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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from news talks at b Gardening with steel Shaft Free
autumn upgrades on Still's best sellers.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's a bit flash. There's there's music in the Still
shop prelim as well there at climb Pass. Good morning sir,
Good morning Peter.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
They should have music in there because all their products
work like music. But I understand, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Kidding, you're that's absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I've been I've been a mate of Jason Vlife for
like decades and it's always the same. It's brilliant.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, fantastic. You're good.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, I'm good, Thank you. I am, I'm pretty good.
I've got a little bit of news for your darling
for Debby that on March the eighth, which is Saturday, Yes,
and there will be an Enviro hubay of Plenty Sustainable
Backyard Month. I hate sustainable, the words sustainable. I know,
I know.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But if I ask you how's.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Your relationship with deb and your answer sustainable, well, what
would you substitute?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Ify?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And then lisleave the relationship part out of it. But
I mean, in terms of the environment, right, what we're
looking to do is to have, you know, to recognize
that what we do has an impact, right, so we
want our environment to be sustained in what would you say?
I'm happy to swap terminology. You just tell me what
you'd like me to say.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I don't actually know what would write good, but it
is about it is really about being. It's like the
word conservation and restoration and rehabilitation. Idly do things than yeah, yeah,
I mean anyway, it's just it's just my language. What
I was going to say, Go, there's a reptor festival
(01:48):
at Winkspan this come say today from nine till two
thirty ten bucks entry. I mean, honestly, you can't get
cheaper than that, and it's going to be absolutely brilliant,
the celebration of the whole thing, learning about the native hunters,
that sort of stuff. And honestly, I wish I could
go there because I'd be there and the hard beat.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, it'd be awesome on it, just like that, fantastic.
And Nica, after we've been in and had wander around,
sent me a couple of tickets and actually I've just
sit an email from someone going I'm going with my grandkids,
and so I've sent the tickets on to them, So
that'll be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, that's I think we can do that actually with
callers as well. I'm hurrican mind and and we'll just
we'll just hand over their numbers and their details from
where we go.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Let's do that, right, let's get amongst it. Michael A
very good morning, Good.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Morning, real question about whats I'm good at? Killing them
in the nest? Should I leave the nest up or
remove the nest? And the second part of the question is, sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, the question. First of all, I have what wasps
are you talking about? We've got one, two, three, or
five six different species?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Pretty sure papers are the way we go typically up
underneath gathers, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
And then how do I stop them coming back? Because
it's like playing wetamole. We've got quite an old property.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So yeah, yeah, I got the same hussles. Of course.
It's and everybody who's got a bit of paper was
knows exactly how this works. Your trick, you know, the
trick of going at night with a torch and and
and a plastic bag and a sharp Stanley knife and
cut the bugger off and drop it straight into the
in the dark, straight into the bag and then chuck
(03:40):
the bag with the by then very shitty wasps into
the freezer for overnight, and then it'll do them. I
know that they might come back, but not at the
same place. Usually once that colony is gone, there will go.
You know. That's it, but it is. It is the
only way to go, really, unless you want to go
(04:01):
and use for besticides. I suppose.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Well I have been using. Yeah, I written or flice
forrea at night. That seems to do pretty well.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
And the other thing so is we got some middle
pipes around an old racetrack that they're now starting to
put nets into those. So oh really it makes the
bagging option a bit hard.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, obviously I can imagine, all right, But again it's
the idea of not to get done by them and
do it in the in the evenings at night or
when they're asleep, and you know you've got at least
twenty seconds to do your job.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Luckily they didn't never come after me once you hit
them with either the peripher or the flights by. They
said to be worried about other things, so.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
That I noticed. That's so good. But the person who
holds the torch is usually the next target.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Well, I've tended to do it just after dust, so
I can still see what's going on, and I normally
know where the nest is because I found that during
the day. So yeah, my targeting has been pretty good
so far. And I've got quite a long you know,
like a two mile lump on a bad expert.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So oh good.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, yeahs to deal with them pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, distance is important. You're absolutely right there, Michael, So.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
So should so once it's all done, I normally wait
a couple of days because the other thing I've noticed
is there's often some white stuff in there, and often
some what's will still come out.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Sure, I'll take the miss down after that month or two,
because I had noticed.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Immediately, immediately immediately, because that's where the young ones come
out with. The white thing is the silk that holds
the container where the young one is actually developing. And
the best thing to do is to literally, as I said,
chuck it in the plastic bag in the freezer. Cost
you nothing, just in the freezer for twenty four hours. Gone,
(05:51):
everything right, okay, easy, yeah, awesome, done.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
All the very good luck for the mate. Take care ceiling.
