April 19, 2025 • 30 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for 20th April 2025, Ruud explains how to repot plants, how to protect butterflies and deter insects, how to revive dead trees and curling leaves, and why fruit trees can flower after years of inactivity.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Had climb Pass.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Good morning, sir, Good morning ce Pierre ro, Good.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Morning, A happy Easter to you.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, you is it Easter Sunday? No, Look, we always
call it Easter Sunday's world, and I do too. Yeah,
we had the same It's probably because we are of
a certain age and we it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Might be age, it might be backgrounded. What came out
because I actually quite like that discussion and in the
sense that through our experiences we have terminology that it
reflects sort of where we come from and how we
understand the world. So what came out in this discussion,
just via the text, is that, like I would say
(00:57):
Easter Sunday because I'm of the Catholic tradition, and so
that's the language that we use. Easter Day is often
used within the Anglican tradition. So when you hear it,
it reflects something about where you come from. And I
guess you know, in a standardized language, we don't have
those differences. But I always I remember being in the
Netherlands watching the TV news, right, this is like forty
(01:19):
years ago, and they had some farmer from from Frishland
for example, who was being interviewed and they put sub
They had subtext, right, they had to translate him. Yeah,
and you know, you've got all of these dialects and
so on, which is part of sort of an old tradition.
As Dutch got standardized, there's less dialect, but you also
(01:41):
lose some language and some color and some insight into
how people see the world. So I love that part
about language.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, good, now totally, that's exactly what it's about. It's good,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That's the difference.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And you know what you're talking about all these little things.
The last few times on the air, you've been mentioning
the trips you made when you were a youngerson, and
I and A meant to constantly say something because you know,
I've I got the same feeling that you have, you know, yeah,
mucking around all over the world when I was a
student and being a really really really amazing student, because
(02:18):
it took me about nine or ten years to get that.
I was very thorough, you know, And the point was
that every winter I hated being in the Netlis because
it's too cold, and I would go to Spain, in
Sri Lanka and all. It's really crazy places. That's it,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And yeah, and I think sometimes that's just a personal thing,
isn't it. Like I love travel, and so you know,
you kind of go. I don't know, do I want
another type of house or whatever? Or do you go?
Do I want to travel? And my inclination is to
go I'd rather travel.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, same time, I was always like that, always like that.
I still thought I should go back to Mongolia. That
was something else again.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, yeah, I suspect your travel is a bit more
extensive than mine.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
But well I was a tour leader for a while.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And why does that not surprise me? Somehow? That surprise me?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
In fact, somebody asked me, can you do it to
to the chettam Islands. Now I've been there a couple
of times.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Why not get you I'll read about it on the
way down there you.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Go, there you are? You got it?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Fantastic, right he Hey, and thank you too. I did
get your package the other day with the tomato seeds?
What do I do?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Now?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Keep them till springtime? Till your normal time for planting it.
This is a large version of cherry tomatoes, and it's
called Gardener's Delight. It's it's incredibly beautiful to eat, and
it is. It's a it's a it's a it's I
still pick them now, can you?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, fantastic. I really appreciate that. That's lovely.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I've got the seats from I got the original seats
from a friend in Tiana that I did bird bending
with last year. So this is how it. See, that's
another thing about gardening. We're all connecting with each other,
and I love that stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, I can't resist this text because now now we're
on the Easter Today Easter Sunday thing. I can't get
off of someone's text through. I'm Anglican and I've never
used these today. I've always called it Easter Sunday, whereas
someone else said, look, you know, in one tradition you
call it Easter Sunday, and another tradition you call it
(04:29):
East Today. So mystery continues. I love the language radio.
Let's get amongst it. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty win stretch our legs. We've got no commercials this
morning on the program, and let's start with you John, Hey,
good morning.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Big morning route.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Dear.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yeah, looking for a simple answer. First time ever you've
come to the wrong gardens been inundated by small little
white fly. They are one to two millimeters you know
what they are. They're on the underleaves of the kale,
the zucchini, the cabbages, tomatoes. You brush path, you get
a big you know, clear out of these white flight
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east planters and fell.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
If it is real WildFly, white flight as you know it,
then I think, especially on crops that you will be eating,
use nem oil and do it in a regular basis
in the springtime when these things starting. But if they're
still going, that's quite late, because I don't think I've
got a I had a few in my tunnel house,
but they've gone. And I used the same sort of
(05:36):
thing for on my tomatoes, just a bit of kneem oil,
and they don't like that underside and the top side
of the leaves are spray both sides.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
So that's quite a labor and pens of sort of job.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
If you've got three or four tall.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Tail plants and it's to get right under them.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, But if you have a very if you have
a sprayer that makes it really fine misty spray that
will especially if it's if it's wind there's not much
wind around, you'll find that it will go to the bottom,
it goes, it circles around and basically does both both
surfaces lifted upwards, go from the top to the bottom,
(06:19):
go from the bottom to the top lifted up And
it doesn't really take that long.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Okay, I hope, thanks very much everybody. Easter Sunday.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Go well, John a good one, I love it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Good morning to you, Deanna. How are you?
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Oh good?
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Now?
Speaker 8 (06:39):
What I want to ask Rug is ken Spider's his?
When I was a girl, or seventy more than seventy
years ago, we used to play up up on the
hills and Wellington and in the broom bushes we'd make
little hats. And anyway, I was in my little hat
and I had a mat at the door and doorway
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sort of and I was doing my house where rushing
our moved the mat and I was brushing and a
spider came out of a hole and the dirt and
I got such a fright. I got a wee stick
and I've sort of pope at it to make it
go away. But what the spider did it poked its
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two front legs out and charged the stick and hissed.
Now when I tell people that they last, they don't
believe it. But honestly, I got such a frog. I
slammed the mat down on the spider and I didn't
go back in that hut again. But what I want
to know is spiders do his? Do they? I mean
(07:45):
I've heard it. Yep, you heard a spider hiss.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well it's it's a hissing. It's actually a noise that
they make to actually defend themselves. I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
there was a noise, Yeah, exactly. Yeah, they can do that.
And they can also do that by basically and a
lot of insects and a lot of invertebles can do that.
