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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News talks at.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be your news talks It. One hundred and eighty ten
eighty is the number to call you, Linnen, Good morning
to you, Hello ya, good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
I have two fruit trees that I planted from a stone.
Now they fruited this last season, and the trees have
no curlyly and yet the Golden Queen tree I bought
(00:45):
gets covered in curlyly. What's the reason.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
The reason is that leaf curl is something that and
I suppose to do. Fruit trees that you're talking about
are all peaches or nectarines or something like that. Nectarine Yeah, yeah,
Well they're basically similar sort of group of trees. They
belong to the same families, if you like, and they
are both ready they are both normally attacked by a
(01:15):
fungus called leaf curl. Once a tree has flowered and
it sets and it gets new leaves, the leaf curl
will infect those new leaves. And the way to stop
that from happening is by spraying your fruit trees right now.
(01:36):
You're a bit late, but I would still do it now,
and I would spray it now.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I don't spray my trees.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
In that case you will have leaf curl for the
rest of your life. Next Coller, please.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
You need to spray obviously. Otherwise, yeah, you can't.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Get, you can't get, you can't do anything. I would
use copper, which is an organic material. It's not going
to be toxic.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Planted from a stone, they don't get curly leaf.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Then you probably have a variety that might be resistant
to that, which I don't know if it is, but
there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
If it works, it works.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
If it works, you spray. You spray usually when all
the leaves are falling off in the autumn time, late autumn,
when about half of your leaves have fallen off, you
do a double dose of copper. And that's how you
look after leaf girl for the next spring.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Brilliant. Thanks for you call, and Craig a very good
morning to you.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Good morning, or as my friends and I call me,
bunker Craig. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Christian for is with the
lake that's next to the Becket property is about an
acre and size and at the moment we've gone cleaned
all or of course some weeds oil. It's basically just
a beer boundary on the outside of the lake. What
would be a good plant to sort of plant around
(02:56):
the outsides of whatever, just maybe fall to some of
the sediments from the rest of the paddicts that flow
into it, and also have some also, what fish could
you put in there?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh gosh, there's a yeah. So in other words, Key,
you designed my leg for me.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, I know what you're saying. But the best thing
is to go to an aquatic plants company, if you like,
in your area, and see a what grows where you
are in which part of New Zealand, and what grows well?
And what is the best one to do all that?
And there are all sorts of bits and pieces. You know,
You've got all sorts of horsetails and god knows what.
(03:36):
But if you want native stuff, you've got to go
to a specific aquatic plants company, and I bet you
if you go and look on Google you'll find it. Honestly,
I wouldn't be able to give you more than one
or two plants. That's about it.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
We just want to try and make it look a
little bit like what it would have been back sort
of like a couple of hundred years ago. Sort of
my natural tup thing rather than all the produced stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Like you know what's craig, Craig, there is a thing
called there's a creak called the what do you call
that trust? The Wetland Trust, the New Zealand where I
happen to be the patron of the Wetland Trust. That's
why I struggle to get its name. But never mind
that that trust has got a lot of information in
books and publications online on what are the New Zealand
(04:23):
plants that traditionally live around things like wetlands and your
your legs. And honestly, they also will have the plants
that will give you all the biodiversity in your area
that you will attract because of planting the right things.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Oh that's good, Thank you very much for that.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Have a look at that, Craig, and we'll talk something.
Take care, buddy, and oh one hundred and eighty ten eighty.
Then I'm going to call pat Hello there, Hello.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
One thing I want to add some answer, but I've
got an answer for the egg lady. I'm just using
old eggs.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Old eggs.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Yeah, somebody texted the pen But anyway, that's se last
year we had fakes there lives plump and juicy. This year,
we haven't had one fag. They've got to the stage
of not plumping up. They just were tiny little things
and then before we know, all the leaves have gone
(05:20):
and over river for this year.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Fertilized the tree at all.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
I'm not sure it's my son's tree, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
But don't don't tell me it's one of those sons
that I have, you know, actually sort of anyway, go.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
On, he does fertilize the tree's a lot sure if
he's fertilized this one. It's actually in the sheep panic.
