January 4, 2025 • 21 mins
This week, Pete and Ruud answer your questions about keeping your garden in the best shape it can be this season!
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from News Talks a B helping you get those
DIY projects done right. The Resident Builder with Peter wolf
Camp and light Force Solar ay list for power in
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
News Talks It Be, Your News Talks It Be. And
for the first time in twenty twenty five that are
had climb passed a very good morning and welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
And a happy new year to you, Toobe.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And to you and to how did you do Oliballa?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
No, no, no, I didn't know. I didn't do this.
We had we had too many French people in over
the trice, so we had croissants and things like that.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Do they preserable such a proletarian?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
No no, no, no, highly highly great to see the things,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
No worries, wonderful and the other thing too much.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, same to you, mate. And isn't it interesting at
this time of the year when you are having all
these things you want to do anything. Oh so yesterday
I decided we're going to be band in Kingfishes this
morning at nine o'clock. And I thought nine o'clock, that's impossible.
I'm just off air. So everything had to be changed,
(01:16):
you know what I mean, it's stupid like that. So
that's one of the other that's one of the things
that that's happening to me in in in the holidays.
I have no idea of time.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, I sort of mooching around. He start going, I
have to go to work tomorrow or not. I can't
kind of what day it is, but exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
And so I'm also I'm also doing what do you
call it chopping firewood? You know, not the chip the spl.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Split splitters, yeah, split Do you hire a splitter? Well, no,
I've got.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I've got a good friend. Yeah yeah, And and he
and I do gardening together. But also these sort of things.
So I got to splitter up and that's what I'm using.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's great, it's awesome, it's they're good. Yeah, good, Yeah,
just sell me pay attention because you know, fingers and
and splitters don't go well together.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
No, I don't do fingers. I sit on a big
log next to it. And if you know how sometimes
the split that goes like you know that there's going
to be bad, you just you walk away a little
bit and yep, there it goes fantastic.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Right, let's get into the garden is here will take
your calls. Terry, good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Good morning, and happy New Year to you gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Thank you, same to you, mate.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I need the name of the spray that you have
talked about for carpet moth.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Oh yes, where are you? Are you in CHRISTI somewhere Wellington? Wellington? Okay? Well,
if you've got, for instance, a carpet beetle, as well
as as clothes moths, which are the things that have
been introduced into New Zealand a long time ago, although
they never mind. The best thing to use is a
(03:04):
material that is organized by Safe Works. If you're in Wellington,
you've got a shop of safe safe Works I think
in Benrose, sorry in in Toni betweeny but there's a
new new way of saying it. Yeah and safe Works
ends with an X. You'll find they're there and they
have material that you that they spray in aircraft to
(03:27):
stop mosquitoes and other pests getting into the country, a
little bit like the trouble we're having at the moment
with the fruit fly. So they have they have a
material that is a they call it a pre spray.
It contains promethrine, It lasts an awfully long time, and
anything that comes in touch with that particular thing on
(03:47):
your carpet, for instance, or on your clothes, in your
in your cupboards basically is gone within about a quarter
of an hour.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
But do you know the name of it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
It's it's yes, it's a it's an aircraft spray from
Kellington Haven. But if you go to safe Works, they
know what you're looking for. It is the residual the
residual aircraft spray aerosol ken, right.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
And you can spray. There's any time of the year
you can.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Indeed, in this case it's probably a good idea to
do it now because these things are in your house
right now. Yeah. Bora by the way, works well too
for Bora. That's right.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
So what's the best time for spraying at third on
things ray borer for.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Bora is usually end of October early November, right, So
you're a bit late with that.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah right, Thank you very very much.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
More than welcome and success with it, my friend. It's
gorgeous stuff. We've used it for the last forty years,
thirty years. I remember being part of the crowd that
designed it for aircraft spraying to stop creatures coming into
the country.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, thanks very much for that, Terry. Actually just talking
about creatures coming into the country road this infestation and
popa tooy toy, So what you know, typically what happens there,
they've discovered a fruit fly from overseas that we obviously
don't want here. What is what do they do?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
What the story? Well, the story is that we, of
course we when I used to work with the Ministry
of Agriculture or sci we had we had these particular
pheromone traps all over the place to make sure that
we would get a very quick positive if something came
across the country or came into the country, we would
know immediately as soon as possible. That checked every week
(05:45):
or two week week we could do maybe And in
this case that means we know the species, we know
where they are, and we are starting immediate process of
not if you like, transporting fruits from A to b
near by, spreading the whole thing. And that's the state
there in it right now.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Right And is this obsome trapping constant.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Absolutely, it has been going for the last twenty thirty
years as far as I'm aware. Yeah, Rank, oh, yes,
it's a process. But if you're early you can have
to stop this. This is the point. It's that timing
their first week.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Bang okay, fast, no, thanks for that, and good morning
to you.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Good morning too, Happy new year to.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Route and you, Peter, thank you.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I am hi. I've got that plant that has a
very large green, shiny leaf with the flowers that go
up about six seven eight feet sometimes and they have
white and pinky sort of things coming out. You know,
the one I'm talking about, No, has those very large green,
(06:52):
very shiny leaves, and I know people've talked to you
about it before, and that has those shoots, those stalks
that go right up and have little white, white and
sort of pinky flowers coming out of it.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I'm one of their people that actually need a picture
of it to see what it looks like before. Because
there's so many different species of plants. I know what
you're saying that it would be handy to know here.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I just don't know the name the name of it,
and I don't know how to get the name of it.
