October 5, 2024 • 21 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resonant Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from Newstalks edb.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
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(00:33):
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(00:55):
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(01:18):
Right red climb pass. Good morning, sir, mad Rush. We've
gone from one studio to the other, because only the
very best for you. Sir.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
We've done it, haven't We got here in the end. No,
that's good.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Love with you too, love. Yeah, it's nice to be
here now.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
No surprise to me, but you you This is when
you teach the teachers.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, this is the weekends. This is the weekend in
between the two school holidays. So we do thirty teachers
every week and we take them for a whole week
around from from the Starodome to rock Pools to Daffor
and Ui to snot Glean to you know.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So, I mean I'm intrigued by this in the sense
that like, what's is this teacher? This is this education
outside the classroom? Is the stem teaching.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
All that, right, And it's organized by Sir Peter Blake
Trust or called Blake if you like, is the company
or the group. And Blake Inspire is the project for teachers.
There's also expeditions for kids for older kids. School kids, look,
go to Campbell Island for instance. Yeah, hello, there you go.
This is the this is real stuff. And so teachers
(02:24):
here go go here for literally a week that we
put them up in a wonderful five star hotel. I
think it's great, But what they forget is they get
up at six in the morning and go to bed
at eleven, and.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
How it's like, all on, that's awesome, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's been going for years.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's great. It must be enormously rewarding. And I'm sure
the teachers at the end of it come away kind
of like get invigorated or renewed all.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That, but also inspired with everything that they get. And
I find those teachers back all over New Zealand later
on when I do most field based spent it's them.
So this is it. Then it becomes literally ampull on,
as we say in Malay. It becomes a club of
people that keep together and they keep on, you know,
working with each other as well.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Flos how fabulous radio yours new sorts it be. Now
we've done this mad dash from one studio to the other.
And that also means that I don't have bionic up
and but some pieces I'm working on it. I'm working
on it. Hang on, let me get myself organized. What
a disaster.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
It's okay, these things happen. I remember in the past,
this happened all the time. Now if yat striple strike
is on. I just know what the active ingredient was.
I heard you talk about it just now, and I thought,
I've had to have a quick look. You can get
at bunny so I can see, all right, this takes
a bit longer, but.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I might actually I have noticed that. Actually I went
outside yesterday and looked around and thought, ah, you know,
the weeds have come up through the cracks in the
garden path and I've you know, but at the same
time the garden has burst into life, which is just wonderful.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh, it's unbelievable. What's happening at the moment, especially our place.
It's good and and talk about. So a couple of
things to talk about you very quickly. One is that
when your apples are flowered, which is right now, ish,
get medex now right. So this is the point. We
had this lady calling last week jo now Wielden. No,
she gave you an email wanted to know how to
(04:19):
get mad x two. Well, mad X two is no
longer in the company in the country. Mad X three
is still here. Mad X three is the stuff that
you buy for orchidice. So this is big game stuff.
It's also a bit more expensive. But here comes to thing.
You can freeze it in between your applications and at
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last five, six, seven, eighty years, and then you can
share it with neighbors and everybody else, and back the
price comes down. It's very simple. So madx three is
the stuff. Do it now once after flowering, do it
again in a month's time, and maybe another month after that.
But that's about all you need to do.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So multiple applications.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Well, it's to do with these the way the moths
actually lay eggs a month later. Again, right, so you
get the next generation. You can't forget that.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Okay, fabulous, Right, let's get into the calls Marianne. Good
morning to you. Hi Marianne.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
She might have fallen asleep.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm not getting the calls up on the side.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
How can you repeter it perfectly by the way that works?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Let's do it quick? Oh, here we go. Oh this
is a great text. Here you go, rud I would
like to get rid of my lawn and turn it
into a wilding area. Some people say to rip the
lawn up first, and others say just let the lawn
go wild and sprinkle some native seeds across it. What
process would you take I.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Would do that last one this much tick much quicker
and easier. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You're not worried about the grass that's already there strangling.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
No, you'll find that some of these weeds, some of
these weeds if you like that there was a grass
you no, no, yeah, oh yeah, lovely. I'm talking about
the wildflowers, yes, which are actually often weedy type thing. Sure,
we'll probably take over.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah ah, that changes things for me a bit.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah. And also if you do want to do all
the control freak stuff of I don't want any more grass,
and you know, you can always round up it or
doing that that that zero zero yeah yeah, there you
go to the eight stuff, get rid of it, and
then of course wait until that's all gone. That may
take about two or three weeks. Yes, then so you
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were your wild thrower.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And then so I went out to a house that's
kind of an exemplar of a low carbon house, right, sure.
