December 14, 2024 • 19 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks buld.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Climb, past architect of l boxers, welcome to the program.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I am not the architect of OL boxes.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You've seen me plenty of plans and I've sent them
on to plenty of people, so well done you.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, that's good. That's lovely to hear that story. By
the way, it's really what it's about. I'll be bending
a couple again, probably later this week or yeah. Yeah,
the little owls, those are the little German oles. By
the way.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You make sure you get a photograph and please send
it to me because someone at home who's obsessed with
ols at the moment.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
So I've got plenty of photographs.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Fabulous, Please don't And something else.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh yeah, bar now is not is not a germinal.
It's the banal that came here. Is actually the Australasian
baronets from Australia. So there's different varieties of banals if
you like, but they're all quite the same thing. Oh yes,
you still need to go to Winks.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Don't worry. I have a play. I've got a plan
in place.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Lock they let me know when I'll introduce you to
the team. It's going to be great and something else.
Before we go any further with callers, I know they're waiting.
We've got some clock cultivators to give away. Yes, fabulous,
and we need to tell people that are listening if
you want a clock cultivator for Christmas, for instance, thirty
three percent of because you just or you'd have go
(01:29):
online and mentioned effect. You've heard this on new Stalks
at B.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Was using mine in the garden last week.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
There you go, same here say yesterday, Oh, talk about building.
My old builder Mike, who's really nice old scottage builder.
He came and helped me out because I made one
of those raised beds brilliant from that material that you
use for retaining walls, you know, twenty centimeters and to
what is it eight by two's tongue and groove. Yeah,
(01:57):
And of course I did the cheap stuff by putting
in the corner as something that was not an age
three and guess what happened. Bang, it was.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
All over the place the compost.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah you got it. Yeah, easy, good on you.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Right, let's rip into it. Philip, A very good morning
to you.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Hello for the boys.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Hello Philip, what can we do for you. Yeah, is
it gone? Are you sure he's still alive? Oh? He's there? Hey, No,
put that thing on the Philip key ears. I have
no idea.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think I've dropped off. Well, see if we can
get him back. But we'll go to Donald. Good morning,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The name of something you've put on your your spouting
to stop the birds popping onto my dick?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Please?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I had some before, but I've forgot the name of that.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh it's this jous there. Yeah, but there's also a
mesh that you can put over the thing that they
can't really they don't like to sit on. Was it
a mesh or was it a gel? A gel?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I don't know what it's called.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Just birds, isn't it? Or something like that?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, something silly like. I've never used it, to be
quite honest.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I have heard people have used it, and with reasonable success.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Ah okay, see, I would not use that because I
actually like to collect pools from birds.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
See see here you go, quick text. I've used weeden
feed on my garden. It's killed some of the plants.
Can I regrow it? Can I regrow in that soil?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I suppose you could, but you'll have to give it
a bit of time, you know, of rain or water,
so it washes down if you like I would, I
would say, you have to give it a bit of time.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, I'll soon find out, because I realized that I
washed up something the other day that I shouldn't have
applied to the garden, killed a patch of lawn. But anyway,
that's by the bye. How high here we go? Quick text?
How high do I need to put an owl up
on a tree? What's what's the ideal location for an
l box?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Well, location is quite simple because you imagine that if
you difference an elbox at a full sunlight in summertime,
spring and summer, that you actually fry them a little bit.
So I always put them in a tree that gives
shade during the hottest period of the day, if you like.
So that's number one. Number two. Don't go too high,
(04:32):
although I've got a mate of mine is an arborist,
and he put it right on the top of a
twenty meter fine tree. Yes, because he's the only one
that can close you get up there. Yeah, but you
don't need to. Honestly, you don't need it. I've got
we've got our boxes at maybe two two and a
half meters. That's about it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh, okay, so not massively high, No, don't have to Okay,
that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And they love a view from when they come out
so they can see if they come out of their
little hole, they look less and right and see, oh
everything find great. Off we go booth, let's go hunting. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
There has been a series of posts on Facebook. And
I've mentioned this before. There's a gentleman out in near
One Tree Hill who has had mister and missus Ruu
with three of their chicks in the owl box and
he's done these daily updates. It has been the most
entertaining and engaging series of posts with videos and he's
(05:27):
got track cameras and it's just fabulous. And now they've
migrated across into into One Tree Hill Park for the
foreseeable future, which is also and can I tell you
as well, this is exciting as well, because I mean
you've been part of this forever, right in the sense of,
you know, if we create the right environment, we can
(05:48):
restore some of the nature that we've lost. And so
suddenly in Devenport, much excitement to Kharka seeing roosting in
a tree on taking which is Mount Victoria. Yeah, so
again in an urban environment, these two magnificent karca sitting
there in the tree.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Oh isn't that lovely? Yeah? So samon on the on
the was it a lot at the moment on way
Hecki Island there, Yeah, dozens of them at the moment.
