February 1, 2025 • 20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from News Talks at be.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, rude, that must be our two get the rude?
Have we got root?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Can you hear me? Hey?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I can now, Yeah, I know you can.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Because I had to drop I had to drop the button.
That's what I had to do.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I just had it with a bigger hammer. Mate.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
You would too, would you?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Greetings greasing, Thanks.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
To you too. I was up this morning at three
o'clock because I took my cousin, my Dutch cousin to
the airport. Yeah yeah, yeah, but I fell asleep again
that's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And a nice time with the cousin.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I had a lovely time, you know. We were we
were in the in the in the heard the South,
in on the mountain, you know, Mountain, Mount Cook and
places like that. Beautiful. Also also went to Techapo. I
just want to say for those people in the Techapo region.
We're working there on the Manahuna project, which I've talked
about before, and it is that that wonderful stuff that
I do with the kids and the bumblebees and all
(01:07):
that sort of stuff. And we've decided to go and
give a talk in Techa Pole for the locals on
the eleventh, which are not that long ago, long from now,
not too far on the eleventh of February. I'm not
sure where it's going to be. Help there sorting it
out for me as it goes right now where with
Jeff Brunson, he's the guy that did all the work
on the local local plants and things like that, and
(01:30):
Simone Smith's will be talking there and I will be
talking there about biodiversity and all that stuff that we
do in the school. So if you're in Taka Pole,
keep an eye on it. You'll find out this week
where it is. Otherwise everything is going to be honky dory.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Awesome, awesome. Right, let's get amongst the callers. Andy, are
very good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah, good morning on Tate.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
How are you good things?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Hey, I've got an issue for rude. My hothouse is
infested with whitefly and looks like we're reading them and
they're coming around and attacking the rest of the garden
as well.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
They might do. Yes, where are you Are you in
the North of New Zealand?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah, South Taranaki, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
There you are. As a matter of fact, I have
literally just sprayed the whitefly in my tunnel house. So
I had exactly the same thing, and Julie in her
glasshouse the same with Frenchy Parni. So we're talking about
a creature that loves the warmth. It's it's as you know,
white flies are very small but quite dense sort of creature.
(02:39):
If they're in large numbers, and they quite often sit
on the underside of leaves. They go to beans, they
go to tomatoes, they go to all sorts of ornamentals,
and they breed like there is no tomorrow. You've noticed that.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I'm sure absolutely. It's thick with them in there. And
I have sprayed. I've used some mad brick and then
I sort of got some nature's way. But I don't
like to spray too much, but I might have to
do something drastic.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
But the slave you certainly do. And here comes the
two main items that I would use with these things.
If you have edible crops in your place, you don't
want to spray anything that is poisonous to us or
not good for us. So nim oil will do that.
(03:29):
Name oil n em Yeah, nim oil. So if you
do that, let's say every five or six days on
the underside and the top side of the leaves, and
you need to do that at least three times in
a row. You will get them under control. That's number one.
But if you've got no vegetable vegetables or edibles in there,
(03:51):
you can use grow ventive with the g grow ventive,
which is something that I wouldn't use on my tomatoes
at all, but I could use it on all the
ornamentals and that works even quicker.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
It's mainly tomatoes and a few other eatables in there,
so sounds pretty good.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You're going to do that, and don't forget do it.