But it has a tuba sort of route that goes
down and it's very in phases, and I wanted to
know how to get rid of it. I'm sure you
talked the other day to somebody about saying that the
leaf was shiny and therefore wouldn't take the spray, and
that I was trying to take it out yesterday and
the roots just I mean, I pulled it out. I
(07:37):
broke the handle of my spade trying to dig it out,
because I think the only way to do it is
to dig it out. And at seventy four, I'm not
really strong enough to dig it all out. But it's
just it takes. I know, if I pull all the
leaves out and you know, send them off to the
rubbish sheep, that they'll just come back again. So I
just want to get rid of it because it's sort
(07:59):
of coming up all over the As the seeds go out,
that comes out coming up all over the section, and
it's going to be a big job to sort of
keep it down there. You are to get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
And here's here's just a suggestion, and this is just
something that is really handy for the future anyway. Also,
if you would ask your people at the garden centers
for advice on these things. If you've got I assume
you've got a smartphone, yes, down, download an app on
your smartphone called I Natura List, I Naturalist natural right, yes, yep,
(08:36):
and it costs you nothing and you get your username
in a password. Basically, what you do is you take
a picture of that plant as close as you can
get of particular features of it. You send it to
I Naturalists, and within ten seconds you will have the
top two or three names of that plant that it
could be. Some are just adamant saying it's that one.
(08:58):
We know it's that one. So you then get you
actually get the right name. And once you've got that,
you've got the scientific in the right common name. If
you like, you can actually find out exactly what to do.
And I would be able to give you far more advanced.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
About that.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I've got it on my phone. You just have to
keep remembering what the password is. That's the hardest part.
The rest is easy, and the rest is easy. Your
news talks, he'd be we're talking all things gardening and
the wonderful world of bugs. Now I'm conflicted, quickly. You
know how we talked about hedgehogs last week? Oh god, yeah,
(09:38):
And they must have been listening, because I'm standing on
my back deck two nights ago, looking out at the
night sky and all I can hear is snuffle, rumble, snuffle.
So into the garden with a torch too. I go inside,
talk to Joseph, come back out for trotting around fossicking
around in the garden. And I remember our conversation and
(10:00):
I repeated it to Joseph and looked at me and said,
what are you going to do? And I'm like, I
just can't. I just can't, but I should shouldn't I
but I just.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Paid, Oh mate, one way, Oh all right, I'm sorry,
but I.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Know, I know, I know, yeah, I know. I appreciate
the honesty. Oh do they compost?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well, yes they do, they do.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, good to know. Right on that happy night. We'll
take a short break back in a moment.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Measure twice, cut once, but maybe call Pead first feeder,
wolf Camp the resident builder with light four solar save
power in twenty twenty five and earn airpoints dollars us talk.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
It hey Pete, yes, sir, and you know this plant
and was talking yeah, yeah, yeah on the text. We've
got the three of ye backdraw bear front, We've got
all these different things. It's amazing gunner around which actually
Acapan is different flags. This is the point when you
(11:00):
have no visual clue you it becomes exactly what's in
your brain, and you're not always right, but it's I
always want to thank people for saying thank you for
helping me out, because sometimes there are little gems in
there going like great.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I know exactly what it is. I tried to figure
it out last week and I didn't break my spade.