Bye bye Ian, Good morning.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Yeah, good morning at see and how are you.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Hey, We're good mate, Okay.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Tr Mudu area out in the country raspberries and looking
to try and get bigger berries.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
The canes are about one point a high now, and
I started them off with Dalton's pack and nex or
whatever you call it. Thought sorry mulch and necks and
some other fertilizer on it. But I'm just wondering if
I should be adding more in their potash.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah. The thing with these berries is, and it's working
quite well in my little berry cage, is to give
it a high K high potash fertilizer. It could be
a roast fertilizer, it could be you know, any fruit
or flowering fertilizer usually has more potaste than the N
(07:02):
and the P. And that's basically the way to go.
And of course the prune later. It's from now on,
I suppose, when these things are starting to to grow up.
The pruning is, of course, you leave three if you like,
or four of the canes of the of the new
wood standing and the old stuff can go click click
click gone. Yeah from now on.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Yeah, yeah, so I used I've tried some of the
blue tomato fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I'm lud for what that is nitrofosca blue or something
like that. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that works. Yeah. But
you know what is what is a really good trick though,
And I must say, and it's probably the best thing.
Even if you have a general fertilizer like nitrofosca and something,
you get a handful of sulfate of potash and chuck
that with it. Water it in or it waters when
(07:54):
it when it rains, I suppose otherwise, water it in
and that stimulates the plants in making more and more
buds for for fruit.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Okay, excellent, appreciate.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Your help, no worries.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Go well, all the very best to you. Thank you.
Ian to take care critics, Doris Plumtree had zero fruit.
Any ideas as to why from Mike.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Could be a number of things. First of all, if
you know quite often you have you need a pollinator,
so you need two different varieties that make one of
and both plants actually get pollinated properly, and that it
sometimes one of those trees could die, you know, and
then you've got one left, and it might pay to
(08:40):
have another variety next to it does that make sense?
That's number one. The second thing it could be, indeed,
a lack of potash what I just talked about, which
actually makes the plant or the tree create far more fruit.
It seems like that. Yeah, those are It depends exactly
on what the history is of the gig, which is
(09:02):
why texting is sometimes a bit difficult because I'm asking
all these questions, yeah, and nobody's giving me an answer.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Maybe the Knicks text is a bit easier. Good morning.
All my tomato plants have a grub in the stems
which has killed the plant. Help in capital letters from John?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, yeah, I saw that, John. What's a grub in
the stems? I don't know, in the stems? No, I
don't know. I have to look at that. This is
the point, somebody said to me, you know, I mean,
you're not always I'm not always able to identify things,
or I'm not always to give an answer. The point
is that we're twelve hundred different species of caterpillar.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah yeah, sure, yeah, and having a vision on these
snatches variety might overwhelm us sometimes.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, fantastic. We'll talk to Ron before the break. Hello, Ron, Hey,
good morning, roll.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Good morning. Is it too late to plant broad beans? No?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I think you can do that. Where are you, Christ, Shirch,
I'm marry he across you. I see you can do it, mate,
I did it two weeks ago. Fine, go for it now, honestly,
because if you do it, If you do it now,
you'll find that you will have you might even have
broad beans before it gets winter. If not, you'll be
the first one in very very early spring or late
(10:25):
winter to have your broad beans going just like that.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Yeah, I've got plenty of bumblebeeting realni.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah? Good? Isn't that That's exactly the ones you need
for pollination? You got it? Yeah, yep, go for it.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
All right mate, all of this take care. We'll take
a short break. We'll be back with Shirley in just
the moment.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
We're helping you get those DIY projects done.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Right to the resident.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
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Speaker 2 (10:53):
Coming up eleven minutes away from nine o'clock. Shirley, good
morning to you. There we go, got it? Hey, Shelly.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Ruth, can you help me ask her to lovely irrigated geraniums,
and over the last years, I've reverted back to just
the plain green leaf.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
They so they have changed from the original color to
this very agent.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah yeah, one.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
With one with green was was white and the other
one with a lovely burgundy with a lime and the
yellow edging. And they've both gone back just the plain
green lots of growth. And I've got another little one
with a leaf like a maple tree autumn colors, and
(11:53):
it's beautiful it it hasn't changed.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
They see. Sometimes these things go bettery, revert back, you
know what I mean, They revert back to the base
status quo of your like I have. I don't know
if you can do anything about that, to be quite honest,
and if so, I wouldn't. I certainly don't. I certainly
have not come across that.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
No.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Well, I wondered if I should have taken tiptappings and keep,
you know, kissing going that way.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I know what you mean. Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
I really disapporting, because I will lovely and and I've
gone back from one but the green and white one
had a beautiful pale pink flayer and the other one
had an orange one, and never both gone back to
the orange flayer and just playing green.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They're reverting and I think your your idea of taking
cuttings from the still okay side of things might help
you get new ones.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
I'll have to go out and see if I've got
anything least.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, have a go with that. I wishing lots of
success with that. It can be hard, you know what, genetics.