But if you could just give me some idea why
that fruit has not It just did not ripen and
did not plump up at all.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I'll tell you. If it's in the sheep panic, I
bet you it has brilliant leaves.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
You know, it was always looked good.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah, I can tell you
that if you, as a fig tree, live in a
sheep paddic, boy, do you leave grow? But the point
is that if you do not, if you do not
have the k for potash that makes the fruit grow,
you have a slightly out of balanced fertilizer regime. So
what you do is leave everything where as it is,
(06:21):
but get a little bag of sulfate of.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Potash sol fate postache so fate of.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Potash, and you put that. You put as soon as
these things start to come out in springtime, you put
the potash on maybe twice or three times, say once
in September, once in November, and once in you got it,
and once in early early summer. Just a bit handful.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Thank you, most helpful.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Indeed, have fun.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Thank you, must talk to you, pet. Thank you for calling.
We're gonna take a short break. We'll be back in
just a moment of There is eight fifty your new
eight fifty three and l a very good morning.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Yeah, morning guys. How are you going?
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Were good? Thanks?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yeah, rut. Several years ago I bought two yellow hibiscus pushes. Yeah,
and they over the over the years, I've you know,
I've increased the size of the pots because winter time
I put them back in the in the greenhouse for protection. Obviously. Well,
one of them, one of them just seems to struggle.
(07:29):
I nearly lost it earlier this year. One leaf came up.
I never gave up on a plant, even if it
looks dead. I just you know, I try and tend
it to get it back. This one, this one came
back beautifully. But now all of a sudden, I see
the leaves have started to shrivel up and looks like
they're going to drop off and back to this square
(07:49):
one again. So and so I'm just wondering. I've changed
the soil. I've put a bit of fertilizer. It gets
regular water. The other one is fine.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Okay, I suggest if things go wrong with the hibiscus,
I think that moving it and repotting it is probably
not a great idea, to be quite honest, because they
can be a bit touchy. Actually, too much or too
little water will usually do it. And not enough light,
too much light. They can be quite They can be
(08:24):
quite grumpy, you know, when you do things like this.
But it could also be it could also be a virus,
and it could be anything else as well. They can
have all sorts of problems. But generally speaking, hibiscuses, once
they are planted in the ground should be fine. Why
do you decide to put them in a in a
pot and then take them inside? Does it took cold
(08:45):
in the winter.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Yeah, I'm in the same here as you. I mean,
it's a lovely sunny day here in class church at
the moment, as you will aware.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Cheap as creepers, it's sunny, there's forty millimeters of rain
go on exactly.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
But I know, you know, I've always wanted to plant
them out in the gardener. Planted a red one up
and that one does. Okay, Yeah, it just seems that
lately we always have these lake frost. So yeah, that's
why I sort of kept them in the pot and
waited and waited for you know, a good, a good
sunny spell to some Okay, that hasn't happened.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I got it. So in this case, you might have
been unlucky with this yellow one, this this what this
particular one. And in that case, you know, I mean,
there's a couple of things you can do. You can
keep on being the doctor and trying to work with it,
but if it doesn't work, there comes a time that
you'll have to toss it into the green ben a.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Yeah, okay, well I was going to give it another
change in the soil. But maybe it's, like you say, yeah,
too potentic.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Honestly, yes, well no, it's not pedentic. I mean I
do the same thing. I'm trying to save most of
these things too, but you have to remember they can
have viruses, and it depends on what the leaves are doing.
Some are curling, some are getting white in color, and
there's all sorts of different ways of checking that. But
if the one does it, then the other one does it.
I think you've just had an unlucky one with the
(10:06):
the patient.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Like my grumpy Camelia. Yeah, all the best, you all
take care, thank you very much. Hey, you're just seeing
a link to a story about a new garden being
developed at Hamilton Gardens, a medieval garden.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yes, I heard about that, Yes, and I missed it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Never mind, back next week we'll talk about.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
It for more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp.
Listen live to News Talk sai'd be on Sunday mornings
from six, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News talks at.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
Be your news talks It. One hundred and eighty ten
eighty is the number to call you, Linnen, Good morning
to you, Hello ya, good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Hey.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
I have two fruit trees that I planted from a stone.
