October 26, 2024 • 20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Don't miss their biggest spring sale ever.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Well A very good morning climb past a very good
morning to you, Peter Wolf. Now tell me about Poukaha pokah. Oh.
Actually they all send me send you their favorite, their
famous little greetings from Yeah, well you know what I
mean from from from the Waii Rapper. It was unbelievable.
(01:36):
We had a great time and it was a fabulous
day yesterday. Lots of people, lots of walks, lots of talks,
lots of strange stuff. It was great.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It was fantastic. It's a gym that place.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It is a gem that place. And I was the
only one that was staying there for two nights, which
on the lodge in the lot. Yeah. Oh yeah, no,
it's my room. No, don't, don't you start that, it's
my room. So we we had Kaka there and I
saw I was there on the first night. They were
about twenty five thirty primosning literally outside my door alive.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
How fabulous, huge things, how cool?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
How cool?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
And the ruer we're looking at and say, I'll have
one of those? Got it?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Really?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Because the ruor are missing at the moment, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah they are absolutely. Yeah, it was hilarious to see
all that happened. I just up to be Quels. I
haven't that much sleep.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, fair enough, fair enough, hey, and we can do
a little giveaway because it feels like the garden well
certainly the weeds are coming up along with everything else.
So if you can get stuck under those, it's the
old Clarks Cultivator.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
There you go. We've done this before. And Chris and
and Bobby said, look, give them one away today, and
also make sure that when they when they hear this
on the radio, for instance, and I'll have to find
the eitles because of course I'm totally unprepared. Just came
out late last night in grusturate. If you if you
(02:59):
want to buy one, we are doing it at a
really special price for Christmas right now, and you'll have
to mention within the next week that you heard this
on the radio, and you'll get it for quite a
bit cheaper. And you're getting basically from Clark Cultivator. You
can find those online easy. But one of those we're
going to give away today.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And it's Clark c l A r K Clark Cultivator.
You just go Clark Cultivator dot co dot is it
and away we go, brilliant and we will give one away. Yeah,
because they are tremendously useful.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Oh right, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Let's get into it right now. He wants to kill moths.
I don't think we'll take this call.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah we do.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh okay, all right, go Roger.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Hello, good morning, good morning. I was to you yesterday afternoon,
and you have a spray there they've call kill moths
and also it kills borer. Nowman's interested and for killing borer?
Now why is seller? The floor is a eighteen hundred
(04:02):
square feet old house, and it's full of borer and
the dust drops down to the motor, onto my cellar
and the things. And if I get some of that
and spread, will I kill the borer?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well? Look it's it's so it comes. Actually the borer
is above you in the ceiling. You said, right, yes,
can you see the little holes in which the from
which the borers emerge?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yes, well okay, yes, there were.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
No This is just for Pete's Pete's edification. Pete. These
are the house borer, the European houseborer we're talking about, Yes,
you know what I mean, the ones that actually it
came here of course with settlers in the in the
suitcases in there that wood wouldn't whatever cases in which
they migrated to New Zealand in the eighteen hundreds. So
this is what it is. And here comes to time
(04:51):
you are This is why I made that yesterday on
the Jettaime show. Quite a thing. This is the time
when they are starting to think about coming out finding
a mate and then laying eggs in old little borer
holes or on the on the wood itself from which
they came. And what you do now is you get
(05:11):
that spray that I was talking about. You spray it
on that surface from which they emerge. If they are
in contact with that surface for more than say ten seconds,
there ain't no mating.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Ah, yes, got it?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Okay. So what the stuff that you use is the
residual aircraft spray that you can get from a company
called safe Works. One word safe works ends with an X, yes,
and they have company. They have shops in Auckland, Wellington,
christ Church probably some other places by now find them
(05:47):
online and give them a call and work it out.
You'll find that you can get a couple of those
cans and spray them literally, say about half a meter away,
and you literally treat the surface with that spray, that
that aerosolce spray.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
What was the name of that spray. That's what I
forgot it.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, the residual aircraft spray.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yeah, residual aircraft spray from Safe Work.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Safe Works. If you explain that we had this conversation,
most of the staff at safe Works know who I
am because we I worked on making that stuff and
putting it on well and developing it in the nineteen eighties.
