January 18, 2025 • 21 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from news Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
He'd be write your own news talks, he'd be, We're
into the wonderful world of the Garden Red Climb Pass.
Good morning, sir, Hey, good morning, Peter, loud and clear.
How are you, buddy good?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yeah, I'm good, my friend. And you must be. You
must be on a really cool trip at the moment
in tar.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And it's beautiful here. Yeah, heavy rain, but some rain
last night. And given that the wedding was outside in
the backyard, uh, you know, everyone's looking that. It was
a beautiful day yesterday, absolutely gorgeous. And yeah, no, it's
looking great. We'll head down to tootle on down to
off to wingspan. I can't tell you. It's just going
(00:47):
to say excitement levels. It could be Christmas, mate, I'm
just so looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
So and I reckon you'll be Debbie's Debbie's favorite us.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
For a little while at least.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Don't do that, don't say that. I'd be looking forward to,
really looking.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Forward to it. And I think when we're in we
might go and do that treetops walk as well. It
keeps the things to do.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And I've found out at night.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes, I hear that. It's quite spectacular.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You need a good good sendhiser whatever, what do you
call the thing head torch. It's always nice because you
can actually see holes in the tree if you're lucky.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Oh okay, that's sealed it right.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, there you go. I knew you'd say that.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But actually, what was delightful. We were in discussion with
some friends last night actually, and they've got a place
up north and they were chatting away and they were, oh,
you know the ols come down sitting the tree every
night at our place. What that's amazing, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And when I lived in Langholm and did my night
light trapping with UV lights and things like that in
the garden, Ruru would come literally set above the light
and when poor really moths would come over until I
started tossing those moths to them, they caught them with
one hand and ate them just lovely.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, let's get amongst it because we've got a bunch
of people that want to chat about all sorts of
things this morning. Join us. Oh, eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number to call. Anthony A very
good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
What can we do for you?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Rude? Now, lemons lemon tree. I've bought a nice, healthy
current about three years ago and it did all right.
Now last year the leaves turn yellow and fell off.
Now the leaves are growing, they're looking nice and healthy.
But the fruit is forming. But it is black and
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forming and falling off?
Speaker 6 (02:52):
What what? What?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
What's my problem?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I don't know. Would it be fertilizer? What do you
fertilize your lemon tree with?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Well, I do fertilizer every now and then. Was sits
as fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yep, that's good. And you've done that. You've done that
in spring?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Yes, yeah, okay?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
And what soil type?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Oh we're we're in rollers and so it's pretty bony.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh yes, rollers in his favorite Rollerston kills spades sometimes, doesn't.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
It it does?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I know, I know, all right, okay, so that could
be you know what this could be. It could be
a soil problem and it would be nice to lift
the trow old. Is the tree, by the way, a.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
About three three or four year old? Three three year old?
Speaker 8 (03:41):
It's not that big?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, no, okay? Can you imagine making let's say a
brick circle around the root zone and fill and filling
that up with maybe two or three or four inches
off compost that will be slowly merged into your soil,
so you get a better soil type. That will that
will that will allow your roots to go a lot
(04:04):
cleverer and health here if you like. Does that make sense?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
So you say, if I dig a channel around around
the remember the well outside the plant, and then put
fresh store.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
There, Well, it's not so much digging around. It is
if you differences a whole lot of old bricks and
you can put those in a circle around the root zone,
which is almost to the end of the edge of
the tree if you look down, you know what I mean.
So it's a nice, nice large thing. And then because
you've got a brick there which is about three inches,
say you fill it up with three inches of good
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compost that every time you water it, some of the
organic material goes into the soil and the soil becomes
a lot better. That's number one. At the same time,
from now on, give it a little handful of potash
sulfate of potash, and that may actually help those fruits
becoming mature edible and larger.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Ah is, Oh no, no, We've always had a lot
of luck with lemon trees, but since been shifted up
here things soil, that everything sort of changes.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yes, that's right. And something else, Anthony, this is a
really cool trick. If you've got a maya lemon, for instance,
do you have a second one?
Speaker 7 (05:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
No, okay, I think it might be an idea to plant.
If you've got the room a plant a second lemon
tree next door to it or almost adjacent to it.
And the reason I'm saying that is that lemon trees
not always fruit every year. They fruit every other year.
