November 23, 2024 • 19 mins
This week, Pete and Ruud answer your questions about keeping your garden in the best shape it can be this season!
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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):
B, and you're a News Talks B and climb past a.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Very good morning, sir, Hey, good morning Peter.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Right, can I ask you a question? Very quickly? We
had an interesting call.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
No, you can't. You can't. Now you're not one of
the callers. You are.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm going to go out into the studio from go
on you take.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
So A Coller rang in about a quarter to eight
and said, look, I've had a pest control guy come
to help with sorting out Bora, and they made the
suggestion that he should remove the polystyrene insulation because Bora
seemed to like it. You know, so if we look
(00:53):
at underfloor insulation, you can have wool, you can have polyester,
you can have glass wool, you can have polystyrene. Is
any of those Are any of those products attractive to
Bora in any way?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I don't think so. I think that all they're interested
in is lay eggs on non treated timber for the
simple reason that those eggs will turn into a little lively,
into little grubs. If you like that, will then go
into that particular timber and start making all these little holes,
the tiny holes that you and I love so much.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah, so, okay, So the fact that you've got underfloor
insallation and you've got borer the underfloor insulation is unlikely
to make a more attractive habitat for them.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I don't think so. It makes it a bit warmer,
and that means that they go quicker through their life cycle.
That's about it. But to say that they are attracted
by the insulation, I don't think so. Oh. I think
it's just what that they're going for.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, I would have thought so as well, right he Oh, Now,
apparently what is bronze beetle? And why are people so
upset about bronze beetle?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Right now? I've had so many texts today.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, bron this is the bronze beetle time and November
is a great time for them. They are actually small
brown or bronzy beetles. So they're a little bit the
size of slightly bigger than lady birds if you like
ladywood beetles. They fly at night, and they do not
fly on their own. They fly in massive numbers. And
(02:25):
what they do is they go to your fruit tree,
they go to other plants and they are totally not
selective in terms of what they like to eat, but
they love to eat leaves. They cause an enormous defoliation
or if you like, holes being chewed in leaves very quickly,
and very obviously too, because that's why people are so
(02:47):
hecked off. But here is the good news. Well, no,
let me first tell you. So they do this whole
thing of eating the leaves. Then they go and mate,
usually on those leaves at night, in the middle of
the night, and as soon as you go in the
morning and you see them, they are getting scared of you.
They drop off the leaves and lay their eggs literally
(03:09):
in the soil. So that's how they go on. And
then the larvae will start eating the roots of those
plants as well. So yes, they do a bit of damage.
But here comes to thing. In terms of the loss
of leaves, usually there is nothing to do with the
health of the plant. The plant will literally put a
few more leaves on in no time to balance out
(03:33):
the amount of roots and the amount of leaves. So
if they then go looking at their roots and see
that that's been eaten as well, that's exactly a balancing
act as well. The beetle does it all for you.
But to be quite honest, it's not that bad. It
looks awful, I must admit, but it's healthwise not that bad.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Okay, fascinating, right, we appreciate that. Gets a couple of
chushions out of the way. Oh and just to wrap
up a dilemma that earlier call ahead with regard to
a canvas tint that had a bit of mold curtain
was it Apparently is a very good solution for that.
So hopefully that's the answer to that problem.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So a very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Good morning. I have got a live in christ Church
and I have run a beans that are flowering, but
nice beans are forming. Is that a feeding problem or
a cold problem?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
It could be a problem of not having been pollinated.
Have you got any bumble bees nearby?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Well no, I haven't seen them.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
No. Well that's that's the thing. Those beans, when they
flower need to be pollinated in order to make those
flowers turn into little and then larger beans if you like.
So that is quite often the case. I think if
you have pollinators and you still do not get much beans,
(05:01):
it might be indeed to do with the fact that
you need to fertilize it with some NPAK a fertilizer.
Literally that's all you need to do. But generally speaking,
it is the pollination that will start it all off.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
And liquid fertilizer seafood fertilizer. Can I use that or
do I need an all purpose one?