So they were looking at everything in the house and
around the house to make it low carbon. So they
had rainwater harvesting, they had really good insulation, gret glazing,
et cetera, et cetera. But they also did a large
part of the garden as wildflower exactly, no motorma.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That's the way to go. And so the other way
you can do it with your grass is mowered really
low mode, extremely low, so that you're actually getting your
grass that is there at the moment exposed to the
sun and it will probably not like that much at all,
and that when that's when your grass gets if you're
like weaker, and that's when you plant your new wildflowers.
(07:25):
That's another way of doing it.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Alrighty, we'll have another crack at getting Marianne the line Marianne,
can you hear us now? Nope? No, Well I'm not
hearing Marianne nor my stage on this part.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Of the story until she whispers, really.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Stay on the line, don't don't try. Actually, let's see
if Donald works. Nope, Donald not coming up either. We'll
get things sorted out because we had to dash from
run studio to the other, or we could dash back
and I just bugger off and leave you to it.
The simplest answer, actually, I'll tell you what on that
can I know I should talk to your fear about this,
(08:03):
but I can't be bothered. In a couple of weeks time,
I've got a school fair that I'm helping out with.
If I dash off at eight thirty, can you just
take over and then I can get to the fair
and help set out. All right, let's do that. That'll
be just write it down your diary, tenth of November
for the Saint Leo's School Fair. Now, other question someone
(08:24):
was asking, No, that's about waxes and things like that. Hey,
it's given that the garden, like, I'm delighted that I've
got blossoms in the trees. I've got the hedge, my
carrow hedge has burst into life and going like the clappers?
What other things should we be doing in the garden
right now?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
If you live in Auckland, you keep your eye on
all the plants that always have fluffy bums and bashian
von hoppers. Right, And the reason is from now on
and Jack was already on that, he was ahead of
me and fact and the thing is that this is
the time of the year when so later in October,
so in a week or so two weeks from now
from one. I remember what you do is when you
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go out in the morning when it's really went still,
and you see these little fluffy bumps on the tops
of the plants that always get hammered.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Tiny things.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
So the first instyles we call it just out of
the egg, looking around and hopping around and starting to
suck the juices out of your plants. That's when you
go back into the house and find yourself a can
of mortine, I don't care what it is, or or
some simple organic organic stuff like pyrethrum, you know, the
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pyrethrum fly sprays. And normally when these guys get older,
they will jump away, they will try to get out
of the out of the walk literally, you know, you know,
the stuff of best side. But in this case, you
spray them when they're really small and they can't and
they try to blow away or jump away, but they
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go through the cloud of pyrethrum and there's so much
coming onto their body that they can't make it. And
that is the time when just spraying with this simple
fly spray will do the job before they become bigger.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And what sorts of plants are they attracted to from?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Oh, you name it everything passion vine hop but they
called passion fine hoppits. All the passion fruits for instance,
other climbers if you like. But I remember they are
on all sorts of plants in yoga, and they are
totally not worried about what they eat. Okay, as selective
as a vacuum cleaner. They'll eat anything.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I have a look around. I don't think we've had
a problem with them, not yet.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
No passion fine hoppy. But the passion fine hoppers then
go through a couple of instars and they become these
moths they call them with the sea through wings. Right,
those are the adults of that same thing. Okay, if
you try to spray them, they will put one finger
up and literally fly through the whole thing out of
the way they just gone.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And in terms of fertilizing, given that there's now some.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Growth, it's time npk everything.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, that's fantastic. Right, we're gonna
see a oh here we go, quick text and then
we'll try getting back to the calls morning advice. Please
on my camellias. A couple of them have a white
powdery stuff on their leaves.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Oh that yeah, that could indeed be a fungal thing. Right, yeah,
so that is quite often, especially if you've had a
lot of moist moisture in the air and lots of
rain and things like that. Funguside is your only way
to go the most if you like. Safest one is
an organic material which is copper and sulfur together. Another
(11:37):
YHS thing that's yates fungus pray. Yates Nature's way fungus pray,
and that will actually suppress what's on those leaves. And
that's a good time to do it too.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, okay, let's see if we've got our call sorted out. Donald. Hello, No,
we don't right, We're gonna take a break. We'll come
back to you and just a moment. You're a news
talk seed. B it is eight point forty three. Keen
to get into it. Let's see if the phones are
up and running. Donald, good morning, Good morning, Hey DoD
(12:07):
love your work.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I'm going to plant some tomato plants today in a pot.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
What soiled are you please?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Okay? In a pot. You tend to use a mixture,
a good mixture of potting mix and but also organ organic.
