April 5, 2025 • 20 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for 6th April 2025, Ruud advises what to do about holes in your fruit's leaves, how to get rid of moths, how to treat infested plants, and when to transplant your trees.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
EDB had a very good morning to you reclimb past.
How are you this morning, Sir' there we go?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Gotcha? Gotcha?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Yeah, I'm a line five. You know I'm online five? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, yeah, found it anyway, found it?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Good boy. I decided to go outside of the airport
because inside the announced it too long.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yes, hey, before we before we rip onto it, can
I can I just do a quick community announcement? So
someone's text through to go. How did the auction go
for the house that the school students built? This was
one Tree Hill College, So the auction was on Thursday,
as it happened, because it was a thoroughly miserable Thursday afternoon,
(00:54):
the auction actually got pasted and it's it's still on
the BARTHT and Thompson website. It's available for sale. So
they've listed it now for turn in fifty grand, which
is a bargain. So if you couldn't get to the option,
or you wanted some time to think about it, it's
a great house and it's still for sale. And the
good news is I understand they're going to do another
one which you and I have talked about, you know,
(01:16):
getting young people active and education outside the classroom and
the huge benefits to that. So that's that's awesome. Yeah,
great project, exactly what.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
That's good. If I had a bit more money soon
we go, we.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Could truck it down to your back yard. That's right, right, Hey,
let's let's get into it. And your mates at Clark
Cultivators have said, hey, look, flick one of those off.
It's it's uh, there's always work to do in the garden.
This is a great tool to use. So anyone who
rings through will keep your details and I will make
it completely arbitrary decision at the end of the show
(01:53):
as to who the deserving winner is. Will do it
that way.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Excellent, perfectly, that's that's a good idea. And because it's
going to be easter, everybody's going to be in the
garden for the last time.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I tell you what. In all, you know, we've had
a decent amount of rain, that's been so dry for
so long, and I'm sure from the time that I
left on Friday morning to when I got home last night,
the grass has already started to grow. So yeah, this
in the weeds will be each they'll we have.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Your trouser part.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Right, let's talk to Bruce. Good morning to you, Bruce.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Yeah, good morning, Good morning, Rude. How are you.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
We're good. Thank you so much, Bruce. What can I
do for you?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Oh right, you're an expert on tomatoes. Yeah, of course tomato.
The tovados seasons. As you know, it's come to an end.
But I normally planned about you know, twelve twelve different
plants in the garden, and like being children, some were
(02:57):
good and some were bad, you know, but your.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Most quitting is.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
About probably four plants had you know, white hard sort
of white, a white sort of ring inside them is
when you cut them, and sometimes some of the inside,
you know, in the middle was actually quite of you know,
I'm trying to describe quite a firm piece of white flesh,
(03:26):
you know, whereas the others.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Were you know.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yeah, And that is to do with the fact that
those particular varieties are not very used used to very
dry and very wet, very dry, very wet, so very
irregular watering. Yeah, quite often doesn't make sense because you know,
you know how we had also in kethere we had
(03:49):
a couple of really long dry hearts and then you
go something you got to do, the got to do
the watering, and then you go over the top a little.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Bit, you know, Yeah, yeah, no, because yeah, well I'm
in Hamilton. Yeah, I'm in Hamilton. So we had a
really right time.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
So yeah, yes you did. I'm sure you did. So
that's your answer, Bruce, I hope you know that for
next year.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Thanks for real much, rude. I knew that you know everything.
So that's That'll do it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Stop, take care of Bruce and Donna. A very good
morning to you.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's good morning. I've got four really healthy strawberry plant
and containers neft go to each other. One of them,
one plant alone has been eaten with something that pivotally
round round holes. What's the best thing to put on
the on the leaves, what's the best thing to to
put on that plant? What would it be like deer
(04:48):
stuff or something? Or what would be do you think?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, that's the problem. So the leaves have been made holy?
