September 21, 2024 • 20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be red climb past. A very good morning to you, sir, A.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Very good morning to you, Peter doing rightly. What a
lovely birthday wished it?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, that's right, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
That was lovely, and also thank you for that. It
was a great little chat with the minister. It was
good fun.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Right, And third thing, we're back on air in Christia.
She stopped standing text it's ridiculous. I heard it all
the way to the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We understand, not that it matters if you're in Queensland,
but apparently Queen stands off here and has been for
most of the morning. But I won't know that if
we're talking about it. So yeah, so Grimlin's Gremlins.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Gremlins everywhere there you go, right, yeah, just before we start,
it's exactly that was this morning. Wasn't it a twelve
forty eight or something to forty six anyway? But it's
also the time really to start thinking about planting. You know,
what are you going to plant in your vegetable gardens?
I just thought i'd make that little point and I
(01:04):
can see there's already some comments about Rubert.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
That's good anyway, Yeah, there you are awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So and also you know feeding thinking about.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yes, absolutely, that's now is the time to start fertilizing.
So a general thing is what what I tend to
do is I use general fertilizers.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
So it'side the nitrofosca blue.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
YEP, which is a granular thing that rains in if
you like, slowly into the ground, and the liquid fertilizer
when our water is the weak and forget seafood soup
and seaweed tea. They have slightly different scales if you like,
of NPK, and that is a nice one to do it.
So while you are actually watering your plants, you do
(01:46):
a little bit of.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Feeding the eyes. Don't go over the top.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Don't make it too strong, because you see the plants
going like, oh no.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Too much, too much, Yeah, too much. There you go, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Right, we're taking your calls. Oh eight, one hundred and
eighty ten eighty is the number. Hullo Roger.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Yeah, good morning. I'm contemplating building some plant box for
sale or gifts or something like that. I'm thinking of
making them out of fence pailings, and I was wondering
should they be lined before you put the medium into them?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I just heard about I'm talking about fence pailings. They
are very well tenalized, aren't they.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah? They are yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And if and if you've got palings or a post
that you use in marine environment, it's aged six, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You know what I mean? I tell you what, Roger,
I built some planner boxes out of macrocarpa, right, so
it's untreated. But I typically if I'm doing a planter
box and timber, I will just line the inside with
some poly thing, right, and it just provides a bit
of a vapor or a bit of a moisture barrier.
(03:01):
I'm sure some moistures still get through, but it's really
easy to do. It's really fast and in terms of
a little bit of protection from the tennalizing products, it'll
probably do that. So a little bit of plastic around
the inside, staple it, and then if you want to
get really fancy, like I did, I put a little
baton over the top of the PVC or over the
top of the polothene, just so that I don't get
(03:23):
soil falling down in there. That's the easiest way to
seal it off the top.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Really, so that is that's what you call anal though, No, no.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
No, no, no, that's such particulous attention to detail.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Just one silly yeah, but you are perfection as we
cub city stick. But you're right if you're not happy
with that, just and the other thing you can do
is your plant your plants a little bit away from
those edges, because it needs to in this case for
horizontally move and that is not the great way.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
To go for the plants. But you're right. Safety first,
go on, should.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Should they have some sort of if you put a
barrier like that? And would they need drainage hole in
the bottom?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I don't put it on. I just put it on
the sides, right, leave the bottom open to the soil below,
but just just around the timber, that's all.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, there's no point.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
There's no point of having a bottom in a in
a planter box.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I was thinking in terms of having them for putting
around a patio or something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
No, no, it still needs to have a way out
for water.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Okay, so you would put a cap of drain and
tolls in?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yes? Please? Yes, please, That is really important.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And the other thing too, did you want to you
want to have a lovely little marketing tool here? So
when I got a bit older, I found it easier
to have something like a raised planter box or plant
a bed if you like that. I did not need
to bend too much, so it was a bit higher.
And that means that you can actually do your weeding
so much easier with all your tools because you don't
(05:02):
really have to go down as far. So make them
for some people. For the older people, always good to
have higher up.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, you know what I mean, makes a lot of sense.