They can rub their legs over the surface or over
the and make that the key key uh. Wetter do
(08:14):
that as well. They can make an absolute noise that
say get out of there.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Oh, I'm so glad to that because people didn't believe me.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
If you see a wetter and it raises its legs,
it has on the on the underside of its leg
a little a couple of raised pimples that it can
rub over its its thighs.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Can rub over the its body and that goes like
that too.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
It was it was a hissing sound and it charged
that we stick and I got touch of right. Well.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
And when and when they do that, Diana, they have
no sense of humor. They really mean it.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Yeah, oh yeah, I know this this wonder.
Speaker 10 (09:01):
Anyway.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
That's good. So people don't have to laugh at me anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
They don't have to tell them. There you go.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Okay, thank you for story.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Thank you Dean, all the very vost. We've got time
for your calls as well. Oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty is that number to call? Uh John, good
morning to you.
Speaker 11 (09:21):
Because there was a job before. So I'm the job
of the twenty of palms? Is that the one? Go
for it?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah? You're kenty of palms? John? How are you mate?
Speaker 11 (09:28):
It's your parm John?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Good.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Thanks.
Speaker 11 (09:30):
I've got a six twenty of palms that I purchased
many many years ago, and I may have purchased them
from you. Did you used to live in Langholm. Yes,
that's right down the hill from the roundabout.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
On the left.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Yes, yeah, I think I think I got them from
you know, anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Well be, but I can't. I probably had some things
left over. Did I actually charged for those things you did?
Speaker 11 (09:56):
I was building lockal house restaurant on the top. I
needed six palms for the inside.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I see, okay, yeah, no, yeah, there could have been.
This is the long time ago many.
Speaker 11 (10:07):
I bought six of them when I was sile, gave
them two friends and look out before died off. I've
got two left. There's quite a long time ago. But
they're actually if I think they need bigger pots. They're
about two meters tall. And my concern is that if
I leave them too long in the pots they're in now,
will they die?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well, they could do, because they really do need to
stretch their legs.
Speaker 11 (10:29):
Yeah right, Okay, isn't a good.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Idea to plant? To plant them outside? Maybe if you
don't want a huge pot and having to wreck your
butt back to change their position, you know what I mean?
Speaker 11 (10:42):
Well, that may that may be an option action. But
I'm actually moving south south and I was trying to
work out whether I keep them more sell them. So,
but my concern is the pots. They look a bit potbound.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Okay, yeah, okay, you can do that. The other thing
is of course, if you are moving, and if you
want to move them, leave them in the pot until you've.
Speaker 11 (11:01):
Moved, right, Yeah, if.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
That's if that's the case, you know, because they know
where they are at. And then if they're going to
a new place, you can actually either let them go
in the wild, or you can get them a really
big pot and make sure that you know where the
pot's going to be so you don't have to shift
the two of them.
Speaker 11 (11:19):
Yeah, that's true, but I think sting them in the
ground is probably the way to go because they're getting
quite big. Absolutely, that's all I need to know, So
they will die if I don't do something about it,
and reasonably soon.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah. Well, they don't like to be pot bound really
for the rest of their lives. There you go.
Speaker 11 (11:36):
No, all right, thank you very much for that, much appreciated.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You have a great day. John, thank you very much.
And Rachel, good morning to you.
Speaker 10 (11:46):
Oh, good morning. I'm just ringing. We had bought some
beautiful blue bamboo, like sort of five big punts of it,
quite pricey, about five hundred dollars fruit, and then we
rented our property out for a while and when we've
come back, it's all gone to seed and sort of
gone yellow. It's got the tiny odd little bit of
(12:08):
green foliage on it. And I'm just wondering if once
it's gone to seed that it is it sort of
just did Now no new little tubers down the bottom
or anything like that, like everything's gone to seed.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Oh really? And is there no new gross it's a
real bamboo, isn't it the tropical blue?
Speaker 10 (12:28):
It is the tropical blue. It's got the beautiful blue.
And I did it. It was a gorgeous sort of
five big clumps. Normally you can see the little tubers
coming up down the bottom. There's only a couple of
little bits of greenery on some of them, but it's
all gone sort of yellowy brown, and with.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
All the seed, it doesn't look good. No tell me,
so did you ever get new shoots from the bottom?
Speaker 10 (12:58):
Oh yes, we did, we did before before we as
I said, we've rented our house that has come back.
We're out in West Aalkland and now it's all gone
on to see like it's such a shame because it
was really beautiful and there's no little We've got other
bamboo grown on our property that we purposely planted, and
they've all got the little you know tubers and beautiful
(13:20):
new shoots coming through. This has gotten not a single
So I was thinking, is that just looking up online?
And I think once it goes to seed, it's.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
To be quite honest, I have never grown it, and
I could have grown it in Langome and Tityungi where
I was, but I've never grown And in fact I
got rid of some of the bamboo head and meatal
bank at Substates because it was a real vagrant thing
that went everything.
Speaker 10 (13:46):
These aren't these aren't the horrible ones. These are the
specialty ones you buy on purpose to play.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I know exactly what you mean, because I've seen them,
and there was a bamboo grower in west Auckland somewhere.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
We've got them.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yes, that's the one. Expect memories. No, I can't tell
you why, why why this blue bamboo is suffering or
why it is going down to gurgle, especially especially when
you pay quite a bit of money for it. So
you go back to that particular person and see what
(14:20):
the story is.
Speaker 10 (14:21):
And I will go back.
Speaker 12 (14:23):
I will go back.
Speaker 10 (14:23):
I just I've tried to. I don't know if that's
not water, but I think when I did read it,
sometimes you don't really know when they're going to go
to seed, but when they go to seed that they
sort of die, and it seems to be what happened.
But I'm just hoping that, you know, just watering them
and putting malt around them and trying to take here
and see if it will revive itself. But I thought
i'd bring and see if you knew any tricks. But
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we'll go back out and then ask her.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I'm sorry, I've never seen I've never done the blue bamboo.
I know what it looks like. It looks absolutely gorgeous, axtually.
Speaker 10 (14:55):
Okay, thank you very much. Okay, well, bye.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Bye, Rachel.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And it's kind of unusual, isn't it real that like
most of the time if we talk bamboo, we're talking
about trying to get rid of it. Yeah, oh yeah,
it's it is so prolific that and you.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Know what you need for bamboo to contain it or
get rid of it. You need to build it with
one of those things that go seventy centimeters deep into
the soil and trench and leave the trench open. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Water process, water process, hard to get rid of. Right here, Johnny,
talk to me about monarch. Butterflies.