So if you've got two, your chances of having one
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working this year and the other one next year, and
you get a good constant supply of lemons for somebody
you know who drinks comparrii and things like that, that's
quite important.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Good good, good thinking, good thinking.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Just a thought.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Nice to talk to you, Anthony, thanks for calling all
very to take care and Colin are very good morning
to you.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Yay, good morning out road. We've got to con off
a tree that hyper wasps have taken a liking tea
yeap buzzing around the outside of it. Any Ways, we're
getting rolled easy.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
You wait until the comet has gone down, after the
sun has gone down, you know the comet that we
see at the moment, and the two or three what
do you call the planets next to each other, So
say about eleven o'clock, when everything is really dark. You
get an accomplice with you who has a torch, and
you have a pair of scissors or secretaris. You go
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to that particular nest. You know where it is. You
know exactly where it is, and the person that holds
the torch lights that towards that nest so you can
see where you're going. You snip the nest off, drop
it in a plastic bag that you could have underneath
it if you like, straight away, tie up the plastic
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bag with the wasps who are now waking up but
are caught in the plastic bag. And you put that
plastic bag with these zooming little buggers into your freezer,
and tomorrow morning you'll have a completely dead nest with
no more life creatures, and they've been gone. And it's
the quickest, safest and easiest way to go about it.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Yeah, I wasn't sure they had actually had a nest
of the stage attractive the outside of it.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Better, you better go and have a gentle look during
daytime first to see if you can find that nest.
You know, it hangs upside down, you know what I mean?
You know what it looks like, the shape of it. Yeah,
you'll find. If you find that, you can then deal
to it one dark evening.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Yeah. Yeah, now I've got his gold all.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
The rubis you, Colin? Now, Rudy, if we're reliant on
the comet for our timing, does that mean if you
don't do the nest tonight, you've got to wait one
hundred and sixty thousand years before you took.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh you would come up with this stuff, wouldn't you?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
That be?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Gosh, yeah, good on you? That right? Oh stuff you do. Though,
at the moment you look outside and you say, oh,
there it is. No, oh, no it's not. It's actually
quite cool doing these little astronomical things.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Well, I haven't any chance to see it. But it's
the seven planets are lining, isn't it at the moment? Yes,
all visible in the night sky.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And that well not always by either. At the moment
Venus and Jupiter are put together, and you can always
see that with the naked eye. But the what the
other one, the third one next door to it, I
can't remember the name, but it doesn't matter. That's so
far away that you never get to see it unless
you've got a good but.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, fantastic. Oh e one hundred eighty ten eighty. Will
take your calls, will, we'll take the break and then
we'll talk to Carol back in the moment and we're
back news. Sox'd be and Carol, very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Good morning, hey.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
There on well would My Robb is in array garden.
We are left just south of one gray, so it's
pretty hot. The outside edges of the leaves are getting
as so there's sunburns.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Those are those are the outsides of the leaves. So
the edges of the leaves.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
They're just the edges, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's very prolific. Uh,
nothing wrong with the louver of itself. But I've never
seen this before.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Watered every day is not too much or every evening anyway. Yeah,
but as I say, it almost looks as though it's
getting sunburned.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yes, that's exactly what it is, and that is quite
often when it's not it hasn't got enough nitrogen in
it's in its fertilizer. H So if you get let's
say a let's if you of course it's got a
This is extreme. Nitrogen is the green stuff of plants.
That makes the green stuff of plants. And when that
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and when that does not in short, when that's in
short supply, it starts to look frayed at the edges
and looks like indeed sunburnt. But nitrogen is also the
main composition of something called lawn fertilizer. If you've got
some old lawn fertilizer lying around, dribble some of it
or water and well in around the root zone of
that plant, and you'll find that the next leaves will
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the next leaves that will come up will not be
looking so strange.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Ah, lovely, thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And you can you can use you can us, of course,
the stalks of those leaves when you harvest them. I'm
quite sure that should be fine. Yes, might look it
might look a bit rubbishy, but then again, if you've
ever seen me, you know I can look rubbishy.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Do There's nothing wrong with the rover itself, it just
believe Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Very much, nitrogen. If you go bye.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Perfect, all of this to you, Carol, you take care
and Marie, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
I've got a huge problem in my gardens.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Now.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I don't know the pop name for them, but this
stink bag.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Can you've described them.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
When when you squashed from day, think what color.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Green?
Speaker 9 (11:33):
And then these little ones.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
That are sort of black and they've.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Got little dots on them. You're absolutely right. Your identification
is superb. That the green we call it the stink
bug or the green vegetable bug. And here comes the
most amazing Have you got any kids?
