June 8, 2024 • 19 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talk SEDB the.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Rd Climb past A. Very good morning to you, sir, Hello.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Rude, Hello, hello, Hello? Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I can? Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Good? That's good? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jules and I were
just sitting having cup of tea in bed, and she says,
you have to talk to Pete about the building.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
What built your building?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Don't Yeah, don't even go there. I'm so stressed. Never mind.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I think that's the thing. People do, underestimate the stress
of it all.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Oh, it's terrible. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And I keep saying to people, you know, like typically
when the builder first arrives that the client is super excited,
happy to see them, you know, I can't wak for
them to rip into it and that. And then I
always say to people, look, by the end of it,
no matter how lovely your builder is, you will be
sick of the sight of their face at the end
of the renovation.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Right. Maybe, but I don't think so, because I've known
a lot of builders now are really cool people.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I agree, it's just that building stressful, right, Yeah, I know,
by the just want them out of here.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But it's not that, Peter, it's that you know, you
and I I kind of we got a little bit
of Dutch in U say, if.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
You pocket short arms.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I wasn't going to go there. I just say, because
I always get anyway, I always.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Get worry about I don't know what pains I'm wearing
that I can never reach the bottom.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I tell you what, mate, I we did a bit
of building in the old days and now again, and
everything is about ten times the price.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yes, yes, yes, and.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean and it's not just I'm just taking the
mickey out of it, but it's unbelievable what's happening. So
you know, and then now so you've got all these
plans and our darling Daughters is a wonderful architect. But
the concept of a budget in the in the if
you like work of architects quite often and exist.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I'm pleased you've said it, and probably more tactful than
I would say it. But yeah, yes, I undred agree
with you. I know very few architects who, if you
go to them and say I've got five hundred thousand
dollars to spend, draw you something that you can actually
build for five hundred grand and then there's kind of
a look of gosh, I didn't think it was going
(02:28):
to be that expensive. And then you know, and the
problem with that, and in all seriousness, is that for
people who are on a fixed budget that's most of us, right, suddenly,
then you're going back for redesign, and then you're paying
the architect to redesign it again.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Exactly. So that's what we want to talk about with.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You, Okay, all right, yep, more than happy to do that. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Let's talk about gardenings, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Let's do gardening fist. Let's talk tamarillos. They cost the
tamarillos these days outrageous than they used to be. You
were ford that, Hello, Alistair, get the.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Gorse out of your pocket. R expensive if you don't
do it today. Now the major problem here, I've got
that little tamorial bug. Is it called a seward? Pissed
on my tamills. I like a tamillo, but my ones
of the size of pulziggs. I think I'm going to
(03:19):
rip the mountain start again.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
He's no one on bo is there a sillet? Is
that the guava? Is that the guava moth? Or a sialat?
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Oh you know how it looks like it's been ravaged
and all the leaves go brown and start getting ripped,
and I think it's salad.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Could be yeah, Okay, I don't know. I look to
be quite honest, I am the hopelessest tamarilla grower in
New Zealand. I've tried it here in Canterbury and it's
it's it's You might as well we up into the wind,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Two cold down there. I'm in the Mighty Bay.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
We're good up here.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, you should be fine. So if it is salat,
what do you do against it? Well, you make sure
that well.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
I tried name. That helped a little bit. But the
fruit that came out of it is really really small.
Yet a neighbor down the road has the size of
Ustra Diggs. Temorrows are beautiful, So I thought maybe I
said change my variety.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Uh maybe fertilizing regular fertilizering is important. But if you
use name, this is a really important thing. You will
have to spray every three, two or three weeks when
that thing is starting to come about in spring. So
it's not just one spray. And I'll tell you what
it is. I can you will get this immediately any
(04:39):
fruit that has got seal ats or scale in sex
or meali bugs or other sucking bugs. By the way, Allistrair,
if you say sucking bugs on the wireless, you better
keep your teeth in. But that's another story. If you
have creatures like that, they will go and basically get
eggs and then the young ones that do all the damage.
