April 12, 2025 • 19 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for 13th April 2025, Ruud advises what to do about fruit trees not yielding much, how to protect butterflies in your garden from wasps, how to identify unknown insects, and when to fertilise particular plants.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks B.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Climb Pass.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Good morning, sir, Good morning Peter. Are you a good
boy today?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I haven't upset anybody so far, but I will later
on today, so that that's part of the course.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I love it good. That's a good good. That's a
good thing to do.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I think so powerful use on a Sunday is always
a bit controversial, but I have no choice today, So
there you go.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Oh so do I. I'm actually getting rid of some
flex because we're going to get Karkey to here. And yeah, oh, Kraky.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
That's not easy, is it, trying to get rid of flex?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
No, but I'm doing it. I'm seeing it. You've got
a nice old chaseaw that's I know.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You know. I'm going to just nip down the road,
hire a digger and rip it out at the roots.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
No, no, that'll happen. That'll happen to I think Monday, Tuesday. Okay,
all right, I'm taking of most.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Of the off yes, yes, oh okay you And well
look if somebody rings to complain, I'll just say it
was you. That's simple, that works.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It was me. I would I would give you full
okay to do this? How was that right?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Here?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Let's jump into the garden. We've got a full boarder calls.
If you've got a question for the Ruth call us
now eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Paul, good morning.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
I had a going Now. I've got two peach aprick
trees I got five years ago. I got got them.
You know that one was small and that one was
about teen years old. I got it, I get it
prune about five years and it had no fruit on it.
Both of them don't have no fruit on it.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Oh, really, have you? Do you prune it yourself?
Speaker 5 (02:02):
No?
Speaker 6 (02:03):
No, I get a maide of mine that that's a
tree guy that the prunes that. Yeah. I mentioned it
to him and and he and he reasoned that needs
pruning easy, and it does need pruning again. So you know,
I don't know why it will not fruit.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Paul, very simple question. Do you fertilize your trees at all?
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Yeah, I do?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You know?
Speaker 6 (02:26):
I do do that about about I give it about
a cup for that about one once a month. I
am in a good area with where it used to
be the gardens and there you know, and these you know, gardens.
I've got a plum tree and that fruits like anything.
(02:46):
But but this tree won't won't fruit.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
You know, well, it might be it might be that
it's a wrong variety that doesn't like it very much.
I said, fruit it at all in the past.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Yes, yes, it did be. Before I got got the
tree pruned, it was was rooting. But the feebles going rotten.
I was buying it, but still go rotten. Just do
I just cut it out of the lint twice twice
somebody else there, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Okay, all right, here we go. This is this is
just an idea. Get some self made of potash. Potash
in other words, this is simple potash. And you put
that on the root zone just after winter, literally just
before it all starts again. Do it again, they'd say,
in October November, and that tells the tree it's time
(03:37):
to start having flowers and it's time to make fun.
Off you go. Honestly, that is the way to go.
It's kind of from shocks them, shocks them into doing that.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Do I I've got a fireplace, don't put the issues
on the fireplace on it, or you're buy the souf.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Actually you could, yes you could, but but but don't
go don't make it too much from now. Actually, what
you can do, what you can do now from winter time,
do a little bit only maybe.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
A centimeter thick. That said, and water it in the
root zone. You'll find that that's going to because you
get far more partic in the system. You got it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, yeah, all the good luck with that, nol. Good morning.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
It's good morning, and good morning to the rude. You're
looking around this morning.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You're looking well, actually, I must have made I feel
really good.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Go on, yeah, so you reach that they.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Almost I.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Have, and I know you won't be able to answers
for me. I have two hundred year old trees on
my property and this year we've had two e's and
mists and those trees and feeding me. I've got photos potos,
get lore. I would love to send you some, say
(05:03):
you can use them for kids or whatever. But I
I have never seen the fledgling before, and this year
I had five of them and still here the still
feeding and photographing every day. If you were like now,
the other thing is the toft under the throat or
(05:26):
on the throat? Do you call it?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Oh? Yeah, it's got the name. You're right, and it's
and it's also something to do with the name it
has it's like a religious person, you know what I mean,
one of those things that you.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Have like a clerical thing.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yes, in the Catholic Church they have colored there. Yeah
exactly what is that called?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Come up pete?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, anyway, Yes, it has got it has got the name,
and it is to do with the religious dress if
you like.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Yeah, absolutely, I noticed that on the fledgling or the
young ones that it's starting to come now. But it's
actually when you look at the head of the two,
there's actually a white veil sort of goes down over
the shoulders tool of shoulders wing, and that's where the
(06:25):
tough emanates from. I've got is that without and with
the starting. So yeah, I'd love to send you some
poots read because you use them with kids or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That's good fun. Hey, that tough, the toughest called in
in in till it's called a poiso a POI.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Yeah, execive them poise.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, that's brilliant. Or I found something about being called
a parson bird. If you imagine a past in the
Protestant traditions, little there looks like two tablets for the
I think it's a sort of reference to the two
tablets of the Ten Commandments. It's a little white tuft
on a clerical outfit in the Protestant tradition anyway. Hey, fascinating,
(07:22):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Thanks excellent.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
It's just those layers of meaning. A a wattle exactly,
is it a wattle?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
A bottle bird? Bottle birds? Yeah, okay, I don't think
it's called a bottle in this case, but there are
bottle birds that are in Australia, for instance, that have
the same sort of look, and they're also absolutely gorgeous
actually to see beautiful.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Hey, look, here's a nice text as well. Thank you
so much for the Clark cultivator I received this week.
