February 22, 2025 • 21 mins
This week, Pete and Ruud answer your questions about keeping your garden in the best shape it can be this season!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
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Speaker 3 (00:13):
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Speaker 4 (00:19):
Your news Talk c B. We're talking gardening and a
root climb past us with us. A very good morning, sir.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
Good morning, pierrero Are you all well. It's lovely to
hear you flew over our house and to say good eight.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I waved you didn't wave back. I noticed it, but
I was there.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
I saw you coming from Dunners.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I have to say. Flying over and looking out at
aker at Benks Peninsula. What a stunning view from thirty
thousand feet.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Wow, I know, it's just beautiful and you literally fly
over our place.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
That's unbelieving, right, Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Three o'clock departure, three teen departure. Actually I only just
bloody made the flight. But anyway, that's my own stupidity.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Anyway, Oh that's good. I was mucking around down in
the garden. Was really good fun. Actually it was good,
good day, nice and beautiful sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, beautiful right by the way way.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
You could if you would have looked properly, you could
have seen the guys the safety guys that are working
on Kennedy's Boys Road, chatting to each other, smoking and
basically being slower than frigging you know whatever. Then Continental
Da they're slower than Continental drift. That's probably the way unbelievable.
(01:32):
How these and then in a way never now don't
even get me by contrast.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
So yesterday, as I was driving home over the bridge,
they had a note saying there's going to be work
on the bridge overnight. And as I was driving across
again the other way this morning, you know, just after five,
they'd strupped out enormous sections of the tarmac. They had
the cruise there, they were drying it off, they're doing
the sand blasting, they had the machines lined up for
the tar meaking. They are making great progress. So the you, yeah,
(01:59):
that's right. It goes both ways.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Before we go to callers, and we got callers just
very quickly do things. Seeing you have been at Wingspan
on this eighth of March, they are working together with
Enviral Hub day of plenty and they're having a whole
day from nine till two thirty at Wingspan. Ten dollars
a person and it is basically a raptor's festival. Can
(02:22):
you imagine that?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You yeah, yeah, you drive also.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Would't you?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
So that's that's not the eight March. March the eighth,
So that's that's not that far away. And the second
thing is, remember we had quite a few questions about
what do you call these blinking things? Yeah, these these
these beans, you know, the.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Class scarlet runners.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Scarlet runners, you got it?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Yeah, yeah, okay, now they apparently This is a really
important point that I totally forgot about. Sometimes you can
have scarlet runners that you use for one or two
or three years and keep them going, and that in
itself can sometimes be the couse for not being very
nice in terms of their development. They will get into
(03:04):
all sorts of diseases and they start rotting.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
So it does bey to have fresh seeds at least
every other.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Year, if not more often. So that is quite important.
Other than that, we both agreed. It was Keith Hammett
and I we both agreed. I have not seen any
example of a new fungal disease on these things. That is,
you know, that came into the country as far as
we know. But there you are. So it's actually using
fresh seeds might help.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Now, also, just before we go to the calls. We
had a call earlier on someone who was going to
have some borer treatment done. Now, I presume that if
you can treat the environment so that it's unattractive for bora,
and that can be done anywhere from sort of September
through to March.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
That's right, says, yes, you do it earlier, you do it.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
No, not earlier, you do it from late September to
October November when those borers start flying, because what they
do is they go into the wood or onto the wood,
and they go lay eggs in the wood. And that
is what you want to stop. The moment they touched
the particular for instance, the stuff that they're for safe works.
When I spread it on wood, nobody will come on
(04:12):
there for more than ten seconds and not pay with
their life. And I'm talking about my little dialing little
creepy crawlees from the Netherlands and from Europe that have
made it to New Zealand. House borer they are real.
But when it comes to that, of course they recyclists.
They recycle wood of course into really good material. But
that's another story.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, okay, all right, So there it is effective to
treat for that wonderful radio. Let's get amongst the callers, Jackie,
good morning.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Oh, good morning, Rod. I have a problem with mushy spuds,
no made for the variety that I plant. The minute
they hit the pot with hot water and they turned
to mash. Can you tell me what the problem is please?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
There could be a couple of things. Apparently there are
some bacteria that cause soft tubers, if you like, because
that's what it is. And also if you have of
them extended with extended exposure to heat and direct sunlight
quite often, especially when they're growing very had heat conditioned,
(05:16):
hot condition with a lot of moisture as well, they
can also shrivel and become all sort of awful.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Do they get green as well?
Speaker 7 (05:25):
No, they don't get green, but they have a hard
circle in the middle of them, and marshay on the outside.