(05:01):
But here comes to thing. Once they have gone past
that point or you've killed them, the next generation and
will be very quick, you know, literally after the other one.
So that is the next spray three weeks later.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It's not residual, right, contact only.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Yeah, okay, I can fix that sort of a question.
She's debating with me about the fertilizer for passion fruit.
I'm suggesting I go to my neighbor and pick up
some fertilizer from the ground from the kettle, which is
not keen on doing. But I'm pretty sure organic fertilizer
is the best for passion foo. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Absolutely? You can use kettle stuff, but the kettle stuff
doesn't have a lot of potash, and you need to
add some potash as well. So what I then do
what I would do then, is so if you use
a general fertilizer with quite a bit of nitrogen, because
passion fruit do need according to the experts, which I'm not.
(06:04):
According to the experts, they need a bit of nitrogen
to grow leaves. But they also need a material that
sets the flowers and the fruits, and that is potash.
And so fate of potash is a small bag you
can get in the garden center and you you literally
put that onto the root zone as well water well
in do that regularly every three or four months, just
(06:26):
a couple of times a year, and you'll find that
will work. No worries I've got. I've been on the
quarry here and I've got lots of sheep shit. Same thing,
I need potash.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Okay, so we've got a choice of kettle or horse
we use.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Unless you are a professional weeder, don't use horsepool. Horse
Pool contains so much weed seeds it's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
My neighbors said that his horses are very clean eaters.
There's no docks or thistles in a horse manure.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Well, then he must have no I can't believe why
he's like he's probably Dutch.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Actually could. Actually, it's interesting. Okay, I'll stick with the
potation and get these plants going. That's good tonight, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Good one, good question all Alistair.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You take care and Jill a very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Good morning, and I'm definitely can help me. I have
a conundrum I have in my dining room.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
I have.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
A bay window with two down lights over it, and
something or some emp seed or some creature is dumping
the waste down through the light settings and onto my
squab and I's just thundering of roof because help me.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Would it be en?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yes, it is because.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
I just use it like a gloom and toilets like.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I was just going to say, it is their toilet.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Oh great, down and look with camera and couldn't see
any And we don't have any ants walking out of
the down lights or anywhere else. But I see little
piles every morning. I've got a vacuum of that of
just very fine light, very fine saw dust.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Correct. Yeah, So this is what ends do they They
might not live in your house, or they might not
they live in your house, but in your roof zone
or in between the whatever and whatever that's building terms
and what they do is they they feed on whatever
they feed on, and it's usually protein or even sugars
or whatever. And they literally have a rubbish tip in
(08:43):
your life in your light thing. Yeah, and that's where
they damp dump it.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Great, there's no risk of in fiction or anything.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
No, no, not not God, No, I think it's I
actually sit under there. I would sit under there with
a microscope and find out what it is that they're
eating and what. And they also have fights with neighboring
neighboring groups of ants and then the corpses of what
they have of the neighboring ends are also dumped on
(09:11):
the rubbish dump. You can see all that.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Well, and it looks it looks like sworder that mostly
like you know, well, it looks like very very very
fine sword. So cancer you need deed int or anythink
like there's no dark that's all anyway, Thank you for that.
I thought it master being. So maybe are need to
lay some in baked around the house.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yep, that's a good idea, or or up there in
the ceiling space or if you can get if you
take the dif for instance, it is the downlight. Is
that one of those big bulbs things that you can
take out because then you can.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Person can an electro from so you can pull the.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Two things you can do. You can use some some
sprays that you can get from safe Works, which is
a good residual material, especially if it's in the ceiling
where there's no sunlight. That will last you for at
least five or six months. Nobody comes near where its
prey was. No and nobody, Oh, put a bait in there.