Speaker 6 (11:53):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I wish I did.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
I could have paid them to them up.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
That's not only that, but can you borrow some kids?
Speaker 7 (12:01):
No, my green children.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
When they know that this work to go, they year
they still from.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
It's not work, it's what this is. What you do.
You get the kids to catch those, to get each
of those bugs, and as soon as you get them,
you squash them and drop them under the So you
squashed them that and you drop them under the plant
on which they are. That sends up a signal of
that smell that warns all the other stink bugs. Oh
(12:31):
my god, Carol. Well, no, Marie has got her grandkids
over squashing us. Watch out jump and they all jump
off the plant, but the kids can see them, and
they then squashed those little buggers as well. Those little
bugs as well. And basically in no time you've got
ninety five of them on the floor. That's it your
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best version of control. That is their communication of saying,
somebody is getting us. How cool is that, stinker?
Speaker 8 (13:03):
I neither hear the last few, but the shield one
hundreds of them.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yep, there you go. You go squashing and watch where
they fall and squash them too. Honestly, no need for
for quality insecticides or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Have a goo.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
It's called a digital control two digits.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Thumb and for oh, I thought you were going to
save me, but well, go on.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
That's the best thing.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And it's free. I mean, it's just you're not going
down the road bowing expense of products and.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
All the.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
For two hours squashing thing.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
No, you can do it in ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It'll be the best ten minutes of you.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Lif you to help me. Ah you roten.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
We we will lovely to talk to you. Enjoy your day.
Enjoy your day, then take care all of oh eight
hundred and eighty ten. My hit time for an extra
couple of calls. Barbara, Greetings, good morning.
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Peter and Rude. A very successful and informative year last year,
and I hope and I'm quite sure that this year
is going to be the same. Now, Rude, Why, as
they've never done it before, are Cararou's still visiting Mala
Burnham Tree?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Ah? Because they know that that tree quite often has
wonderful seeds?
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Right?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Well, yes, are they still there?
Speaker 9 (14:37):
They're still coming, and they've never done that before. They
arrive about the first week in September, they have their babies,
and then mom and dad take a rest and do
their babysiting duties and fly over, and then about all
through end of September October they go away and do
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their own thing. But this year they've just been continually coming.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Well, look, might it might be as simple as there
might be still seeds around, There might be new buds
around which they like to eat, or even young leaves
that I keep going, and that is exactly why they're there.
Speaker 9 (15:19):
Well, it's quite fascinating. They're beautiful creatures.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I know, I know, and you can hear them fly.
Isn't that lovely?
Speaker 9 (15:26):
That gosh, rush of their wings. It's just magic. Now
bumblebees are with bumblebees going up into the fox clubs
and they come out with a disgruntled look on their
face and fly away. Obviously there's no pollen there. My
question is, and it's probably stupid. Does the pollen reform
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again or once it's been collected, that's it.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I think that's.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
No.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
That no, Actually is it the pollen or is it
the nectar there after?
Speaker 9 (16:00):
Then I don't know. But they come in and go
in and come out again.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
According to the rule of pollination, those aunts have literally
learned to work with insects and say, if we give
them the best nectar to eat, they will come back
to find more and more, and the plant keep on producing.
That that's why they come back. That the pollen is
actually a trek by the plant to get those bumblebees
(16:28):
to go biz and they make that buzzing noise and
they get the pollen on their body as well the
body hair, but they also drop they also drop the
pollen on the flower on which they are So it's
actually a really good trick of the plant to get
the bumblebees there. But the most important thing they have
to have is nectar, the sweet nectar that attracts those bumblebees.
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And for that reason, the nectar will always be in
good condition, newly made fresh. And they come back.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Oh that's fascinating. I love watching them.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
It's cool, isn't it.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
Oh it's just as I stand there for ages watching
them fly in and out of the fox clubs. They're
real time wasters, but they're delightful to watch.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, and it is. And it is their movement that
gets the pollination going, get dislodges the pollen and traps
it into the flower. There you go.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
I see them with little creamy sacks on their bottoms.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, but that's that's just that's the that's just a
little peck they have on the what do you call
that a roof rack?
Speaker 9 (17:34):
Yeah, okay, that's lovely.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Lovely talking and Norris, good morning.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Morning, good morning.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
How are you good? Good? I've got a wild flower
garden out the bag, a little half an acre on
so I've put half of them the wildflowers, and the
third year I've got weed. So like you wouldn't bleeve
or do I spray them? Do I? What do I do?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Three years is a good is a good number. For
a good bag of wildflower seeds what I used to
do and I've got to do with myself in the
orchards as well. I've got to get rid of the weeds.