You Gayleen, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Good morning road, a happy new year. And to you Peter,
thank you. Okay, I have a question about potting mix Festival.
Since I've moved to Norfland, I've had to buy purchased
potting mix in the bags and now I've used three
or four different varieties of potting milk and the plants
(11:46):
seem to look all right, and it's for about a
month up to two three months and then they start
to die. Oh and I've grown begone years and actually
years and years and years and never had this problem
that I used to mix my own. Any ideas of
what's happening in the potting.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Mix there might now it might not be just the
potting mix. The point is that when I use potting
mix or mixes or planting mixes if you like. I
always get if I need a bag of a bag
of topsoil to mix with that potting mix. And the
reason for that is that potting mix by itself is
(12:25):
fine if you've got it in a pot, in a
pot plant inside, if you like. But even then I
add a little bit of top soil to make it
a lot more sturdy and a lot more moist retaining
and all that sort of stuff. So potting mix by
itself is okay in certain conditions, but it sometimes pay
pays to actually mix it with equal amounts of uh
(12:50):
top soil.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
When I used to mix my own potting Max recipe,
I never had the problem, and I would have plants
growing for years in the same pot where it was
a shape, poly health sort of sure.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
But when you mixed it, when you mixed it, what
did you mix it with?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Just peteron our auticopsal grade.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I'm saying, there you go, that is that isn't in
the material, That is not a compost, but it is
actually in the it's one of the soil types. You know.
Sand is a very grainy soil type, et cetera, et cetera.
Clay is a very fine soil type. But if you
get good top soil, that is exactly what you did
in the past, and that's what I'm recommending.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
So maybe a mixture of the potting mix and some
other material.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah yeah, mineral soil with potting mix together works usually
quite well. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I hope that helps scaling. All the very best to
you and Brent. A very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Morning clost year to you.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Same to you, Brent. What we're doing. Shape of beetles, Oh,
shafer is great? Aren't they beautiful?
Speaker 6 (14:04):
No, they're pain.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Are they eating your leaves?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Are they well? No?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
So every November for the past past three years we
get an incredible cloud in the evenings. Yeah, that's right,
and I need to try and get rid of them.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah. And and is this are you in the rural
area or is it are you in the domestic area? Okay,
all right, Well, there are many different species. There's there's
bronze beetle, which is a small beetle if you like,
which is not a chafer, doesn't belong to the same family.
But there are at that time of the beetles. And
we've got little grass grabs at the moment that went
(14:45):
like nutcases in November December here in christ Church. What
I tend to do is I catch them and feed
them to f spyders, you know what I mean. But
the point is, yes, these things will go into your lawn.
They will go into all sorts of places and eat
usually green material, leaves and things like that. What do
(15:08):
you want to do? Oh, it's hard work. You can
get some material from Kiwi Caare, which is for beetles
actually in your lawns and in your gardens that you
can that you can chuck in there, and that will
get them under control reasonably quickly. So try the try
(15:29):
the the Kiwi Care products. I think it's called grass grub,
grass grub, I've forgotten the name of it. Grass grub thing,
blah blah blah blah, Kiwi Care. There you go.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
That's called Is there a particular time of the year
that I need to apply it to the lawn?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I would do it the moment you see the first
one is flying around and you now know what they
look like?
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Yeah, okay, awesome, Yeah great.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
All the very busy bring take care. Oh eight one
hundred and eighty ten eighty is that number of the
cour I reckon, we'll sneak in another one, uh a
J Greetings.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Good morning. I was wondering, I've got a white flies
into station in our gardens, and I was wondering, how
could I get rid of them without pulling all of
the plants out?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
White flies, right, they're like tiny.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Little white flies in there, thousands.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And are they sitting on the leaves of the plants.
And the moment you touch the plants, they fly away
and then they settle again. Okay, what are you having
any crops there that that are edible?
Speaker 8 (16:44):
There's a passion for and a tomato plant and they're
quite like a tomato plant.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, okay, I got that. That's the reason. See, if
it's something that is not being eaten, so you can
use a material called grow ventive. Grow ventive, but not
in your case because you're going to be eating some
of these things. And now I'm going to switch it
to nim or n ee M nim oil. Yeah. You
(17:11):
you mix it up according to what it says on
the packet, and then you spray the top and the
underside of the leaves where those white whiteflies are sitting
and mucking around, and here comes the thing. You do
it again a week and a half later, or two
weeks later or one week late, depending on the time.
