December 28, 2024 • 17 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks EDB Doing up the House, sorting the garden,
asked Pete for a hand The Resident Builder with Peter
Wolfcamp and life Force Solar Solar Power done right cal eight.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
News Talks ed B climb past. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Hell
are you sir?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I'm very good, Peter, and I love your little ramble
about the the y owl boxes again.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yeah, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It was a bit of a surprise. I was thinking
back and I was singing, you know, if there was
one thing that I didn't expect to be building this year,
it would have to be ol boxes. But it's been
huge pleasure, to be fair.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
It's good fun, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I love it. It's been great.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
But at about five six days ago before Christmas, we
we looked at a few boxes, the two young owls
that we had last have left, yes, and we took
the whole interior droppings inside the box out of that
box and they are now going to be studied by
somebody at Kent Toby University. Aaron is going to look
(01:14):
at exactly what these things eat when they're young, they're
old and all that sort of stuff. And it's absolutely
wonderful what you can do with those boxes because you
can actually learn so much from these creatures.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Like fantastic citizen science.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's certainly well, no, this is real science, proper, this
is this is MSc or whatever it is PD whatever
you call it.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Fantastic, fantastic. Right, Oh, we've got a full boarder calls.
Let's rip into it. Roger, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
What's time to play spy roses for what Roger bleck
spot and stuff for for a fungal disease? Yeah, just
a lot of roses. Yeah, and it is a for
the first time.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
You to do it.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I would do it now if if I were you,
because the moment you get a good number of droplets
coming down from a rain shower, you'll find it is
basically it's basically vulnerable to get more infection. So in
this case, the fungicide you can use, for instance, Nature's
Way spray or whatever is basically protecting your roses from
(02:25):
being infected rather than having to cure cure it afterwards.
You know, I am have a go now.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
All this and Ian A very good morning to you,
good morning, go for it.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
We've got Christmas bugs arrive every Christmas in the Coramandle
and they're coming plague proportions. Come after dark or you
know it's going dusk and just where a head for
light apparently, and drive your nuts. In the morning, they're
piled up again the again your doors or the window
(03:05):
sills and the stuff them.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Now, can you describe them? First of all? Ian?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Yeah, they're little bugs maybe three quarters of an inch long.
They fly, yeah, and they have got hard backs. When
you stand on them, they crunch.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Color They are a brownie color. Okay. I've done my
computer for them, and they do call them Christmas bogs
there too.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
In where in Australia?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
No, in New Zealand and the Coramandle here.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, but yeah, okay. The problem is
there are Christmas bugs in Australia. And what you might
have here is that doesn't matter. The ones that I hear,
the smaller ones are the beatles that are actually flying
indeed late late spring and early summer, and they actually
eat the leaves of your plants, your trees quite often
(04:05):
fruit trees, right right.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Have you seen that? Have you seen holes in leaves.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Now now I've just seen holes in poka trees around here.
But they're big. I think they're bigger than the beetle
that eat I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
The thing with these creatures is, the brown ones.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Is the fact that they basically eat foliage, which in
itself is not a big deal, to be quite honest,
because most plants will replace the eaten foliage by getting
new leaves created, if you like. The second thing is
that when they finally have eaten their foliage, they lay
their eggs right down in the ground, because it's their
(04:46):
babies that eat the roots of the plants as well.
And the problem is it is really hard to predict
when they strike, where they strike, what night they come, where,
et cetera. They are attracted to lights, I must say,
but it's really difficult to actually.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Keep them under control in this case.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
The best thing is that I've noticed here is that
I've got some magpies, and I've got all sorts of
other creatures that get them in the evening, especially owls.
I find them in the old droppings as well. They
come and pick them up at night and they eat
them basically as they can see them in the middle
of the night.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Just like that.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Thanks for that. We do have like millions of them
that come and the vacuuming them up is about the
only way to get rid of them. That's probably the
right plastic bag because of the thrown and the rubbish
spin they'll get going again.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Or or in this case, put them in a container
and chuck them in the freezer for a while.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, that's the only way to do it.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Okay, Well, they will go eventually, but they're a bit
of a nuisance at the moment, and I think a
lot of the people that live post the sea are
afflicted by them.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, I don't think that their impact on your tree,
shrubs and plants is that great. Yes, I know they creak,
create holes, and people get really really upset about the holes.
