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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp.
From News talks at gardening with steel shaft free autumn
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
We're into the garden rud climb past. A very good morning, sir, A.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good morning on this wonderfully weird sunday. Weird. Have you
noticed how many you've had some really strange cal Julie.
I was sitting in bed, going, oh god, this is funny.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Anyway, this is a day. That's right. It's not even
a full moon, is it?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
No, No, it isn't it is it. It's just it's
actually quite lovely. It's lovely, everything goes everywhere.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh look it is. It's one of those scatological days. Yes, right, watch,
well I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
First of all, tell people if they want to call.
Oh wait, und listen. This is ridiculous. This is a
brilliant story. There was this little homing a little quite
a large homing pigeon that decided to make its house
on my front lawn. Oh really, yes. And it had
two bands, one on the left and one on the right,
(01:18):
and the right bend had an O mu Cold twenty
twenty four, number forty eight. Now I've been literally for
the last week. It's been with us for a week.
I've been trying to find out who this is or
what this is. On the on the rond side, left
(01:38):
in side is a black tag. So as soon as
you start looking at tags on these legs of pigeons,
you get DOC. And DOC doesn't do homing pigeons. It
does normal bending, you know what I mean. So then
I thought, you know what I should do. I've got
this mate of mine, Peter Reesy's a wonderful old mentor
of mine. I might take that pigeon and take it
(02:00):
to his place in the old folks home where he lives.
And then, because I should pick it, I didn't dare
to do it because I would get into trouble.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, living with a homing pigeon.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, but here you go. Guess what. But if you
would do it, it would fly straight back to my place.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I was going to say, as a homing pigeon, it's
kind of failed the essential part of being a homing pigeon,
isn't it, And that it didn't get back home exactly.
So I did not win any races, no, exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So I took it down the quarry about half a
kilometer three three hours later, wing was back. It can hurt,
it's not in a good condition, but it can fly.
But it's not like a whoopede do But.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
No, I'm just phenomenal, aren't they?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Thelieving you know?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And I know, like we had family back in the
Netherlands who would would have pigeons and they would, you know,
they'd go off down to Belgium and then they'd release
the pigeon there and then the pigeon would turn up
back and hey, nobuddy, you know six seven hours later
or something like that. Look, it's a fantastic sport. But
you're one perhaps retirement time.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I think it's well past the time.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
This homing ability has been somewhat reduced.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, So that was my story of this week. And
I reckon it. Whatever I do, it will come back
to my place. Because initially I gave it a little
bit of wheat so I could you can catch it,
you can walk to it, pick it up, so unbelievable.
So I caught it and took photos and thought, this
is going to be funny.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
But truly in New Zealand is like a homing pigeon
register online or something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I've been looking for that and it shows you some
pictures of you know, and it is a bit like that.
And my band color is is what is it black
on the left and whatever it is on the right
I've forgotten. But it doesn't tell me who O n
you is? What the what the code as anybody someone's listening.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Then we know where your pigeon is.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, but also we know where you where you where
it should be the moment.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You all right, that's frivolous. A very good morning, Matt.
How are you?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Oh good?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Thank you go for itth.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Mandarin truth Mandarin. Yeah, yeah, what's a good time of
the year the planet? Mendering tree here?
Speaker 6 (04:28):
What kind of source so I put into hang on?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You want to plant it at this time? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:35):
It's the what time the year?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
The planet like an easy peel mendorin true?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Absolutely coming onto autumn, yes, because you know that after
after you got into autumn, you get a regular thank
you here we go. Yeah, no, no, it's a good
time to do it now. And the nice thing is
to give it a nice soil if you like that.
It's very flexible and very full of organic material, but
(05:03):
also slightly higher than the landscape in which you planted,
let's say in your garden. If you make it so
that it is slightly above the level of your garden,
you'll find that even when it rains too hard and
you've made a large hole for the tree, if you like,
it won't drown, so to speak, because if you've got
(05:23):
a drowning tree, it gets all sorts of troubles with
its roots, and you would get root rots and so
on and so forth. So slightly higher up raised with
a couple of bricks or whatever, you know what I.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Mean, Good luck with that, Matt. I'm sort of holding off.