And it's all to do with the free stuff. By
the way, if you want to know about about filming
those things, there's a guy that I felt followed for
a long long time. It's videos in England and his
(06:28):
name is Fuller. Let's see Robert E. Fuller, right, and
he has the most amazing videos of als being born,
be fed and doing to fly and all that sort
of rubbish. It's great stuff. So that's that's so.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, it's awesome. Oh eight hundred eighty eight. Uh, let's
grab philipping increasings.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Greetings boys, gap now yeah, we got you. Lemon tree, Yeah,
got a lemon tree. It's like tel compoder on the
back of the leaves with a little wee little fly.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That's the white flight, I'd say, so that's just the
for a lemonry. That's the citrus white fly. It's a
creature that became established in Newsdan some time ago. It
tends to lift mostly on the underside of the leaves, right.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, And the top and the top of your leaves
often has this sticky stuff called honeyjew that they poop out,
and that becomes sooty mold. So there will be some
leaves for the down that are black from a sooty mold.
And it's all related.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yeah, what we'll always spray that with.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Same I do with my tomatoes. A tomato white fly
in the in the in the house, in the glasshouse,
and it is niam oil, nim n em. And here
comes the trick. Do it every week, three times in
a row and you'll probably find you will have done
it by then, or if you see it again, quickly
(07:55):
give it another whack.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Another thanks you to it now. The other one is
a hydrange. We got a purple one which is gone blue.
My wife wants to bag purple. What what do we
put under that one?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Oh? Alkaline if you if you go to if you
give it an higher alkaline soil, if you like, it
promotes usually the pinks and the reds. But if you
go to a more acid thing with a pH between
six and seven, if you like the blooms termed purple
or bluish pink, so you might need a bit of acid,
(08:32):
an acid material.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Yes, thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You are more than welcome.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Thank you very much, Thank you very much for that.
We'll take a short break back in a moment. Your
news talks they'd be we're talking all things gardening and Ellen,
welcome to the program. How are you.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Not dead? Not dead? I'll get the problem with my
fruit trees there at apple and plum trees that they're
covered in a like a moss. I don't know how
else you describe it. That it's the branches are totally
(09:14):
covered in us and I'm not getting any fruit.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Okay, that's a very simple that's a very simple thing.
That moss that you call. Is that a bit greenish gray? Yes, yeah, okay,
it's called lichen. And lichen itself is a really cool creature,
if you like, because it's actually two or three things
working together. The flappy bits is fungus, the green stuff
(09:40):
is algae, and there's usually a yeast involved as well,
and they sit on your branches because your branches are
pretty light in terms of they are bright in the
bright sunlight, and that means that your leaves are not
very large and very healthy on the tree. Does that
make sense, It's right, yes, yeah, Okay, so you're basically
(10:04):
going to do both things. If you going fertilize your
tree with a material that basically gives those trees the
ability to make more leaves, larger leaves, and healthier leaves,
you'll find that the lichens will struggle a little bit
in slightly more darker conditions. So that's number one, and
(10:26):
that also means that you will get probably better fruit
in the in the future if you fertilize it regularly.
The other thing is that this lichens stuff, which is
but fungus with the algae on the top, is not
going into your plant. It lives basically on the outside
of your plant and doesn't and doesn't cause any trouble
(10:49):
to the plant at all. It's just an indicating indicator
that you need to fertilize your trees a bit better.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Hope that helps, Ellen. Thank you very much for you
call Hollo Chris.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
All right, I just want to ask you about transplanting trees.
