December 7, 2024 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Your news Talk said, be a climb pass Good morning sir.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
A very good morning to you, Peter.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Indeed you will.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, I'm good, thank you, excellent you too. I like
the way you describe your your Tumblr.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Ah, you can get the tremendous sense of satisfaction seeing
a label on it that says that it was there
was like two hundred ninety nine bucks and I think
I paid twenty for it.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
So yeah, I'm that's a Dutch thing.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Absolutely. But more importantly, the compost that came out yesterday,
which has been brewing for a while, was just beautiful.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I had fabulous Yeah, I just I kind of haven't
had a lot of time to do contracting. But I've
got to get back into it. Gosh, you've got you.
I've done so much yesterday. I've planted a lot more tomatoes,
yes and yes, passion fruit again.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It'll go great, I'm sure. Oh so quick text Pete,
ask rud where the monic butterflies have gone?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Oh? That is non so. There's plenty of them here
in Canterbury and I've seen it seen on why hecky
all over the place, and where's.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
This next sentence? I saw the first one this season
visiting our fly flower garden at hon Ferro on Why
Hickey yesterday. There you go.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So what No, I was there for a whole week
a week ago. Unbelievable. They were everywhere, and to be quey,
they're quite good to I think this. I don't know
what's going on with these things. I got so many
caterpillars that and I didn't even have enough swan plants
and they don't even go there. Long story, they're fine.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Now, sorry, and this will be my last question because
I know people get frustrated with this. A little while
ago you mentioned something about purple colored flowers for and
for bumblebees. That's a thing, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Blue and purple, that's okay. Especially the blue is because blue.
This is something I do with scoolpit. I take a
UV torch with me and we go at night and
we look at everything through UV light, because what you
see through UV light at night in your garden is
what bugsy, what insects sea and during the day they
see the same thing, like butterflies through UV light. If
(02:32):
you like, if you can, you know shine on it
because they see that naturally from the sun. So if
you see at night what a purple or blue flower
looks like, then you suddenly realize you got the right
ones foot pollinator.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Right, okay, because the leavenders have just started to flower
again and dip sports all some little purple colored annuals
that are in the garden as well. And I've just
noticed how they tracked the bees and the bumblebees.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
That's it. And so Julia and I we got hold
of a couple of leavender that are about a meat
in a high high Wow. Yeah, this is a seriously
good variety. Got it from Felton Road Vineyard, by the way,
stole some we know, we were given to cuttings.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
And in the case of the finest yes.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
One day, one day, doctor Wulf, you will know what
that lovely Felton Roade vine tastes like. But anyway you'll
see that, that's what you that's when you see all
these bumblebees and bees and all these pollinators on and
then you know exactly what color blue woods.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know, how fabulous quick tickes. Because I am just
slightly obsessed by the composting thing. Often you say cardboard
or paper and the compost do you cut it up?
How long does it take to composts? Do you put
paper and cardboard into your compost?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yes, I can do, no problem at all, and it
will go. It takes a couple of months sometimes, and
some of the guardboard has got all sorts of stuff
on it that makes it less compossible to make it
last longer when it's backing packaging, you know what I mean.
But it will go. Yeah, absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Right, let's get a box that, Robbie.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Good morning, Good morning guys.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Hey, my Christian view route is I've got tomatoes growing
and there's lots of flowers on them, but in the
flowers that you know, when they die off, there's no
little wheat tomatoes there. And what I want to know
is do bees pollinate tomatoes? Because what I've done is
to keep my damn neighbors catch out and to stop
(04:33):
birds coming, I've put some knitting over my whole garden.
Does that stop the bees getting in?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
It would stop the larger bees such as bumble bees in.