Speaker 8 (05:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
The liquid liquid seaweed fertilizer will be brilliant to use
on beans and things like that. When you if you
have to water your plant because it's dry, for instance,
use the liquid fertilizer to know, a very dilute version
of that stuff. Use the liquid fertilizer to water your
(05:45):
plant and fertilize it at the same time.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Thank you for your help.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You are welcome to you go well.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Nice to hear from you. So you take care.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I read some of the other days someone's talking about
the fact that, you know, we've had a full moon.
Now's a great time to fertilize.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Oh yeah, Oh my goodness, have you got a moment?
Speaker 8 (06:11):
Now?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It's about it's it's about.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Its attractive to me. I was like, hey, that makes sense.
That's a great idea. I'm going to make sure I
do some fertilizer in the garden because apparently the plants
love it when it's a full moon, and you.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Know, yeah, and it's the same. It's the same with
with if you God, if you go, if you're planting
for it's you plant with certain move phases and things
like that. That's so you don't step on them at night. Sorry,
that's just taking the mickey, But no, no, there is.
To be quite honest, there is. And you can be
(06:44):
against for it or against And I'm sitting somewhere nowhere
in the middle because I've heard it all before and
I'm never one hundred percent sure how much signs there
is for this particular statement, and that is the point.
But Mato and maraamataka in in the in the tyral
in in the Maori system actually looks at them constantly,
(07:07):
and there are a lot of people in the world
that actually work like that. And I don't see any
problem with that. If that's what makes you feel good
and if you've got better results, go for it. But personally,
I have the feeling that when Princeton's seeds fall down,
there comes a time that they will have to also
if you're like germanate and give you a new plant.
(07:29):
And in my opinion, that could happen anytime when those
seeds are falling down. That is probably more important.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I think I'm still going to go out and fertilize
today because time in the garden. Right here, let's get
the calls again, Marion, A very good morning to you. Hello, Marian,
good morning, good morning.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
Is that rude sometimes?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (07:55):
My husband used to it with you in Boundary Road?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh my goodness. Oh, at the Ministry of Anger and
fish Heads. No, he was, he was probably I know
what you mean. We were together with whatever it was called. Yeah. Okay, Marion,
good okay.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
And you're now down at Harnville. Yeah, yeah, my husband
my son lived in Hallsville and School Road.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Oh gosh, so you keep on following me.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
It's not my following you, it's my son.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah. Yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
And I know where you are. You're above the quarry, yeah,
up there.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Anyway, what was your question, Rosemary? Rosemary?
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Okay, Yeah, we've had a I had a little garden
there afraid of and we had the house built and
they put the shingle just there. We tried to get
rid of all of the shingle, and of course it's
pretty impossible, but so I had a little garden, a
(09:10):
little curse garden, and they used to put plants on
it and weed them and all the rest. And my
son gave me a couple of roses. I put the
roses and they crashed with each other. One was red
and one was purple. But anyway, say, and my husband
got pulled it all the way up and he put
the rows me there. It grew like mad and he
(09:32):
swimmers and all the rest. But I got a disease.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
What disease? What does it look like?
Speaker 7 (09:38):
I don't know if virus has just killed it?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh, really did, and it did go quickly as well.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Slowly slowly. I said, Johnny's better cut out that branch there.
And anyway, we've popped it all off and we're pulling
it out, and basically I want to put some hydrangers there.
Do you think that's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I don't see why not, unless it's, for instance, super
moist soil or a very dry soil, or there is
uh yeah, from a disease perspective, without being able to
identify what the rosemary died, you think it was a virus?
I think, yeah, okay, in that case, that virus might
(10:29):
be very specific to rosemary and for instance, not do
anything else. You want the plant, so have it go
and see how it works.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
M Yeah, we don't want to put back a rosemary
because it will just.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, exactly, that's and that is that makes total sense.