I'm going to do a complete spray of weeds whatever
I can get, and then I'm going to start again,
and I start in autumn time. So I I see
it showed them in autumn, so a couple of months
(18:23):
from now, which means now is your time and your
question is really timely to actually start getting rid of
those weeds, pulling them out by hand or murdering them
with pesticides, you know, with weed killers, and then you
will sew them in a couple of months time in
autumn when it's the best time to do that, and
you'll be fine for the next three years.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Bingo, it's looking pretty good. It looked really good last year.
But as I say that, that's got any lions and
they take over them.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
They take over.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Appreciate Hey, just on that route. So in terms of
the wildflower middle, because you're right, it looks beautiful when
you put it in, but then over time the weeds
come back, and so rather than be selective, you just
and take a kind of nuclear approach, knock the whole
thing back and then replant and let the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
You've got to get absolutely hmmm right. And and I've
got some addresses to call yea seeds like that. They
have good bags of it.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
You get a mix, don't you like a wildflower meadow
mix or something like that, or.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
A butterfly mix so that tracts more insects. Ah, it's
only for weirdows like me.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Oh, that's that's intere do you can we can do
one more we got We've got one minute to talk
to him about his soil.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Hellow, Yeah, good morning, rude. I've got a quick question
for you.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Now.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
I've got raised gardens and I've lived in Wellington and
i've been guarding a few years. Good soil made mine good.
But this year I planted only six tomatoes. I normally
plant about nine six tomatoes and they all just fell over.
They've got about two feet high and a whole lot
sell over together. So I went back to the place
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I brought them from and told them, and they said, okay,
we'll replace them for you. So they gave me six more,
which is very good. And they were all probably about
two feet higher. Then I very cautiously transplanted those and
those have fallen over as well. Now I also planted
in that garden across letters and other letters and bits
and pieces and half of the other letters that fought
(20:28):
it over as well. Now I rotate the tomatoes every year,
and I've been using a lot of wood chip for
about three years. I've put woodchip on a brilliant for
obtaining water, brilliant for even the weeds down. But my goodness,
it's come the woodship I pulled off because I thought
they might have been the trouble. I'm now infestooned with
(20:50):
singing metal and weeds in there. Yeah, I didn't know,
what did do?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I think you need to write a book about this,
to be quite honest, because you've got all the troubles
in you've gotten on one talk question. Sorry, I can't
help you with all these in a lot of time. Anyway,
success with that.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Maybe what we might do is next week on the show,
we'll start with that in terms of just you know
that long term care of raised gardens.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah, we'll look.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Let's give timical Radio mate enjoy and again thanks for
the introduction to the delightful inicare at Wingspan. We can't
wait to get there to tomorrow, looking forward to it,
all of it. Yeah, we'll do mate, all right, take
care of folks. Thanks for your patients as we've got
things sorted out. This morning delightful down here in Toronto.
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We'll be back in the Auckland Studio next Sunday. Have
a great week, take.
Speaker 1 (21:43):
Care for more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp.
Listen live to news talks there'd be on Sunday mornings
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You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from news Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
He'd be write your own news talks, he'd be, We're
into the wonderful world of the Garden Red Climb Pass.
Good morning, sir, Hey, good morning, Peter, loud and clear.
How are you, buddy good?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Yeah, I'm good, my friend. And you must be. You
must be on a really cool trip at the moment
in tar.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
And it's beautiful here. Yeah, heavy rain, but some rain
last night. And given that the wedding was outside in
the backyard, uh, you know, everyone's looking that. It was
a beautiful day yesterday, absolutely gorgeous. And yeah, no, it's
looking great. We'll head down to tootle on down to
off to wingspan. I can't tell you. It's just going
(00:47):
to say excitement levels. It could be Christmas, mate, I'm
just so looking forward to it.
Speaker 3 (00:52):
So and I reckon you'll be Debbie's Debbie's favorite us.
Speaker 2 (00:55):
For a little while at least.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
Don't do that, don't say that. I'd be looking forward to,
really looking.
Speaker 2 (01:04):
Forward to it. And I think when we're in we
might go and do that treetops walk as well. It
keeps the things to do.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
And I've found out at night.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yes, I hear that. It's quite spectacular.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
You need a good good sendhiser whatever, what do you
call the thing head torch. It's always nice because you
can actually see holes in the tree if you're lucky.