But the interesting thing is, as I said before, that
holes are being replaced by new leaves by the plant. Basically,
it's a it's a system of repairing the tree and
(06:21):
that's what they do, so it's not a big deal.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
We have a lot of bush around us and we're
not concerned about what it does to the bush. Briss
because you can't see any difference. But it's just that
they pile up in heaps around your windows, and they
and whatever around your house, and there are a hell
of a thing to get rid of or to clean
up every day. Every day you've got to do vacuuming
(06:46):
outside on decks and areas like that that are exposed
to the light at night open. So got to help you.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, I remember, I remember.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
We had them a lot in Tity Rangy and in
in meadow Bank where we used to live. And to
be quite honest, the original common name is bronze beetle,
the bronze beetle, bronze. There you are, Thank you for that, welcome.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Thank you very very much. Hey, quick texture, someone's building
a box. Funnily enough, do we put ventilation holes in
the base plus the bark? I'm looking forward to watching
the owls from robin holes.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
No, no, no, you don't need ventilation holes because they
go in to this. There's always movement of air there.
Don't worry, no, don't worry about it at all.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I was going to say, do I need to add
like a little dormer or something like that.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Now you've got it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
No, no, because you need to get their checked by
the council every six months.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Robin a very good morning to you, Oh good morning
road hippie Christmas and say to you ro thank you.
Now I hear the major issue with ryegrass. I believe
that's what it does. It's like it looks like and
it's got all those little pustles and it's just like
a like yellow color and it's all over my grass.
(08:09):
So obviously when I'm the lawns seen it just reeplants
all the seeds. Yeah, so how do I get rid
of it?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Well?
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Literally hardly need grass list And.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
That's the point because if you had to see there
are there are there are weed killers that only do
grass or only doing non grass. But in this case,
you've got a grass that is a weed inside your lawn.
So you only get rid of the lot and spread
a whole lot and start redoing it. But where does
(08:46):
it come from? Where does the seed come from? Does
this fly in? Does it go in the wind on
your feet?
Speaker 7 (08:53):
You thought there was there was a fiction over the
back now building on it, but it was covered in
it and it's flying over from from the back neighbor.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
It's it's it's not that horrific. Barely grass?
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Is it quite possibly? I just thought it might be
rye grass. I don't know. It's just it's got like well,
I think I've got both. I've got the ones with
the quite big long seeds on it, and then I've
got the little fine ones that grow up as well.
And the thing is, I've got a fluffy pussy cat
and she gets them stuck in a fear and I
(09:27):
don't want them to get into a skin because they can't.
You become quite infected in things. So that's the yeah,
But I just want to get rid of it anyway,
because it's just ugly.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Is your is your lawn lade?
Speaker 7 (09:42):
It's I've got a front on the back side that
goes around the house. I wouldn't say it's large large.
I mean it's probably about five meters. I ate at
the front, and that the flame at the side and
then the flame at the back, so the nel shape.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Would it be visual to pull the things out individually
and leave your lawn as it is?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (10:12):
Yeah? Well, I had thought of that is I might
need to get a crew and grandkids.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Grandkids are good at that, and especially this down of
the year when they need some money.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Yeah, true, true, I have got a niece n here
that I could employ.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
There you go. That's one.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
The other thing, and this is something I talked to
Francisco about some time ago. Get rid of it, spray everything,
and get yourself a wildflower lawn that you don't have
to mow, and that will be totally different in terms
of looks, and it'll give you wildflower seeds, just wildflower seeds,
(10:49):
so many different species of plant that grow in that
become your lawn. And you can then if you like,
make a little a little you can mow a little
trek through that if you want to go from A
to B in your lawn for instance, you know.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
Yeah washing nine yeah, okay, So want kind of thing
to kill it?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Do?