Now they fruited this last season, and the trees have
no curlyly and yet the Golden Queen tree I bought
(00:45):
gets covered in curlyly. What's the reason.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
The reason is that leaf curl is something that and
I suppose to do. Fruit trees that you're talking about
are all peaches or nectarines or something like that. Nectarine Yeah, yeah,
Well they're basically similar sort of group of trees. They
belong to the same families, if you like, and they
are both ready they are both normally attacked by a
(01:15):
fungus called leaf curl. Once a tree has flowered and
it sets and it gets new leaves, the leaf curl
will infect those new leaves. And the way to stop
that from happening is by spraying your fruit trees right now.
(01:36):
You're a bit late, but I would still do it now,
and I would spray it now.
Speaker 4 (01:42):
I don't spray my trees.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
In that case you will have leaf curl for the
rest of your life. Next Coller, please.
Speaker 2 (01:50):
You need to spray obviously. Otherwise, yeah, you can't.
Speaker 3 (01:53):
Get, you can't get, you can't do anything. I would
use copper, which is an organic material. It's not going
to be toxic.
Speaker 4 (02:01):
Planted from a stone, they don't get curly leaf.
Speaker 5 (02:06):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Then you probably have a variety that might be resistant
to that, which I don't know if it is, but
there you go.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
If it works, it works.
Speaker 3 (02:16):
If it works, you spray. You spray usually when all
the leaves are falling off in the autumn time, late autumn,
when about half of your leaves have fallen off, you
do a double dose of copper. And that's how you
look after leaf girl for the next spring.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Brilliant. Thanks for you call, and Craig a very good
morning to you.
Speaker 6 (02:34):
Good morning, or as my friends and I call me,
bunker Craig. Yeah, yeah, yeah, Christian for is with the
lake that's next to the Becket property is about an
acre and size and at the moment we've gone cleaned
all or of course some weeds oil. It's basically just
a beer boundary on the outside of the lake. What
would be a good plant to sort of plant around
(02:56):
the outsides of whatever, just maybe fall to some of
the sediments from the rest of the paddicts that flow
into it, and also have some also, what fish could
you put in there?
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh gosh, there's a yeah. So in other words, Key,
you designed my leg for me.
Speaker 7 (03:10):
Yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yeah, I know what you're saying. But the best thing
is to go to an aquatic plants company, if you like,
in your area, and see a what grows where you
are in which part of New Zealand, and what grows well?
And what is the best one to do all that?
And there are all sorts of bits and pieces. You know,
You've got all sorts of horsetails and god knows what.
(03:36):
But if you want native stuff, you've got to go
to a specific aquatic plants company, and I bet you
if you go and look on Google you'll find it. Honestly,
I wouldn't be able to give you more than one
or two plants. That's about it.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
We just want to try and make it look a
little bit like what it would have been back sort
of like a couple of hundred years ago. Sort of
my natural tup thing rather than all the produced stuff.
Speaker 3 (03:59):
Like you know what's craig, Craig, there is a thing
called there's a creak called the what do you call
that trust? The Wetland Trust, the New Zealand where I
happen to be the patron of the Wetland Trust. That's
why I struggle to get its name. But never mind
that that trust has got a lot of information in
books and publications online on what are the New Zealand
(04:23):
plants that traditionally live around things like wetlands and your
your legs. And honestly, they also will have the plants
that will give you all the biodiversity in your area
that you will attract because of planting the right things.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Oh that's good, Thank you very much for that.
Speaker 2 (04:41):
Have a look at that, Craig, and we'll talk something.
Take care, buddy, and oh one hundred and eighty ten eighty.
Then I'm going to call pat Hello there, Hello.
Speaker 7 (04:50):
One thing I want to add some answer, but I've
got an answer for the egg lady. I'm just using
old eggs.
Speaker 3 (04:57):
Old eggs.
Speaker 7 (04:58):
Yeah, somebody texted the pen But anyway, that's se last
year we had fakes there lives plump and juicy. This year,
we haven't had one fag. They've got to the stage
of not plumping up. They just were tiny little things
and then before we know, all the leaves have gone
(05:20):
and over river for this year.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Fertilized the tree at all.
Speaker 7 (05:26):
I'm not sure it's my son's tree, but I'm not sure.
Speaker 3 (05:30):
But don't don't tell me it's one of those sons
that I have, you know, actually sort of anyway, go.
Speaker 7 (05:35):
On, he does fertilize the tree's a lot sure if
he's fertilized this one. It's actually in the sheep panic.