And you have to remember, Robbie, that it's the bumblebees
that are really good at pollinating tomatoes. You need bumble
bees in there if you can. The reason is that
bumble bees they vibrate. Have you noticed how they make
a noise when they fly by m Yeah, so when
(05:02):
they go to your flowers and sit there and have
their wings go, then the vibrations loosened the pollen in
the flowers and they drop those pollen literally onto the
flowers next door. So that's how they popize. Yeah, in
the past, they used to. In the past. In the past,
(05:23):
they used to have vibrators. You could use vibrators on
tomatoes to get them pollinated as well, you know, to
you know, the electric toothbrushes and that sort of stuff. Yeah, anyway,
go on, but yeah, the vibrates. But in this case,
I think it's.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Yeah, during the day, I could look the netting off
because the cat's not coming out, you know. But and
he's putting logs in my garden, which makes the garden smell,
and then just put it down at night. What do
you reckon?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Who owns the cat?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Find out who owns the cat. Yeah, Now what I
would do is find out who owns the cat, go
to that person and ask them one question, And the
question is, do you like cats, and when they say yes,
you say, well, we must exchange these recipes. Yes, I'll
(06:22):
leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Seriousness.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Thanks, I could lift it during the day.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, absolutely no, But that's that's your best pollinator, if
you've got bumbles. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Absolutely, Actually I did see that story on the news
during the week about I think it's might be in
Marlborough somewhere, feel you remote where a feral cat has
just devastated the bird population, you know, like forty or
fifty kills in a week.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yep, yep, that's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, righty oh and good morning.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Good morning. I've got a question there for votes. I
have some hydrat They have been very good at growing leaves,
but not so I got it ground or putting out flowers.
And I'm just wondering what I should be doing.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh, do you fertilize high branches.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Though, yes, I have given them Microfosco blue, and I've
also patched banana skins around them.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, banana skins a bit of a myth, but never mind.
But if you if you'd look up, it doesn't matter.
I'm just taking the mickey. If you fertilized it, and
if these things are in basically quite a good sunlight.
You should get what I would say, especially with Nigia,
Foster and Blue.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Yeah, no, that they do get a lot of fun.
We're in Monaca, so they get a lot of fun.
I'm just wondering if it's the problem or ifurvivor feed
them and no, no.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I don't think so. I don't think you could. What
you can always overfeed them, that's what the word over means,
I suppose. But now if you just do general fertilizer
and just every now and then, you don't have to
go over the top with it, Hydranger should be flowering
like billyo.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Yeah. Yeah, they did the same thing last year as well.
So I've really been trying to miss them along. And
I said, oh, maybe I'll just give your ring and
see what he suggests.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Okay, what can I say with these things? I think
I think they should not have any trouble in sunlight,
even in a little bit of shade. And I don't
think they should have if you've got oh, how did
you prune them?
Speaker 6 (08:43):
By the way, what do you mean.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
By you bring them back at the end of the year.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Yeah, I put them in the wind tuf yeh when
they've dropped the flout, when the flowers and you.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Get all the new growth quite okay.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Absolutely absolutely, no for long for many years. But this
is a reasonably new house and Neiver had the problem before.
So what about a seaweed fertilizer? Would that be any good?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Or yes? It could, it could be a liquid fertilizer
could be good. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. See sometimes
sometimes if you too far, you might remove some of
the flower buds for next year, you know what I mean.
But that shouldn't really be a big gig if that
happens every now and then.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Right, right, No, Well, thank you for very much, Rude.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, yeah, try, Sorry, all the best you're in. Good
luck with that. Let's take a short break then we'll
be back with Ben. It is eight point forty five, rightio,
Rude climb passed with us talking all things planned, especially hydrangers.
Some people are saying that note of the hydrains, you
(10:03):
always prune them back to two shoots.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Is that right from the bottom, in the bottom of
the bottom. So you have some some new shoots coming up,
and if you do too usually one of them will
take Sometimes you want to go higher. It doesn't matter.
You've got more then, right, but don't go too low.
That's why I said not too long.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Okay, all right, I'll be of that mind for this
coming winter. Not that we want to be talking about winter. Now,
let's enjoy the summer being greetings.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Hey, there you going me good things? This is the question.