(10:12):
You are, Thank you, Joel, Safe work with the next
there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Take care all of this. We'll have a break then
we'll come back with a couple of texts. We've got
a spear line for you as well. So eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty is the number to.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Core garding with steel sharp.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Just a quick text for it, because I find this
one fascinating. We have a few sheep that we shear.
The wool is worth nothing. Would it be okay as
a fertilizer mault around citrus?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I saw that absolutely I would do. Wow, and especially
as it will break down not very fast by the way, right,
Keratin or wool is a really slow material that that
breaks down very slowly. But yes, it covers and it
covers your soil nicely for the winter too. It's good fun.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, no, excellent, because isn't there also an organization that's
taking like old carpet, mulching it and turning it into
matting that you can use as a weed suppressant because
it's yeah, it's natural. That's fantastic by all accounts. Yeah,
very cool idea, Selena, Very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Oh, good morning. I was just listening to that lady
about ants in her lights, which when I lived overseas,
they used this clove oil and they put it in
the bottom of a spray bottle. It's actually an Indian Pakistan,
and they put in a bottom of a spray bottle
(11:45):
and topped it up with water and they sprayed it
all around. And actually when I came back home, I
shipped into a house that had a major ant problem
and a wing chimpound some clove oil and I sprayed
it all around. I haven't had any ant problem since.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh that's a nice thing to say, thank you. I'd
forgotten about clove oil. I remembered it from Sri Lanka
and there and in India. I lived in Sri Lanka
for a while, so it was the same sort of
thing and and but but yeah, no, I forgot about that,
but there wasn't. I could tell you another story from
a Chinese guy that says, I've got a piece of
chalk here, and he showed it to me, and he says,
(12:22):
when you've got to I'll give it to you. Here
it is, And when you find an ant nest, you
just make a circle of white chalk around the ns
nests and all the ants die. And I thought, here
we go, let's say look. So I did, and all
the ants died. And when I got a tantalized, it
was DDT.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
I'm sure that the new zealing out. Yeah, but cloth
oil of weeks and I spread like you has my
smell like clove oil. And it might not be good
around the electrics, but you know you said, debit around
the electrics around your light. But yeah, and it actually
works really well. So I have a container at home
and I haven't used it for years, and that clove
(13:02):
oil hasn't gone off, so it does actually work really well.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Appreciate the comments, Selena, thank you very much. Marie, Hello there.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
Hello, just talk to route from it. We've got two
big theory rings on air lawn looks like an alien
ship's landed. I wonder what we can do to get
rid of them.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
They look quite unsightly, do they, now? Yes, Oh, okay,
that's all right. When you fly into christ Church Airport,
which you probably do every now and then, you'll you'll
find that if you look on the side of the
runway there are millions of these rings. And basically what
this is is a fungus that literally decomposes all sorts
(13:41):
of organic material, and the fungal community spreads slowly outwards.
So if you would take photos of every ring from
your airplane, for instance, you'll see that next year it's
a bit larger and a bit larger, and the same
is happening to your lawn as well. You'll find that
this is actually not bad for your lawn. It is
all organic material that is being decomposted or composted basically
(14:04):
for your for your your grass.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
Okay, I don't really like the right in the middle
of the lawn now somewhere else, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Well, it's probably there because it's needed there. There's probably
stuff in the soil that needs to be decomposed and
that's what it's doing, so you know, but I mean, honestly,
for me as a nature I would if I see
the totstools, I would take photos, put it on my
naturalist and put another record up. It's absolutely fabulous to
do these things. But if you don't like the look
(14:36):
of it, sorry, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 10 (14:39):
Okay, right right there you go.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It was quite the answer she was after, Jeff, let's
talk birds.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Jeff, Hello, he's not going to talk birds. He's going
to talk about Fortinia. Red Robin, I reckon, go on.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
I got two lines on them up in the back boundary,
all going really well, and I've got two that I
don't know whether they're dead or alive. They're showing, they're showing,
you know, red leaves sparsely, and I've tried pretty much everything.