Speaker 12 (15:31):
Oh, some mone guys.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Is there a parrot in the back you're going to
what is it?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I was just going to say cockadiles, Yeah, exactly. Anyway,
they're lovely. Yeah.
Speaker 12 (15:47):
They like imitating the phone ringing at five am.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, they do. I love it.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
We've had swamp plans for a few years to help
pollination with all that fro trees were on a quarter
of akroom. We've got dozens of different trees all sort
of stuck together but doing well. Everything's great, but last
year the bronachs just dropped off and just bite. Having
lots and lots of swan plants, we had hardly any
and normally there's hundreds and hundreds of them. I've noticed
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that some of the cocoons are being wiped out. I've
seen the praying mantis is attacking the caterpillars and eating them, yea,
eating them alive. And they're not just the Aussie or
South African praying mantesters. They're are native ones too. They
munched them head first, as prague mentiss do. But we
(16:42):
also have these parasitic wasps that are invading a peach tree,
and I wonder if they might be also munching on
my cocoons.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
You're talking about you call them parasitic quest. Are you
talking about the paperwork or.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
Ones they pour into the fruit? Yeah, oh yeah, we've
got those, the little black things. Yeah. And we've also
got German wasps.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah, okay, there you are. So the German wasps and
the and the the other one, the whatever the paper was,
you got it. They love to eat protein and they
will have a go at all your caterpillars. The moment
they know there's caterpillars there, they put it on their
GPS and I'm not joking, they'll know. So what I
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tend to do with my swamp plants is they're in pots.
I put them on the other side of the house,
or move them about ten meters in a different direction,
and then they come back and you see them scratching
their head, going, I'm sure they were here. You know,
there were some caporis and they're all gone. That is
the best way to protect your caterpillars from that sort
of attacks. Gosh, yeah, go.
Speaker 12 (17:52):
On, yeah, we see this with things returning. There's heroes
returning to a construction site that was once a swamp.
So I guess it's the same in the insect world.
This is the birds. They return and.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
They remember where they were, remember where it is, And
that's the that is the cool thing. The moment they
discovered it on the other side of the house. You
just put it on the other side of the house
again and they go like somebody's playing a game here,
you know what I mean. But it's yeah, it wonderful
works wonderfully, Johnny, that's the way to go.
Speaker 12 (18:23):
Thank you, Thank you very much, have a grady that and.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Welcome all this, Johnny. Take care. Actually, quick text. Is
it normal for deadly nightshade to be so prolific at
the moment?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yes, it can be. Actually, it's it's at the moment.
I've got quite a bit of nightshade as well.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah I've noticed it too. Yeah, pardon my ignorance, But
why do they call it deadly nightshade? And is it
actually deadly? And I say this after sending my young
fellow out to clean it all out the other day
and then I went, oh, by the way, that was
deadly nightshade.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yeah, we're gloves right, okay. And the reason is it
actually also does some nasty stuff to your skin sometimes.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Right, The leaves or the little blackberries that are on there.
All three fantastic.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Everything, right, So especially the berries, but the leaves and
the and the stuff that they exude from their stems
is not good for you either, so that's why. And
I've got reasonably sensitive skin, so I tend to wear
gloves for that.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah right, okay, I'll remember that for next time.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, sorry, right, owen a very good morning.
Speaker 13 (19:33):
Good morning to you today. I just wanted to ask.
I just wanted to ask route. I've got to pit
a forum tree which is about five six meters tall,
and because its roots had been all underneath the deck
that it grew out from underneath, we didn't click that
it was dying in the drought because it must have
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been getting its water source from our the hell that
slights up from our house. And all the leaves have
died off on it. And I'm thinking un answer of
bringing it back, you know, like should I cut it
off and let regrow sort of takeover or is it
pretty well gone once all the leaders A did on it.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Not necessarily, it depends entirely. Have you watered You've got
watered it now, haven't you.
Speaker 13 (20:22):
I've watered it since and then the' ahead of them,
a nicer cyclone come through and done the job for
me for free.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yes, I realized that. Yeah, they're very handy. They're almost
Dutch cyclones, aren't they.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Anyway, yes, have a go. You're never lost with these things.
You never know until it absolutely finishes. But if it
just gets new foliage on, it might referbs yourself back
into a system. You might have a much shorter tree.
But it could happen. And if it doesn't, you know,
we're not to plant them next time. I suppose, well,
(20:57):
this show was not planted by you.
Speaker 13 (21:00):
Yeah, should I cut it? Should I cut it off?
Shall I truncate it to help us?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
You don't have to. And you can see where do
the new leaves come from if they come back, and
if it's at the top or higher up, then if
you would have cut it and you've lost it, you
would never know. You can always cut it later, don't worry.
Speaker 13 (21:19):
Brilliant, Thank you for your help.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
See were very best you and thank you very much.
And Paul, good morning here.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Good morning, Rude. I've got a beetle that I found
in my garden and I've never seen one before. It's
like dary milk chocolate brown with two dark brown stripes.
It's about two centimeters long, quite a fat, chovy wehee thing,
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and the front legs have been developed as princes, a
bit like a miniature pray fish. Now, as I say,
I have never seen them before.
Speaker 12 (22:03):
I tried.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
I Naturalist, and they came back with a very helpful
answer of niche project, try a wild species, so they
must have full hours grown these bloody things.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
You really, I've never heard of naturally is doing that?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
I think twice, and I've got the same answer back.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Have you got good photos of it?
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Reasonably because you need.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Sharp photos, not too you know, not too small? Da
da da da da da da. And I am wondering
what's going on here? Can you send a photo to
Peter Wolfcap.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
If you can email it through to me Kevin, So,
just Peter or Pete at news txy b, so just
Pete at newstoxib dot co dot in is it? And
then I'll forward it on.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Too and I'll have a look and i'll check it
off this and I'll chuck it on I Naturalist and
see what I can do. Because I am quite interested
in the response.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'll try that and we'll get that sort of out.
That'll be awesome pulled, that'll be fantastic. Hey, now, just
on the night shade, is there a difference between black
nightshade and Deadley night shape?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah, kind of. There's all sorts of different species, but
they all have these dark berries anyway, right, similar sort
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Okay, all right, good to know. Might to be specific
on these things. Seven minutes away from nine o'clock, David,
good morning.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Good morning.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Oh how are you rude?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Better?
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Good morning?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Very good god, how rude?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Good?