I've got a little project where I have to do
quite a bit of planting, but I'm holding off because
I think the ground is so incredibly dry and we're
still not getting reliable rainfall in Auckland. Am I right
in holding off?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Like?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I think it's you know, approach to do that?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yes, I would do that now, because if it's really dry,
you need to do the hand washing the whole time. No,
not a good idea. So absolutely wait for a couple
of weeks and as soon as you get a bit
more regular rain you can start doing it. But again,
be aware not to drown it.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Right, because I mean, look, I think all of us
in the north are incredibly think. We haven't had a
lot of rain, but even just getting a little bit
of rain during this week allowed the tanks to fill
up a bit, which is great. And it's but look,
you know, mowed the lawns yesterday. It's still dry as dust, you.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Know, yes it is. Actually it's not too bad where
we are. We've had quite a bit of rain over
the last week or so ago, so it's okay. And
my lawn, for the first time, is actually green. It's
been most most of the time.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And ours is still pretty miserable. To be fair. Someone
has asked, could you please mention that number again? My
sister in law is involved with the pigeon racing committees
and could possibly help you. So what's the band number
on your some word wayward homing pigeon.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's it's on the right hand side. That's the only
one that has some numbers on. It is oh m
you so neat not o mat but oh moo, yeah,
oh moo, so o m you number forty eight and
it's two and twenty four solds last year's bird.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
True too, Okay, yeah, brilliant. Thank you very much, right Graham,
good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Hello. Yeah, rude an extension of a question I've asked
you before. I've got swan plants under under knitting, and
it's having a reasonable I picked against those mongol paper wasps,
but the the aphors that I used the neme oil
on the plants have got a whole pile of sticky
stuffers the same as this sort of looks like the
stuff you get on the beach forest, beech tree.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
It is the same stuff that it might be.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Now if I if I hammer the kneme oil a
little bit more the monarch.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Groves, have you got caterpillars there?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Now what I would do now is do the digital
control of the fits? Do what digital control?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
I haven't got enough fingers.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
You only need to, yeah, a four fingers and a
thumb now. But the point is you you literally you
literally scrape them off with your finger gently, not try
not to damage the plant, of course, but not Honestly,
you will get a lot less of those a fits
and it is a lot quicker that way. And I
would not muck around with too much neme. I think
(08:37):
neme is okay for caterpillars. But you never know. If
it's slightly too heavy, you know what I mean, it
would go get negative.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
They make a comment on the knee more container that
it may affect you know something or rather, so I
was a bit consumed about that. Okay, So I'm just
going to cross the fingers.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
And cross opposite opposite thumb and fore fingers opposite. Then
you squashed them very gently or you go zip over
the top. They'll it's I love doing that. And in indeed,
that sticky stuff is literally edible. Pool.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Yes, I've seen other wasps can get into this and
closure of mine, which the packer wasps can't. And they
those little, those more ordinary little wasps they get in there.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, that's right, they will. They will use that absolutely
good stuff.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Well that gives me an idea. And I've just got
to cross my fingers and hope no, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'll get the Thanks.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Graham, Graham.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Hey, there's a text for you, mate. You can do
this during the break rod tell rud to report the
lost pigeons. Buy email to Edmund dot manager at p
r n Z dot org dot nz. So anyone that
happens to find a stray pigeon. Then that's that's the
way to go.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Uh. There you go our n Z dot org dot
n Z manager at yep.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You can see the text thing.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
No, I can't hang on. No, oh I can't. Okay, funny,
that's see the others.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I'll send you the details.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, okay, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
We're gonna take a break. If you'd like to talk
to Ruth, you should call us right now. We've only
got him for another fifteen minutes. Eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number to call. God was but
maybe called Pete first video work. The resident builder news
Talk said, be your news talk s b right the
lines of let up Jason are very very good morning
to you.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Oh good morning. I was wondering if some red would
be able to tell me how I could find wetters again.