You have to do it at least three or four
times five six, say five days apart. And I'll tell
you why it is because you'll have to remember that
when they lay eggs, the eggs do not move, they're
not infected, and they're not affected by kneem oil. So
it is after they hatched from the eggs that they
become if you like able to be sprayed with kneem oil,
(04:36):
that's why you do it in a series of four
or three or four or five times. If you like
to mop up the next ones that come out of
the eggs.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, they seem they seem to breed very perfectly. Is
it such a thing as nine granules I've heard something
about that. Does that help or is it just a
spray it?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I don't think it would help that much. What I
would do is I would spray the liquid on the leaves. Basically,
it will as soon as they touched it, or as
soon as they're hit on the underside of the leaves
and on the top side of the leaves. That is
the end of them. Honestly, it is that the granules
is a different gig. Again, I would I wouldn't use that.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Well, thank you very much. I'll be very pleased to
go into my hothouse and not be covered with these.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Little you don't you just about one one flew in
my ear the other day.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So thanks all this, you take care in A very
good morning to you, Cedric.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Here you going everyone, We're going well things. You know
what I said this year, I've I've had so many
to art those it was ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
So aby.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I what you have to do is water them, plenty
of water and beans too. I watered them in the
morning and I water the night. I get no windsakes
from nothing on mine. I've got three rows, but a
dwarf beans. And the beans are ah. I'm picking them
(06:12):
all the time, and I really water them well twice
a day. And the tomatoes, I got tomatoes by the tone.
I've got all sorts. You got Italian tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I have not this year. I've had them in the past.
You know what you have because I've seen them.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I've never seen them in the shops. My boy a
few years ago, his mate was in Italy and brought
back seeds, and I grow them in that tasty. All
my tomatoes are tasty. When you cut a tomato, the
skin peels back. I had a feeder. That's what I
(06:59):
had for breakfast this morning, is tomato and onion on toast.
And I do a lot of containers and fill my
freezers up with it because I love them.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Cedric. I've got a good friend who used to be
still is with King's Seeds. King's Seeds they are in
Taroma and they have a vast quantity of all sorts
of seeds that you can purchase, and I would get
them sort of well before you know it's time to
plant them. Of course, go through their catalog. You can
(07:32):
see if you can get the catalog. Go through it
and you will see Italian tomato's all sorts of stuff.
And honestly, I used to get their seeds to try
them out in my glasshouse, in my tunnel house actually
in christ urs to have a sort of a comparison
with what they did in Tarrona. And so I've tried
(07:53):
all these different things, and sooner or later you come
to your favorite ones and you know exactly what to do.
King seeds go never.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Look the attending ones are very dark skin compared to
Wes and the beef steak, and they're nice and tasty.
I get them to friends and they can't believe how
tasty they are.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
There you are, It's fabulous.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You take care of it.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
You feed them with niprosal.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, I'm sure you do. If you go get over that.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
All of this, all of this, A couple of people
have asked about certain types of long weeds. We'll get
onto that. But I've got this thing that's spreading like
crazy with a small purple flower. Are we talking Penny Royal?
Someone else text about Penny Royal before.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
It could be it could be something like that. To
be quite honest, I really this is why I say
get yourself, I naturally and chet. Honestly, it's much easier.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
To don't worry.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I will let me tell you that that just just
before we go any further than I know, you take
the break and you have to remember that if you know,
if you have a non grass weed, you can have
quite a few different things that you can spread that
does not cry brass, but it will kill the weeds.
And that is really what you need to know. So
that's why it's important to know what you're going to
(09:17):
be killing.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Right, that's my homework today. We will will take a
short break. We'll be back with more of your calls
in just a moment. We've got time for a couple
more calls. Oh wait, one hundred and eighty ten eighty
is the number to call your news talks'd. We're taking
a few more calls and Graham a very good morning
to you.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Good morning. Just a question to Rude on the garden.
I had discovered some caterpillars. First of all, thought they
were monor caterpillars, but I discovered that they didn't have
a white line on them. They're black and they were yellow,
and we identified them at cinderbar moths.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and whether they're eating the cinebiu.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Moth so on only one plant, a ground soil weed.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, okay, what do you want to do with them?
Speaker 7 (10:09):
I don't want to do anything with them.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
They're beautiful, quite gorgeous.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Yeah, I've never ever seen them before in the garden.
