July 27, 2024 • 21 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
Your new b let's jump into the garden A litter
it climbed past. A good morning, sir, A very good
morning to you.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
P Indeed, you've you've started the ball rolling, haven't you sorry?
Going back to a Northland system of having no insulation?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No, no, it's not all what I know.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I'm just ever you want.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh, thank goodness.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I lived in a house in kai Koe which was
made from cowdy. It was beautiful, but it was all
single glades and had no insulation at all. And it
was actually okay because we slept in that house during
the day because we were doing keywwork at night.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That's right, here's a great house, but you can't stay
there overnight. It's only good for the day. It worked well, absolutely. Hey,
we've got a bunch of calls, let's rip into it. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, if you'd like to
talk to root ohen A very good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Good morning. I was knowing that you're a silver culturist.
I thought you're just the man for this one.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Go on.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I've got well, we've got a couple actually, but a
photakowa growing on our property, which is about sixty seven
meters tall, and it's just above our where our driveway
is very very very close to our driver, within say
five meters of our driveway, and I'm wondering, I've forgot
(01:48):
to wander to tell you what my plan was, to
see if it stands up to for pruning it, and
ask you a question relating to its root spread, and
that was I was concerned that the roots spread would
eventually start breaking up the concrete because I know what
they're like down down further set up on a bank.
And I wondered, if I prune it, if that will
(02:11):
help to limit the questions of a prune it. Does
that help to limit the root spread?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Well, I don't know if it limits the roots spread,
but if you do it on the side where the
where the concrete is, you might find that it will
make new roots, but they will be smaller, so you
might not have as much damage, you know what I mean.
And it will go if you say it's going. The
other side is going up a bank. You said, I
think that might be. That might be okay, it could
(02:39):
go if you like more there. How old did you
say the tree was?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I don't know. We've been here seventeen years and it
was well in place. Then wow.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, and yes they do. They are known for doing
quite a bit of damage to structures.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah, because I I's sort of on a contra basis.
Someone did some work for me in my absence for
of something else, and they're supposed to have provene this
And when I came back, you couldn't. It was like
I trimmed half a millimeter off and whiskers and so
I was a bit disappointed, but I and he was
sort of worried that he might kill a thing. But
(03:18):
my plan is because I haven't got a whole lot
of fancy gear, just a ladder and a chain for
sort of thing. And I got a pulse or I
was going to cut off a part of it, say
maybe a quarter of the growth. I was going to
lot that off for about half or two thirds height
to give the rest of it a chance to sort
of like still taking goodness. And then the next year
I was going to then lop off the other, say
(03:38):
a quarter of the tree to go half or three
quarters of that.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
That's the way I would do it. I would do
it little bits at the time.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
But I'm remarkably restrained right now.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, I know you are, because it's a really hard
thing to do, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So Oh, I've got a poodicoa sitting out on the
front of our place as well, which had got quite large,
and so I wanted to reduce the canopy. So what
I did is I got some trained arborus to come in.
Two guys spent almost a day climbing the tree, thinning
(04:15):
it out, removing quite a lot of growth from the
inside allowed and it kind of looked a bit funny
because they left growth at the end of some of
the limbs, right, because it was always going to be
a two stage process. So now some not quite two
years later, some of that new growth is established lower
down in the tree, and I'm going to get them back,
(04:36):
probably not till next year. So you've got to be
a bit patient to remove the canopy now because there
is enough new growth to provide you know, it'll keep
the tree alive, right, So the worry about just going
through and lopping off the outside is that you might
inadvertently damage the tree. And that's why I got to
(04:57):
do mine.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
So it looks a bit like you're having a shave
and the fire alarm went off.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It looks a bit funny because I've got all these
long limbs with these tiny little tufts of on the
end right, But they're doing the work while the rest
of the tree gets a chance to re establish itself
with new growth lower down. Because what I wanted is
a more compact tree. I don't want to remove it,
but I need it to be a bit smaller. But
I'm taking a sort of a strategic approach to.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It, and you always do I totally agree.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, absolutely, good luck with that. And interestingly enough, the
guys that I used were in the news recently where
they rescued a dog from a tree. It was on
the newstg ZB website. So the dog apparently was chasing
a possum. The possum shot up the tree. The dog,
not willing to let go, also shot up the tree
and then found itself sitting on a limb seven or
(05:46):
eight meters in their thinking crikey, that might not have
been a good idea. So I think five brigate had
to go. And in the end they got shorn and
he climbed the tree, roped himself in and climbed it
and brought the dog back down. The dog then took
off looking for the possum again.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh that's funny, it's sound cool.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It's on the ZBI website. It's great, right yo, Eppie,
good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Oh, good morning route. I've got a very old orange
tree that has developed a sort of a black pary
thing on the leaves, and the oranges are starting to
fall off. Is there anything that I can do?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah? I think so. Tell me first of all, is
this it a big tree?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Yes? It is?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Okay, and okay, and where where you're in? Palmisan North?
