June 7, 2025 • 22 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for 8st June 2025, Ruud explains when to transplant trees, how to take care of your garden during winter and freezing temperatures, and what essentials your fruit-trees need to improve yield.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Right oh, Red climb Pass, Good morning sir.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Good morning, Peter. All good. Are you warm enough in Auckland?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We got nothing to complain about to be a little
bit chilly and you're part of the.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
World, Yeah, a little bit, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm wearing necker Is again.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
And you know part of it is, hey, it is June. Right, Yes,
it is not happened last year and it won't happen
again next year.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But hey, it's funny, isn't it, because we're not even
at the.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, yeah, but beautiful, I mean gorgeous pictures, kids out
tumbling in the snow and that sort of thing. It's
absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I was just saying to Julie, we should go to
techa the roads.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Like obviously, you know, for South Island gardens, they've got
to be well, I was going to say design, But
they develop in a different manner to cope with us,
don't they. If you've suddenly got your precious roses under
three foot of snow, that's quite different to gardening in Auckland,
where they ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, and you can. You can prune all you like
at the moment in Auckland. We can do it here too.
This is the good time to do it. Yeah, I know,
it's it's actually of no concern. Most plants can stand that, right.
If you've got plants that that count stand the cold,
you've got to do something like frost protection. Liquid frost protection,
for instance, is an liquid well there's a material you
(01:40):
can spray onto leaves and it sets like a like
a literally like a protecting like a well, I don't
know what actually contains, but it stops the It actually
really high heightens the the resistance to frost on the leaves.
It's quite nice there.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
That's very nifty.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, yeah, it's very clever. Thing.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Probably some whiskey in there somewhere right.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Before, and just just one little thing just to actually
take the mickey out of you. This Friday, This Friday
the thirteenth, I'll be at Wingspan.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh yeah, I thought you were going to say you
were going to be at field days and in which
case we could catch up and had lush.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But that would have been good. But I'm just a
bit too far north or too far south from that. Yeah,
But anyway, but it's and it's I'm going to be
at Wingspan anyway on Friday utter. We've done the hue
for Kiwi ki we get together the days before that
in rot So but what I would say is if
you want to come a bit earlier for flying, I
(02:44):
will have a bit of time to talk to people
if they're interested in and mostly when we ro through
I find it's good they have a chat and there's
some live talk back there at Wingspread.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, brilliant, brilliant. Oh that'll be awesome. That'll be awesome.
We've still got the cute photos of the more pork
and yeah, just the rua is gorgeous, fantastic.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I might see Knox again, Yeah, I bet you.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Will, all right mate, that'll that'll be awesome. I'll think
of that while I'm well. Perfect day field days forecast is.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Just the first few days, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yes, absolute rubbish, which is typical for that this this
time of year.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And it always Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Thursday, Friday Saturday. Yeah I'm there Friday Saturday. So anyway,
it will be great fun looking forward to it, right, Oh,
let's get amongst it. Matt A very good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Oh, good morning. I have a question for for.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, yeah, call me rude. That's that's that works. Well,
I've always been rude.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Oh thank you rude. Any advice for planting a mandarine tree? Yeah,
even though the US stay in Corra, but I full
step away from Cape Ringer and the wathers call at
the moment fifteen high and lower five we should plant
a mandarin tree.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And no, no, no, no, always try to give them
it quite a bit of sun. It would love a sunny.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Spot, so sun.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, yeah, they can. They can handle that, no problem
at all. And the second thing I'd like you to
do is to make sure so you're way up north.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Don't you, Yeah, right on the funnels.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
What is your soil like?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Oh? Uh, can't touch and gay not most brilliant. So
I need to add something into the soil before I
plant the tree.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, I don't know. Is it very clay? U?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Kind of our fifty city clay in natchell A top
sol okay natural?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So I like the natural top soil number one number
two when it rains really hard, which I know can
do up there. I lived up there for a long time.