Is that what it is?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes? Yes, and only on one plant, Like they're all together,
but one plant has got I just don't want it
to spread to the rest of the plants or what
what could be that eating them?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I see, yes, you're quite right. That could well be
a caterpillar. It could also be something quite different, like
a weavil or something that eats these things. So it
is tricky. If you want to use some of these
materials to stop caterpillars, then yeah, that might be a
nice way to do it. But on the other hand,
if you go out at night to have a look,
(05:26):
you might find out who does it. And you could
also realize that that's already happened. It's finished, and you
don't need to do anything from the right, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, so what I like? What there's there's not nothing
lived on the plants to take off you. And there's
no animals there, no.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
No, because they yes, they finished, they've gone through their
life cycle. If that's printss a caterpillar, it goes off
after about a week and now it creates it creates
a crystalism. That's it.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, yeah, And and so like these plants are really vague,
and I'm wondered because I want to promote more strawberries
still to grow what was the best thing through fathe
them sold to get more fruit? And should I try
some of the big leaves off the plant?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Because it's all leaves, do I wouldn't worry about the
leaves because the leaves are going to give your plants
a bit more. If you're like guts for next year,
you need to overwinter them at some stage, or you
cut off the little runners and use those for next year.
Fairly spring you can, you can put them in so
you can actually create a much bigger and bigger site
(06:32):
for your strawberries anyway, because it.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Makes I've got about I've talked about forty miners off
them that are very planted well, but the garden really well,
so we plant to all the dies. I just wondered,
like to kick the strawberries gun? Should I fade them
any potassium or anything like that?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
No, just general fertilizer with with a little bit a
little handful of post shortway a post. But if you've
got let's say, and a fertilizer that is specially designed
for roaders, which is already high enough in potbst, then
use that.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You know, a road is one like I've got some rides.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
That's lovely, don't good luck?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Good luck, good luck, good luck, and pat a very
good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Out of is that room it's shut its every now
and then. It is rude required honest.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
Bet, I I have been down to pick up a
black stuff about the size of a sultana, and that
man ran away. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
What, Oh, you don't know what it is? Was it
was it something like a blackish wasp or something like that.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
What could it be? It can run like anything. And
I found where where do you live?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Cats? But where do you live? Which area of New Zealand?
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Es person?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Ah, you have had one of those famous beetle said
to be happier, the Alexander beetle, which is quite dark
with beautiful green material machine as well. They can really
buy too. I mean I usually say the school and
dare the boys to hold it? Do you know what
I mean? Yeah, it's a native. If it's an expert,
(08:28):
and it's likely to be a native, I think if
you just don't touch it, you'll be absolutely fine with it.
It was just an unfortunate accident. Bet. I'm afraid.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
I'm fright having a little boy visits me and I'm
just frightening. I'll sell several of them smaller ones, and
I was able to one time I had a fly
can spray in my hand and I sprayed this and
picked it up and thrust it down the room.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I don't think we need to go nuclear on these
things too. That if you leave them alone, they'll leave
you alone. The way to look at it. I appreciate
the cool pet. Thank you very much, Jane, A very
good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Hello.
Speaker 9 (09:15):
Hey, I'm new to contain a gardening, and actually, to
be fair, I haven't got a green thumb at all,
so they're lucky to be surviving. But I've got some
beautiful Hollywood he bees. I don't know if you've seen
the Hollywood selection of hebees. And they've got some amazing
names like I mentioned the stone El and Monroe and all.
And they've got beautiful colorful leaves and things the gorgeous,
(09:39):
and they've got great they've got great shapes. And when
I come to when when can I prune them to
maintain their shape for next year and stop them getting
to woody? And how hard do I pring them back?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
They've already flowered of course seven day have you had
the Yeah? Okay, all right, and that's all finished. Yeah,
I think you could start thinking about doing that from
now on and just do it gently if it's a
new plast you don't have to really go nuts, and
you can always prune them later again. And so, because
I don't know the veriety, I wonder if this is
a jackob for I. Actually I'm just thinking about it.
(10:12):
This should called jack at some states this next week.
But anyway, if it's something that keeps on growing, let
it grow and you can find on your first cut
how that will have work in terms of pruning them.
To be quite honest, that's the best way to find out.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Welcome James, great day, Jane. Let's take a short break.
Rudd will pop you on hold for a moment. Rud
is available to take your calls. Remember we've got a
Clark cultivator. It's a funky sort of stainless steel tool
with a very ergonomic handle on it. We're going to
give one of those away. It is coming up sixteen
minutes away from nine o'clock here at News Talks. It'd
(10:54):
be rud is with us and quick text. Right time
to prune hydrangers. Someone in Wellington still has some new
buds appearing. I would have thought, now.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah I should have Yeah, I should have started already.