Good luck with that little project. Roger and Wendy, A
very good morning.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
To you, and it's good morning to you gentlemen. Now,
rud My Rubert plant. What do I do to feed it?
To encourage good six stalks as it is, the piddly
little thin stalks.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Did you fertilize them at all?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Wendy, No, not at all.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Just talk to them occasionally.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
And that's what I'm going to feed you for the
rest of your life. When you wake up, I'm just
going to talk to you saying no, you're know then
evan't breakfast. I'm going to talk. No, sorry, sorry, no,
it's all right, dally.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
And no fertilizer please.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
And to be quite honest, I find it easy because
I live next to doors we'll quarry where there's lots
of sheep pool, and that's what I put off them,
as well as as well as any other organic fertilizer
that I can get, you know, anything that will work
sheep and.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Chicken pool, not to not too chicken pool.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You've got to be a bit careful with because it
can be quite heavy if you like, very dense, so
you you you, if you're like mix it into the
soil on the top. But it honestly, Rubert loves wonderful
and regular fertilizer of that.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Sort of right right, Well, we've got padicts of it here,
so I know what to do.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
You're more to welcome, Thank you, Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
All the rubis toy Windy you take care, and Angela
a very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Yeah, good morning, Hi.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
I have a problem with my coumera plants. They're not
in at the moment, of course, but the last two
seasons I've had them full of holes and I'm wondering
if it could be grass scrub or whatever. They're round
holes right through the whole them, a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
So are they in the in the root department or
above the ground.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
And the root and and when I take them up,
there's no insects in them at all.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
No, no, no, no no, because they'll probably have been
there and they get out again. That's typically, yeah, typically
the way they do. Okay, uh to be where are
you in the north of Northland?
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Somewhere well north of Auckland.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, north of Aukland, that's what I mean. Okay, it's
sort of always a good place to grow these things. Yes,
there could be all sorts of creeches that they've underground,
from what you call the grass grubs to all the
the the other beetles that actually have larvae that live
in the soil, and when they find something that tastes good,
they will have a go and make all these holes
(07:58):
in the problem now is what are we.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Going to do.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
There is a material that you can get against grass
grub that you can get from keiwek Care. So if
you go to your local department or your local garden
center and say have you got the key we care
grass grub material. And I think there's also something that
Yates makes and I've forgotten the name of the active ingredients,
(08:23):
but there is material now that works recently well to
stop those grass grub coming too close to your roots
and starting to bite into it.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Okay, well, I've I have done a little bit of reading,
and it was suggested that you put very a potato
with a marker and then dig it up a few
weeks later to see if there's anything on us. That's
my potatoes haven't been affected anyway.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It is always the same when when you tried that
little trick and it doesn't work, but at least you
tried it. What I will do every now and then
is do that what they call, you know, a little
bit of digging around the actual route as it is
being developed. If you like to have a look to
see if you can see anything there. Have you got
(09:17):
many plants?
Speaker 7 (09:20):
It was a full bed of timra last year that
was destroyed by holes. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
No, honestly, try the key weekre material. I'd heard good
things about it. I'm not growing coming out on the porthills,
but and I'm not growing potatoes either, for the simple
reason that I don't want to stuff up my tomatoes,
which is quite a different story again, because tomatoes and
potatoes share the same trouble. So that's why I don't
grow potatoes. I'd rather be tomatoes. But that's the way
(09:50):
to go. See if you can get that insecticides.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yes, all the very best to Angela. You take care, right,
We're gonna take a short break and we'll be back
with Pat in just a moment. If there was an
award for the best text, I suspect this one might
do it text. Why do cockroaches turn themselves upside down
before dying? Please tell me?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I have actually never thought about that. That is such
a good.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Question, and it's true that it often happens, Yes, yeah,
And I think it's something to do with the fact
that when they actually die, their legs curl up and
they don't. And can you imagine if you've got to
curled up six legs underneath your body, it's not as
stable as a flat back. So it might be an
idea that they basically die like that, but the moment
(10:42):
you've got a bit of wind or whatever going and
they lie in a much more stable position.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
That is just as physics of it. I think.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I just feel that we could spend a lot of
time researching the say.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
We could, Peter, that's right, what a great question.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Well, actually you could, because I've got owl boxers to build.