You don't need a moon calendar for that. But but yeah, no,
I get that point. But if you try hydranger and
hydrangeers can tend to be pretty sturdy for a lot
of things, including diseases. In fact, I don't see many
diseases on Julie's hydra as it all.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
And in all different. I know it. I know they
get it from the saw that you put it.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Think one next, yeah, yeah, fabulous things. Marian, thank you
very much for your call. There.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
We're going to talk to Keith straight after the break
back in.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
The month.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
And here a new we're going to talk to Keith.
A very good morning to you, Keith. How are you today?
There we go, Keith greetings.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
Yes, yeah, how are you?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Good things? What's up?
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Good?
Speaker 9 (11:41):
Look, I've got a problem with apple cucumbers. So the
last two years I've put new plants in. They've grown
that they flower profusely, they get little fruit on them
about the size of your thumb mailing and the whole
thing dies. And I'm wondering what the problem might be.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Can you tell me, Keith? Do you see pollinators on flowers?
Do you see bees? Bumblebees?
Speaker 9 (12:10):
There are a few bees around because there's other plants
in the in the in the garden. But for two
years on the trop this has happened. And and there's
other people, and I live in a retirement village, and
there's others in the village that are having the same problem.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Okay, Number one, if and this is always with these
with cucumbers and things like that, the Cukerbert group, if
you like, they need good pollination. That means that the
flowers only do females need pollinated of course from the
male from the male flowers that are there. If there's
not enough bees, the plant thinks, oh my gosh, I
(12:48):
haven't got enough bees. So I'm going to get more
male flowers to get the pollen to my female flowers.
And that is a mistaken thing of the plant, because
if you put a lot of bees there, that shouldn't happen,
do you know what I mean? So that's number one.
The second The second thing is that so you would
you have to attract the bees in this case, there's
(13:09):
no doubt about that, and that is basically all you
need to do to make it happen.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Okay, So if I put a levender plant or something
like that in there, that will attract the bees.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Excellent, excellent. The second thing that could happen is that
if the fruits are actually growing but not growing that well,
it could be a lack of potash in your fertilizer regime.
Sulfate of potash, that is, that is a material you
can get from the shops, would help you change that
possession and get more potash there.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
Yeah, yeah, I put I've put a blood and bone
in there, mixed it all in the pot put the
plants in.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And blood and bone. But blood and bone does not
contain any potash at all.
Speaker 9 (13:56):
Oh okay, okay, all right, so I potash is a secret.
And then throwing elevender plant.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yes please, or facilia all these blue plants that those
bubble bees lovey, You'll be.
Speaker 9 (14:09):
Fine, Okay, that's good pleasurevery much.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
A very nice thank you, Keith.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
And I mean, hey, you can never have enough leavender.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Figure. We need to take another short break.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
We'll be back with Linen just a moment, so we're
going to hand over shortly to the commentary team, but
ahead of that, just briefly, Lynn a very good morning
to you.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Good morning, Peter Rude. We have a mandarin tree that's
not behaving. It's its second year of fruiting. It gets
fed citrus fruit, the citrus fertilizer. It's watered properly, and
the fruit are dry. They look perfect, but the fruit's dry. Now,
every other tree, citrus tree is fine, And just wondering
(14:53):
would it be a dud?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
When is this? When should this mandarin grow and fruit
and be.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Ready to go breating at the moment.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
But would that be normally a winter thing? Mandarin's quite often, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
It's got fruit that should be ripe on it at
the moment. So use that is developing through the winter.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Okay, quite often if they've been left on the tree
too long, they might be getting dry.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
No no, no, no no no no, Oka sayyeh.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, I can't see it. So I'm just saying. Second
thing is if you have citrus fruit, that might work
as well. I know for a fact that quite a
few fruit trees give you a lot better and sweeter
fruit when you add a little bit of extra pottage
in the mix.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Okay, okay, that's.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
The same sort of thing the self had of potage
that we talked about earlier. Is quite often the material
that is helping with the development of the fruit. And
that would also mean the moisture of it.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Yeah. Yeah, I use quite a bit of pottish with
the roses and they awfully out beautifully.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
So yeah, okay, so that that would be my guess
right now, your restriction exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
And the other thing is, of course, keep all the
weeds from no competitional fights around round you know what
I mean.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Perfect, Let's be around that ring, you know, the ring
of the tree. He keeps it all nice and hold
up and everything.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So it's not you that's doing it. You've got you've
got a slave doing that.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Yes, yes, very good.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I love it. You sound like you know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Well done, appreciate the.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Rud.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
We've got a minute and a half. So let's run
through some texts. Uh rud. Would an influx of Peruri
moths kill a peruri tree from Bill?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
No? No, not at all. No, No, oh gosh, what
a question I am. So it doesn't occur into South
island and I'm so missing that that moth go on.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I tell you why, I'm in fascinated with the Periri
moths at the moment is my favorite Ruru. There's a
guy who's who's got mister and missus Ruru in his
in a box in his tree with three chicks now,
which is fabulous, and he posts about it every day.