And the last what I'm on now is I've bought
(15:23):
some of that power feed concentrate the liquid, and I'm
dosing them with that, you know. And it's early days.
I mean, I'm doing it once a week and it's
only the second week. But I thought, well, I'll give
you a call and see if you can throw anything
on that situation.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Red robins have got a couple of different I've heard
this before. Sometimes they get a root rock disease that
usually spreads down hill from where the plants are that
are infected. Is that a news bounced next to each other.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
No, they're about It's quite interesting. They're about three or
four apart. They of that they are going downhill, but
but everything else around them, you know, south and North
is doing really well, and they're just these two right
on the boundary. With that, I don't want a bit
(16:18):
of privacy.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, I know what you're saying. Okay, yeah, no, I'm
sorry that if they if they were together, I would say,
oh my god, get a sample done on the roots
that it's not root rot or phytoftra or something like that,
because that might that might cause troubles. The other thing is,
if they're still alive, keep going with not with fertilizer now,
(16:44):
but in springtime again, make sure that there is no
extra water on those two for instance, that you know
that they're not over watered as an example, and make
sure that they do get their fertilizer in springtime and
maybe in early summer, December.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Or let's keep on going.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
And it's hard to you know without seeing them. To
be quite honest, this is what it's always about. Jeff.
Without seeing them, it's really hard to diagnose this.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
That's right, that's right, much appreciated, Thank you very much.
We'll take short break back with Jack in just a moment.
We'll need to be quick. Jack greasings to you.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yes, good morning, Hey Jack rude is he's.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Get on with it.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Egger panthers. How do we kill them?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Oh my gosh, all right. The best thing to do
is to cut as much of it off from in
terms of the flowers and the stalks and the seeds
and all that sort of stuff. And on the crown
of the egga panthers, I would put some a metrol now,
because because it's getting winter, it takes the a metrol
(17:58):
back into the root zone and you'll find that that
plant will become quite manky with that.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
I chopped them back down with my scrub cutter, put
a blade on the bottom of it and cut them
down the ground level. In three months they're going back again.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah. See this is why.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Yeah, go on, tried weed killers, but none of them
kill it. Because you've got those shiny leaves, haven't they.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yes, And you put a sticker on with that particular
weed killer sticker, it is affectant that sticks it to
those shiny leaves. That's exectly what that's about.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Got that, yes, because try.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
The way they know and I mean if you're taking
to it with a blade and your weed eater, that'll
that'll take it off at ground level and then just
treat them stump and.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, well that's that. But it's a lot of a
lot of stuff to do. Why not use the leaves
to torpedo it back to the roots. That's the whole
idea for go on. That particular thing.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Works works, it works.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
He is a very quick quick thing about ants in
light switches. Yes, sometimes in the old days, I used
to have light switches that when you turned on this
it goes and then it goes on and do that.
And the cool thing is that as quite often walk
between the two plates that are connected. When you switch
it on, it smells of and it's amazing think about.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
All right, well we'll talk during the week. Ye all right,
let's do take care and thank you very much folks
for your company. If you happen to be field days bound,
come and say hello. I'll be down there Thursday Friday,
So Bailey's Apex and Ryobi I'll be hanging out there,
Catch you then and see you back here on Sunday Morning.
(19:47):
Take Care.