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Thank you. I was cleaning out the grate across a
driveway just to ordinary one, and I always clean it
out anyway. One time I was doing there and I
lifted the greater and I saw this pink thing sticking out,
and what the hell is this? It looked quite set,
and I pulled it out gently and it was a
(24:04):
bloody worm about six six cinameters long. Yeah, but it's fat.
It was about I don't know one and a half
one half cinmeters diameter. I've never seen. I pulled it
out very gently, and I dug a hole in the garden.
I put them back in there and covered them. I've
(24:25):
never seen anything like it.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Hang on, David, you're you're digging out a drain. Is
that what you said?
Speaker 11 (24:32):
Cleaning a dress?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Was that was that that particular worm flat on one side?
Speaker 13 (24:43):
No, it was totally round?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Was round? Okay? So we have about seventy species of
earthworm in New Zealand, maybe maybe more.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Oh wow, And.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
It could be one of them if that's the case.
And I've seen them very light, pinky colored if you like,
and and it could be it. Did it have one
of those little ring around or at the end of
its body? Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (25:09):
No, that's a making thing.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
No, yes, No, that's an egg. That's an egg laying
transformation thing. That's right, yeah, you go, you're good. Good
on you. Right, So it didn't have that. That may
mean that this could well be a native earthworm and
they come in all yeah. Absolutely, And that's all I
can say.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Really, that's all right, Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You're more than welcome. But that's always cool when you
see something that is quite unexpected in color, isn't it.
Speaker 13 (25:40):
Very strange?
Speaker 12 (25:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I reckon, it's adaya.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
There you go, all the very busy David. Thank you
very much for that. And Rod, greetings, Yes, question for rude.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Now, I've got a picturine tree. It's been it's two
years old. The first year it was then that was
very healthy, doing very very well, and then last spring
got very badly with leaf curl.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Now, I sprayed it with all the appropriate things and
I pulled off all the leaves curled. But the tree
really hasn't recovered. And I'm just wondering whether I should
pull it out and get rid of it. And another one,
probably in a different spot, just surely, because I had
heard that some trees are what was susceptible to courl
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than others.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Absolutely. And you know what, Rod, you are one of
the most amazingly brilliant callers that rings exactly at the
right time.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
True.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I have last night last night till about midnight, I
wrote my next script for Jack Tame that I do
on Saturday mornings, right, and the topic is Tafrina deformance,
which is the fungal name of the bugger that causes
leaf curl. And the reason is I always complain when
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callers call in the middle of spring and summer saying
I've got leaf girl, You're six months too late now
is the time to spray while the leaves are falling off,
to spray your whole tree with copper or copper and sulfur.
But in this case copper would be going. Well, any copper,
spray all over that thing. And you do it a
(27:26):
week later on again, and you could do it after
that again. And what you're doing is here you're killing
the spores that attack your trees and the leaves in springtime.
Now is the time to get those buggers out. It
is literally to the week almost.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Ye, that makes sense. So you think the trill would
cover absolutely?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Oh good news. I wasn't expecting that. I was thinking, look,
you just got to accept that some things don't last.
River and arending thing out with the chains.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Or but yeah, get no, get here we go. Spray
grim is brought to you by still Shot. But honestly,
you got it. It's important to get that stuff under control. Now,
can you do it again? So if you listen this
next week and yeah, go on.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
So you can soak the ground round about too, because
imagine that spores are in the ground as well.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
No they're not, No, they're not. They're they're on the
on the leaves and on the on the twigs and
all that sort of stuff, not in the ground at all.
But the cool thing is that I've written everything that
is to know about what I told you about in
a one a four page and that's going to go
on the news dogs that'd B website next week, next coming.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So right, you can find that easily. That's great, Rod,
thank you very much. Now we've got about one a
less than one minute. So Linda, feed you a tree
not flowering.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
It's about four meters tall.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
For the last two years I haven't flowered and produced fruit.
This year, no flowers, but lots of fruit.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Because you did have flowers. I'm sure you did the flowers,
which you didn't see them. Look, fijos, we've got the
same problem. You need a lot more fertilized, especially stuff
with uh potash in it. Sulfate of potash on top
of your normal fertilizer. That would do it for you. Okay,
easy weight are welcome.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
And the sulfate of potash is not in p K.
That's slightly different.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
And self of potash is as as something to boost potash.
You can get it at your garden center.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Appreciate that. Hey, you enjoy your day and you do it.
Let's let's do it again next weekend.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yeah at some stake.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
All right, much appreciated, all the nervous you take care
of it, radio folks. I hope you have a lovely day.
If you were, family and network, I will be today.
Enjoy your Easter, take care and we'll be back with
you again next Sunday. Here at New Saltzy B. Nothing
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Speaker 3 (30:11):
Stormery feels forever.
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Speaker 2 (00:19):
Had climb Pass.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Good morning, sir, Good morning ce Pierre ro, Good.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Morning, A happy Easter to you.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Yeah, you is it Easter Sunday? No, Look, we always
call it Easter Sunday's world, and I do too. Yeah,
we had the same It's probably because we are of
a certain age and we it.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Might be age, it might be backgrounded. What came out
because I actually quite like that discussion and in the
sense that through our experiences we have terminology that it
reflects sort of where we come from and how we
understand the world. So what came out in this discussion,
just via the text, is that, like I would say
(00:57):
Easter Sunday because I'm of the Catholic tradition, and so
that's the language that we use. Easter Day is often
used within the Anglican tradition. So when you hear it,
it reflects something about where you come from. And I
guess you know, in a standardized language, we don't have
those differences. But I always I remember being in the
Netherlands watching the TV news, right, this is like forty
(01:19):
years ago, and they had some farmer from from Frishland
for example, who was being interviewed and they put sub
They had subtext, right, they had to translate him. Yeah,
and you know, you've got all of these dialects and
so on, which is part of sort of an old tradition.
As Dutch got standardized, there's less dialect, but you also
(01:41):
lose some language and some color and some insight into
how people see the world. So I love that part
about language.
Speaker 3 (01:48):
Yeah, good, now totally, that's exactly what it's about. It's good,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (01:52):
That's the difference.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
And you know what you're talking about all these little things.
The last few times on the air, you've been mentioning
the trips you made when you were a youngerson, and
I and A meant to constantly say something because you know,
I've I got the same feeling that you have, you know, yeah,
mucking around all over the world when I was a
student and being a really really really amazing student, because
(02:18):
it took me about nine or ten years to get that.