When I arrived at the studio this morning turned on
my email, there would have been I don't know, seven, eight,
maybe ten emails. Hey, can you send me some plans
for the L boxer? So I will work on that,
and I don't know if I'm going to get time
this week to do it, but I'll try and get
the big L box out of the way as well.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You put them on your tweed book.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I will do that exactly that people have enjoyed that
and the models that I used. I'll send you a
copy of the video, righto, Pat, Hello.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
Good good morning, Rude.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Just over a year.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Ago we planned it a yen then lemon tree in
a big plastic tub. And it's slowly dying. Is it
because it's in a plastic tub?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Necessarily? Not necessarily? But has it got enough drainage at
the bottom?
Speaker 8 (11:54):
Yes, yes it has, And it's even sitting up on
a little stand so that water can go through it.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
I think we might. And I don't think it looks
it's not a very it's an ugly tree. It's just
I think, get a proper lemonary.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
To be quite honest.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah, and then where are you where you're ringing from?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Pet? Which area?
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Crush crushed?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Your crush it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Okay, you know, the the regular you know, if you
like the regular lemon tree that you can get, you know,
it's probably best, the best one for the Christiach area,
for cold and all that sort of stuff. So that's
number one. Number two, I believe that it's probably best
(12:45):
to have lemon trees not in pots, but in the soil.
Having said that, we've got one in the pot. It's
not doing too well. We talk chills, and I've just
talked about it exactly the same thing. Even on the
portals we don't get much frost or any frost at all.
But it's they just they really want their roots spread
out in the soil.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I think.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Okay, okay, now, and can I just have a little boast.
I spoke to you last year we had planted a
passion fruit vain and here we go, and this was
in crisis, and we got seventy seven passion fruit off
it last summer. Of course you did, yes, yes, yes,
(13:27):
And I mean you see you couldn't grow one up
ken of these bush, but we have grown one on
ricketons and it's against a brick wall, bricks carage, and
it's it's just doing so well. It doesn't get it
doesn't get frosted. And you know, we had seventy seven peirs.
I counted in each time onself, sheep.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Pet, you know what I'm going to do this afternoon?
Plant another two passion fruits. Good good, And I'm not
I'm gonna I'm not gonna let go because I hear
all of you gardeners saying this is this, is this,
this is that, and now you're telling me this, and
I go like, why is it that I've never been
able to do that since I left Meadow Bank in
(14:08):
Auckland all these years ago.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Well, it's just thriving. Do I prune it at all?
I just let it go.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I wouldn't prune it until after it's uh fruited. Does
that make sense? Yes?
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Well, I hope to get a handle off of this year.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, all right, Pet, I'm going to be I'm going
to ever go with you and one day we will
get together and.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It'll be fantastic, right, lovely talk to you, Pet, thank
you very much, and Owen a very good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (14:45):
All right, good morning to you. And by the way,
I've got the answer to the reason why cockroach. Yeah,
it's basically it's intuition. They sense the lights are going
out and they're trying to see why.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
All right, lovely, brilliant, Right, what's the question on?