He told me about a year ago. I was living
at over near the zoo and Auckland, and I was
going through the park and he said to tear back
to the bark and blow on it, and I did that.
I can't get him now, Massy, and I was wondering
(10:54):
if he could retell me how.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
To do it well.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
In the Auckland region, there will be wetter in many
different places, and it could be on all sorts of plants,
all sorts of trees, also of hosts. What I would
do is I would go, what do you want? What
do you want to keep one as a pet or something?
Or do you want to ever look at them?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
I want?
Speaker 7 (11:15):
I have seen them in years?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Just okay, all right, Well, I used to live in
in west Auckland, you know, Tityrungi and Langhaman places. I
would go out at night with a torch and if
you are very gentle with the torch, you know, you
can actually see them crawling around at night. It is
very night at Yeah, they're nocturnal during the During the day,
(11:39):
they hide in holes. Do you do you know the
little holes that are made by poor moths. No, I
don't believe you did tell me that.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
You did tell me to peel back the back and
just blowing it.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, yeah, sometimes you yeah, you can do that. But
basically imagine that you make yourself that you find yourself
a little hole maybe off centimeter centimeter and a half
in diameter, and that is going to be their entrance hole.
That's where they are. So if you see holes like that,
just just have a look inside with the torch and
do it at night. You'll probably find you've got a
(12:14):
much more result at night. Yeah, yeah, because they come
out at night. Yeah, absolutely, Okay, cool, cool, Oh Jason,
it's a wonderful thing to do.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
You go on yeah, yeah, yeah, and just blow on there.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You can blow on there, but you can also you
don't have to blow. You can just leave it as
it is. Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Say what's the blowing thing to Well, the blowing.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Thing is actually makes them. You see them move. It's
all because if they sits so the moment you've got
your carbon dioxide going out of your mouth and into
the into their place that they live, they go, oh
I'm getting done or something, you know, and I'm now
yeah that's right. Yeah, awesome. Good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Good luck with you fosking around looking for witters. I
typically find them when I don't want to find them.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Oh, to be fair.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
As a kid, I remember waking up one time, you know,
as a kid, we hit trees outside the window and
the window was open. I woke up and it was
on my chest, you know, sitting near having to wander around.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
It was frightening.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
To be fair, as a kid, right, Donald, greeting to you.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
I wonder if it's the right time to plant then
and parsley please.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yes you can. Actually both of them partially would work
as well. Just take it, put it in a place
where it's not too cold, you know, where you don't
get in through a major frost in the wintertime. But yes,
you can plant them. Still, no problem, and that'll be
right in pods if you want to, yep, yep. Give
them a bit of fertilizer every know, and then a
(13:45):
bit of water, not too much, don't over water. But
if you go, no problem. Yep.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
All the best your Donald on that one. That's awesome. Hey,
butch good morning, oh good morning.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Hey, look, thank you for taking my call. I've got
a got given a beaty pod and said it all
up put what I thought that it was the right
mix of soil and the really planted some spints, some
silver beet, some cost lettuce, some chilies and capsicum in
the first three weeks, four weeks fantastic. But at the
moment now all the leaves of wiltered and turning yellow.
(14:17):
The only things that are going well are the chilies
and the capsicum.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
So so you chilies and capsicums are still going all right.
They're usually quite hardy plants, even in my tunnel house.