I was very thorough, you know, And the point was
that every winter I hated being in the Netlis because
it's too cold, and I would go to Spain, in
Sri Lanka and all. It's really crazy places. That's it,
isn't it.
Speaker 2 (02:34):
And yeah, and I think sometimes that's just a personal thing,
isn't it. Like I love travel, and so you know,
you kind of go. I don't know, do I want
another type of house or whatever? Or do you go?
Do I want to travel? And my inclination is to
go I'd rather travel.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Yeah, same time, I was always like that, always like that.
I still thought I should go back to Mongolia. That
was something else again.
Speaker 2 (02:59):
Yeah, yeah, I suspect your travel is a bit more
extensive than mine.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
But well I was a tour leader for a while.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
And why does that not surprise me? Somehow? That surprise me?
Speaker 3 (03:12):
In fact, somebody asked me, can you do it to
to the chettam Islands. Now I've been there a couple
of times.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Why not get you I'll read about it on the
way down there you.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
Go, there you are? You got it?
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Fantastic, right he Hey, and thank you too. I did
get your package the other day with the tomato seeds?
What do I do?
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Now?
Speaker 3 (03:33):
Keep them till springtime? Till your normal time for planting it.
This is a large version of cherry tomatoes, and it's
called Gardener's Delight. It's it's incredibly beautiful to eat, and
it is. It's a it's a it's a it's I
still pick them now, can you?
Speaker 2 (03:52):
Yeah, fantastic. I really appreciate that. That's lovely.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
I've got the seats from I got the original seats
from a friend in Tiana that I did bird bending
with last year. So this is how it. See, that's
another thing about gardening. We're all connecting with each other,
and I love that stuff.
Speaker 2 (04:08):
Yeah, I can't resist this text because now now we're
on the Easter Today Easter Sunday thing. I can't get
off of someone's text through. I'm Anglican and I've never
used these today. I've always called it Easter Sunday, whereas
someone else said, look, you know, in one tradition you
call it Easter Sunday, and another tradition you call it
(04:29):
East Today. So mystery continues. I love the language radio.
Let's get amongst it. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty win stretch our legs. We've got no commercials this
morning on the program, and let's start with you John, Hey,
good morning.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Big morning route.
Speaker 4 (04:46):
Dear.
Speaker 5 (04:47):
Yeah, looking for a simple answer. First time ever you've
come to the wrong gardens been inundated by small little
white fly. They are one to two millimeters you know
what they are. They're on the underleaves of the kale,
the zucchini, the cabbages, tomatoes. You brush path, you get
a big you know, clear out of these white flight
(05:11):
east planters and fell.
Speaker 3 (05:14):
If it is real WildFly, white flight as you know it,
then I think, especially on crops that you will be eating,
use nem oil and do it in a regular basis
in the springtime when these things starting. But if they're
still going, that's quite late, because I don't think I've
got a I had a few in my tunnel house,
but they've gone. And I used the same sort of
(05:36):
thing for on my tomatoes, just a bit of kneem oil,
and they don't like that underside and the top side
of the leaves are spray both sides.
Speaker 5 (05:46):
So that's quite a labor and pens of sort of job.
Speaker 6 (05:49):
If you've got three or four tall.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
Tail plants and it's to get right under them.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Yeah, But if you have a very if you have
a sprayer that makes it really fine misty spray that
will especially if it's if it's wind there's not much
wind around, you'll find that it will go to the bottom,
it goes, it circles around and basically does both both
surfaces lifted upwards, go from the top to the bottom,
(06:19):
go from the bottom to the top lifted up And
it doesn't really take that long.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Okay, I hope, thanks very much everybody. Easter Sunday.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
Go well, John a good one, I love it.
Speaker 2 (06:35):
Good morning to you, Deanna. How are you?
Speaker 8 (06:37):
Oh good?
Speaker 7 (06:38):
Now?
Speaker 8 (06:39):
What I want to ask Rug is ken Spider's his?
When I was a girl, or seventy more than seventy
years ago, we used to play up up on the
hills and Wellington and in the broom bushes we'd make
little hats. And anyway, I was in my little hat
and I had a mat at the door and doorway
(07:00):
sort of and I was doing my house where rushing
our moved the mat and I was brushing and a
spider came out of a hole and the dirt and
I got such a fright. I got a wee stick
and I've sort of pope at it to make it
go away. But what the spider did it poked its
(07:21):
two front legs out and charged the stick and hissed.
Now when I tell people that they last, they don't
believe it. But honestly, I got such a frog. I
slammed the mat down on the spider and I didn't
go back in that hut again. But what I want
to know is spiders do his? Do they? I mean
(07:45):
I've heard it. Yep, you heard a spider hiss.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Well it's it's a hissing. It's actually a noise that
they make to actually defend themselves. I don't know. Yeah, yeah,
there was a noise, Yeah, exactly. Yeah, they can do that.
And they can also do that by basically and a
lot of insects and a lot of invertebles can do that.
They can rub their legs over the surface or over
the and make that the key key uh. Wetter do
(08:14):
that as well. They can make an absolute noise that
say get out of there.
Speaker 8 (08:19):
Oh, I'm so glad to that because people didn't believe me.
Speaker 9 (08:24):
If you see a wetter and it raises its legs,
it has on the on the underside of its leg
a little a couple of raised pimples that it can
rub over its its thighs.
Speaker 3 (08:38):
Can rub over the its body and that goes like
that too.
Speaker 8 (08:43):
It was it was a hissing sound and it charged
that we stick and I got touch of right. Well.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
And when and when they do that, Diana, they have
no sense of humor. They really mean it.
Speaker 8 (08:56):
Yeah, oh yeah, I know this this wonder.
Speaker 10 (09:01):
Anyway.
Speaker 8 (09:01):
That's good. So people don't have to laugh at me anymore.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
They don't have to tell them. There you go.
Speaker 5 (09:09):
Okay, thank you for story.
Speaker 2 (09:11):
Thank you Dean, all the very vost. We've got time
for your calls as well. Oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty is that number to call? Uh John, good
morning to you.
Speaker 11 (09:21):
Because there was a job before. So I'm the job
of the twenty of palms? Is that the one? Go
for it?
Speaker 3 (09:24):
Yeah? You're kenty of palms? John? How are you mate?
Speaker 11 (09:28):
It's your parm John?
Speaker 6 (09:29):
Good.
Speaker 5 (09:29):
Thanks.
