June 15, 2024 • 23 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
Right, Oh, that must be my turn, and more importantly,
Dred it's your turn.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hello, good a, how are you? You're good, very good
and slightly.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You know, taking a Rosie view of the world after
having spent a couple of days at field Days because
they have such good people.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Evan been there for a while, but I wish I
always enjoy I've always find I have not enough time.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, I know, I know, And it's amazing. What's you
know like And like I said, I've only been going
the last on seven or eight years or something like that.
But you know, you're wandering along in these these drones
that you can use for spraying or you know, the
technology side of it is amazing. The equipment, of course,
is fascinating. And I just find that the people because
(01:15):
they're all doers, right, everyone's if everyone's engaged and I
love being around people like that.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Certainly is talk about drone spraying. You know, when we
do predator free New Zealand and for instance, we noticed that,
well not me, but you know the people that do it,
they knows that the helicopter has missed let's say ten meters. Yeah, sure,
and obviously they send a drone into to fix that.
That sort of stuff is really cool start.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But even some of that technology and the use of
AI to identify predators and pests and traps yep, you
know the I guess the old way of trapping was
that you had lots of people walking miles and miles
through the forest and that sort of thing. And now
some of the new traps will recognize what they've captured,
they'll release all of you know, it's just incredible.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
You have to remember that I was in in Queenstown.
It is last week where we had a kiwi WHOI
so whoey about kiwi? Three days of talks about kiwi
and AI stuff is becoming more and more. It comes
more and more to the sixtally quite interesting. So these
traps now identify who's at the front of the trap
(02:24):
and then they are to say no, it's not it's
not it's not a pest, it's a kiwi or it's
a you know, something we like and they hold back,
they shut up. That's it. But the moment of comes
make my day. That's right.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Bring it on, sunshine.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, hey, And talking about that, this is just a
couple of little little things. First of all, we stayed
in a wonderful little place at Lakeland Christian Camp and
and there was this is the other thing about this.
So you go to a place like that and you're
there with one hundred and something people, and then there's
Rachel Paula who feed you everything that you can have.
It's just unbelievable. I just want to shout out to
(03:01):
these guys. That's wonderful. That is exactly the way it was.
And the other thing that I think a lot lot
of people that are not in the South Island will
forget is that we now have very soon on the
twenty first of June, that famous place, the Wanica Mountain
Film Festival is starting on the twenty first. For about
(03:21):
sixty nine bucks or so, you can actually get yourself
in a subscription for the whole month to watch all
these amazing films. If you see the trailer of the
film Festival, the Film Festival in Wanica. You will watch it.
I'll bet you you will. It is unbelievable. I just
thought i'd tell you fantastic.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Right, let's get amongst the calls, fullboard calls already and lislie.
Let's start with you.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Really, hello, Rode. I want to know if you can
help me. My passion fruit has gone feral.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
It's gone everywhere.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
And the fruit is there as well. So what can
I do? When should I prone and how I should
I prune it?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I would first of all, let those fruit ripen if
that's still happening, and then it would afterwards, Yeah, in
the winter time, you can prune it back. Don't go
over the top. But but but make it suit your sight,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yes, okay, thank you?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
No problem have you? Is it still ripening? You think?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Well, I'm not sure that it's just producing more fruit.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Where you were from where you're ringing, you don't have
any frost. So take it while it goes, keep going.
But you can then take off at the moment if
you want to start early, take off those particular fines
that haven't got fruit on. If you like, you can
prune those.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Back already and probably punch back the ends with that help.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Not necessarily, but you could try it. You might find
it starts to spread out a bit more, you know,
it starts to put new new branches off just beyond
the way you pounded.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
That's six feet high and about about twelve feet wide
and lush all over.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And that's why I want you to prune it for
your own, if you like your own size and height
that you can reach comfortably.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I say, right, okay, I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Okay, all very busy, take care, Leslie and Andrew a
very good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Morning morning, rude. Oh on a dairy farm, and we've
got a lot of native planting that we're interested in doing.
We've already started. But what I was wanting to know
is a couple of things. How easy is it to
grow natus from cuttings?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Quite easy? Some of them quite easy, I'll give you. Oh,
there's so many things, sporums, quite easy, lots of different things.