Do you get a lot of soaking wet soil? Does
it stay, you know, really inundated for a long time.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah, it can it unts because it will is be
pretty nafty at the moment.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yep, I realized that. But what I want you to
do then, if you can, is raise the area where
you want to plant your mandarin. In other words, give
it a slightly heightened maybe only four inches, you know
what I mean, just with with a hammer and nailed
duck tak duk duck. Make it a raised bed, a
raised bed, and you'll find that you will have less
(05:44):
problems with too much moisture around the roots, which can
cause fhioftra, which is a root rot which will kill
your tree. It's very susceptible to that. So raise it
up so you don't get too inundated. How is that?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
This could don't have to worry about any bugs or
insects socker taking through septing mandarin tree.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
There aren't that any at the moment that will attack them.
There might be a bit of guavamov could do it
because they go to some citrus plants as well, but
you might you might be okay with that.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Actually, Oh, thank you so much for your voice. Wholly appreciated.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Take you good good gold mets here soon bye bye.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
All of this you met, thank you for that. And Marian,
Hello there.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Hello, how are you hi?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Marion.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
I've got a lemon tree and I know it's older
than twenty five years because we've built on the section
and it's been there probably about ten or fifteen years.
And it's now I think it's a maya.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I'm not sure, yea.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
And now it's sort of. It's got a whole lot
of lemons on it, a little small ones, and I
think it might be dying.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Why did you think it might Why do you think
it's dying? Is it because it's not it doesn't look
good or the plant gives you two small fruit? Or
what is it?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Well?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
The year before okay, think huge fruit. Ah and and
quite puffy. You know when you broke the knife on this, well,
it was quite puffy.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Okay. Another question is do you do you did you
have a really long period This is the same as
what I asked Matt, A long period of inundation of roots.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
What do you mean inundation?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, if you if it's if it rains quite badly,
does it all hang around the root zone of your
lemon market? Your maya lemon.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Okay, all right, that's not much you've been fertilizing it
on the regular.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Basis, No, no, no, dive.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Okay, I think it's how many breakfasts do you have
on average each week? At least there you go. No, no,
But honestly, quite often, if you if you don't always
be reasonably simple with your with your feeding tricks, do it.
(08:23):
Do it at least in the beginning of you know,
when stuff starts to grow in in springtime. Do it
again in late late late spring, and do it again
in early summer or midsummer, say, and just a little bit,
you know, handful to the square meter good citrus fertilizer.
You might find that that will give it much better fruit.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
At one stage it got flying over on the wind
and we had to pop up on the branches. It's
only a small tree, the.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Small tree after twenty five years.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Yes, quite well.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I reckon fertilizing would be a good idea your case.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
And if it does die, can I put another lemon
in the air?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Or well, first of all, for a very small fee,
I will come and do the last rites. And but no,
it depends on what what causes. Can I have just
one other question, do you have at the moment of
vegy a very rapid loss of leaves?
Speaker 6 (09:36):
There's no leads for that's at all. No, that's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It looks like a dying oll. In that case, you
might have already had some some fight off dray if
you like, on the in the soil, that that particular
that particular fungal disease, if you like, if it does
die and it doesn't come to life, which is now
I'm feeling a bit more worried about it. No, don't plant,
(10:01):
and no, don't plant another lemon in the same place.
Put it either higher up in a dry spot away
from it.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, okay, I think the no leaves might be the
that was the giveaway. But they might give it away,
I think so, Marian, sorry to hear about that. Good luck.
We'll take a short break. We'll talk to Linda in
just a moment.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yep, you're there.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
No sticky button.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, yeah, that happens, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I was going to say I could spray some CRC
in there, but I don't think that's advisable.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Sprain liquids around, I know, how how tender these blinking studios,
are you?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I've deliberately now leave my coffee cup a long way
away from all of the sensitive. But yes, anyway, right,
too much of a good thing. Hey, someone's just taxed
through rudd. I heard on a BBC radio program on
Saturday that having compost garden can give you a deadly
fungused disease. Any comment.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Look, that depends on what is in the compost, I suppose,
and also depend what kind of funk are you talking about.
I think if you just literally create compost, you can
still use that stuff. I reckon in most cases very
safely in yours, honestly.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I mean there's always those warnings about opening bags of
potting mix, for example. Yes, so, yeah, just be a
bit sensible. I guess about doing that.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
It's like you inhale. You you go and do a
deep breath. No, I wouldn't do.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
That over the top of the oven page. Yeah, exactly right.