I'm in the middle of Canterbury.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The cineba moth is actually a moth
that came originally out of the Netherlands, which Pete Pete
wolf Comfort will love. It's it's it's one of those
things that it's that it's specific specific weeds. Actually your
red warter, you got it. Yeah, And and the moth
itself is gorgeous, black and red. When you see it
(10:43):
fly around, it's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Never seen one, but they're.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Quite common at the back of the Henry Springs. You
find them, you know, in the in the mountains at
the back places like that.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're all over the place. They're cool.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Well, we've had they seen a white butterfly, does see you?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh yeah, I've seen a few. But I don't I don't,
I don't care to be quite honest about them.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
No, no, I know, no, I was curious to know
whether they're going to cause any great hell where they're
going to get. But I've never seen them before.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
They literally only eat that particular wheat, you know, the
cinna Baba. You got to thank you for the great Graham,
thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Speaking about things that we haven't seen for a while,
did I tell you I saw a frog the other
day in the garden?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Good, greenish or brownish green? Okay, green tree frog? The
green frog? Yeah, it's it's not a native one, you
know they day Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Hey, look, I haven't seen that. I like seriously, the
last time I saw one was as a kid mowing
the lawns. And there I was doing some gardening, reaching
into dead head actually some of these buddy stalky things
that come out of that thing, he planty thing, and
and I just took his nose off with the old
secreturs and there you help with me. So I abandoned that.
(11:58):
I thought, I'll leave you to your leisure.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah it's okay. Then it was nice to see they
are you know what we have in Canterbury here we
have the whistling tree frog. Did you find quite often
in the off No? Also nausy interlope the musical frog. Now, yeah, yeah,
how can you be? It's a nausey for God's sake,
(12:23):
are you for real?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Anyway, it's lovely to see it there. I haven't seen
that since I was a kid, so that was great.
Right here, David, talk to me about your lawn.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Hi, Hi, Yeah, I've just been renovating my existing lawn
over the last couple of months and also dug out
an old lawn which wasn't really proper top so it
was rotten rock below retaining wall, et cetera, et cetera,
and replaced it with a new tops et cetera, and
repeated it and kept it almost and wet until the
(12:53):
seeds turned into grass basically. But over the last couple
of weeks, I'm in Wellington, I was up north and
I was away that the sprinters going a bit couple
of days from a partner's monitor, but coming back after
two weeks as all us clover's just appeared. Look like
it was grass and that's clover, and I'm just well,
(13:15):
it's not obviously that's scattered around the place, so just
reading it is that because it could be overwatered. Now
that's causing it and should I just treat it with
it like a weed and feed or something like that.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
That sort of stuff. Yeah, the yates turfect that sort
of stuff, I would say, but but I am not sure.
I would try it out first because there are certain
things that clover is not that easy to get control actually,
so you might need to find what you can use
with I know that is material you can use without
(13:47):
killing the grass. God to your local garden center see
what happens best in your area. I would say it
would be the h turfect or something.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Yeah, okay, okay. And one more quick question. There's certain
areas where the dog a regular dog and e peace
and I suspect because the grass sigg rows quite quickly,
like like the height of it. It's like it goes
a lot more. Is that because of the nitrogen and
it's quite green because he kills the grass and then
(14:15):
adds a put of nitrogen and helps everything else around us.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Hang on, you said he You said he is it
a male dog? Yes, Well, that's unusual because it's usually
the female dogs that kill the grass because they pee
in one place. They pee in one place and that
over does the amount of fertilizer that she does. But
the male you know how it does one pe he
(14:40):
and a P there and a P there. That's much
smaller quantities and it's usually not as bad. So if
you've got a female dog, yes you better be careful.
But in this case, if it's a silly dog that
says in one place like a Jack Russell thinks, oh
this is mine, yes you can. You can get an overdose.
That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Interesting.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Okay, Does that mean the rest of it's nitrogen deficient
because it grows really well? No?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Oh good one, good one. Use it as a fertilizer, yeah,
why not?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Yeah, all right, but then you should I pick a
fertalizer that's more nitrogen.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yes, of course, a grass fertilizer will have nitrogen. That's
how grass fertilized. The N is higher than the P
and the gay.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Right, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Good luck with all of that. Yeah, all the very
best to you, Tiri.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
Whitefly is early this season. I had what I started
become my conservatory with my tomatoes, and I hung a
couple of fly strips above the plant. Yeah, and I
have managed to totally break the cycle and have had no
(15:52):
white fly at all in the conservatory this year.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
That's unusual to really wipe it out, because quite often
it does a reasonable job. But you don't get to
the you know, to the system that you've got them all.