But you know, you can do it right now before
there's frost, no problem at all, and you go down
to the thickest blood. Depends on how deep you want
to go, how low you want to go with it, Rooney,
you go to the biggest blood that faces out. Word
step is usually the one that makes it really grow. Well.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Interesting because I and I know nothing, right, but I
read somewhere that I know absolutely nothing. I just know
how to sharpen seecateurs. So I read something because We've
got some hydrangers in another place that I look after,
And so I was going to go down to the
(11:47):
third bud and cut there. Now I should go for
the bigger could do this, Okay.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
No, No, If you want to go lower, then you
can do that. But make sure you go above a big,
healthy bad and you will always go well and keep
a couple on. You can even go the third one
from the bottom, so that even if the top one
doesn't want to refurbish for you, this second in drone
will say, yeah, my turn.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Right, all right, I think I'll take a cautious approach
now that I've shouted the secrets right, Elizabeth, good morning
to you, Oh, good morning, road.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
I'm just worrying.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
When is the best.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Time place to plant a lemon? A little lemon tree
that's in a pot. It's got on lemons on it
at the moment, little green ones and a few yellow ones.
But I don't want to tell it by trancing it
planting it into the ground.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Is that plant? What you should do it?
Speaker 8 (12:41):
Because?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Yeah, I would do it now. You know why because
from now on you will be kind of certain that
you will get regular rainfall. Right. Secondly, the soil is
still warm, that needs that the roots can still anchor
themselves outwards so they don't fall over very quickly in
the storm. Prius and all these sort of things that
(13:02):
are really good to do it now?
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Oh awesome, that's great now? And what sort of food
would I give it? Lutrients to boost it along out
of the shock of thing trendsplanter.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
If you've been in hospital with the serious shock, is
food the first thing you'd think of? No, there you go.
I wouldn't worry. I wouldn't worry if you give it
maybe a little bit of liquid fertilizer later on. But
I think from now on the fertilizers are of very
little use for these plants because slowly the temperatures separate, slowly,
(13:38):
the temperatures going down, and that means there is not
much focal sentences going on. There's not much need for
np K and all the others. Correct.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Look, that's awesome. Thank you so much for your help.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Lovely to talk to you, Elizabeth. Thank you very very much. Actually,
just talk about citrus pruning lemon or citrus now no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, because the lemon tree borer has gone to.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Bed, right, okay, good tonight.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
And to be quite honest, it's best to do it.
Of course in end of summer, I suppose for a plant.
But in this case, these these citrus trees tend to
fruit in the wintertid. So if you do prone, you've
got to be careful that you leave some of your
branches if you want fruit. If you want fruit, it
is that you leave some of those branches untouched. And
(14:27):
they were bit by bit a third every year. That's
always a good raw way.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, yeah, now that works, Hate lindsay, good morning to you.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
Good morning. The roads are springing. An introduction. You're in
your bugman capacity. We are lucky enough to have rebuilt
the batch at e Coroa area and previous verdes and mice.
This one, though, has lots of black moths, and my
wife's been driven mad half an hour cleaning up blackness
every time she arrives. We've looked at Google and they've
(14:58):
tried hot water down the drains, cedar balls, and some eucalyptus,
but nothing seems to woo it.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I wouldn't I tell you what I forgot because my
brain is not working at the problem. I've forgotten the
scientific name of that moth has been in the Canterbury
area for maybe the last five or six or seven
or eight years, brand new. Nobody else has those things,
and they are associated with your fire wood. Interesting. Interesting,
(15:29):
they don't. They don't do anything in your house. I
feed them, do my red backs and my cutti post spiders.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
They love them.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
You should get some redbecks and coffee pot spiders.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
Thanks. You're right, because his firewood inside storm for the.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
I knew it.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I knew it. I could picture your allowance.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Maybe put the firewood out on the deck or under
a cover and just bring in what you need for
the day.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Anyway, no other traggitions, no, no, no, no.
On the well you could you can if you want
to spray into death I mean but and and literally
completely sterialize your whole lounge. You can do that with
the material that you can get from Safe Works on
(16:18):
Voshall Junction Road.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Right all you think she wrote safe Works, they've got
an airosot. The guys and the girls know what you're
talking about when you say I sent you. It's a
residual material that we've invented to spray aircraft with so
we don't get any quarantine issues with things coming into
the country.