Speaker 11 (09:30):
I've got a six twenty of palms that I purchased
many many years ago, and I may have purchased them
from you. Did you used to live in Langholm. Yes,
that's right down the hill from the roundabout.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
On the left.
Speaker 11 (09:43):
Yes, yeah, I think I think I got them from
you know, anyway.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Well be, but I can't. I probably had some things
left over. Did I actually charged for those things you did?
Speaker 11 (09:56):
I was building lockal house restaurant on the top. I
needed six palms for the inside.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
I see, okay, yeah, no, yeah, there could have been.
This is the long time ago many.
Speaker 11 (10:07):
I bought six of them when I was sile, gave
them two friends and look out before died off. I've
got two left. There's quite a long time ago. But
they're actually if I think they need bigger pots. They're
about two meters tall. And my concern is that if
I leave them too long in the pots they're in now,
will they die?
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Well, they could do, because they really do need to
stretch their legs.
Speaker 11 (10:29):
Yeah right, Okay, isn't a good.
Speaker 3 (10:32):
Idea to plant? To plant them outside? Maybe if you
don't want a huge pot and having to wreck your
butt back to change their position, you know what I mean?
Speaker 11 (10:42):
Well, that may that may be an option action. But
I'm actually moving south south and I was trying to
work out whether I keep them more sell them. So,
but my concern is the pots. They look a bit potbound.
Speaker 3 (10:52):
Okay, yeah, okay, you can do that. The other thing
is of course, if you are moving, and if you
want to move them, leave them in the pot until you've.
Speaker 11 (11:01):
Moved, right, Yeah, if.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
That's if that's the case, you know, because they know
where they are at. And then if they're going to
a new place, you can actually either let them go
in the wild, or you can get them a really
big pot and make sure that you know where the
pot's going to be so you don't have to shift
the two of them.
Speaker 11 (11:19):
Yeah, that's true, but I think sting them in the
ground is probably the way to go because they're getting
quite big. Absolutely, that's all I need to know, So
they will die if I don't do something about it,
and reasonably soon.
Speaker 3 (11:30):
Yeah. Well, they don't like to be pot bound really
for the rest of their lives. There you go.
Speaker 11 (11:36):
No, all right, thank you very much for that, much appreciated.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
You have a great day. John, thank you very much.
And Rachel, good morning to you.
Speaker 10 (11:46):
Oh, good morning. I'm just ringing. We had bought some
beautiful blue bamboo, like sort of five big punts of it,
quite pricey, about five hundred dollars fruit, and then we
rented our property out for a while and when we've
come back, it's all gone to seed and sort of
gone yellow. It's got the tiny odd little bit of
(12:08):
green foliage on it. And I'm just wondering if once
it's gone to seed that it is it sort of
just did Now no new little tubers down the bottom
or anything like that, like everything's gone to seed.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
Oh really? And is there no new gross it's a
real bamboo, isn't it the tropical blue?
Speaker 10 (12:28):
It is the tropical blue. It's got the beautiful blue.
And I did it. It was a gorgeous sort of
five big clumps. Normally you can see the little tubers
coming up down the bottom. There's only a couple of
little bits of greenery on some of them, but it's
all gone sort of yellowy brown, and with.
Speaker 3 (12:47):
All the seed, it doesn't look good. No tell me,
so did you ever get new shoots from the bottom?
Speaker 10 (12:58):
Oh yes, we did, we did before before we as
I said, we've rented our house that has come back.
We're out in West Aalkland and now it's all gone
on to see like it's such a shame because it
was really beautiful and there's no little We've got other
bamboo grown on our property that we purposely planted, and
they've all got the little you know tubers and beautiful
(13:20):
new shoots coming through. This has gotten not a single
So I was thinking, is that just looking up online?
And I think once it goes to seed, it's.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
To be quite honest, I have never grown it, and
I could have grown it in Langome and Tityungi where
I was, but I've never grown And in fact I
got rid of some of the bamboo head and meatal
bank at Substates because it was a real vagrant thing
that went everything.
Speaker 10 (13:46):
These aren't these aren't the horrible ones. These are the
specialty ones you buy on purpose to play.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I know exactly what you mean, because I've seen them,
and there was a bamboo grower in west Auckland somewhere.
Speaker 4 (13:59):
We've got them.
Speaker 3 (14:00):
Yes, that's the one. Expect memories. No, I can't tell
you why, why why this blue bamboo is suffering or
why it is going down to gurgle, especially especially when
you pay quite a bit of money for it. So
you go back to that particular person and see what
(14:20):
the story is.
Speaker 10 (14:21):
And I will go back.
Speaker 12 (14:23):
I will go back.
Speaker 10 (14:23):
I just I've tried to. I don't know if that's
not water, but I think when I did read it,
sometimes you don't really know when they're going to go
to seed, but when they go to seed that they
sort of die, and it seems to be what happened.
But I'm just hoping that, you know, just watering them
and putting malt around them and trying to take here
and see if it will revive itself. But I thought
i'd bring and see if you knew any tricks. But
(14:45):
we'll go back out and then ask her.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
I'm sorry, I've never seen I've never done the blue bamboo.
I know what it looks like. It looks absolutely gorgeous, axtually.
Speaker 10 (14:55):
Okay, thank you very much. Okay, well, bye.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
Bye, Rachel.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
And it's kind of unusual, isn't it real that like
most of the time if we talk bamboo, we're talking
about trying to get rid of it. Yeah, oh yeah,
it's it is so prolific that and you.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
Know what you need for bamboo to contain it or
get rid of it. You need to build it with
one of those things that go seventy centimeters deep into
the soil and trench and leave the trench open. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:24):
Water process, water process, hard to get rid of. Right here, Johnny,
talk to me about monarch. Butterflies.
Speaker 12 (15:31):
Oh, some mone guys.
Speaker 3 (15:34):
Is there a parrot in the back you're going to
what is it?
Speaker 4 (15:39):
What is it?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I was just going to say cockadiles, Yeah, exactly. Anyway,
they're lovely. Yeah.
Speaker 12 (15:47):
They like imitating the phone ringing at five am.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Yeah, they do. I love it.