Whatever you want to do. Are you thinking of hedges
or just basically trees that are going to be becoming
trees or shrubs?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Everything. We've got probably three kilometers just of road frontage
on our boundary, and then a couple of wed areas,
some internal planting as well. It's various stages. But I'm
just wondering, is there any particular site or book or
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anything that you can point me to that might help
me out and understanding this a bit bitter?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Absolutely, I think there is quite I am not sure
I've got it. For instance, a Yates garden guard here,
which I usually take with me to the studio, but
I know that i've at home. I've got quite a
few books on pruning and taking cuttings and all that
sort of stuff, but also how you can take cuttings
by for instance, layering we call it layering, such as
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certain branches underground, but literally digging them into the ground,
put a brick on them, and basically those little twigs
will also form roots. You can then cut it off
after a year if they're all okay, and you use
that as a new plant. And to be quite honest,
if you're talking about three and a half kilometers of frontage,
you might want to save yourself some dish by doing
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it yourself. And for that reason, I suggest get something
like a shade house that is usually very useful for seeds,
but also for cuttings.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Okay, can I jump in as well and just say
the other thing, Andrew is have a look around your community,
right and undoubtedly you'll find some ecological restoration groups that
have sprung up, because you know this better than I do,
for they're everywhere now, which is so awesome. And get
the advice and connect with them. And again I'm thinking
(08:03):
about restoring takodongahreki that work me where I am. You
know this community group that's now developed a nursery and
as propagating maybe as many as forty thousand seedlings a year.
So you know, if you connect with a local group
and then get some advice and some guidance from them,
or perhaps work collaboratively with them, you know, you don't
have to reinvent the wheel, do you.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Sorry, one to look on a thing quickly. So the
pest protectors that you put on to protect plants when
they're young, how long would you leave them on for?
Because we do have pakiko and other birds on farm
that can be but a little frustrating if you take
them off or don't even put the protectors on initially.
(08:49):
So I was just wondering how long you'd leave them on.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Well, the problem is that I haven't. I haven't got
a good because we don't, thank god, haven't got many
pook kickers where I have been and where I'm now,
So I'm not that good at this. But protectors are
always good for the first year or two sometimes because
it also stops weeds over growing your new plants. That's
quite an important thing. But you know what if I have,
if I were really cheeky, I would say, especially if
(09:13):
you're near christ Hes, go to Burnside Primary and ask
the years the kids who are eight, nine, ten years
because they actually build gardens to reintroduce a rather amazing
butterfly back into the city of grass Us and they
now to say cutting, So now to do the seeds.
They know it all.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
That's what I'm saying. You know, connect with your local
ecological groups and you know just so much information and
so much goodwill as well. Great one, Andrew, this, thanks
appreciate it and love the back that you're about to do.
I think that's super exciting. We should take a break
and then we'll talk to Bruce and then we'll be
back in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (09:51):
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Speaker 4 (09:54):
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Speaker 2 (10:02):
It be your news talks, It been Bruce. Good morning
to you, sir.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
This good morning. I've got a problem with strawberries.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
What's the problem?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Wonderful plants, great runners, but no throat. All I produce
is some rubbers after runner after runner.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Which is good because there was a real scarcity of
plants last year.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Remember that's right. And I've now got probably fifty plants.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
That's fine, that's okay, But here we go from here on.
What do you use as fertilized bruise.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Well, the normal strawberry fertilizer. And I've I've got a
few extra plants on the glasshouse, and I've got so
potash on them.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yes you don't, you don't. That's quite often the way
to go. But you have to remember that this time
of the year, of course, there's not much flowering going
on in nothing, no, no, no, But it does pay
to give them from from early spring, really early spring,
let's say August September, a little bit of that potash
to just mind them. Hello, wake up, time to flower. Yeah,
(11:10):
and that is probably the way to go. Have you
done that last year too?
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Well?
Speaker 6 (11:14):
I thought I did last year, but all my producers
run on still. I just thet or keep persevering, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Keep persevering. But that potashe should do it, that's self
made of potash. If you water that into the soil,
you know, of course, the soil's got to be nice
and well drained and full of organic material. As you know,
you do that too, I'm sure, yeah, yeah, I'm sure.
Well then it's the potage that should really wake those
plants up. I would persevere with it.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Okay, Well, thanks for that.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Good luck Bruce Bybee.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Thanks all the best of Bruce, you take care, and
Diane a very good morning.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Good morning, wrote, I've got a bit of a challenge,
and you helped me once before with my gloggy soil,
and it's about three or four years ago. But now
I have a garden full of breastacas and spinach and
silver beet at for different stages and all sorts of
varieties of take my leaks, however, have green soil? What
(12:10):
have I done? Everything tilled apartform around my leaks.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Oh so, so the leaks are still in. What you
mean you haven't You haven't literally this is the new
winter garden, okay. And what's wrong with the leaks.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
Well, the soil around the leaks has gone green.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Soil has gone green? What with wheat or what?