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Rd Climb past A. Very good morning to you, sir, Hello.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Rude, Hello, hello, Hello? Can you hear me?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I can? Can you hear me?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Good? That's good? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jules and I were
just sitting having cup of tea in bed, and she says,
you have to talk to Pete about the building.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
What built your building?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Don't Yeah, don't even go there. I'm so stressed. Never mind.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
I think that's the thing. People do, underestimate the stress
of it all.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Oh, it's terrible. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
And I keep saying to people, you know, like typically
when the builder first arrives that the client is super excited,
happy to see them, you know, I can't wak for
them to rip into it and that. And then I
always say to people, look, by the end of it,
no matter how lovely your builder is, you will be
sick of the sight of their face at the end
of the renovation.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Right. Maybe, but I don't think so, because I've known
a lot of builders now are really cool people.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
I agree, it's just that building stressful, right, Yeah, I know,
by the just want them out of here.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
But it's not that, Peter, it's that you know, you
and I I kind of we got a little bit
of Dutch in U say, if.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
You pocket short arms.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
I wasn't going to go there. I just say, because
I always get anyway, I always.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Get worry about I don't know what pains I'm wearing
that I can never reach the bottom.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
I tell you what, mate, I we did a bit
of building in the old days and now again, and
everything is about ten times the price.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
Yes, yes, yes, and.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
I mean and it's not just I'm just taking the
mickey out of it, but it's unbelievable what's happening. So
you know, and then now so you've got all these
plans and our darling Daughters is a wonderful architect. But
the concept of a budget in the in the if
you like work of architects quite often and exist.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
I'm pleased you've said it, and probably more tactful than
I would say it. But yeah, yes, I undred agree
with you. I know very few architects who, if you
go to them and say I've got five hundred thousand
dollars to spend, draw you something that you can actually
build for five hundred grand and then there's kind of
a look of gosh, I didn't think it was going
(02:28):
to be that expensive. And then you know, and the
problem with that, and in all seriousness, is that for
people who are on a fixed budget that's most of us, right, suddenly,
then you're going back for redesign, and then you're paying
the architect to redesign it again.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
Exactly. So that's what we want to talk about with.
Speaker 2 (02:42):
You, Okay, all right, yep, more than happy to do that. Absolutely.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
Let's talk about gardenings, all right.
Speaker 2 (02:48):
Let's do gardening fist. Let's talk tamarillos. They cost the
tamarillos these days outrageous than they used to be. You
were ford that, Hello, Alistair, get the.
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Gorse out of your pocket. R expensive if you don't
do it today. Now the major problem here, I've got
that little tamorial bug. Is it called a seward? Pissed
on my tamills. I like a tamillo, but my ones
of the size of pulziggs. I think I'm going to
(03:19):
rip the mountain start again.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
He's no one on bo is there a sillet? Is
that the guava? Is that the guava moth? Or a sialat?
What are you talking about?
Speaker 5 (03:31):
Oh you know how it looks like it's been ravaged
and all the leaves go brown and start getting ripped,
and I think it's salad.
Speaker 3 (03:37):
Could be yeah, Okay, I don't know. I look to
be quite honest, I am the hopelessest tamarilla grower in
New Zealand. I've tried it here in Canterbury and it's
it's it's You might as well we up into the wind,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Two cold down there. I'm in the Mighty Bay.
Speaker 6 (03:55):
We're good up here.
Speaker 3 (03:56):
Yeah, you should be fine. So if it is salat,
what do you do against it? Well, you make sure
that well.
Speaker 5 (04:02):
I tried name. That helped a little bit. But the
fruit that came out of it is really really small.
Yet a neighbor down the road has the size of
Ustra Diggs. Temorrows are beautiful, So I thought maybe I
said change my variety.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Uh maybe fertilizing regular fertilizering is important. But if you
use name, this is a really important thing. You will
have to spray every three, two or three weeks when
that thing is starting to come about in spring. So
it's not just one spray. And I'll tell you what
it is. I can you will get this immediately any
(04:39):
fruit that has got seal ats or scale in sex
or meali bugs or other sucking bugs. By the way, Allistrair,
if you say sucking bugs on the wireless, you better
keep your teeth in. But that's another story. If you
have creatures like that, they will go and basically get
eggs and then the young ones that do all the damage.
(05:01):
But here comes to thing. Once they have gone past
that point or you've killed them, the next generation and
will be very quick, you know, literally after the other one.
So that is the next spray three weeks later.
Speaker 5 (05:14):
Okay, that's good.
Speaker 3 (05:16):
It's not residual, right, contact only.
Speaker 5 (05:20):
Yeah, okay, I can fix that sort of a question.