Well you might have been answers from Peter, don't know,
but there you going.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
We'll both we'll both both have an idea on this.
I would say, go on, well.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
I'm sure you love I'm sure you both love plum sauce.
Oh yes, And that's where that's where all starts. I've
got a plum tree, the most amazing plum tree. Either
the last seven years, it's just been choppers. It's usually
sagging with so much weight and the fruit the year
(11:08):
or the plums are falling off. We've had a couple
of winds, I'm down and cross each and we've had
a couple of a couple of gasty days, and each
day have come home and that the grounds just covered.
And now there's there's absolutely bugger all on the on
the thing. And I'm thinking maybe there's something I can
fertilize that's going to strengthen up the steams.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Or yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Know, is that the other years it seems to have
held up. But yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I know what you're saying. Sometimes people find that the
plums are falling off because they are young trees and
they have too many fruit on it to bear at
that stage. That's another thing. But yours is quite older,
isn't it a bit older?
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Oh it's well established.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, excellent, Okay, here you go. The best way to
keep your fruit on a tree is by feeding it
some potage self of Yeah, that's interesting, but potash. You
can get a selfate of potash in the local old
and so on shots.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
And sprinkle it around the bottom.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Around the root zone. Yeah, and remember to do that
next time early in spring, just when it's flowering, so
you are a bit late, now, you know what I mean?
Because if that, if that potage is there, not only
you get good fruit, they develop well and they hang on.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Awesome. Okay, appreciate you route, Thanks.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
All, take care of In all this. I noticed, actually
our plum tree, the first red plum drop to the
ground because the birds are in there already.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, of course they are well we've got we've got
some Damsons going. Julie and I make a lot of Damsons,
especially the gem Beauty they're off and the Louise Louisa
plums and and also the the French one. I forgot
what it's called, doesn't matter, and they're going, well, they're
really hanging in this. But again it's just holding on
to the potage in the in the fertilized right right.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Hey, Cedric, good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Good morning. Yep, first time caller.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I'm sorry to hear that. Go for it.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Monic trees rue.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah, yeah, I've got hundreds of them.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
I have a forest. I had them right around my house.
It's a double unit on the back unit. And we
had three days and nights of heavy rain and they
started to flower and I've got seed pods on the top. Yeah,
(13:44):
that's never happened before. And I'm a bit upset because
Christmas I have all these Chrystmases all over my house,
Christmas decoration. I'm not going to have any Christmas decorations
this year.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Why is that? Because it is now mine upset?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
But they know they hadn't been around. They came and
then they they disappeared because the way they haven't been
too bloody good. Anyway, two days the came ago, they
came and there was a big ordery going on, and
I thought, oh beauty, it won't be long before they'll
(14:23):
be laying. But I'm not going to have any crystalas
decoration on me house.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Oh so they're a bit late in the season, is
there what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Well, it's never happened before, and they've never gone to
they've never flowed their first year once. I've had them
for years and they last three years. They die and
the seeds come up. I take them out and it's
just like a lawn because it's I haven't got lawn.
It's bark. It's all bark. You see, I see Okay,
(14:58):
I'm surrounded right round my house.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Well in this case, in this case, you're just you're
just time your time, your time, and is a bit
you're done. The plants timing is a bit strange, or
the monic butterflies timing is a bit strange. So you
won't have anything at the moment for Christmas, but they
might be just coming a bit later. I'm sorry that, yes,
it is going to be that. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
For planting the swan plants and looking after the monarchs
all the bec quick text as well before we go. Hi, guys,
I've done at this time the old line trommer too
close to a major branch of her special lime tree.