Speaker 9 (15:06):
All right? Oh, that's right, A bit of a question
calling for a friend. Yes, really, fig tree. My neighbor's
got a fig tree which he'd planted I don't know's
a matter of a few months ago, I guess, and
it's going I know the previous year or two beforehand,
he'd put and plotted a whole lot of well good
(15:30):
bags bags soil to try and prepare it. And you
put a really big hole and put fertilizer. I'm not
sure what type in there, but sort of come a
sort of a year or more later, he's put another
one in there. But it's very leazy, yellowy and brown
around the edge and don't look healthy. But new growth
leaves are coming through and look below, you know, small
(15:53):
leaves are looking okay, but I know it's one of
those How long is a piece of string questions when
I haven't given you much info. But I just wonder
in this situation of being on a sloping section which
should be fairly good drainage, but I will ask them
about digging a digging a wholey at the bottom, and
you know, because of the overall clay soils, digging a
(16:15):
drainage channel at the bottom, anything else you could do
for a fig in Lindfield, Auckland, Lindfield.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
There you go. So that's seriously clay.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I know. Lindfield is where the Ministry of Anger and
fish Edge was where I used to work for decades
on Boundary Road.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
So yeah, I know the clay.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I know the clay because I lived in tity Rangi
and that sort of stuff as well.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
So here's the point.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yes, well drained soils and at the same time give
them a reasonably regular watering. I know that usually in
Auckland you don't need to do that because it will
rain quite regularly. You know, little bits and pieces at
the time, sometimes lots of bits and pieces, but a
lack of water is.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Quite often.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You get curling leaves and you get a discolouration at
the same time. That's number one. The second one is
regular fertilizer. That means that if you do have a good,
well drained fig root, I would then put some like
a liquid fertilizer in the water that you give the
plant as it grows.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Yes, yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
That means that your watering system will also be a
slight fertilizing system, and that is quite often the way
to treat that particular I know the coloration. I've seen
it happen.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
Yeah, And what kind of liquid fertilizer you suggesting?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I tend to use the wet and forget one the
seafoot soup and seaweed tea. In this case, what I
would do if I were you, I would use seaweed
tea because it has a little bit more potash and
that allows flowers and fruiting to take place on the tree.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I'm going to just try and quickly sneak and berry
about owls. Gone, mate, I've got you question. You got
one minute?
Speaker 10 (17:55):
Oh yeah? Do they come back to the same nest?
Speaker 9 (18:00):
This year?
Speaker 10 (18:01):
I put up three boxes and two of them got lists,
and them were the feathers in the in the base
of the nest that indicated it wasn't help. And one
also had a dead miner hanging out of it?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yes, which area is this bury by the way, quickly
and the hills above? Okay, all right, yes, if it's
if it's a little owlsdale, come back unless we ban them.
Then the mother says, no, bugget that I'm going to
another one. And so then we turn up in that
nest the next year. So yes, they do. They do
tend to go to the same place.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
Excellent, thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And should you clean out the nest? That was one
of various questions as well, not that much, a.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Little bit, but leave some of the material in there,
and the dead birds leave them there too, because that
trains the young to hunt flies.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Isn't that a clever trick?
Speaker 10 (18:54):
He did you mention that a couple of a month
or so ago? And and there was about a month
after I'd taken the bird out of the hole.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Oh, bugget, doesn't matter, it'll come back.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That sounds awesome though, that if you've if you've put
up some bird box or some ol barns our boxes,
and they're coming, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
That's good.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Yeah, I just got the website.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Brilliant, brilliant. I might going out as I do my research, right,
thank you drid. It is a pleasure and we'll do
it next week, which I think is daylight saving it.
Yeah roughly, all right, let's do it then anyway, Happy Equinox,
all right mate, take care all the best. Thank you
folks for your company. It's been absolute Britisure and had
(19:36):
the delight of having that long conversation with the Minister
for Building and Construction Chris Pink. If you want to
listen to that again. It will be available later on
today as a podcast here at News Talk c'd B
have a great week. Catch you next week.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be red climb past. A very good morning to you, sir, A.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Very good morning to you, Peter doing rightly. What a
lovely birthday wished it?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, that's right, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
That was lovely, and also thank you for that. It
was a great little chat with the minister. It was
good fun.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Right, And third thing, we're back on air in Christia.
She stopped standing text it's ridiculous. I heard it all
the way to the studio.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We understand, not that it matters if you're in Queensland,
but apparently Queen stands off here and has been for
most of the morning. But I won't know that if
we're talking about it. So yeah, so Grimlin's Gremlins.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Gremlins everywhere there you go, right, yeah, just before we start,
it's exactly that was this morning. Wasn't it a twelve
forty eight or something to forty six anyway? But it's
also the time really to start thinking about planting. You know,
what are you going to plant in your vegetable gardens?
I just thought i'd make that little point and I
(01:04):
can see there's already some comments about Rubert.