If you like soil mix, that means mineral soil. So
if you go to the various shops you get sort
of you know, things like soil that you can buy
because you also buy potting mix. You you really want
to have them both connected to each other and mix up.
(12:39):
That is the best way to go, and that has
to be reasonably sizable as well. That pot Okay, yeah, yeah,
I think it is.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I think it is.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
So what do I what potting mix and what's the
other one? Just if you like top soil, you can
get some of some of some of the top soil
you can get in bags and they are pretty good.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Okay, thank you very much more than welcome. I think
sometimes the issue with potting mixes it's too light, isn't
it to really hold on to the roots, Like, is
that what it is?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yes? Stuff goes, stuff goes literally through potting mixing and
all the water disappears. But the mineral soil holds the
NPK together, it binds it.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, brilliant, right, jay A, very good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Good morning him, Rudy. Just on the thing about the tomatoes.
You've got bags of tomato mixes, count Weirhirs and Bunnings
and my tea. Is it not enough?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It is.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
No.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
What I personally will do is give it a little
bit more organic or just what do you call it
a soil mix as well? Just a bit more You
have to do less if you have those particular bags.
I don't really agree with you, but for me, it
is always you know, if you've watered a thing and
it all dribbles through quickly, then you've watered for nothing.
You have to do it again and again and again.
(14:00):
But that soil would hold it all together a lot better.
And the nice thing is put it in a big tub,
worked and built again. So if you do let's say
two three spades of that board mix together with one
spade of the soil mix, you will find it works
a lot better.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Interesting. So my question was initially was do rhododendrons need
any particular minerals will feed to keep the color. I've
got an elderly freedom who feels that some of the
roadies are losing their color, you know what I mean,
They're getting the fact, more faded than she remembers them
(14:36):
being when they were younger.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Well, that could be just fertilizer, you know at the time,
Oh gosh, when do you're fertilizer? I would start fertilizing
them now, but I would fertilize them with a little
bit of let's say, tomato fertilizer that has higher K
in it, which is the pottery.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yeah. Yeah, she just felt that some of the flowering ones,
like the colors are least bright than they were, like
a yellowy one sort of gone quite pas And I
just say, well, maybe you're not feeding them or giving
them anything that will help that.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
You.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah, fair enough, thank you, And I think I don't
think they would fade just because just because they're getting
old or something is lecking. But the only thing is
if you fertilize them on a reasonably regular basis, that
should not happen.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Cool, all right, I will tell her thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Luck with that. Take thank you now? Quick text? W
do you buy Meddics three from?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Oh my goodness, there was a whole lot of stuff.
I haven't got the list with me, but Key Industries.
Key Industries is the company that imports it and that
has that has a whole network of people that buy it.
So it's stuff like PG right, since et cetera.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Okay, brilliant, brilliant, Bob, hello there, talk about passion for.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
It to you both, rude. You've already answered one of
my questions because I was worried about something eating my
scarlet run of bean leaves and also my passion for
it leaves. So I'm going to go out there with
the fly pray.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Those particular little creatures do not eat as such, They suck.
They suck juices out of the plut sole praise my questions. Yes,
exact exactly. So what you get in your beans are
thinks like caterpillars sometimes slugs and snails and things.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Like that, and they think wash around them.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, well there you go. But that is the point.
What I would do is go out at night with
a torch and see who was crawling over those leaves.
I mean it, I mean it's really fun doing that.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Oh lovely.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Now, while I have been waiting, I thought of another
problem that I've got. We've got Solomon seal that we
thought we'd dug right out, but of course we've missed
half of that, I think, because it's all coming up now.
If I use my weed wand thing with the what's
the killer on the bottom of it, would that a
(17:12):
fact dolphonium seedlings? Would it can taminate the soil or not?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
It depends on what you use as an active ingredient.
So so if you, for instance, have little plants coming
up that you don't want then the best thing is
to have your wheat killer on a on a paintbrush
and painted as it comes up right, and that means
it won't you won't have the other ones in target,
so they.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Won't go down onto the roots and cantaminate the soiler.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Ay, I know, if you stay above the ground, you
should be fine.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Great, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I'm just curious, Thank you very much, thank you very
very much, Bob. What is Solomon's seal.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It's one of those plants that you grow in the
garden sexually, quite lovely. It's the thing that actually is.