Let's get into it. Linda, Hello there, Oh.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Good morning. Yes, I would like to ask is it
too late to transplant a seven year old rhododendron and
should not have passed the garden?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Linda, this is the best time of the year to
do it.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
Oh great, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Winter and even even in autumn or early winter. This
is right now, it's probably your best time to do it. Oh,
don't furtive light lies it yet, but do that in spring.
Let it recover from the trauma. Yeah you got it.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Yeah, yes, that's cover than buds. So it's looking very healthy.
So thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Good luck with that. And the key generally is try
and take as much of the root ball as you can.
Don't sort of put the spade half an inch from
the trunk.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
No, no, get a really strong person that can do that.
If it's seven years old, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
It be a decent root by now. Kerrie, hello there,
Hi Kerry hello, Hey, you go for it.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Of class church and I've got a.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Wheel garla apple tree mm hm.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
And every year, every spring time.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
The apples has blotches.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
All over them?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Could that be coddling moss?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
The blotches, if you think about it, are usually tunnels
into the fruit. Yeah, that's what that's what coddling moth does.
And if you say blotches on top on the on
the actual fruit itself, like yes, without without having tunnels
is quite likely to be a fungal disease.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Okay, every year it happens.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
But is there are the tunnels that go down to
the core of the developing apple.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
I haven't seen any because we've gotten one to them
and you can't see any tunnels going down.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But then you're likely block. Okay, now you're lucky because
then it's not coddling moth that's doing it. That would
need some spray in as soon as the plant is
finishing its flowering, so that's of no concern. Now you
will need some fungicide and you'll need to do that,
especially at the time when the plants are growing their fruits.
(14:04):
So when the fruits are going from small codlings which
is a small word for small apples, when they grow
up and they get and you get let's say your
springtime heavy watering of rain and things like that, that
is when the fungi could infect your plant. And that's
when you need a funger side to spray before a
(14:28):
heavy rain, so spring and early early early summer.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Okay, becuse's go easy all of this, mate, have a
good day, take care and Steve greasings good.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Morning, gentlemen. I see yeah, I didn't want to interrupt it.
Because I know how busy you just were.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But no, but your question is good. Your question is
really good. About the plum tree.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
It takes you a plumb cot and ah, every year
I get a prone and every year I'll probably get
I don't know, maybe forty fruit off it. Okay, in
between fighting the merge.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, I know what you mean. What do you what
do you do you fertilizers that all stefe? Do you
put anything, especially on the plant?
Speaker 8 (15:16):
I think I think one wife checks a handful of
that cutrus fruit fertilizer around it. She does all the
other ones, and and all my stress trees, they were
all doing really well exactly. But it's just the my
plum and my actually my nictory. And I didn't get
(15:37):
anything on my nctorines last year, okay, nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
So so yeah, no, I got I got it. So
the thing is that, yes, if you if you are
able to give them a regular amount of fertilizer, general
fertilizer would do it. You know what I mean. It's
the stuff at the n p K that is quite
almost the same wherever you go.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
But but the point now is that what I will do,
and this is what I do with my in my
plump trees and and all that sort of stuff that
we get down down the garden. I give it some
liquid fertilizer every now and then seaweed tea, the old
wet and forget seaweed tea. You mix it and although
that is made to spray large areas where the machete
(16:22):
where the thing is that comes in, you know. But
what I do is I get the raw seaweed tea
and mix it down to a light tea, color fertilizer,
liquid fertilizer. And because you're doing that in springtime onwards,
you'll find you will get the best plumps and that
sort of material that you'll ever see. It's absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Okay, ever, go with that, and and now a bit
of time pernormal trees.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Absolutely, yep, you got it. So get yourself some seaweet
tea from wet and forget. Honestly, it works beautifully.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
Okay, it's excellent.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Thanks well, Steve, good luck with that us take care.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
This is interesting. This is where you get to put
your lawyer head on and Tamila, hello there, yes.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Good morning, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
No. Another the problem was what can I do for you.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
So I have a big problem. I got to know
on yesterday through making many phone calls that tomorrow the
Council of Portiua Plymerton is going to send in Arbory
is the company to knock down six to seven huge
pine trees that are standing beautifully in a good shape
(17:48):
to me on our bank. So most of those trees,
we believe are within the boundaries of our property. So
I ask you if you know whether or not the
council can do this without our consent.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I don't, to be quite honest, I don't know, because
the council may have, of course a vision that those plants,
that those trees are so light, and that they could
cause a hazard to not just you know, the area
where where you are or your house, but also neighbors
or people that walk past in a in a bad storm.