You were there time, No, I wasn't. I was in
(06:35):
Auckland at that time with the Ministry of Agriculture and
we were using that spray inside aircraft to stop insects
arriving in New Zealand, you know, and and we that
spray kills those insects before they even get to New Zealand.
That was That's how good it is.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yes, Oh that's great.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Great, Safe Works with the next you find it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Your Safe Work with the next do thatchristened to you
for many years and years ago. I used to hear
you're on radio somewhere and I was underneasy.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Oh yeah, that was syndicated that old radio. Like this
radio show goes all over the.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Orders of the beauty of radio. You can be anywhere
and nowadays anywhere in the world. I appreciate the call Roger.
You have a great day, Tanya, A very good morning.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Oh goody, that's me morning. Kind What sort of corp
has built a black pouch underneath the ease of my house?
He must have posed, she must have at night, because
I'm confined to a cheer and suddenly it just appeared.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
What did you call it? A black couch?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Pouch? You know, a bag, pouch or pouch?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Okay, yeah, what what color is it? It's black?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
What's black?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
What?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh? Black is not a common thing in the natural
world of insects. You know, how big is.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
It about the size of a man's first what? Yes, Look,
I live in a very rare. I have spiders that
pretty spiders that have sawns on their backs. I'm in
a very I've created, Uh, I've created a very natural
(08:34):
garden here, like a cottage garden, lots of trees and
bush and flowers, full of bees and butterflies and bees.
I've got them all.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Okay. Now, if you've got a pouch that has grown, uh,
you know, to that size, that might be the beginning
of a wasp nest. Could that be?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Oh not?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Do you know?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I wondered?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, that one?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Because it's broken. It's broken.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Now, has it got these little hexagonal cells in it?
Speaker 5 (09:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
No, that in that case, I may be totally wrong.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
From here, it looks like like set material. It looks
quite soft.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
No really, no, I can't. I cannot picture it in
my brain. I cannot identify it without you know, seeing
it in my brain. I do.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
I am close. I have a cowry tree on the property.
That's crazy, and I wondered if if that has any
influence on us.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Oh, maybe it does, but I don't know. I cannot
tell what it is. But just simply by listening to
this description, I'm afraid. I'm sorry. I can't help you
with that, but I can help you with one thing.
If you think that spiders with little spikes on their
back are strange, no they're not, because they're quite often
called two spine spiders and they look like that.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Yeah they oh right, Oh well, oh.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
There you go. Hey, thank you, thank you for your call.
I'm sorry I can't help you with the other thing.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
All you take care and Margaret, good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Rude.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
My I think they're asiatically so I've got several, but
just one of them has got it looks like sunburn
on the leaves, but the other seven got in there
that so if they're all going.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Brown, they're all going off one plant only.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Though, just on one plant.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Anybody sprayed anything in the neighborhood, No, you haven't too,
So that's weird. Oh gosh, what could that be? I
could Oh, so they're slowly changing color and becoming brown.
Do they then start to become brittle and die off?
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Well they are, yes, okay, half of the leaf is good.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That could well be then a fungal disease that actually
slowly taking them off.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Well, why there's just one plant, god or not the others?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
That one drew the luckies, the lucky the lucky straw. No,
I mean that happens sometimes that you get one.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Plant and they all been watered together. It's not like
it's too wet or too dry.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
No, And it could and you know what, it also
could be that there's something in the soil that started
to eat the bulbs or the little rootlets of the bulbs,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
And if that only that one very healthy.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah, I know, Well that's what happens sometimes, might be
something in the ground go on.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
And also what is your opinion of worm wey for
a manure.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Not too bad at all. Brilliant, brilliant, why not? That's
that's how nature fertilizes itself with that sort of stuff.