And I wondered whether it was either soil or water
or too much water.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Yeah, or it could be It's exactly that, and that
too much water could be the problem when you're looking
at fungal diseases.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That's it, yeah, exactly, Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Less watering, bye bye, go welle.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
All of this to you. Jackie, take care and Leon
a very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Good morning guys. Hey, I just got a question of
started some custard apples from seed, and quite a few
of them, and I'm just about to report them in
the bigger pots. But I just want to know when
they're mature enough to plant. Help. Where would I put
them and what would I feed them?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I have never grown them, probably because in christ Church
it's a bit too chilly for them. That's that's what
I think anyway. But anyway, unbelievable because Julie is really
keen on those custard apples and and and so on
and so forth, and of them have you where are you?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Where are you basedy?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Okay, so you should be able to do it there
Cherry Moyer and things like that and custody. Oh my god,
if we go to Australia, Julie will go absolutely bananas
about getting those, but they're always out of season when
we get there.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Never mind, I reckon you can do it.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
And I have no idea when you started, because I've
never even at the opportunity to do that. I don't
know when you start this, but what I would say
is a nice sunny spot a nice soil, good soil
with organic material and good drainage. If you like, I
think that I'll do it that. I think that would
(07:23):
do it for you. And I would love to know
how you're going with that.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
I sold it, you know.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Thank you so much. That's wonderful, Leo.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
They're about they're about even eight weeks old now, so
they're not far away from being planted. But I just
don't want to plant them outsat it because it is
quite hot up here at the moment. I don't want
them to burn out, you know.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
No, no, I can imagine. But tell me where'd you
get the seeds from from? From a fruit that I suppose.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
No, my neighbor's got a custard apple tree and he
gave me one, and I love them. And I kicked
all the seeds and dried them and it took about
a month for them to germinate and come up. But
they're cranking now.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Oh man, this is amazing. That's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Yeah, gosh, I wish I could grow them here. You
know what, I should try that one day, just ever.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Go nor Tunnel Hill.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
But the problem is the trees will grow reasonably sargable
after a while, and then I need to.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Build a true story tunnel hills.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Yeah that you need a builder who doesn't talk. There
you go, okay, God, you take care.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Fantastic. Very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
What can we do with you? Mate?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, hell's pretty I've just got a couple of questions
for you. If I planted potatoes, now, would I get
a result? I'm living in Auckland, lovely climate.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I think you might be on the I was actually
thinking of writing a little thing for my check tame
sort of segment about the last call, you know, for
for growing vegetables, and I think you might be.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
You might be a bit late.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
But then again, there might be professional potato grows that say, no,
you can do it if you do this, this and this.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
But I am not a potato grower at all. I
never do that.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Yeams, I think fine, I've got yems growing am in fact,
I need to harvest them.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Yeah, I've got them.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Ground five yams. Now that they would come through.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
They might come through if you're in Auckland.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
If you if you've got not too cold weather and
not too wet weather, you should be fine.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I'd say, see, the thing is route as you will
well know, the seasons jainting.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Have you noticed have you noticed.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well, where's the plants noticed?
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Yes, exactly. Oh, it's just unbelievable the things that are
changing at the moment. You're absolutely right, you probably could.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Look.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
This is why I was going to say, last call
for planting, because we are lucky, we've got an extra
couple of weeks.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
I reckon with this climate change exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm going to have a goat. I'm
going to bang down a small quotum.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
Yeah potatoes, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Good on you Berry, next month, Yes, you better.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
You know, the reason I don't grow potatoes is because
I love growing tomatoes and potatoes and tomatoes have the
same pests on them, if you like, especially that the
sillat thing, sillat thing, and so I prefer my tomatoes
over potatoes, and potatoes are only what a couple of
bucks of kilo, you know, So you.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Know what I mean. It's why I don't grow Yeah. Yeah, okay,
good good.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
Berry.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Here we'll talk to Murray, but we'll take a breakfast
back in a moment.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
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how to fix that hole in the wall.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
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Speaker 4 (11:21):
We're talking all things gardening and murray are very good
morning to.
Speaker 10 (11:25):
You, Good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
How are you good?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Things?
Speaker 6 (11:28):
We're good?
Speaker 10 (11:28):
Thank you good?
Speaker 9 (11:30):
That's good.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
And I have a problem with little wombs or something
eating my potatoes. And I was just wondering if there's
anything that I can treat the soil with to sort
of eliminate this problem.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Can you tell me what color are those little worms?
Speaker 10 (11:53):
Well, actually you don't see them. They're just dig the
potatoes and the little holes and them with almost as
if they've laid their eggs and bug it off.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I see what you mean. Okay, so we don't know
who it is. Okay, it's not often is a thing
called wireworm or something like that that does it. And
they're actually reasonably sizable. They are the larvae of the
click beetle that you sometimes find inside. You know, they
want to go because the lens on his back and
anyway it doesn't matter. Oh my goodness, that's a bit hard.
