August 2, 2025 • 21 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for 3rd August 2025, Ruud gives his advice on when to sow grass seeds and how to take clippings from orange trees.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from news Talk said.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
The Red Climb pass, Good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
He's not that grumpy, you know, well, he's not that.
You know that.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I do know that, And I was laughing out of
you every day.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Every I had a good laugh about the pigeons on
the roof and the rats teller is a good way
to catch traps. Teller just just length the same with mice.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
But yeah, that's I mean, you know, like this was
thirty odd years ago, and and we had a rat
in the ceiling, put the trap in there, down comes
the lever and I'm like, got them. And then then
I could hear it moving, and I'm like, oh no,
what do I do now?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Anyway, same way they have their tail in the.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We shouldn't be laughing about it.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
But yes we do because I think it's really funny.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We want to get rid of the damn things, absolutely right. Hey,
And you're all good mate?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, so far, so far, so good.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Good.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It feels too early to say it feels like it's
warming up. I was I was working outside yesterday and
I thought it's too warm. I've got more fruit on
the plum tree.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that sort of stuff. Yeah,
this is the time when the trees and shrubs go like,
oh yeah, let's have a go and it starts to
flower and everybody goes like what the time of the year. Yeah,
that's exactly what happens. But that's okay, it's not a
big deal. I was just I'm just writing a little
thing for Jack James thing about the fact that I
(01:53):
totally forgot that you can actually plant, for instance, strawberries
right now, you know, actually from last month already, right,
And it's things like that that because you're busy, you
don't actually really you're not really into it at the moment,
you know. And now I know, I just refound my
wonderful If you like way to get back into the garden,
(02:17):
then do some stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's nice, fantastic. Yeah, I was painting yesterday, but I
was looking at the weeds thing. How I've got to
go and sort that out as well. Hey, if you've
got a question for it, call us now. Jill, Good morning, Good.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Morning, gentlemen. My question is I have a hungry ben
worm farm, and only a whole lot of little baby white,
small white worms have turned up the idea. You know,
the question is are there a problem and so what
should I.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Do about it?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
No, they're not a problem at all, because it's not
just worms. You know, the original worms that you want
to grow in your worm farm are the only and
not the only ones that can do work on cials
and break them down and all that sort of stuff.
Those little ones do their own gig, so they are
(03:12):
actually helping the whole breakdown of your compost and things
like that. In this case, no concern whatsoever.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Right, Yeah, there's lots, there's still a lot of tiger
worms in there. But what should be the ra Should
it be a ratio of more?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
No, the ratio, it's not. It's not going to be
you that's going to determine the ratio. It's the worms
that will do that. Does that make sense because that's
exactly how it works. There's lots of different creatures on
the planet that do that. Literally, look after recycling, and
your worms are one of them. Your your tiger worms
and all that sort of stuff are your own, and
(03:51):
the native worms and all that. But these are the
little ones that go into the little spaces and do
little things.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Right, don't worry, thank you, So.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Much, absolutely brilliant. Thank you, Jill.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
All the rubis to Jill. You have a great day
and take care. Yeah, and John, a very good morning
to you.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Yeah. A few months ago you had a woman ring
up saying that the birds were ripping all the grass
up they had at the lawn. Yeah. What causes that
as grass.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Grubs sometimes, but the ripping of the lawn is not
so much the grass cup It could be starlings.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yeah, but digging down for the grass grubs. Yeah, and
seeing the grass grubs have eaten all the roots off,
it's easy to pull the grass out exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And also the grabs them the grabs themselves are very
good food for quite a few birds, especially in the starlings. Yeah.
And but but here comes to thing somebody for Peter.
But my old friend Peter, he says, I reckon that
these starlings have got the sensational sense of hearing.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
They have, you know what I mean. You can see
them if you watch them, you can see them hopping
along the ground with their head on the side. Next
time they stop and I pull it out, a puff
the grass and get the grass grub underneath.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Exactly, and you get rid of it. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
If you get rid of the grass grubs. They don't
pull the grass up because the roots are deeper.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
That's right, Yeah, you got it. Yeah, that's the one.