So I've transplanted about eight trees. They were about six
to eight feet two and most of them most of
them were petty sperm yeah. Uh and and two of them,
I think couple of them are Akiaki native triests.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yeah, they've now they've come to like they were all
nice and you know for blaze and stuff, but they've
now shipped their leaves so that's it's literally just a stick.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I've put compost when I transplanted them. On top of that,
I've given them seaweed.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
And I've just been giving them water uh and and
compost and top and yeah. But they're still not sort
of coming back to life. So just wondering if there's
any way to bring them back to life.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yes, for a short fee, I will do the last
rights for you, if that's what you mean. It doesn't
sound very good, doesn't it, You know what I mean? Okay,
tell me, well hang on, hang on on, before we
start throwing everything we have at them. My question is
you water them very regularly? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yeah, like every second day.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Okay. Do you think the soil was quite moist after
those particular waterings? Yeah, because I have the feeling you've
overdone it a bit in that department. Oh okay, yeah,
and that and that and that means that there is
a fungus in the soil, and it could be one
of the root fungi things like fight after and all
(12:48):
these other bits and pieces, and I can't you can't
identify that just by looking at them. But there are
diseases that are caused literally by over watering. And because
you I know what you're saying, because you try to
replant them and you think what the first thing they
need is water, water, water, But that can sometimes become
a bit too much. And I have the feeling that
(13:11):
the best thing is to do to stop the watering
for a while. I'm not saying let them dry out,
because that's not not that's fatal too, but to to
really go back and see what comes back, you might
not have lost them all. But it's a time a
time thing from now on. Okay, Yeah, I'm sorry to
(13:32):
hear that because it's it's but it's a good lesson
for people, especially in Canterbury. But at the moment, it's
so dry everywhere. Everybody is using the watering everywhere. But
you know what I'm going to do. I'm going to Chris,
I'm going to send you or stay online. Yeahs telephone
number and address and all that and we'll get you
(13:52):
one of the Clark cultivators to at least cheer you.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Up a little bit of here Christmas. Nice one, thank you,
And I tell you what you know. I know, well,
our gardens really haven't started to dry out in Auckland yet,
and we had some decent rain during the course of
the week. But certainly I'm looking at the water tanks
going gee, I'm really pleased that I've got those, because yeah,
(14:16):
we're looking and why wouldn't we have one at this
time of year?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Oh, Joe, talk to me about ols?
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Happy right, it's not happy day.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Let's make it all day.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
There you go, Joe, Are you good?
Speaker 7 (14:34):
The little German owl is beautiful and South poland mainly.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Well, yeah, that's what That's what I'm being bending this week.
When next week I think the German ol anyway, yep.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
And the chat that rang up is the Yate brand
is liquid aluminium soul fate for the hdranger for for
I just bought one and that was but pinky, so
I just put some.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah, but I think he wanted it. I think he
wanted it to be a bit more pinky purple. Whatever. Yeah, anyway, Hey,
thanks for your call are you well and have a
great Christmas?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And I'll continue and Tony talk to me about grapevines.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Ah cool, thank you, thank you every me. Troue wrote
and Pete, hey, I've got I've been spraying about of
the wine sulfate around, sulfate of wine around over the window,
try and kill some moss. Man got a cap of
grapevines that have failed to start growing again this year?
Would die sulfate? Have killed it or not?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I don't know. It depends on you. I wasn't there,
of course, but it depends on the amount of material
you put on there. I don't think it is going
to be that bad, to be quite honest, I can't
remember that. And you you were trying you were trying
to kill what moss? My m O s s. Yeah, okay, uh,
(16:12):
I know if you do it once or twice and
just take it easier, you probably should be fine.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Yeah, well they have they are an issue sprout of
this year.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
They should be Oh that's weird. No, I I should really,
I should really have a good google on that. I
didn't think that that would be a major gig. I'm
sorry now.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
I thought it'd be right too, but yeah, I've just died,
so never mind, you know what.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You know what, Tony, I'm just you know, honestly, seeing
you've you've just had another hard moment in the garden.
Would you would you like a clark cultivated one of
those really nice sharp handled things that goes like that
does the weeds for you?