Woms do nothing, but of course yeah, they they make,
They decay all sorts of bits in peace and transport
them through the ground to put that fertilizer. Literally what
(12:11):
it is all over the place, in a forest or
in your garden. So when we as such is a
pretty useful material.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Oh that's good because I have been using it. But
I just wondered how good it was.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
It is good. It's better than you're wee, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Well I heard that's quite good for the garden too.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I'm not going to go there, darling.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
No, okay, rude, thank you, christ.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, intervene. Now, before we hit down the path that
we just can't come back from, we're going to take
a short break. Also after the break i'll tell you
last week on the show, we ran a little competition
for some Legos and Team New Zealand Lego. I've got
the winners, I'll tell you who they are. And after
the break back, but keen to get amongst it, I'll
tell you what last week you know with the America's Cup. Razine,
(13:03):
who are actually heavily involved with the America's Cup because
they make the paint that goes on the boats. Through
Razine construction. We had three lego kits to give away.
We got a lot of people entering, which was awesome.
So Uppolagnia and Duned and Claire in At and Karl
in Tirau are going to get these amazing lego kits.
(13:24):
I think there's a few pieces and they're pretty awesome. Anyway,
they're on their way to you, So that's fantastic. In
someone today is going to go home, well is going
to get a Clark Cultivator as well.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Which is awesome. We're getting to send them to you.
Just talking about Razine. Another little heads up the Kiwi
art trail that's going on in Towrong Animal, which is
actually quite lovely to see. It's also sponsored partly bow Rasine.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Didn't know that interesting. What's the art trail about? Imagine
and you've got a walk.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
No, imagine having a Kiwi are big Kiwi kind of made,
you know as such, and then artists paint them are
brilliant and they have these weird Well go online look
at the Kiwi are.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
And two on the next in January for a wedding.
Will they still be around?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
No, seventieth of November okay, And guess where I'm going
to be between now and the seventieth of November.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You go.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Actually that's another thing. Bay have plenty Arts and garden Festival.
If you I'm there for the whole week. Go and
I'll meet you there and it'll be a hell of
a lot of fun. Both plenty arts at garden Festival excellent. Hey,
now I forwarded you an email from our mystery caller
last week who had the worm and the irrigation.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yes, so the worm is like a white.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Worm and when it was in the palm of his hand,
I estimated to be about forty millimeters long. Jeepers, I know.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Oh whit. Oh that's that's lot. That's quite. That's quite worm.
And then and then as hell of course, well you're
gotta be yeah, but not so much to be fair,
I mean, it's you got the photo.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, I sent it to you.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Ok, that's me. That's me being an aeroplanes.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
No, just comparing if he's got similar palm markings for me,
I reckon it is about without a word of a light.
It'll be thirty five to forty millimeters long. I'm probably
about two millimeters in diameter.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
And it's why I'll have to look at that. I'm
going to make a note to self next week of course,
Central Otagos.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
You know, we get to the bottom of this mystery
for dinners right right now, though, Mary, go talk to us.
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I'm just three about.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
The aircraft spray.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Yeah, yeah, there never no eight hundred numbers that we
can get because I can't get hold of it.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I think it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I don't know that repels aircraft.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
No, it doesn't repel what I'm talking about. I think
I think they may be because it's a safety company,
safe Works. They might not be opening in there on
the Sunday. I'm not even sure if they open on
the Saturday, but they'll open any other day after that.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Christ such are they?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Oh, I'll tell you they're on Hoswell Junction Road. There
you go.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Boom okay, thank you very.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Much, Tanya, Good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Yes, good morning. So rude, I've got a bit of
a scary problem where I've got mulbrow trees, a black
one and a white variety planted about ten years ago,
and yes they're matter, but I do keep them trimmed
a little bit, but they're still quite high. And like
(16:41):
about last year, I saw a massive route climbing about
four meters away from the tree into a back garden,
a raised garden, and I cut that with my chain
sort of thinking kroky, that was voracious. And then in
the front garden yesterday replaced three rows gardens and dug
(17:04):
the soil out, because you know, when you're playing the roses,
you've got to put change the soil. Blah blah blah.