And there is there as there are some really good
materials now that you can spray onto your grass, onto
your lawn to stop those grass grubs and and and
related creatures if you like, from from doing that sort
of damage. And then of course followed by the birds.
So you can you can spray now these days.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
I used pills from the Guard Center, but they're not
good for the birds, so you need to cover the ground,
have to put the pills on to stop the birds
going in there.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That's one way. But that other stuff that I was
just thinking oft and I've forgotten the name of it,
the Kiwi Care product as well, that that you don't
need to cover for it because the birds basically don't
get that far. Yeah yeah, easy, awesome all this have
a great question.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You take care and Noel, good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Hey morning guys, Christian. Look, I may give me a
bag of grass seed, so I'm going to sell you
some grass seed, right.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Win.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
And and you know the dirt patches, do you just
loosen them and chuck the seed on it.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
What will start with win?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I would do it a little bit later when it's
a bit warmer. I don't know where are you? Where
you situated kuypra? Okay, so you're not that worried about
the You can actually almost start it from now on
because the temperature of the soil will increase from now on,
as you might notice, and that is the one that
(06:59):
that makes the seeds germinate. So first of all, get
get a rake or something that makes holes in the ground,
you know, like you know what I mean, and basically
do yours yours broadcasting off seeds. I think that's the
best way to say it. And you can do that. Well,
you could wait for another two weeks I suppose, and
(07:19):
then have a go. That's that's okay, you're getting there. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Just one more thing is I've got a cork run
Will it work on it?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Kaikuya no cokuya will caku you will always be something
that wins exactly.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
No, get rid of the kai kuu first. Actually, that's
a good idea. Get no, no, honestly, get some wet
and forget or that the hit man, the hit no, honestly,
the hit man or some really good grass. Yeah, there
you go, or.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You embrace the cokuia and just go. It's the one
that won't die off in the summer.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
You know, it's just the grass, the dirt pictures of around.
We'll work on.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Those, but this as well, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
But but the question you have to ask, why is
they know I call you there.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Well, we're on the farm.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And cows, dogs fair enough, sheep, Yeah, trolling, trolling all
over the place. Yeah, I go, and.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Dogs and dogs all over.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Do this?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Give me?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, especially female dogs that do we pee into one
place that literally kills your grass.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
That'll do it. They good luck with that noll. But
maybe you just accept the fact that the cuckoo ear
is going to be dominant, and uh, it'll be there
for a while. He's got lambs. I wonder if he's
got mutton fat that I could get from.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Stuff. It's funny coming through.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
We might take a quick break, Henry, stay on the line.
Will be with you next. You're fifteen minutes away from nine, Henry,
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Good morning. I was just wanting to talk to Rute.
Just turn the other on the bank. The other side
of the land was little harbor and wrapped a head.
And we have an old orange treat that my uncle
heread it said for years come away. It went really well.
I'm doing quite cort was opened up and it died off,
(09:39):
but it's come back and I want to write to stay.
We will be the best time carried off.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And it's you. You have semi ripe cuttings, usually for citrus. Citrus,
isn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Yeah, it's actually a seedless orange tre It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Is there? And you can't it? Probably you can do it,
but it's it could be quite true, key, I think.
And if you.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Yeah, I've tried charge just an old tree?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yes, do you know the variety?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Oh no, okay, old tree in a tree?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay, semi ripe cuttings. That means you've got to go
to the to the younger part of the branches, if
you like, and you take a cutting, not the near
the latest bit of growth, but the one before that.
Say that they say that started midway through the season,
if you like. Does that make sense to you when
(10:43):
I say it like that? So if you if you
let new new stuff grow out in this coming this
coming spring, news, uh yeah, new branches, branch trips coming out.
That's what you use halfway through their life.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Sorry, Yes, that's got a growing that's really nice.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, okay, I would now, but I would wait a
little bit longer till you're getting into well into spring. Okay,
that's that's the best sort of sort of stuff that
you take cuttings off for citrus from memory. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
The other the other question was I grown my own
rose cut into stuff like that, and I've put a
lot of soil and I've paid an old I've got
to build a lost block here with the spin on fires.