Genetics suddenly changes and you go like, oh, what the
hell happened here?
Speaker 8 (13:16):
I know, I know. Yeah, anyway, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I'm perplexed by this. What is wire weed? In the law?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Wire weed is one of the one of the weed. Yeah,
one of those weeds. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I'm guessing it looks like a wire Well.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's it's very thin, Yeah, you got it. But it's
one of those things got weeds. Weeds in itself basically
is a PhD.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Gosh, there's so much of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Well, is it also that weed is just a plant
in the wrong place?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yes, absolutely so.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I totally agree with there's no hierarchy in the plant world.
It's just we don't like them, and so we've called them.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
All introduced species in our gardens.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I'm deeply can make a comedy about sustainability there. But
I'm going to hold I'm gonna hold on. Hey, John,
talk to me about your melons.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Yeah, Hi, we've got an ivy fence. It's an ivy
that's grown over our fence, and there's several different types
of ivy in it. I mean, I don't know much
about ivans, but there's several tops. Now, there's some fruit
just developed the sea. I've never seen it before, but
it looks like a sort of a passion free to something.
(14:39):
There's three fruits hanging off each stalk, and I can
see two of them, and they are a light mauve,
sort of purplish color. In the immature one that's hanging there,
there's three fruits in each one, and the immature one
is green, a light green color, and they're split open
(15:02):
and inside it's white flesh with black seed. You got
no idea what it is.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Oh, Initially I thought you might be talking about aubergines
that got away, but maybe it's not.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Easy.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
You know, they're not obergines. And the interesting thing, yeah,
go on, Sorry, The interesting thing is the lady that
planted the vine. She's no longer with us, but she
planted them quite some time ago she was telling me
how she bought some plants and from overseas and planted
them in the hedge as well. I've got no idea
(15:40):
what they are. I've never seen them before. And I've
asked a guy who has to do with the spraying
noxious weeds, and he said that a lot of those
kinds of fruits, you got to watch it because the poisonous.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yes. I was just thinking, you know that some people
use those to feed the caterpillars of them onic butterfly.
I've always forget the thing of that thing, and it's
one of those things that literally is a vigorous climber
and an incredible pest. And it's just the name has
just escaped me, to be quite honest.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It's not a moth plant, is it?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
That's the one? The moth plant?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
When it opens, does it have fluffy stuff inside?
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I haven't seen a fresh just a lot of white stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
If it is moth plant, that stuff awful, It's awful.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah. That's why I.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Have to say I may have taken some screturs to
some public space and dealt with that myself.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
The other day.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I just get so furious when I see that stuff around.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
It's awful.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Remember doing that in Avendale when I still lived there.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah, I keep driving past it looking at all this
withered vine hanging in the tree and I'm like, Oh,
I don't worry, It'll a little drop to the ground.
It'll be fine. But yeah, anyway.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
But John, to be quite honest, it might pay for
you to to identify what this thing is. And we've
used this term before. Eye naturalist is something you can
put on your phone and you'll learn very quickly how
to take good photos off that particular thing, or one
photo if you like, close up not far away, especially
with bugs burg and closest case. You get and put
(17:17):
it on a naturalist and you will get a name
for that thing or a possible name for that thing,
and then you can google it up and if it's
moth plant, Peter is absolutely right. It is their biggest
bugger in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
The great thing is. And this is sort of coming
out of the sort of community action around it as
there's actually you know, social media groups and so on.