And what did I find? What did I find in
the front garden like it had gone under the house
or I don't know, frightening and voracious? What the hell
do I have to cut those trees down?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Whoa? How do you know? It was the roots of
that melbury tree.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I recognize them from when I cut the root with
my chainsaw in the back garden. They're sort of like
it's an orange color with a very woody center. And
it was frightening to find that it had come that far.
And I'm thinking Jesus, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I find that extraordinary, by the way,
and to be quite honest, I'm growing a melburry as well.
You know why I grow in Melbury?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
The toys go meant, well, your whole trees full of toys.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah. No, I want I grow melburry because I want
to grow what do you call these things? It doesn't matter.
Forgot some caterpillars. What do you call these? G selkworms?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
What?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I want to grow selk worms on the leaves of Melbury.
That's the story. Okay, don't worry, but I did. Mine
is not that bit misbehaving. It actually stays in one
place and it grows quite nicely. I haven't heard of
it going real quick, I know, I never ever heard
of going that far.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
That would be I bought them as large trees. That
mind you, I bought them as large trees. I got
them installed as large trees, and then it's been them
for about ten years.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
No, to be quite honest, I did not know that.
But what you then need to start doing is actually
get some dig around the Melbury trees and make sure
that you start intercepting those roots before they go that far.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
It's just incredible. And also there was a drain that
I came across which I didn't even know I had
When I was I dug right down to remove all
of the soil and that rose gardens. And I came
across a drain and I saw the roots even in
that way down. Unbelievable. You wouldn't even be able to
(19:13):
get around that deep and that and that far. Seriously
but spooky. I'm thinking, do I need to cut those
trees down? I love those trees?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
But yeah, not a little question. Do you have Boo
to car a nearby?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Okay, I know Peter and Peter and I know that
we can do this sort of nonsense.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
I know that too.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, no, but I hadn't heard of I had not.
I have never heard that of Melbourny trees.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I wouldn't blame the tree though. It's problem with the drain.
It's not the tree. The trees still not trees.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Do there you go? Good boy?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Back in the mow. Oh what a busy old morning, rood.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
We've been fairly flat out, haven't we. But it's been
good so we've got the little worm to check out.
But anyway, and I'll see if I can. For next
week I'm going to be in central Otagos. You have
to do it probably from from.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
We'll figure it out on the day, Okay.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Other than that makes being fine and can't cultivated by
the way, I think Margaret is a person perfect. She
was wonderful with her lily. I love that one, lily.
It's very good.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I'm not getting into the garden today as well.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Right, you get on with it it.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Again next week. Take care all of this. Hey, thanks
very much for your company this morning, folks. Next week
on the show, Ben Johnson talking about the Fencing Act.
He is a lawyer. He'll be with me next Sunday.
Look forward to hearing from him.
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Bronze Solar Starter Bundle from light Force Solar. Kickstart your
solar journey with the Bronze Solar Starter Bundle which includes
ten solar panels, a five killawatt good way inverter and
full installation plus EARN one hundred and thirty nine air
points dollars all for just ten four nine five and
(00:38):
your choice of a free upgrade to get the right
solar for you. Life Force Solar's expert installation team and
high quality products will make sure that you're there with
you every step of the way so you can get
on with slashing your electricity bills from day one. Light
Force Solar is proudly New Zealand owned and operated and
has you covered with a ten year workmanship warranty, twenty
(01:00):
five year panel warranty and a ten year battery warranty.
So head to Lightforce Solar dot co dot nz to
find out more. Teas and seas apply with steel Sharp.
Speaker 1 (01:11):
Don't miss their biggest spring sale ever.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Well A very good morning climb past a very good
morning to you, Peter Wolf. Now tell me about Poukaha pokah. Oh.
Actually they all send me send you their favorite, their
famous little greetings from Yeah, well you know what I
mean from from from the Waii Rapper. It was unbelievable.
(01:36):
We had a great time and it was a fabulous
day yesterday. Lots of people, lots of walks, lots of talks,
lots of strange stuff. It was great.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
It was fantastic. It's a gym that place.