You know, they've got the old black spoil heer and
is that a right for that sort of for the
roses and strawberries?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Sorry, the question is what to use what.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
They almost out of the fire?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, the old bra you're talking about, you're talking about
the pot the pot esh as they call it. You
can use that as a fertilizer. We do it from
now on, but not too much at the time so
that it becomes quite hot, you know what I mean.
When you put it on the soil, let's go so
so just a small amount and make sure that you
(12:13):
water it well in That is actually the best way
to do it. I've done that. I do it myself
from my own fireplace, and that is the place to
That is how you get plants to not only have
flowers but also set seeds or fruits. So for flowering
(12:34):
and fruits and seeds, that's sulfate of potash or the
potas that you get from your from your your fireplace
is excellent. Yeah, over the top, right, Okay, have a go.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
All the very best to you. Good luck on that one.
Henry and Peter, good morning to.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
You, very good morning.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
I'm confuious to what different points of view are about
a green gauge. There's a fridge one that they say
itself or something like rain cloud iris or something. Right,
golden drop might sort of encourage pollination. So and someone
(13:16):
says green graves are very hard to grow. Banks ponentiala
facing north. What do you it's close for? What do
you think?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I am on the porthills on the other side, on
the north facing side. No problem with rain claude at all.
There is heaps of that sort of stuff on the tree.
It doesn't there's hardly any frost, mind you where I
am because I'm at one hundred meters altitude. The frost
goes down. Yeah, yeah, and that is not not a
big deal. The point is that, in terms of pollination,
(13:48):
I don't think you do need a specific pollinator for
rain claude and that sort of stuff and the green gauge.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Right, so you've got green gauges, have you?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah? Yeah? And to be quite honest, there are other
plants nearby, other trees year by of that same sort
of group, and they may do a bit of cross pollination.
And if so, that's great, you know, but if you
just have one tree, I think you will get rain clawed.
I'm quite sure you do.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
Okay, Well, thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, have a go it.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Yeah, but how long before you got fruit?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Oh? How how old is the tree you planted?
Speaker 8 (14:32):
I haven't planted, yeah, I just bought it.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Though.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
How long before you get fruit?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
How old?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Two years after? After that sort of stuff. But I've
got I've got a much better suggestion for you. If
it's just that sort of green gage in the rand
claude and all the other sort of plants or trees
like that, why don't you put two plants in one
hole when you dig them.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
In, and they are two plants in one hole.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yes, together and they will they will grow like one
tree if you like, and they will do they will
actually do also the cross pollination a lot better that way.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
I've got two plants, so I'll do that. I was
going to plant them in different places, but I'll put
them right in the same hole.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Is that the same rain, claud you're talking about? Yes, Okay,
get a third one in the hole, which is a
different plumb again, different variety.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
I've put three in the whole, yes, but.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
What different varieties, and they will also they will also
do their their cross pollination to them to their mates
next door literally in the same hole.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
Okay, so I've got to the same. So if I
get one different variety, I've already got two you've got.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
You've got much better cross pollination. That were absolutely guarantee.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Okay, excellent way for a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Fantastic, Isn't Isn't patience an integral part of being a gardener?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It is, yeah, absolutely, But you know it's going to
come and you're looking at every flower. That's what Julie
does when she gets up and look at oh this
is flowing, Oh this is you know exactly what's happening.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It's good funbulous Carol, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Good morning, Ruth. Look, I don't know whether I was
dreaming about pine needles or what, but I think i've
read the pine needles, tried pine needles a very good mulch,
especially for strawberries. Is that true or false?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I do not know. I've never used pine needles pine
needles for those things, I use the what do you
call that stuff? Piece?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Straw?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yeah, I used pea straw on the top. And also
to have the plant as you plant. This is what
I'm going to be doing very soon as you As
you plant the plants, now you put it with pea
straw over the top, a little bit little hole so
that they can get light and all that. But the
important thing of pea straw in this case, and this
is where I don't know about your pines. The good
(17:17):
thing for pea straws is that when you get fruit,
you let the fruit go on top of the pea straw,
so they're not going to be in touch with the
very moist soil.