Speaker 2 (01:23):
Oh okay, that's sealed it right.
Speaker 3 (01:25):
Yeah, there you go. I knew you'd say that.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
But actually, what was delightful. We were in discussion with
some friends last night actually, and they've got a place
up north and they were chatting away and they were, oh,
you know the ols come down sitting the tree every
night at our place. What that's amazing, that's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
And when I lived in Langholm and did my night
light trapping with UV lights and things like that in
the garden, Ruru would come literally set above the light
and when poor really moths would come over until I
started tossing those moths to them, they caught them with
one hand and ate them just lovely.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
That's fantastic.
Speaker 4 (02:08):
Right.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Yeah, let's get amongst it because we've got a bunch
of people that want to chat about all sorts of
things this morning. Join us. Oh, eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number to call. Anthony A very
good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:20):
Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
What can we do for you?
Speaker 5 (02:25):
Rude? Now, lemons lemon tree. I've bought a nice, healthy
current about three years ago and it did all right.
Now last year the leaves turn yellow and fell off.
Now the leaves are growing, they're looking nice and healthy.
But the fruit is forming. But it is black and
(02:49):
forming and falling off?
Speaker 6 (02:52):
What what? What?
Speaker 5 (02:53):
What's my problem?
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I don't know. Would it be fertilizer? What do you
fertilize your lemon tree with?
Speaker 5 (02:59):
Well, I do fertilizer every now and then. Was sits
as fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Yep, that's good. And you've done that. You've done that
in spring?
Speaker 6 (03:07):
Yes, yeah, okay?
Speaker 3 (03:10):
And what soil type?
Speaker 5 (03:12):
Oh we're we're in rollers and so it's pretty bony.
Speaker 3 (03:16):
Oh yes, rollers in his favorite Rollerston kills spades sometimes, doesn't.
Speaker 7 (03:22):
It it does?
Speaker 3 (03:25):
I know, I know, all right, okay, so that could
be you know what this could be. It could be
a soil problem and it would be nice to lift
the trow old. Is the tree, by the way, a.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
About three three or four year old? Three three year old?
Speaker 8 (03:41):
It's not that big?
Speaker 3 (03:43):
No, no, okay? Can you imagine making let's say a
brick circle around the root zone and fill and filling
that up with maybe two or three or four inches
off compost that will be slowly merged into your soil,
so you get a better soil type. That will that
will that will allow your roots to go a lot
(04:04):
cleverer and health here if you like. Does that make sense?
Speaker 5 (04:09):
So you say, if I dig a channel around around
the remember the well outside the plant, and then put
fresh store.
Speaker 3 (04:19):
There, Well, it's not so much digging around. It is
if you differences a whole lot of old bricks and
you can put those in a circle around the root zone,
which is almost to the end of the edge of
the tree if you look down, you know what I mean.
So it's a nice, nice large thing. And then because
you've got a brick there which is about three inches,
say you fill it up with three inches of good
(04:41):
compost that every time you water it, some of the
organic material goes into the soil and the soil becomes
a lot better. That's number one. At the same time,
from now on, give it a little handful of potash
sulfate of potash, and that may actually help those fruits
becoming mature edible and larger.
Speaker 5 (05:05):
Ah is, Oh no, no, We've always had a lot
of luck with lemon trees, but since been shifted up
here things soil, that everything sort of changes.
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Yes, that's right. And something else, Anthony, this is a
really cool trick. If you've got a maya lemon, for instance,
do you have a second one?
Speaker 7 (05:26):
No?
Speaker 3 (05:27):
No, okay, I think it might be an idea to plant.
If you've got the room a plant a second lemon
tree next door to it or almost adjacent to it.
And the reason I'm saying that is that lemon trees
not always fruit every year. They fruit every other year.
So if you've got two, your chances of having one
(05:48):
working this year and the other one next year, and
you get a good constant supply of lemons for somebody
you know who drinks comparrii and things like that, that's
quite important.
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Good good, good thinking, good thinking.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Just a thought.
Speaker 2 (06:03):
Nice to talk to you, Anthony, thanks for calling all
very to take care and Colin are very good morning
to you.