But the others, the others turning up their toes.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yes, quite quite a letdown. They started out fantastic. The
spinach is sort of curling up and turning yellow. The
silver beat leaves just aren't going dark green. And the
cost lettuce was started out well but ended up browning
in the middle, and the leaves were quite bitter, the
ones that we were able to eat.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Tell me, is it you're talking about one of those
one of those almost like a miniature version of a
glasshouse but then made for materials.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yeah, it's a figgy pot. It's met by one meter,
and but it's got a kite like a gauze cover
over the top of it. Sure.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Sure. Has it been in too much sunlight? Has it
been too hot? Too cold? You know the difference between
hot and cold. If you've got it in full sunlight,
you could and it's in your just late you were
you know, it's no autumn, but in late summer it
could have been quite hot at some stage. That could
be one of the things.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Oh, yeah, it's been in full sunlight. And the to wheels,
which is great because we can move it around.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Move it into a slightly more more more sheltered thing
in the heat of the day. Later on, in a
couple of weeks time, when autumn is really starting, you
might find it's not a problem anymore. Second question, I
have you said you put it in good soil?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
What was that made of?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Look, when it came at there was a there was
like a recommendation and it was a mix of some
pear light, some feet of composts, and then pretty much
too s vegy garden mix.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah, I got it. Okay, Oh, that's a lot of
different things. You know, when you look at a garden outside,
not in your if your like thing, it's usually soil
and that means organic material, but also literally mineral soil
that means like dirt as they call it. I love
that word dirt anyway, So it feels very complex what
(16:32):
you've put in there. Can you not just use top
soil with a bit of organic material. You'll find that
that would work. Well.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Yeah, I love a lifestyle block out west and the
soil is not the greatest, to be honest, I know
quite quite a bit of clay.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, well I was not at the moment. I was
not too far from you and Lango and Titungy obviously, yes,
and there was always a pain in the bum, but
you needed the organic material to make the soil a
lot more useful or used by the roots itself to
get down into it.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
It.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
But but with the per light that is basically not soil,
that's actually something that drains the soil if you like.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yeah, I think it works on a working system. You
know the Veggi pod that I understand, water sort of
accumulates in the in the bottom pans. Some say and
and the and the merchany down to it.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Could it have been too much watering?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Oh yeah, I think we might have. You know, it's
got a great spray system. You're just plug in the
hose and turn it on and gives it a good
spray of water. And I think maybe it might have
been overwatering.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah, if you leave it on for three days. No,
you know what I mean. Taking the mickey, I don't
need to, but that's that could be one of them,
so be aware of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Overwording, which it seems hard to do at this time
of year, But I'm sure, yeah, hey Botch, good luck
with that and I hope they revive themselves. And last
call this morning, Janine, Janae, Hey there, hi, Hi, I just.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I just wanted to talk about the caterpillars on bressicas,
you know, the broccolis and colleaues and things. Do you
just have to coat them and dearest dust to keep
them away?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Like what the how do you.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Were just like we had broccoli the other day, head
over thirty caterpillars in the head of Oh no, it's.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Too much, No, not too much, it is. I just
couldn't take the best What the best thing I would
do is initially I would take them out by hand,
take them as much as you can, you know, pull
them out. You know what they look like. They're actually
once you got your eye and it's quite easy to find. Otherwise,
try some of the Yates products like you know that
(18:50):
that that work on caterpillars, and they don't have to
be dearis dust. Deist dust is actually called organic, but
it's a bit it's a lot of bit dodgy, yet
a bit of dodgy.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Good luck with it, Jenny and all the very busy
and thank you again for your contribution and thank you
for OMU forty eight.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Thank you. I'm going to ring that person up. That's good.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Look luck.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
We'll catch up with the rid next week. We'll catch
up with you next week. Have a great week, Take
care For.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
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Speaker 2 (00:17):
We're into the garden rud climb past. A very good morning, sir, A.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good morning on this wonderfully weird sunday. Weird. Have you
noticed how many you've had some really strange cal Julie.
I was sitting in bed, going, oh god, this is funny.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Anyway, this is a day. That's right. It's not even
a full moon, is it?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
No, No, it isn't it is it. It's just it's
actually quite lovely. It's lovely, everything goes everywhere.
Speaker 2 (00:47):
Oh look it is. It's one of those scatological days. Yes, right, watch,
well I'll tell you what.
Speaker 3 (00:57):
First of all, tell people if they want to call.
Oh wait, und listen. This is ridiculous. This is a
brilliant story. There was this little homing a little quite
a large homing pigeon that decided to make its house
on my front lawn. Oh really, yes. And it had
two bands, one on the left and one on the right,
(01:18):
and the right bend had an O mu Cold twenty
twenty four, number forty eight. Now I've been literally for
the last week. It's been with us for a week.