Speaker 3 (01:46):
It is a gem that place. And I was the
only one that was staying there for two nights, which
on the lodge in the lot. Yeah. Oh yeah, no,
it's my room. No, don't, don't you start that, it's
my room. So we we had Kaka there and I
saw I was there on the first night. They were
about twenty five thirty primosning literally outside my door alive.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
How fabulous, huge things, how cool?
Speaker 2 (02:12):
How cool?
Speaker 3 (02:13):
And the ruer we're looking at and say, I'll have
one of those? Got it?
Speaker 1 (02:17):
Really?
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Because the ruor are missing at the moment, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Yeah they are absolutely. Yeah, it was hilarious to see
all that happened. I just up to be Quels. I
haven't that much sleep.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Yeah, fair enough, fair enough, hey, and we can do
a little giveaway because it feels like the garden well
certainly the weeds are coming up along with everything else.
So if you can get stuck under those, it's the
old Clarks Cultivator.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
There you go. We've done this before. And Chris and
and Bobby said, look, give them one away today, and
also make sure that when they when they hear this
on the radio, for instance, and I'll have to find
the eitles because of course I'm totally unprepared. Just came
out late last night in grusturate. If you if you
(02:59):
want to buy one, we are doing it at a
really special price for Christmas right now, and you'll have
to mention within the next week that you heard this
on the radio, and you'll get it for quite a
bit cheaper. And you're getting basically from Clark Cultivator. You
can find those online easy. But one of those we're
going to give away today.
Speaker 2 (03:18):
And it's Clark c l A r K Clark Cultivator.
You just go Clark Cultivator dot co dot is it
and away we go, brilliant and we will give one away. Yeah,
because they are tremendously useful.
Speaker 3 (03:30):
Oh right, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (03:31):
Let's get into it right now. He wants to kill moths.
I don't think we'll take this call.
Speaker 3 (03:36):
Yeah we do.
Speaker 2 (03:36):
Oh okay, all right, go Roger.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Hello, good morning, good morning. I was to you yesterday afternoon,
and you have a spray there they've call kill moths
and also it kills borer. Nowman's interested and for killing borer?
Now why is seller? The floor is a eighteen hundred
(04:02):
square feet old house, and it's full of borer and
the dust drops down to the motor, onto my cellar
and the things. And if I get some of that
and spread, will I kill the borer?
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Well? Look it's it's so it comes. Actually the borer
is above you in the ceiling. You said, right, yes,
can you see the little holes in which the from
which the borers emerge?
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Yes, well okay, yes, there were.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
No This is just for Pete's Pete's edification. Pete. These
are the house borer, the European houseborer we're talking about, Yes,
you know what I mean, the ones that actually it
came here of course with settlers in the in the
suitcases in there that wood wouldn't whatever cases in which
they migrated to New Zealand in the eighteen hundreds. So
this is what it is. And here comes to time
(04:51):
you are This is why I made that yesterday on
the Jettaime show. Quite a thing. This is the time
when they are starting to think about coming out finding
a mate and then laying eggs in old little borer
holes or on the on the wood itself from which
they came. And what you do now is you get
(05:11):
that spray that I was talking about. You spray it
on that surface from which they emerge. If they are
in contact with that surface for more than say ten seconds,
there ain't no mating.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Ah, yes, got it?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
Okay. So what the stuff that you use is the
residual aircraft spray that you can get from a company
called safe Works. One word safe works ends with an X, yes,
and they have company. They have shops in Auckland, Wellington,
christ Church probably some other places by now find them
(05:47):
online and give them a call and work it out.
You'll find that you can get a couple of those
cans and spray them literally, say about half a meter away,
and you literally treat the surface with that spray, that
that aerosolce spray.
Speaker 4 (06:02):
What was the name of that spray. That's what I
forgot it.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Well, the residual aircraft spray.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
Yeah, residual aircraft spray from Safe Work.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
Safe Works. If you explain that we had this conversation,
most of the staff at safe Works know who I
am because we I worked on making that stuff and
putting it on well and developing it in the nineteen eighties.