Speaker 8 (12:38):
Am I started it with with a put the normal
sheep poos and and then chicken pools, and then I
put the leaks in after that, so normal trenching and
then put the leaks in.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That is the way I would do it for leaks,
because leaks are very nitrogen hungry things, aren't they? And
but they are not growing very well. Is that what
you're saying?
Speaker 8 (13:01):
No, they're not growing. But the soil, the soil has
has got a green tin so the rist is fine
told and everything that the soil around the lakes has
gone green.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I would I've never seen it like described like that,
or never seen it like the way you described it.
Let's put it that way. I'm not sure what that
green tinge means. And it might be that it wants
some uh phosphates for for the for the roots of
the plants to grow with, you know what I mean.
So you can't just you can't just have an animal
(13:32):
manure I suppose on on plants like that, you sometimes
do have to give them a little bit of general
fertilizer with the normal balance of N, P and K.
But in this case, especially the P you don't need
the K you don't want it the flower, but the
phosphate is the one that might be lacking.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
Okay, I'll give that a try. Thank you very much
for your help.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Thank you, Diane, take care and Jerry, hey there, oh.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Good morning. I'd like to speaks rude about blackberries. Please
go for it.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Tell me what's the problem we've are.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
We have some butckberry vines. We get a lot of
blackberries off them, but we find that the fruit is
not as sweet as the local nature blackberries. What can
I add to the soil to improve that sweetness?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Potash? I know that for a fact it goes for
a lot of different plants like this, especially the berry plants.
If you give them a little bit of selfate of potash,
they not only set more fruit and are more willing
to put more fruit, but the fruits also become sweeter.
The same with the with the citrus as well. By
the way, oh great, yeah, So get yourself a little
(14:40):
big selfate of potash already. Yeah, and you use it
with and you use it as an add on to
the normal general fertilizer like United Fosco Blue or whatever
you use, and.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
You'll find it occasionally throughout the year or night.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
When you remember there, you are just a bit thank you.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
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the Doctrine College. Yeah, what a great what a great band.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
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do you know? I'm a jes pianist.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
I did. That's one reason why I mentioned it, because
I know you're into chack.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
All this theory. Take care and Jason, a very good
morning to you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Oh hello, hello Jason. Where are you, my dear? Thank you?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Listen.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
I went to the walk to Point Ship, which is
an Auckland western springs.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
At the zoo.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
Yeh, and it was raining and I stripped back two
trees a bark and I couldn't see one water.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Oh where did where?
Speaker 10 (15:51):
Did?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Where? Did you look for them?
Speaker 9 (15:54):
Just in the It was raining at the time, so
I was under under a shelter of the trees. I
thought I put some bark and under some scrubs under
the least leaves and stuff. And I didn't see one
metal one. Didn't you find them?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well, if you if you go in that area. I
used to find them hidden in the back of large
pine trees, for instance, pine trees. Okay, well, no, they
don't eat pine trees. But what I mean is, do
you know how pine tree bark has got these wonderful
grooves in it?
Speaker 9 (16:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Not not okay, Well there you go. It's stuff like that.
That's one place where you'd find them. The second place
you could find them is especially when it's dark. Of course,
when they come out is when they come out of
old holes made by poor e moth caterpillars. And you
can find those not only in poor but also in
the wetter in trees like that. And you'll find them
(16:48):
coming out of those holes in Auckland, especially at night.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
What what what do these worms walk?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
What do these worms look like? What do you mean? Oh?
What those holes look like?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
The holes?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, the holes look like somebody has chewed a little
bit on the bark in a diamond shaped pattern. There's
a hole in the middle that goes into the tree
and down in the shape of a seven. And that
is a second hand dwelling for a tree, Weather, and
you'll find them even in the Chinese privet trees. They
seem to love Chinese privet trees. So those holes are
(17:27):
made by caterpillars over about five year time spend, and
when they have emerged as big moths and flown away
and did their mating and all that sort of stuff,
the holes remain and weather go like, this is my
house and they take it over really well, never go.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
You do they bite?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, they do, especially if you pick them up. But
if you let them walk on you. When you let
them walk on you and you touch the antenna so
they know what you smell like and they get used
to you. You can have a weather literally as a pet.
And most of the kids that have worked with me
will know exactly. My girlfriend Dorothy, she's a female weather.
(18:08):
She goes to all the schools and and she walks
over kids. She does everything. But initially if you first
mishandle them, Yep, they can bite and it can hurt.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Well, I see them and I think, well they must
arg you, but they don't.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Well they can they can.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Jason, you have a great day, and Ian a very
good morning to you.