Speaker 4 (01:07):
That's good anyway, Yeah, there you are awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:10):
So and also you know feeding thinking about.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yes, absolutely, that's now is the time to start fertilizing.
So a general thing is what what I tend to
do is I use general fertilizers.
Speaker 4 (01:22):
So it'side the nitrofosca blue.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
YEP, which is a granular thing that rains in if
you like, slowly into the ground, and the liquid fertilizer
when our water is the weak and forget seafood soup
and seaweed tea. They have slightly different scales if you like,
of NPK, and that is a nice one to do it.
So while you are actually watering your plants, you do
(01:46):
a little bit of.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Feeding the eyes. Don't go over the top.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Don't make it too strong, because you see the plants
going like, oh no.
Speaker 4 (01:52):
Too much, too much, Yeah, too much. There you go, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Right, we're taking your calls. Oh eight, one hundred and
eighty ten eighty is the number. Hullo Roger.
Speaker 5 (02:00):
Yeah, good morning. I'm contemplating building some plant box for
sale or gifts or something like that. I'm thinking of
making them out of fence pailings, and I was wondering
should they be lined before you put the medium into them?
Speaker 3 (02:22):
I just heard about I'm talking about fence pailings. They
are very well tenalized, aren't they.
Speaker 4 (02:31):
Yeah? They are yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
And if and if you've got palings or a post
that you use in marine environment, it's aged six, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
You know what I mean? I tell you what, Roger,
I built some planner boxes out of macrocarpa, right, so
it's untreated. But I typically if I'm doing a planter
box and timber, I will just line the inside with
some poly thing, right, and it just provides a bit
of a vapor or a bit of a moisture barrier.
(03:01):
I'm sure some moistures still get through, but it's really
easy to do. It's really fast and in terms of
a little bit of protection from the tennalizing products, it'll
probably do that. So a little bit of plastic around
the inside, staple it, and then if you want to
get really fancy, like I did, I put a little
baton over the top of the PVC or over the
top of the polothene, just so that I don't get
(03:23):
soil falling down in there. That's the easiest way to
seal it off the top.
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Really, so that is that's what you call anal though, No, no.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
No, no, no, that's such particulous attention to detail.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Just one silly yeah, but you are perfection as we
cub city stick. But you're right if you're not happy
with that, just and the other thing you can do
is your plant your plants a little bit away from
those edges, because it needs to in this case for
horizontally move and that is not the great way.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
To go for the plants. But you're right. Safety first,
go on, should.
Speaker 5 (03:53):
Should they have some sort of if you put a
barrier like that? And would they need drainage hole in
the bottom?
Speaker 2 (04:02):
I don't put it on. I just put it on
the sides, right, leave the bottom open to the soil below,
but just just around the timber, that's all.
Speaker 4 (04:10):
Yeah, there's no point.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
There's no point of having a bottom in a in
a planter box.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 5 (04:19):
I was thinking in terms of having them for putting
around a patio or something like that.
Speaker 3 (04:27):
No, no, it still needs to have a way out
for water.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
Okay, so you would put a cap of drain and
tolls in?
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yes? Please? Yes, please, That is really important.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And the other thing too, did you want to you
want to have a lovely little marketing tool here? So
when I got a bit older, I found it easier
to have something like a raised planter box or plant
a bed if you like that. I did not need
to bend too much, so it was a bit higher.
And that means that you can actually do your weeding
so much easier with all your tools because you don't
(05:02):
really have to go down as far. So make them
for some people. For the older people, always good to
have higher up.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
Yeah, you know what I mean, makes a lot of sense.
Good luck with that little project. Roger and Wendy, A
very good morning.
Speaker 6 (05:13):
To you, and it's good morning to you gentlemen. Now,
rud My Rubert plant. What do I do to feed it?
To encourage good six stalks as it is, the piddly
little thin stalks.
Speaker 4 (05:28):
Did you fertilize them at all?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Wendy, No, not at all.