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
All right, that's awesome, mate. You look yourself some constellation
for the yes, at least absolutely right, are very quick, Margaret,
good morning.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
Yes, Hello, it's Magi Old Bag.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Hello, Magie Old Bag. How are you.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
We've got yellow aphids all over quite and the along
hums a little black something and it's them. Yeah, but
I haven't ever known what the black is.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Well, there could be. There are lots of things that
eat aphids and and and there are lots of different
insects and without actually getting exactly the size and how
many legs they've got, it's really hard for me to
explain what it is. But but you've got to really
keep those things going for you, because this is your
biological control, isn't it. Yeah? Yeah, isn't that lovely? And
(17:59):
a lot of them, a lot of them are, of course,
ladybird beetle larvae, the babies of ladybirds.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
Yeah, I know, but I just wondered what the black
thing was about.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
The lady bird larvae can be black.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Well, that's that's what I must be. Because they just
scubble them up, justle.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Them up well after the other. I know, they're great.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
Yeah, and going up to Eastford Hill that in a
couple of days. How about that again?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Good on you. We can't beat you out of there.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Absolutely not lovely cool, Thanks very much, Margaret, really appreciate it. Right,
So tell me about we got thirty seconds. Tell me
about this albanding. What the point of that is to
be able to track the migration of the birds or
where they've come from or yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
But also how old do they get? Are the males
their females? Do they come back to the same particular
site where they we actually band the adults as well
with the cause they're so quiet, sit on the eggs
and you can take them off.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
It's brilliant and goes into a register of some.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Oh absolutely yes. Yeah. And there's another lady from a
university in Canterbury who actually does an analysis of the
brack baller that thinks that they spit out sight and
see what they eat. That's another thing.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yes, all right, that's funny, awesome, right now, Let's do
it again next week. Behavior make sure you send me
a photograph though. If you're holding an owl, you've got
to seend me a photograph of that. Look forward to it.
Take care of it, all of this, and folks, have
a great week. We'll do it all again next Sunday.
Here at News Talks EDB.
Speaker 1 (19:39):
What for more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp.
Listen live to News Talk said B on Sunday mornings
from six, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks buld.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Climb, past architect of l boxers, welcome to the program.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
I am not the architect of OL boxes.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
You've seen me plenty of plans and I've sent them
on to plenty of people, so well done you.
Speaker 3 (00:24):
Yeah, that's good. That's lovely to hear that story. By
the way, it's really what it's about. I'll be bending
a couple again, probably later this week or yeah. Yeah,
the little owls, those are the little German oles. By
the way.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
You make sure you get a photograph and please send
it to me because someone at home who's obsessed with
ols at the moment.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
So I've got plenty of photographs.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Fabulous, Please don't And something else.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Oh yeah, bar now is not is not a germinal.
It's the banal that came here. Is actually the Australasian
baronets from Australia. So there's different varieties of banals if
you like, but they're all quite the same thing. Oh yes,
you still need to go to Winks.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Don't worry. I have a play. I've got a plan
in place.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
Lock they let me know when I'll introduce you to
the team. It's going to be great and something else.
Before we go any further with callers, I know they're waiting.
We've got some clock cultivators to give away. Yes, fabulous,
and we need to tell people that are listening if
you want a clock cultivator for Christmas, for instance, thirty
three percent of because you just or you'd have go
(01:29):
online and mentioned effect. You've heard this on new Stalks
at B.
Speaker 2 (01:34):
Was using mine in the garden last week.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
There you go, same here say yesterday, Oh, talk about building.
My old builder Mike, who's really nice old scottage builder.
He came and helped me out because I made one
of those raised beds brilliant from that material that you
use for retaining walls, you know, twenty centimeters and to
what is it eight by two's tongue and groove. Yeah,
(01:57):
And of course I did the cheap stuff by putting
in the corner as something that was not an age
three and guess what happened. Bang, it was.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
All over the place the compost.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah you got it. Yeah, easy, good on you.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Right, let's rip into it. Philip, A very good morning
to you.
Speaker 4 (02:16):
Hello for the boys.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Hello Philip, what can we do for you. Yeah, is
it gone? Are you sure he's still alive? Oh? He's there? Hey, No,
put that thing on the Philip key ears. I have
no idea.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
I think I've dropped off. Well, see if we can
get him back. But we'll go to Donald. Good morning,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
The name of something you've put on your your spouting
to stop the birds popping onto my dick?
Speaker 5 (02:47):
Please?
Speaker 4 (02:47):
I had some before, but I've forgot the name of that.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
Oh it's this jous there. Yeah, but there's also a
mesh that you can put over the thing that they
can't really they don't like to sit on. Was it
a mesh or was it a gel? A gel?
Speaker 5 (03:04):
No?
Speaker 3 (03:04):
I don't know what it's called.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Just birds, isn't it? Or something like that?