Will it die? Will it struggle forever? What can I
do to repair this wound? Please help? Or am I
(15:48):
in big trouble?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It depends on where the wound is. If the wound
is like a ring around the whole trunk, you might
be in trouble. Ring barked ring back. Yeah, there's nothing
you can do about that. And honestly you could. You
could put, if you like, some of that some plaster on,
if you like, which could be any any any material
that sticks there, and that would give that particular plate
(16:12):
blit of shelter. So it can the cambium can put
new bark back. But some trees don't work like.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
That terminal It isn't a shadow in the garden. I
guess that's a really good reason to do mulch. Is
then the malt suppresses the lawn or the weeds, and
then you're only weed eating around the perimeter or line
trimming around the perimeter. Of the malt rather than inadvertently
up against the bark of the tree.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
That's right, that's right. And also and also it's probably
better not to use that line line trim and near
those trees. This is what happens.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yes, a little look careful with these things. Well, I
think we should do it again next week.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yeah, let's do it all right, look forward.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
To you, take care all of ladies and gentlemen. Thank
you very much for your company. I look forward to
your hopefully your company again next Sunday here at New
stalk Sea. Be so for aball of your gardening inquiries
and you're building questions. We'll be back again next Sunday
at six o'clock. Have a good week. I know it's
getting busy out there. Keep you calm when you're in
(17:17):
the traffic with a stress coming out there at the moment,
So enjoy. We'll rip into it again next Sunday. Have
a great week. Take care.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
Then shame where the days are longer, the nights are
stronger than.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
When as well, men to the days surround day.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp, listen
live to News Talk said Be on Sunday mornings from
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You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Your news Talk said, be a climb pass Good morning sir.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
A very good morning to you, Peter.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Indeed you will.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, I'm good, thank you, excellent you too. I like
the way you describe your your Tumblr.
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Ah, you can get the tremendous sense of satisfaction seeing
a label on it that says that it was there
was like two hundred ninety nine bucks and I think
I paid twenty for it.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
So yeah, I'm that's a Dutch thing.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Absolutely. But more importantly, the compost that came out yesterday,
which has been brewing for a while, was just beautiful.
Speaker 3 (00:47):
I had fabulous Yeah, I just I kind of haven't
had a lot of time to do contracting. But I've
got to get back into it. Gosh, you've got you.
I've done so much yesterday. I've planted a lot more tomatoes,
yes and yes, passion fruit again.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
It'll go great, I'm sure. Oh so quick text Pete,
ask rud where the monic butterflies have gone?
Speaker 3 (01:17):
Oh? That is non so. There's plenty of them here
in Canterbury and I've seen it seen on why hecky
all over the place, and where's.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
This next sentence? I saw the first one this season
visiting our fly flower garden at hon Ferro on Why
Hickey yesterday. There you go.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
So what No, I was there for a whole week
a week ago. Unbelievable. They were everywhere, and to be quey,
they're quite good to I think this. I don't know
what's going on with these things. I got so many
caterpillars that and I didn't even have enough swan plants
and they don't even go there. Long story, they're fine.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Now, sorry, and this will be my last question because
I know people get frustrated with this. A little while
ago you mentioned something about purple colored flowers for and
for bumblebees. That's a thing, isn't it?
Speaker 3 (02:09):
Blue and purple, that's okay. Especially the blue is because blue.
This is something I do with scoolpit. I take a
UV torch with me and we go at night and
we look at everything through UV light, because what you
see through UV light at night in your garden is
what bugsy, what insects sea and during the day they
see the same thing, like butterflies through UV light. If
(02:32):
you like, if you can, you know shine on it
because they see that naturally from the sun. So if
you see at night what a purple or blue flower
looks like, then you suddenly realize you got the right
ones foot pollinator.
Speaker 2 (02:45):
Right, okay, because the leavenders have just started to flower
again and dip sports all some little purple colored annuals
that are in the garden as well. And I've just
noticed how they tracked the bees and the bumblebees.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
That's it. And so Julia and I we got hold
of a couple of leavender that are about a meat
in a high high Wow. Yeah, this is a seriously
good variety. Got it from Felton Road Vineyard, by the way,
stole some we know, we were given to cuttings.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
And in the case of the finest yes.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
One day, one day, doctor Wulf, you will know what
that lovely Felton Roade vine tastes like. But anyway you'll
see that, that's what you that's when you see all
these bumblebees and bees and all these pollinators on and
then you know exactly what color blue woods.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You know, how fabulous quick tickes. Because I am just
slightly obsessed by the composting thing. Often you say cardboard
or paper and the compost do you cut it up?