Speaker 6 (05:32):
Just talk to them occasionally.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
And that's what I'm going to feed you for the
rest of your life. When you wake up, I'm just
going to talk to you saying no, you're know then
evan't breakfast. I'm going to talk. No, sorry, sorry, no,
it's all right, dally.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
And no fertilizer please.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
And to be quite honest, I find it easy because
I live next to doors we'll quarry where there's lots
of sheep pool, and that's what I put off them,
as well as as well as any other organic fertilizer
that I can get, you know, anything that will work
sheep and.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Chicken pool, not to not too chicken pool.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
You've got to be a bit careful with because it
can be quite heavy if you like, very dense, so
you you you, if you're like mix it into the
soil on the top. But it honestly, Rubert loves wonderful
and regular fertilizer of that.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Sort of right right, Well, we've got padicts of it here,
so I know what to do.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
You're more to welcome, Thank you, Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
All the rubis toy Windy you take care, and Angela
a very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (06:44):
Yeah, good morning, Hi.
Speaker 1 (06:47):
Hi.
Speaker 7 (06:47):
I have a problem with my coumera plants. They're not
in at the moment, of course, but the last two
seasons I've had them full of holes and I'm wondering
if it could be grass scrub or whatever. They're round
holes right through the whole them, a lot of them.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
So are they in the in the root department or
above the ground.
Speaker 7 (07:15):
And the root and and when I take them up,
there's no insects in them at all.
Speaker 3 (07:22):
No, no, no, no no, because they'll probably have been
there and they get out again. That's typically, yeah, typically
the way they do. Okay, uh to be where are
you in the north of Northland?
Speaker 7 (07:33):
Somewhere well north of Auckland.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Yeah, north of Aukland, that's what I mean. Okay, it's
sort of always a good place to grow these things. Yes,
there could be all sorts of creeches that they've underground,
from what you call the grass grubs to all the
the the other beetles that actually have larvae that live
in the soil, and when they find something that tastes good,
they will have a go and make all these holes
(07:58):
in the problem now is what are we.
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Going to do.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
There is a material that you can get against grass
grub that you can get from keiwek Care. So if
you go to your local department or your local garden
center and say have you got the key we care
grass grub material. And I think there's also something that
Yates makes and I've forgotten the name of the active ingredients,
(08:23):
but there is material now that works recently well to
stop those grass grub coming too close to your roots
and starting to bite into it.
Speaker 7 (08:33):
Okay, well, I've I have done a little bit of reading,
and it was suggested that you put very a potato
with a marker and then dig it up a few
weeks later to see if there's anything on us. That's
my potatoes haven't been affected anyway.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
It is always the same when when you tried that
little trick and it doesn't work, but at least you
tried it. What I will do every now and then
is do that what they call, you know, a little
bit of digging around the actual route as it is
being developed. If you like to have a look to
see if you can see anything there. Have you got
(09:17):
many plants?
Speaker 7 (09:20):
It was a full bed of timra last year that
was destroyed by holes. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
No, honestly, try the key weekre material. I'd heard good
things about it. I'm not growing coming out on the porthills,
but and I'm not growing potatoes either, for the simple
reason that I don't want to stuff up my tomatoes,
which is quite a different story again, because tomatoes and
potatoes share the same trouble. So that's why I don't
grow potatoes. I'd rather be tomatoes. But that's the way
(09:50):
to go. See if you can get that insecticides.
Speaker 4 (09:53):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Yes, all the very best to Angela. You take care, right,
We're gonna take a short break and we'll be back
with Pat in just a moment. If there was an
award for the best text, I suspect this one might
do it text. Why do cockroaches turn themselves upside down
before dying? Please tell me?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
I have actually never thought about that. That is such
a good.
Speaker 3 (10:20):
Question, and it's true that it often happens, Yes, yeah,
And I think it's something to do with the fact
that when they actually die, their legs curl up and
they don't. And can you imagine if you've got to
curled up six legs underneath your body, it's not as
stable as a flat back. So it might be an
idea that they basically die like that, but the moment
(10:42):
you've got a bit of wind or whatever going and
they lie in a much more stable position.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
That is just as physics of it. I think.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
I just feel that we could spend a lot of
time researching the say.