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Yay, good morning out road. We've got to con off
a tree that hyper wasps have taken a liking tea
yeap buzzing around the outside of it. Any Ways, we're
getting rolled easy.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
You wait until the comet has gone down, after the
sun has gone down, you know the comet that we
see at the moment, and the two or three what
do you call the planets next to each other, So
say about eleven o'clock, when everything is really dark. You
get an accomplice with you who has a torch, and
you have a pair of scissors or secretaris. You go
(06:44):
to that particular nest. You know where it is. You
know exactly where it is, and the person that holds
the torch lights that towards that nest so you can
see where you're going. You snip the nest off, drop
it in a plastic bag that you could have underneath
it if you like, straight away, tie up the plastic
(07:04):
bag with the wasps who are now waking up but
are caught in the plastic bag. And you put that
plastic bag with these zooming little buggers into your freezer,
and tomorrow morning you'll have a completely dead nest with
no more life creatures, and they've been gone. And it's
the quickest, safest and easiest way to go about it.
Speaker 6 (07:27):
Yeah, I wasn't sure they had actually had a nest
of the stage attractive the outside of it.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Better, you better go and have a gentle look during
daytime first to see if you can find that nest.
You know, it hangs upside down, you know what I mean?
You know what it looks like, the shape of it. Yeah,
you'll find. If you find that, you can then deal
to it one dark evening.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Yeah. Yeah, now I've got his gold all.
Speaker 2 (07:56):
The rubis you, Colin? Now, Rudy, if we're reliant on
the comet for our timing, does that mean if you
don't do the nest tonight, you've got to wait one
hundred and sixty thousand years before you took.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Oh you would come up with this stuff, wouldn't you?
Speaker 4 (08:09):
That be?
Speaker 3 (08:09):
Gosh, yeah, good on you? That right? Oh stuff you do. Though,
at the moment you look outside and you say, oh,
there it is. No, oh, no it's not. It's actually
quite cool doing these little astronomical things.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Well, I haven't any chance to see it. But it's
the seven planets are lining, isn't it at the moment? Yes,
all visible in the night sky.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
And that well not always by either. At the moment
Venus and Jupiter are put together, and you can always
see that with the naked eye. But the what the
other one, the third one next door to it, I
can't remember the name, but it doesn't matter. That's so
far away that you never get to see it unless
you've got a good but.
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, fantastic. Oh e one hundred eighty ten eighty. Will
take your calls, will, we'll take the break and then
we'll talk to Carol back in the moment and we're
back news. Sox'd be and Carol, very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (09:02):
Good morning, hey.
Speaker 8 (09:03):
There on well would My Robb is in array garden.
We are left just south of one gray, so it's
pretty hot. The outside edges of the leaves are getting
as so there's sunburns.
Speaker 3 (09:22):
Those are those are the outsides of the leaves. So
the edges of the leaves.
Speaker 8 (09:27):
They're just the edges, yes, yeah, yeah, yeah, it's very prolific. Uh,
nothing wrong with the louver of itself. But I've never
seen this before.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I guess.
Speaker 8 (09:40):
Watered every day is not too much or every evening anyway. Yeah,
but as I say, it almost looks as though it's
getting sunburned.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yes, that's exactly what it is, and that is quite
often when it's not it hasn't got enough nitrogen in
it's in its fertilizer. H So if you get let's
say a let's if you of course it's got a
This is extreme. Nitrogen is the green stuff of plants.
That makes the green stuff of plants. And when that
(10:13):
and when that does not in short, when that's in
short supply, it starts to look frayed at the edges
and looks like indeed sunburnt. But nitrogen is also the
main composition of something called lawn fertilizer. If you've got
some old lawn fertilizer lying around, dribble some of it
or water and well in around the root zone of
that plant, and you'll find that the next leaves will
(10:35):
the next leaves that will come up will not be
looking so strange.
Speaker 8 (10:39):
Ah, lovely, thank you.
Speaker 3 (10:42):
And you can you can use you can us, of course,
the stalks of those leaves when you harvest them. I'm
quite sure that should be fine. Yes, might look it
might look a bit rubbishy, but then again, if you've
ever seen me, you know I can look rubbishy.
Speaker 8 (10:57):
Do There's nothing wrong with the rover itself, it just
believe Okay, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:05):
Very much, nitrogen. If you go bye.
Speaker 2 (11:08):
Perfect, all of this to you, Carol, you take care
and Marie, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 7 (11:15):
I've got a huge problem in my gardens.
Speaker 6 (11:18):
Now.
Speaker 4 (11:18):
I don't know the pop name for them, but this
stink bag.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Can you've described them.
Speaker 7 (11:26):
When when you squashed from day, think what color.
Speaker 6 (11:32):
Green?