That's right, aren't you get right? Okay? Right here we go.
This is sooty mold. I think that is caused. That's
actually a fungus that grows on the excrement of sap
sucking bugs. So if you have, for instance, scale insects
(06:53):
or meati bugs, or in this case it might have
even been this and one of those what do you
call those white things a whitefly that lives on citrus,
They pup honeyed you and onto the leaves, and on
the leaves grows that black suti mold. So it's not
a souty mold. That is your problem. That is basically
(07:14):
the end result. But you need to control these insects
that are putting that that sweet stuff onto the leaves below,
and the best way to do that is by spraying
something that stops them from developing. But you'll need to
go all the way to the top because you need
(07:34):
to do them as much as you can. Best thing
to use, I think is nim oil because that means
you're not polluting your fruit and you can still eat
your fruit. It's quite safe to use, but you'll have
to do that on the underside of the leaves if
you can at least three times, at least three weeks apart,
for say a month apart, so three times a month
(07:57):
apite gnem oil and as much cover as you can get,
and that will kill those particular stepsucking bugs. That means
reduction of that honeyedew going down on the leaves below,
and that means there's nothing for the black suiting mold
to sit on.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Oh, I see good. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Indeed you're more than welcome.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Bye.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Success with that, Bye bye your news talk c B.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Thank you very much. Hippy hey quick text as well?
Or now sugar water for birds because I was listening
to you having a chat with Jack yesterday as well.
So can you tell me the correct proportion of plain
white sugar to tapwater to make sugar water for the birds?
This is what you're proposed for feeding a yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ine. So you don't use things
like honey water because that actually that's legally prohibited because
that could spread diseases to bees as well. It's a difference.
So we use sugar water. I think it's one cup
of sugar to about four cups of water one in four,
one in five. That's about the limit you use for
(09:03):
for those nectar feeding birds.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And do it with the little the bottle upside down
into a little tray and as they drink.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That is that is the Yeah, there's lots of different
ways of doing it, indeed, and when they drink it
from the bottom, of course, it goes yeah, and it
feels back up again. Yeah you go to Okay, that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Right right, I'll put that on my list along with
the owls have been found North Pork Reserve where owls owls?
Northborough Reserve. It's getting closer and closer. Place, where's this
more pork?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Actually? Oh okay? Cool?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So Northborough Reserve is kind of between tech Burner and
Belmont on the what I can't wait? I can't wait.
I will tell you when they arrive and Devenport without
a doubt, right, stupid. Good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Good morning? Is the lad there? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yes, sometimes usually on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I'll go and find them on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Okay, go on, get on with it.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
I live court handed to you actually over and hornby. Yeah,
when you get side now looking at a honey Babe
peach tree, Yeah, and it's still it still has all
its leaves on. The next to it is a honey
Babe nectary and tree. It hasn't got a leaf on it.
On the other side, so ap, we've got three and
(10:22):
that hasn't got a leaf on it. But this actually
looks like it's growing new leaves from the end of
the stalks. But it's all in full leaf and it's
all green. There's a fruit bound leaves on it and
we can't look out why it hasn't lost them.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That is weird. Tell me how old is that tree, Stuart?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
This tree would be I've had a head. We'd be
living here about five years, and I've had it a
couple of years before that. And it's done this to us,
all of us since I've just about had it. But
it's it's in full leaf, it's green. As people come
around and says all that's green and ready, you know
what's going on? My slow will have a bloody clothes
(11:01):
that's right.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I don't know, but it happens sometimes.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Yes, trees new growth.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Yeah, I'm looking at the tree. I'm out with the
tree at the moment. There's new green growth coming up
from the stork branches and on the tip of the
green growth it looks like new leaves coming.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
But anyway, those new branches, are they coming from low
down or are they right on the topsh as well?