(18:32):
Is that is that sort of the thing they say
to you.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Oh, the council didn't answer back. We called it the
power company. Now they never we called it the power
company because we only got a notification that our power
would be cut off for the whole week, and we
asked why, and they said they were doing some maintenance
about the power lines. So we thought initially it was
(19:00):
just streaming because those big trees, uh have never caused
any problems, and we've been here for a long time
through many storms, and especially we didn't receive any harborist
reports of others. Are we entitled as the council to
(19:20):
produce a report of others before they knockdown all our trees,
especially because the trees are wonderful. I'm here to protect
those trees, even though they are not native trees. And
also taking down all those trees in one goal we
think may very very possibly cause landslides that will affect
(19:46):
the route and the needs for sure, and other people
driving past and walking past during storm.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Oh my goodness, you are well involved. You are well
if you got prepared. And what I find really strange
is that the council didn't even bother to reply.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Now, yeah, I tell you what, Maybe your quickest solution
would be to have a look at who your local
representatives are on the community board, right, So these are
your local representatives, Go directly to them. The reason that
they're particularly attentive at the moment is because there's an
election coming up, right, So now's a great time for
(20:26):
them to be involved. And to show that they are
active and engaged and helpful and so on. So I
would suggest that they would be a good way into
the system to see whether. I mean, it is hard
to imagine in this environment that there isn't a whole
lot of checks and balances in place to ensure that
one the trees are not on your land. So it's
(20:47):
actually while you might think it's your land, maybe it isn't.
And then if the work is being done it it
would have been commissioned with a report. That report I
think you deserve to have a look at and so on,
But I think just in terms of getting it done quickly,
because if they're there tomorrow, you really want to get
onto it today. Is contact your local community board representative.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
As soon as thank you for all of them.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
There will be about six or seven of them.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I think your call was absolutely wonderful, and I feel
for you. I know exactly what you feel like.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Yeah, I got to know that yesterday a lunchtime.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Oh yeah, that's not great.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I've already yeah, I already tried to get in touch
to with association that protected environment and a friend that
told me about you, and I was very very pleased
to talk to you. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Please let us know how you get on too, because
I often come away from these conversations thinking, so, you know,
what did happen tomorrow? So if you want to give
us a call back next week, I'd really like to
hear from you and see what happened. Yeah. Look, if
they have to come down, they have to come down,
and I don't think it's an approach that they take lightly.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Typically communication is so important.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Oh man, is it? What issue? Will you know your rapayers? Yeah?
Rightio mate, Hey, enjoy wingspan. I will think of you
while I am at Field Days on Friday.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, okay, I'm all nearly there.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Take care all of this. Thank you for your company, folks.
Enjoy your day. If you happen to be wandering around
Field Days on Friday, do come and say hello. I'll
be around and we'll catch up next Sunday on the show.
All the best, Take.
Speaker 1 (22:26):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Right oh, Red climb Pass, Good morning sir.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Good morning, Peter. All good. Are you warm enough in Auckland?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
We got nothing to complain about to be a little
bit chilly and you're part of the.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
World, Yeah, a little bit, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
I'm wearing necker Is again.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
And you know part of it is, hey, it is June. Right, Yes,
it is not happened last year and it won't happen
again next year.
Speaker 3 (00:41):
But hey, it's funny, isn't it, because we're not even
at the.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Yeah, yeah, but beautiful, I mean gorgeous pictures, kids out
tumbling in the snow and that sort of thing. It's
absolutely gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (00:53):
I was just saying to Julie, we should go to
techa the roads.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Like obviously, you know, for South Island gardens, they've got
to be well, I was going to say design, But
they develop in a different manner to cope with us,
don't they. If you've suddenly got your precious roses under
three foot of snow, that's quite different to gardening in Auckland,
where they ain't gonna happen.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Yeah, and you can. You can prune all you like
at the moment in Auckland. We can do it here too.
This is the good time to do it. Yeah, I know,
it's it's actually of no concern. Most plants can stand that, right.