(17:31):
You've got every as much as you can, Yeah, as
dance as you can. So what if you've got a
reasonable sprayer and you make the sprayer go very what
do you call it? Very fine? Misty? If you like
basically what you do, you can imagine then you can
actually easily take the underside on the top side, and
you will get them very quickly. But the reason I'm
(17:53):
asking you to do it a second time and even
a third time a couple of weeks apart, is that basically,
when the babies come out of the eggs, they are
not they're not killed when they're in the eggs, but
they will have to be killed and they come out.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Oh, that's so said.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Okay, No, it's it's true. Look, there are a pain
in the you know where?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Yeah, okay, thank you for your advice.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
All right, Jane, take care quick take someonetriggued about beautiful peaches,
but when you open them, they're full of earwigs. How
do you stop that from kirk?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Oh? The earwigs basically the peach. Yeah, but that was
that was because there are peach caterpillars that go into
the peaches. They drill the whole and the excess, and
then basically the earwigs go in there because they like
to eat a the caterpillars, but also like a little
bit of that sweet, lovely peach stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Okay, yeah, intriguing triggering. I'm looking at this text too
from the person you've probably seen it as well. I
love headehogs, great snails and slug control. They eat all
the fall and avocado. They don't climb the tree for
the bird's eggs or the baby bit.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It's except they eat all the birds that have eggs
on the ground. You know, everything like quail and so
on and so forth will be nobbled by. In fact,
I can tell you another thing, having done what's the
first one? In using to do work on Kiwi and
their diets. They compete with Kiwi on about fifteen to
(19:26):
twenty percent ratio. Wow, because they eat the same insects
that Kiwi eat. Yeah, there you go. There's another example,
another thing. But you know, I must say they are cute.
Mike Jack Russell loved them.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
They loved them, well only after the first bite. Yeah,
the second bite not so appealing.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I'm so frustrated.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I couldn't eat them. Oh it's terrible Virginia creeper. This
was another suggestion for the mystery plant that we had
earlier on.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Yeah, but that's a creek.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
See that's it's it's not.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, And it also goes on the the ground, so
it doesn't become tall. Right, And all these different identifications
actually quite lovely to see all that, because that is
exactly the problem that you and I have when we
have no vision visual clues.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
On now, what I did see appearing again is these
damned moth plants. Yeah, they're they're right in the sort
of fruiting pod stage, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Yeah? Right, they do, yes, right now, And they will
have these lovely white flowers, and for instance, monarch butterflies.
This is the problem with the mothpl Monic butterfly caterpillars
will eat those leaves. And that's that made them kind
of a bit like, oh want the monarchs, Yeah exactly,
But here comes the thing. When a monarch wants to
(20:53):
get nectar from the flowers, the flowers go clap and
they trap off the tongue, the tongue of the butterfly,
and the butterfly dies with its tongue stuck in the
blinking plants and what do you call it? A flower? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I think among all of the weeds there are just
a blight, aren't they? They're just awful? So if you
see it, go and hack at it. And I mean, look,
I discovered some. I didn't even think that we had
them in a particular place that I look after, and
suddenly there it is creeping up the back of a
camellia tree and I'm like, right, I'm in there. Get
rid of the bloody thing. Collecked up the pods before
(21:32):
they burst and spread thousands of seeds. So that's a
good thing to do today. Go out and attack a
moth plant.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
You do that, I will do ash fish, maybe one owl?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
See there? Yeah, all right, you have a great day,
Take care. Wonderful great to ever read back for twenty
twenty five. Thank you, we stumbled away through the first show.
We'll be back next Sunday. Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp. Listen
live to news talks the'd be on Sunday mornings from
Sex or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from News Talks a B helping you get those
DIY projects done right. The Resident Builder with Peter wolf
Camp and light Force Solar ay list for power in
twenty twenty five.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
News Talks It Be, Your News Talks It Be. And
for the first time in twenty twenty five that are
had climb passed a very good morning and welcome.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
And a happy new year to you, Toobe.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
And to you and to how did you do Oliballa?
Speaker 3 (00:37):
No, no, no, I didn't know. I didn't do this.
We had we had too many French people in over
the trice, so we had croissants and things like that.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
Do they preserable such a proletarian?
Speaker 3 (00:48):
No no, no, no, highly highly great to see the things,
that's great.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
No worries, wonderful and the other thing too much.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Yes, same to you, mate. And isn't it interesting at
this time of the year when you are having all
these things you want to do anything. Oh so yesterday
I decided we're going to be band in Kingfishes this
morning at nine o'clock. And I thought nine o'clock, that's impossible.