Speaker 7 (11:26):
No, they're on the end of the branch of those
new growths, on the end of the branches.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Okay, And the new growth is not coming from below
from the bottom, from way down where the trunk starts. Okay,
so I just want to make sure that it's not
it's not the what do you call it, the grafted part,
you know, the roots, the roots.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
No, No, this happens sometimes just about five hundred higway
dwarf tree.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure so it Oh it's a
dwarf tree.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
It's a dwarf tree.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Ah yeah, Well sometimes they do that for some silly reason,
and I don't know why that is. To be quite on,
this is not for.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
The last few years. Might find out what it is.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, as long as it's not coming from way at
the bottom, you know, which is your root on which
the pitch could be grafted. That happened sometimes. Okay, Now,
this is one of life's mysteries. And isn't it the
beautiful day? Over the last two days? Haven't we had
a lovely warm climate? You would say, it's almost summer here? Crazy.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Yes, I'm standing at full sun there by the peach tree.
I reckon we have nothing on no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
That.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Okay, No, I don't know, just a little bit of
it is a mystery.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It happens, which is wonderful. In life.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Sometimes it's lovely. Absolutely Now controversy route forst and bird
say that the sugar water should be one to eight,
so half a cup of sugar.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I was one to eight? Oh, sorry, did I get
that wrong? So half a cup to four? Sorry? Yep, sorry, yep,
you're right.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Perfectly well with that. I'm going to make one of these.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I think I said cup. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So half a cup of sugar four cups of water? True,
got it?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yep? Is sorry about that?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
No, no, no, that's no drama. Hey, great, good morning
to you.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Good morning, rude, Rude. Still on the same topic about
the sugar water, I've got to pick a picker.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
N Yeah, wonderful things.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
How you train the birds to actually use it?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Ah, I know exactly what you mean, because we have
the same thing with some what was it with bell
birds here? They will not literally understand that that is
actually a feeder until somebody has a goal yells to
the others and say, look, honestly, we've been stupid. We've
been flying over this thing for all this time. But
(13:53):
that can take sometimes a year, I think, so keep going.
It's not a big deal. And and silverized might be
quite often the ones that for different feeder is actually
not so much to peckupecker, but for other feeders as well.
Silver eyes are the ones that are very clever to
find that out, and they will have a system by
which they will tell all the other silver eyes, look
(14:13):
their food here, and then you get Bellbert's and two
we going there as well. So it's it's like they
help each other out like that.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
But the only birds that are out at the moment
out of silver eyes and and the other thing they're
eating is the put mandarins in the yep thing for
somebody either and they all love that. As far as
the waters, the sugar water is concerned, they leaving it alone.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
They will they well, why don't you put why don't
you put that mandarin on the sugar water?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Not spencer? Yeah, okay, or.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Even better, here's here's here's a really good tip. That's
Julie's tip. Cut a banana in half and put that
on your sugar water dispenser. Because they love bananas. I
mean men, yes, but bananas. They go absolutely nuts about
the inside of the banana. And that is the way
indeed to get them to your Yeah, that's the way
(15:17):
to get them to your dispenser. That's to speed it
up easy.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Okay, really great, thanks for.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
That, good one.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Awesome, that's great. And the pecker pecker bird feeder, it's
a fascinating bit of kit nice thing.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
A yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
How cool. Right, we should take a break now we're
excited about bird feeders. Just calm down. We will take
a break and be back with Greg and just with
Tessa in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
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Speaker 2 (15:53):
It'd be right now that I've added something else to
my list of things to build bird feeders in there
because the two we actually around our place have been
coffin us in the most delightful way.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
What I thought was really cool Peter that because you know,
you know, I'm bird bearing and all that, and we
bend these the silver eyes, and I did this little
You might have heard that yesterday on Jack that I
did a little calculation of those birds come past my place.
Nine hundred and seventy two was my outcome.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
That's fabulous.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
That's greatulous.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I read the whole pist three thing is actually working, eh, it.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Certainly, yes, it actually is. It was Taho Mackenzie I
think was working on this. She was in the seas
in Dunedin. She was working on these pecka pecker bird feeders.
And there's all sorts of lovely stuff you can do
with education as well.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
It's great, brilliant Tissa A very good morning.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Good morning, Muder.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Look.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
I listened to your show every Sunday without foul. It's amazing.
And I picked up so many tips because I've got
a lovely garden. But I need your help on this one.
I have two jazz I have about eight of them
just out in the front of the garden to last property.
They've been growing there for about four years now. I
bought them only about a meter high, the three of them.
Now I've noticed that they're all on the edges right
(17:10):
in the front. Part of them are just going brown.