Speaker 9 (17:30):
All right, Can you buy pea straw etc. From Miter
ten or somewhere like that.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Where are you which area.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
WORKU?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
We are you cool?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I know.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Go never look there might be the peastra. You might
have peace through there, pea straw there. It's quite a
South Island thing, by the way, I've noticed.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
Yeah, all right, Well you don't know much about pine
needles either.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yes, I do. I can tell you that they usually
I tell you why I'm saying that, because pine needles
are really good. If you want slightly more what do
you call it, the you need a pH that is
lower and pine needles do that when you put them on.
So if you use pine needles too much, for instance,
(18:20):
for your strawberries, your pH might go too far down.
In other it it becomes stu acidic. That's why. Yeah,
but that's why I was thinking of strawberries.
Speaker 9 (18:33):
No, not necessarily. Strawberries are meant for anything.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Oh, you can use it for a lot of different things,
especially stuff like camellias that like a good a good
low pH.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Did not know that or what else besides garmelias.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Camellias, anything else that wants that wants a pH that
is of low level. If you like so nice and
and and and not sweet but quite sour, the go all.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Right, good luck with that, Carol, And I think we've
just got time for geness. Good morning, good.
Speaker 10 (19:14):
Good morning there, Good morning to you both. Rude. Our
lawn here in Taranaki is beautiful and green, well kept
under the shade. But once the sun starts to come out,
the rest of the lawn looks as it's got the measles.
Oh but that it's just dry brown patches come through
(19:35):
on the lovely green lawn. No weeds, just I don't know,
the lawn just seems to die and patches.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh god, you don't have dogs that do the wheeze there,
not at all. No, okay, just asking, Okay, that could
be that could be something to do with fertilizer. Maybe
you would need to get some fertilizer for your lawns
to make it, to make it a little bit happier.
Go to your garden center, get the right stuff. You'll
be fine.
Speaker 10 (20:03):
Okay, thank you very much, good morning, welcome to you.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Thank you very much for that, Jeanette, Yes, or is
a bit disconcerting. Yeah, how I mean in terms of
the garden, I've been like, I like genuinely yesterday out
I was trying to do some painting and thought this
is great sunshining, but it was actually just a little
bit too warm. So as things are warming up, you
got fifteen seconds key things to do. I said, oh,
(20:29):
do warm in the garden right now. What's the thing
if you wanted to do a job in the garden
this week.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Water it, yeah, and put them and put some liquid
fertilizer on their boom. Perfect.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I'll get some today as well. All right mate, nice
to talk to you. Let's do it again next week.
Thank you folks for your company. It's been a pleasure.
And enjoy your projects this week, and we'll talk about
it again next Sunday here at news Talk ZB.
Speaker 1 (21:14):
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Camp from news Talk said.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
The Red Climb pass, Good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
He's not that grumpy, you know, well, he's not that.
You know that.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
I do know that, And I was laughing out of
you every day.
Speaker 3 (00:31):
Every I had a good laugh about the pigeons on
the roof and the rats teller is a good way
to catch traps. Teller just just length the same with mice.
Speaker 2 (00:45):
But yeah, that's I mean, you know, like this was
thirty odd years ago, and and we had a rat
in the ceiling, put the trap in there, down comes
the lever and I'm like, got them. And then then
I could hear it moving, and I'm like, oh no,
what do I do now?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Anyway, same way they have their tail in the.
Speaker 2 (01:07):
We shouldn't be laughing about it.
Speaker 3 (01:09):
But yes we do because I think it's really funny.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
We want to get rid of the damn things, absolutely right. Hey,
And you're all good mate?
Speaker 3 (01:16):
Yeah, so far, so far, so good.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
Good.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
It feels too early to say it feels like it's
warming up. I was I was working outside yesterday and
I thought it's too warm. I've got more fruit on
the plum tree.