But yes, those little sticky fly tapes, that's what they are,
aren't they? Are they yellow color? Yellow color? Yeah? Yeah, the.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
One to white ones, white ones. Okay, all right, you
see thet as long?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, they must be like yeah, there must be something
they like then. Now we used to have yellow fly
go on, yeah, go on.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Hanging a couple of eyes with it would reduces population
as well, I would match.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I would say, so, yeah.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Yeah, yeah, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Terry, Thank you very much for all the very best.
Quick text morningtain. Quick question for the garden for have
powdery mildew that's taken over my valued cucumbers in a
well ventilated greenhouse? Is there a nice way to treat this?
Do I have to go back to buying my cougettes
and cucumbers?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Oh? What do you do with powdery milk? You use
a I think you use copper and sulfur together, right,
there is there's a yates material that does it. I
court it's a nature's way. Fungus spray. Try that perfect.
That's copper and sulfur together.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, fantastic. Ellen, a very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Are we're good?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Who do you living under your house?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I'm living antsy out?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Oh I think there an there's little black things about
the size of them.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Like size of a saying fly. Yeah, well a little
bit smaller than a saying fly.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
And what do they do to you?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Ellen, They don't do anything to me.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Why are you ringing up your dogs? He'd bet.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
There's just swarms of coming out down the foundation of
my house.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
They're coming out, well, I.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Think they're coming underneath the weather boards. Yes, they're coming
out from the cracks and the concrete and coming down
my nick Karen tree.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
You tell me, have they got wings? Have they got wings? No?
They haven't got wings, Okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
And swarms of them go.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Along right along the pathway and up the gate.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
They can be about eight or nine ten meters long,
some of the rows of them.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah. Yeah, they're looking for food at the moment.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
No.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The reason I asked if they've got wings is that
some of these ants have been in the stage of mating,
and the mating happens on the wing as they fly out,
females and males and the queens and the boys. And
they're having a bit of a good time. Oh I know,
but that is that's quite special to see that, especially
in heavy winds in Wellington. Ever tried that in Wellington
(19:13):
mating on the wing anyway? But you got it. But
in this case they are now trying to find feed
from their nests and their nesta and holes under their
under your house. Really, that's what they do. Honestly. It's
really hard to control those things. But you can do
it with various end control materials that you can spray
on the areas where they walk. Or you can give
(19:35):
them a bait that they will get into, and that
is bait that will kill them. So and bait.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
There's a couple of options there for you. Well and right,
I'm going to go home, get the I Naturalist app
out and try and figure out what's in fisting.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
My lord, you've got to learn how to do that.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
This is it's my job today.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
It's really good, all right, Thank you, I work and you're.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
A you take care righty, oh, Rud will be back
next week. I'll be back next week. We look forward
to it. And have a very happy white this week
as well. Take care, I gotta to.
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Hey, rude, that must be our two get the rude?
Have we got root?
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Can you hear me? Hey?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
I can now, Yeah, I know you can.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Because I had to drop I had to drop the button.
That's what I had to do.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
I just had it with a bigger hammer. Mate.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
You would too, would you?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Greetings greasing, Thanks.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
To you too. I was up this morning at three
o'clock because I took my cousin, my Dutch cousin to
the airport. Yeah yeah, yeah, but I fell asleep again
that's okay.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
And a nice time with the cousin.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I had a lovely time, you know. We were we
were in the in the in the heard the South,
in on the mountain, you know, Mountain, Mount Cook and
places like that. Beautiful. Also also went to Techapo. I
just want to say for those people in the Techapo region.