I've been trying to find out who this is or
what this is. On the on the rond side, left
(01:38):
in side is a black tag. So as soon as
you start looking at tags on these legs of pigeons,
you get DOC. And DOC doesn't do homing pigeons. It
does normal bending, you know what I mean. So then
I thought, you know what I should do. I've got
this mate of mine, Peter Reesy's a wonderful old mentor
of mine. I might take that pigeon and take it
(02:00):
to his place in the old folks home where he lives.
And then, because I should pick it, I didn't dare
to do it because I would get into trouble.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Yeah, living with a homing pigeon.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
Yeah, but here you go. Guess what. But if you
would do it, it would fly straight back to my place.
Speaker 2 (02:21):
I was going to say, as a homing pigeon, it's
kind of failed the essential part of being a homing pigeon,
isn't it, And that it didn't get back home exactly.
So I did not win any races, no, exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:33):
So I took it down the quarry about half a
kilometer three three hours later, wing was back. It can hurt,
it's not in a good condition, but it can fly.
But it's not like a whoopede do But.
Speaker 2 (02:47):
No, I'm just phenomenal, aren't they?
Speaker 3 (02:49):
Thelieving you know?
Speaker 2 (02:50):
And I know, like we had family back in the
Netherlands who would would have pigeons and they would, you know,
they'd go off down to Belgium and then they'd release
the pigeon there and then the pigeon would turn up
back and hey, nobuddy, you know six seven hours later
or something like that. Look, it's a fantastic sport. But
you're one perhaps retirement time.
Speaker 3 (03:11):
I think it's well past the time.
Speaker 2 (03:12):
This homing ability has been somewhat reduced.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yeah, So that was my story of this week. And
I reckon it. Whatever I do, it will come back
to my place. Because initially I gave it a little
bit of wheat so I could you can catch it,
you can walk to it, pick it up, so unbelievable.
So I caught it and took photos and thought, this
is going to be funny.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
But truly in New Zealand is like a homing pigeon
register online or something like that.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
I've been looking for that and it shows you some
pictures of you know, and it is a bit like that.
And my band color is is what is it black
on the left and whatever it is on the right
I've forgotten. But it doesn't tell me who O n
you is? What the what the code as anybody someone's listening.
Speaker 2 (03:59):
Then we know where your pigeon is.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Yeah, but also we know where you where you where
it should be the moment.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
You all right, that's frivolous. A very good morning, Matt.
How are you?
Speaker 4 (04:14):
Oh good?
Speaker 5 (04:15):
Thank you go for itth.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Mandarin truth Mandarin. Yeah, yeah, what's a good time of
the year the planet? Mendering tree here?
Speaker 6 (04:28):
What kind of source so I put into hang on?
Speaker 3 (04:31):
You want to plant it at this time? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (04:35):
It's the what time the year?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
The planet like an easy peel mendorin true?
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Absolutely coming onto autumn, yes, because you know that after
after you got into autumn, you get a regular thank
you here we go. Yeah, no, no, it's a good
time to do it now. And the nice thing is
to give it a nice soil if you like that.
It's very flexible and very full of organic material, but
(05:03):
also slightly higher than the landscape in which you planted,
let's say in your garden. If you make it so
that it is slightly above the level of your garden,
you'll find that even when it rains too hard and
you've made a large hole for the tree, if you like,
it won't drown, so to speak, because if you've got
(05:23):
a drowning tree, it gets all sorts of troubles with
its roots, and you would get root rots and so
on and so forth. So slightly higher up raised with
a couple of bricks or whatever, you know what I.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Mean, Good luck with that, Matt. I'm sort of holding off.
I've got a little project where I have to do
quite a bit of planting, but I'm holding off because
I think the ground is so incredibly dry and we're
still not getting reliable rainfall in Auckland. Am I right
in holding off?
Speaker 5 (05:54):
Like?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
I think it's you know, approach to do that?