We have solomon seals in the Netherlands where it's native.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Okay, look it up.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
It's it's gorgeous stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah, Julie. How does it become a weed?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Though?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
If she wants to try, well, if a plant in
the wrong place, all right, we'll right under that one, folks. Okay,
good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Good morning boys. Okay, I've got jockey's caps. You know
what they are.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
No, tell me.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
It's a beautiful plant. It's got an elongated name that
I can't pronounce or anything. It's like comes up like
a beautiful little ChIL up. No, it's got three leaves off.
It comes up beautiful bright yellow or bright red. I
happen to have the red variety that are only flowers
and dies at the leaf flower dies overnight.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Oh gosh, Yeah, is that normal? Is that the normal
way it grows?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
The normal way it grows?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah? No, See, I don't know that jockey cap to be.
I've heard of it. And what I would do if
I would be in my studio would quickly google it.
But I can't do it here because I haven't got
a thing with me.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Go on, it's coming up. The seeds are so small,
and the wonder course, and I get I'll take it up.
That's grying. There's now taking out of my lawn. Yeah,
I need to get well.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Hang on you if you go to your garden center,
there are lawn sprays that will not kill grass, but
will kill anything anything but grass, if you like. So,
the grass is a very special group of plants, the
grammy a you know, that's that's that's a long name
if you like, for that particular group that and if
(19:41):
you spray that particular material, your grass will not be harmed,
but the weeds inside the grass will.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
So I want to call them wade that they're a
beautiful lot of people before us put it along to
line the entrance wire of the to the house.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, but if you don't want them in the grass,
that's the way to get rid of them.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
And then of course I get rid of a couple
of the safe heads off as quickly as I came
ons died.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Oh if you don't mind them, you can't have everything here, Okay,
you can't have them flowering first, and then in the
one day that they quickly dropped their seeds, say get out.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Of here, sun day. Come on, come on, I'm a
little bit of a fun anyway. I will go down
and see if I can. Yeah, all done.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Someone wants to move a three to four year old
grapefruit and Dangelo, it's too close to the apple tree.
So moving this time of year.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
It's a bit late, really, Yeah, it really is getting
a bit late, because there's no starting to grow and
put its roots down, right, so midwinter unless you got
somebody with a really big bucket on a digger, and
you can do it in one go. See, there's always
the way, isn't it a big bucket?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah? Absolutely? Hey, now tell us a little bit more
we've just got a minute or so. What you know,
the work that you do with the teacher, What do
you think, Oh, it's a hard question. What do you
think the impactors?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Oh, the impact is growing, growing, growing, It's unbelievable. If
you can put three of those things together with thirty,
that's ninety a year. When we started with only thirty
a year, it was only five years ago, six years ago.
The line is going like that. That's growth at all cost.
As I always say, that.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Is growth, you know, I mean it is remarkable thinking
back to when I was at school, for example, and
thinking about what I see in schools today in terms
of you know, there's a local school that is doing
the whole garden to table at school. You know, they're
making lunch from produce that they've harvested themselves. That's exciting.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
The nicest thing is I got an email VA doc
off feet.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yes, Oh it's brilliant. Yeah. He enjoying your time.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
Here For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp,
listen live to news talks that'd be on Sunday mornings
from six, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio
You're listening to the Resonant Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from Newstalks edb.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
I got news forew It's weed season. Are weeds invading
your space? Looking for a glaci fate free weed killer
that's effective? Yates introduces New Zealand's first glaci fate free
systemic weed killer. Unlike contacts strays that may require multiple applications,
systemic weed killers cleverly moved through the weed to the roots,
(00:33):
killing the weed roots and all. Yates zero Triple Strike
weed Killer is both a contact and a systemic solution
for home gardeners who prefer free options. It works by
penetrating the weed, accelerating cell disruption, and terminating right down
to the roots. Use it on gardens, pathways, driveways around buildings,
(00:55):
controls weeds, grasses including couch grass, paspellum, prackles, plant in
and more. Available in a concentrate with an easy measuring
bottle and ready to use. Liberate your garden. Will liberate
your garden from weeds with Yates Triple Strike weed Killer.
Find it at your favorite hardware store or garden retailer.