She's debating with me about the fertilizer for passion fruit.
I'm suggesting I go to my neighbor and pick up
some fertilizer from the ground from the kettle, which is
not keen on doing. But I'm pretty sure organic fertilizer
is the best for passion foo. Is that right?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Absolutely? You can use kettle stuff, but the kettle stuff
doesn't have a lot of potash, and you need to
add some potash as well. So what I then do
what I would do then, is so if you use
a general fertilizer with quite a bit of nitrogen, because
passion fruit do need according to the experts, which I'm not.
(06:04):
According to the experts, they need a bit of nitrogen
to grow leaves. But they also need a material that
sets the flowers and the fruits, and that is potash.
And so fate of potash is a small bag you
can get in the garden center and you you literally
put that onto the root zone as well water well
in do that regularly every three or four months, just
(06:26):
a couple of times a year, and you'll find that
will work. No worries I've got. I've been on the
quarry here and I've got lots of sheep shit. Same thing,
I need potash.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Okay, so we've got a choice of kettle or horse
we use.
Speaker 3 (06:42):
Unless you are a professional weeder, don't use horsepool. Horse
Pool contains so much weed seeds it's unbelievable.
Speaker 5 (06:53):
My neighbors said that his horses are very clean eaters.
There's no docks or thistles in a horse manure.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Well, then he must have no I can't believe why
he's like he's probably Dutch.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
Actually could. Actually, it's interesting. Okay, I'll stick with the
potation and get these plants going. That's good tonight, Thank
you very much.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Good one, good question all Alistair.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
You take care and Jill a very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (07:20):
Good morning, and I'm definitely can help me. I have
a conundrum I have in my dining room.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
I have.
Speaker 7 (07:30):
A bay window with two down lights over it, and
something or some emp seed or some creature is dumping
the waste down through the light settings and onto my
squab and I's just thundering of roof because help me.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
Would it be en?
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Yes, it is because.
Speaker 7 (07:50):
I just use it like a gloom and toilets like.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
I was just going to say, it is their toilet.
Speaker 7 (07:58):
Oh great, down and look with camera and couldn't see
any And we don't have any ants walking out of
the down lights or anywhere else. But I see little
piles every morning. I've got a vacuum of that of
just very fine light, very fine saw dust.
Speaker 3 (08:18):
Correct. Yeah, So this is what ends do they They
might not live in your house, or they might not
they live in your house, but in your roof zone
or in between the whatever and whatever that's building terms
and what they do is they they feed on whatever
they feed on, and it's usually protein or even sugars
or whatever. And they literally have a rubbish tip in
(08:43):
your life in your light thing. Yeah, and that's where
they damp dump it.
Speaker 7 (08:48):
Great, there's no risk of in fiction or anything.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
No, no, not not God, No, I think it's I
actually sit under there. I would sit under there with
a microscope and find out what it is that they're
eating and what. And they also have fights with neighboring
neighboring groups of ants and then the corpses of what
they have of the neighboring ends are also dumped on
(09:11):
the rubbish dump. You can see all that.
Speaker 7 (09:15):
Well, and it looks it looks like sworder that mostly
like you know, well, it looks like very very very
fine sword. So cancer you need deed int or anythink
like there's no dark that's all anyway, Thank you for that.
I thought it master being. So maybe are need to
lay some in baked around the house.
Speaker 3 (09:35):
Yep, that's a good idea, or or up there in
the ceiling space or if you can get if you
take the dif for instance, it is the downlight. Is
that one of those big bulbs things that you can
take out because then you can.
Speaker 7 (09:47):
Person can an electro from so you can pull the.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Two things you can do. You can use some some
sprays that you can get from safe Works, which is
a good residual material, especially if it's in the ceiling
where there's no sunlight. That will last you for at
least five or six months. Nobody comes near where its
prey was. No and nobody, Oh, put a bait in there.
(10:12):
You are, Thank you, Joel, Safe work with the next
there you go.