Speaker 10 (16:38):
Very much.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Thanks, thanks very much, Lindsey, you take care and Sandy.
Speaker 11 (16:43):
Hello there, Oh, good morning, Rude. I've just come back
from the South Island that my hooya is just covered
in a little yellow things, which I presume aphids. I've
cut off the leaves that are really infested, but how
can I get rid of the remainder?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Very simple, get yourself a spray bottle if you like,
or a container that can actually spray niam oil on
your leaves. Mem Oil is your by way jo inside
or outside.
Speaker 11 (17:19):
No, I meant to say it's out by the front door.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Excellent. You can use meem oil all your life. Oh,
it's you straight, you straight the underside of the leaves,
the tops of the leaves, besides the left, the left,
the back, the front of the back, and you do
that again two weeks later, and again two weeks later.
Now I think you've done it three times. Two weeks apart,
you will probably will have knocked the little buggage off
(17:46):
because that the reason you do it on a on
a regular basis is that these eggs come out later
on at certain intervals and it's you know what I mean,
you need to mop them up, that's the idea.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
So they're breeding on there.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
My darling, you have never seen an aphei bride's done
a traditionally show your story one day.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
We'll save that up for another day. I appreciate that scene.
Speaker 11 (18:11):
Yet, Yes, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Great day. And last caller Irene, good morning, Oh.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Good morning, guys, Lucky.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Last.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Now, my question is we have a day tour which
is I don't know how many years old. It's two
meters high, it's in prolific and it's beautiful. Blooms the
tubula blooms green leaves, and this year the leaves started
turning yellow. So my first point of attack was epsom
salt hasn't resolved it. General fertilizer hasn't resolved it, and
(18:43):
it still continues to lose leaves as they turn yellow.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Oh that's not very nice. What color with the flowers?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
By the way, flowers are white, most beautiful, scand prolific.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Scan yeh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's I think a lot
of rudmania. That's okay, I to be quite honest, I
don't think we've ever had that, not since Is there
something that I said too much?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
More? No?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
No, I mean there because Julie and I have got
a couple of Julie, yes, me. What have I got
to do with this now? Anyway, Julia has got quite
a few different varieties of that juro brod mentia, and
basically they do all right, but don't have to meet
too wet conditions in terms of soil.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Okay, so that could be perhaps a culprits. All right,
so that gives me something? Yeah, could I just quickly quiz.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
We're going to leave it there because we're right on
top of it. Don't worry, Ridd'll be back next week.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Irene.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
We can always say you call in, Heyred, So where
are you off to today?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
You are going off to your plymouth yet to Key
we Endler's trainees volunteers do a whole lot of talks
in going out in the forest.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
A fabulous, fabulous right now.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
You're doing about the Clark Cultivator, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I have, and you know what I think, Jane is
a worthy recipient. She talked about the he bees, introduced
us to a whole lot of flesh Hollywood sounding he bees.
So the cultivator, We'll get a details to you and
if the Clark guys can send one out that would
be awesome. Thanks mate, Safe traveling and thank you folks.
We'll be back next Sunday here at News Talks EDB.
(20:17):
Have a great week, Take care.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
EDB had a very good morning to you reclimb past.
How are you this morning, Sir' there we go?
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Gotcha? Gotcha?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Yeah, I'm a line five. You know I'm online five? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:24):
Yeah, yeah, found it anyway, found it?
Speaker 4 (00:26):
Good boy. I decided to go outside of the airport
because inside the announced it too long.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yes, hey, before we before we rip onto it, can
I can I just do a quick community announcement? So
someone's text through to go. How did the auction go
for the house that the school students built? This was
one Tree Hill College, So the auction was on Thursday,
as it happened, because it was a thoroughly miserable Thursday afternoon,
(00:54):
the auction actually got pasted and it's it's still on
the BARTHT and Thompson website. It's available for sale. So
they've listed it now for turn in fifty grand, which
is a bargain. So if you couldn't get to the option,
or you wanted some time to think about it, it's
a great house and it's still for sale. And the
good news is I understand they're going to do another
one which you and I have talked about, you know,
(01:16):
getting young people active and education outside the classroom and
the huge benefits to that. So that's that's awesome. Yeah,
great project, exactly what.