Speaker 12 (15:55):
We've had swamp plans for a few years to help
pollination with all that fro trees were on a quarter
of akroom. We've got dozens of different trees all sort
of stuck together but doing well. Everything's great, but last
year the bronachs just dropped off and just bite. Having
lots and lots of swan plants, we had hardly any
and normally there's hundreds and hundreds of them. I've noticed
(16:18):
that some of the cocoons are being wiped out. I've
seen the praying mantis is attacking the caterpillars and eating them, yea,
eating them alive. And they're not just the Aussie or
South African praying mantesters. They're are native ones too. They
munched them head first, as prague mentiss do. But we
(16:42):
also have these parasitic wasps that are invading a peach tree,
and I wonder if they might be also munching on
my cocoons.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
You're talking about you call them parasitic quest. Are you
talking about the paperwork or.
Speaker 12 (16:55):
Ones they pour into the fruit? Yeah, oh yeah, we've
got those, the little black things. Yeah. And we've also
got German wasps.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
Yeah, okay, there you are. So the German wasps and
the and the the other one, the whatever the paper was,
you got it. They love to eat protein and they
will have a go at all your caterpillars. The moment
they know there's caterpillars there, they put it on their
GPS and I'm not joking, they'll know. So what I
(17:30):
tend to do with my swamp plants is they're in pots.
I put them on the other side of the house,
or move them about ten meters in a different direction,
and then they come back and you see them scratching
their head, going, I'm sure they were here. You know,
there were some caporis and they're all gone. That is
the best way to protect your caterpillars from that sort
of attacks. Gosh, yeah, go.
Speaker 12 (17:52):
On, yeah, we see this with things returning. There's heroes
returning to a construction site that was once a swamp.
So I guess it's the same in the insect world.
This is the birds. They return and.
Speaker 3 (18:04):
They remember where they were, remember where it is, And
that's the that is the cool thing. The moment they
discovered it on the other side of the house. You
just put it on the other side of the house
again and they go like somebody's playing a game here,
you know what I mean. But it's yeah, it wonderful
works wonderfully, Johnny, that's the way to go.
Speaker 12 (18:23):
Thank you, Thank you very much, have a grady that and.
Speaker 2 (18:26):
Welcome all this, Johnny. Take care. Actually, quick text. Is
it normal for deadly nightshade to be so prolific at
the moment?
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Yes, it can be. Actually, it's it's at the moment.
I've got quite a bit of nightshade as well.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Yeah I've noticed it too. Yeah, pardon my ignorance, But
why do they call it deadly nightshade? And is it
actually deadly? And I say this after sending my young
fellow out to clean it all out the other day
and then I went, oh, by the way, that was
deadly nightshade.
Speaker 3 (18:55):
Yeah, we're gloves right, okay. And the reason is it
actually also does some nasty stuff to your skin sometimes.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Right, The leaves or the little blackberries that are on there.
All three fantastic.
Speaker 3 (19:09):
Everything, right, So especially the berries, but the leaves and
the and the stuff that they exude from their stems
is not good for you either, so that's why. And
I've got reasonably sensitive skin, so I tend to wear
gloves for that.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
Yeah right, okay, I'll remember that for next time.
Speaker 3 (19:26):
Yeah, sorry, right, owen a very good morning.
Speaker 13 (19:33):
Good morning to you today. I just wanted to ask.
I just wanted to ask route. I've got to pit
a forum tree which is about five six meters tall,
and because its roots had been all underneath the deck
that it grew out from underneath, we didn't click that
it was dying in the drought because it must have
(19:55):
been getting its water source from our the hell that
slights up from our house. And all the leaves have
died off on it. And I'm thinking un answer of
bringing it back, you know, like should I cut it
off and let regrow sort of takeover or is it
pretty well gone once all the leaders A did on it.
Speaker 3 (20:16):
Not necessarily, it depends entirely. Have you watered You've got
watered it now, haven't you.
Speaker 13 (20:22):
I've watered it since and then the' ahead of them,
a nicer cyclone come through and done the job for
me for free.
Speaker 3 (20:28):
Yes, I realized that. Yeah, they're very handy. They're almost
Dutch cyclones, aren't they.
Speaker 4 (20:33):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Anyway, yes, have a go. You're never lost with these things.
You never know until it absolutely finishes. But if it
just gets new foliage on, it might referbs yourself back
into a system. You might have a much shorter tree.
But it could happen. And if it doesn't, you know,
we're not to plant them next time. I suppose, well,
(20:57):
this show was not planted by you.
Speaker 13 (21:00):
Yeah, should I cut it? Should I cut it off?
Shall I truncate it to help us?
Speaker 3 (21:04):
You don't have to. And you can see where do
the new leaves come from if they come back, and
if it's at the top or higher up, then if
you would have cut it and you've lost it, you
would never know. You can always cut it later, don't worry.
Speaker 13 (21:19):
Brilliant, Thank you for your help.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
See were very best you and thank you very much.
And Paul, good morning here.
Speaker 6 (21:26):
Good morning, Rude. I've got a beetle that I found
in my garden and I've never seen one before. It's
like dary milk chocolate brown with two dark brown stripes.
It's about two centimeters long, quite a fat, chovy wehee thing,
(21:48):
and the front legs have been developed as princes, a
bit like a miniature pray fish. Now, as I say,
I have never seen them before.
Speaker 12 (22:03):
I tried.
Speaker 6 (22:05):
I Naturalist, and they came back with a very helpful
answer of niche project, try a wild species, so they
must have full hours grown these bloody things.
Speaker 3 (22:19):
You really, I've never heard of naturally is doing that?
Speaker 6 (22:24):
I think twice, and I've got the same answer back.
Speaker 3 (22:31):
Have you got good photos of it?
Speaker 6 (22:35):
Reasonably because you need.
Speaker 3 (22:41):
Sharp photos, not too you know, not too small? Da
da da da da da da. And I am wondering
what's going on here? Can you send a photo to
Peter Wolfcap.
Speaker 2 (22:53):
If you can email it through to me Kevin, So,
just Peter or Pete at news txy b, so just
Pete at newstoxib dot co dot in is it? And
then I'll forward it on.
Speaker 3 (23:02):
Too and I'll have a look and i'll check it
off this and I'll chuck it on I Naturalist and
see what I can do. Because I am quite interested
in the response.
Speaker 2 (23:13):
I'll try that and we'll get that sort of out.
That'll be awesome pulled, that'll be fantastic. Hey, now, just
on the night shade, is there a difference between black
nightshade and Deadley night shape?
Speaker 3 (23:23):
Yeah, kind of. There's all sorts of different species, but
they all have these dark berries anyway, right, similar sort
of stuff.