Speaker 2 (10:18):
Take care all of this. We'll have a break then
we'll come back with a couple of texts. We've got
a spear line for you as well. So eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty is the number to.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Core garding with steel sharp.
Speaker 2 (10:37):
Just a quick text for it, because I find this
one fascinating. We have a few sheep that we shear.
The wool is worth nothing. Would it be okay as
a fertilizer mault around citrus?
Speaker 3 (10:47):
I saw that absolutely I would do. Wow, and especially
as it will break down not very fast by the way, right,
Keratin or wool is a really slow material that that
breaks down very slowly. But yes, it covers and it
covers your soil nicely for the winter too. It's good fun.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
Yeah, no, excellent, because isn't there also an organization that's
taking like old carpet, mulching it and turning it into
matting that you can use as a weed suppressant because
it's yeah, it's natural. That's fantastic by all accounts. Yeah,
very cool idea, Selena, Very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (11:24):
Oh, good morning. I was just listening to that lady
about ants in her lights, which when I lived overseas,
they used this clove oil and they put it in
the bottom of a spray bottle. It's actually an Indian Pakistan,
and they put in a bottom of a spray bottle
(11:45):
and topped it up with water and they sprayed it
all around. And actually when I came back home, I
shipped into a house that had a major ant problem
and a wing chimpound some clove oil and I sprayed
it all around. I haven't had any ant problem since.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Oh that's a nice thing to say, thank you. I'd
forgotten about clove oil. I remembered it from Sri Lanka
and there and in India. I lived in Sri Lanka
for a while, so it was the same sort of
thing and and but but yeah, no, I forgot about that,
but there wasn't. I could tell you another story from
a Chinese guy that says, I've got a piece of
chalk here, and he showed it to me, and he says,
(12:22):
when you've got to I'll give it to you. Here
it is, And when you find an ant nest, you
just make a circle of white chalk around the ns
nests and all the ants die. And I thought, here
we go, let's say look. So I did, and all
the ants died. And when I got a tantalized, it
was DDT.
Speaker 9 (12:41):
I'm sure that the new zealing out. Yeah, but cloth
oil of weeks and I spread like you has my
smell like clove oil. And it might not be good
around the electrics, but you know you said, debit around
the electrics around your light. But yeah, and it actually
works really well. So I have a container at home
and I haven't used it for years, and that clove
(13:02):
oil hasn't gone off, so it does actually work really well.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
Appreciate the comments, Selena, thank you very much. Marie, Hello there.
Speaker 10 (13:11):
Hello, just talk to route from it. We've got two
big theory rings on air lawn looks like an alien
ship's landed. I wonder what we can do to get
rid of them.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
They look quite unsightly, do they, now? Yes, Oh, okay,
that's all right. When you fly into christ Church Airport,
which you probably do every now and then, you'll you'll
find that if you look on the side of the
runway there are millions of these rings. And basically what
this is is a fungus that literally decomposes all sorts
(13:41):
of organic material, and the fungal community spreads slowly outwards.
So if you would take photos of every ring from
your airplane, for instance, you'll see that next year it's
a bit larger and a bit larger, and the same
is happening to your lawn as well. You'll find that
this is actually not bad for your lawn. It is
all organic material that is being decomposted or composted basically
(14:04):
for your for your your grass.
Speaker 10 (14:08):
Okay, I don't really like the right in the middle
of the lawn now somewhere else, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Well, it's probably there because it's needed there. There's probably
stuff in the soil that needs to be decomposed and
that's what it's doing, so you know, but I mean, honestly,
for me as a nature I would if I see
the totstools, I would take photos, put it on my
naturalist and put another record up. It's absolutely fabulous to
do these things. But if you don't like the look
(14:36):
of it, sorry, I don't know what to do.
Speaker 10 (14:39):
Okay, right right there you go.