I'm just off air. So everything had to be changed,
(01:16):
you know what I mean, it's stupid like that. So
that's one of the other that's one of the things
that that's happening to me in in in the holidays.
I have no idea of time.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Yeah, I sort of mooching around. He start going, I
have to go to work tomorrow or not. I can't
kind of what day it is, but exactly.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
And so I'm also I'm also doing what do you
call it chopping firewood? You know, not the chip the spl.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Split splitters, yeah, split Do you hire a splitter? Well, no,
I've got.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
I've got a good friend. Yeah yeah, And and he
and I do gardening together. But also these sort of things.
So I got to splitter up and that's what I'm using.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
It's great, it's awesome, it's they're good. Yeah, good, Yeah,
just sell me pay attention because you know, fingers and
and splitters don't go well together.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
No, I don't do fingers. I sit on a big
log next to it. And if you know how sometimes
the split that goes like you know that there's going
to be bad, you just you walk away a little
bit and yep, there it goes fantastic.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Right, let's get into the garden is here will take
your calls. Terry, good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:29):
Good morning, and happy New Year to you gentlemen.
Speaker 3 (02:32):
Thank you, same to you, mate.
Speaker 5 (02:36):
I need the name of the spray that you have
talked about for carpet moth.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Oh yes, where are you? Are you in CHRISTI somewhere Wellington? Wellington? Okay? Well,
if you've got, for instance, a carpet beetle, as well
as as clothes moths, which are the things that have
been introduced into New Zealand a long time ago, although
they never mind. The best thing to use is a
(03:04):
material that is organized by Safe Works. If you're in Wellington,
you've got a shop of safe safe Works I think
in Benrose, sorry in in Toni betweeny but there's a
new new way of saying it. Yeah and safe Works
ends with an X. You'll find they're there and they
have material that you that they spray in aircraft to
(03:27):
stop mosquitoes and other pests getting into the country, a
little bit like the trouble we're having at the moment
with the fruit fly. So they have they have a
material that is a they call it a pre spray.
It contains promethrine, It lasts an awfully long time, and
anything that comes in touch with that particular thing on
(03:47):
your carpet, for instance, or on your clothes, in your
in your cupboards basically is gone within about a quarter
of an hour.
Speaker 5 (03:56):
But do you know the name of it.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
It's it's yes, it's a it's an aircraft spray from
Kellington Haven. But if you go to safe Works, they
know what you're looking for. It is the residual the
residual aircraft spray aerosol ken, right.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
And you can spray. There's any time of the year
you can.
Speaker 3 (04:22):
Indeed, in this case it's probably a good idea to
do it now because these things are in your house
right now. Yeah. Bora by the way, works well too
for Bora. That's right.
Speaker 5 (04:32):
So what's the best time for spraying at third on
things ray borer for.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Bora is usually end of October early November, right, So
you're a bit late with that.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yeah, yeah, yeah right, Thank you very very much.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
More than welcome and success with it, my friend. It's
gorgeous stuff. We've used it for the last forty years,
thirty years. I remember being part of the crowd that
designed it for aircraft spraying to stop creatures coming into
the country.
Speaker 2 (05:05):
Yeah, thanks very much for that, Terry. Actually just talking
about creatures coming into the country road this infestation and
popa tooy toy, So what you know, typically what happens there,
they've discovered a fruit fly from overseas that we obviously
don't want here. What is what do they do?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
What the story? Well, the story is that we, of
course we when I used to work with the Ministry
of Agriculture or sci we had we had these particular
pheromone traps all over the place to make sure that
we would get a very quick positive if something came
across the country or came into the country, we would
know immediately as soon as possible. That checked every week
(05:45):
or two week week we could do maybe And in
this case that means we know the species, we know
where they are, and we are starting immediate process of
not if you like, transporting fruits from A to b
near by, spreading the whole thing. And that's the state
there in it right now.
Speaker 2 (06:04):
Right And is this obsome trapping constant.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
Absolutely, it has been going for the last twenty thirty
years as far as I'm aware. Yeah, Rank, oh, yes,
it's a process. But if you're early you can have
to stop this. This is the point. It's that timing
their first week.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Bang okay, fast, no, thanks for that, and good morning
to you.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Good morning too, Happy new year to.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
Route and you, Peter, thank you.