You were there time, No, I wasn't. I was in
(06:35):
Auckland at that time with the Ministry of Agriculture and
we were using that spray inside aircraft to stop insects
arriving in New Zealand, you know, and and we that
spray kills those insects before they even get to New Zealand.
That was That's how good it is.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Yes, Oh that's great.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Great, Safe Works with the next you find it.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
Your Safe Work with the next do thatchristened to you
for many years and years ago. I used to hear
you're on radio somewhere and I was underneasy.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Oh yeah, that was syndicated that old radio. Like this
radio show goes all over the.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
Orders of the beauty of radio. You can be anywhere
and nowadays anywhere in the world. I appreciate the call Roger.
You have a great day, Tanya, A very good morning.
Speaker 5 (07:26):
Oh goody, that's me morning. Kind What sort of corp
has built a black pouch underneath the ease of my house?
He must have posed, she must have at night, because
I'm confined to a cheer and suddenly it just appeared.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
What did you call it? A black couch?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Pouch? You know, a bag, pouch or pouch?
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Okay, yeah, what what color is it? It's black?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
What's black?
Speaker 1 (08:03):
What?
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Oh? Black is not a common thing in the natural
world of insects. You know, how big is.
Speaker 5 (08:11):
It about the size of a man's first what? Yes, Look,
I live in a very rare. I have spiders that
pretty spiders that have sawns on their backs. I'm in
a very I've created, Uh, I've created a very natural
(08:34):
garden here, like a cottage garden, lots of trees and
bush and flowers, full of bees and butterflies and bees.
I've got them all.
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Okay. Now, if you've got a pouch that has grown, uh,
you know, to that size, that might be the beginning
of a wasp nest. Could that be?
Speaker 5 (08:57):
Oh not?
Speaker 4 (08:58):
Do you know?
Speaker 5 (08:58):
I wondered?
Speaker 3 (09:01):
Yeah, that one?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Because it's broken. It's broken.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
Now, has it got these little hexagonal cells in it?
Speaker 5 (09:12):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:13):
No, that in that case, I may be totally wrong.
Speaker 5 (09:18):
From here, it looks like like set material. It looks
quite soft.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
No really, no, I can't. I cannot picture it in
my brain. I cannot identify it without you know, seeing
it in my brain. I do.
Speaker 5 (09:34):
I am close. I have a cowry tree on the property.
That's crazy, and I wondered if if that has any
influence on us.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Oh, maybe it does, but I don't know. I cannot
tell what it is. But just simply by listening to
this description, I'm afraid. I'm sorry. I can't help you
with that, but I can help you with one thing.
If you think that spiders with little spikes on their
back are strange, no they're not, because they're quite often
called two spine spiders and they look like that.
Speaker 5 (10:05):
Yeah they oh right, Oh well, oh.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
There you go. Hey, thank you, thank you for your call.
I'm sorry I can't help you with the other thing.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
All you take care and Margaret, good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (10:21):
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (10:22):
Rude.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
My I think they're asiatically so I've got several, but
just one of them has got it looks like sunburn
on the leaves, but the other seven got in there
that so if they're all going.
Speaker 3 (10:36):
Brown, they're all going off one plant only.
Speaker 6 (10:40):
Though, just on one plant.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
Anybody sprayed anything in the neighborhood, No, you haven't too,
So that's weird. Oh gosh, what could that be? I
could Oh, so they're slowly changing color and becoming brown.
Do they then start to become brittle and die off?
Speaker 6 (11:01):
Well they are, yes, okay, half of the leaf is good.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
That could well be then a fungal disease that actually
slowly taking them off.
Speaker 6 (11:11):
Well, why there's just one plant, god or not the others?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
That one drew the luckies, the lucky the lucky straw. No,
I mean that happens sometimes that you get one.
Speaker 6 (11:23):
Plant and they all been watered together. It's not like
it's too wet or too dry.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
No, And it could and you know what, it also
could be that there's something in the soil that started
to eat the bulbs or the little rootlets of the bulbs,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
And if that only that one very healthy.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Yeah, I know, Well that's what happens sometimes, might be
something in the ground go on.