Speaker 4 (10:57):
We could, Peter, that's right, what a great question.
Speaker 2 (11:00):
Well, actually you could, because I've got owl boxers to build.
When I arrived at the studio this morning turned on
my email, there would have been I don't know, seven, eight,
maybe ten emails. Hey, can you send me some plans
for the L boxer? So I will work on that,
and I don't know if I'm going to get time
this week to do it, but I'll try and get
the big L box out of the way as well.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
You put them on your tweed book.
Speaker 2 (11:23):
I will do that exactly that people have enjoyed that
and the models that I used. I'll send you a
copy of the video, righto, Pat, Hello.
Speaker 8 (11:33):
Good good morning, Rude.
Speaker 7 (11:36):
Just over a year.
Speaker 8 (11:37):
Ago we planned it a yen then lemon tree in
a big plastic tub. And it's slowly dying. Is it
because it's in a plastic tub?
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Necessarily? Not necessarily? But has it got enough drainage at
the bottom?
Speaker 8 (11:54):
Yes, yes it has, And it's even sitting up on
a little stand so that water can go through it.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
I think we might. And I don't think it looks
it's not a very it's an ugly tree. It's just
I think, get a proper lemonary.
Speaker 4 (12:17):
To be quite honest.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah, and then where are you where you're ringing from?
Speaker 4 (12:21):
Pet? Which area?
Speaker 8 (12:22):
Crush crushed?
Speaker 4 (12:23):
Your crush it? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (12:24):
Okay, you know, the the regular you know, if you
like the regular lemon tree that you can get, you know,
it's probably best, the best one for the Christiach area,
for cold and all that sort of stuff. So that's
number one. Number two, I believe that it's probably best
(12:45):
to have lemon trees not in pots, but in the soil.
Having said that, we've got one in the pot. It's
not doing too well. We talk chills, and I've just
talked about it exactly the same thing. Even on the
portals we don't get much frost or any frost at all.
But it's they just they really want their roots spread
out in the soil.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
I think.
Speaker 8 (13:06):
Okay, okay, now, and can I just have a little boast.
I spoke to you last year we had planted a
passion fruit vain and here we go, and this was
in crisis, and we got seventy seven passion fruit off
it last summer. Of course you did, yes, yes, yes,
(13:27):
And I mean you see you couldn't grow one up
ken of these bush, but we have grown one on
ricketons and it's against a brick wall, bricks carage, and
it's it's just doing so well. It doesn't get it
doesn't get frosted. And you know, we had seventy seven peirs.
I counted in each time onself, sheep.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Pet, you know what I'm going to do this afternoon?
Plant another two passion fruits. Good good, And I'm not
I'm gonna I'm not gonna let go because I hear
all of you gardeners saying this is this, is this,
this is that, and now you're telling me this, and
I go like, why is it that I've never been
able to do that since I left Meadow Bank in
(14:08):
Auckland all these years ago.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
It's unbelievable.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Well, it's just thriving. Do I prune it at all?
I just let it go.
Speaker 4 (14:21):
I wouldn't prune it until after it's uh fruited. Does
that make sense? Yes?
Speaker 8 (14:29):
Well, I hope to get a handle off of this year.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yeah, all right, Pet, I'm going to be I'm going
to ever go with you and one day we will
get together and.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
It'll be fantastic, right, lovely talk to you, Pet, thank
you very much, and Owen a very good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (14:45):
All right, good morning to you. And by the way,
I've got the answer to the reason why cockroach. Yeah,
it's basically it's intuition. They sense the lights are going
out and they're trying to see why.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
All right, lovely, brilliant, Right, what's the question on?