It's already been put to good use. Regards from Jane.
Just arrived in on the text machine. That's fantastic, right yeah, okay,
we were back, so just had a lovely text from Jane.
Thanks very much for the Clark Cultivators it this week,
(08:12):
and it'll be put to good use obviously. Right yet
we are talking with Lorraine. Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
I bought over one hundred daffodil bombs at the Hoka
Farmer's Market on Friday. I came home very excited about it.
Then when I picked up the press, the weekend magazine
in there was talking about phases of the moon, and
so for the next at least ten days while we
have a full moon and whatever, I shouldn't be doing
(08:41):
anything like you can wead and clear and there's no
certainly no planting. I just wondered if Reid would ignore
all that, or if he's ever been bothered with the
phases of the moon for gardening.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I do like to plant at full moon, which today,
by the way, I just saw the full moon goes beautiful.
When I got into the kitchen it was a gorgeous
one and a full, big one. Oh yeah, So that's
number one. Look number two, if you plant daffodils and you,
for instance, come back from work late and it's dark,
you better do.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
He rude. I think we're losing you there on the
tie line. We might just tell you what's down the line, Lorraine.
We'll just take a short break, sort this out and
come back after the break. Radioh We've got root on
the line and Lorraine just wrapping up their conversation. So
planting by the moon phases, what do you reckon rut.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
I reckon that you better use it the moon if
you do it in the evening, because you can see
where you're going in your garden. That's number one, And
that tells you a little bit about the science of
the way. I was trained in science in the Netherlands.
But on the other hand, you know, if you're looking
at biodynamics, which is something, for instance, that a lot
(09:58):
of really cool vinyards are doing, it's a totally different gig.
And I believe there are some different sometimes with moon
phases and things like that. I don't know why I'm
saying that, because scientifically, I don't think many people haven't
proven people have improved that. But it seems to work
really well if you if you follow that particular if
(10:23):
you're like method of planting and harvesting and all that
sort of stuff. So it just depends on how you
feel about it. But personally, I sometimes don't have the time.
I don't have the time to do it at certain times,
so I have to do it when I can. And
that is another serious thing, you.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Know, Okay, it was some of these some of the
bulbs have started to shoot, so I don't want them
out of the ground. Too long. But ten days sends
a long time to get through that phase of the moon.
But I know that the moon controls the tides and
all sorts of things earthy.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely them. No, you don't waste them.
If you put him in the fridge, I can actually
you can actually you can actually not in the freeze,
but in the fridge. You can keep them stopping the
development to do it when you want to do it.
If you want to work with the moon, you can
do it that way. But personally, yeah, thank you. It's
(11:24):
your way to go off.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You go, take care and Margaret a very good morning.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
It's made the old big.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
There's got to be gusy.
Speaker 9 (11:41):
Now we've we've got a lot of wasps. We've got
plenty flowers and everything, and we can get everything right.
But yeah, what do we do about the wasps?
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Which wasp Saturday, Margaret?
Speaker 9 (12:01):
The ones with the legs hanging down mostly.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Ah, these are the paper wasps. Good, that is reasonably easy.