(12:27):
Have you ever tried anything around these potatoes at all
in terms of insecticides, No, not at all.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
I just.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
I thought, once I get my garden clear, there might
be something that I can spray on or dig in
and perhaps ellum later.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
I was just thinking. So in there's you know, a
couple of possibilities. But anyway, there is a material called
I think it's called Yates grub and Porhina. So it's
from Yates the company Grub and Porhina, which is a
material that you use, for instance on grass grubs, that
of in any in the soils if you like, and
(13:10):
and it would have the same effect on these things.
I would say, have a look Key we Care and
has another material that is for these particular grubs in
the soil.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
See if you can.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Find either the eights one or the key we Care
one for for for soil grubs. And you might find
that that will work for you. But you might be
too late now, of course, because you have the holes
in your potatoes as we speak.
Speaker 10 (13:37):
That's great. Yeah, but as I as I, as I
dig and clear the ground, I can treat it with that,
do you think?
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Yeah? Yeah, absolutely, yeah, have God good luck with that
all the very busy.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Just take care and Sean. Good morning.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Yeah, OHI guys, I'm just wanting some answers on I've
got some future plants yea, and the leaves have gone
silver with black dots on them, and it's going bold
in this suggistance.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
What that could be?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Is this a future you have in a pot at home?
Speaker 9 (14:09):
No, it's on the eighth place and side of the garden.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Okay, So you have them outside, Okay.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
One about eighteen years old?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Oh bugger m.
Speaker 9 (14:19):
And it's not bringing onto the younger ones.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Oh shivers. It's not that.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
It's not the tree future, the native New Zealand plant,
is it?
Speaker 9 (14:28):
Oh? I couldn't tell you, rude.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Sorry, No, that becomes a tree of about fifteen meters tall.
Speaker 9 (14:34):
Okay, you know it certainly probably had a meter of sohei.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Yeah, okay, all right in that case.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Okay, So if you've got and so your things were
silver on the leaves and black holes as.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
Well, your black dots on it?
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, good.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
That sounds like a fungal disease. I think a funger
side would do it. And if you do it with
a systemic fungus side, go to your local garden center
and ask for a systemic fungus side. You can also
protect your other plants you by from being infected.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
So next door, I've got a green passion fruit and
he's getting like brown dots on the fruit.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
That might it's likely to be a different species. But
there's something. Have you had a lot too much rain
or something?
Speaker 6 (15:24):
What? What is the story?
Speaker 7 (15:26):
No?
Speaker 9 (15:26):
Not really. We water it, probably in the evening because
it's a side and could do anything.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Do you water it every night? Every day?
Speaker 9 (15:34):
Every night, not every night. It's only it's not sprang
all over it, So.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Okay, so please don't don't overwater those things. That's a
good point. Thank you for telling me that. But yeah,
try and fung aside and and and protect it with
an systemic one that goes through the plant and basically
makes everything stop going down. If you wanted to prune,
if you want to prune it, Beck, you could do it.
(16:00):
I don't think it's really necessary to do this, but
you could. It could, It could work, It could help
a bit. Have a god, but go over the top.
But please don't overwater your plants.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
That's another thing.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
Yeah, okay, really appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
No where Sean all to Sean, take care of good luck, Glinda,
Good morning, good.
Speaker 11 (16:18):
Morning, Hike. Sorry, I have peach tree trouble. Peaches are
getting brown rot their golden queen on the tree before
I can even get to them. Between them and the
boods are not getting mini.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Always the same with peach especially. I remember in Auckland
we had the same sort of stuff every year. Literally again,
brown rot is a fungal disease. I would suggest you
get a systemic funger site on those peaches and see
what you can set salvage from now on.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
I think it might be a bit late.
Speaker 11 (16:56):
Okay, what sort of fun spray.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
A fungus site?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Yes, something that stops fungi going on on your fruit
for instance, on plants, but also the systemic it might
also take. It might also, what do you call it?
Protect your leaves and your new fruit from infection as well.
But you probably find that we're all ready too late
(17:23):
for that right now, to be quite honesty.
Speaker 11 (17:26):
So when would I do it for.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
The next season, after flowering.
Speaker 11 (17:32):
After flowering, I guess before the leaves drop.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Well, yeah, after the flowering, after the flowers.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
Have gone flowering.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Yeah, yeah, not the leaves. Don't worry, no, no.