Speaker 9 (11:33):
And then these little ones.
Speaker 7 (11:35):
That are sort of black and they've.
Speaker 3 (11:37):
Got little dots on them. You're absolutely right. Your identification
is superb. That the green we call it the stink
bug or the green vegetable bug. And here comes the
most amazing Have you got any kids?
Speaker 6 (11:53):
No?
Speaker 5 (11:53):
I wish I did.
Speaker 6 (11:54):
I could have paid them to them up.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
That's not only that, but can you borrow some kids?
Speaker 7 (12:01):
No, my green children.
Speaker 8 (12:03):
When they know that this work to go, they year
they still from.
Speaker 3 (12:09):
It's not work, it's what this is. What you do.
You get the kids to catch those, to get each
of those bugs, and as soon as you get them,
you squash them and drop them under the So you
squashed them that and you drop them under the plant
on which they are. That sends up a signal of
that smell that warns all the other stink bugs. Oh
(12:31):
my god, Carol. Well, no, Marie has got her grandkids
over squashing us. Watch out jump and they all jump
off the plant, but the kids can see them, and
they then squashed those little buggers as well. Those little
bugs as well. And basically in no time you've got
ninety five of them on the floor. That's it your
(12:54):
best version of control. That is their communication of saying,
somebody is getting us. How cool is that, stinker?
Speaker 8 (13:03):
I neither hear the last few, but the shield one
hundreds of them.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yep, there you go. You go squashing and watch where
they fall and squash them too. Honestly, no need for
for quality insecticides or anything like that.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Have a goo.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
It's called a digital control two digits.
Speaker 6 (13:24):
Thumb and for oh, I thought you were going to
save me, but well, go on.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
That's the best thing.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
And it's free. I mean, it's just you're not going
down the road bowing expense of products and.
Speaker 7 (13:38):
All the.
Speaker 8 (13:41):
For two hours squashing thing.
Speaker 3 (13:43):
No, you can do it in ten minutes.
Speaker 2 (13:46):
It'll be the best ten minutes of you.
Speaker 3 (13:48):
Lif you to help me. Ah you roten.
Speaker 2 (13:55):
We we will lovely to talk to you. Enjoy your day.
Enjoy your day, then take care all of oh eight
hundred and eighty ten. My hit time for an extra
couple of calls. Barbara, Greetings, good morning.
Speaker 9 (14:10):
Peter and Rude. A very successful and informative year last year,
and I hope and I'm quite sure that this year
is going to be the same. Now, Rude, Why, as
they've never done it before, are Cararou's still visiting Mala
Burnham Tree?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Ah? Because they know that that tree quite often has
wonderful seeds?
Speaker 7 (14:32):
Right?
Speaker 3 (14:33):
Well, yes, are they still there?
Speaker 9 (14:37):
They're still coming, and they've never done that before. They
arrive about the first week in September, they have their babies,
and then mom and dad take a rest and do
their babysiting duties and fly over, and then about all
through end of September October they go away and do
(14:59):
their own thing. But this year they've just been continually coming.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Well, look, might it might be as simple as there
might be still seeds around, There might be new buds
around which they like to eat, or even young leaves
that I keep going, and that is exactly why they're there.
Speaker 9 (15:19):
Well, it's quite fascinating. They're beautiful creatures.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
I know, I know, and you can hear them fly.
Isn't that lovely?
Speaker 9 (15:26):
That gosh, rush of their wings. It's just magic. Now
bumblebees are with bumblebees going up into the fox clubs
and they come out with a disgruntled look on their
face and fly away. Obviously there's no pollen there. My
question is, and it's probably stupid. Does the pollen reform
(15:47):
again or once it's been collected, that's it.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
I think that's.
Speaker 1 (15:54):
No.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
That no, Actually is it the pollen or is it
the nectar there after?
Speaker 9 (16:00):
Then I don't know. But they come in and go
in and come out again.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
According to the rule of pollination, those aunts have literally
learned to work with insects and say, if we give
them the best nectar to eat, they will come back
to find more and more, and the plant keep on producing.
That that's why they come back. That the pollen is
actually a trek by the plant to get those bumblebees
(16:28):
to go biz and they make that buzzing noise and
they get the pollen on their body as well the
body hair, but they also drop they also drop the
pollen on the flower on which they are So it's
actually a really good trick of the plant to get
the bumblebees there. But the most important thing they have
to have is nectar, the sweet nectar that attracts those bumblebees.