Speaker 10 (18:36):
Good morning to you. I'm looking to take cuttings off
Lily Pilly and grow it, and I'm watching to see
what sort of length I should be cutting them out,
and then what sort of media I should put it into.
Tried putting it into a promised text, but it didn't
(18:58):
seem to take very well.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Okay are you? And the reason you said promise is
because you need you know that you need to take
cuttings in reasonably well drained materials. Right, yeah, okay, what
I do with Look, first of all, why would you
use Lily Pilly? By the way, can I ask? I'm
quite quite curious about that for hedge For a hedge. Okay,
may I warning warning, Lily Pilly will get sillots, They
(19:24):
will get honeyjew on them, they get sooty mold on them.
Lily Pilly are also the plants that can transmit myrtle rust.
So as a hedge, I think Lily Pilly should from
now on Bee Band as an Australian interloper or South America.
IM never is sure where they're from Australian or South
(19:44):
American interloper. That is actually causing usually more questions to
this talkback radio show than any other plants. So if
you if you're a nice hatch, get yourself a native one,
a karakia or a bit of sporum or something like that.
Where where where do you? Where are you ringing from in?
Where do you live? Is that near Auckland?
Speaker 10 (20:10):
No, it's out of.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Oh there, Okay, see if you can go to a
local Oh, the Hamilton Botannic gardens would problems. Probably have
really good examples of what you can plant in your
area and find a really nice native thing that you
can use as a hedge. And to me, quite honest,
the cuttings go. Here's my recipe, half botting mix, half
fine pumas, and probably it's the lack of the botting
(20:34):
miss mix that caused it to dry out too quick.
Your your cuttings, you know what I mean? And that's
why they failed.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
Okay, ex No, you know everything you can.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Do it probably not where Ian thought the conversation was
going to go. But as soon as he said Lily Pili,
I'm going to I was like, Hey, I'm wondering how
long it's going to take for the hammer drops any ges? Yeah,
not a great plant.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I might as well be honest about that.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Absolutely it is yeah, yeah, no, I mean anyone I
know who's put in Lilypoli hedges it just to night pain, yeah,
and contributing to you know, the spread of metal rust,
which is not a great thing. So yeah, you're right,
let's let's get rid of the damn thing. There you go, right,
A very quick final call from you, Roger, how are you? Sir?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Oh coo moya?
Speaker 7 (21:18):
One hundreds lives in our.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Isn't Sorry sorry I could didn't get that. Sorry.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
One unrange a new and fun guarne, and one blows
believe and one loss leaves yet Oh.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
That could be because it's a different genetic genetic genetic
species if you like. And also you're fertilized them both,
have you. Yeah, well then they should be going all right,
don't worry, it's just a matter of time. They might
be a couple of weeks late.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
There you are.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Thank you don't always have to freak out a that's.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Right, certainly not.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Stay calm and yours too. In fact, it's do it
again next week to take care of mat all of this.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Last week, a couple of weeks ago on the show,
a little giveaway from my mates at Roobe, which was
great and Cheryl was the winner of that, and as
it happens, she lived not too far from where I
had to run some errand so I dropped in to
see her last Sunday, which was delightful and a very
worthy recipient of that prize pack from Raobi, so that
(22:24):
was a big pleasure.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
That was lovely.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Actually last week Cheryl having a bit of a chat
with you, and actually turns out today's my nephew next birthday,
so I'm going to embarrass him by saying happy birthday
and lots of love.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Mate.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Right, let's go and do this all again next Sunday.
Have a great week and we will see you, Oh Joseph.
Technical Dreamcoat on at the Arta Center starts on Friday,
Friday Saturday Sunday. Get your tickets.
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Speaker 2 (00:32):
Right, Oh, that must be my turn, and more importantly,
Dred it's your turn.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Hello, good a, how are you? You're good, very good
and slightly.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
You know, taking a Rosie view of the world after
having spent a couple of days at field Days because
they have such good people.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Evan been there for a while, but I wish I
always enjoy I've always find I have not enough time.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Yeah, I know, I know, And it's amazing. What's you
know like And like I said, I've only been going
the last on seven or eight years or something like that.
But you know, you're wandering along in these these drones
that you can use for spraying or you know, the
technology side of it is amazing. The equipment, of course,
is fascinating. And I just find that the people because
(01:15):
they're all doers, right, everyone's if everyone's engaged and I
love being around people like that.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Certainly is talk about drone spraying. You know, when we
do predator free New Zealand and for instance, we noticed that,
well not me, but you know the people that do it,
they knows that the helicopter has missed let's say ten meters. Yeah, sure,
and obviously they send a drone into to fix that.