Speaker 3 (03:08):
Yeah, something silly like. I've never used it, to be
quite honest.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
I have heard people have used it, and with reasonable success.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Ah okay, see, I would not use that because I
actually like to collect pools from birds.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
See see here you go, quick text. I've used weeden
feed on my garden. It's killed some of the plants.
Can I regrow it? Can I regrow in that soil?
Speaker 6 (03:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (03:41):
I suppose you could, but you'll have to give it
a bit of time, you know, of rain or water,
so it washes down if you like I would, I
would say, you have to give it a bit of time.
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, I'll soon find out, because I realized that I
washed up something the other day that I shouldn't have
applied to the garden, killed a patch of lawn. But anyway,
that's by the bye. How high here we go? Quick text?
How high do I need to put an owl up
on a tree? What's what's the ideal location for an
l box?
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Well, location is quite simple because you imagine that if
you difference an elbox at a full sunlight in summertime,
spring and summer, that you actually fry them a little bit.
So I always put them in a tree that gives
shade during the hottest period of the day, if you like.
So that's number one. Number two. Don't go too high,
(04:32):
although I've got a mate of mine is an arborist,
and he put it right on the top of a
twenty meter fine tree. Yes, because he's the only one
that can close you get up there. Yeah, but you
don't need to. Honestly, you don't need it. I've got
we've got our boxes at maybe two two and a
half meters. That's about it.
Speaker 2 (04:50):
Oh, okay, so not massively high, No, don't have to Okay,
that's interesting.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
And they love a view from when they come out
so they can see if they come out of their
little hole, they look less and right and see, oh
everything find great. Off we go booth, let's go hunting. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
There has been a series of posts on Facebook. And
I've mentioned this before. There's a gentleman out in near
One Tree Hill who has had mister and missus Ruu
with three of their chicks in the owl box and
he's done these daily updates. It has been the most
entertaining and engaging series of posts with videos and he's
(05:27):
got track cameras and it's just fabulous. And now they've
migrated across into into One Tree Hill Park for the
foreseeable future, which is also and can I tell you
as well, this is exciting as well, because I mean
you've been part of this forever, right in the sense of,
you know, if we create the right environment, we can
(05:48):
restore some of the nature that we've lost. And so
suddenly in Devenport, much excitement to Kharka seeing roosting in
a tree on taking which is Mount Victoria. Yeah, so
again in an urban environment, these two magnificent karca sitting
there in the tree.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Oh isn't that lovely? Yeah? So samon on the on
the was it a lot at the moment on way
Hecki Island there, Yeah, dozens of them at the moment.
And it's all to do with the free stuff. By
the way, if you want to know about about filming
those things, there's a guy that I felt followed for
a long long time. It's videos in England and his
(06:28):
name is Fuller. Let's see Robert E. Fuller, right, and
he has the most amazing videos of als being born,
be fed and doing to fly and all that sort
of rubbish. It's great stuff. So that's that's so.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
Yeah, it's awesome. Oh eight hundred eighty eight. Uh, let's
grab philipping increasings.
Speaker 4 (06:52):
Greetings boys, gap now yeah, we got you. Lemon tree, Yeah,
got a lemon tree. It's like tel compoder on the
back of the leaves with a little wee little fly.
Speaker 3 (07:03):
That's the white flight, I'd say, so that's just the
for a lemonry. That's the citrus white fly. It's a
creature that became established in Newsdan some time ago. It
tends to lift mostly on the underside of the leaves, right.
Speaker 4 (07:15):
That's right.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, And the top and the top of your leaves
often has this sticky stuff called honeyjew that they poop out,
and that becomes sooty mold. So there will be some
leaves for the down that are black from a sooty mold.
And it's all related.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yeah, what we'll always spray that with.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Same I do with my tomatoes. A tomato white fly
in the in the in the house, in the glasshouse,
and it is niam oil, nim n em. And here
comes the trick. Do it every week, three times in
a row and you'll probably find you will have done
it by then, or if you see it again, quickly
(07:55):
give it another whack.
Speaker 4 (07:57):
Another thanks you to it now. The other one is
a hydrange. We got a purple one which is gone blue.
My wife wants to bag purple. What what do we
put under that one?
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Oh? Alkaline if you if you go to if you
give it an higher alkaline soil, if you like, it
promotes usually the pinks and the reds. But if you
go to a more acid thing with a pH between
six and seven, if you like the blooms termed purple
or bluish pink, so you might need a bit of acid,
(08:32):
an acid material.