Speaker 4 (06:30):
I am hi. I've got that plant that has a
very large green, shiny leaf with the flowers that go
up about six seven eight feet sometimes and they have
white and pinky sort of things coming out. You know,
the one I'm talking about, No, has those very large green,
(06:52):
very shiny leaves, and I know people've talked to you
about it before, and that has those shoots, those stalks
that go right up and have little white, white and
sort of pinky flowers coming out of it.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
I'm one of their people that actually need a picture
of it to see what it looks like before. Because
there's so many different species of plants. I know what
you're saying that it would be handy to know here.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
I just don't know the name the name of it,
and I don't know how to get the name of it.
But it has a tuba sort of route that goes
down and it's very in phases, and I wanted to
know how to get rid of it. I'm sure you
talked the other day to somebody about saying that the
leaf was shiny and therefore wouldn't take the spray, and
that I was trying to take it out yesterday and
the roots just I mean, I pulled it out. I
(07:37):
broke the handle of my spade trying to dig it out,
because I think the only way to do it is
to dig it out. And at seventy four, I'm not
really strong enough to dig it all out. But it's
just it takes. I know, if I pull all the
leaves out and you know, send them off to the
rubbish sheep, that they'll just come back again. So I
just want to get rid of it because it's sort
(07:59):
of coming up all over the As the seeds go out,
that comes out coming up all over the section, and
it's going to be a big job to sort of
keep it down there. You are to get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
And here's here's just a suggestion, and this is just
something that is really handy for the future anyway. Also,
if you would ask your people at the garden centers
for advice on these things. If you've got I assume
you've got a smartphone, yes, down, download an app on
your smartphone called I Natura List, I Naturalist natural right, yes, yep,
(08:36):
and it costs you nothing and you get your username
in a password. Basically, what you do is you take
a picture of that plant as close as you can
get of particular features of it. You send it to
I Naturalists, and within ten seconds you will have the
top two or three names of that plant that it
could be. Some are just adamant saying it's that one.
(08:58):
We know it's that one. So you then get you
actually get the right name. And once you've got that,
you've got the scientific in the right common name. If
you like, you can actually find out exactly what to do.
And I would be able to give you far more advanced.
Speaker 4 (09:15):
About that.
Speaker 2 (09:18):
I've got it on my phone. You just have to
keep remembering what the password is. That's the hardest part.
The rest is easy, and the rest is easy. Your
news talks, he'd be we're talking all things gardening and
the wonderful world of bugs. Now I'm conflicted, quickly. You
know how we talked about hedgehogs last week? Oh god, yeah,
(09:38):
And they must have been listening, because I'm standing on
my back deck two nights ago, looking out at the
night sky and all I can hear is snuffle, rumble, snuffle.
So into the garden with a torch too. I go inside,
talk to Joseph, come back out for trotting around fossicking
around in the garden. And I remember our conversation and
(10:00):
I repeated it to Joseph and looked at me and said,
what are you going to do? And I'm like, I
just can't. I just can't, but I should shouldn't I
but I just.
Speaker 3 (10:07):
Paid, Oh mate, one way, Oh all right, I'm sorry,
but I.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Know, I know, I know, yeah, I know. I appreciate
the honesty. Oh do they compost?
Speaker 3 (10:17):
Well, yes they do, they do.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
Yeah, good to know. Right on that happy night. We'll
take a short break back in a moment.
Speaker 1 (10:28):
Measure twice, cut once, but maybe call Pead first feeder,
wolf Camp the resident builder with light four solar save
power in twenty twenty five and earn airpoints dollars us talk.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
It hey Pete, yes, sir, and you know this plant
and was talking yeah, yeah, yeah on the text. We've
got the three of ye backdraw bear front, We've got
all these different things. It's amazing gunner around which actually
Acapan is different flags. This is the point when you
(11:00):
have no visual clue you it becomes exactly what's in
your brain, and you're not always right, but it's I
always want to thank people for saying thank you for
helping me out, because sometimes there are little gems in
there going like great.
Speaker 2 (11:14):
I know exactly what it is. I tried to figure
it out last week and I didn't break my spade.
You Gayleen, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
Good morning road, a happy new year. And to you Peter,
thank you. Okay, I have a question about potting mix Festival.