Do you know where the nests are?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (12:11):
We could, now it's pretty because it's we live in
a little cular sac and everything's here. Sah Okay.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
What I tend to do and ask people that are.
If you like quick and easy and all that sort
of stuff, that's yourself one of those wasps within a
butterfly net for instance, or something like that. Chuck it
in the freezer for four minutes so that they get
stunned and don't do anything. Put a piece of red
(12:42):
or blue or some bright colored wool or cotton around
it's admen, and let it go where you caught it,
and you'll find it easier to follow those wasps where
they have they'll go back to the nest and you
can actually follow them. It might be a bit of
a trick to do it, but the point is you
(13:02):
can't find the nested way once.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
You got Actually, I think they're different wasps because some
of them are just hovering little ones and they're just yeah, yeah,
they're still.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
They still have to go back to the nest at
some stage. We're getting to the end of that though. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Okay from there.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Good luck with that, Margaret, all the very very best you. Denise,
Hello there.
Speaker 10 (13:35):
Yes, good morning to both. Found a very unusual insects
in my garden. It looks a bit like a caterpillar.
It's got four legs and two large, large feelers in
the front. It's about two centimeters long, and it looks
like a caterpillar at the back, but at the front
(13:56):
it's a totally different insect and it's a muncher. From
my rose, I couldn't make out what was eating my rose.
I've never seen anything like it. Very dark brown, and
the ribs of it, like the rolls of the Canipali.
Part of it is black, but every now and again
(14:18):
it's got this very yellow gold change of color in it.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
And it's on your roses? Is it? Yeah? Yeah, okay, yeah,
go on.
Speaker 10 (14:33):
I'm in the baioplanting and I just think it's very
if it's something that shouldn't be here, because it's certainly
a muncha.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Yeah, I could imagine if that if if it makes you,
it may it makes you sit up and watch, then
that's exactly what it is. So have you got a smartphone, Denise?
Speaker 10 (14:51):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Can you download an app called I Naturalist, So it's
one word I and then naturalist or one word It
is quite easy to do. It doesn't you need to,
but if you can take a really good shot photo
of that creature and loaded up to I Naturalist, you
(15:14):
will get an identity, A proper scientific identity within ten
seconds fifteen seconds.
Speaker 10 (15:23):
Okay, so just just just a little eye.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
With a dot. Yeah, it doesn't matter if it's if
it's capital or not. I. So the letter I with
the dot on it. If you like naturalist not to
ra list, that's it and you'll find that is one
of them. Actually, that is really good if you're guiding,
because weed and other plants you can identify them with
I Naturalists as well, not just caterpillars, not just but birds,
(15:49):
sounds and things like that too. Also everything that everything
on the planet can be identified by I Naturalists. There
you go, Now, I'm not kidding. And that helps you
to go on Google and find out what it is.
Speaker 10 (16:03):
And you know what I mean, I feel somewhat where
would I contact her if I find it's not a
not a nice little creature?
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Well, what you can do is you can then do
some controlling. You can ask your local if you've got
the name of it, the people in your local garden
center will be able to tell you what it is.
And you know, there are many different very safe in
secticides you can use to stop these things from working around.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
Yeah, it's just that you know, I can control that
in my back gut. But it's where as it comes from.
That's the other concern. You know.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Goodness, no, this is why we need identified first step
one and let me give give us a call back
when you've got it. You can do a bit. Oh wait,
hundred eighty eighty is very simple.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Let us know how you get on, Denise, Thank you
very much for your call. A couple of quick texts.
Someone who's got a peartree a couple of years old
seems to be of some sort of type of rust
or something taking over the leaves. Small spots too, have
used copper spray to know in any thoughts or recommendations
from Bread.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Yes, I would have used a copper or a copper
and sulfur, which is jah Major's way. Fungal spray, which
has got both ingredients. That should basically stop that. But
it doesn't. It doesn't mean that the leaves he will,
of course immediately they won't, but new leaves will not
show the same symptom. That is how these fungicides work.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Okay, appreciate that. How often should you fertilize lemon or
mandarin trees?
Speaker 7 (17:43):
I would start doing that in springtime you can because
it's still warm. Have a go now, a little bit
just by hand, you know, a handful to the square
meter type stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
But especially in springtime that's when the growth really starts
to ever go. And so spring dome, say September over November.