We're working there on the Manahuna project, which I've talked
about before, and it is that that wonderful stuff that
I do with the kids and the bumblebees and all
(01:07):
that sort of stuff. And we've decided to go and
give a talk in Techa Pole for the locals on
the eleventh, which are not that long ago, long from now,
not too far on the eleventh of February. I'm not
sure where it's going to be. Help there sorting it
out for me as it goes right now where with
Jeff Brunson, he's the guy that did all the work
on the local local plants and things like that, and
(01:30):
Simone Smith's will be talking there and I will be
talking there about biodiversity and all that stuff that we
do in the school. So if you're in Taka Pole,
keep an eye on it. You'll find out this week
where it is. Otherwise everything is going to be honky dory.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Awesome, awesome. Right, let's get amongst the callers. Andy, are
very good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Yeah, good morning on Tate.
Speaker 2 (01:54):
How are you good things?
Speaker 4 (01:57):
Hey, I've got an issue for rude. My hothouse is
infested with whitefly and looks like we're reading them and
they're coming around and attacking the rest of the garden
as well.
Speaker 3 (02:10):
They might do. Yes, where are you Are you in
the North of New Zealand?
Speaker 4 (02:14):
Yeah, South Taranaki, Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
There you are. As a matter of fact, I have
literally just sprayed the whitefly in my tunnel house. So
I had exactly the same thing, and Julie in her
glasshouse the same with Frenchy Parni. So we're talking about
a creature that loves the warmth. It's it's as you know,
white flies are very small but quite dense sort of creature.
(02:39):
If they're in large numbers, and they quite often sit
on the underside of leaves. They go to beans, they
go to tomatoes, they go to all sorts of ornamentals,
and they breed like there is no tomorrow. You've noticed that.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
I'm sure absolutely. It's thick with them in there. And
I have sprayed. I've used some mad brick and then
I sort of got some nature's way. But I don't
like to spray too much, but I might have to
do something drastic.
Speaker 3 (03:08):
But the slave you certainly do. And here comes the
two main items that I would use with these things.
If you have edible crops in your place, you don't
want to spray anything that is poisonous to us or
not good for us. So nim oil will do that.
(03:29):
Name oil n em Yeah, nim oil. So if you
do that, let's say every five or six days on
the underside and the top side of the leaves, and
you need to do that at least three times in
a row. You will get them under control. That's number one.
But if you've got no vegetable vegetables or edibles in there,
(03:51):
you can use grow ventive with the g grow ventive,
which is something that I wouldn't use on my tomatoes
at all, but I could use it on all the
ornamentals and that works even quicker.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
It's mainly tomatoes and a few other eatables in there,
so sounds pretty good.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
You're going to do that, and don't forget do it.
You have to do it at least three or four
times five six, say five days apart. And I'll tell
you why it is because you'll have to remember that
when they lay eggs, the eggs do not move, they're
not infected, and they're not affected by kneem oil. So
it is after they hatched from the eggs that they
become if you like able to be sprayed with kneem oil,
(04:36):
that's why you do it in a series of four
or three or four or five times. If you like
to mop up the next ones that come out of
the eggs.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Yeah, they seem they seem to breed very perfectly. Is
it such a thing as nine granules I've heard something
about that. Does that help or is it just a
spray it?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
I don't think it would help that much. What I
would do is I would spray the liquid on the leaves. Basically,
it will as soon as they touched it, or as
soon as they're hit on the underside of the leaves
and on the top side of the leaves. That is
the end of them. Honestly, it is that the granules
is a different gig. Again, I would I wouldn't use that.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
Well, thank you very much. I'll be very pleased to
go into my hothouse and not be covered with these.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Little you don't you just about one one flew in
my ear the other day.
Speaker 2 (05:30):
So thanks all this, you take care in A very
good morning to you, Cedric.
Speaker 5 (05:39):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
Here you going everyone, We're going well things. You know
what I said this year, I've I've had so many
to art those it was ridiculous.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
So aby.
Speaker 5 (05:51):
I what you have to do is water them, plenty
of water and beans too. I watered them in the
morning and I water the night. I get no windsakes
from nothing on mine. I've got three rows, but a
dwarf beans. And the beans are ah. I'm picking them
(06:12):
all the time, and I really water them well twice
a day. And the tomatoes, I got tomatoes by the tone.