Speaker 9 (15:06):
All right? Oh, that's right, A bit of a question
calling for a friend. Yes, really, fig tree. My neighbor's
got a fig tree which he'd planted I don't know's
a matter of a few months ago, I guess, and
it's going I know the previous year or two beforehand,
he'd put and plotted a whole lot of well good
(15:30):
bags bags soil to try and prepare it. And you
put a really big hole and put fertilizer. I'm not
sure what type in there, but sort of come a
sort of a year or more later, he's put another
one in there. But it's very leazy, yellowy and brown
around the edge and don't look healthy. But new growth
leaves are coming through and look below, you know, small
(15:53):
leaves are looking okay, but I know it's one of
those How long is a piece of string questions when
I haven't given you much info. But I just wonder
in this situation of being on a sloping section which
should be fairly good drainage, but I will ask them
about digging a digging a wholey at the bottom, and
you know, because of the overall clay soils, digging a
(16:15):
drainage channel at the bottom, anything else you could do
for a fig in Lindfield, Auckland, Lindfield.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
There you go. So that's seriously clay.
Speaker 3 (16:23):
I know. Lindfield is where the Ministry of Anger and
fish Edge was where I used to work for decades
on Boundary Road.
Speaker 4 (16:30):
So yeah, I know the clay.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
I know the clay because I lived in tity Rangi
and that sort of stuff as well.
Speaker 4 (16:35):
So here's the point.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yes, well drained soils and at the same time give
them a reasonably regular watering. I know that usually in
Auckland you don't need to do that because it will
rain quite regularly. You know, little bits and pieces at
the time, sometimes lots of bits and pieces, but a
lack of water is.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Quite often.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
You get curling leaves and you get a discolouration at
the same time. That's number one. The second one is
regular fertilizer. That means that if you do have a good,
well drained fig root, I would then put some like
a liquid fertilizer in the water that you give the
plant as it grows.
Speaker 9 (17:14):
Yes, yeah, so.
Speaker 3 (17:17):
That means that your watering system will also be a
slight fertilizing system, and that is quite often the way
to treat that particular I know the coloration. I've seen
it happen.
Speaker 9 (17:28):
Yeah, And what kind of liquid fertilizer you suggesting?
Speaker 3 (17:32):
I tend to use the wet and forget one the
seafoot soup and seaweed tea. In this case, what I
would do if I were you, I would use seaweed
tea because it has a little bit more potash and
that allows flowers and fruiting to take place on the tree.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
I'm going to just try and quickly sneak and berry
about owls. Gone, mate, I've got you question. You got
one minute?
Speaker 10 (17:55):
Oh yeah? Do they come back to the same nest?
Speaker 9 (18:00):
This year?
Speaker 10 (18:01):
I put up three boxes and two of them got lists,
and them were the feathers in the in the base
of the nest that indicated it wasn't help. And one
also had a dead miner hanging out of it?
Speaker 3 (18:15):
Yes, which area is this bury by the way, quickly
and the hills above? Okay, all right, yes, if it's
if it's a little owlsdale, come back unless we ban them.
Then the mother says, no, bugget that I'm going to
another one. And so then we turn up in that
nest the next year. So yes, they do. They do
tend to go to the same place.
Speaker 10 (18:37):
Excellent, thank you.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
And should you clean out the nest? That was one
of various questions as well, not that much, a.
Speaker 3 (18:44):
Little bit, but leave some of the material in there,
and the dead birds leave them there too, because that
trains the young to hunt flies.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Isn't that a clever trick?
Speaker 10 (18:54):
He did you mention that a couple of a month
or so ago? And and there was about a month
after I'd taken the bird out of the hole.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Oh, bugget, doesn't matter, it'll come back.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
That sounds awesome though, that if you've if you've put
up some bird box or some ol barns our boxes,
and they're coming, that's awesome.
Speaker 4 (19:12):
That's good.
Speaker 9 (19:13):
Yeah, I just got the website.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Brilliant, brilliant. I might going out as I do my research, right,
thank you drid. It is a pleasure and we'll do
it next week, which I think is daylight saving it.
Yeah roughly, all right, let's do it then anyway, Happy Equinox,
all right mate, take care all the best. Thank you
folks for your company. It's been absolute Britisure and had
(19:36):
the delight of having that long conversation with the Minister
for Building and Construction Chris Pink. If you want to
listen to that again. It will be available later on
today as a podcast here at News Talk c'd B
have a great week. Catch you next week.
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