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yes, I would do that now, because if it's really dry,
you need to do the hand washing the whole time. No,
not a good idea. So absolutely wait for a couple
of weeks and as soon as you get a bit
more regular rain you can start doing it. But again,
be aware not to drown it.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
Right, because I mean, look, I think all of us
in the north are incredibly think. We haven't had a
lot of rain, but even just getting a little bit
of rain during this week allowed the tanks to fill
up a bit, which is great. And it's but look,
you know, mowed the lawns yesterday. It's still dry as dust, you.
Speaker 3 (06:30):
Know, yes it is. Actually it's not too bad where
we are. We've had quite a bit of rain over
the last week or so ago, so it's okay. And
my lawn, for the first time, is actually green. It's
been most most of the time.
Speaker 2 (06:44):
And ours is still pretty miserable. To be fair. Someone
has asked, could you please mention that number again? My
sister in law is involved with the pigeon racing committees
and could possibly help you. So what's the band number
on your some word wayward homing pigeon.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
It's it's on the right hand side. That's the only
one that has some numbers on. It is oh m
you so neat not o mat but oh moo, yeah,
oh moo, so o m you number forty eight and
it's two and twenty four solds last year's bird.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
True too, Okay, yeah, brilliant. Thank you very much, right Graham,
good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (07:25):
Hello. Yeah, rude an extension of a question I've asked
you before. I've got swan plants under under knitting, and
it's having a reasonable I picked against those mongol paper wasps,
but the the aphors that I used the neme oil
on the plants have got a whole pile of sticky
stuffers the same as this sort of looks like the
stuff you get on the beach forest, beech tree.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
It is the same stuff that it might be.
Speaker 6 (07:51):
Now if I if I hammer the kneme oil a
little bit more the monarch.
Speaker 3 (07:57):
Groves, have you got caterpillars there?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (08:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:02):
Now what I would do now is do the digital
control of the fits? Do what digital control?
Speaker 6 (08:12):
I haven't got enough fingers.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
You only need to, yeah, a four fingers and a
thumb now. But the point is you you literally you
literally scrape them off with your finger gently, not try
not to damage the plant, of course, but not Honestly,
you will get a lot less of those a fits
and it is a lot quicker that way. And I
would not muck around with too much neme. I think
(08:37):
neme is okay for caterpillars. But you never know. If
it's slightly too heavy, you know what I mean, it
would go get negative.
Speaker 6 (08:45):
They make a comment on the knee more container that
it may affect you know something or rather, so I
was a bit consumed about that. Okay, So I'm just
going to cross the fingers.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
And cross opposite opposite thumb and fore fingers opposite. Then
you squashed them very gently or you go zip over
the top. They'll it's I love doing that. And in indeed,
that sticky stuff is literally edible. Pool.
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Yes, I've seen other wasps can get into this and
closure of mine, which the packer wasps can't. And they
those little, those more ordinary little wasps they get in there.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah, that's right, they will. They will use that absolutely
good stuff.
Speaker 6 (09:28):
Well that gives me an idea. And I've just got
to cross my fingers and hope no, yeah, yeah, yeah,
I'll get the Thanks.
Speaker 5 (09:36):
Graham, Graham.
Speaker 2 (09:38):
Hey, there's a text for you, mate. You can do
this during the break rod tell rud to report the
lost pigeons. Buy email to Edmund dot manager at p
r n Z dot org dot nz. So anyone that
happens to find a stray pigeon. Then that's that's the
way to go.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Uh. There you go our n Z dot org dot
n Z manager at yep.
Speaker 2 (10:00):
You can see the text thing.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
No, I can't hang on. No, oh I can't. Okay, funny,
that's see the others.
Speaker 2 (10:09):
I'll send you the details.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
Yeah, okay, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
We're gonna take a break. If you'd like to talk
to Ruth, you should call us right now. We've only
got him for another fifteen minutes. Eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number to call. God was but
maybe called Pete first video work. The resident builder news
Talk said, be your news talk s b right the
lines of let up Jason are very very good morning
to you.