Speaker 6 (11:45):
And also what is your opinion of worm wey for
a manure.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Not too bad at all. Brilliant, brilliant, why not? That's
that's how nature fertilizes itself with that sort of stuff.
Woms do nothing, but of course yeah, they they make,
They decay all sorts of bits in peace and transport
them through the ground to put that fertilizer. Literally what
(12:11):
it is all over the place, in a forest or
in your garden. So when we as such is a
pretty useful material.
Speaker 6 (12:18):
Oh that's good because I have been using it. But
I just wondered how good it was.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
It is good. It's better than you're wee, is it? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (12:28):
Well I heard that's quite good for the garden too.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
I'm not going to go there, darling.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
No, okay, rude, thank you, christ.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Well, intervene. Now, before we hit down the path that
we just can't come back from, we're going to take
a short break. Also after the break i'll tell you
last week on the show, we ran a little competition
for some Legos and Team New Zealand Lego. I've got
the winners, I'll tell you who they are. And after
the break back, but keen to get amongst it, I'll
tell you what last week you know with the America's Cup. Razine,
(13:03):
who are actually heavily involved with the America's Cup because
they make the paint that goes on the boats. Through
Razine construction. We had three lego kits to give away.
We got a lot of people entering, which was awesome.
So Uppolagnia and Duned and Claire in At and Karl
in Tirau are going to get these amazing lego kits.
(13:24):
I think there's a few pieces and they're pretty awesome. Anyway,
they're on their way to you, So that's fantastic. In
someone today is going to go home, well is going
to get a Clark Cultivator as well.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Which is awesome. We're getting to send them to you.
Just talking about Razine. Another little heads up the Kiwi
art trail that's going on in Towrong Animal, which is
actually quite lovely to see. It's also sponsored partly bow Rasine.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
Didn't know that interesting. What's the art trail about? Imagine
and you've got a walk.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
No, imagine having a Kiwi are big Kiwi kind of made,
you know as such, and then artists paint them are
brilliant and they have these weird Well go online look
at the Kiwi are.
Speaker 2 (14:05):
And two on the next in January for a wedding.
Will they still be around?
Speaker 3 (14:10):
No, seventieth of November okay, And guess where I'm going
to be between now and the seventieth of November.
Speaker 1 (14:17):
You go.
Speaker 3 (14:18):
Actually that's another thing. Bay have plenty Arts and garden Festival.
If you I'm there for the whole week. Go and
I'll meet you there and it'll be a hell of
a lot of fun. Both plenty arts at garden Festival excellent. Hey,
now I forwarded you an email from our mystery caller
last week who had the worm and the irrigation.
Speaker 4 (14:38):
Oh.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yes, so the worm is like a white.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Worm and when it was in the palm of his hand,
I estimated to be about forty millimeters long. Jeepers, I know.
Speaker 3 (14:50):
Oh whit. Oh that's that's lot. That's quite. That's quite worm.
And then and then as hell of course, well you're
gotta be yeah, but not so much to be fair,
I mean, it's you got the photo.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, I sent it to you.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Ok, that's me. That's me being an aeroplanes.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
No, just comparing if he's got similar palm markings for me,
I reckon it is about without a word of a light.
It'll be thirty five to forty millimeters long. I'm probably
about two millimeters in diameter.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
And it's why I'll have to look at that. I'm
going to make a note to self next week of course,
Central Otagos.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
You know, we get to the bottom of this mystery
for dinners right right now, though, Mary, go talk to us.
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
I'm just three about.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
The aircraft spray.
Speaker 5 (15:41):
Yeah, yeah, there never no eight hundred numbers that we
can get because I can't get hold of it.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
I think it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
I don't know that repels aircraft.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
No, it doesn't repel what I'm talking about. I think
I think they may be because it's a safety company,
safe Works. They might not be opening in there on
the Sunday. I'm not even sure if they open on
the Saturday, but they'll open any other day after that.
Speaker 4 (16:06):
Christ such are they?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Oh, I'll tell you they're on Hoswell Junction Road. There
you go.