Speaker 11 (17:44):
No, noxt you go so flowering, Ye, what I would do?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Yeah, well timed fungus sized applications are the key, and
it's also with all these other stone fruit as well.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
You got it, yeah, obviously, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
You call Glenna. Much appreciated.
Speaker 12 (18:07):
Hollo Bob, Good morning, Pete and Rute. I've had a
bit of a problem.
Speaker 13 (18:15):
I found an insect in my bedroom on the window sill.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Dead.
Speaker 12 (18:20):
It was like a little was quite a bit smaller
than the normal wasp, and it had a bright orange abdomen.
And I kept it there because I thought I'll go
and get my phone and try my eye naturalists and
find out what it is. However, the window was open,
and I'm not sure. I'm not sure what happened. Whether
(18:44):
my husband saw the insect and inflected out the window,
or a curtain inflect inflicted out the window, or whether
it fell on the carpet and I vacuumded up without realizing.
But when I went to look for it was gone.
So anyway, I've been outside and checked and there's no
sign of it there. But I'm wondering because I heard
on the radio the other mart they were talking about
(19:05):
the Oriental fruits, and I said that the female is orange,
and I looked up on Google and sure enough there's
an orange one, but I don't know whether it would
be that or not. So how far widespread is the
oriental fruit fly?
Speaker 5 (19:21):
We're in Manhwatu, in Manawatu, as far as I'm concerned.
There were two sights in Auckland that were, if you like, quarantined,
and and you're in the Manawatu, and that is too
far away. I would say that probably has nothing to
do with this particular thing. But it's interesting to see
that you're saying it was a wasp, which was interesting
(19:42):
because I know what you're saying, because we have native
bees that they've got some orange colors, especially if they
have the pollen baskets on their legs with really cool
orange colors as well, and they look stunning, So it
could have been something stupid like that, you know, And
there are so many different things that are orange as
(20:02):
well in that particular group.
Speaker 13 (20:04):
Right right. Yeah, it's just a peach tree that's laden
and we're picking them madly, trying to beat the bird success.
And I thought, oh gosh, if it is this fruit
fly thing, help, how far away can I distribute the fruit.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Parmiston, Parmeston is safe, make no mistake, good face, all
the best of your barb.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Thank you very much. And it's funny people talking about
the birds. I must admit I think I pretty much
just leave the plum tree and his food for the birds.
They get a lot more food out of it than
I do.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Accept the damsons which we make into jams. We've got
about fifty thousand kilos.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Unbelievable. It's gorgeous, fantastic.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Oh, always a pleasure, Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
All right, see you on the eight.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
We spend the Yeah, well bloody tempted to be fair,
very tempted.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Take care of it all the very best, Hey, folks,
I like I spent the last two days in Dunedin,
which was fantastic because I was down there as a
guest of the Home and Garden Show. The Home and
Garden Show moves to Queenstown this coming from Friday, Sunday
and Sunday, and I will be there on Saturday. You
can even book a slot to have a bit of
a chouce to talk building if you'd like to. But
(21:14):
make sure you check out the Home and Garden Show
in Queenstown.
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Your news Talk c B. We're talking gardening and a
root climb past us with us. A very good morning, sir.
Speaker 5 (00:25):
Good morning, pierrero Are you all well. It's lovely to
hear you flew over our house and to say good eight.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
I waved you didn't wave back. I noticed it, but
I was there.
Speaker 6 (00:35):
I saw you coming from Dunners.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
I have to say. Flying over and looking out at
aker at Benks Peninsula. What a stunning view from thirty
thousand feet.
Speaker 5 (00:44):
Wow, I know, it's just beautiful and you literally fly
over our place.
Speaker 6 (00:50):
That's unbelieving, right, Yeah, it's cool.
Speaker 4 (00:53):
Three o'clock departure, three teen departure. Actually I only just
bloody made the flight. But anyway, that's my own stupidity.
Speaker 5 (00:59):
Anyway, Oh that's good. I was mucking around down in
the garden. Was really good fun. Actually it was good,
good day, nice and beautiful sort of stuff.
Speaker 4 (01:08):
Yeah, beautiful right by the way way.
Speaker 5 (01:10):
You could if you would have looked properly, you could
have seen the guys the safety guys that are working
on Kennedy's Boys Road, chatting to each other, smoking and
basically being slower than frigging you know whatever. Then Continental
Da they're slower than Continental drift. That's probably the way unbelievable.
(01:32):
How these and then in a way never now don't
even get me by contrast.