I just break it. I did break it a weed
bit just to see if they were dead. But they're
not dead. It's just the front part of them are
just going brown. Would it be wooden burn? Because I'm
on the Kapiti coast.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah, I know what you're saying. It's could it could be.
It could be wing wind burn. If it's exactly facing
where the wind comes from. If it's that particular part,
that could well be an indication.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
But the thing is that they're all open, the whole
eight of them are open because it's right on the
edge of my my garden. And then it's got the
fence and it's just by the fence. In between the
fence and about a meter in each fence there's a
fuja there.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
So on the on the facing the windsha fuja. I
don't know what that is.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Yeah, puja tou jam. I'm starting I'm pronouncing it wrong.
I do beg your part of tuja th h u
g a puja?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Oh so yeah, yeah, that is a hedge. I thought
you to. Yeah, I've got you so got it. No, No,
that's the conifer. That's great, okay, yeah, no, look well
that could that could well be if you, especially if
you get salt water from you know, heavy storms and
things like that, you might find that that's not very nice.
(18:27):
Have you thought about put Is there anything you can
put in front of it to protect it?
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Not? Really, it's token because it's just a road now,
not really.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Really, there's no kurrogia or anything you can put. There's
other trees that can actually stand that particular stuff you see,
So this it would be, oh gosh, no, I can't
help you. If you got I would give protection to them,
That's what I would do.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
It just amazes me that the other four are perfectly
lovely and green and growing beautifully, and these are these
are green and growing beautifully. The back is nice and green.
It's just the front part of them, the three of them.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, typical, well, as long as what you see is
nice and green. And then the people that walk a
pass the road say, oh, that looks brown, but you
don't care, do you?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
I do?
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Actually, you're a shocker.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Look.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You know what I should, what I would do if
I were you, is go around the block and ever
look at other people that live near you and see
what they've got.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
They're green, I've seen that. I've done that.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Oh they are green.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Yeah, they're quite nice. Jagg and green around the block
is just.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I have no idea why. No, I have no idea
why that would be because it could be is there
is there standing water there?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
There you go don't. I don't think it's water logged then,
but oh gosh, that's hard without seeing it.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
To be quite.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Trimming the I never what happens to try it out.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Otherwise, just plant something else in its in its position.
I mean, you're you're you're really needing to do the
local what is good for local plants? Now you know
what I mean?
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Okay, okay, thanks awful name.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Sorry, sorry about that all the very quickly from your
graham thirty seconds Horsepool? Can you use it? And we're
we're where would you use it?
Speaker 9 (20:33):
I've made it's kind of horse and it's very generous.
I've put it at a two hundred leter drum with a
whole pile of water. What we've got some natives, some
fruit trees and roses, and some CRUs anything I should
or shouldn't use it on.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I think if you are really keen on weeding, I
would use Horsepool. They are well known. They are no,
I mean that they are well known for giving quite
a bit of seed from weeds. The best thing maybe
is to put in a compost bin and and and
tone it down. You know what I mean? Okay, go
for accomplished circle. Yeah there you go right.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
This is thirty seconds you got.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Thank you, Graham, well done, Saint to the point. That's awesome.
That's awesome. That's great. Hey mate, have a is it
warming up in your part of town?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
It was twenty degrees some believe it was beautiful. Abe.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I'll do the lawns again, right yo, We'll do it
all again next Sunday. Oh you take care all of this.
We'll be back. I will be back. Have a great week, folks,
and look forward to seeing you next Sunday morning. Here
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
Your new b let's jump into the garden A litter
it climbed past. A good morning, sir, A very good
morning to you.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
P Indeed, you've you've started the ball rolling, haven't you sorry?
Going back to a Northland system of having no insulation?
Speaker 2 (00:44):
No, no, it's not all what I know.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
I'm just ever you want.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh, thank goodness.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
I lived in a house in kai Koe which was
made from cowdy. It was beautiful, but it was all
single glades and had no insulation at all. And it
was actually okay because we slept in that house during
the day because we were doing keywwork at night.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
That's right, here's a great house, but you can't stay
there overnight. It's only good for the day. It worked well, absolutely. Hey,
we've got a bunch of calls, let's rip into it. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, if you'd like to
talk to root ohen A very good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:17):
Good morning. I was knowing that you're a silver culturist.
I thought you're just the man for this one.
Speaker 5 (01:24):
Go on.