Since I've moved to Norfland, I've had to buy purchased
potting mix in the bags and now I've used three
or four different varieties of potting milk and the plants
(11:46):
seem to look all right, and it's for about a
month up to two three months and then they start
to die. Oh and I've grown begone years and actually
years and years and years and never had this problem
that I used to mix my own. Any ideas of
what's happening in the potting.
Speaker 3 (12:04):
Mix there might now it might not be just the
potting mix. The point is that when I use potting
mix or mixes or planting mixes if you like. I
always get if I need a bag of a bag
of topsoil to mix with that potting mix. And the
reason for that is that potting mix by itself is
(12:25):
fine if you've got it in a pot, in a
pot plant inside, if you like. But even then I
add a little bit of top soil to make it
a lot more sturdy and a lot more moist retaining
and all that sort of stuff. So potting mix by
itself is okay in certain conditions, but it sometimes pay
pays to actually mix it with equal amounts of uh
(12:50):
top soil.
Speaker 7 (12:53):
When I used to mix my own potting Max recipe,
I never had the problem, and I would have plants
growing for years in the same pot where it was
a shape, poly health sort of sure.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
But when you mixed it, when you mixed it, what
did you mix it with?
Speaker 7 (13:12):
Just peteron our auticopsal grade.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I'm saying, there you go, that is that isn't in
the material, That is not a compost, but it is
actually in the it's one of the soil types. You know.
Sand is a very grainy soil type, et cetera, et cetera.
Clay is a very fine soil type. But if you
get good top soil, that is exactly what you did
in the past, and that's what I'm recommending.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
So maybe a mixture of the potting mix and some
other material.
Speaker 3 (13:42):
Yeah yeah, mineral soil with potting mix together works usually
quite well. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:48):
I hope that helps scaling. All the very best to
you and Brent. A very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (13:53):
Morning clost year to you.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Same to you, Brent. What we're doing. Shape of beetles, Oh,
shafer is great? Aren't they beautiful?
Speaker 6 (14:04):
No, they're pain.
Speaker 3 (14:07):
Are they eating your leaves?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
Are they well? No?
Speaker 6 (14:11):
So every November for the past past three years we
get an incredible cloud in the evenings. Yeah, that's right,
and I need to try and get rid of them.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah. And and is this are you in the rural
area or is it are you in the domestic area? Okay,
all right, Well, there are many different species. There's there's
bronze beetle, which is a small beetle if you like,
which is not a chafer, doesn't belong to the same family.
But there are at that time of the beetles. And
we've got little grass grabs at the moment that went
(14:45):
like nutcases in November December here in christ Church. What
I tend to do is I catch them and feed
them to f spyders, you know what I mean. But
the point is, yes, these things will go into your lawn.
They will go into all sorts of places and eat
usually green material, leaves and things like that. What do
(15:08):
you want to do? Oh, it's hard work. You can
get some material from Kiwi Caare, which is for beetles
actually in your lawns and in your gardens that you
can that you can chuck in there, and that will
get them under control reasonably quickly. So try the try
(15:29):
the the Kiwi Care products. I think it's called grass grub,
grass grub, I've forgotten the name of it. Grass grub thing,
blah blah blah blah, Kiwi Care. There you go.
Speaker 6 (15:41):
That's called Is there a particular time of the year
that I need to apply it to the lawn?
Speaker 3 (15:46):
I would do it the moment you see the first
one is flying around and you now know what they
look like?
Speaker 6 (15:51):
Yeah, okay, awesome, Yeah great.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
All the very busy bring take care. Oh eight one
hundred and eighty ten eighty is that number of the
cour I reckon, we'll sneak in another one, uh a
J Greetings.
Speaker 8 (16:10):
Good morning. I was wondering, I've got a white flies
into station in our gardens, and I was wondering, how
could I get rid of them without pulling all of
the plants out?
Speaker 3 (16:23):
White flies, right, they're like tiny.
Speaker 8 (16:26):
Little white flies in there, thousands.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
And are they sitting on the leaves of the plants.
And the moment you touch the plants, they fly away
and then they settle again. Okay, what are you having
any crops there that that are edible?
Speaker 8 (16:44):
There's a passion for and a tomato plant and they're
quite like a tomato plant.
Speaker 3 (16:48):
Yeah, okay, I got that. That's the reason. See, if
it's something that is not being eaten, so you can
use a material called grow ventive. Grow ventive, but not
in your case because you're going to be eating some
of these things. And now I'm going to switch it
to nim or n ee M nim oil. Yeah. You
(17:11):
you mix it up according to what it says on
the packet, and then you spray the top and the
underside of the leaves where those white whiteflies are sitting
and mucking around, and here comes the thing. You do
it again a week and a half later, or two
weeks later or one week late, depending on the time.