Speaker 7 (11:08):
I use to kill it or rough.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Or anything and any anything such as round up and
a control and all the things that get rid of
your of grass, of any grass, and.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
Any glass sort of get rid of the whole off
again and plant the seeds like it. Because sometimes when
I was told when you use round up or something,
you can't plant anything for a few months because it's
still in the soil or something.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
No, it's not that long. You can do that within
a couple of weeks, no.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Problem, Okay, a couple of weeks yep, very quick of
a question. Yeah, silver beate, broccoli and collie. So what
would I use to fertilize those?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Like?
Speaker 7 (11:55):
Do I use salt, spate of pofish or no?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Not necessarily.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You can do a general fertilizer like a rose fertilizer
or something like that, very very similar.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, lovely.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Okay, all the good luck, take care. We're going to
take short break beeed backs straight after the news or
straight after the break rather, it is basically eight forty
five your news talks'd. We're talking to you about all
things gardening and the wonderful world of bug scary. Good morning, Good.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
Morning, Marue, Good morning Pete. Hey Rue, I just have
a problem with the with chickweed, and I'm down my
hands and knees, and of course you've got to keep
pulling it out amongst all your flowers and around your
bed your garden. Is there any think that you can
stop it from growing or just a thing that you've
got to put up with and just keep pulling it out.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
The problem, this is the problem if you start spraying
and you've got some desirable plants in between.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
It's really hard not there the others, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
That's right? Yeah, I know some when I'm pulling it
out to be careful, I don't wraps around all the
center of the flowers. And you've got to take care
if you don't wreck the flowers. And so is it
just a job you just got to put up with
them and people?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Or is it would you be able to do the
weeding in between yours your good plants?
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Oh yes, yes, yes, but I know that I was
doing it yesterday and it's come up some. It comes
up through the center them as well. You know you see.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, yeah, that's too hard, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
No, do it by hand, or get yourself a Clark
cultivator there you go. Oh you know what if you
mentioned the fact that you heard this on the radio,
go to the Clark Cultivator, you know, on the website,
and they'll give you something like thirty three percent off.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I've just thought, being Dutch, I might be able to
tell you that.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
You very much. You both have a happy New Year
to you.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Made go well, I tell you what with some of
the because I've did the same thing right, these weeds
coming up in the garden in between things that I
don't want to kill. So in those cases, I've used
those little bottle that you can literally brush it on
individual plants. It's time consuming, but at least you get
it down into the roots and.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
You know that you're not taking the ones you don't
want to pill. Yeah, you know, I totally agree, But
that's a painting job. It's almost like a painting pretty much.
Make sure you're Shall we take a break and company.
We'll talk to back in the moment here in news.
It'll be a couple of minutes to go, and it
is with me. Gail, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
Good morning, Pete and Ruth. I'm very upset. My small
flowering peach is covered on peaches, which we love. But
the leaves on the end of a few of the
branches are terrible. They're sort of brown dying, and the
peaches are affected. Can I spray it with.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Something you could try if it's Do you think that
it's leaf curl? Can that be a description of those
leaves that become yellowish inside the curl?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
No?
Speaker 9 (15:02):
No, it's leaf dying.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Leaf dying. Okay, that's not nice. Oh gosh, golly, and
different color you said as.
Speaker 9 (15:10):
Well, dark bombs and they look just horrible.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh, cheapest creepers look without really seeing it. I find
it really hard to diagnose something without seeing it, you
know what I mean. If it is if it is
a fungal disease. If you think it's a fungal disease,
get yourself, get yourself something like a material that yates
nature's way fungus. Spray at least copper that contains copper
(15:41):
and sulfur.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yeah, that's why I mentioned it.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You can use just copper, but if you use copper
and sulfur, you have a wider reach.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
If you like, oh I see, thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And the reason is then you will stop the spread
through this at this moment, still healthy leaves, you know
what I mean. Yeah, yeah, it's it's really hard to
do that. Yeah, I hope it's going to work for you.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Girl. It's a pain and to bum sometimes these things,
but there you go. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Can you eat the peats after spraying with Nature's.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Right, Yes you can, And that's why I mentioned it,
Because it's an edible plant.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You wash your pitches and you'll be fine.