But if you could just give me some idea why
that fruit has not It just did not ripen and
did not plump up at all.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
I'll tell you. If it's in the sheep panic, I
bet you it has brilliant leaves.
Speaker 7 (05:57):
You know, it was always looked good.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
Yeah, that's what I mean. Yeah, I can tell you
that if you, as a fig tree, live in a
sheep paddic, boy, do you leave grow? But the point
is that if you do not, if you do not
have the k for potash that makes the fruit grow,
you have a slightly out of balanced fertilizer regime. So
what you do is leave everything where as it is,
(06:21):
but get a little bag of sulfate of.
Speaker 5 (06:23):
Potash sol fate postache so fate of.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Potash, and you put that. You put as soon as
these things start to come out in springtime, you put
the potash on maybe twice or three times, say once
in September, once in November, and once in you got it,
and once in early early summer. Just a bit handful.
Speaker 6 (06:44):
Thank you, most helpful.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
Indeed, have fun.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
Thank you, must talk to you, pet. Thank you for calling.
We're gonna take a short break. We'll be back in
just a moment of There is eight fifty your new
eight fifty three and l a very good morning.
Speaker 5 (07:04):
Yeah, morning guys. How are you going?
Speaker 6 (07:06):
Were good? Thanks?
Speaker 5 (07:08):
Yeah, rut. Several years ago I bought two yellow hibiscus pushes. Yeah,
and they over the over the years, I've you know,
I've increased the size of the pots because winter time
I put them back in the in the greenhouse for protection. Obviously. Well,
one of them, one of them just seems to struggle.
(07:29):
I nearly lost it earlier this year. One leaf came up.
I never gave up on a plant, even if it
looks dead. I just you know, I try and tend
it to get it back. This one, this one came
back beautifully. But now all of a sudden, I see
the leaves have started to shrivel up and looks like
they're going to drop off and back to this square
(07:49):
one again. So and so I'm just wondering. I've changed
the soil. I've put a bit of fertilizer. It gets
regular water. The other one is fine.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Okay, I suggest if things go wrong with the hibiscus,
I think that moving it and repotting it is probably
not a great idea, to be quite honest, because they
can be a bit touchy. Actually, too much or too
little water will usually do it. And not enough light,
too much light. They can be quite They can be
(08:24):
quite grumpy, you know, when you do things like this.
But it could also be it could also be a virus,
and it could be anything else as well. They can
have all sorts of problems. But generally speaking, hibiscuses, once
they are planted in the ground should be fine. Why
do you decide to put them in a in a
pot and then take them inside? Does it took cold
(08:45):
in the winter.
Speaker 5 (08:47):
Yeah, I'm in the same here as you. I mean,
it's a lovely sunny day here in class church at
the moment, as you will aware.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Cheap as creepers, it's sunny, there's forty millimeters of rain
go on exactly.
Speaker 5 (09:00):
But I know, you know, I've always wanted to plant
them out in the gardener. Planted a red one up
and that one does. Okay, Yeah, it just seems that
lately we always have these lake frost. So yeah, that's
why I sort of kept them in the pot and
waited and waited for you know, a good, a good
sunny spell to some Okay, that hasn't happened.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
I got it. So in this case, you might have
been unlucky with this yellow one, this this what this
particular one. And in that case, you know, I mean,
there's a couple of things you can do. You can
keep on being the doctor and trying to work with it,
but if it doesn't work, there comes a time that
you'll have to toss it into the green ben a.
Speaker 5 (09:35):
Yeah, okay, well I was going to give it another
change in the soil. But maybe it's, like you say, yeah,
too potentic.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
Honestly, yes, well no, it's not pedentic. I mean I
do the same thing. I'm trying to save most of
these things too, but you have to remember they can
have viruses, and it depends on what the leaves are doing.
Some are curling, some are getting white in color, and
there's all sorts of different ways of checking that. But
if the one does it, then the other one does it.
I think you've just had an unlucky one with the
(10:06):
the patient.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
Like my grumpy Camelia. Yeah, all the best, you all
take care, thank you very much. Hey, you're just seeing
a link to a story about a new garden being
developed at Hamilton Gardens, a medieval garden.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yes, I heard about that, Yes, and I missed it.
Speaker 2 (10:24):
Never mind, back next week we'll talk about.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
It for more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp.
Listen live to News Talk sai'd be on Sunday mornings
from six, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
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