So September November, and you could ever go again in
January if you like.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
So, not a lot of point in doing it now.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
No, it's still warm enough to it's there's still a
bit they would still take some stuff up. The soil
is still quite warmed for still at least May. So yeah,
you could.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You're on the edge now, given that we talked about chainsaws,
this is a good question for you. Right now, my
healthy passion fruit plant has suddenly started losing all of
its leaves from Mark, healthy passion fruit suddenly turned up
the toes. What's happening there, Rid, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
I planted through here we go, Here we go, Peter,
I've planted to passion fruits at home. One of them
is doing exactly what this person says. The other one
that is growing really quick.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
There's no there's no rhyme or reason.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Sometimes no, you have no idea what it is?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
That fabulous? Right, So you're going to go on, fire
up the chainsaw to get rid of the flax. I'm
going to go home and fire up the cordless sander,
very efficient and probably make a lot less noise than you.
So next week on the show, we'll see who had
the most complaints.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
I can hear you from here.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, all right, I'm going to blame you. Hey, have
a great day. We'll talk to you next Sunday. Route
all the very best and folks, I'll actually be back
on Friday. I'm going to be here doing Friday Breakfast
with Petro Bagist. Actually that'll be great. So we'll see
you good Friday, and then we'll be back here talking
all things building next Sunday as well. Have a great week.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Climb Pass.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Good morning, sir, Good morning Peter. Are you a good
boy today?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
I haven't upset anybody so far, but I will later
on today, so that that's part of the course.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I love it good. That's a good good. That's a
good thing to do.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
I think so powerful use on a Sunday is always
a bit controversial, but I have no choice today, So
there you go.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Oh so do I. I'm actually getting rid of some
flex because we're going to get Karkey to here. And yeah, oh, Kraky.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
That's not easy, is it, trying to get rid of flex?
Speaker 4 (00:52):
No?
Speaker 3 (00:53):
No, but I'm doing it. I'm seeing it. You've got
a nice old chaseaw that's I know.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
You know. I'm going to just nip down the road,
hire a digger and rip it out at the roots.
Speaker 3 (01:08):
No, no, that'll happen. That'll happen to I think Monday, Tuesday. Okay,
all right, I'm taking of most.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
Of the off yes, yes, oh okay you And well
look if somebody rings to complain, I'll just say it
was you. That's simple, that works.
Speaker 3 (01:22):
It was me. I would I would give you full
okay to do this? How was that right?
Speaker 5 (01:28):
Here?
Speaker 2 (01:28):
Let's jump into the garden. We've got a full boarder calls.
If you've got a question for the Ruth call us
now eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Paul, good morning.
Speaker 6 (01:36):
I had a going Now. I've got two peach aprick
trees I got five years ago. I got got them.
You know that one was small and that one was
about teen years old. I got it, I get it
prune about five years and it had no fruit on it.
Both of them don't have no fruit on it.
Speaker 3 (01:58):
Oh, really, have you? Do you prune it yourself?
Speaker 5 (02:02):
No?
Speaker 6 (02:03):
No, I get a maide of mine that that's a
tree guy that the prunes that. Yeah. I mentioned it
to him and and he and he reasoned that needs
pruning easy, and it does need pruning again. So you know,
I don't know why it will not fruit.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
Paul, very simple question. Do you fertilize your trees at all?
Speaker 7 (02:25):
Oh?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Yeah, I do?
Speaker 1 (02:26):
You know?
Speaker 6 (02:26):
I do do that about about I give it about
a cup for that about one once a month. I
am in a good area with where it used to
be the gardens and there you know, and these you know, gardens.
I've got a plum tree and that fruits like anything.
(02:46):
But but this tree won't won't fruit.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
You know, well, it might be it might be that
it's a wrong variety that doesn't like it very much.
I said, fruit it at all in the past.
Speaker 6 (02:57):
Yes, yes, it did be. Before I got got the
tree pruned, it was was rooting. But the feebles going rotten.
I was buying it, but still go rotten. Just do
I just cut it out of the lint twice twice
somebody else there, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Okay, all right, here we go. This is this is
just an idea. Get some self made of potash. Potash
in other words, this is simple potash. And you put
that on the root zone just after winter, literally just
before it all starts again. Do it again, they'd say,
in October November, and that tells the tree it's time
(03:37):
to start having flowers and it's time to make fun.