Speaker 4 (01:25):
That's good. If I had a bit more money soon
we go, we.
Speaker 2 (01:32):
Could truck it down to your back yard. That's right, right, Hey,
let's let's get into it. And your mates at Clark
Cultivators have said, hey, look, flick one of those off.
It's it's uh, there's always work to do in the garden.
This is a great tool to use. So anyone who
rings through will keep your details and I will make
it completely arbitrary decision at the end of the show
(01:53):
as to who the deserving winner is. Will do it
that way.
Speaker 4 (01:56):
Excellent, perfectly, that's that's a good idea. And because it's
going to be easter, everybody's going to be in the
garden for the last time.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
I tell you what. In all, you know, we've had
a decent amount of rain, that's been so dry for
so long, and I'm sure from the time that I
left on Friday morning to when I got home last night,
the grass has already started to grow. So yeah, this
in the weeds will be each they'll we have.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Your trouser part.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
Right, let's talk to Bruce. Good morning to you, Bruce.
Speaker 5 (02:28):
Yeah, good morning, Good morning, Rude. How are you.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
We're good. Thank you so much, Bruce. What can I
do for you?
Speaker 5 (02:35):
Oh right, you're an expert on tomatoes. Yeah, of course tomato.
The tovados seasons. As you know, it's come to an end.
But I normally planned about you know, twelve twelve different
plants in the garden, and like being children, some were
(02:57):
good and some were bad, you know, but your.
Speaker 6 (03:01):
Most quitting is.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
About probably four plants had you know, white hard sort
of white, a white sort of ring inside them is
when you cut them, and sometimes some of the inside,
you know, in the middle was actually quite of you know,
I'm trying to describe quite a firm piece of white flesh,
(03:26):
you know, whereas the others.
Speaker 7 (03:27):
Were you know.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
Yeah, And that is to do with the fact that
those particular varieties are not very used used to very
dry and very wet, very dry, very wet, so very
irregular watering. Yeah, quite often doesn't make sense because you know,
you know how we had also in kethere we had
(03:49):
a couple of really long dry hearts and then you
go something you got to do, the got to do
the watering, and then you go over the top a little.
Speaker 5 (03:58):
Bit, you know, Yeah, yeah, no, because yeah, well I'm
in Hamilton. Yeah, I'm in Hamilton. So we had a
really right time.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
So yeah, yes you did. I'm sure you did. So
that's your answer, Bruce, I hope you know that for
next year.
Speaker 5 (04:14):
Thanks for real much, rude. I knew that you know everything.
So that's That'll do it.
Speaker 2 (04:19):
Stop, take care of Bruce and Donna. A very good
morning to you.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
It's good morning. I've got four really healthy strawberry plant
and containers neft go to each other. One of them,
one plant alone has been eaten with something that pivotally
round round holes. What's the best thing to put on
the on the leaves, what's the best thing to to
put on that plant? What would it be like deer
(04:48):
stuff or something? Or what would be do you think?
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, that's the problem. So the leaves have been made holy?
Is that what it is?
Speaker 3 (04:56):
Yes? Yes, and only on one plant, Like they're all together,
but one plant has got I just don't want it
to spread to the rest of the plants or what
what could be that eating them?
Speaker 4 (05:06):
I see, yes, you're quite right. That could well be
a caterpillar. It could also be something quite different, like
a weavil or something that eats these things. So it
is tricky. If you want to use some of these
materials to stop caterpillars, then yeah, that might be a
nice way to do it. But on the other hand,
if you go out at night to have a look,
(05:26):
you might find out who does it. And you could
also realize that that's already happened. It's finished, and you
don't need to do anything from the right, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, so what I like? What there's there's not nothing
lived on the plants to take off you. And there's
no animals there, no.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
No, because they yes, they finished, they've gone through their
life cycle. If that's printss a caterpillar, it goes off
after about a week and now it creates it creates
a crystalism. That's it.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Yeah, yeah, And and so like these plants are really vague,
and I'm wondered because I want to promote more strawberries
still to grow what was the best thing through fathe
them sold to get more fruit? And should I try
some of the big leaves off the plant?