People are going, look, we'll if we identify it, we'll
post where it is. Volunteers will go out and tackle it.
You know, we'll collect the fruit and dispose of that,
and the rubbish, not putting it into composts and not
let it seed and so on, and slowly people will
(17:50):
get on top of it. But cruk, it's a lot
of weork.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
It certainly is. It's a motor typle. They are harvesting
like fifty thousand kilos each year. No, no, I mean
it's in there in the newsletter. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
You know how we've you know, on our way to
Wingspan at the beginning in January. So we went down
to Toron and we drove through the coloring of gorge
and the thing that struck me there was the privot.
It was in full blot and it was just everywhere,
and I'm thinking, what just it was heartbreaking to be fair,
do something with it. Yeah, I know, just so much
of it. You know, I'm guessing that people have actually
(18:28):
planted it. It kind of been all self seeded.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Oh that'll make a nice hite. Yeah, not a great idea.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Now it doesn't work for a long time.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Lovely to talk to you. Let's do it again next Sunday, folks.
Thanks for your company. It's been awesome. Take care. We'll
be back with you on Sunday.
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Speaker 2 (00:18):
That's a bit flash. There's there's music in the Still
shop prelim as well there at climb Pass. Good morning sir,
Good morning Peter.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
They should have music in there because all their products
work like music. But I understand, I'm not.
Speaker 2 (00:31):
Kidding, you're that's absolutely true.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
I've been I've been a mate of Jason Vlife for
like decades and it's always the same. It's brilliant.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Yeah, fantastic. You're good.
Speaker 3 (00:43):
Yeah, I'm good, Thank you. I am, I'm pretty good.
I've got a little bit of news for your darling
for Debby that on March the eighth, which is Saturday, Yes,
and there will be an Enviro hubay of Plenty Sustainable
Backyard Month. I hate sustainable, the words sustainable. I know,
I know.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
But if I ask you how's.
Speaker 3 (01:02):
Your relationship with deb and your answer sustainable, well, what
would you substitute?
Speaker 4 (01:09):
Ify?
Speaker 2 (01:09):
And then lisleave the relationship part out of it. But
I mean, in terms of the environment, right, what we're
looking to do is to have, you know, to recognize
that what we do has an impact, right, so we
want our environment to be sustained in what would you say?
I'm happy to swap terminology. You just tell me what
you'd like me to say.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
I don't actually know what would write good, but it
is about it is really about being. It's like the
word conservation and restoration and rehabilitation. Idly do things than yeah, yeah,
I mean anyway, it's just it's just my language. What
I was going to say, Go, there's a reptor festival
(01:48):
at Winkspan this come say today from nine till two
thirty ten bucks entry. I mean, honestly, you can't get
cheaper than that, and it's going to be absolutely brilliant,
the celebration of the whole thing, learning about the native hunters,
that sort of stuff. And honestly, I wish I could
go there because I'd be there and the hard beat.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Yeah, it'd be awesome on it, just like that, fantastic.
And Nica, after we've been in and had wander around,
sent me a couple of tickets and actually I've just
sit an email from someone going I'm going with my grandkids,
and so I've sent the tickets on to them, So
that'll be fantastic.
Speaker 3 (02:24):
Yeah, that's I think we can do that actually with
callers as well. I'm hurrican mind and and we'll just
we'll just hand over their numbers and their details from
where we go.
Speaker 2 (02:33):
Let's do that, right, let's get amongst it. Michael A
very good morning, Good.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
Morning, real question about whats I'm good at? Killing them
in the nest? Should I leave the nest up or
remove the nest? And the second part of the question is, sorry.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
Yeah, the question. First of all, I have what wasps
are you talking about? We've got one, two, three, or
five six different species?
Speaker 4 (03:00):
Pretty sure papers are the way we go typically up
underneath gathers, et cetera.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 5 (03:09):
Yeah exactly.
Speaker 4 (03:10):
And then how do I stop them coming back? Because
it's like playing wetamole. We've got quite an old property.
Speaker 3 (03:18):
So yeah, yeah, I got the same hussles. Of course.