Speaker 4 (01:37):
So yesterday, as I was driving home over the bridge,
they had a note saying there's going to be work
on the bridge overnight. And as I was driving across
again the other way this morning, you know, just after five,
they'd strupped out enormous sections of the tarmac. They had
the cruise there, they were drying it off, they're doing
the sand blasting, they had the machines lined up for
the tar meaking. They are making great progress. So the you, yeah,
(01:59):
that's right. It goes both ways.
Speaker 5 (02:02):
Before we go to callers, and we got callers just
very quickly do things. Seeing you have been at Wingspan
on this eighth of March, they are working together with
Enviral Hub day of plenty and they're having a whole
day from nine till two thirty at Wingspan. Ten dollars
a person and it is basically a raptor's festival. Can
(02:22):
you imagine that?
Speaker 6 (02:23):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
You yeah, yeah, you drive also.
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Would't you?
Speaker 5 (02:26):
So that's that's not the eight March. March the eighth,
So that's that's not that far away. And the second
thing is, remember we had quite a few questions about
what do you call these blinking things? Yeah, these these
these beans, you know, the.
Speaker 4 (02:41):
Class scarlet runners.
Speaker 6 (02:42):
Scarlet runners, you got it?
Speaker 5 (02:44):
Yeah, yeah, okay, now they apparently This is a really
important point that I totally forgot about. Sometimes you can
have scarlet runners that you use for one or two
or three years and keep them going, and that in
itself can sometimes be the couse for not being very
nice in terms of their development. They will get into
(03:04):
all sorts of diseases and they start rotting.
Speaker 6 (03:07):
So it does bey to have fresh seeds at least
every other.
Speaker 5 (03:11):
Year, if not more often. So that is quite important.
Other than that, we both agreed. It was Keith Hammett
and I we both agreed. I have not seen any
example of a new fungal disease on these things. That is,
you know, that came into the country as far as
we know. But there you are. So it's actually using
fresh seeds might help.
Speaker 4 (03:31):
Now, also, just before we go to the calls. We
had a call earlier on someone who was going to
have some borer treatment done. Now, I presume that if
you can treat the environment so that it's unattractive for bora,
and that can be done anywhere from sort of September
through to March.
Speaker 6 (03:49):
That's right, says, yes, you do it earlier, you do it.
Speaker 5 (03:52):
No, not earlier, you do it from late September to
October November when those borers start flying, because what they
do is they go into the wood or onto the wood,
and they go lay eggs in the wood. And that
is what you want to stop. The moment they touched
the particular for instance, the stuff that they're for safe works.
When I spread it on wood, nobody will come on
(04:12):
there for more than ten seconds and not pay with
their life. And I'm talking about my little dialing little
creepy crawlees from the Netherlands and from Europe that have
made it to New Zealand. House borer they are real.
But when it comes to that, of course they recyclists.
They recycle wood of course into really good material. But
that's another story.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yeah, okay, all right, So there it is effective to
treat for that wonderful radio. Let's get amongst the callers, Jackie,
good morning.
Speaker 7 (04:41):
Oh, good morning, Rod. I have a problem with mushy spuds,
no made for the variety that I plant. The minute
they hit the pot with hot water and they turned
to mash. Can you tell me what the problem is please?
Speaker 5 (04:56):
There could be a couple of things. Apparently there are
some bacteria that cause soft tubers, if you like, because
that's what it is. And also if you have of
them extended with extended exposure to heat and direct sunlight
quite often, especially when they're growing very had heat conditioned,
(05:16):
hot condition with a lot of moisture as well, they
can also shrivel and become all sort of awful.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Do they get green as well?
Speaker 7 (05:25):
No, they don't get green, but they have a hard
circle in the middle of them, and marshay on the outside.
And I wondered whether it was either soil or water
or too much water.
Speaker 5 (05:37):
Yeah, or it could be It's exactly that, and that
too much water could be the problem when you're looking
at fungal diseases.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
That's it, yeah, exactly, Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Less watering, bye bye, go welle.
Speaker 4 (05:53):
All of this to you. Jackie, take care and Leon
a very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (05:57):
Good morning guys. Hey, I just got a question of
started some custard apples from seed, and quite a few
of them, and I'm just about to report them in
the bigger pots. But I just want to know when
they're mature enough to plant. Help. Where would I put
them and what would I feed them?
Speaker 5 (06:20):
I have never grown them, probably because in christ Church
it's a bit too chilly for them. That's that's what
I think anyway. But anyway, unbelievable because Julie is really
keen on those custard apples and and and so on
and so forth, and of them have you where are you?
Speaker 6 (06:43):
Where are you basedy?
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Okay, so you should be able to do it there
Cherry Moyer and things like that and custody. Oh my god,
if we go to Australia, Julie will go absolutely bananas
about getting those, but they're always out of season when
we get there.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
Never mind, I reckon you can do it.