And the mail rue brings in moths by the bucket
(17:32):
load by all accounts, as well as chicks from other species.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
To be fair, I saw that at I had twenty
five those moths on my outside my door where I
was staying at Puka. You know the building anyway, No,
it's stunning.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Right and treatment. Someone's had some ant treatment done around
the house. The guy who did the treatment said that
the lemon tree is the problem.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Not necessarily the lemon tree will only go. It's only
if it's got a scale or in that sort of
stuff that makes honey dew. That's when the ends come.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Someone has transplanted a small magnolia tree a few weeks back.
They've now the leaves have turned all brown. It has
been watered every day. Should I prune it back or
just hope overwater.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
That's that's funny. I thought the same thing. Yeah, overwatering. Yeah, okay,
to being too nice to it.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
So what Let it dry out and let it dry.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Out and prune it when it's when it's getting you
know there you might get new leaves. If that's case,
you don't prune too much.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
How do you attract bumblebees into the garden to encourage
fertilization for plants?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Go to the Bumblebee Trust in Taranna. They are online.
They've got everything you need. And I'll tell you next
time about my project on bumblebees in Takapo with the
school man. It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Right now, last question for you, how do you get
rid of onion weed? Oh, that's still a great way
to start an answer.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Now there is a real bug in there onion weed.
You need a good, good material to pray there. All right,
I'll think about it.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
All right, let's you do that and we'll talk on
the first of December next Sunday, mate, first of December.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Safe travels. Take care, take care right now. A quick
word of.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Thanks to you the listeners for being part of the show.
My boss rang me he wants to talk about ratings
that's Elizabeth nerve racking.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
The ratings are pretty good.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Thanks and that is due to you, so thank you
for being part of the show.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Enjoy your week.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
I'm going to look forward to the play this week
as well. Take care the All Blacks. We will swap
to our live commentary team. Commentary starts after the break
and the match kicks off just after nine o'clock. Have
a great week, take care, See you next Sunday.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
B, and you're a News Talks B and climb past a.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Very good morning, sir, Hey, good morning Peter.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Right, can I ask you a question? Very quickly? We
had an interesting call.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
No, you can't. You can't. Now you're not one of
the callers. You are.
Speaker 2 (00:27):
I'm going to go out into the studio from go
on you take.
Speaker 4 (00:33):
So A Coller rang in about a quarter to eight
and said, look, I've had a pest control guy come
to help with sorting out Bora, and they made the
suggestion that he should remove the polystyrene insulation because Bora
seemed to like it. You know, so if we look
(00:53):
at underfloor insulation, you can have wool, you can have polyester,
you can have glass wool, you can have polystyrene. Is
any of those Are any of those products attractive to
Bora in any way?
Speaker 5 (01:06):
No?
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I don't think so. I think that all they're interested
in is lay eggs on non treated timber for the
simple reason that those eggs will turn into a little lively,
into little grubs. If you like that, will then go
into that particular timber and start making all these little holes,
the tiny holes that you and I love so much.