Speaker 2 (14:43):
It was quite the answer she was after, Jeff, let's
talk birds.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Jeff, Hello, he's not going to talk birds. He's going
to talk about Fortinia. Red Robin, I reckon, go on.
Speaker 6 (15:02):
I got two lines on them up in the back boundary,
all going really well, and I've got two that I
don't know whether they're dead or alive. They're showing, they're showing,
you know, red leaves sparsely, and I've tried pretty much everything.
And the last what I'm on now is I've bought
(15:23):
some of that power feed concentrate the liquid, and I'm
dosing them with that, you know. And it's early days.
I mean, I'm doing it once a week and it's
only the second week. But I thought, well, I'll give
you a call and see if you can throw anything
on that situation.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
Red robins have got a couple of different I've heard
this before. Sometimes they get a root rock disease that
usually spreads down hill from where the plants are that
are infected. Is that a news bounced next to each other.
Speaker 6 (15:58):
No, they're about It's quite interesting. They're about three or
four apart. They of that they are going downhill, but
but everything else around them, you know, south and North
is doing really well, and they're just these two right
on the boundary. With that, I don't want a bit
(16:18):
of privacy.
Speaker 3 (16:20):
Yeah, I know what you're saying. Okay, yeah, no, I'm
sorry that if they if they were together, I would say,
oh my god, get a sample done on the roots
that it's not root rot or phytoftra or something like that,
because that might that might cause troubles. The other thing is,
if they're still alive, keep going with not with fertilizer now,
(16:44):
but in springtime again, make sure that there is no
extra water on those two for instance, that you know
that they're not over watered as an example, and make
sure that they do get their fertilizer in springtime and
maybe in early summer, December.
Speaker 6 (17:02):
Or let's keep on going.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
And it's hard to you know without seeing them. To
be quite honest, this is what it's always about. Jeff.
Without seeing them, it's really hard to diagnose this.
Speaker 2 (17:14):
That's right, that's right, much appreciated, Thank you very much.
We'll take short break back with Jack in just a moment.
We'll need to be quick. Jack greasings to you.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Yes, good morning, Hey Jack rude is he's.
Speaker 3 (17:33):
Get on with it.
Speaker 4 (17:34):
Egger panthers. How do we kill them?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Oh my gosh, all right. The best thing to do
is to cut as much of it off from in
terms of the flowers and the stalks and the seeds
and all that sort of stuff. And on the crown
of the egga panthers, I would put some a metrol now,
because because it's getting winter, it takes the a metrol
(17:58):
back into the root zone and you'll find that that
plant will become quite manky with that.
Speaker 6 (18:06):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
I chopped them back down with my scrub cutter, put
a blade on the bottom of it and cut them
down the ground level. In three months they're going back again.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Yeah. See this is why.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Yeah, go on, tried weed killers, but none of them
kill it. Because you've got those shiny leaves, haven't they.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Yes, And you put a sticker on with that particular
weed killer sticker, it is affectant that sticks it to
those shiny leaves. That's exectly what that's about.
Speaker 4 (18:36):
Got that, yes, because try.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
The way they know and I mean if you're taking
to it with a blade and your weed eater, that'll
that'll take it off at ground level and then just
treat them stump and.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah, well that's that. But it's a lot of a
lot of stuff to do. Why not use the leaves
to torpedo it back to the roots. That's the whole
idea for go on. That particular thing.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Works works, it works.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
He is a very quick quick thing about ants in
light switches. Yes, sometimes in the old days, I used
to have light switches that when you turned on this
it goes and then it goes on and do that.
And the cool thing is that as quite often walk
between the two plates that are connected. When you switch
it on, it smells of and it's amazing think about.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
All right, well we'll talk during the week. Ye all right,
let's do take care and thank you very much folks
for your company. If you happen to be field days bound,
come and say hello. I'll be down there Thursday Friday,
So Bailey's Apex and Ryobi I'll be hanging out there,
Catch you then and see you back here on Sunday Morning.
(19:47):
Take Care.
Speaker 1 (19:53):
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