It's and everybody who's got a bit of paper was
knows exactly how this works. Your trick, you know, the
trick of going at night with a torch and and
and a plastic bag and a sharp Stanley knife and
cut the bugger off and drop it straight into the
in the dark, straight into the bag and then chuck
(03:40):
the bag with the by then very shitty wasps into
the freezer for overnight, and then it'll do them. I
know that they might come back, but not at the
same place. Usually once that colony is gone, there will go.
You know. That's it, but it is. It is the
only way to go, really, unless you want to go
(04:01):
and use for besticides. I suppose.
Speaker 4 (04:04):
Well I have been using. Yeah, I written or flice
forrea at night. That seems to do pretty well.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
And the other thing so is we got some middle
pipes around an old racetrack that they're now starting to
put nets into those. So oh really it makes the
bagging option a bit hard.
Speaker 3 (04:24):
Yeah, obviously I can imagine, all right, But again it's
the idea of not to get done by them and
do it in the in the evenings at night or
when they're asleep, and you know you've got at least
twenty seconds to do your job.
Speaker 5 (04:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:40):
Luckily they didn't never come after me once you hit
them with either the peripher or the flights by. They
said to be worried about other things, so.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
That I noticed. That's so good. But the person who
holds the torch is usually the next target.
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Well, I've tended to do it just after dust, so
I can still see what's going on, and I normally
know where the nest is because I found that during
the day. So yeah, my targeting has been pretty good
so far. And I've got quite a long you know,
like a two mile lump on a bad expert.
Speaker 3 (05:10):
So oh good.
Speaker 4 (05:11):
Yeah, yeahs to deal with them pretty quick.
Speaker 3 (05:13):
Yeah, distance is important. You're absolutely right there, Michael, So.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
So should so once it's all done, I normally wait
a couple of days because the other thing I've noticed
is there's often some white stuff in there, and often
some what's will still come out.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Sure, I'll take the miss down after that month or two,
because I had noticed.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Immediately, immediately immediately, because that's where the young ones come
out with. The white thing is the silk that holds
the container where the young one is actually developing. And
the best thing to do is to literally, as I said,
chuck it in the plastic bag in the freezer. Cost
you nothing, just in the freezer for twenty four hours. Gone,
(05:51):
everything right, okay, easy, yeah, awesome, done.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
All the very good luck for the mate. Take care ceiling.
Bye bye Ian, Good morning.
Speaker 6 (06:03):
Yeah, good morning at see and how are you.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Hey, We're good mate, Okay.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Tr Mudu area out in the country raspberries and looking
to try and get bigger berries.
Speaker 7 (06:17):
The canes are about one point a high now, and
I started them off with Dalton's pack and nex or
whatever you call it. Thought sorry mulch and necks and
some other fertilizer on it. But I'm just wondering if
I should be adding more in their potash.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Yeah. The thing with these berries is, and it's working
quite well in my little berry cage, is to give
it a high K high potash fertilizer. It could be
a roast fertilizer, it could be you know, any fruit
or flowering fertilizer usually has more potaste than the N
(07:02):
and the P. And that's basically the way to go.
And of course the prune later. It's from now on,
I suppose, when these things are starting to to grow up.
The pruning is, of course, you leave three if you like,
or four of the canes of the of the new
wood standing and the old stuff can go click click
click gone. Yeah from now on.
Speaker 6 (07:23):
Yeah, yeah, so I used I've tried some of the
blue tomato fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (07:31):
I'm lud for what that is nitrofosca blue or something
like that. Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, that works. Yeah. But
you know what is what is a really good trick though,
And I must say, and it's probably the best thing.
Even if you have a general fertilizer like nitrofosca and something,
you get a handful of sulfate of potash and chuck
that with it. Water it in or it waters when
(07:54):
it when it rains, I suppose otherwise, water it in
and that stimulates the plants in making more and more
buds for for fruit.
Speaker 6 (08:04):
Okay, excellent, appreciate.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
Your help, no worries.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
Go well, all the very best to you. Thank you.
Ian to take care critics, Doris Plumtree had zero fruit.
Any ideas as to why from Mike.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
Could be a number of things. First of all, if
you know quite often you have you need a pollinator,
so you need two different varieties that make one of
and both plants actually get pollinated properly, and that it
sometimes one of those trees could die, you know, and
then you've got one left, and it might pay to
(08:40):
have another variety next to it does that make sense?
That's number one. The second thing it could be, indeed,
a lack of potash what I just talked about, which
actually makes the plant or the tree create far more fruit.