How long does it take to composts? Do you put
paper and cardboard into your compost?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Yes, I can do, no problem at all, and it
will go. It takes a couple of months sometimes, and
some of the guardboard has got all sorts of stuff
on it that makes it less compossible to make it
last longer when it's backing packaging, you know what I mean.
But it will go. Yeah, absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Right, let's get a box that, Robbie.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Good morning, Good morning guys.
Speaker 6 (04:13):
Hey, my Christian view route is I've got tomatoes growing
and there's lots of flowers on them, but in the
flowers that you know, when they die off, there's no
little wheat tomatoes there. And what I want to know
is do bees pollinate tomatoes? Because what I've done is
to keep my damn neighbors catch out and to stop
(04:33):
birds coming, I've put some knitting over my whole garden.
Does that stop the bees getting in?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
It would stop the larger bees such as bumble bees in.
And you have to remember, Robbie, that it's the bumblebees
that are really good at pollinating tomatoes. You need bumble
bees in there if you can. The reason is that
bumble bees they vibrate. Have you noticed how they make
a noise when they fly by m Yeah, so when
(05:02):
they go to your flowers and sit there and have
their wings go, then the vibrations loosened the pollen in
the flowers and they drop those pollen literally onto the
flowers next door. So that's how they popize. Yeah, in
the past, they used to. In the past. In the past,
(05:23):
they used to have vibrators. You could use vibrators on
tomatoes to get them pollinated as well, you know, to
you know, the electric toothbrushes and that sort of stuff. Yeah, anyway,
go on, but yeah, the vibrates. But in this case,
I think it's.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Yeah, during the day, I could look the netting off
because the cat's not coming out, you know. But and
he's putting logs in my garden, which makes the garden smell,
and then just put it down at night. What do
you reckon?
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Who owns the cat?
Speaker 6 (05:58):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Find out who owns the cat. Yeah, Now what I
would do is find out who owns the cat, go
to that person and ask them one question, And the
question is, do you like cats, and when they say yes,
you say, well, we must exchange these recipes. Yes, I'll
(06:22):
leave it at that.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Seriousness.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Thanks, I could lift it during the day.
Speaker 3 (06:29):
Yeah, absolutely no, But that's that's your best pollinator, if
you've got bumbles. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Absolutely, Actually I did see that story on the news
during the week about I think it's might be in
Marlborough somewhere, feel you remote where a feral cat has
just devastated the bird population, you know, like forty or
fifty kills in a week.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Yep, yep, that's what it's about.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Yeah, righty oh and good morning.
Speaker 7 (07:01):
Good morning. I've got a question there for votes. I
have some hydrat They have been very good at growing leaves,
but not so I got it ground or putting out flowers.
And I'm just wondering what I should be doing.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
Oh, do you fertilize high branches.
Speaker 7 (07:19):
Though, yes, I have given them Microfosco blue, and I've
also patched banana skins around them.
Speaker 3 (07:27):
Yeah, banana skins a bit of a myth, but never mind.
But if you if you'd look up, it doesn't matter.
I'm just taking the mickey. If you fertilized it, and
if these things are in basically quite a good sunlight.
You should get what I would say, especially with Nigia,
Foster and Blue.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Yeah, no, that they do get a lot of fun.
We're in Monaca, so they get a lot of fun.
I'm just wondering if it's the problem or ifurvivor feed
them and no, no.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
I don't think so. I don't think you could. What
you can always overfeed them, that's what the word over means,
I suppose. But now if you just do general fertilizer
and just every now and then, you don't have to
go over the top with it, Hydranger should be flowering
like billyo.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Yeah. Yeah, they did the same thing last year as well.