Speaker 5 (16:12):
Boom okay, thank you very.
Speaker 2 (16:15):
Much, Tanya, Good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (16:20):
Yes, good morning. So rude, I've got a bit of
a scary problem where I've got mulbrow trees, a black
one and a white variety planted about ten years ago,
and yes they're matter, but I do keep them trimmed
a little bit, but they're still quite high. And like
(16:41):
about last year, I saw a massive route climbing about
four meters away from the tree into a back garden,
a raised garden, and I cut that with my chain
sort of thinking kroky, that was voracious. And then in
the front garden yesterday replaced three rows gardens and dug
(17:04):
the soil out, because you know, when you're playing the roses,
you've got to put change the soil. Blah blah blah.
And what did I find? What did I find in
the front garden like it had gone under the house
or I don't know, frightening and voracious? What the hell
do I have to cut those trees down?
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Whoa? How do you know? It was the roots of
that melbury tree.
Speaker 5 (17:26):
I recognize them from when I cut the root with
my chainsaw in the back garden. They're sort of like
it's an orange color with a very woody center. And
it was frightening to find that it had come that far.
And I'm thinking Jesus, yeah.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah, yeah, I know, I find that extraordinary, by the way,
and to be quite honest, I'm growing a melburry as well.
You know why I grow in Melbury?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
The toys go meant, well, your whole trees full of toys.
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Yeah. No, I want I grow melburry because I want
to grow what do you call these things? It doesn't matter.
Forgot some caterpillars. What do you call these? G selkworms?
Speaker 5 (18:10):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (18:10):
What?
Speaker 3 (18:10):
I want to grow selk worms on the leaves of Melbury.
That's the story. Okay, don't worry, but I did. Mine
is not that bit misbehaving. It actually stays in one
place and it grows quite nicely. I haven't heard of
it going real quick, I know, I never ever heard
of going that far.
Speaker 5 (18:27):
That would be I bought them as large trees. That
mind you, I bought them as large trees. I got
them installed as large trees, and then it's been them
for about ten years.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
No, to be quite honest, I did not know that.
But what you then need to start doing is actually
get some dig around the Melbury trees and make sure
that you start intercepting those roots before they go that far.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (18:50):
It's just incredible. And also there was a drain that
I came across which I didn't even know I had
When I was I dug right down to remove all
of the soil and that rose gardens. And I came
across a drain and I saw the roots even in
that way down. Unbelievable. You wouldn't even be able to
(19:13):
get around that deep and that and that far. Seriously
but spooky. I'm thinking, do I need to cut those
trees down? I love those trees?
Speaker 3 (19:23):
But yeah, not a little question. Do you have Boo
to car a nearby?
Speaker 5 (19:30):
No?
Speaker 3 (19:31):
Okay, I know Peter and Peter and I know that
we can do this sort of nonsense.
Speaker 5 (19:37):
I know that too.
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, no, but I hadn't heard of I had not.
I have never heard that of Melbourny trees.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
I wouldn't blame the tree though. It's problem with the drain.
It's not the tree. The trees still not trees.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
Do there you go? Good boy?
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Back in the mow. Oh what a busy old morning, rood.
Speaker 3 (19:57):
We've been fairly flat out, haven't we. But it's been
good so we've got the little worm to check out.
But anyway, and I'll see if I can. For next
week I'm going to be in central Otagos. You have
to do it probably from from.
Speaker 2 (20:12):
We'll figure it out on the day, Okay.
Speaker 3 (20:15):
Other than that makes being fine and can't cultivated by
the way, I think Margaret is a person perfect. She
was wonderful with her lily. I love that one, lily.
It's very good.
Speaker 2 (20:26):
I'm not getting into the garden today as well.
Speaker 3 (20:27):
Right, you get on with it it.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Again next week. Take care all of this. Hey, thanks
very much for your company this morning, folks. Next week
on the show, Ben Johnson talking about the Fencing Act.
He is a lawyer. He'll be with me next Sunday.
Look forward to hearing from him.
Speaker 1 (20:42):
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