Newstalks ed
B and sitting in for Peter A. Wolf Camp right.
Next call should be Helen.

Speaker 19 (01:40:50):
Hi there, good morning road. I've got two questions for you.
What is it that you don't like about the little
brown skinks that we see all over the garden.

Speaker 5 (01:41:03):
In Auckland or in the north of our north. Yeah, yeah,
that is an absolute bugger of an import that came
from Australia that is eating other skinks and other creatures
and other eggs and things like that, and is really
ousting all our natives.

Speaker 9 (01:41:20):
Oh okay, that I.

Speaker 5 (01:41:23):
Might sound really rude about it, but we really need
to know, especially with kids who all want to have
a skink as a pattern things like that, and they say,
maybe not a good idea, okay, And.

Speaker 19 (01:41:34):
Can I slip on one other little question. Of course,
you can very very healthy cucumber civer vines growing up,
hundreds of little or no not hundreds, dozens of little cucumbers,
but they're not growing. Oh oh it's called a crunchy cucumber.

(01:41:54):
I think it was king seed. Yeah, really healthy looking bosh,
dozens of tiny cucumbers, but they're just not getting more
than about an inch long.

Speaker 5 (01:42:06):
Oh that's you have you have you got hold of
king seeds?

Speaker 16 (01:42:12):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:42:13):
But I would you know what do that? Just ask
them they may have there might be something about that
variety that needs something. And I tell them I sent you,
and they will they will answer you. I bet you.

Speaker 19 (01:42:26):
Okay. I mean it's before and never a problem, but
this year there's dozens that are only getting too an
e and a half long, and it's just not it's nothing.

Speaker 5 (01:42:36):
It's nothing. You can't that's a that's a one bite
that's a one bite cucumber. That is what I mean. Now,
now give them a call. Honestly, they are really happy
to help you out with that. That's what they do,
that's what they want to do. So king seeds in
the in the in uh bay plenty.

Speaker 19 (01:42:58):
Deg And I'm allowed to squash the brown skins?

Speaker 6 (01:43:02):
Am I you are?

Speaker 13 (01:43:04):
No?

Speaker 5 (01:43:04):
No, Look look now to be quite. I'm going to
be quite honest with you. I feel like you do.
I don't like doing that, but I know that their
impact on our native skinks is ridiculous, is really bad.
So I'm just saying, yeah, I feel awful. Thanks for help,

(01:43:25):
Thank you too, getulated by bye. All right, okay, that
is that one. So we're going to I suppose we're
going to gen this time, aren't we? Yeah? Jen?

Speaker 16 (01:43:36):
Hello, how are you?

Speaker 5 (01:43:37):
I am? Good, my dear.

Speaker 9 (01:43:39):
It's a good, interesting program.

Speaker 12 (01:43:41):
Thank you this morning.

Speaker 5 (01:43:43):
Well I make it up because Peter isn't here. It
makes it up all the time.

Speaker 16 (01:43:46):
Actually, god, it sounds very very good.

Speaker 13 (01:43:49):
But earlier on this morning and your program you mentioned
a better.

Speaker 17 (01:43:54):
Product birds bread for.

Speaker 16 (01:43:58):
Birds that are flicking out the back from the gardens.
Correct the same of the product again?

Speaker 4 (01:44:03):
Please?

Speaker 5 (01:44:03):
Oh yes, where was the thing on this we're going
to get to get I've lost it. I've lost it.
I can't remember it's it's no, sorry, I can't I
if I if I, If I find it, I'll keep listening.
If I find it, i'll let you know. Sorry, it's
gone off my system here.

Speaker 9 (01:44:26):
By.

Speaker 5 (01:44:29):
All right, So after Jane, I might go to Jane,
and Jane has something about netting.

Speaker 16 (01:44:34):
I think it's high.

Speaker 17 (01:44:37):
I'm in North London. I'm looking for some context. I've
got a not a big meat enclosure, like a four
meters high by about fifteen meters by alien meters for
growing fig treason. I'm struggling to find a context for
the meeting. I've got the poles, and I got the
money and got some anchors for the why ripen that
sort of thing? Mm hmm ideas.

Speaker 5 (01:45:00):
And you want the netting over the top, Well yeah,
actually that's interesting because Julie I've heard that too, and
she says you can get those hoops that we were
talking about for all sizes and you can water straight
through it, so you can get metal hoops that you
can put that stuff on top of, you know what
I mean, the netting and nobody can get in and

(01:45:21):
at the same time you can steal water it. So
I thought it was pretty clever. Go to things like
Bunnings or whatever groups they are and find if you
can find those particular bent places, bent things that you
can put the netting on. They come in all sorts
of sizes and shapes.

Speaker 17 (01:45:37):
Okay, this is a big garden, like fifteen meters by
eighteen meters four meters high.

Speaker 5 (01:45:44):
Oh my goodness. Yeah, yeah, no, then then you need
to do what you need to do. What I did
with my with my my my tunnel house or my
actually my house in which I did all the all
the all the stuff that I grew in there against birds.
But that was like an what do you call it?

(01:46:05):
Call it like a tunnel house, you know what I mean?
But yeah, like what the orchards use the great access.

Speaker 17 (01:46:10):
Orchards here, And I'm just trying to find a contact
that I can for the meeting. I mean, I've been
to Bunnings, I've been to Miter Team.

Speaker 5 (01:46:19):
Not big enough.

Speaker 17 (01:46:22):
I sort of for me the rolls, but I thought
there might be someone commercially out there that that does them.

Speaker 9 (01:46:28):
Well.

Speaker 5 (01:46:29):
We've got a group here called od Orrings. They had
quite large amounts. I'm talking about fifty meters.

Speaker 17 (01:46:35):
Yeah, okay, who's.

Speaker 5 (01:46:37):
So old orrings here? And crashers. That's where I got
it from. O D Older rings, O d O old rings. Yeah,
there you go, old rings.

Speaker 17 (01:46:50):
Okay, I'll try them.

Speaker 5 (01:46:51):
Awesome, thank you, honestly.

Speaker 9 (01:46:52):
O D E I I n G s O D
E R I M g odoring it.

Speaker 17 (01:46:59):
Okay, it's easy, wonderful.

Speaker 1 (01:47:01):
Try that.

Speaker 17 (01:47:01):
Okay, yep, awesome.

Speaker 5 (01:47:03):
Go well bye bye Jay see La. Right, we think
I should I think we should take a break to
be quite. Otherwise Isaiah gets all shitty and all that.
Than we have no no, just joking. Let's have a
break and we'll be back with you after this.

Speaker 1 (01:47:19):
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