That sort of stuff is really cool start.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
But even some of that technology and the use of
AI to identify predators and pests and traps yep, you
know the I guess the old way of trapping was
that you had lots of people walking miles and miles
through the forest and that sort of thing. And now
some of the new traps will recognize what they've captured,
they'll release all of you know, it's just incredible.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
You have to remember that I was in in Queenstown.
It is last week where we had a kiwi WHOI
so whoey about kiwi? Three days of talks about kiwi
and AI stuff is becoming more and more. It comes
more and more to the sixtally quite interesting. So these
traps now identify who's at the front of the trap
(02:24):
and then they are to say no, it's not it's
not it's not a pest, it's a kiwi or it's
a you know, something we like and they hold back,
they shut up. That's it. But the moment of comes
make my day. That's right.
Speaker 2 (02:37):
Bring it on, sunshine.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, hey, And talking about that, this is just a
couple of little little things. First of all, we stayed
in a wonderful little place at Lakeland Christian Camp and
and there was this is the other thing about this.
So you go to a place like that and you're
there with one hundred and something people, and then there's
Rachel Paula who feed you everything that you can have.
It's just unbelievable. I just want to shout out to
(03:01):
these guys. That's wonderful. That is exactly the way it was.
And the other thing that I think a lot lot
of people that are not in the South Island will
forget is that we now have very soon on the
twenty first of June, that famous place, the Wanica Mountain
Film Festival is starting on the twenty first. For about
(03:21):
sixty nine bucks or so, you can actually get yourself
in a subscription for the whole month to watch all
these amazing films. If you see the trailer of the
film Festival, the Film Festival in Wanica. You will watch it.
I'll bet you you will. It is unbelievable. I just
thought i'd tell you fantastic.
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Right, let's get amongst the calls, fullboard calls already and lislie.
Let's start with you.
Speaker 4 (03:48):
Really, hello, Rode. I want to know if you can
help me. My passion fruit has gone feral.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
It's gone everywhere.
Speaker 4 (03:59):
And the fruit is there as well. So what can
I do? When should I prone and how I should
I prune it?
Speaker 3 (04:08):
I would first of all, let those fruit ripen if
that's still happening, and then it would afterwards, Yeah, in
the winter time, you can prune it back. Don't go
over the top. But but but make it suit your sight,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yes, okay, thank you?
Speaker 3 (04:25):
No problem have you? Is it still ripening? You think?
Speaker 4 (04:29):
Well, I'm not sure that it's just producing more fruit.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
Where you were from where you're ringing, you don't have
any frost. So take it while it goes, keep going.
But you can then take off at the moment if
you want to start early, take off those particular fines
that haven't got fruit on. If you like, you can
prune those.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Back already and probably punch back the ends with that help.
Speaker 3 (04:58):
Not necessarily, but you could try it. You might find
it starts to spread out a bit more, you know,
it starts to put new new branches off just beyond
the way you pounded.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
That's six feet high and about about twelve feet wide
and lush all over.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
And that's why I want you to prune it for
your own, if you like your own size and height
that you can reach comfortably.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
I say, right, okay, I'll do that.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Okay, all very busy, take care, Leslie and Andrew a
very good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (05:36):
Morning morning, rude. Oh on a dairy farm, and we've
got a lot of native planting that we're interested in doing.
We've already started. But what I was wanting to know
is a couple of things. How easy is it to
grow natus from cuttings?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Quite easy? Some of them quite easy, I'll give you. Oh,
there's so many things, sporums, quite easy, lots of different things.
Whatever you want to do. Are you thinking of hedges
or just basically trees that are going to be becoming
trees or shrubs?
Speaker 5 (06:19):
Everything. We've got probably three kilometers just of road frontage
on our boundary, and then a couple of wed areas,
some internal planting as well. It's various stages. But I'm
just wondering, is there any particular site or book or
(06:40):
anything that you can point me to that might help
me out and understanding this a bit bitter?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Absolutely, I think there is quite I am not sure
I've got it. For instance, a Yates garden guard here,
which I usually take with me to the studio, but
I know that i've at home. I've got quite a
few books on pruning and taking cuttings and all that
sort of stuff, but also how you can take cuttings
by for instance, layering we call it layering, such as
(07:06):
certain branches underground, but literally digging them into the ground,
put a brick on them, and basically those little twigs
will also form roots. You can then cut it off
after a year if they're all okay, and you use
that as a new plant. And to be quite honest,
if you're talking about three and a half kilometers of frontage,
you might want to save yourself some dish by doing
(07:29):
it yourself. And for that reason, I suggest get something
like a shade house that is usually very useful for seeds,
but also for cuttings.