If you've got plants that that count stand the cold,
you've got to do something like frost protection. Liquid frost protection,
for instance, is an liquid well there's a material you
(01:40):
can spray onto leaves and it sets like a like
a literally like a protecting like a well, I don't
know what actually contains, but it stops the It actually
really high heightens the the resistance to frost on the leaves.
It's quite nice there.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
That's very nifty.
Speaker 3 (01:59):
Yeah, yeah, it's very clever. Thing.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Probably some whiskey in there somewhere right.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Before, and just just one little thing just to actually
take the mickey out of you. This Friday, This Friday
the thirteenth, I'll be at Wingspan.
Speaker 2 (02:15):
Oh yeah, I thought you were going to say you
were going to be at field days and in which
case we could catch up and had lush.
Speaker 3 (02:22):
But that would have been good. But I'm just a
bit too far north or too far south from that. Yeah,
But anyway, but it's and it's I'm going to be
at Wingspan anyway on Friday utter. We've done the hue
for Kiwi ki we get together the days before that
in rot So but what I would say is if
you want to come a bit earlier for flying, I
(02:44):
will have a bit of time to talk to people
if they're interested in and mostly when we ro through
I find it's good they have a chat and there's
some live talk back there at Wingspread.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
Yeah, brilliant, brilliant. Oh that'll be awesome. That'll be awesome.
We've still got the cute photos of the more pork
and yeah, just the rua is gorgeous, fantastic.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
I might see Knox again, Yeah, I bet you.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Will, all right mate, that'll that'll be awesome. I'll think
of that while I'm well. Perfect day field days forecast is.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Just the first few days, that's right.
Speaker 2 (03:19):
Yes, absolute rubbish, which is typical for that this this
time of year.
Speaker 3 (03:24):
And it always Friday.
Speaker 2 (03:27):
Thursday, Friday Saturday. Yeah I'm there Friday Saturday. So anyway,
it will be great fun looking forward to it, right, Oh,
let's get amongst it. Matt A very good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (03:38):
Oh, good morning. I have a question for for.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
Yeah, yeah, call me rude. That's that's that works. Well,
I've always been rude.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
Oh thank you rude. Any advice for planting a mandarine tree? Yeah,
even though the US stay in Corra, but I full
step away from Cape Ringer and the wathers call at
the moment fifteen high and lower five we should plant
a mandarin tree.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
And no, no, no, no, always try to give them
it quite a bit of sun. It would love a sunny.
Speaker 4 (04:22):
Spot, so sun.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Yeah, yeah, they can. They can handle that, no problem
at all. And the second thing I'd like you to
do is to make sure so you're way up north.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Don't you, Yeah, right on the funnels.
Speaker 3 (04:36):
What is your soil like?
Speaker 4 (04:39):
Oh? Uh, can't touch and gay not most brilliant. So
I need to add something into the soil before I
plant the tree.
Speaker 3 (04:49):
Well, I don't know. Is it very clay? U?
Speaker 4 (04:56):
Kind of our fifty city clay in natchell A top
sol okay natural?
Speaker 3 (05:02):
So I like the natural top soil number one number
two when it rains really hard, which I know can
do up there. I lived up there for a long time.
Do you get a lot of soaking wet soil? Does
it stay, you know, really inundated for a long time.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
Yeah, it can it unts because it will is be
pretty nafty at the moment.
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Yep, I realized that. But what I want you to
do then, if you can, is raise the area where
you want to plant your mandarin. In other words, give
it a slightly heightened maybe only four inches, you know
what I mean, just with with a hammer and nailed
duck tak duk duck. Make it a raised bed, a
raised bed, and you'll find that you will have less
(05:44):
problems with too much moisture around the roots, which can
cause fhioftra, which is a root rot which will kill
your tree. It's very susceptible to that. So raise it
up so you don't get too inundated. How is that?
Speaker 5 (05:59):
Uh?
Speaker 4 (05:59):
This could don't have to worry about any bugs or
insects socker taking through septing mandarin tree.
Speaker 3 (06:05):
There aren't that any at the moment that will attack them.
There might be a bit of guavamov could do it
because they go to some citrus plants as well, but
you might you might be okay with that.
Speaker 4 (06:15):
Actually, Oh, thank you so much for your voice. Wholly appreciated.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
Take you good good gold mets here soon bye bye.