Speaker 4 (06:10):
Because it's all leaves, do I wouldn't worry about the
leaves because the leaves are going to give your plants
a bit more. If you're like guts for next year,
you need to overwinter them at some stage, or you
cut off the little runners and use those for next year.
Fairly spring you can, you can put them in so
you can actually create a much bigger and bigger site
(06:32):
for your strawberries anyway, because it.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Makes I've got about I've talked about forty miners off
them that are very planted well, but the garden really well,
so we plant to all the dies. I just wondered,
like to kick the strawberries gun? Should I fade them
any potassium or anything like that?
Speaker 4 (06:50):
No, just general fertilizer with with a little bit a
little handful of post shortway a post. But if you've
got let's say, and a fertilizer that is specially designed
for roaders, which is already high enough in potbst, then
use that.
Speaker 3 (07:06):
You know, a road is one like I've got some rides.
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (07:13):
That's lovely, don't good luck?
Speaker 2 (07:17):
Good luck, good luck, good luck, and pat a very
good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (07:22):
Out of is that room it's shut its every now
and then. It is rude required honest.
Speaker 8 (07:33):
Bet, I I have been down to pick up a
black stuff about the size of a sultana, and that
man ran away. I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:45):
What, Oh, you don't know what it is? Was it
was it something like a blackish wasp or something like that.
Speaker 8 (07:52):
What could it be? It can run like anything. And
I found where where do you live?
Speaker 4 (08:00):
Cats? But where do you live? Which area of New Zealand?
Speaker 8 (08:03):
Es person?
Speaker 4 (08:05):
Ah, you have had one of those famous beetle said
to be happier, the Alexander beetle, which is quite dark
with beautiful green material machine as well. They can really
buy too. I mean I usually say the school and
dare the boys to hold it? Do you know what
I mean? Yeah, it's a native. If it's an expert,
(08:28):
and it's likely to be a native, I think if
you just don't touch it, you'll be absolutely fine with it.
It was just an unfortunate accident. Bet. I'm afraid.
Speaker 8 (08:38):
I'm fright having a little boy visits me and I'm
just frightening. I'll sell several of them smaller ones, and
I was able to one time I had a fly
can spray in my hand and I sprayed this and
picked it up and thrust it down the room.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
I don't think we need to go nuclear on these
things too. That if you leave them alone, they'll leave
you alone. The way to look at it. I appreciate
the cool pet. Thank you very much, Jane, A very
good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (09:14):
Hello.
Speaker 9 (09:15):
Hey, I'm new to contain a gardening, and actually, to
be fair, I haven't got a green thumb at all,
so they're lucky to be surviving. But I've got some
beautiful Hollywood he bees. I don't know if you've seen
the Hollywood selection of hebees. And they've got some amazing
names like I mentioned the stone El and Monroe and all.
And they've got beautiful colorful leaves and things the gorgeous,
(09:39):
and they've got great they've got great shapes. And when
I come to when when can I prune them to
maintain their shape for next year and stop them getting
to woody? And how hard do I pring them back?
Speaker 4 (09:50):
They've already flowered of course seven day have you had
the Yeah? Okay, all right, and that's all finished. Yeah,
I think you could start thinking about doing that from
now on and just do it gently if it's a
new plast you don't have to really go nuts, and
you can always prune them later again. And so, because
I don't know the veriety, I wonder if this is
a jackob for I. Actually I'm just thinking about it.
(10:12):
This should called jack at some states this next week.
But anyway, if it's something that keeps on growing, let
it grow and you can find on your first cut
how that will have work in terms of pruning them.
To be quite honest, that's the best way to find out.
Speaker 9 (10:30):
Okay, thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (10:33):
Welcome James, great day, Jane. Let's take a short break.
Rudd will pop you on hold for a moment. Rud
is available to take your calls. Remember we've got a
Clark cultivator. It's a funky sort of stainless steel tool
with a very ergonomic handle on it. We're going to
give one of those away. It is coming up sixteen
minutes away from nine o'clock here at News Talks. It'd
(10:54):
be rud is with us and quick text. Right time
to prune hydrangers. Someone in Wellington still has some new
buds appearing. I would have thought, now.
Speaker 4 (11:07):
Yeah I should have Yeah, I should have started already.