Speaker 4 (08:34):
Yes, thank you, sir.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
You are more than welcome.
Speaker 2 (08:39):
Thank you very much, Thank you very much for that.
We'll take a short break back in a moment. Your
news talks they'd be we're talking all things gardening and Ellen,
welcome to the program. How are you.
Speaker 6 (08:52):
Not dead? Not dead? I'll get the problem with my
fruit trees there at apple and plum trees that they're
covered in a like a moss. I don't know how
else you describe it. That it's the branches are totally
(09:14):
covered in us and I'm not getting any fruit.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Okay, that's a very simple that's a very simple thing.
That moss that you call. Is that a bit greenish gray? Yes, yeah, okay,
it's called lichen. And lichen itself is a really cool creature,
if you like, because it's actually two or three things
working together. The flappy bits is fungus, the green stuff
(09:40):
is algae, and there's usually a yeast involved as well,
and they sit on your branches because your branches are
pretty light in terms of they are bright in the
bright sunlight, and that means that your leaves are not
very large and very healthy on the tree. Does that
make sense, It's right, yes, yeah, Okay, so you're basically
(10:04):
going to do both things. If you going fertilize your
tree with a material that basically gives those trees the
ability to make more leaves, larger leaves, and healthier leaves,
you'll find that the lichens will struggle a little bit
in slightly more darker conditions. So that's number one, and
(10:26):
that also means that you will get probably better fruit
in the in the future if you fertilize it regularly.
The other thing is that this lichens stuff, which is
but fungus with the algae on the top, is not
going into your plant. It lives basically on the outside
of your plant and doesn't and doesn't cause any trouble
(10:49):
to the plant at all. It's just an indicating indicator
that you need to fertilize your trees a bit better.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Hope that helps, Ellen. Thank you very much for you
call Hollo Chris.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
All right, I just want to ask you about transplanting trees.
So I've transplanted about eight trees. They were about six
to eight feet two and most of them most of
them were petty sperm yeah. Uh and and two of them,
I think couple of them are Akiaki native triests.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yep.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
Yeah, they've now they've come to like they were all
nice and you know for blaze and stuff, but they've
now shipped their leaves so that's it's literally just a stick.
Speaker 4 (11:38):
Uh.
Speaker 5 (11:39):
I've put compost when I transplanted them. On top of that,
I've given them seaweed.
Speaker 3 (11:45):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:47):
And I've just been giving them water uh and and
compost and top and yeah. But they're still not sort
of coming back to life. So just wondering if there's
any way to bring them back to life.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yes, for a short fee, I will do the last
rights for you, if that's what you mean. It doesn't
sound very good, doesn't it, You know what I mean? Okay,
tell me, well hang on, hang on on, before we
start throwing everything we have at them. My question is
you water them very regularly? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:25):
Yeah, like every second day.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Okay. Do you think the soil was quite moist after
those particular waterings? Yeah, because I have the feeling you've
overdone it a bit in that department. Oh okay, yeah,
and that and that and that means that there is
a fungus in the soil, and it could be one
of the root fungi things like fight after and all
(12:48):
these other bits and pieces, and I can't you can't
identify that just by looking at them. But there are
diseases that are caused literally by over watering. And because
you I know what you're saying, because you try to
replant them and you think what the first thing they
need is water, water, water, But that can sometimes become
a bit too much. And I have the feeling that
(13:11):
the best thing is to do to stop the watering
for a while. I'm not saying let them dry out,
because that's not not that's fatal too, but to to
really go back and see what comes back, you might
not have lost them all. But it's a time a
time thing from now on. Okay, Yeah, I'm sorry to
(13:32):
hear that because it's it's but it's a good lesson
for people, especially in Canterbury. But at the moment, it's
so dry everywhere. Everybody is using the watering everywhere. But
you know what I'm going to do. I'm going to Chris,
I'm going to send you or stay online. Yeahs telephone
number and address and all that and we'll get you
(13:52):
one of the Clark cultivators to at least cheer you.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
Up a little bit of here Christmas. Nice one, thank you,
And I tell you what you know. I know, well,
our gardens really haven't started to dry out in Auckland yet,
and we had some decent rain during the course of
the week. But certainly I'm looking at the water tanks
going gee, I'm really pleased that I've got those, because yeah,
(14:16):
we're looking and why wouldn't we have one at this
time of year?