So I've really been trying to miss them along. And
I said, oh, maybe I'll just give your ring and
see what he suggests.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Okay, what can I say with these things? I think
I think they should not have any trouble in sunlight,
even in a little bit of shade. And I don't
think they should have if you've got oh, how did
you prune them?
Speaker 6 (08:43):
By the way, what do you mean.
Speaker 3 (08:47):
By you bring them back at the end of the year.
Speaker 7 (08:52):
Yeah, I put them in the wind tuf yeh when
they've dropped the flout, when the flowers and you.
Speaker 3 (08:58):
Get all the new growth quite okay.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Absolutely absolutely, no for long for many years. But this
is a reasonably new house and Neiver had the problem before.
So what about a seaweed fertilizer? Would that be any good?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Or yes? It could, it could be a liquid fertilizer
could be good. Yeah, yeah, I don't know. See sometimes
sometimes if you too far, you might remove some of
the flower buds for next year, you know what I mean.
But that shouldn't really be a big gig if that
happens every now and then.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Right, right, No, Well, thank you for very much, Rude.
Speaker 3 (09:41):
I'm trying.
Speaker 2 (09:41):
Yeah, yeah, try, Sorry, all the best you're in. Good
luck with that. Let's take a short break then we'll
be back with Ben. It is eight point forty five, rightio,
Rude climb passed with us talking all things planned, especially hydrangers.
Some people are saying that note of the hydrains, you
(10:03):
always prune them back to two shoots.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Is that right from the bottom, in the bottom of
the bottom. So you have some some new shoots coming up,
and if you do too usually one of them will
take Sometimes you want to go higher. It doesn't matter.
You've got more then, right, but don't go too low.
That's why I said not too long.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
Okay, all right, I'll be of that mind for this
coming winter. Not that we want to be talking about winter. Now,
let's enjoy the summer being greetings.
Speaker 8 (10:32):
Hey, there you going me good things? This is the question.
Well you might have been answers from Peter, don't know,
but there you going.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
We'll both we'll both both have an idea on this.
I would say, go on, well.
Speaker 8 (10:45):
I'm sure you love I'm sure you both love plum sauce.
Oh yes, And that's where that's where all starts. I've
got a plum tree, the most amazing plum tree. Either
the last seven years, it's just been choppers. It's usually
sagging with so much weight and the fruit the year
(11:08):
or the plums are falling off. We've had a couple
of winds, I'm down and cross each and we've had
a couple of a couple of gasty days, and each
day have come home and that the grounds just covered.
And now there's there's absolutely bugger all on the on
the thing. And I'm thinking maybe there's something I can
fertilize that's going to strengthen up the steams.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Or yeah, yeah, you.
Speaker 8 (11:28):
Know, is that the other years it seems to have
held up. But yeah, what do you do?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
I know what you're saying. Sometimes people find that the
plums are falling off because they are young trees and
they have too many fruit on it to bear at
that stage. That's another thing. But yours is quite older,
isn't it a bit older?
Speaker 8 (11:50):
Oh it's well established.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, excellent, Okay, here you go. The best way to
keep your fruit on a tree is by feeding it
some potage self of Yeah, that's interesting, but potash. You
can get a selfate of potash in the local old
and so on shots.
Speaker 8 (12:07):
And sprinkle it around the bottom.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Around the root zone. Yeah, and remember to do that
next time early in spring, just when it's flowering, so
you are a bit late, now, you know what I mean?
Because if that, if that potage is there, not only
you get good fruit, they develop well and they hang on.
Speaker 8 (12:27):
Awesome. Okay, appreciate you route, Thanks.