It seems like that. Yeah, those are It depends exactly
on what the history is of the gig, which is
(09:02):
why texting is sometimes a bit difficult because I'm asking
all these questions, yeah, and nobody's giving me an answer.
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Maybe the Knicks text is a bit easier. Good morning.
All my tomato plants have a grub in the stems
which has killed the plant. Help in capital letters from John?
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, yeah, I saw that, John. What's a grub in
the stems? I don't know, in the stems? No, I
don't know. I have to look at that. This is
the point, somebody said to me, you know, I mean,
you're not always I'm not always able to identify things,
or I'm not always to give an answer. The point
is that we're twelve hundred different species of caterpillar.
Speaker 2 (09:40):
Yeah yeah, sure, yeah, and having a vision on these
snatches variety might overwhelm us sometimes.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, fantastic. We'll talk to Ron before the break. Hello, Ron, Hey,
good morning, roll.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
Good morning. Is it too late to plant broad beans? No?
Speaker 3 (10:02):
I think you can do that. Where are you, Christ, Shirch,
I'm marry he across you. I see you can do it, mate,
I did it two weeks ago. Fine, go for it now, honestly,
because if you do it, If you do it now,
you'll find that you will have you might even have
broad beans before it gets winter. If not, you'll be
the first one in very very early spring or late
(10:25):
winter to have your broad beans going just like that.
Speaker 5 (10:29):
Yeah, I've got plenty of bumblebeeting realni.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Yeah? Good? Isn't that That's exactly the ones you need
for pollination? You got it? Yeah, yep, go for it.
Speaker 5 (10:38):
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
All right mate, all of this take care. We'll take
a short break. We'll be back with Shirley in just
the moment.
Speaker 1 (10:44):
We're helping you get those DIY projects done.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
Right to the resident.
Speaker 1 (10:48):
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Speaker 2 (10:53):
Coming up eleven minutes away from nine o'clock. Shirley, good
morning to you. There we go, got it? Hey, Shelly.
Speaker 8 (11:03):
Ruth, can you help me ask her to lovely irrigated geraniums,
and over the last years, I've reverted back to just
the plain green leaf.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
They so they have changed from the original color to
this very agent.
Speaker 4 (11:29):
Yeah yeah, one.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
With one with green was was white and the other
one with a lovely burgundy with a lime and the
yellow edging. And they've both gone back just the plain
green lots of growth. And I've got another little one
with a leaf like a maple tree autumn colors, and
(11:53):
it's beautiful it it hasn't changed.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
They see. Sometimes these things go bettery, revert back, you
know what I mean, They revert back to the base
status quo of your like I have. I don't know
if you can do anything about that, to be quite honest,
and if so, I wouldn't. I certainly don't. I certainly
have not come across that.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
No.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
Well, I wondered if I should have taken tiptappings and keep,
you know, kissing going that way.
Speaker 3 (12:25):
I know what you mean. Yes, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (12:29):
I really disapporting, because I will lovely and and I've
gone back from one but the green and white one
had a beautiful pale pink flayer and the other one
had an orange one, and never both gone back to
the orange flayer and just playing green.
Speaker 3 (12:51):
They're reverting and I think your your idea of taking
cuttings from the still okay side of things might help
you get new ones.
Speaker 8 (13:01):
I'll have to go out and see if I've got
anything least.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
Yeah, have a go with that. I wishing lots of
success with that. It can be hard, you know what, genetics.
Genetics suddenly changes and you go like, oh, what the
hell happened here?
Speaker 8 (13:16):
I know, I know. Yeah, anyway, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
I'm perplexed by this. What is wire weed? In the law?
Speaker 3 (13:28):
Wire weed is one of the one of the weed. Yeah,
one of those weeds. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (13:32):
I'm guessing it looks like a wire Well.
Speaker 3 (13:35):
It's it's very thin, Yeah, you got it. But it's
one of those things got weeds. Weeds in itself basically
is a PhD.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
You know that.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
Gosh, there's so much of that stuff.
Speaker 2 (13:47):
Well, is it also that weed is just a plant
in the wrong place?
Speaker 3 (13:50):
Yes, absolutely so.
Speaker 2 (13:53):
I totally agree with there's no hierarchy in the plant world.