Speaker 7 (10:33):
Oh good morning. I was wondering if some red would
be able to tell me how I could find wetters again.
He told me about a year ago. I was living
at over near the zoo and Auckland, and I was
going through the park and he said to tear back
to the bark and blow on it, and I did that.
I can't get him now, Massy, and I was wondering
(10:54):
if he could retell me how.
Speaker 5 (10:56):
To do it well.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
In the Auckland region, there will be wetter in many
different places, and it could be on all sorts of plants,
all sorts of trees, also of hosts. What I would
do is I would go, what do you want? What
do you want to keep one as a pet or something?
Or do you want to ever look at them?
Speaker 5 (11:14):
I want?
Speaker 7 (11:15):
I have seen them in years?
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Just okay, all right, Well, I used to live in
in west Auckland, you know, Tityrungi and Langhaman places. I
would go out at night with a torch and if
you are very gentle with the torch, you know, you
can actually see them crawling around at night. It is
very night at Yeah, they're nocturnal during the During the day,
(11:39):
they hide in holes. Do you do you know the
little holes that are made by poor moths. No, I
don't believe you did tell me that.
Speaker 7 (11:49):
You did tell me to peel back the back and
just blowing it.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Yeah, yeah, sometimes you yeah, you can do that. But
basically imagine that you make yourself that you find yourself
a little hole maybe off centimeter centimeter and a half
in diameter, and that is going to be their entrance hole.
That's where they are. So if you see holes like that,
just just have a look inside with the torch and
do it at night. You'll probably find you've got a
(12:14):
much more result at night. Yeah, yeah, because they come
out at night. Yeah, absolutely, Okay, cool, cool, Oh Jason,
it's a wonderful thing to do.
Speaker 7 (12:24):
You go on yeah, yeah, yeah, and just blow on there.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
You can blow on there, but you can also you
don't have to blow. You can just leave it as
it is. Don't worry.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Say what's the blowing thing to Well, the blowing.
Speaker 3 (12:35):
Thing is actually makes them. You see them move. It's
all because if they sits so the moment you've got
your carbon dioxide going out of your mouth and into
the into their place that they live, they go, oh
I'm getting done or something, you know, and I'm now
yeah that's right. Yeah, awesome. Good luck with that.
Speaker 2 (12:51):
Good luck with you fosking around looking for witters. I
typically find them when I don't want to find them.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
Oh, to be fair.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
As a kid, I remember waking up one time, you know,
as a kid, we hit trees outside the window and
the window was open. I woke up and it was
on my chest, you know, sitting near having to wander around.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
It was frightening.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
To be fair, as a kid, right, Donald, greeting to you.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
Good morning.
Speaker 7 (13:19):
I wonder if it's the right time to plant then
and parsley please.
Speaker 3 (13:24):
Yes you can. Actually both of them partially would work
as well. Just take it, put it in a place
where it's not too cold, you know, where you don't
get in through a major frost in the wintertime. But yes,
you can plant them. Still, no problem, and that'll be
right in pods if you want to, yep, yep. Give
them a bit of fertilizer every know, and then a
(13:45):
bit of water, not too much, don't over water. But
if you go, no problem. Yep.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
All the best your Donald on that one. That's awesome. Hey,
butch good morning, oh good morning.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Hey, look, thank you for taking my call. I've got
a got given a beaty pod and said it all
up put what I thought that it was the right
mix of soil and the really planted some spints, some
silver beet, some cost lettuce, some chilies and capsicum in
the first three weeks, four weeks fantastic. But at the
moment now all the leaves of wiltered and turning yellow.
(14:17):
The only things that are going well are the chilies
and the capsicum.
Speaker 3 (14:20):
So so you chilies and capsicums are still going all right.
They're usually quite hardy plants, even in my tunnel house.
But the others, the others turning up their toes.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Yes, quite quite a letdown. They started out fantastic. The
spinach is sort of curling up and turning yellow. The
silver beat leaves just aren't going dark green. And the
cost lettuce was started out well but ended up browning
in the middle, and the leaves were quite bitter, the
ones that we were able to eat.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Tell me, is it you're talking about one of those
one of those almost like a miniature version of a
glasshouse but then made for materials.