But you know, you can do it right now before
there's frost, no problem at all, and you go down
to the thickest blood. Depends on how deep you want
to go, how low you want to go with it, Rooney,
you go to the biggest blood that faces out. Word
step is usually the one that makes it really grow. Well.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Interesting because I and I know nothing, right, but I
read somewhere that I know absolutely nothing. I just know
how to sharpen seecateurs. So I read something because We've
got some hydrangers in another place that I look after,
And so I was going to go down to the
(11:47):
third bud and cut there. Now I should go for
the bigger could do this, Okay.
Speaker 4 (11:52):
No, No, If you want to go lower, then you
can do that. But make sure you go above a big,
healthy bad and you will always go well and keep
a couple on. You can even go the third one
from the bottom, so that even if the top one
doesn't want to refurbish for you, this second in drone
will say, yeah, my turn.
Speaker 2 (12:07):
Right, all right, I think I'll take a cautious approach
now that I've shouted the secrets right, Elizabeth, good morning
to you, Oh, good morning, road.
Speaker 7 (12:19):
I'm just worrying.
Speaker 9 (12:20):
When is the best.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
Time place to plant a lemon? A little lemon tree
that's in a pot. It's got on lemons on it
at the moment, little green ones and a few yellow ones.
But I don't want to tell it by trancing it
planting it into the ground.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Is that plant? What you should do it?
Speaker 8 (12:41):
Because?
Speaker 4 (12:41):
Yeah, I would do it now. You know why because
from now on you will be kind of certain that
you will get regular rainfall. Right. Secondly, the soil is
still warm, that needs that the roots can still anchor
themselves outwards so they don't fall over very quickly in
the storm. Prius and all these sort of things that
(13:02):
are really good to do it now?
Speaker 7 (13:04):
Oh awesome, that's great now? And what sort of food
would I give it? Lutrients to boost it along out
of the shock of thing trendsplanter.
Speaker 4 (13:13):
If you've been in hospital with the serious shock, is
food the first thing you'd think of? No, there you go.
I wouldn't worry. I wouldn't worry if you give it
maybe a little bit of liquid fertilizer later on. But
I think from now on the fertilizers are of very
little use for these plants because slowly the temperatures separate, slowly,
(13:38):
the temperatures going down, and that means there is not
much focal sentences going on. There's not much need for
np K and all the others. Correct.
Speaker 7 (13:47):
Look, that's awesome. Thank you so much for your help.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Lovely to talk to you, Elizabeth. Thank you very very much. Actually,
just talk about citrus pruning lemon or citrus now no, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:01):
Yeah, because the lemon tree borer has gone to.
Speaker 2 (14:04):
Bed, right, okay, good tonight.
Speaker 4 (14:06):
And to be quite honest, it's best to do it.
Of course in end of summer, I suppose for a plant.
But in this case, these these citrus trees tend to
fruit in the wintertid. So if you do prone, you've
got to be careful that you leave some of your
branches if you want fruit. If you want fruit, it
is that you leave some of those branches untouched. And
(14:27):
they were bit by bit a third every year. That's
always a good raw way.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
Yeah, yeah, now that works, Hate lindsay, good morning to you.
Speaker 10 (14:35):
Good morning. The roads are springing. An introduction. You're in
your bugman capacity. We are lucky enough to have rebuilt
the batch at e Coroa area and previous verdes and mice.
This one, though, has lots of black moths, and my
wife's been driven mad half an hour cleaning up blackness
every time she arrives. We've looked at Google and they've
(14:58):
tried hot water down the drains, cedar balls, and some eucalyptus,
but nothing seems to woo it.
Speaker 4 (15:06):
I wouldn't I tell you what I forgot because my
brain is not working at the problem. I've forgotten the
scientific name of that moth has been in the Canterbury
area for maybe the last five or six or seven
or eight years, brand new. Nobody else has those things,
and they are associated with your fire wood. Interesting. Interesting,
(15:29):
they don't. They don't do anything in your house. I
feed them, do my red backs and my cutti post spiders.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
They love them.
Speaker 4 (15:36):
You should get some redbecks and coffee pot spiders.
Speaker 10 (15:40):
Thanks. You're right, because his firewood inside storm for the.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
I knew it.
Speaker 4 (15:49):
I knew it. I could picture your allowance.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
So there you go.