Speaker 2 (06:24):
All of this you met, thank you for that. And Marian,
Hello there.
Speaker 6 (06:29):
Hello, how are you hi?
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Marion.
Speaker 6 (06:33):
I've got a lemon tree and I know it's older
than twenty five years because we've built on the section
and it's been there probably about ten or fifteen years.
And it's now I think it's a maya.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
I'm not sure, yea.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
And now it's sort of. It's got a whole lot
of lemons on it, a little small ones, and I
think it might be dying.
Speaker 3 (07:00):
Why did you think it might Why do you think
it's dying? Is it because it's not it doesn't look
good or the plant gives you two small fruit? Or
what is it?
Speaker 4 (07:10):
Well?
Speaker 6 (07:11):
The year before okay, think huge fruit. Ah and and
quite puffy. You know when you broke the knife on this, well,
it was quite puffy.
Speaker 3 (07:25):
Okay. Another question is do you do you did you
have a really long period This is the same as
what I asked Matt, A long period of inundation of roots.
Speaker 6 (07:36):
What do you mean inundation?
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Well, if you if it's if it rains quite badly,
does it all hang around the root zone of your
lemon market? Your maya lemon.
Speaker 6 (07:46):
I don't think so.
Speaker 3 (07:48):
Okay, all right, that's not much you've been fertilizing it
on the regular.
Speaker 6 (07:53):
Basis, No, no, no, dive.
Speaker 3 (08:01):
Okay, I think it's how many breakfasts do you have
on average each week? At least there you go. No, no,
But honestly, quite often, if you if you don't always
be reasonably simple with your with your feeding tricks, do it.
(08:23):
Do it at least in the beginning of you know,
when stuff starts to grow in in springtime. Do it
again in late late late spring, and do it again
in early summer or midsummer, say, and just a little bit,
you know, handful to the square meter good citrus fertilizer.
You might find that that will give it much better fruit.
Speaker 6 (08:47):
At one stage it got flying over on the wind
and we had to pop up on the branches. It's
only a small tree, the.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
Small tree after twenty five years.
Speaker 6 (08:59):
Yes, quite well.
Speaker 3 (09:03):
I reckon fertilizing would be a good idea your case.
Speaker 6 (09:10):
And if it does die, can I put another lemon
in the air?
Speaker 3 (09:17):
Or well, first of all, for a very small fee,
I will come and do the last rites. And but no,
it depends on what what causes. Can I have just
one other question, do you have at the moment of
vegy a very rapid loss of leaves?
Speaker 6 (09:36):
There's no leads for that's at all. No, that's what
I'm saying.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
It looks like a dying oll. In that case, you
might have already had some some fight off dray if
you like, on the in the soil, that that particular
that particular fungal disease, if you like, if it does
die and it doesn't come to life, which is now
I'm feeling a bit more worried about it. No, don't plant,
(10:01):
and no, don't plant another lemon in the same place.
Put it either higher up in a dry spot away
from it.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Yeah, okay, I think the no leaves might be the
that was the giveaway. But they might give it away,
I think so, Marian, sorry to hear about that. Good luck.
We'll take a short break. We'll talk to Linda in
just a moment.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yep, you're there.
Speaker 2 (10:23):
No sticky button.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
Yeah, yeah, that happens, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (10:27):
I was going to say I could spray some CRC
in there, but I don't think that's advisable.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Sprain liquids around, I know, how how tender these blinking studios,
are you?
Speaker 2 (10:39):
I've deliberately now leave my coffee cup a long way
away from all of the sensitive. But yes, anyway, right,
too much of a good thing. Hey, someone's just taxed
through rudd. I heard on a BBC radio program on
Saturday that having compost garden can give you a deadly
fungused disease. Any comment.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
Look, that depends on what is in the compost, I suppose,
and also depend what kind of funk are you talking about.
I think if you just literally create compost, you can
still use that stuff. I reckon in most cases very
safely in yours, honestly.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
I mean there's always those warnings about opening bags of
potting mix, for example. Yes, so, yeah, just be a
bit sensible. I guess about doing that.
Speaker 3 (11:27):
It's like you inhale. You you go and do a
deep breath. No, I wouldn't do.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
That over the top of the oven page. Yeah, exactly right.