Speaker 4 (01:26):
I've got well, we've got a couple actually, but a
photakowa growing on our property, which is about sixty seven
meters tall, and it's just above our where our driveway
is very very very close to our driver, within say
five meters of our driveway, and I'm wondering, I've forgot
(01:48):
to wander to tell you what my plan was, to
see if it stands up to for pruning it, and
ask you a question relating to its root spread, and
that was I was concerned that the roots spread would
eventually start breaking up the concrete because I know what
they're like down down further set up on a bank.
And I wondered, if I prune it, if that will
(02:11):
help to limit the questions of a prune it. Does
that help to limit the root spread?
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Well, I don't know if it limits the roots spread,
but if you do it on the side where the
where the concrete is, you might find that it will
make new roots, but they will be smaller, so you
might not have as much damage, you know what I mean.
And it will go if you say it's going. The
other side is going up a bank. You said, I
think that might be. That might be okay, it could
(02:39):
go if you like more there. How old did you
say the tree was?
Speaker 4 (02:45):
I don't know. We've been here seventeen years and it
was well in place. Then wow.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, and yes they do. They are known for doing
quite a bit of damage to structures.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
Yeah, because I I's sort of on a contra basis.
Someone did some work for me in my absence for
of something else, and they're supposed to have provene this
And when I came back, you couldn't. It was like
I trimmed half a millimeter off and whiskers and so
I was a bit disappointed, but I and he was
sort of worried that he might kill a thing. But
(03:18):
my plan is because I haven't got a whole lot
of fancy gear, just a ladder and a chain for
sort of thing. And I got a pulse or I
was going to cut off a part of it, say
maybe a quarter of the growth. I was going to
lot that off for about half or two thirds height
to give the rest of it a chance to sort
of like still taking goodness. And then the next year
I was going to then lop off the other, say
(03:38):
a quarter of the tree to go half or three
quarters of that.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
That's the way I would do it. I would do
it little bits at the time.
Speaker 2 (03:44):
But I'm remarkably restrained right now.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Yeah, I know you are, because it's a really hard
thing to do, wasn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:53):
So Oh, I've got a poodicoa sitting out on the
front of our place as well, which had got quite large,
and so I wanted to reduce the canopy. So what
I did is I got some trained arborus to come in.
Two guys spent almost a day climbing the tree, thinning
(04:15):
it out, removing quite a lot of growth from the
inside allowed and it kind of looked a bit funny
because they left growth at the end of some of
the limbs, right, because it was always going to be
a two stage process. So now some not quite two
years later, some of that new growth is established lower
down in the tree, and I'm going to get them back,
(04:36):
probably not till next year. So you've got to be
a bit patient to remove the canopy now because there
is enough new growth to provide you know, it'll keep
the tree alive, right, So the worry about just going
through and lopping off the outside is that you might
inadvertently damage the tree. And that's why I got to
(04:57):
do mine.
Speaker 4 (04:58):
So it looks a bit like you're having a shave
and the fire alarm went off.
Speaker 2 (05:02):
It looks a bit funny because I've got all these
long limbs with these tiny little tufts of on the
end right, But they're doing the work while the rest
of the tree gets a chance to re establish itself
with new growth lower down. Because what I wanted is
a more compact tree. I don't want to remove it,
but I need it to be a bit smaller. But
I'm taking a sort of a strategic approach to.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
It, and you always do I totally agree.
Speaker 2 (05:24):
Yeah, absolutely, good luck with that. And interestingly enough, the
guys that I used were in the news recently where
they rescued a dog from a tree. It was on
the newstg ZB website. So the dog apparently was chasing
a possum. The possum shot up the tree. The dog,
not willing to let go, also shot up the tree
and then found itself sitting on a limb seven or
(05:46):
eight meters in their thinking crikey, that might not have
been a good idea. So I think five brigate had
to go. And in the end they got shorn and
he climbed the tree, roped himself in and climbed it
and brought the dog back down. The dog then took
off looking for the possum again.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Oh that's funny, it's sound cool.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
It's on the ZBI website. It's great, right yo, Eppie,
good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (06:07):
Oh, good morning route. I've got a very old orange
tree that has developed a sort of a black pary
thing on the leaves, and the oranges are starting to
fall off. Is there anything that I can do?
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Yeah? I think so. Tell me first of all, is
this it a big tree?
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Yes? It is?
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Okay, and okay, and where where you're in? Palmisan North?
That's right, aren't you get right? Okay? Right here we go.