It's just we don't like them, and so we've called them.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
All introduced species in our gardens.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
I'm deeply can make a comedy about sustainability there. But
I'm going to hold I'm gonna hold on. Hey, John,
talk to me about your melons.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Yeah, Hi, we've got an ivy fence. It's an ivy
that's grown over our fence, and there's several different types
of ivy in it. I mean, I don't know much
about ivans, but there's several tops. Now, there's some fruit
just developed the sea. I've never seen it before, but
it looks like a sort of a passion free to something.
(14:39):
There's three fruits hanging off each stalk, and I can
see two of them, and they are a light mauve,
sort of purplish color. In the immature one that's hanging there,
there's three fruits in each one, and the immature one
is green, a light green color, and they're split open
(15:02):
and inside it's white flesh with black seed. You got
no idea what it is.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Oh, Initially I thought you might be talking about aubergines
that got away, but maybe it's not.
Speaker 1 (15:16):
Easy.
Speaker 5 (15:17):
You know, they're not obergines. And the interesting thing, yeah,
go on, Sorry, The interesting thing is the lady that
planted the vine. She's no longer with us, but she
planted them quite some time ago she was telling me
how she bought some plants and from overseas and planted
them in the hedge as well. I've got no idea
(15:40):
what they are. I've never seen them before. And I've
asked a guy who has to do with the spraying
noxious weeds, and he said that a lot of those
kinds of fruits, you got to watch it because the poisonous.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yes. I was just thinking, you know that some people
use those to feed the caterpillars of them onic butterfly.
I've always forget the thing of that thing, and it's
one of those things that literally is a vigorous climber
and an incredible pest. And it's just the name has
just escaped me, to be quite honest.
Speaker 2 (16:11):
It's not a moth plant, is it?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
That's the one? The moth plant?
Speaker 5 (16:14):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
When it opens, does it have fluffy stuff inside?
Speaker 5 (16:19):
I haven't seen a fresh just a lot of white stuff. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (16:25):
If it is moth plant, that stuff awful, It's awful.
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Yeah. That's why I.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Have to say I may have taken some screturs to
some public space and dealt with that myself.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
The other day.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I just get so furious when I see that stuff around.
Speaker 4 (16:40):
It's awful.
Speaker 3 (16:41):
Remember doing that in Avendale when I still lived there.
Speaker 2 (16:44):
Yeah, I keep driving past it looking at all this
withered vine hanging in the tree and I'm like, Oh,
I don't worry, It'll a little drop to the ground.
It'll be fine. But yeah, anyway.
Speaker 3 (16:54):
But John, to be quite honest, it might pay for
you to to identify what this thing is. And we've
used this term before. Eye naturalist is something you can
put on your phone and you'll learn very quickly how
to take good photos off that particular thing, or one
photo if you like, close up not far away, especially
with bugs burg and closest case. You get and put
(17:17):
it on a naturalist and you will get a name
for that thing or a possible name for that thing,
and then you can google it up and if it's
moth plant, Peter is absolutely right. It is their biggest
bugger in the world.
Speaker 2 (17:29):
The great thing is. And this is sort of coming
out of the sort of community action around it as
there's actually you know, social media groups and so on.
People are going, look, we'll if we identify it, we'll
post where it is. Volunteers will go out and tackle it.
You know, we'll collect the fruit and dispose of that,
and the rubbish, not putting it into composts and not
let it seed and so on, and slowly people will
(17:50):
get on top of it. But cruk, it's a lot
of weork.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
It certainly is. It's a motor typle. They are harvesting
like fifty thousand kilos each year. No, no, I mean
it's in there in the newsletter. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:05):
You know how we've you know, on our way to
Wingspan at the beginning in January. So we went down
to Toron and we drove through the coloring of gorge
and the thing that struck me there was the privot.
It was in full blot and it was just everywhere,
and I'm thinking, what just it was heartbreaking to be fair,
do something with it. Yeah, I know, just so much
of it. You know, I'm guessing that people have actually
(18:28):
planted it. It kind of been all self seeded.
Speaker 3 (18:30):
You know.
Speaker 2 (18:31):
Oh that'll make a nice hite. Yeah, not a great idea.
Speaker 3 (18:35):
Now it doesn't work for a long time.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Lovely to talk to you. Let's do it again next Sunday, folks.
Thanks for your company. It's been awesome. Take care. We'll
be back with you on Sunday.
Speaker 1 (18:43):
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