Speaker 4 (01:27):
Yeah, so, okay, So the fact that you've got underfloor
insallation and you've got borer the underfloor insulation is unlikely
to make a more attractive habitat for them.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
I don't think so. It makes it a bit warmer,
and that means that they go quicker through their life cycle.
That's about it. But to say that they are attracted
by the insulation, I don't think so. Oh. I think
it's just what that they're going for.
Speaker 4 (01:50):
Yeah, I would have thought so as well, right he Oh, Now,
apparently what is bronze beetle? And why are people so
upset about bronze beetle?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Right now? I've had so many texts today.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
Yeah, bron this is the bronze beetle time and November
is a great time for them. They are actually small
brown or bronzy beetles. So they're a little bit the
size of slightly bigger than lady birds if you like
ladywood beetles. They fly at night, and they do not
fly on their own. They fly in massive numbers. And
(02:25):
what they do is they go to your fruit tree,
they go to other plants and they are totally not
selective in terms of what they like to eat, but
they love to eat leaves. They cause an enormous defoliation
or if you like, holes being chewed in leaves very quickly,
and very obviously too, because that's why people are so
(02:47):
hecked off. But here is the good news. Well, no,
let me first tell you. So they do this whole
thing of eating the leaves. Then they go and mate,
usually on those leaves at night, in the middle of
the night, and as soon as you go in the
morning and you see them, they are getting scared of you.
They drop off the leaves and lay their eggs literally
(03:09):
in the soil. So that's how they go on. And
then the larvae will start eating the roots of those
plants as well. So yes, they do a bit of damage.
But here comes to thing. In terms of the loss
of leaves, usually there is nothing to do with the
health of the plant. The plant will literally put a
few more leaves on in no time to balance out
(03:33):
the amount of roots and the amount of leaves. So
if they then go looking at their roots and see
that that's been eaten as well, that's exactly a balancing
act as well. The beetle does it all for you.
But to be quite honest, it's not that bad. It
looks awful, I must admit, but it's healthwise not that bad.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Okay, fascinating, right, we appreciate that. Gets a couple of
chushions out of the way. Oh and just to wrap
up a dilemma that earlier call ahead with regard to
a canvas tint that had a bit of mold curtain
was it Apparently is a very good solution for that.
So hopefully that's the answer to that problem.
Speaker 2 (04:13):
So a very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (04:16):
Good morning. I have got a live in christ Church
and I have run a beans that are flowering, but
nice beans are forming. Is that a feeding problem or
a cold problem?
Speaker 3 (04:29):
It could be a problem of not having been pollinated.
Have you got any bumble bees nearby?
Speaker 6 (04:38):
Well no, I haven't seen them.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
No. Well that's that's the thing. Those beans, when they
flower need to be pollinated in order to make those
flowers turn into little and then larger beans if you like.
So that is quite often the case. I think if
you have pollinators and you still do not get much beans,
(05:01):
it might be indeed to do with the fact that
you need to fertilize it with some NPAK a fertilizer.
Literally that's all you need to do. But generally speaking,
it is the pollination that will start it all off.
Speaker 7 (05:15):
Thank you.
Speaker 6 (05:16):
And liquid fertilizer seafood fertilizer. Can I use that or
do I need an all purpose one?
Speaker 8 (05:23):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:24):
The liquid liquid seaweed fertilizer will be brilliant to use
on beans and things like that. When you if you
have to water your plant because it's dry, for instance,
use the liquid fertilizer to know, a very dilute version
of that stuff. Use the liquid fertilizer to water your
(05:45):
plant and fertilize it at the same time.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Thank you for your help.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
You are welcome to you go well.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Nice to hear from you. So you take care.
Speaker 4 (05:56):
I read some of the other days someone's talking about
the fact that, you know, we've had a full moon.
Now's a great time to fertilize.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Oh yeah, Oh my goodness, have you got a moment?