Let's get into it. Linda, Hello there, Oh.
Speaker 7 (11:39):
Good morning. Yes, I would like to ask is it
too late to transplant a seven year old rhododendron and
should not have passed the garden?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Linda, this is the best time of the year to
do it.
Speaker 7 (11:55):
Oh great, thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Winter and even even in autumn or early winter. This
is right now, it's probably your best time to do it. Oh,
don't furtive light lies it yet, but do that in spring.
Let it recover from the trauma. Yeah you got it.
Speaker 7 (12:15):
Yeah, yes, that's cover than buds. So it's looking very healthy.
So thank you, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Good luck with that. And the key generally is try
and take as much of the root ball as you can.
Don't sort of put the spade half an inch from
the trunk.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
No, no, get a really strong person that can do that.
If it's seven years old, yeah.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
It be a decent root by now. Kerrie, hello there,
Hi Kerry hello, Hey, you go for it.
Speaker 8 (12:50):
Of class church and I've got a.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Wheel garla apple tree mm hm.
Speaker 6 (12:56):
And every year, every spring time.
Speaker 5 (13:00):
The apples has blotches.
Speaker 8 (13:02):
All over them?
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Could that be coddling moss?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
The blotches, if you think about it, are usually tunnels
into the fruit. Yeah, that's what that's what coddling moth does.
And if you say blotches on top on the on
the actual fruit itself, like yes, without without having tunnels
is quite likely to be a fungal disease.
Speaker 5 (13:28):
Okay, every year it happens.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
But is there are the tunnels that go down to
the core of the developing apple.
Speaker 4 (13:36):
I haven't seen any because we've gotten one to them
and you can't see any tunnels going down.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
But then you're likely block. Okay, now you're lucky because
then it's not coddling moth that's doing it. That would
need some spray in as soon as the plant is
finishing its flowering, so that's of no concern. Now you
will need some fungicide and you'll need to do that,
especially at the time when the plants are growing their fruits.
(14:04):
So when the fruits are going from small codlings which
is a small word for small apples, when they grow
up and they get and you get let's say your
springtime heavy watering of rain and things like that, that
is when the fungi could infect your plant. And that's
when you need a funger side to spray before a
(14:28):
heavy rain, so spring and early early early summer.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
Okay, becuse's go easy all of this, mate, have a
good day, take care and Steve greasings good.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Morning, gentlemen. I see yeah, I didn't want to interrupt it.
Because I know how busy you just were.
Speaker 3 (14:47):
But no, but your question is good. Your question is
really good. About the plum tree.
Speaker 8 (14:54):
It takes you a plumb cot and ah, every year
I get a prone and every year I'll probably get
I don't know, maybe forty fruit off it. Okay, in
between fighting the merge.
Speaker 3 (15:09):
Yeah, I know what you mean. What do you what
do you do you fertilizers that all stefe? Do you
put anything, especially on the plant?
Speaker 8 (15:16):
I think I think one wife checks a handful of
that cutrus fruit fertilizer around it. She does all the
other ones, and and all my stress trees, they were
all doing really well exactly. But it's just the my
plum and my actually my nictory. And I didn't get
(15:37):
anything on my nctorines last year, okay, nothing, nothing at all.
Speaker 3 (15:41):
So so yeah, no, I got I got it. So
the thing is that, yes, if you if you are
able to give them a regular amount of fertilizer, general
fertilizer would do it. You know what I mean. It's
the stuff at the n p K that is quite
almost the same wherever you go.
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (16:00):
But but the point now is that what I will do,
and this is what I do with my in my
plump trees and and all that sort of stuff that
we get down down the garden. I give it some
liquid fertilizer every now and then seaweed tea, the old
wet and forget seaweed tea. You mix it and although
that is made to spray large areas where the machete
(16:22):
where the thing is that comes in, you know. But
what I do is I get the raw seaweed tea
and mix it down to a light tea, color fertilizer,
liquid fertilizer. And because you're doing that in springtime onwards,
you'll find you will get the best plumps and that
sort of material that you'll ever see. It's absolutely wonderful.
Speaker 8 (16:45):
Okay, ever, go with that, and and now a bit
of time pernormal trees.