I've got all sorts. You got Italian tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
I have not this year. I've had them in the past.
You know what you have because I've seen them.
Speaker 5 (06:37):
I've never seen them in the shops. My boy a
few years ago, his mate was in Italy and brought
back seeds, and I grow them in that tasty. All
my tomatoes are tasty. When you cut a tomato, the
skin peels back. I had a feeder. That's what I
(06:59):
had for breakfast this morning, is tomato and onion on toast.
And I do a lot of containers and fill my
freezers up with it because I love them.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
Cedric. I've got a good friend who used to be
still is with King's Seeds. King's Seeds they are in
Taroma and they have a vast quantity of all sorts
of seeds that you can purchase, and I would get
them sort of well before you know it's time to
plant them. Of course, go through their catalog. You can
(07:32):
see if you can get the catalog. Go through it
and you will see Italian tomato's all sorts of stuff.
And honestly, I used to get their seeds to try
them out in my glasshouse, in my tunnel house actually
in christ urs to have a sort of a comparison
with what they did in Tarrona. And so I've tried
(07:53):
all these different things, and sooner or later you come
to your favorite ones and you know exactly what to do.
King seeds go never.
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Look the attending ones are very dark skin compared to
Wes and the beef steak, and they're nice and tasty.
I get them to friends and they can't believe how
tasty they are.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
There you are, It's fabulous.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
You take care of it.
Speaker 5 (08:23):
You feed them with niprosal.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, I'm sure you do. If you go get over that.
Speaker 2 (08:28):
All of this, all of this, A couple of people
have asked about certain types of long weeds. We'll get
onto that. But I've got this thing that's spreading like
crazy with a small purple flower. Are we talking Penny Royal?
Someone else text about Penny Royal before.
Speaker 3 (08:45):
It could be it could be something like that. To
be quite honest, I really this is why I say
get yourself, I naturally and chet. Honestly, it's much easier.
Speaker 2 (08:54):
To don't worry.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
I will let me tell you that that just just
before we go any further than I know, you take
the break and you have to remember that if you know,
if you have a non grass weed, you can have
quite a few different things that you can spread that
does not cry brass, but it will kill the weeds.
And that is really what you need to know. So
that's why it's important to know what you're going to
(09:17):
be killing.
Speaker 2 (09:19):
Right, that's my homework today. We will will take a
short break. We'll be back with more of your calls
in just a moment. We've got time for a couple
more calls. Oh wait, one hundred and eighty ten eighty
is the number to call your news talks'd. We're taking
a few more calls and Graham a very good morning
to you.
Speaker 7 (09:35):
Good morning. Just a question to Rude on the garden.
I had discovered some caterpillars. First of all, thought they
were monor caterpillars, but I discovered that they didn't have
a white line on them. They're black and they were yellow,
and we identified them at cinderbar moths.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, and whether they're eating the cinebiu.
Speaker 7 (10:01):
Moth so on only one plant, a ground soil weed.
Speaker 3 (10:06):
Yeah, okay, what do you want to do with them?
Speaker 7 (10:09):
I don't want to do anything with them.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
They're beautiful, quite gorgeous.
Speaker 7 (10:15):
Yeah, I've never ever seen them before in the garden.
I'm in the middle of Canterbury.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, yeah, yeah. The cineba moth is actually a moth
that came originally out of the Netherlands, which Pete Pete
wolf Comfort will love. It's it's it's one of those
things that it's that it's specific specific weeds. Actually your
red warter, you got it. Yeah, And and the moth
itself is gorgeous, black and red. When you see it
(10:43):
fly around, it's beautiful.
Speaker 6 (10:45):
Never seen one, but they're.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
Quite common at the back of the Henry Springs. You
find them, you know, in the in the mountains at
the back places like that.
Speaker 5 (10:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, they're all over the place. They're cool.
Speaker 7 (10:56):
Well, we've had they seen a white butterfly, does see you?