This is sooty mold. I think that is caused. That's
actually a fungus that grows on the excrement of sap
sucking bugs. So if you have, for instance, scale insects
(06:53):
or meati bugs, or in this case it might have
even been this and one of those what do you
call those white things a whitefly that lives on citrus,
They pup honeyed you and onto the leaves, and on
the leaves grows that black suti mold. So it's not
a souty mold. That is your problem. That is basically
(07:14):
the end result. But you need to control these insects
that are putting that that sweet stuff onto the leaves below,
and the best way to do that is by spraying
something that stops them from developing. But you'll need to
go all the way to the top because you need
(07:34):
to do them as much as you can. Best thing
to use, I think is nim oil because that means
you're not polluting your fruit and you can still eat
your fruit. It's quite safe to use, but you'll have
to do that on the underside of the leaves if
you can at least three times, at least three weeks apart,
for say a month apart, so three times a month
(07:57):
apite gnem oil and as much cover as you can get,
and that will kill those particular stepsucking bugs. That means
reduction of that honeyedew going down on the leaves below,
and that means there's nothing for the black suiting mold
to sit on.
Speaker 6 (08:15):
Oh, I see good. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Indeed you're more than welcome.
Speaker 6 (08:20):
Thank you.
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Bye.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Success with that, Bye bye your news talk c B.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Thank you very much. Hippy hey quick text as well?
Or now sugar water for birds because I was listening
to you having a chat with Jack yesterday as well.
So can you tell me the correct proportion of plain
white sugar to tapwater to make sugar water for the birds?
This is what you're proposed for feeding a yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ine. So you don't use things
like honey water because that actually that's legally prohibited because
that could spread diseases to bees as well. It's a difference.
So we use sugar water. I think it's one cup
of sugar to about four cups of water one in four,
one in five. That's about the limit you use for
(09:03):
for those nectar feeding birds.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And do it with the little the bottle upside down
into a little tray and as they drink.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
That is that is the Yeah, there's lots of different
ways of doing it, indeed, and when they drink it
from the bottom, of course, it goes yeah, and it
feels back up again. Yeah you go to Okay, that's it.
Speaker 2 (09:21):
Right right, I'll put that on my list along with
the owls have been found North Pork Reserve where owls owls?
Northborough Reserve. It's getting closer and closer. Place, where's this
more pork?
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Actually? Oh okay? Cool?
Speaker 2 (09:35):
So Northborough Reserve is kind of between tech Burner and
Belmont on the what I can't wait? I can't wait.
I will tell you when they arrive and Devenport without
a doubt, right, stupid. Good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (09:50):
Good morning? Is the lad there? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Yes, sometimes usually on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
I'll go and find them on a Sunday morning.
Speaker 3 (09:58):
Okay, go on, get on with it.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
I live court handed to you actually over and hornby. Yeah,
when you get side now looking at a honey Babe
peach tree, Yeah, and it's still it still has all
its leaves on. The next to it is a honey
Babe nectary and tree. It hasn't got a leaf on it.
On the other side, so ap, we've got three and
(10:22):
that hasn't got a leaf on it. But this actually
looks like it's growing new leaves from the end of
the stalks. But it's all in full leaf and it's
all green. There's a fruit bound leaves on it and
we can't look out why it hasn't lost them.
Speaker 3 (10:37):
That is weird. Tell me how old is that tree, Stuart?
Speaker 7 (10:40):
This tree would be I've had a head. We'd be
living here about five years, and I've had it a
couple of years before that. And it's done this to us,
all of us since I've just about had it. But
it's it's in full leaf, it's green. As people come
around and says all that's green and ready, you know
what's going on? My slow will have a bloody clothes
(11:01):
that's right.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I don't know, but it happens sometimes.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Yes, trees new growth.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Yeah, I'm looking at the tree. I'm out with the
tree at the moment. There's new green growth coming up
from the stork branches and on the tip of the
green growth it looks like new leaves coming.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
But anyway, those new branches, are they coming from low
down or are they right on the topsh as well?
Speaker 7 (11:26):
No, they're on the end of the branch of those
new growths, on the end of the branches.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Okay, And the new growth is not coming from below
from the bottom, from way down where the trunk starts. Okay,
so I just want to make sure that it's not
it's not the what do you call it, the grafted part,
you know, the roots, the roots.
Speaker 7 (11:47):
No, No, this happens sometimes just about five hundred higway
dwarf tree.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, sure so it Oh it's a
dwarf tree.
Speaker 7 (11:59):
It's a dwarf tree.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Ah yeah, Well sometimes they do that for some silly reason,
and I don't know why that is. To be quite on,
this is not for.