(01:18):
Right red climb pass. Good morning, sir, mad Rush. We've
gone from one studio to the other, because only the
very best for you. Sir.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
We've done it, haven't We got here in the end. No,
that's good.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
I'm good.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Love with you too, love. Yeah, it's nice to be
here now.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
No surprise to me, but you you This is when
you teach the teachers.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
Yeah, this is the weekends. This is the weekend in
between the two school holidays. So we do thirty teachers
every week and we take them for a whole week
around from from the Starodome to rock Pools to Daffor
and Ui to snot Glean to you know.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
So, I mean I'm intrigued by this in the sense
that like, what's is this teacher? This is this education
outside the classroom? Is the stem teaching.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
All that, right, And it's organized by Sir Peter Blake
Trust or called Blake if you like, is the company
or the group. And Blake Inspire is the project for teachers.
There's also expeditions for kids for older kids. School kids, look,
go to Campbell Island for instance. Yeah, hello, there you go.
This is the this is real stuff. And so teachers
(02:24):
here go go here for literally a week that we
put them up in a wonderful five star hotel. I
think it's great, But what they forget is they get
up at six in the morning and go to bed
at eleven, and.
Speaker 2 (02:35):
How it's like, all on, that's awesome, that's awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:40):
It's been going for years.
Speaker 2 (02:41):
It's great. It must be enormously rewarding. And I'm sure
the teachers at the end of it come away kind
of like get invigorated or renewed all.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
That, but also inspired with everything that they get. And
I find those teachers back all over New Zealand later
on when I do most field based spent it's them.
So this is it. Then it becomes literally ampull on,
as we say in Malay. It becomes a club of
people that keep together and they keep on, you know,
working with each other as well.
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Flos how fabulous radio yours new sorts it be. Now
we've done this mad dash from one studio to the other.
And that also means that I don't have bionic up
and but some pieces I'm working on it. I'm working
on it. Hang on, let me get myself organized. What
a disaster.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
It's okay, these things happen. I remember in the past,
this happened all the time. Now if yat striple strike
is on. I just know what the active ingredient was.
I heard you talk about it just now, and I thought,
I've had to have a quick look. You can get
at bunny so I can see, all right, this takes
a bit longer, but.
Speaker 2 (03:43):
I might actually I have noticed that. Actually I went
outside yesterday and looked around and thought, ah, you know,
the weeds have come up through the cracks in the
garden path and I've you know, but at the same
time the garden has burst into life, which is just wonderful.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh, it's unbelievable. What's happening at the moment, especially our place.
It's good and and talk about. So a couple of
things to talk about you very quickly. One is that
when your apples are flowered, which is right now, ish,
get medex now right. So this is the point. We
had this lady calling last week jo now Wielden. No,
she gave you an email wanted to know how to
(04:19):
get mad x two. Well, mad X two is no
longer in the company in the country. Mad X three
is still here. Mad X three is the stuff that
you buy for orchidice. So this is big game stuff.
It's also a bit more expensive. But here comes to thing.
You can freeze it in between your applications and at
(04:40):
last five, six, seven, eighty years, and then you can
share it with neighbors and everybody else, and back the
price comes down. It's very simple. So madx three is
the stuff. Do it now once after flowering, do it
again in a month's time, and maybe another month after that.
But that's about all you need to do.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
So multiple applications.
Speaker 3 (05:00):
Well, it's to do with these the way the moths
actually lay eggs a month later. Again, right, so you
get the next generation. You can't forget that.
Speaker 2 (05:09):
Okay, fabulous, Right, let's get into the calls Marianne. Good
morning to you. Hi Marianne.
Speaker 3 (05:18):
She might have fallen asleep.
Speaker 2 (05:20):
I'm not getting the calls up on the side.
Speaker 3 (05:22):
How can you repeter it perfectly by the way that works?
Speaker 2 (05:27):
Let's do it quick? Oh, here we go. Oh this
is a great text. Here you go, rud I would
like to get rid of my lawn and turn it
into a wilding area. Some people say to rip the
lawn up first, and others say just let the lawn
go wild and sprinkle some native seeds across it. What
process would you take I.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Would do that last one this much tick much quicker
and easier. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:52):
You're not worried about the grass that's already there strangling.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
No, you'll find that some of these weeds, some of
these weeds if you like that there was a grass
you no, no, yeah, oh yeah, lovely. I'm talking about
the wildflowers, yes, which are actually often weedy type thing. Sure,
we'll probably take over.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Yeah ah, that changes things for me a bit.
Speaker 3 (06:17):
Yeah. And also if you do want to do all
the control freak stuff of I don't want any more grass,
and you know, you can always round up it or
doing that that that zero zero yeah yeah, there you
go to the eight stuff, get rid of it, and
then of course wait until that's all gone. That may
take about two or three weeks. Yes, then so you
(06:38):
were your wild thrower.