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Oh yeah, I've seen a few. But I don't I don't,
I don't care to be quite honest about them.
Speaker 7 (11:04):
No, no, I know, no, I was curious to know
whether they're going to cause any great hell where they're
going to get. But I've never seen them before.
Speaker 3 (11:15):
They literally only eat that particular wheat, you know, the
cinna Baba. You got to thank you for the great Graham,
thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
Speaking about things that we haven't seen for a while,
did I tell you I saw a frog the other
day in the garden?
Speaker 5 (11:30):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Good, greenish or brownish green? Okay, green tree frog? The
green frog? Yeah, it's it's not a native one, you
know they day Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
Hey, look, I haven't seen that. I like seriously, the
last time I saw one was as a kid mowing
the lawns. And there I was doing some gardening, reaching
into dead head actually some of these buddy stalky things
that come out of that thing, he planty thing, and
and I just took his nose off with the old
secreturs and there you help with me. So I abandoned that.
(11:58):
I thought, I'll leave you to your leisure.
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah it's okay. Then it was nice to see they
are you know what we have in Canterbury here we
have the whistling tree frog. Did you find quite often
in the off No? Also nausy interlope the musical frog. Now, yeah, yeah,
how can you be? It's a nausey for God's sake,
(12:23):
are you for real?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Anyway, it's lovely to see it there. I haven't seen
that since I was a kid, so that was great.
Right here, David, talk to me about your lawn.
Speaker 6 (12:32):
Hi, Hi, Yeah, I've just been renovating my existing lawn
over the last couple of months and also dug out
an old lawn which wasn't really proper top so it
was rotten rock below retaining wall, et cetera, et cetera,
and replaced it with a new tops et cetera, and
repeated it and kept it almost and wet until the
(12:53):
seeds turned into grass basically. But over the last couple
of weeks, I'm in Wellington, I was up north and
I was away that the sprinters going a bit couple
of days from a partner's monitor, but coming back after
two weeks as all us clover's just appeared. Look like
it was grass and that's clover, and I'm just well,
(13:15):
it's not obviously that's scattered around the place, so just
reading it is that because it could be overwatered. Now
that's causing it and should I just treat it with
it like a weed and feed or something like that.
Speaker 3 (13:27):
That sort of stuff. Yeah, the yates turfect that sort
of stuff, I would say, but but I am not sure.
I would try it out first because there are certain
things that clover is not that easy to get control actually,
so you might need to find what you can use
with I know that is material you can use without
(13:47):
killing the grass. God to your local garden center see
what happens best in your area. I would say it
would be the h turfect or something.
Speaker 6 (13:54):
Yeah, okay, okay. And one more quick question. There's certain
areas where the dog a regular dog and e peace
and I suspect because the grass sigg rows quite quickly,
like like the height of it. It's like it goes
a lot more. Is that because of the nitrogen and
it's quite green because he kills the grass and then
(14:15):
adds a put of nitrogen and helps everything else around us.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
Hang on, you said he You said he is it
a male dog? Yes, Well, that's unusual because it's usually
the female dogs that kill the grass because they pee
in one place. They pee in one place and that
over does the amount of fertilizer that she does. But
the male you know how it does one pe he
(14:40):
and a P there and a P there. That's much
smaller quantities and it's usually not as bad. So if
you've got a female dog, yes you better be careful.
But in this case, if it's a silly dog that
says in one place like a Jack Russell thinks, oh
this is mine, yes you can. You can get an overdose.
That's exactly what it is.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Interesting.
Speaker 6 (15:00):
Okay, Does that mean the rest of it's nitrogen deficient
because it grows really well? No?
Speaker 3 (15:07):
Oh good one, good one. Use it as a fertilizer, yeah,
why not?
Speaker 6 (15:12):
Yeah, all right, but then you should I pick a
fertalizer that's more nitrogen.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yes, of course, a grass fertilizer will have nitrogen. That's
how grass fertilized. The N is higher than the P
and the gay.
Speaker 6 (15:26):
Right, okay, okay.