Speaker 3 (16:50):
Absolutely, yep, you got it. So get yourself some seaweet
tea from wet and forget. Honestly, it works beautifully.
Speaker 8 (16:59):
Okay, it's excellent.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
Thanks well, Steve, good luck with that us take care.
Speaker 8 (17:06):
Now.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
This is interesting. This is where you get to put
your lawyer head on and Tamila, hello there, yes.
Speaker 5 (17:12):
Good morning, thank you for taking my call.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
No. Another the problem was what can I do for you.
Speaker 5 (17:24):
So I have a big problem. I got to know
on yesterday through making many phone calls that tomorrow the
Council of Portiua Plymerton is going to send in Arbory
is the company to knock down six to seven huge
pine trees that are standing beautifully in a good shape
(17:48):
to me on our bank. So most of those trees,
we believe are within the boundaries of our property. So
I ask you if you know whether or not the
council can do this without our consent.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
I don't, to be quite honest, I don't know, because
the council may have, of course a vision that those plants,
that those trees are so light, and that they could
cause a hazard to not just you know, the area
where where you are or your house, but also neighbors
or people that walk past in a in a bad storm.
(18:32):
Is that is that sort of the thing they say
to you.
Speaker 5 (18:35):
Oh, the council didn't answer back. We called it the
power company. Now they never we called it the power
company because we only got a notification that our power
would be cut off for the whole week, and we
asked why, and they said they were doing some maintenance
about the power lines. So we thought initially it was
(19:00):
just streaming because those big trees, uh have never caused
any problems, and we've been here for a long time
through many storms, and especially we didn't receive any harborist
reports of others. Are we entitled as the council to
(19:20):
produce a report of others before they knockdown all our trees,
especially because the trees are wonderful. I'm here to protect
those trees, even though they are not native trees. And
also taking down all those trees in one goal we
think may very very possibly cause landslides that will affect
(19:46):
the route and the needs for sure, and other people
driving past and walking past during storm.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Oh my goodness, you are well involved. You are well
if you got prepared. And what I find really strange
is that the council didn't even bother to reply.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Now, yeah, I tell you what, Maybe your quickest solution
would be to have a look at who your local
representatives are on the community board, right, So these are
your local representatives, Go directly to them. The reason that
they're particularly attentive at the moment is because there's an
election coming up, right, So now's a great time for
(20:26):
them to be involved. And to show that they are
active and engaged and helpful and so on. So I
would suggest that they would be a good way into
the system to see whether. I mean, it is hard
to imagine in this environment that there isn't a whole
lot of checks and balances in place to ensure that
one the trees are not on your land. So it's
(20:47):
actually while you might think it's your land, maybe it isn't.
And then if the work is being done it it
would have been commissioned with a report. That report I
think you deserve to have a look at and so on,
But I think just in terms of getting it done quickly,
because if they're there tomorrow, you really want to get
onto it today. Is contact your local community board representative.
Speaker 3 (21:10):
As soon as thank you for all of them.
Speaker 2 (21:13):
There will be about six or seven of them.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I think your call was absolutely wonderful, and I feel
for you. I know exactly what you feel like.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Yeah, I got to know that yesterday a lunchtime.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
Oh yeah, that's not great.
Speaker 5 (21:27):
I've already yeah, I already tried to get in touch
to with association that protected environment and a friend that
told me about you, and I was very very pleased
to talk to you. Thank you.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Please let us know how you get on too, because
I often come away from these conversations thinking, so, you know,
what did happen tomorrow? So if you want to give
us a call back next week, I'd really like to
hear from you and see what happened. Yeah. Look, if
they have to come down, they have to come down,
and I don't think it's an approach that they take lightly.
Speaker 3 (21:58):
Typically communication is so important.
Speaker 2 (22:01):
Oh man, is it? What issue? Will you know your rapayers? Yeah?
Rightio mate, Hey, enjoy wingspan. I will think of you
while I am at Field Days on Friday.
Speaker 3 (22:12):
Yeah, okay, I'm all nearly there.
Speaker 2 (22:14):
Take care all of this. Thank you for your company, folks.
Enjoy your day. If you happen to be wandering around
Field Days on Friday, do come and say hello. I'll
be around and we'll catch up next Sunday on the show.
All the best, Take.
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