Speaker 1 (14:20):
Right?
Speaker 2 (14:20):
Oh, Joe, talk to me about ols?
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Happy right, it's not happy day.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Let's make it all day.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
There you go, Joe, Are you good?
Speaker 7 (14:34):
The little German owl is beautiful and South poland mainly.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Well, yeah, that's what That's what I'm being bending this week.
When next week I think the German ol anyway, yep.
Speaker 7 (14:50):
And the chat that rang up is the Yate brand
is liquid aluminium soul fate for the hdranger for for
I just bought one and that was but pinky, so
I just put some.
Speaker 3 (15:11):
Yeah, but I think he wanted it. I think he
wanted it to be a bit more pinky purple. Whatever. Yeah, anyway, Hey,
thanks for your call are you well and have a
great Christmas?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And I'll continue and Tony talk to me about grapevines.
Speaker 8 (15:25):
Ah cool, thank you, thank you every me. Troue wrote
and Pete, hey, I've got I've been spraying about of
the wine sulfate around, sulfate of wine around over the window,
try and kill some moss. Man got a cap of
grapevines that have failed to start growing again this year?
Would die sulfate? Have killed it or not?
Speaker 3 (15:48):
I don't know. It depends on you. I wasn't there,
of course, but it depends on the amount of material
you put on there. I don't think it is going
to be that bad, to be quite honest, I can't
remember that. And you you were trying you were trying
to kill what moss? My m O s s. Yeah, okay, uh,
(16:12):
I know if you do it once or twice and
just take it easier, you probably should be fine.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Yeah, well they have they are an issue sprout of
this year.
Speaker 3 (16:22):
They should be Oh that's weird. No, I I should really,
I should really have a good google on that. I
didn't think that that would be a major gig. I'm
sorry now.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
I thought it'd be right too, but yeah, I've just died,
so never mind, you know what.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
You know what, Tony, I'm just you know, honestly, seeing
you've you've just had another hard moment in the garden.
Would you would you like a clark cultivated one of
those really nice sharp handled things that goes like that
does the weeds for you?
Speaker 8 (16:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
All right, that's awesome, mate. You look yourself some constellation
for the yes, at least absolutely right, are very quick, Margaret,
good morning.
Speaker 9 (17:09):
Yes, Hello, it's Magi Old Bag.
Speaker 3 (17:13):
Hello, Magie Old Bag. How are you.
Speaker 9 (17:17):
We've got yellow aphids all over quite and the along
hums a little black something and it's them. Yeah, but
I haven't ever known what the black is.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Well, there could be. There are lots of things that
eat aphids and and and there are lots of different
insects and without actually getting exactly the size and how
many legs they've got, it's really hard for me to
explain what it is. But but you've got to really
keep those things going for you, because this is your
biological control, isn't it. Yeah? Yeah, isn't that lovely? And
(17:59):
a lot of them, a lot of them are, of course,
ladybird beetle larvae, the babies of ladybirds.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
Yeah, I know, but I just wondered what the black
thing was about.
Speaker 3 (18:11):
The lady bird larvae can be black.
Speaker 9 (18:16):
Well, that's that's what I must be. Because they just
scubble them up, justle.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Them up well after the other. I know, they're great.
Speaker 9 (18:24):
Yeah, and going up to Eastford Hill that in a
couple of days. How about that again?
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Good on you. We can't beat you out of there.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
Absolutely not lovely cool, Thanks very much, Margaret, really appreciate it. Right,
So tell me about we got thirty seconds. Tell me
about this albanding. What the point of that is to
be able to track the migration of the birds or
where they've come from or yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
But also how old do they get? Are the males
their females? Do they come back to the same particular
site where they we actually band the adults as well
with the cause they're so quiet, sit on the eggs
and you can take them off.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
It's brilliant and goes into a register of some.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Oh absolutely yes. Yeah. And there's another lady from a
university in Canterbury who actually does an analysis of the
brack baller that thinks that they spit out sight and
see what they eat. That's another thing.
Speaker 2 (19:20):
Yes, all right, that's funny, awesome, right now, Let's do
it again next week. Behavior make sure you send me
a photograph though. If you're holding an owl, you've got
to seend me a photograph of that. Look forward to it.
Take care of it, all of this, and folks, have
a great week. We'll do it all again next Sunday.
Here at News Talks EDB.
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