Speaker 2 (12:30):
All, take care of In all this. I noticed, actually
our plum tree, the first red plum drop to the
ground because the birds are in there already.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Yeah, of course they are well we've got we've got
some Damsons going. Julie and I make a lot of Damsons,
especially the gem Beauty they're off and the Louise Louisa
plums and and also the the French one. I forgot
what it's called, doesn't matter, and they're going, well, they're
really hanging in this. But again it's just holding on
to the potage in the in the fertilized right right.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
Hey, Cedric, good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Good morning. Yep, first time caller.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I'm sorry to hear that. Go for it.
Speaker 5 (13:12):
Monic trees rue.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
Yeah, yeah, I've got hundreds of them.
Speaker 5 (13:20):
I have a forest. I had them right around my house.
It's a double unit on the back unit. And we
had three days and nights of heavy rain and they
started to flower and I've got seed pods on the top. Yeah,
(13:44):
that's never happened before. And I'm a bit upset because
Christmas I have all these Chrystmases all over my house,
Christmas decoration. I'm not going to have any Christmas decorations
this year.
Speaker 3 (13:58):
Why is that? Because it is now mine upset?
Speaker 5 (14:01):
But they know they hadn't been around. They came and
then they they disappeared because the way they haven't been
too bloody good. Anyway, two days the came ago, they
came and there was a big ordery going on, and
I thought, oh beauty, it won't be long before they'll
(14:23):
be laying. But I'm not going to have any crystalas
decoration on me house.
Speaker 3 (14:29):
Oh so they're a bit late in the season, is
there what you're talking about.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Well, it's never happened before, and they've never gone to
they've never flowed their first year once. I've had them
for years and they last three years. They die and
the seeds come up. I take them out and it's
just like a lawn because it's I haven't got lawn.
It's bark. It's all bark. You see, I see Okay,
(14:58):
I'm surrounded right round my house.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
Well in this case, in this case, you're just you're
just time your time, your time, and is a bit
you're done. The plants timing is a bit strange, or
the monic butterflies timing is a bit strange. So you
won't have anything at the moment for Christmas, but they
might be just coming a bit later. I'm sorry that, yes,
it is going to be that. It doesn't matter.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
For planting the swan plants and looking after the monarchs
all the bec quick text as well before we go. Hi, guys,
I've done at this time the old line trommer too
close to a major branch of her special lime tree.
Will it die? Will it struggle forever? What can I
do to repair this wound? Please help? Or am I
(15:48):
in big trouble?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
It depends on where the wound is. If the wound
is like a ring around the whole trunk, you might
be in trouble. Ring barked ring back. Yeah, there's nothing
you can do about that. And honestly you could. You
could put, if you like, some of that some plaster on,
if you like, which could be any any any material
that sticks there, and that would give that particular plate
(16:12):
blit of shelter. So it can the cambium can put
new bark back. But some trees don't work like.
Speaker 2 (16:18):
That terminal It isn't a shadow in the garden. I
guess that's a really good reason to do mulch. Is
then the malt suppresses the lawn or the weeds, and
then you're only weed eating around the perimeter or line
trimming around the perimeter. Of the malt rather than inadvertently
up against the bark of the tree.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
That's right, that's right. And also and also it's probably
better not to use that line line trim and near
those trees. This is what happens.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yes, a little look careful with these things. Well, I
think we should do it again next week.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
Yeah, let's do it all right, look forward.
Speaker 2 (16:56):
To you, take care all of ladies and gentlemen. Thank
you very much for your company. I look forward to
your hopefully your company again next Sunday here at New
stalk Sea. Be so for aball of your gardening inquiries
and you're building questions. We'll be back again next Sunday
at six o'clock. Have a good week. I know it's
getting busy out there. Keep you calm when you're in
(17:17):
the traffic with a stress coming out there at the moment,
So enjoy. We'll rip into it again next Sunday. Have
a great week. Take care.
Speaker 8 (17:27):
Then shame where the days are longer, the nights are
stronger than.
Speaker 2 (17:50):
When as well, men to the days surround day.
Speaker 1 (18:01):
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