Speaker 9 (16:22):
Okay, that's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Thank you, Gail, take care, all the best and all
the very best to you for New Year, and again
my thanks to you for your contribution. And I think
that people I don't know underestimate the impact that you
have in terms of sort of raising awareness and the
(16:46):
education side of what you do. And I would imagine
that it must be if you took a moment, you
probably don't do this, but if you took a moment,
stood back and went, hey, I was part of this
rejuvenation of people restoring wetlands and looking up. You know,
you'd have to say, you'd have to put yourself on
the back, and I bet you don't do it, So
I'm going to do it.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
It's lovely to say, but you do the same thing.
I mean, this is exactly what the world should be
about today.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
This is it. That's why I'm wearing my wingspan.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Had see you later, looking forward to hitting down there.
Take care, Happy new year to.
Speaker 10 (17:19):
You, and Rude will be back with us next year,
which of course next Sunday will be the fifth of January,
so looking forward to you joining you again.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Then take care, have a very happy new year.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp, Listen
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You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks EDB Doing up the House, sorting the garden,
asked Pete for a hand The Resident Builder with Peter
Wolfcamp and life Force Solar Solar Power done right cal eight.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
News Talks ed B climb past. Welcome, Welcome, Welcome, Hell
are you sir?
Speaker 3 (00:29):
I'm very good, Peter, and I love your little ramble
about the the y owl boxes again.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Yeah, I'll tell you what.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
It was a bit of a surprise. I was thinking
back and I was singing, you know, if there was
one thing that I didn't expect to be building this year,
it would have to be ol boxes. But it's been
huge pleasure, to be fair.
Speaker 4 (00:49):
It's good fun, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
I love it. It's been great.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
But at about five six days ago before Christmas, we
we looked at a few boxes, the two young owls
that we had last have left, yes, and we took
the whole interior droppings inside the box out of that
box and they are now going to be studied by
somebody at Kent Toby University. Aaron is going to look
(01:14):
at exactly what these things eat when they're young, they're
old and all that sort of stuff. And it's absolutely
wonderful what you can do with those boxes because you
can actually learn so much from these creatures.
Speaker 2 (01:25):
Like fantastic citizen science.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
It's certainly well, no, this is real science, proper, this
is this is MSc or whatever it is PD whatever
you call it.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Fantastic, fantastic. Right, Oh, we've got a full boarder calls.
Let's rip into it. Roger, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (01:45):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 6 (01:47):
What's time to play spy roses for what Roger bleck
spot and stuff for for a fungal disease? Yeah, just
a lot of roses. Yeah, and it is a for
the first time.
Speaker 4 (02:03):
You to do it.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
I would do it now if if I were you,
because the moment you get a good number of droplets
coming down from a rain shower, you'll find it is
basically it's basically vulnerable to get more infection. So in
this case, the fungicide you can use, for instance, Nature's
Way spray or whatever is basically protecting your roses from
(02:25):
being infected rather than having to cure cure it afterwards.
You know, I am have a go now.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
All this and Ian A very good morning to you,
good morning, go for it.
Speaker 5 (02:44):
We've got Christmas bugs arrive every Christmas in the Coramandle
and they're coming plague proportions. Come after dark or you
know it's going dusk and just where a head for
light apparently, and drive your nuts. In the morning, they're
piled up again the again your doors or the window
(03:05):
sills and the stuff them.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
Now, can you describe them? First of all? Ian?
Speaker 5 (03:13):
Yeah, they're little bugs maybe three quarters of an inch long.
They fly, yeah, and they have got hard backs. When
you stand on them, they crunch.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
That's right.
Speaker 5 (03:25):
Color They are a brownie color. Okay. I've done my
computer for them, and they do call them Christmas bogs
there too.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
In where in Australia?
Speaker 5 (03:41):
No, in New Zealand and the Coramandle here.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, but yeah, okay. The problem is
there are Christmas bugs in Australia. And what you might
have here is that doesn't matter. The ones that I hear,
the smaller ones are the beatles that are actually flying
indeed late late spring and early summer, and they actually
eat the leaves of your plants, your trees quite often
(04:05):
fruit trees, right right.