Speaker 8 (06:11):
Now?
Speaker 3 (06:12):
It's about it's it's about.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
Its attractive to me. I was like, hey, that makes sense.
That's a great idea. I'm going to make sure I
do some fertilizer in the garden because apparently the plants
love it when it's a full moon, and you.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Know, yeah, and it's the same. It's the same with
with if you God, if you go, if you're planting
for it's you plant with certain move phases and things
like that. That's so you don't step on them at night. Sorry,
that's just taking the mickey, But no, no, there is.
To be quite honest, there is. And you can be
(06:44):
against for it or against And I'm sitting somewhere nowhere
in the middle because I've heard it all before and
I'm never one hundred percent sure how much signs there
is for this particular statement, and that is the point.
But Mato and maraamataka in in the in the tyral
in in the Maori system actually looks at them constantly,
(07:07):
and there are a lot of people in the world
that actually work like that. And I don't see any
problem with that. If that's what makes you feel good
and if you've got better results, go for it. But personally,
I have the feeling that when Princeton's seeds fall down,
there comes a time that they will have to also
if you're like germanate and give you a new plant.
(07:29):
And in my opinion, that could happen anytime when those
seeds are falling down. That is probably more important.
Speaker 4 (07:36):
I think I'm still going to go out and fertilize
today because time in the garden. Right here, let's get
the calls again, Marion, A very good morning to you. Hello, Marian,
good morning, good morning.
Speaker 9 (07:50):
Is that rude sometimes?
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Yeah?
Speaker 7 (07:55):
My husband used to it with you in Boundary Road?
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Oh my goodness. Oh, at the Ministry of Anger and
fish Heads. No, he was, he was probably I know
what you mean. We were together with whatever it was called. Yeah. Okay, Marion,
good okay.
Speaker 7 (08:17):
And you're now down at Harnville. Yeah, yeah, my husband
my son lived in Hallsville and School Road.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Oh gosh, so you keep on following me.
Speaker 7 (08:31):
It's not my following you, it's my son.
Speaker 3 (08:34):
Yeah. Yeah, fair enough.
Speaker 7 (08:36):
And I know where you are. You're above the quarry, yeah,
up there.
Speaker 3 (08:41):
Anyway, what was your question, Rosemary? Rosemary?
Speaker 7 (08:47):
Okay, Yeah, we've had a I had a little garden
there afraid of and we had the house built and
they put the shingle just there. We tried to get
rid of all of the shingle, and of course it's
pretty impossible, but so I had a little garden, a
(09:10):
little curse garden, and they used to put plants on
it and weed them and all the rest. And my
son gave me a couple of roses. I put the
roses and they crashed with each other. One was red
and one was purple. But anyway, say, and my husband
got pulled it all the way up and he put
the rows me there. It grew like mad and he
(09:32):
swimmers and all the rest. But I got a disease.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
What disease? What does it look like?
Speaker 7 (09:38):
I don't know if virus has just killed it?
Speaker 3 (09:41):
Oh, really did, and it did go quickly as well.
Speaker 7 (09:46):
Slowly slowly. I said, Johnny's better cut out that branch there.
And anyway, we've popped it all off and we're pulling
it out, and basically I want to put some hydrangers there.
Do you think that's a good idea.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
I don't see why not, unless it's, for instance, super
moist soil or a very dry soil, or there is
uh yeah, from a disease perspective, without being able to
identify what the rosemary died, you think it was a virus?
I think, yeah, okay, in that case, that virus might
(10:29):
be very specific to rosemary and for instance, not do
anything else. You want the plant, so have it go
and see how it works.
Speaker 7 (10:38):
M Yeah, we don't want to put back a rosemary
because it will just.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Yeah, exactly, that's and that is that makes total sense.
You don't need a moon calendar for that. But but yeah, no,
I get that point. But if you try hydranger and
hydrangeers can tend to be pretty sturdy for a lot
of things, including diseases. In fact, I don't see many
diseases on Julie's hydra as it all.