Speaker 2 (15:52):
Maybe put the firewood out on the deck or under
a cover and just bring in what you need for
the day.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. Anyway, no other traggitions, no, no, no, no.
On the well you could you can if you want
to spray into death I mean but and and literally
completely sterialize your whole lounge. You can do that with
the material that you can get from Safe Works on
(16:18):
Voshall Junction Road.
Speaker 8 (16:20):
Well, thank you.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Right all you think she wrote safe Works, they've got
an airosot. The guys and the girls know what you're
talking about when you say I sent you. It's a
residual material that we've invented to spray aircraft with so
we don't get any quarantine issues with things coming into
the country.
Speaker 10 (16:38):
Very much.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
Thanks, thanks very much, Lindsey, you take care and Sandy.
Speaker 11 (16:43):
Hello there, Oh, good morning, Rude. I've just come back
from the South Island that my hooya is just covered
in a little yellow things, which I presume aphids. I've
cut off the leaves that are really infested, but how
can I get rid of the remainder?
Speaker 4 (17:06):
Very simple, get yourself a spray bottle if you like,
or a container that can actually spray niam oil on
your leaves. Mem Oil is your by way jo inside
or outside.
Speaker 11 (17:19):
No, I meant to say it's out by the front door.
Speaker 4 (17:23):
Excellent. You can use meem oil all your life. Oh,
it's you straight, you straight the underside of the leaves,
the tops of the leaves, besides the left, the left,
the back, the front of the back, and you do
that again two weeks later, and again two weeks later.
Now I think you've done it three times. Two weeks apart,
you will probably will have knocked the little buggage off
(17:46):
because that the reason you do it on a on
a regular basis is that these eggs come out later
on at certain intervals and it's you know what I mean,
you need to mop them up, that's the idea.
Speaker 6 (17:59):
So they're breeding on there.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
My darling, you have never seen an aphei bride's done
a traditionally show your story one day.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
We'll save that up for another day. I appreciate that scene.
Speaker 11 (18:11):
Yet, Yes, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (18:13):
Great day. And last caller Irene, good morning, Oh.
Speaker 6 (18:18):
Good morning, guys, Lucky.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Last.
Speaker 6 (18:22):
Now, my question is we have a day tour which
is I don't know how many years old. It's two
meters high, it's in prolific and it's beautiful. Blooms the
tubula blooms green leaves, and this year the leaves started
turning yellow. So my first point of attack was epsom
salt hasn't resolved it. General fertilizer hasn't resolved it, and
(18:43):
it still continues to lose leaves as they turn yellow.
Speaker 4 (18:48):
Oh that's not very nice. What color with the flowers?
Speaker 6 (18:51):
By the way, flowers are white, most beautiful, scand prolific.
Speaker 4 (18:56):
Scan yeh yeah, yeah, yeah, it's I think a lot
of rudmania. That's okay, I to be quite honest, I
don't think we've ever had that, not since Is there
something that I said too much?
Speaker 3 (19:08):
More? No?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
No, I mean there because Julie and I have got
a couple of Julie, yes, me. What have I got
to do with this now? Anyway, Julia has got quite
a few different varieties of that juro brod mentia, and
basically they do all right, but don't have to meet
too wet conditions in terms of soil.
Speaker 6 (19:25):
Okay, so that could be perhaps a culprits. All right,
so that gives me something? Yeah, could I just quickly quiz.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
We're going to leave it there because we're right on
top of it. Don't worry, Ridd'll be back next week.
Speaker 4 (19:36):
Irene.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
We can always say you call in, Heyred, So where
are you off to today?
Speaker 4 (19:41):
You are going off to your plymouth yet to Key
we Endler's trainees volunteers do a whole lot of talks
in going out in the forest.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
A fabulous, fabulous right now.
Speaker 4 (19:52):
You're doing about the Clark Cultivator, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (19:54):
I have, and you know what I think, Jane is
a worthy recipient. She talked about the he bees, introduced
us to a whole lot of flesh Hollywood sounding he bees.
So the cultivator, We'll get a details to you and
if the Clark guys can send one out that would
be awesome. Thanks mate, Safe traveling and thank you folks.
We'll be back next Sunday here at News Talks EDB.
(20:17):
Have a great week, Take care.
Speaker 1 (20:20):
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