Speaker 2 (23:30):
Okay, all right, good to know. Might to be specific
on these things. Seven minutes away from nine o'clock, David,
good morning.
Speaker 7 (23:37):
Good morning.
Speaker 11 (23:38):
Oh how are you rude?
Speaker 3 (23:40):
Better?
Speaker 7 (23:40):
Good morning?
Speaker 3 (23:41):
Very good god, how rude?
Speaker 5 (23:43):
Good?
Speaker 7 (23:43):
Thank you. I was cleaning out the grate across a
driveway just to ordinary one, and I always clean it
out anyway. One time I was doing there and I
lifted the greater and I saw this pink thing sticking out,
and what the hell is this? It looked quite set,
and I pulled it out gently and it was a
(24:04):
bloody worm about six six cinameters long. Yeah, but it's fat.
It was about I don't know one and a half
one half cinmeters diameter. I've never seen. I pulled it
out very gently, and I dug a hole in the garden.
I put them back in there and covered them. I've
(24:25):
never seen anything like it.
Speaker 3 (24:27):
Hang on, David, you're you're digging out a drain. Is
that what you said?
Speaker 11 (24:32):
Cleaning a dress?
Speaker 3 (24:35):
Okay?
Speaker 4 (24:35):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (24:38):
Was that was that that particular worm flat on one side?
Speaker 13 (24:43):
No, it was totally round?
Speaker 3 (24:45):
Was round? Okay? So we have about seventy species of
earthworm in New Zealand, maybe maybe more.
Speaker 7 (24:53):
Oh wow, And.
Speaker 3 (24:55):
It could be one of them if that's the case.
And I've seen them very light, pinky colored if you like,
and and it could be it. Did it have one
of those little ring around or at the end of
its body? Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (25:09):
No, that's a making thing.
Speaker 3 (25:11):
No, yes, No, that's an egg. That's an egg laying
transformation thing. That's right, yeah, you go, you're good. Good
on you. Right, So it didn't have that. That may
mean that this could well be a native earthworm and
they come in all yeah. Absolutely, And that's all I
can say.
Speaker 7 (25:29):
Really, that's all right, Thank you very much. I appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (25:33):
You're more than welcome. But that's always cool when you
see something that is quite unexpected in color, isn't it.
Speaker 13 (25:40):
Very strange?
Speaker 12 (25:40):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (25:41):
I reckon, it's adaya.
Speaker 2 (25:43):
There you go, all the very busy David. Thank you
very much for that. And Rod, greetings, Yes, question for rude.
Speaker 4 (25:54):
Now, I've got a picturine tree. It's been it's two
years old. The first year it was then that was
very healthy, doing very very well, and then last spring
got very badly with leaf curl.
Speaker 3 (26:09):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (26:10):
Now, I sprayed it with all the appropriate things and
I pulled off all the leaves curled. But the tree
really hasn't recovered. And I'm just wondering whether I should
pull it out and get rid of it. And another one,
probably in a different spot, just surely, because I had
heard that some trees are what was susceptible to courl
(26:30):
than others.
Speaker 3 (26:32):
Absolutely. And you know what, Rod, you are one of
the most amazingly brilliant callers that rings exactly at the
right time.
Speaker 4 (26:45):
True.
Speaker 3 (26:45):
I have last night last night till about midnight, I
wrote my next script for Jack Tame that I do
on Saturday mornings, right, and the topic is Tafrina deformance,
which is the fungal name of the bugger that causes
leaf curl. And the reason is I always complain when
(27:05):
callers call in the middle of spring and summer saying
I've got leaf girl, You're six months too late now
is the time to spray while the leaves are falling off,
to spray your whole tree with copper or copper and sulfur.
But in this case copper would be going. Well, any copper,
spray all over that thing. And you do it a
(27:26):
week later on again, and you could do it after
that again. And what you're doing is here you're killing
the spores that attack your trees and the leaves in springtime.
Now is the time to get those buggers out. It
is literally to the week almost.
Speaker 4 (27:47):
Ye, that makes sense. So you think the trill would
cover absolutely?
Speaker 2 (27:52):
Oh good news. I wasn't expecting that. I was thinking, look,
you just got to accept that some things don't last.
River and arending thing out with the chains.
Speaker 3 (28:02):
Or but yeah, get no, get here we go. Spray
grim is brought to you by still Shot. But honestly,
you got it. It's important to get that stuff under control. Now,
can you do it again? So if you listen this
next week and yeah, go on.
Speaker 4 (28:21):
So you can soak the ground round about too, because
imagine that spores are in the ground as well.
Speaker 3 (28:27):
No they're not, No, they're not. They're they're on the
on the leaves and on the on the twigs and
all that sort of stuff, not in the ground at all.
But the cool thing is that I've written everything that
is to know about what I told you about in
a one a four page and that's going to go
on the news dogs that'd B website next week, next coming.
Speaker 2 (28:44):
So right, you can find that easily. That's great, Rod,
thank you very much. Now we've got about one a
less than one minute. So Linda, feed you a tree
not flowering.
Speaker 6 (28:58):
It's about four meters tall.
Speaker 8 (29:00):
For the last two years I haven't flowered and produced fruit.
This year, no flowers, but lots of fruit.
Speaker 4 (29:06):
How did that happen?
Speaker 3 (29:07):
Because you did have flowers. I'm sure you did the flowers,
which you didn't see them. Look, fijos, we've got the
same problem. You need a lot more fertilized, especially stuff
with uh potash in it. Sulfate of potash on top
of your normal fertilizer. That would do it for you. Okay,
easy weight are welcome.
Speaker 2 (29:27):
And the sulfate of potash is not in p K.
That's slightly different.
Speaker 3 (29:35):
And self of potash is as as something to boost potash.
You can get it at your garden center.
Speaker 2 (29:42):
Appreciate that. Hey, you enjoy your day and you do it.
Let's let's do it again next weekend.
Speaker 3 (29:48):
Yeah at some stake.
Speaker 2 (29:49):
All right, much appreciated, all the nervous you take care
of it, radio folks. I hope you have a lovely day.
If you were, family and network, I will be today.
Enjoy your Easter, take care and we'll be back with
you again next Sunday. Here at New Saltzy B. Nothing
to get hung the.
Speaker 3 (30:11):
Stormery feels forever.
Speaker 6 (30:15):
Levy.
Speaker 1 (30:17):
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