Speaker 7 (11:09):
And in all different. I know it. I know they
get it from the saw that you put it.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
Think one next, yeah, yeah, fabulous things. Marian, thank you
very much for your call. There.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
We're going to talk to Keith straight after the break
back in.
Speaker 1 (11:25):
The month.
Speaker 4 (11:30):
And here a new we're going to talk to Keith.
A very good morning to you, Keith. How are you today?
There we go, Keith greetings.
Speaker 9 (11:37):
Yes, yeah, how are you?
Speaker 2 (11:39):
Good things? What's up?
Speaker 8 (11:41):
Good?
Speaker 9 (11:41):
Look, I've got a problem with apple cucumbers. So the
last two years I've put new plants in. They've grown
that they flower profusely, they get little fruit on them
about the size of your thumb mailing and the whole
thing dies. And I'm wondering what the problem might be.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Can you tell me, Keith? Do you see pollinators on flowers?
Do you see bees? Bumblebees?
Speaker 9 (12:10):
There are a few bees around because there's other plants
in the in the in the garden. But for two
years on the trop this has happened. And and there's
other people, and I live in a retirement village, and
there's others in the village that are having the same problem.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Okay, Number one, if and this is always with these
with cucumbers and things like that, the Cukerbert group, if
you like, they need good pollination. That means that the
flowers only do females need pollinated of course from the
male from the male flowers that are there. If there's
not enough bees, the plant thinks, oh my gosh, I
(12:48):
haven't got enough bees. So I'm going to get more
male flowers to get the pollen to my female flowers.
And that is a mistaken thing of the plant, because
if you put a lot of bees there, that shouldn't happen,
do you know what I mean? So that's number one.
The second The second thing is that so you would
you have to attract the bees in this case, there's
(13:09):
no doubt about that, and that is basically all you
need to do to make it happen.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Okay, So if I put a levender plant or something
like that in there, that will attract the bees.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
Excellent, excellent. The second thing that could happen is that
if the fruits are actually growing but not growing that well,
it could be a lack of potash in your fertilizer regime.
Sulfate of potash, that is, that is a material you
can get from the shops, would help you change that
possession and get more potash there.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
Yeah, yeah, I put I've put a blood and bone
in there, mixed it all in the pot put the
plants in.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
And blood and bone. But blood and bone does not
contain any potash at all.
Speaker 9 (13:56):
Oh okay, okay, all right, so I potash is a secret.
And then throwing elevender plant.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Yes please, or facilia all these blue plants that those
bubble bees lovey, You'll be.
Speaker 9 (14:09):
Fine, Okay, that's good pleasurevery much.
Speaker 2 (14:12):
A very nice thank you, Keith.
Speaker 4 (14:14):
And I mean, hey, you can never have enough leavender.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
Figure. We need to take another short break.
Speaker 4 (14:20):
We'll be back with Linen just a moment, so we're
going to hand over shortly to the commentary team, but
ahead of that, just briefly, Lynn a very good morning
to you.
Speaker 5 (14:29):
Good morning, Peter Rude. We have a mandarin tree that's
not behaving. It's its second year of fruiting. It gets
fed citrus fruit, the citrus fertilizer. It's watered properly, and
the fruit are dry. They look perfect, but the fruit's dry. Now,
every other tree, citrus tree is fine, And just wondering
(14:53):
would it be a dud?
Speaker 3 (14:54):
When is this? When should this mandarin grow and fruit
and be.
Speaker 5 (15:00):
Ready to go breating at the moment.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
But would that be normally a winter thing? Mandarin's quite often, Yeah.
Speaker 5 (15:09):
It's got fruit that should be ripe on it at
the moment. So use that is developing through the winter.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Okay, quite often if they've been left on the tree
too long, they might be getting dry.