Off you go. Honestly, that is the way to go.
It's kind of from shocks them, shocks them into doing that.
Speaker 6 (03:46):
Do I I've got a fireplace, don't put the issues
on the fireplace on it, or you're buy the souf.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Actually you could, yes you could, but but but don't
go don't make it too much from now. Actually, what
you can do, what you can do now from winter time,
do a little bit only maybe.
Speaker 3 (04:07):
A centimeter thick. That said, and water it in the
root zone. You'll find that that's going to because you
get far more partic in the system. You got it.
Speaker 2 (04:16):
Yeah, yeah, all the good luck with that, nol. Good morning.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
It's good morning, and good morning to the rude. You're
looking around this morning.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
You're looking well, actually, I must have made I feel
really good.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Go on, yeah, so you reach that they.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
Almost I.
Speaker 5 (04:42):
Have, and I know you won't be able to answers
for me. I have two hundred year old trees on
my property and this year we've had two e's and
mists and those trees and feeding me. I've got photos potos,
get lore. I would love to send you some, say
(05:03):
you can use them for kids or whatever. But I
I have never seen the fledgling before, and this year
I had five of them and still here the still
feeding and photographing every day. If you were like now,
the other thing is the toft under the throat or
(05:26):
on the throat? Do you call it?
Speaker 3 (05:30):
Oh? Yeah, it's got the name. You're right, and it's
and it's also something to do with the name it
has it's like a religious person, you know what I mean,
one of those things that you.
Speaker 2 (05:43):
Have like a clerical thing.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Yes, in the Catholic Church they have colored there. Yeah
exactly what is that called?
Speaker 2 (05:54):
Come up pete?
Speaker 3 (05:58):
Yeah, anyway, Yes, it has got it has got the name,
and it is to do with the religious dress if
you like.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Yeah, absolutely, I noticed that on the fledgling or the
young ones that it's starting to come now. But it's
actually when you look at the head of the two,
there's actually a white veil sort of goes down over
the shoulders tool of shoulders wing, and that's where the
(06:25):
tough emanates from. I've got is that without and with
the starting. So yeah, I'd love to send you some
poots read because you use them with kids or whatever.
Speaker 3 (06:39):
That's good fun. Hey, that tough, the toughest called in
in in till it's called a poiso a POI.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Yeah, execive them poise.
Speaker 2 (06:57):
Yeah, that's brilliant. Or I found something about being called
a parson bird. If you imagine a past in the
Protestant traditions, little there looks like two tablets for the
I think it's a sort of reference to the two
tablets of the Ten Commandments. It's a little white tuft
on a clerical outfit in the Protestant tradition anyway. Hey, fascinating,
(07:22):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Thanks excellent.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
It's just those layers of meaning. A a wattle exactly,
is it a wattle?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
A bottle bird? Bottle birds? Yeah, okay, I don't think
it's called a bottle in this case, but there are
bottle birds that are in Australia, for instance, that have
the same sort of look, and they're also absolutely gorgeous
actually to see beautiful.
Speaker 2 (07:49):
Hey, look, here's a nice text as well. Thank you
so much for the Clark cultivator I received this week.
It's already been put to good use. Regards from Jane.
Just arrived in on the text machine. That's fantastic, right yeah, okay,
we were back, so just had a lovely text from Jane.
Thanks very much for the Clark Cultivators it this week,
(08:12):
and it'll be put to good use obviously. Right yet
we are talking with Lorraine. Good morning, good morning.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
I bought over one hundred daffodil bombs at the Hoka
Farmer's Market on Friday. I came home very excited about it.
Then when I picked up the press, the weekend magazine
in there was talking about phases of the moon, and
so for the next at least ten days while we
have a full moon and whatever, I shouldn't be doing
(08:41):
anything like you can wead and clear and there's no
certainly no planting. I just wondered if Reid would ignore
all that, or if he's ever been bothered with the
phases of the moon for gardening.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
I do like to plant at full moon, which today,
by the way, I just saw the full moon goes beautiful.
When I got into the kitchen it was a gorgeous
one and a full, big one. Oh yeah, So that's
number one. Look number two, if you plant daffodils and you,
for instance, come back from work late and it's dark,
you better do.