Speaker 4 (04:08):
Have you seen that? Have you seen holes in leaves.
Speaker 5 (04:10):
Now now I've just seen holes in poka trees around here.
But they're big. I think they're bigger than the beetle
that eat I don't know what.
Speaker 4 (04:20):
The thing with these creatures is, the brown ones.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Is the fact that they basically eat foliage, which in
itself is not a big deal, to be quite honest,
because most plants will replace the eaten foliage by getting
new leaves created, if you like. The second thing is
that when they finally have eaten their foliage, they lay
their eggs right down in the ground, because it's their
(04:46):
babies that eat the roots of the plants as well.
And the problem is it is really hard to predict
when they strike, where they strike, what night they come, where,
et cetera. They are attracted to lights, I must say,
but it's really difficult to actually.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
Keep them under control in this case.
Speaker 3 (05:07):
The best thing is that I've noticed here is that
I've got some magpies, and I've got all sorts of
other creatures that get them in the evening, especially owls.
I find them in the old droppings as well. They
come and pick them up at night and they eat
them basically as they can see them in the middle
of the night.
Speaker 4 (05:24):
Just like that.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Thanks for that. We do have like millions of them
that come and the vacuuming them up is about the
only way to get rid of them. That's probably the
right plastic bag because of the thrown and the rubbish
spin they'll get going again.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
Yeah that's right.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Or or in this case, put them in a container
and chuck them in the freezer for a while.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Uh huh.
Speaker 4 (05:46):
Yeah, that's the only way to do it.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Okay, Well, they will go eventually, but they're a bit
of a nuisance at the moment, and I think a
lot of the people that live post the sea are
afflicted by them.
Speaker 4 (05:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, I don't think that their impact on your tree,
shrubs and plants is that great. Yes, I know they creak,
create holes, and people get really really upset about the holes.
But the interesting thing is, as I said before, that
holes are being replaced by new leaves by the plant. Basically,
it's a it's a system of repairing the tree and
(06:21):
that's what they do, so it's not a big deal.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
We have a lot of bush around us and we're
not concerned about what it does to the bush. Briss
because you can't see any difference. But it's just that
they pile up in heaps around your windows, and they
and whatever around your house, and there are a hell
of a thing to get rid of or to clean
up every day. Every day you've got to do vacuuming
(06:46):
outside on decks and areas like that that are exposed
to the light at night open. So got to help you.
Speaker 4 (06:54):
Yeah, I remember, I remember.
Speaker 3 (06:57):
We had them a lot in Tity Rangy and in
in meadow Bank where we used to live. And to
be quite honest, the original common name is bronze beetle,
the bronze beetle, bronze. There you are, Thank you for that, welcome.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Thank you very very much. Hey, quick texture, someone's building
a box. Funnily enough, do we put ventilation holes in
the base plus the bark? I'm looking forward to watching
the owls from robin holes.
Speaker 4 (07:26):
No, no, no, you don't need ventilation holes because they
go in to this. There's always movement of air there.
Don't worry, no, don't worry about it at all.
Speaker 2 (07:33):
I was going to say, do I need to add
like a little dormer or something like that.
Speaker 4 (07:38):
Now you've got it.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
No, no, because you need to get their checked by
the council every six months.
Speaker 7 (07:46):
Robin a very good morning to you, Oh good morning
road hippie Christmas and say to you ro thank you.
Now I hear the major issue with ryegrass. I believe
that's what it does. It's like it looks like and
it's got all those little pustles and it's just like
a like yellow color and it's all over my grass.
(08:09):
So obviously when I'm the lawns seen it just reeplants
all the seeds. Yeah, so how do I get rid
of it?
Speaker 5 (08:20):
Well?
Speaker 7 (08:20):
Literally hardly need grass list And.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
That's the point because if you had to see there
are there are there are weed killers that only do
grass or only doing non grass. But in this case,
you've got a grass that is a weed inside your lawn.