Speaker 2 (07:40):
Okay, can I jump in as well and just say
the other thing, Andrew is have a look around your community,
right and undoubtedly you'll find some ecological restoration groups that
have sprung up, because you know this better than I do,
for they're everywhere now, which is so awesome. And get
the advice and connect with them. And again I'm thinking
(08:03):
about restoring takodongahreki that work me where I am. You
know this community group that's now developed a nursery and
as propagating maybe as many as forty thousand seedlings a year.
So you know, if you connect with a local group
and then get some advice and some guidance from them,
or perhaps work collaboratively with them, you know, you don't
have to reinvent the wheel, do you.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
No?
Speaker 5 (08:26):
Sorry, one to look on a thing quickly. So the
pest protectors that you put on to protect plants when
they're young, how long would you leave them on for?
Because we do have pakiko and other birds on farm
that can be but a little frustrating if you take
them off or don't even put the protectors on initially.
(08:49):
So I was just wondering how long you'd leave them on.
Speaker 3 (08:51):
Well, the problem is that I haven't. I haven't got
a good because we don't, thank god, haven't got many
pook kickers where I have been and where I'm now,
So I'm not that good at this. But protectors are
always good for the first year or two sometimes because
it also stops weeds over growing your new plants. That's
quite an important thing. But you know what if I have,
if I were really cheeky, I would say, especially if
(09:13):
you're near christ Hes, go to Burnside Primary and ask
the years the kids who are eight, nine, ten years
because they actually build gardens to reintroduce a rather amazing
butterfly back into the city of grass Us and they
now to say cutting, So now to do the seeds.
They know it all.
Speaker 2 (09:32):
That's what I'm saying. You know, connect with your local
ecological groups and you know just so much information and
so much goodwill as well. Great one, Andrew, this, thanks
appreciate it and love the back that you're about to do.
I think that's super exciting. We should take a break
and then we'll talk to Bruce and then we'll be
back in just a moment.
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Speaker 2 (10:02):
It be your news talks, It been Bruce. Good morning
to you, sir.
Speaker 6 (10:06):
This good morning. I've got a problem with strawberries.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
What's the problem?
Speaker 6 (10:12):
Wonderful plants, great runners, but no throat. All I produce
is some rubbers after runner after runner.
Speaker 3 (10:22):
Which is good because there was a real scarcity of
plants last year.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Remember that's right. And I've now got probably fifty plants.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
That's fine, that's okay, But here we go from here on.
What do you use as fertilized bruise.
Speaker 6 (10:37):
Well, the normal strawberry fertilizer. And I've I've got a
few extra plants on the glasshouse, and I've got so
potash on them.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yes you don't, you don't. That's quite often the way
to go. But you have to remember that this time
of the year, of course, there's not much flowering going
on in nothing, no, no, no, But it does pay
to give them from from early spring, really early spring,
let's say August September, a little bit of that potash
to just mind them. Hello, wake up, time to flower. Yeah,
(11:10):
and that is probably the way to go. Have you
done that last year too?
Speaker 7 (11:13):
Well?
Speaker 6 (11:14):
I thought I did last year, but all my producers
run on still. I just thet or keep persevering, yeah.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Keep persevering. But that potashe should do it, that's self
made of potash. If you water that into the soil,
you know, of course, the soil's got to be nice
and well drained and full of organic material. As you know,
you do that too, I'm sure, yeah, yeah, I'm sure.
Well then it's the potage that should really wake those
plants up. I would persevere with it.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Okay, Well, thanks for that.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Good luck Bruce Bybee.
Speaker 2 (11:45):
Thanks all the best of Bruce, you take care, and
Diane a very good morning.
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Good morning, wrote, I've got a bit of a challenge,
and you helped me once before with my gloggy soil,
and it's about three or four years ago. But now
I have a garden full of breastacas and spinach and
silver beet at for different stages and all sorts of
varieties of take my leaks, however, have green soil? What
(12:10):
have I done? Everything tilled apartform around my leaks.
Speaker 3 (12:15):
Oh so, so the leaks are still in. What you
mean you haven't You haven't literally this is the new
winter garden, okay. And what's wrong with the leaks.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
Well, the soil around the leaks has gone green.
Speaker 3 (12:29):
Soil has gone green? What with wheat or what?
Speaker 8 (12:38):
Am I started it with with a put the normal
sheep poos and and then chicken pools, and then I
put the leaks in after that, so normal trenching and
then put the leaks in.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
That is the way I would do it for leaks,
because leaks are very nitrogen hungry things, aren't they? And
but they are not growing very well. Is that what
you're saying?