Speaker 5 (07:02):
And I have no idea when you started, because I've
never even at the opportunity to do that. I don't
know when you start this, but what I would say
is a nice sunny spot a nice soil, good soil
with organic material and good drainage. If you like, I
think that I'll do it that. I think that would
(07:23):
do it for you. And I would love to know
how you're going with that.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
I sold it, you know.
Speaker 6 (07:30):
Thank you so much. That's wonderful, Leo.
Speaker 8 (07:32):
They're about they're about even eight weeks old now, so
they're not far away from being planted. But I just
don't want to plant them outsat it because it is
quite hot up here at the moment. I don't want
them to burn out, you know.
Speaker 5 (07:44):
No, no, I can imagine. But tell me where'd you
get the seeds from from? From a fruit that I suppose.
Speaker 8 (07:50):
No, my neighbor's got a custard apple tree and he
gave me one, and I love them. And I kicked
all the seeds and dried them and it took about
a month for them to germinate and come up. But
they're cranking now.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Oh man, this is amazing. That's wonderful.
Speaker 5 (08:08):
Yeah, gosh, I wish I could grow them here. You
know what, I should try that one day, just ever.
Speaker 8 (08:14):
Go nor Tunnel Hill.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Oh yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (08:18):
But the problem is the trees will grow reasonably sargable
after a while, and then I need to.
Speaker 8 (08:26):
Build a true story tunnel hills.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Yeah that you need a builder who doesn't talk. There
you go, okay, God, you take care.
Speaker 4 (08:40):
Fantastic. Very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (08:44):
Yeah, good morning.
Speaker 6 (08:46):
What can we do with you? Mate?
Speaker 2 (08:49):
Yeah, hell's pretty I've just got a couple of questions
for you. If I planted potatoes, now, would I get
a result? I'm living in Auckland, lovely climate.
Speaker 9 (09:06):
I don't.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
I don't know, I don't know.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
I think you might be on the I was actually
thinking of writing a little thing for my check tame
sort of segment about the last call, you know, for
for growing vegetables, and I think you might be.
Speaker 6 (09:24):
You might be a bit late.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
But then again, there might be professional potato grows that say, no,
you can do it if you do this, this and this.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
But I am not a potato grower at all. I
never do that.
Speaker 5 (09:39):
Yeams, I think fine, I've got yems growing am in fact,
I need to harvest them.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
Yeah, I've got them.
Speaker 2 (09:46):
Ground five yams. Now that they would come through.
Speaker 6 (09:50):
They might come through if you're in Auckland.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
If you if you've got not too cold weather and
not too wet weather, you should be fine.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
I'd say, see, the thing is route as you will
well know, the seasons jainting.
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Have you noticed have you noticed.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Well, where's the plants noticed?
Speaker 5 (10:10):
Yes, exactly. Oh, it's just unbelievable the things that are
changing at the moment. You're absolutely right, you probably could.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
Look.
Speaker 5 (10:18):
This is why I was going to say, last call
for planting, because we are lucky, we've got an extra
couple of weeks.
Speaker 6 (10:23):
I reckon with this climate change exactly.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
Yeah, I'm gonna I'm going to have a goat. I'm
going to bang down a small quotum.
Speaker 8 (10:33):
Yeah potatoes, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
Good on you Berry, next month, Yes, you better.
Speaker 5 (10:39):
You know, the reason I don't grow potatoes is because
I love growing tomatoes and potatoes and tomatoes have the
same pests on them, if you like, especially that the
sillat thing, sillat thing, and so I prefer my tomatoes
over potatoes, and potatoes are only what a couple of
bucks of kilo, you know, So you.
Speaker 6 (10:58):
Know what I mean. It's why I don't grow Yeah. Yeah, okay,
good good.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 8 (11:05):
Berry.
Speaker 4 (11:06):
Here we'll talk to Murray, but we'll take a breakfast
back in a moment.
Speaker 1 (11:09):
Whether you're painting the ceiling, fixing the fins, or wondering
how to fix that hole in the wall.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Do you have Feedlblechevi call on resident builder on b.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
We're talking all things gardening and murray are very good
morning to.
Speaker 10 (11:25):
You, Good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (11:27):
How are you good?
Speaker 3 (11:28):
Things?
Speaker 6 (11:28):
We're good?
Speaker 10 (11:28):
Thank you good?
Speaker 9 (11:30):
That's good.
Speaker 10 (11:31):
And I have a problem with little wombs or something
eating my potatoes. And I was just wondering if there's
anything that I can treat the soil with to sort
of eliminate this problem.
Speaker 5 (11:46):
Can you tell me what color are those little worms?