Speaker 2 (09:20):
He rude. I think we're losing you there on the
tie line. We might just tell you what's down the line, Lorraine.
We'll just take a short break, sort this out and
come back after the break. Radioh We've got root on
the line and Lorraine just wrapping up their conversation. So
planting by the moon phases, what do you reckon rut.
Speaker 7 (09:38):
I reckon that you better use it the moon if
you do it in the evening, because you can see
where you're going in your garden. That's number one, And
that tells you a little bit about the science of
the way. I was trained in science in the Netherlands.
But on the other hand, you know, if you're looking
at biodynamics, which is something, for instance, that a lot
(09:58):
of really cool vinyards are doing, it's a totally different gig.
And I believe there are some different sometimes with moon
phases and things like that. I don't know why I'm
saying that, because scientifically, I don't think many people haven't
proven people have improved that. But it seems to work
really well if you if you follow that particular if
(10:23):
you're like method of planting and harvesting and all that
sort of stuff. So it just depends on how you
feel about it. But personally, I sometimes don't have the time.
I don't have the time to do it at certain times,
so I have to do it when I can. And
that is another serious thing, you.
Speaker 8 (10:41):
Know, Okay, it was some of these some of the
bulbs have started to shoot, so I don't want them
out of the ground. Too long. But ten days sends
a long time to get through that phase of the moon.
But I know that the moon controls the tides and
all sorts of things earthy.
Speaker 7 (11:00):
Yeah, yeah, absolutely, absolutely them. No, you don't waste them.
If you put him in the fridge, I can actually
you can actually you can actually not in the freeze,
but in the fridge. You can keep them stopping the
development to do it when you want to do it.
If you want to work with the moon, you can
do it that way. But personally, yeah, thank you. It's
(11:24):
your way to go off.
Speaker 2 (11:25):
You go, take care and Margaret a very good morning.
Speaker 9 (11:32):
It's made the old big.
Speaker 7 (11:38):
There's got to be gusy.
Speaker 9 (11:41):
Now we've we've got a lot of wasps. We've got
plenty flowers and everything, and we can get everything right.
But yeah, what do we do about the wasps?
Speaker 7 (11:58):
Which wasp Saturday, Margaret?
Speaker 9 (12:01):
The ones with the legs hanging down mostly.
Speaker 7 (12:04):
Ah, these are the paper wasps. Good, that is reasonably easy.
Do you know where the nests are?
Speaker 1 (12:11):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (12:11):
We could, now it's pretty because it's we live in
a little cular sac and everything's here. Sah Okay.
Speaker 7 (12:21):
What I tend to do and ask people that are.
If you like quick and easy and all that sort
of stuff, that's yourself one of those wasps within a
butterfly net for instance, or something like that. Chuck it
in the freezer for four minutes so that they get
stunned and don't do anything. Put a piece of red
(12:42):
or blue or some bright colored wool or cotton around
it's admen, and let it go where you caught it,
and you'll find it easier to follow those wasps where
they have they'll go back to the nest and you
can actually follow them. It might be a bit of
a trick to do it, but the point is you
(13:02):
can't find the nested way once.
Speaker 9 (13:05):
You got Actually, I think they're different wasps because some
of them are just hovering little ones and they're just yeah, yeah,
they're still.
Speaker 7 (13:21):
They still have to go back to the nest at
some stage. We're getting to the end of that though. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:27):
Okay from there.
Speaker 2 (13:29):
Good luck with that, Margaret, all the very very best you. Denise,
Hello there.
Speaker 10 (13:35):
Yes, good morning to both. Found a very unusual insects
in my garden. It looks a bit like a caterpillar.
It's got four legs and two large, large feelers in
the front. It's about two centimeters long, and it looks
like a caterpillar at the back, but at the front
(13:56):
it's a totally different insect and it's a muncher. From
my rose, I couldn't make out what was eating my rose.
I've never seen anything like it. Very dark brown, and
the ribs of it, like the rolls of the Canipali.
Part of it is black, but every now and again
(14:18):
it's got this very yellow gold change of color in it.
Speaker 7 (14:24):
And it's on your roses? Is it? Yeah? Yeah, okay, yeah,
go on.
Speaker 10 (14:33):
I'm in the baioplanting and I just think it's very
if it's something that shouldn't be here, because it's certainly
a muncha.