Speaker 2 (06:39):
And then so I went out to a house that's
kind of an exemplar of a low carbon house, right, sure.
So they were looking at everything in the house and
around the house to make it low carbon. So they
had rainwater harvesting, they had really good insulation, gret glazing,
et cetera, et cetera. But they also did a large
part of the garden as wildflower exactly, no motorma.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
That's the way to go. And so the other way
you can do it with your grass is mowered really
low mode, extremely low, so that you're actually getting your
grass that is there at the moment exposed to the
sun and it will probably not like that much at all,
and that when that's when your grass gets if you're
like weaker, and that's when you plant your new wildflowers.
(07:25):
That's another way of doing it.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Alrighty, we'll have another crack at getting Marianne the line Marianne,
can you hear us now? Nope? No, Well I'm not
hearing Marianne nor my stage on this part.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
Of the story until she whispers, really.
Speaker 2 (07:43):
Stay on the line, don't don't try. Actually, let's see
if Donald works. Nope, Donald not coming up either. We'll
get things sorted out because we had to dash from
run studio to the other, or we could dash back
and I just bugger off and leave you to it.
The simplest answer, actually, I'll tell you what on that
can I know I should talk to your fear about this,
(08:03):
but I can't be bothered. In a couple of weeks time,
I've got a school fair that I'm helping out with.
If I dash off at eight thirty, can you just
take over and then I can get to the fair
and help set out. All right, let's do that. That'll
be just write it down your diary, tenth of November
for the Saint Leo's School Fair. Now, other question someone
(08:24):
was asking, No, that's about waxes and things like that. Hey,
it's given that the garden, like, I'm delighted that I've
got blossoms in the trees. I've got the hedge, my
carrow hedge has burst into life and going like the clappers?
What other things should we be doing in the garden
right now?
Speaker 3 (08:41):
If you live in Auckland, you keep your eye on
all the plants that always have fluffy bums and bashian
von hoppers. Right, And the reason is from now on
and Jack was already on that, he was ahead of
me and fact and the thing is that this is
the time of the year when so later in October,
so in a week or so two weeks from now
from one. I remember what you do is when you
(09:04):
go out in the morning when it's really went still,
and you see these little fluffy bumps on the tops
of the plants that always get hammered.
Speaker 2 (09:12):
Tiny things.
Speaker 3 (09:13):
So the first instyles we call it just out of
the egg, looking around and hopping around and starting to
suck the juices out of your plants. That's when you
go back into the house and find yourself a can
of mortine, I don't care what it is, or or
some simple organic organic stuff like pyrethrum, you know, the
(09:33):
pyrethrum fly sprays. And normally when these guys get older,
they will jump away, they will try to get out
of the out of the walk literally, you know, you know,
the stuff of best side. But in this case, you
spray them when they're really small and they can't and
they try to blow away or jump away, but they
(09:56):
go through the cloud of pyrethrum and there's so much
coming onto their body that they can't make it. And
that is the time when just spraying with this simple
fly spray will do the job before they become bigger.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
And what sorts of plants are they attracted to from?
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Oh, you name it everything passion vine hop but they
called passion fine hoppits. All the passion fruits for instance,
other climbers if you like. But I remember they are
on all sorts of plants in yoga, and they are
totally not worried about what they eat. Okay, as selective
as a vacuum cleaner. They'll eat anything.
Speaker 2 (10:30):
I have a look around. I don't think we've had
a problem with them, not yet.
Speaker 3 (10:33):
No passion fine hoppy. But the passion fine hoppers then
go through a couple of instars and they become these
moths they call them with the sea through wings. Right,
those are the adults of that same thing. Okay, if
you try to spray them, they will put one finger
up and literally fly through the whole thing out of
the way they just gone.
Speaker 2 (10:53):
And in terms of fertilizing, given that there's now some.
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Growth, it's time npk everything.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah yeah, yeah, all right, that's fantastic. Right, we're gonna
see a oh here we go, quick text and then
we'll try getting back to the calls morning advice. Please
on my camellias. A couple of them have a white
powdery stuff on their leaves.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
Oh that yeah, that could indeed be a fungal thing. Right, yeah,
so that is quite often, especially if you've had a
lot of moist moisture in the air and lots of
rain and things like that. Funguside is your only way
to go the most if you like. Safest one is
an organic material which is copper and sulfur together. Another
(11:37):
YHS thing that's yates fungus pray. Yates Nature's way fungus pray,
and that will actually suppress what's on those leaves. And
that's a good time to do it too.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
Yeah, okay, let's see if we've got our call sorted out. Donald. Hello, No,
we don't right, We're gonna take a break. We'll come
back to you and just a moment. You're a news
talk seed. B it is eight point forty three. Keen
to get into it. Let's see if the phones are
up and running. Donald, good morning, Good morning, Hey DoD
(12:07):
love your work.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
I'm going to plant some tomato plants today in a pot.