Speaker 10 (11:53):
Well, actually you don't see them. They're just dig the
potatoes and the little holes and them with almost as
if they've laid their eggs and bug it off.
Speaker 5 (12:04):
I see what you mean. Okay, so we don't know
who it is. Okay, it's not often is a thing
called wireworm or something like that that does it. And
they're actually reasonably sizable. They are the larvae of the
click beetle that you sometimes find inside. You know, they
want to go because the lens on his back and
anyway it doesn't matter. Oh my goodness, that's a bit hard.
(12:27):
Have you ever tried anything around these potatoes at all
in terms of insecticides, No, not at all.
Speaker 9 (12:36):
I just.
Speaker 10 (12:38):
I thought, once I get my garden clear, there might
be something that I can spray on or dig in
and perhaps ellum later.
Speaker 8 (12:48):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (12:48):
I was just thinking. So in there's you know, a
couple of possibilities. But anyway, there is a material called
I think it's called Yates grub and Porhina. So it's
from Yates the company Grub and Porhina, which is a
material that you use, for instance on grass grubs, that
of in any in the soils if you like, and
(13:10):
and it would have the same effect on these things.
I would say, have a look Key we Care and
has another material that is for these particular grubs in
the soil.
Speaker 6 (13:23):
See if you can.
Speaker 5 (13:23):
Find either the eights one or the key we Care
one for for for soil grubs. And you might find
that that will work for you. But you might be
too late now, of course, because you have the holes
in your potatoes as we speak.
Speaker 10 (13:37):
That's great. Yeah, but as I as I, as I
dig and clear the ground, I can treat it with that,
do you think?
Speaker 6 (13:43):
Yeah? Yeah, absolutely, yeah, have God good luck with that
all the very busy.
Speaker 4 (13:49):
Just take care and Sean. Good morning.
Speaker 9 (13:51):
Yeah, OHI guys, I'm just wanting some answers on I've
got some future plants yea, and the leaves have gone
silver with black dots on them, and it's going bold
in this suggistance.
Speaker 10 (14:05):
What that could be?
Speaker 6 (14:06):
Is this a future you have in a pot at home?
Speaker 9 (14:09):
No, it's on the eighth place and side of the garden.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Okay, So you have them outside, Okay.
Speaker 9 (14:15):
One about eighteen years old?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Oh bugger m.
Speaker 9 (14:19):
And it's not bringing onto the younger ones.
Speaker 6 (14:21):
Oh shivers. It's not that.
Speaker 5 (14:24):
It's not the tree future, the native New Zealand plant,
is it?
Speaker 9 (14:28):
Oh? I couldn't tell you, rude.
Speaker 6 (14:30):
Sorry, No, that becomes a tree of about fifteen meters tall.
Speaker 9 (14:34):
Okay, you know it certainly probably had a meter of sohei.
Speaker 6 (14:36):
Yeah, okay, all right in that case.
Speaker 5 (14:39):
Okay, So if you've got and so your things were
silver on the leaves and black holes as.
Speaker 9 (14:46):
Well, your black dots on it?
Speaker 6 (14:48):
Yeah yeah, yeah, okay, good.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
That sounds like a fungal disease. I think a funger
side would do it. And if you do it with
a systemic fungus side, go to your local garden center
and ask for a systemic fungus side. You can also
protect your other plants you by from being infected.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
So next door, I've got a green passion fruit and
he's getting like brown dots on the fruit.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
That might it's likely to be a different species. But
there's something. Have you had a lot too much rain
or something?
Speaker 6 (15:24):
What? What is the story?
Speaker 7 (15:26):
No?
Speaker 9 (15:26):
Not really. We water it, probably in the evening because
it's a side and could do anything.
Speaker 6 (15:32):
Do you water it every night? Every day?
Speaker 9 (15:34):
Every night, not every night. It's only it's not sprang
all over it, So.
Speaker 5 (15:39):
Okay, so please don't don't overwater those things. That's a
good point. Thank you for telling me that. But yeah,
try and fung aside and and and protect it with
an systemic one that goes through the plant and basically
makes everything stop going down. If you wanted to prune,
if you want to prune it, Beck, you could do it.
(16:00):
I don't think it's really necessary to do this, but
you could. It could, It could work, It could help
a bit. Have a god, but go over the top.
But please don't overwater your plants.
Speaker 6 (16:08):
That's another thing.
Speaker 9 (16:09):
Yeah, okay, really appreciate that.
Speaker 4 (16:12):
No where Sean all to Sean, take care of good luck, Glinda,
Good morning, good.