(17:31):
You've got every as much as you can, Yeah, as
dance as you can. So what if you've got a
reasonable sprayer and you make the sprayer go very what
do you call it? Very fine? Misty? If you like
basically what you do, you can imagine then you can
actually easily take the underside on the top side, and
you will get them very quickly. But the reason I'm
(17:53):
asking you to do it a second time and even
a third time a couple of weeks apart, is that basically,
when the babies come out of the eggs, they are
not they're not killed when they're in the eggs, but
they will have to be killed and they come out.
You know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
Oh, that's so said.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
Okay, No, it's it's true. Look, there are a pain
in the you know where?
Speaker 8 (18:15):
Yeah, okay, thank you for your advice.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
All right, Jane, take care quick take someonetriggued about beautiful peaches,
but when you open them, they're full of earwigs. How
do you stop that from kirk?
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Oh? The earwigs basically the peach. Yeah, but that was
that was because there are peach caterpillars that go into
the peaches. They drill the whole and the excess, and
then basically the earwigs go in there because they like
to eat a the caterpillars, but also like a little
bit of that sweet, lovely peach stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Okay, yeah, intriguing triggering. I'm looking at this text too
from the person you've probably seen it as well. I
love headehogs, great snails and slug control. They eat all
the fall and avocado. They don't climb the tree for
the bird's eggs or the baby bit.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
It's except they eat all the birds that have eggs
on the ground. You know, everything like quail and so
on and so forth will be nobbled by. In fact,
I can tell you another thing, having done what's the
first one? In using to do work on Kiwi and
their diets. They compete with Kiwi on about fifteen to
(19:26):
twenty percent ratio. Wow, because they eat the same insects
that Kiwi eat. Yeah, there you go. There's another example,
another thing. But you know, I must say they are cute.
Mike Jack Russell loved them.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
They loved them, well only after the first bite. Yeah,
the second bite not so appealing.
Speaker 3 (19:46):
I'm so frustrated.
Speaker 2 (19:47):
I couldn't eat them. Oh it's terrible Virginia creeper. This
was another suggestion for the mystery plant that we had
earlier on.
Speaker 3 (20:02):
Yeah, but that's a creek.
Speaker 2 (20:03):
See that's it's it's not.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Yeah, And it also goes on the the ground, so
it doesn't become tall. Right, And all these different identifications
actually quite lovely to see all that, because that is
exactly the problem that you and I have when we
have no vision visual clues.
Speaker 2 (20:19):
On now, what I did see appearing again is these
damned moth plants. Yeah, they're they're right in the sort
of fruiting pod stage, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (20:32):
Yeah? Right, they do, yes, right now, And they will
have these lovely white flowers, and for instance, monarch butterflies.
This is the problem with the mothpl Monic butterfly caterpillars
will eat those leaves. And that's that made them kind
of a bit like, oh want the monarchs, Yeah exactly,
But here comes the thing. When a monarch wants to
(20:53):
get nectar from the flowers, the flowers go clap and
they trap off the tongue, the tongue of the butterfly,
and the butterfly dies with its tongue stuck in the
blinking plants and what do you call it? A flower? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (21:10):
I think among all of the weeds there are just
a blight, aren't they? They're just awful? So if you
see it, go and hack at it. And I mean, look,
I discovered some. I didn't even think that we had
them in a particular place that I look after, and
suddenly there it is creeping up the back of a
camellia tree and I'm like, right, I'm in there. Get
rid of the bloody thing. Collecked up the pods before
(21:32):
they burst and spread thousands of seeds. So that's a
good thing to do today. Go out and attack a
moth plant.
Speaker 3 (21:38):
You do that, I will do ash fish, maybe one owl?
Speaker 2 (21:43):
See there? Yeah, all right, you have a great day,
Take care. Wonderful great to ever read back for twenty
twenty five. Thank you, we stumbled away through the first show.
We'll be back next Sunday. Have a great day.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp. Listen
live to news talks the'd be on Sunday mornings from
Sex or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Popular Podcasts
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.
The Joe Rogan Experience
The official podcast of comedian Joe Rogan.
24/7 News: The Latest
Today’s Latest News In 4 Minutes. Updated Hourly.