Speaker 4 (12:14):
What soiled are you please?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Okay? In a pot. You tend to use a mixture,
a good mixture of potting mix and but also organ organic.
If you like soil mix, that means mineral soil. So
if you go to the various shops you get sort
of you know, things like soil that you can buy
because you also buy potting mix. You you really want
to have them both connected to each other and mix up.
(12:39):
That is the best way to go, and that has
to be reasonably sizable as well. That pot Okay, yeah, yeah,
I think it is.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
I think it is.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
So what do I what potting mix and what's the
other one? Just if you like top soil, you can
get some of some of some of the top soil
you can get in bags and they are pretty good.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Okay, thank you very much more than welcome. I think
sometimes the issue with potting mixes it's too light, isn't
it to really hold on to the roots, Like, is
that what it is?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
Yes? Stuff goes, stuff goes literally through potting mixing and
all the water disappears. But the mineral soil holds the
NPK together, it binds it.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Yeah, brilliant, right, jay A, very good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Good morning him, Rudy. Just on the thing about the tomatoes.
You've got bags of tomato mixes, count Weirhirs and Bunnings
and my tea. Is it not enough?
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
It is.
Speaker 5 (13:38):
No.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
What I personally will do is give it a little
bit more organic or just what do you call it
a soil mix as well? Just a bit more You
have to do less if you have those particular bags.
I don't really agree with you, but for me, it
is always you know, if you've watered a thing and
it all dribbles through quickly, then you've watered for nothing.
You have to do it again and again and again.
(14:00):
But that soil would hold it all together a lot better.
And the nice thing is put it in a big tub,
worked and built again. So if you do let's say
two three spades of that board mix together with one
spade of the soil mix, you will find it works
a lot better.
Speaker 4 (14:16):
Interesting. So my question was initially was do rhododendrons need
any particular minerals will feed to keep the color. I've
got an elderly freedom who feels that some of the
roadies are losing their color, you know what I mean,
They're getting the fact, more faded than she remembers them
(14:36):
being when they were younger.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Well, that could be just fertilizer, you know at the time,
Oh gosh, when do you're fertilizer? I would start fertilizing
them now, but I would fertilize them with a little
bit of let's say, tomato fertilizer that has higher K
in it, which is the pottery.
Speaker 4 (14:55):
Yeah. Yeah, she just felt that some of the flowering ones,
like the colors are least bright than they were, like
a yellowy one sort of gone quite pas And I
just say, well, maybe you're not feeding them or giving
them anything that will help that.
Speaker 6 (15:13):
You.
Speaker 3 (15:13):
Yeah, fair enough, thank you, And I think I don't
think they would fade just because just because they're getting
old or something is lecking. But the only thing is
if you fertilize them on a reasonably regular basis, that
should not happen.
Speaker 4 (15:27):
Cool, all right, I will tell her thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (15:32):
Luck with that. Take thank you now? Quick text? W
do you buy Meddics three from?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Oh my goodness, there was a whole lot of stuff.
I haven't got the list with me, but Key Industries.
Key Industries is the company that imports it and that
has that has a whole network of people that buy it.
So it's stuff like PG right, since et cetera.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
Okay, brilliant, brilliant, Bob, hello there, talk about passion for.
Speaker 5 (16:00):
It to you both, rude. You've already answered one of
my questions because I was worried about something eating my
scarlet run of bean leaves and also my passion for
it leaves. So I'm going to go out there with
the fly pray.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Those particular little creatures do not eat as such, They suck.
They suck juices out of the plut sole praise my questions. Yes,
exact exactly. So what you get in your beans are
thinks like caterpillars sometimes slugs and snails and things.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Like that, and they think wash around them.
Speaker 3 (16:37):
Yeah, well there you go. But that is the point.
What I would do is go out at night with
a torch and see who was crawling over those leaves.
I mean it, I mean it's really fun doing that.
Speaker 5 (16:48):
Oh lovely.
Speaker 6 (16:49):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
Now, while I have been waiting, I thought of another
problem that I've got. We've got Solomon seal that we
thought we'd dug right out, but of course we've missed
half of that, I think, because it's all coming up now.