(16:51):
And for that reason, the nectar will always be in
good condition, newly made fresh. And they come back.
Speaker 9 (17:00):
Oh that's fascinating. I love watching them.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
It's cool, isn't it.
Speaker 9 (17:06):
Oh it's just as I stand there for ages watching
them fly in and out of the fox clubs. They're
real time wasters, but they're delightful to watch.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, and it is. And it is their movement that
gets the pollination going, get dislodges the pollen and traps
it into the flower. There you go.
Speaker 9 (17:23):
I see them with little creamy sacks on their bottoms.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Yeah, but that's that's just that's the that's just a
little peck they have on the what do you call
that a roof rack?
Speaker 9 (17:34):
Yeah, okay, that's lovely.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Lovely talking and Norris, good morning.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Morning, good morning.
Speaker 4 (17:45):
How are you good? Good? I've got a wild flower
garden out the bag, a little half an acre on
so I've put half of them the wildflowers, and the
third year I've got weed. So like you wouldn't bleeve
or do I spray them? Do I? What do I do?
Speaker 3 (18:02):
Three years is a good is a good number. For
a good bag of wildflower seeds what I used to
do and I've got to do with myself in the
orchards as well. I've got to get rid of the weeds.
I'm going to do a complete spray of weeds whatever
I can get, and then I'm going to start again,
and I start in autumn time. So I I see
it showed them in autumn, so a couple of months
(18:23):
from now, which means now is your time and your
question is really timely to actually start getting rid of
those weeds, pulling them out by hand or murdering them
with pesticides, you know, with weed killers, and then you
will sew them in a couple of months time in
autumn when it's the best time to do that, and
you'll be fine for the next three years.
Speaker 4 (18:42):
Bingo, it's looking pretty good. It looked really good last year.
But as I say that, that's got any lions and
they take over them.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
They take over.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
Appreciate Hey, just on that route. So in terms of
the wildflower middle, because you're right, it looks beautiful when
you put it in, but then over time the weeds
come back, and so rather than be selective, you just
and take a kind of nuclear approach, knock the whole
thing back and then replant and let the whole thing.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
You've got to get absolutely hmmm right. And and I've
got some addresses to call yea seeds like that. They
have good bags of it.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
You get a mix, don't you like a wildflower meadow
mix or something like that, or.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
A butterfly mix so that tracts more insects. Ah, it's
only for weirdows like me.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
Oh, that's that's intere do you can we can do
one more we got We've got one minute to talk
to him about his soil.
Speaker 7 (19:42):
Hellow, Yeah, good morning, rude. I've got a quick question
for you.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
Now.
Speaker 7 (19:47):
I've got raised gardens and I've lived in Wellington and
i've been guarding a few years. Good soil made mine good.
But this year I planted only six tomatoes. I normally
plant about nine six tomatoes and they all just fell over.
They've got about two feet high and a whole lot
sell over together. So I went back to the place
(20:08):
I brought them from and told them, and they said, okay,
we'll replace them for you. So they gave me six more,
which is very good. And they were all probably about
two feet higher. Then I very cautiously transplanted those and
those have fallen over as well. Now I also planted
in that garden across letters and other letters and bits
and pieces and half of the other letters that fought
(20:28):
it over as well. Now I rotate the tomatoes every year,
and I've been using a lot of wood chip for
about three years. I've put woodchip on a brilliant for
obtaining water, brilliant for even the weeds down. But my goodness,
it's come the woodship I pulled off because I thought
they might have been the trouble. I'm now infestooned with
(20:50):
singing metal and weeds in there. Yeah, I didn't know,
what did do?
Speaker 3 (20:56):
I think you need to write a book about this,
to be quite honest, because you've got all the troubles
in you've gotten on one talk question. Sorry, I can't
help you with all these in a lot of time. Anyway,
success with that.
Speaker 2 (21:11):
Maybe what we might do is next week on the show,
we'll start with that in terms of just you know
that long term care of raised gardens.
Speaker 3 (21:19):
Yeah, we'll look.
Speaker 2 (21:20):
Let's give timical Radio mate enjoy and again thanks for
the introduction to the delightful inicare at Wingspan. We can't
wait to get there to tomorrow, looking forward to it,
all of it. Yeah, we'll do mate, all right, take
care of folks. Thanks for your patients as we've got
things sorted out. This morning delightful down here in Toronto.
(21:41):
We'll be back in the Auckland Studio next Sunday. Have
a great week, take.
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