Speaker 7 (12:09):
The last few years. Might find out what it is.
Speaker 3 (12:12):
Yeah, as long as it's not coming from way at
the bottom, you know, which is your root on which
the pitch could be grafted. That happened sometimes. Okay, Now,
this is one of life's mysteries. And isn't it the
beautiful day? Over the last two days? Haven't we had
a lovely warm climate? You would say, it's almost summer here? Crazy.
Speaker 7 (12:31):
Yes, I'm standing at full sun there by the peach tree.
I reckon we have nothing on no, no, no, no, no, no.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
That.
Speaker 7 (12:40):
Okay, No, I don't know, just a little bit of
it is a mystery.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
It happens, which is wonderful. In life.
Speaker 2 (12:49):
Sometimes it's lovely. Absolutely Now controversy route forst and bird
say that the sugar water should be one to eight,
so half a cup of sugar.
Speaker 3 (12:58):
I was one to eight? Oh, sorry, did I get
that wrong? So half a cup to four? Sorry? Yep, sorry, yep,
you're right.
Speaker 2 (13:05):
Perfectly well with that. I'm going to make one of these.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
I think I said cup. Yeah, yeah, that's right.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
So half a cup of sugar four cups of water? True,
got it?
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Yep? Is sorry about that?
Speaker 2 (13:15):
No, no, no, that's no drama. Hey, great, good morning
to you.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Good morning, rude, Rude. Still on the same topic about
the sugar water, I've got to pick a picker.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
N Yeah, wonderful things.
Speaker 5 (13:29):
How you train the birds to actually use it?
Speaker 3 (13:32):
Ah, I know exactly what you mean, because we have
the same thing with some what was it with bell
birds here? They will not literally understand that that is
actually a feeder until somebody has a goal yells to
the others and say, look, honestly, we've been stupid. We've
been flying over this thing for all this time. But
(13:53):
that can take sometimes a year, I think, so keep going.
It's not a big deal. And and silverized might be
quite often the ones that for different feeder is actually
not so much to peckupecker, but for other feeders as well.
Silver eyes are the ones that are very clever to
find that out, and they will have a system by
which they will tell all the other silver eyes, look
(14:13):
their food here, and then you get Bellbert's and two
we going there as well. So it's it's like they
help each other out like that.
Speaker 5 (14:22):
But the only birds that are out at the moment
out of silver eyes and and the other thing they're
eating is the put mandarins in the yep thing for
somebody either and they all love that. As far as
the waters, the sugar water is concerned, they leaving it alone.
Speaker 3 (14:43):
They will they well, why don't you put why don't
you put that mandarin on the sugar water?
Speaker 5 (14:51):
Not spencer? Yeah, okay, or.
Speaker 3 (14:56):
Even better, here's here's here's a really good tip. That's
Julie's tip. Cut a banana in half and put that
on your sugar water dispenser. Because they love bananas. I
mean men, yes, but bananas. They go absolutely nuts about
the inside of the banana. And that is the way
indeed to get them to your Yeah, that's the way
(15:17):
to get them to your dispenser. That's to speed it
up easy.
Speaker 5 (15:22):
Okay, really great, thanks for.
Speaker 3 (15:23):
That, good one.
Speaker 2 (15:25):
Awesome, that's great. And the pecker pecker bird feeder, it's
a fascinating bit of kit nice thing.
Speaker 3 (15:30):
A yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:33):
How cool. Right, we should take a break now we're
excited about bird feeders. Just calm down. We will take
a break and be back with Greg and just with
Tessa in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (15:42):
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Speaker 2 (15:53):
It'd be right now that I've added something else to
my list of things to build bird feeders in there
because the two we actually around our place have been
coffin us in the most delightful way.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
What I thought was really cool Peter that because you know,
you know, I'm bird bearing and all that, and we
bend these the silver eyes, and I did this little
You might have heard that yesterday on Jack that I
did a little calculation of those birds come past my place.
Nine hundred and seventy two was my outcome.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
That's fabulous.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
That's greatulous.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I read the whole pist three thing is actually working, eh, it.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
Certainly, yes, it actually is. It was Taho Mackenzie I
think was working on this. She was in the seas
in Dunedin. She was working on these pecka pecker bird feeders.
And there's all sorts of lovely stuff you can do
with education as well.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
It's great, brilliant Tissa A very good morning.
Speaker 8 (16:47):
Good morning, Muder.