Speaker 2 (15:27):
Good luck with all of that. Yeah, all the very
best to you, Tiri.
Speaker 8 (15:32):
Whitefly is early this season. I had what I started
become my conservatory with my tomatoes, and I hung a
couple of fly strips above the plant. Yeah, and I
have managed to totally break the cycle and have had no
(15:52):
white fly at all in the conservatory this year.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
That's unusual to really wipe it out, because quite often
it does a reasonable job. But you don't get to
the you know, to the system that you've got them all.
But yes, those little sticky fly tapes, that's what they are,
aren't they? Are they yellow color? Yellow color? Yeah? Yeah, the.
Speaker 8 (16:15):
One to white ones, white ones. Okay, all right, you
see thet as long?
Speaker 3 (16:21):
Yeah, they must be like yeah, there must be something
they like then. Now we used to have yellow fly
go on, yeah, go on.
Speaker 8 (16:33):
Hanging a couple of eyes with it would reduces population
as well, I would match.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I would say, so, yeah.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Yeah, yeah, appreciate it.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Terry, Thank you very much for all the very best.
Quick text morningtain. Quick question for the garden for have
powdery mildew that's taken over my valued cucumbers in a
well ventilated greenhouse? Is there a nice way to treat this?
Do I have to go back to buying my cougettes
and cucumbers?
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Oh? What do you do with powdery milk? You use
a I think you use copper and sulfur together, right,
there is there's a yates material that does it. I
court it's a nature's way. Fungus spray. Try that perfect.
That's copper and sulfur together.
Speaker 2 (17:23):
Yeah, fantastic. Ellen, a very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (17:26):
Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Are we're good?
Speaker 4 (17:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
Who do you living under your house?
Speaker 4 (17:34):
I'm living antsy out?
Speaker 5 (17:37):
Oh I think there an there's little black things about
the size of them.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Like size of a saying fly. Yeah, well a little
bit smaller than a saying fly.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
And what do they do to you?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Ellen, They don't do anything to me.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Why are you ringing up your dogs? He'd bet.
Speaker 4 (18:03):
There's just swarms of coming out down the foundation of
my house.
Speaker 5 (18:09):
They're coming out, well, I.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
Think they're coming underneath the weather boards. Yes, they're coming
out from the cracks and the concrete and coming down
my nick Karen tree.
Speaker 3 (18:22):
You tell me, have they got wings? Have they got wings? No?
They haven't got wings, Okay, okay.
Speaker 4 (18:32):
And swarms of them go.
Speaker 5 (18:34):
Along right along the pathway and up the gate.
Speaker 1 (18:41):
You know.
Speaker 4 (18:41):
They can be about eight or nine ten meters long,
some of the rows of them.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Yeah. Yeah, they're looking for food at the moment.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
No.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
The reason I asked if they've got wings is that
some of these ants have been in the stage of mating,
and the mating happens on the wing as they fly out,
females and males and the queens and the boys. And
they're having a bit of a good time. Oh I know,
but that is that's quite special to see that, especially
in heavy winds in Wellington. Ever tried that in Wellington
(19:13):
mating on the wing anyway? But you got it. But
in this case they are now trying to find feed
from their nests and their nesta and holes under their
under your house. Really, that's what they do. Honestly. It's
really hard to control those things. But you can do
it with various end control materials that you can spray
on the areas where they walk. Or you can give
(19:35):
them a bait that they will get into, and that
is bait that will kill them. So and bait.
Speaker 2 (19:42):
There's a couple of options there for you. Well and right,
I'm going to go home, get the I Naturalist app
out and try and figure out what's in fisting.
Speaker 3 (19:49):
My lord, you've got to learn how to do that.
Speaker 5 (19:51):
Boy.
Speaker 2 (19:51):
This is it's my job today.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
It's really good, all right, Thank you, I work and you're.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
A you take care righty, oh, Rud will be back
next week. I'll be back next week. We look forward
to it. And have a very happy white this week
as well. Take care, I gotta to.
Speaker 1 (20:10):
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