Speaker 8 (13:01):
No, they're not growing. But the soil, the soil has
has got a green tin so the rist is fine
told and everything that the soil around the lakes has
gone green.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I would I've never seen it like described like that,
or never seen it like the way you described it.
Let's put it that way. I'm not sure what that
green tinge means. And it might be that it wants
some uh phosphates for for the for the roots of
the plants to grow with, you know what I mean.
So you can't just you can't just have an animal
(13:32):
manure I suppose on on plants like that, you sometimes
do have to give them a little bit of general
fertilizer with the normal balance of N, P and K.
But in this case, especially the P you don't need
the K you don't want it the flower, but the
phosphate is the one that might be lacking.
Speaker 8 (13:48):
Okay, I'll give that a try. Thank you very much
for your help.
Speaker 2 (13:54):
Thank you, Diane, take care and Jerry, hey there, oh.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Good morning. I'd like to speaks rude about blackberries. Please
go for it.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Tell me what's the problem we've are.
Speaker 7 (14:05):
We have some butckberry vines. We get a lot of
blackberries off them, but we find that the fruit is
not as sweet as the local nature blackberries. What can
I add to the soil to improve that sweetness?
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Potash? I know that for a fact it goes for
a lot of different plants like this, especially the berry plants.
If you give them a little bit of selfate of potash,
they not only set more fruit and are more willing
to put more fruit, but the fruits also become sweeter.
The same with the with the citrus as well. By
the way, oh great, yeah, So get yourself a little
(14:40):
big selfate of potash already. Yeah, and you use it
with and you use it as an add on to
the normal general fertilizer like United Fosco Blue or whatever
you use, and.
Speaker 7 (14:51):
You'll find it occasionally throughout the year or night.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
When you remember there, you are just a bit thank you.
Speaker 7 (15:00):
And on another line, you will know Peter Swarezport with
the Doctrine College. Yeah, what a great what a great band.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, I know the twinkle has been You don't worry,
do you know? I'm a jes pianist.
Speaker 7 (15:16):
I did. That's one reason why I mentioned it, because
I know you're into chack.
Speaker 2 (15:23):
All this theory. Take care and Jason, a very good
morning to you.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
Oh hello, hello Jason. Where are you, my dear? Thank you?
Speaker 7 (15:35):
Listen.
Speaker 9 (15:36):
I went to the walk to Point Ship, which is
an Auckland western springs.
Speaker 4 (15:40):
At the zoo.
Speaker 9 (15:41):
Yeh, and it was raining and I stripped back two
trees a bark and I couldn't see one water.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Oh where did where?
Speaker 10 (15:51):
Did?
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Where? Did you look for them?
Speaker 9 (15:54):
Just in the It was raining at the time, so
I was under under a shelter of the trees. I
thought I put some bark and under some scrubs under
the least leaves and stuff. And I didn't see one
metal one. Didn't you find them?
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Well, if you if you go in that area. I
used to find them hidden in the back of large
pine trees, for instance, pine trees. Okay, well, no, they
don't eat pine trees. But what I mean is, do
you know how pine tree bark has got these wonderful
grooves in it?
Speaker 9 (16:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Not not okay, Well there you go. It's stuff like that.
That's one place where you'd find them. The second place
you could find them is especially when it's dark. Of course,
when they come out is when they come out of
old holes made by poor e moth caterpillars. And you
can find those not only in poor but also in
the wetter in trees like that. And you'll find them
(16:48):
coming out of those holes in Auckland, especially at night.
Speaker 9 (16:54):
What what what do these worms walk?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
What do these worms look like? What do you mean? Oh?
What those holes look like?
Speaker 2 (17:04):
The holes?
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, the holes look like somebody has chewed a little
bit on the bark in a diamond shaped pattern. There's
a hole in the middle that goes into the tree
and down in the shape of a seven. And that
is a second hand dwelling for a tree, Weather, and
you'll find them even in the Chinese privet trees. They
seem to love Chinese privet trees. So those holes are
(17:27):
made by caterpillars over about five year time spend, and
when they have emerged as big moths and flown away
and did their mating and all that sort of stuff,
the holes remain and weather go like, this is my
house and they take it over really well, never go.
Speaker 9 (17:45):
You do they bite?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Yeah, they do, especially if you pick them up. But
if you let them walk on you. When you let
them walk on you and you touch the antenna so
they know what you smell like and they get used
to you. You can have a weather literally as a pet.