Speaker 11 (16:18):
Morning, Hike. Sorry, I have peach tree trouble. Peaches are
getting brown rot their golden queen on the tree before
I can even get to them. Between them and the
boods are not getting mini.
Speaker 5 (16:33):
Always the same with peach especially. I remember in Auckland
we had the same sort of stuff every year. Literally again,
brown rot is a fungal disease. I would suggest you
get a systemic funger site on those peaches and see
what you can set salvage from now on.
Speaker 6 (16:53):
I think it might be a bit late.
Speaker 11 (16:56):
Okay, what sort of fun spray.
Speaker 6 (17:01):
A fungus site?
Speaker 5 (17:02):
Yes, something that stops fungi going on on your fruit
for instance, on plants, but also the systemic it might
also take. It might also, what do you call it?
Protect your leaves and your new fruit from infection as well.
But you probably find that we're all ready too late
(17:23):
for that right now, to be quite honesty.
Speaker 11 (17:26):
So when would I do it for.
Speaker 6 (17:28):
The next season, after flowering.
Speaker 11 (17:32):
After flowering, I guess before the leaves drop.
Speaker 6 (17:37):
Well, yeah, after the flowering, after the flowers.
Speaker 8 (17:40):
Have gone flowering.
Speaker 6 (17:42):
Yeah, yeah, not the leaves. Don't worry, no, no.
Speaker 11 (17:44):
No, noxt you go so flowering, Ye, what I would do?
Speaker 5 (17:54):
Yeah, well timed fungus sized applications are the key, and
it's also with all these other stone fruit as well.
Speaker 6 (18:00):
You got it, yeah, obviously, Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
You call Glenna. Much appreciated.
Speaker 12 (18:07):
Hollo Bob, Good morning, Pete and Rute. I've had a
bit of a problem.
Speaker 13 (18:15):
I found an insect in my bedroom on the window sill.
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Dead.
Speaker 12 (18:20):
It was like a little was quite a bit smaller
than the normal wasp, and it had a bright orange abdomen.
And I kept it there because I thought I'll go
and get my phone and try my eye naturalists and
find out what it is. However, the window was open,
and I'm not sure. I'm not sure what happened. Whether
(18:44):
my husband saw the insect and inflected out the window,
or a curtain inflect inflicted out the window, or whether
it fell on the carpet and I vacuumded up without realizing.
But when I went to look for it was gone.
So anyway, I've been outside and checked and there's no
sign of it there. But I'm wondering because I heard
on the radio the other mart they were talking about
(19:05):
the Oriental fruits, and I said that the female is orange,
and I looked up on Google and sure enough there's
an orange one, but I don't know whether it would
be that or not. So how far widespread is the
oriental fruit fly?
Speaker 5 (19:21):
We're in Manhwatu, in Manawatu, as far as I'm concerned.
There were two sights in Auckland that were, if you like, quarantined,
and and you're in the Manawatu, and that is too
far away. I would say that probably has nothing to
do with this particular thing. But it's interesting to see
that you're saying it was a wasp, which was interesting
(19:42):
because I know what you're saying, because we have native
bees that they've got some orange colors, especially if they
have the pollen baskets on their legs with really cool
orange colors as well, and they look stunning, So it
could have been something stupid like that, you know, And
there are so many different things that are orange as
(20:02):
well in that particular group.
Speaker 13 (20:04):
Right right. Yeah, it's just a peach tree that's laden
and we're picking them madly, trying to beat the bird success.
And I thought, oh gosh, if it is this fruit
fly thing, help, how far away can I distribute the fruit.
Speaker 5 (20:21):
Parmiston, Parmeston is safe, make no mistake, good face, all
the best of your barb.
Speaker 4 (20:26):
Thank you very much. And it's funny people talking about
the birds. I must admit I think I pretty much
just leave the plum tree and his food for the birds.
They get a lot more food out of it than
I do.
Speaker 5 (20:35):
Accept the damsons which we make into jams. We've got
about fifty thousand kilos.
Speaker 6 (20:41):
Unbelievable. It's gorgeous, fantastic.
Speaker 4 (20:45):
Oh, always a pleasure, Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (20:47):
All right, see you on the eight.
Speaker 5 (20:49):
We spend the Yeah, well bloody tempted to be fair,
very tempted.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
Take care of it all the very best, Hey, folks,
I like I spent the last two days in Dunedin,
which was fantastic because I was down there as a
guest of the Home and Garden Show. The Home and
Garden Show moves to Queenstown this coming from Friday, Sunday
and Sunday, and I will be there on Saturday. You
can even book a slot to have a bit of
a chouce to talk building if you'd like to. But
(21:14):
make sure you check out the Home and Garden Show
in Queenstown.
Speaker 1 (21:16):
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