So you only get rid of the lot and spread
a whole lot and start redoing it. But where does
(08:46):
it come from? Where does the seed come from? Does
this fly in? Does it go in the wind on
your feet?
Speaker 7 (08:53):
You thought there was there was a fiction over the
back now building on it, but it was covered in
it and it's flying over from from the back neighbor.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
It's it's it's not that horrific. Barely grass?
Speaker 7 (09:06):
Is it quite possibly? I just thought it might be
rye grass. I don't know. It's just it's got like well,
I think I've got both. I've got the ones with
the quite big long seeds on it, and then I've
got the little fine ones that grow up as well.
And the thing is, I've got a fluffy pussy cat
and she gets them stuck in a fear and I
(09:27):
don't want them to get into a skin because they can't.
You become quite infected in things. So that's the yeah,
But I just want to get rid of it anyway,
because it's just ugly.
Speaker 4 (09:39):
Is your is your lawn lade?
Speaker 7 (09:42):
It's I've got a front on the back side that
goes around the house. I wouldn't say it's large large.
I mean it's probably about five meters. I ate at
the front, and that the flame at the side and
then the flame at the back, so the nel shape.
Speaker 3 (10:04):
Would it be visual to pull the things out individually
and leave your lawn as it is?
Speaker 4 (10:11):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (10:12):
Yeah? Well, I had thought of that is I might
need to get a crew and grandkids.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Grandkids are good at that, and especially this down of
the year when they need some money.
Speaker 7 (10:23):
Yeah, true, true, I have got a niece n here
that I could employ.
Speaker 4 (10:27):
There you go. That's one.
Speaker 3 (10:29):
The other thing, and this is something I talked to
Francisco about some time ago. Get rid of it, spray everything,
and get yourself a wildflower lawn that you don't have
to mow, and that will be totally different in terms
of looks, and it'll give you wildflower seeds, just wildflower seeds,
(10:49):
so many different species of plant that grow in that
become your lawn. And you can then if you like,
make a little a little you can mow a little
trek through that if you want to go from A
to B in your lawn for instance, you know.
Speaker 7 (11:02):
Yeah washing nine yeah, okay, So want kind of thing
to kill it?
Speaker 4 (11:08):
Do?
Speaker 7 (11:08):
I use to kill it or rough.
Speaker 3 (11:11):
Or anything and any anything such as round up and
a control and all the things that get rid of
your of grass, of any grass, and.
Speaker 7 (11:21):
Any glass sort of get rid of the whole off
again and plant the seeds like it. Because sometimes when
I was told when you use round up or something,
you can't plant anything for a few months because it's
still in the soil or something.
Speaker 3 (11:39):
No, it's not that long. You can do that within
a couple of weeks, no.
Speaker 7 (11:42):
Problem, Okay, a couple of weeks yep, very quick of
a question. Yeah, silver beate, broccoli and collie. So what
would I use to fertilize those?
Speaker 6 (11:55):
Like?
Speaker 7 (11:55):
Do I use salt, spate of pofish or no?
Speaker 4 (11:59):
Not necessarily.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
You can do a general fertilizer like a rose fertilizer
or something like that, very very similar.
Speaker 7 (12:06):
Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, lovely.
Speaker 2 (12:08):
Okay, all the good luck, take care. We're going to
take short break beeed backs straight after the news or
straight after the break rather, it is basically eight forty
five your news talks'd. We're talking to you about all
things gardening and the wonderful world of bug scary. Good morning, Good.
Speaker 8 (12:25):
Morning, Marue, Good morning Pete. Hey Rue, I just have
a problem with the with chickweed, and I'm down my
hands and knees, and of course you've got to keep
pulling it out amongst all your flowers and around your
bed your garden. Is there any think that you can
stop it from growing or just a thing that you've
got to put up with and just keep pulling it out.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
The problem, this is the problem if you start spraying
and you've got some desirable plants in between.
Speaker 4 (12:51):
It's really hard not there the others, isn't it.
Speaker 8 (12:54):
That's right? Yeah, I know some when I'm pulling it
out to be careful, I don't wraps around all the
center of the flowers. And you've got to take care
if you don't wreck the flowers. And so is it
just a job you just got to put up with
them and people?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Or is it would you be able to do the
weeding in between yours your good plants?