And most of the kids that have worked with me
will know exactly. My girlfriend Dorothy, she's a female weather.
(18:08):
She goes to all the schools and and she walks
over kids. She does everything. But initially if you first
mishandle them, Yep, they can bite and it can hurt.
Speaker 9 (18:20):
Well, I see them and I think, well they must
arg you, but they don't.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
Well they can they can.
Speaker 9 (18:28):
Okay, thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Jason, you have a great day, and Ian a very
good morning to you.
Speaker 10 (18:36):
Good morning to you. I'm looking to take cuttings off
Lily Pilly and grow it, and I'm watching to see
what sort of length I should be cutting them out,
and then what sort of media I should put it into.
Tried putting it into a promised text, but it didn't
(18:58):
seem to take very well.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
Okay are you? And the reason you said promise is
because you need you know that you need to take
cuttings in reasonably well drained materials. Right, yeah, okay, what
I do with Look, first of all, why would you
use Lily Pilly? By the way, can I ask? I'm
quite quite curious about that for hedge For a hedge. Okay,
may I warning warning, Lily Pilly will get sillots, They
(19:24):
will get honeyjew on them, they get sooty mold on them.
Lily Pilly are also the plants that can transmit myrtle rust.
So as a hedge, I think Lily Pilly should from
now on Bee Band as an Australian interloper or South America.
IM never is sure where they're from Australian or South
(19:44):
American interloper. That is actually causing usually more questions to
this talkback radio show than any other plants. So if
you if you're a nice hatch, get yourself a native one,
a karakia or a bit of sporum or something like that.
Where where where do you? Where are you ringing from in?
Where do you live? Is that near Auckland?
Speaker 10 (20:10):
No, it's out of.
Speaker 3 (20:13):
Oh there, Okay, see if you can go to a
local Oh, the Hamilton Botannic gardens would problems. Probably have
really good examples of what you can plant in your
area and find a really nice native thing that you
can use as a hedge. And to me, quite honest,
the cuttings go. Here's my recipe, half botting mix, half
fine pumas, and probably it's the lack of the botting
(20:34):
miss mix that caused it to dry out too quick.
Your your cuttings, you know what I mean? And that's
why they failed.
Speaker 9 (20:41):
Okay, ex No, you know everything you can.
Speaker 2 (20:45):
Do it probably not where Ian thought the conversation was
going to go. But as soon as he said Lily Pili,
I'm going to I was like, Hey, I'm wondering how
long it's going to take for the hammer drops any ges? Yeah,
not a great plant.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I might as well be honest about that.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Absolutely it is yeah, yeah, no, I mean anyone I
know who's put in Lilypoli hedges it just to night pain, yeah,
and contributing to you know, the spread of metal rust,
which is not a great thing. So yeah, you're right,
let's let's get rid of the damn thing. There you go, right,
A very quick final call from you, Roger, how are you? Sir?
Speaker 3 (21:17):
Oh coo moya?
Speaker 7 (21:18):
One hundreds lives in our.
Speaker 3 (21:22):
Isn't Sorry sorry I could didn't get that. Sorry.
Speaker 7 (21:25):
One unrange a new and fun guarne, and one blows
believe and one loss leaves yet Oh.
Speaker 3 (21:34):
That could be because it's a different genetic genetic genetic
species if you like. And also you're fertilized them both,
have you. Yeah, well then they should be going all right,
don't worry, it's just a matter of time. They might
be a couple of weeks late.
Speaker 9 (21:49):
There you are.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Thank you don't always have to freak out a that's.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
Right, certainly not.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
Stay calm and yours too. In fact, it's do it
again next week to take care of mat all of this.
Speaker 4 (22:03):
Now.
Speaker 2 (22:04):
Last week, a couple of weeks ago on the show,
a little giveaway from my mates at Roobe, which was
great and Cheryl was the winner of that, and as
it happens, she lived not too far from where I
had to run some errand so I dropped in to
see her last Sunday, which was delightful and a very
worthy recipient of that prize pack from Raobi, so that
(22:24):
was a big pleasure.
Speaker 3 (22:25):
That was lovely.
Speaker 2 (22:26):
Actually last week Cheryl having a bit of a chat
with you, and actually turns out today's my nephew next birthday,
so I'm going to embarrass him by saying happy birthday
and lots of love.
Speaker 4 (22:35):
Mate.
Speaker 2 (22:36):
Right, let's go and do this all again next Sunday.
Have a great week and we will see you, Oh Joseph.
Technical Dreamcoat on at the Arta Center starts on Friday,
Friday Saturday Sunday. Get your tickets.
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