Speaker 5 (15:02):
Yeah, it's a figgy pot. It's met by one meter,
and but it's got a kite like a gauze cover
over the top of it. Sure.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Sure. Has it been in too much sunlight? Has it
been too hot? Too cold? You know the difference between
hot and cold. If you've got it in full sunlight,
you could and it's in your just late you were
you know, it's no autumn, but in late summer it
could have been quite hot at some stage. That could
be one of the things.
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Oh, yeah, it's been in full sunlight. And the to wheels,
which is great because we can move it around.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
Move it into a slightly more more more sheltered thing
in the heat of the day. Later on, in a
couple of weeks time, when autumn is really starting, you
might find it's not a problem anymore. Second question, I
have you said you put it in good soil?
Speaker 5 (15:48):
What is that?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
What was that made of?
Speaker 4 (15:51):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (15:51):
Look, when it came at there was a there was
like a recommendation and it was a mix of some
pear light, some feet of composts, and then pretty much
too s vegy garden mix.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Yeah, I got it. Okay, Oh, that's a lot of
different things. You know, when you look at a garden outside,
not in your if your like thing, it's usually soil
and that means organic material, but also literally mineral soil
that means like dirt as they call it. I love
that word dirt anyway, So it feels very complex what
(16:32):
you've put in there. Can you not just use top
soil with a bit of organic material. You'll find that
that would work. Well.
Speaker 5 (16:40):
Yeah, I love a lifestyle block out west and the
soil is not the greatest, to be honest, I know
quite quite a bit of clay.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Yeah, well I was not at the moment. I was
not too far from you and Lango and Titungy obviously, yes,
and there was always a pain in the bum, but
you needed the organic material to make the soil a
lot more useful or used by the roots itself to
get down into it.
Speaker 5 (17:06):
It.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
But but with the per light that is basically not soil,
that's actually something that drains the soil if you like.
Speaker 5 (17:14):
Yeah, I think it works on a working system. You
know the Veggi pod that I understand, water sort of
accumulates in the in the bottom pans. Some say and
and the and the merchany down to it.
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Could it have been too much watering?
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Oh yeah, I think we might have. You know, it's
got a great spray system. You're just plug in the
hose and turn it on and gives it a good
spray of water. And I think maybe it might have
been overwatering.
Speaker 3 (17:42):
Yeah, if you leave it on for three days. No,
you know what I mean. Taking the mickey, I don't
need to, but that's that could be one of them,
so be aware of that. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (17:51):
Overwording, which it seems hard to do at this time
of year, But I'm sure, yeah, hey Botch, good luck
with that and I hope they revive themselves. And last
call this morning, Janine, Janae, Hey there, hi, Hi, I just.
Speaker 4 (18:08):
I just wanted to talk about the caterpillars on bressicas,
you know, the broccolis and colleaues and things. Do you
just have to coat them and dearest dust to keep
them away?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Like what the how do you.
Speaker 4 (18:24):
Were just like we had broccoli the other day, head
over thirty caterpillars in the head of Oh no, it's.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Too much, No, not too much, it is. I just
couldn't take the best What the best thing I would
do is initially I would take them out by hand,
take them as much as you can, you know, pull
them out. You know what they look like. They're actually
once you got your eye and it's quite easy to find. Otherwise,
try some of the Yates products like you know that
(18:50):
that that work on caterpillars, and they don't have to
be dearis dust. Deist dust is actually called organic, but
it's a bit it's a lot of bit dodgy, yet
a bit of dodgy.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
Good luck with it, Jenny and all the very busy
and thank you again for your contribution and thank you
for OMU forty eight.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Thank you. I'm going to ring that person up. That's good.
Speaker 5 (19:11):
Look luck.
Speaker 2 (19:12):
We'll catch up with the rid next week. We'll catch
up with you next week. Have a great week, Take
care For.
Speaker 1 (19:17):
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