Speaker 3 (01:31):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, that sort of stuff. Yeah,
this is the time when the trees and shrubs go like,
oh yeah, let's have a go and it starts to
flower and everybody goes like what the time of the year. Yeah,
that's exactly what happens. But that's okay, it's not a
big deal. I was just I'm just writing a little
thing for Jack James thing about the fact that I
(01:53):
totally forgot that you can actually plant, for instance, strawberries
right now, you know, actually from last month already, right,
And it's things like that that because you're busy, you
don't actually really you're not really into it at the moment,
you know. And now I know, I just refound my
wonderful If you like way to get back into the garden,
(02:17):
then do some stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
It's nice, fantastic. Yeah, I was painting yesterday, but I
was looking at the weeds thing. How I've got to
go and sort that out as well. Hey, if you've
got a question for it, call us now. Jill, Good morning, Good.
Speaker 5 (02:31):
Morning, gentlemen. My question is I have a hungry ben
worm farm, and only a whole lot of little baby white,
small white worms have turned up the idea. You know,
the question is are there a problem and so what
should I.
Speaker 4 (02:51):
Do about it?
Speaker 3 (02:52):
No, they're not a problem at all, because it's not
just worms. You know, the original worms that you want
to grow in your worm farm are the only and
not the only ones that can do work on cials
and break them down and all that sort of stuff.
Those little ones do their own gig, so they are
(03:12):
actually helping the whole breakdown of your compost and things
like that. In this case, no concern whatsoever.
Speaker 5 (03:21):
Right, Yeah, there's lots, there's still a lot of tiger
worms in there. But what should be the ra Should
it be a ratio of more?
Speaker 3 (03:29):
No, the ratio, it's not. It's not going to be
you that's going to determine the ratio. It's the worms
that will do that. Does that make sense because that's
exactly how it works. There's lots of different creatures on
the planet that do that. Literally, look after recycling, and
your worms are one of them. Your your tiger worms
and all that sort of stuff are your own, and
(03:51):
the native worms and all that. But these are the
little ones that go into the little spaces and do
little things.
Speaker 4 (03:57):
Right, don't worry, thank you, So.
Speaker 3 (04:00):
Much, absolutely brilliant. Thank you, Jill.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
All the rubis to Jill. You have a great day
and take care. Yeah, and John, a very good morning
to you.
Speaker 6 (04:10):
Yeah. A few months ago you had a woman ring
up saying that the birds were ripping all the grass
up they had at the lawn. Yeah. What causes that
as grass.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Grubs sometimes, but the ripping of the lawn is not
so much the grass cup It could be starlings.
Speaker 6 (04:30):
Yeah, but digging down for the grass grubs. Yeah, and
seeing the grass grubs have eaten all the roots off,
it's easy to pull the grass out exactly.
Speaker 3 (04:39):
And also the grabs them the grabs themselves are very
good food for quite a few birds, especially in the starlings. Yeah.
And but but here comes to thing somebody for Peter.
But my old friend Peter, he says, I reckon that
these starlings have got the sensational sense of hearing.
Speaker 6 (04:59):
They have, you know what I mean. You can see
them if you watch them, you can see them hopping
along the ground with their head on the side. Next
time they stop and I pull it out, a puff
the grass and get the grass grub underneath.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Exactly, and you get rid of it. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
If you get rid of the grass grubs. They don't
pull the grass up because the roots are deeper.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
That's right, Yeah, you got it. Yeah, that's the one.
And there is there as there are some really good
materials now that you can spray onto your grass, onto
your lawn to stop those grass grubs and and and
related creatures if you like, from from doing that sort
of damage. And then of course followed by the birds.
So you can you can spray now these days.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
Yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:43):
I used pills from the Guard Center, but they're not
good for the birds, so you need to cover the ground,
have to put the pills on to stop the birds
going in there.
Speaker 3 (05:53):
That's one way. But that other stuff that I was
just thinking oft and I've forgotten the name of it,
the Kiwi Care product as well, that that you don't
need to cover for it because the birds basically don't
get that far. Yeah yeah, easy, awesome all this have
a great question.
Speaker 2 (06:10):
You take care and Noel, good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
Hey morning guys, Christian. Look, I may give me a
bag of grass seed, so I'm going to sell you
some grass seed, right.
Speaker 8 (06:25):
Win.
Speaker 7 (06:26):
And and you know the dirt patches, do you just
loosen them and chuck the seed on it.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Yeah, and.
Speaker 7 (06:36):
What will start with win?