If I use my weed wand thing with the what's
the killer on the bottom of it, would that a
(17:12):
fact dolphonium seedlings? Would it can taminate the soil or not?
Speaker 3 (17:17):
It depends on what you use as an active ingredient.
So so if you, for instance, have little plants coming
up that you don't want then the best thing is
to have your wheat killer on a on a paintbrush
and painted as it comes up right, and that means
it won't you won't have the other ones in target,
so they.
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Won't go down onto the roots and cantaminate the soiler.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Ay, I know, if you stay above the ground, you
should be fine.
Speaker 5 (17:43):
Great, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I'm just curious, Thank you very much, thank you very
very much, Bob. What is Solomon's seal.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
It's one of those plants that you grow in the
garden sexually, quite lovely. It's the thing that actually is.
We have solomon seals in the Netherlands where it's native.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Okay, look it up.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
It's it's gorgeous stuff.
Speaker 1 (18:04):
I never heard of it.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Yeah, Julie. How does it become a weed?
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Though?
Speaker 2 (18:08):
If she wants to try, well, if a plant in
the wrong place, all right, we'll right under that one, folks. Okay,
good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Good morning boys. Okay, I've got jockey's caps. You know
what they are.
Speaker 3 (18:26):
No, tell me.
Speaker 6 (18:27):
It's a beautiful plant. It's got an elongated name that
I can't pronounce or anything. It's like comes up like
a beautiful little ChIL up. No, it's got three leaves off.
It comes up beautiful bright yellow or bright red. I
happen to have the red variety that are only flowers
and dies at the leaf flower dies overnight.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
Oh gosh, Yeah, is that normal? Is that the normal
way it grows?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
The normal way it grows?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Yeah? No, See, I don't know that jockey cap to be.
I've heard of it. And what I would do if
I would be in my studio would quickly google it.
But I can't do it here because I haven't got
a thing with me.
Speaker 6 (19:05):
Go on, it's coming up. The seeds are so small,
and the wonder course, and I get I'll take it up.
That's grying. There's now taking out of my lawn. Yeah,
I need to get well.
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Hang on you if you go to your garden center,
there are lawn sprays that will not kill grass, but
will kill anything anything but grass, if you like. So,
the grass is a very special group of plants, the
grammy a you know, that's that's that's a long name
if you like, for that particular group that and if
(19:41):
you spray that particular material, your grass will not be harmed,
but the weeds inside the grass will.
Speaker 6 (19:49):
So I want to call them wade that they're a
beautiful lot of people before us put it along to
line the entrance wire of the to the house.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
Yeah, but if you don't want them in the grass,
that's the way to get rid of them.
Speaker 4 (20:01):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (20:01):
And then of course I get rid of a couple
of the safe heads off as quickly as I came
ons died.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
Oh if you don't mind them, you can't have everything here, Okay,
you can't have them flowering first, and then in the
one day that they quickly dropped their seeds, say get out.
Speaker 6 (20:20):
Of here, sun day. Come on, come on, I'm a
little bit of a fun anyway. I will go down
and see if I can. Yeah, all done.
Speaker 2 (20:35):
Someone wants to move a three to four year old
grapefruit and Dangelo, it's too close to the apple tree.
So moving this time of year.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
It's a bit late, really, Yeah, it really is getting
a bit late, because there's no starting to grow and
put its roots down, right, so midwinter unless you got
somebody with a really big bucket on a digger, and
you can do it in one go. See, there's always
the way, isn't it a big bucket?
Speaker 2 (20:58):
Yeah? Absolutely? Hey, now tell us a little bit more
we've just got a minute or so. What you know,
the work that you do with the teacher, What do
you think, Oh, it's a hard question. What do you
think the impactors?
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Oh, the impact is growing, growing, growing, It's unbelievable. If
you can put three of those things together with thirty,
that's ninety a year. When we started with only thirty
a year, it was only five years ago, six years ago.
The line is going like that. That's growth at all cost.
As I always say, that.
Speaker 2 (21:28):
Is growth, you know, I mean it is remarkable thinking
back to when I was at school, for example, and
thinking about what I see in schools today in terms
of you know, there's a local school that is doing
the whole garden to table at school. You know, they're
making lunch from produce that they've harvested themselves. That's exciting.
Speaker 3 (21:47):
The nicest thing is I got an email VA doc
off feet.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Yes, Oh it's brilliant. Yeah. He enjoying your time.
Speaker 1 (21:52):
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