Speaker 8 (13:14):
Oh yes, yes, yes, but I know that I was
doing it yesterday and it's come up some. It comes
up through the center them as well. You know you see.
Speaker 4 (13:23):
Yeah, yeah, that's too hard, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:25):
No, do it by hand, or get yourself a Clark
cultivator there you go. Oh you know what if you
mentioned the fact that you heard this on the radio,
go to the Clark Cultivator, you know, on the website,
and they'll give you something like thirty three percent off.
Speaker 4 (13:40):
I've just thought, being Dutch, I might be able to
tell you that.
Speaker 8 (13:45):
You very much. You both have a happy New Year
to you.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Made go well, I tell you what with some of
the because I've did the same thing right, these weeds
coming up in the garden in between things that I
don't want to kill. So in those cases, I've used
those little bottle that you can literally brush it on
individual plants. It's time consuming, but at least you get
it down into the roots and.
Speaker 3 (14:11):
You know that you're not taking the ones you don't
want to pill. Yeah, you know, I totally agree, But
that's a painting job. It's almost like a painting pretty much.
Make sure you're Shall we take a break and company.
We'll talk to back in the moment here in news.
It'll be a couple of minutes to go, and it
is with me. Gail, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (14:31):
Good morning, Pete and Ruth. I'm very upset. My small
flowering peach is covered on peaches, which we love. But
the leaves on the end of a few of the
branches are terrible. They're sort of brown dying, and the
peaches are affected. Can I spray it with.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
Something you could try if it's Do you think that
it's leaf curl? Can that be a description of those
leaves that become yellowish inside the curl?
Speaker 4 (15:01):
No?
Speaker 9 (15:02):
No, it's leaf dying.
Speaker 4 (15:04):
Leaf dying. Okay, that's not nice. Oh gosh, golly, and
different color you said as.
Speaker 9 (15:10):
Well, dark bombs and they look just horrible.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Oh, cheapest creepers look without really seeing it. I find
it really hard to diagnose something without seeing it, you
know what I mean. If it is if it is
a fungal disease. If you think it's a fungal disease,
get yourself, get yourself something like a material that yates
nature's way fungus. Spray at least copper that contains copper
(15:41):
and sulfur.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Yeah, that's why I mentioned it.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
You can use just copper, but if you use copper
and sulfur, you have a wider reach.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
If you like, oh I see, thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And the reason is then you will stop the spread
through this at this moment, still healthy leaves, you know
what I mean. Yeah, yeah, it's it's really hard to
do that. Yeah, I hope it's going to work for you.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Girl. It's a pain and to bum sometimes these things,
but there you go. Yeah.
Speaker 9 (16:13):
Can you eat the peats after spraying with Nature's.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Right, Yes you can, And that's why I mentioned it,
Because it's an edible plant.
Speaker 4 (16:20):
You wash your pitches and you'll be fine.
Speaker 9 (16:22):
Okay, that's fantastic.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
Thank you, Gail, take care, all the best and all
the very best to you for New Year, and again
my thanks to you for your contribution. And I think
that people I don't know underestimate the impact that you
have in terms of sort of raising awareness and the
(16:46):
education side of what you do. And I would imagine
that it must be if you took a moment, you
probably don't do this, but if you took a moment,
stood back and went, hey, I was part of this
rejuvenation of people restoring wetlands and looking up. You know,
you'd have to say, you'd have to put yourself on
the back, and I bet you don't do it, So
I'm going to do it.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:06):
It's lovely to say, but you do the same thing.
I mean, this is exactly what the world should be
about today.
Speaker 4 (17:12):
This is it. That's why I'm wearing my wingspan.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
Had see you later, looking forward to hitting down there.
Take care, Happy new year to.
Speaker 10 (17:19):
You, and Rude will be back with us next year,
which of course next Sunday will be the fifth of January,
so looking forward to you joining you again.
Speaker 2 (17:30):
Then take care, have a very happy new year.
Speaker 1 (17:33):
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