Speaker 3 (06:39):
I would do it a little bit later when it's
a bit warmer. I don't know where are you? Where
you situated kuypra? Okay, so you're not that worried about
the You can actually almost start it from now on
because the temperature of the soil will increase from now on,
as you might notice, and that is the one that
(06:59):
that makes the seeds germinate. So first of all, get
get a rake or something that makes holes in the ground,
you know, like you know what I mean, and basically
do yours yours broadcasting off seeds. I think that's the
best way to say it. And you can do that. Well,
you could wait for another two weeks I suppose, and
(07:19):
then have a go. That's that's okay, you're getting there. Yeah.
Speaker 7 (07:23):
Just one more thing is I've got a cork run
Will it work on it?
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Kaikuya no cokuya will caku you will always be something
that wins exactly.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
No, get rid of the kai kuu first. Actually, that's
a good idea. Get no, no, honestly, get some wet
and forget or that the hit man, the hit no, honestly,
the hit man or some really good grass. Yeah, there
you go, or.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
You embrace the cokuia and just go. It's the one
that won't die off in the summer.
Speaker 7 (08:03):
You know, it's just the grass, the dirt pictures of around.
We'll work on.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Those, but this as well, Yeah, of course.
Speaker 9 (08:11):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (08:12):
But but the question you have to ask, why is
they know I call you there.
Speaker 7 (08:18):
Well, we're on the farm.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
And cows, dogs fair enough, sheep, Yeah, trolling, trolling all
over the place. Yeah, I go, and.
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Dogs and dogs all over.
Speaker 4 (08:33):
Do this?
Speaker 6 (08:34):
Give me?
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Yeah, especially female dogs that do we pee into one
place that literally kills your grass.
Speaker 2 (08:40):
That'll do it. They good luck with that noll. But
maybe you just accept the fact that the cuckoo ear
is going to be dominant, and uh, it'll be there
for a while. He's got lambs. I wonder if he's
got mutton fat that I could get from.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
Stuff. It's funny coming through.
Speaker 2 (09:02):
We might take a quick break, Henry, stay on the line.
Will be with you next. You're fifteen minutes away from nine, Henry,
Good morning.
Speaker 4 (09:19):
Good morning. I was just wanting to talk to Rute.
Just turn the other on the bank. The other side
of the land was little harbor and wrapped a head.
And we have an old orange treat that my uncle
heread it said for years come away. It went really well.
I'm doing quite cort was opened up and it died off,
(09:39):
but it's come back and I want to write to stay.
We will be the best time carried off.
Speaker 3 (09:46):
And it's you. You have semi ripe cuttings, usually for citrus. Citrus,
isn't it? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (09:54):
Yeah, it's actually a seedless orange tre It's beautiful.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Is there? And you can't it? Probably you can do it,
but it's it could be quite true, key, I think.
And if you.
Speaker 4 (10:09):
Yeah, I've tried charge just an old tree?
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Yes, do you know the variety?
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Oh no, okay, old tree in a tree?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Okay, semi ripe cuttings. That means you've got to go
to the to the younger part of the branches, if
you like, and you take a cutting, not the near
the latest bit of growth, but the one before that.
Say that they say that started midway through the season,
if you like. Does that make sense to you when
(10:43):
I say it like that? So if you if you
let new new stuff grow out in this coming this
coming spring, news, uh yeah, new branches, branch trips coming out.
That's what you use halfway through their life.
Speaker 4 (11:01):
Sorry, Yes, that's got a growing that's really nice.
Speaker 3 (11:06):
Yeah, okay, I would now, but I would wait a
little bit longer till you're getting into well into spring. Okay,
that's that's the best sort of sort of stuff that
you take cuttings off for citrus from memory. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
The other the other question was I grown my own
rose cut into stuff like that, and I've put a
lot of soil and I've paid an old I've got
to build a lost block here with the spin on fires.
You know, they've got the old black spoil heer and
is that a right for that sort of for the
roses and strawberries?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Sorry, the question is what to use what.
Speaker 4 (11:44):
They almost out of the fire?
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, the old bra you're talking about, you're talking about
the pot the pot esh as they call it. You
can use that as a fertilizer. We do it from
now on, but not too much at the time so
that it becomes quite hot, you know what I mean.