Speaker 7 (14:41):
Yeah, I could imagine if that if if it makes you,
it may it makes you sit up and watch, then
that's exactly what it is. So have you got a smartphone, Denise?
Speaker 10 (14:51):
Yes?
Speaker 7 (14:53):
Can you download an app called I Naturalist, So it's
one word I and then naturalist or one word It
is quite easy to do. It doesn't you need to,
but if you can take a really good shot photo
of that creature and loaded up to I Naturalist, you
(15:14):
will get an identity, A proper scientific identity within ten
seconds fifteen seconds.
Speaker 10 (15:23):
Okay, so just just just a little eye.
Speaker 7 (15:27):
With a dot. Yeah, it doesn't matter if it's if
it's capital or not. I. So the letter I with
the dot on it. If you like naturalist not to
ra list, that's it and you'll find that is one
of them. Actually, that is really good if you're guiding,
because weed and other plants you can identify them with
I Naturalists as well, not just caterpillars, not just but birds,
(15:49):
sounds and things like that too. Also everything that everything
on the planet can be identified by I Naturalists. There
you go, Now, I'm not kidding. And that helps you
to go on Google and find out what it is.
Speaker 10 (16:03):
And you know what I mean, I feel somewhat where
would I contact her if I find it's not a
not a nice little creature?
Speaker 7 (16:12):
Well, what you can do is you can then do
some controlling. You can ask your local if you've got
the name of it, the people in your local garden
center will be able to tell you what it is.
And you know, there are many different very safe in
secticides you can use to stop these things from working around.
Speaker 10 (16:29):
Yeah, it's just that you know, I can control that
in my back gut. But it's where as it comes from.
That's the other concern. You know.
Speaker 7 (16:37):
Goodness, no, this is why we need identified first step
one and let me give give us a call back
when you've got it. You can do a bit. Oh wait,
hundred eighty eighty is very simple.
Speaker 2 (16:50):
Let us know how you get on, Denise, Thank you
very much for your call. A couple of quick texts.
Someone who's got a peartree a couple of years old
seems to be of some sort of type of rust
or something taking over the leaves. Small spots too, have
used copper spray to know in any thoughts or recommendations
from Bread.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Yes, I would have used a copper or a copper
and sulfur, which is jah Major's way. Fungal spray, which
has got both ingredients. That should basically stop that. But
it doesn't. It doesn't mean that the leaves he will,
of course immediately they won't, but new leaves will not
show the same symptom. That is how these fungicides work.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
Okay, appreciate that. How often should you fertilize lemon or
mandarin trees?
Speaker 7 (17:43):
I would start doing that in springtime you can because
it's still warm. Have a go now, a little bit
just by hand, you know, a handful to the square
meter type stuff.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
But especially in springtime that's when the growth really starts
to ever go. And so spring dome, say September over November.
So September November, and you could ever go again in
January if you like.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
So, not a lot of point in doing it now.
Speaker 7 (18:13):
No, it's still warm enough to it's there's still a
bit they would still take some stuff up. The soil
is still quite warmed for still at least May. So yeah,
you could.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
You're on the edge now, given that we talked about chainsaws,
this is a good question for you. Right now, my
healthy passion fruit plant has suddenly started losing all of
its leaves from Mark, healthy passion fruit suddenly turned up
the toes. What's happening there, Rid, I don't know.
Speaker 7 (18:41):
I planted through here we go, Here we go, Peter,
I've planted to passion fruits at home. One of them
is doing exactly what this person says. The other one
that is growing really quick.
Speaker 2 (19:00):
There's no there's no rhyme or reason.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
Sometimes no, you have no idea what it is?
Speaker 2 (19:06):
That fabulous? Right, So you're going to go on, fire
up the chainsaw to get rid of the flax. I'm
going to go home and fire up the cordless sander,
very efficient and probably make a lot less noise than you.
So next week on the show, we'll see who had
the most complaints.
Speaker 7 (19:21):
I can hear you from here.
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Yeah, all right, I'm going to blame you. Hey, have
a great day. We'll talk to you next Sunday. Route
all the very best and folks, I'll actually be back
on Friday. I'm going to be here doing Friday Breakfast
with Petro Bagist. Actually that'll be great. So we'll see
you good Friday, and then we'll be back here talking
all things building next Sunday as well. Have a great week.
Speaker 1 (19:43):
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