Speaker 5 (15:20):
No no, no, no no no no, Oka sayyeh.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, I can't see it. So I'm just saying. Second
thing is if you have citrus fruit, that might work
as well. I know for a fact that quite a
few fruit trees give you a lot better and sweeter
fruit when you add a little bit of extra pottage
in the mix.
Speaker 5 (15:40):
Okay, okay, that's.
Speaker 3 (15:43):
The same sort of thing the self had of potage
that we talked about earlier. Is quite often the material
that is helping with the development of the fruit. And
that would also mean the moisture of it.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
Yeah. Yeah, I use quite a bit of pottish with
the roses and they awfully out beautifully.
Speaker 8 (15:59):
So yeah, okay, so that that would be my guess
right now, your restriction exactly.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
And the other thing is, of course, keep all the
weeds from no competitional fights around round you know what
I mean.
Speaker 5 (16:16):
Perfect, Let's be around that ring, you know, the ring
of the tree. He keeps it all nice and hold
up and everything.
Speaker 8 (16:24):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So it's not you that's doing it. You've got you've
got a slave doing that.
Speaker 5 (16:29):
Yes, yes, very good.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
I love it. You sound like you know what you're doing.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
Well done, appreciate the.
Speaker 3 (16:47):
Rud.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
We've got a minute and a half. So let's run
through some texts. Uh rud. Would an influx of Peruri
moths kill a peruri tree from Bill?
Speaker 3 (16:58):
No? No, not at all. No, No, oh gosh, what
a question I am. So it doesn't occur into South
island and I'm so missing that that moth go on.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
I tell you why, I'm in fascinated with the Periri
moths at the moment is my favorite Ruru. There's a
guy who's who's got mister and missus Ruru in his
in a box in his tree with three chicks now,
which is fabulous, and he posts about it every day.
And the mail rue brings in moths by the bucket
(17:32):
load by all accounts, as well as chicks from other species.
Speaker 3 (17:35):
To be fair, I saw that at I had twenty
five those moths on my outside my door where I
was staying at Puka. You know the building anyway, No,
it's stunning.
Speaker 4 (17:48):
Right and treatment. Someone's had some ant treatment done around
the house. The guy who did the treatment said that
the lemon tree is the problem.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Is that true?
Speaker 3 (17:57):
Not necessarily the lemon tree will only go. It's only
if it's got a scale or in that sort of
stuff that makes honey dew. That's when the ends come.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
Right.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Someone has transplanted a small magnolia tree a few weeks back.
They've now the leaves have turned all brown. It has
been watered every day. Should I prune it back or
just hope overwater.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
That's that's funny. I thought the same thing. Yeah, overwatering. Yeah, okay,
to being too nice to it.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
So what Let it dry out and let it dry.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Out and prune it when it's when it's getting you
know there you might get new leaves. If that's case,
you don't prune too much.
Speaker 4 (18:35):
How do you attract bumblebees into the garden to encourage
fertilization for plants?
Speaker 3 (18:41):
Go to the Bumblebee Trust in Taranna. They are online.
They've got everything you need. And I'll tell you next
time about my project on bumblebees in Takapo with the
school man. It's amazing.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
Right now, last question for you, how do you get
rid of onion weed? Oh, that's still a great way
to start an answer.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Now there is a real bug in there onion weed.
You need a good, good material to pray there. All right,
I'll think about it.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
All right, let's you do that and we'll talk on
the first of December next Sunday, mate, first of December.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Safe travels. Take care, take care right now. A quick
word of.
Speaker 4 (19:21):
Thanks to you the listeners for being part of the show.
My boss rang me he wants to talk about ratings
that's Elizabeth nerve racking.
Speaker 2 (19:29):
The ratings are pretty good.
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Thanks and that is due to you, so thank you
for being part of the show.
Speaker 2 (19:35):
Enjoy your week.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
I'm going to look forward to the play this week
as well. Take care the All Blacks. We will swap
to our live commentary team. Commentary starts after the break
and the match kicks off just after nine o'clock. Have
a great week, take care, See you next Sunday.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
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