Speaker 7 (16:48):
Look.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
I listened to your show every Sunday without foul. It's amazing.
And I picked up so many tips because I've got
a lovely garden. But I need your help on this one.
I have two jazz I have about eight of them
just out in the front of the garden to last property.
They've been growing there for about four years now. I
bought them only about a meter high, the three of them.
Now I've noticed that they're all on the edges right
(17:10):
in the front. Part of them are just going brown.
I just break it. I did break it a weed
bit just to see if they were dead. But they're
not dead. It's just the front part of them are
just going brown. Would it be wooden burn? Because I'm
on the Kapiti coast.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Yeah, I know what you're saying. It's could it could be.
It could be wing wind burn. If it's exactly facing
where the wind comes from. If it's that particular part,
that could well be an indication.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (17:37):
But the thing is that they're all open, the whole
eight of them are open because it's right on the
edge of my my garden. And then it's got the
fence and it's just by the fence. In between the
fence and about a meter in each fence there's a
fuja there.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
So on the on the facing the windsha fuja. I
don't know what that is.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Yeah, puja tou jam. I'm starting I'm pronouncing it wrong.
I do beg your part of tuja th h u
g a puja?
Speaker 3 (18:06):
Oh so yeah, yeah, that is a hedge. I thought
you to. Yeah, I've got you so got it. No, No,
that's the conifer. That's great, okay, yeah, no, look well
that could that could well be if you, especially if
you get salt water from you know, heavy storms and
things like that, you might find that that's not very nice.
(18:27):
Have you thought about put Is there anything you can
put in front of it to protect it?
Speaker 8 (18:34):
Not? Really, it's token because it's just a road now,
not really.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Really, there's no kurrogia or anything you can put. There's
other trees that can actually stand that particular stuff you see,
So this it would be, oh gosh, no, I can't
help you. If you got I would give protection to them,
That's what I would do.
Speaker 8 (18:52):
It just amazes me that the other four are perfectly
lovely and green and growing beautifully, and these are these
are green and growing beautifully. The back is nice and green.
It's just the front part of them, the three of them.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, typical, well, as long as what you see is
nice and green. And then the people that walk a
pass the road say, oh, that looks brown, but you
don't care, do you?
Speaker 5 (19:14):
I do?
Speaker 8 (19:14):
Actually, you're a shocker.
Speaker 5 (19:25):
Look.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
You know what I should, what I would do if
I were you, is go around the block and ever
look at other people that live near you and see
what they've got.
Speaker 8 (19:34):
They're green, I've seen that. I've done that.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Oh they are green.
Speaker 8 (19:38):
Yeah, they're quite nice. Jagg and green around the block
is just.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
I have no idea why. No, I have no idea
why that would be because it could be is there
is there standing water there?
Speaker 5 (19:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:56):
There you go don't. I don't think it's water logged then,
but oh gosh, that's hard without seeing it.
Speaker 5 (20:02):
To be quite.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Trimming the I never what happens to try it out.
Speaker 3 (20:09):
Otherwise, just plant something else in its in its position.
I mean, you're you're you're really needing to do the
local what is good for local plants? Now you know
what I mean?
Speaker 8 (20:19):
Okay, okay, thanks awful name.
Speaker 2 (20:22):
Sorry, sorry about that all the very quickly from your
graham thirty seconds Horsepool? Can you use it? And we're
we're where would you use it?
Speaker 9 (20:33):
I've made it's kind of horse and it's very generous.
I've put it at a two hundred leter drum with a
whole pile of water. What we've got some natives, some
fruit trees and roses, and some CRUs anything I should
or shouldn't use it on.
Speaker 3 (20:47):
I think if you are really keen on weeding, I
would use Horsepool. They are well known. They are no,
I mean that they are well known for giving quite
a bit of seed from weeds. The best thing maybe
is to put in a compost bin and and and
tone it down. You know what I mean? Okay, go
for accomplished circle. Yeah there you go right.
Speaker 9 (21:09):
This is thirty seconds you got.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Thank you, Graham, well done, Saint to the point. That's awesome.
That's awesome. That's great. Hey mate, have a is it
warming up in your part of town?
Speaker 3 (21:20):
It was twenty degrees some believe it was beautiful. Abe.
Speaker 2 (21:26):
I'll do the lawns again, right yo, We'll do it
all again next Sunday. Oh you take care all of this.
We'll be back. I will be back. Have a great week, folks,
and look forward to seeing you next Sunday morning. Here
at news Talk.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
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