When you put it on the soil, let's go so
so just a small amount and make sure that you
(12:13):
water it well in That is actually the best way
to do it. I've done that. I do it myself
from my own fireplace, and that is the place to
That is how you get plants to not only have
flowers but also set seeds or fruits. So for flowering
(12:34):
and fruits and seeds, that's sulfate of potash or the
potas that you get from your from your your fireplace
is excellent. Yeah, over the top, right, Okay, have a go.
Speaker 2 (12:47):
All the very best to you. Good luck on that one.
Henry and Peter, good morning to.
Speaker 6 (12:51):
You, very good morning.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
I'm confuious to what different points of view are about
a green gauge. There's a fridge one that they say
itself or something like rain cloud iris or something. Right,
golden drop might sort of encourage pollination. So and someone
(13:16):
says green graves are very hard to grow. Banks ponentiala
facing north. What do you it's close for? What do
you think?
Speaker 3 (13:25):
I am on the porthills on the other side, on
the north facing side. No problem with rain claude at all.
There is heaps of that sort of stuff on the tree.
It doesn't there's hardly any frost, mind you where I
am because I'm at one hundred meters altitude. The frost
goes down. Yeah, yeah, and that is not not a
big deal. The point is that, in terms of pollination,
(13:48):
I don't think you do need a specific pollinator for
rain claude and that sort of stuff and the green gauge.
Speaker 8 (13:56):
Right, so you've got green gauges, have you?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Yeah? Yeah? And to be quite honest, there are other
plants nearby, other trees year by of that same sort
of group, and they may do a bit of cross pollination.
And if so, that's great, you know, but if you
just have one tree, I think you will get rain clawed.
I'm quite sure you do.
Speaker 8 (14:20):
Okay, Well, thank you for that.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Yeah, have a go it.
Speaker 8 (14:24):
Yeah, but how long before you got fruit?
Speaker 3 (14:28):
Oh? How how old is the tree you planted?
Speaker 8 (14:32):
I haven't planted, yeah, I just bought it.
Speaker 6 (14:34):
Though.
Speaker 8 (14:36):
How long before you get fruit?
Speaker 4 (14:38):
How old?
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Maybe?
Speaker 4 (14:41):
Uh?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Two years after? After that sort of stuff. But I've
got I've got a much better suggestion for you. If
it's just that sort of green gage in the rand
claude and all the other sort of plants or trees
like that, why don't you put two plants in one
hole when you dig them.
Speaker 8 (15:01):
In, and they are two plants in one hole.
Speaker 3 (15:05):
Yes, together and they will they will grow like one
tree if you like, and they will do they will
actually do also the cross pollination a lot better that way.
Speaker 8 (15:18):
I've got two plants, so I'll do that. I was
going to plant them in different places, but I'll put
them right in the same hole.
Speaker 3 (15:24):
Is that the same rain, claud you're talking about? Yes, Okay,
get a third one in the hole, which is a
different plumb again, different variety.
Speaker 8 (15:35):
I've put three in the whole, yes, but.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
What different varieties, and they will also they will also
do their their cross pollination to them to their mates
next door literally in the same hole.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
Okay, so I've got to the same. So if I
get one different variety, I've already got two you've got.
Speaker 3 (15:55):
You've got much better cross pollination. That were absolutely guarantee.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
Okay, excellent way for a couple of years.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Fantastic, Isn't Isn't patience an integral part of being a gardener?
Speaker 3 (16:13):
It is, yeah, absolutely, But you know it's going to
come and you're looking at every flower. That's what Julie
does when she gets up and look at oh this
is flowing, Oh this is you know exactly what's happening.
Speaker 2 (16:23):
It's good funbulous Carol, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Good morning, Ruth. Look, I don't know whether I was
dreaming about pine needles or what, but I think i've
read the pine needles, tried pine needles a very good mulch,
especially for strawberries. Is that true or false?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
I do not know. I've never used pine needles pine
needles for those things, I use the what do you
call that stuff? Piece?
Speaker 2 (16:55):
Straw?
Speaker 3 (16:55):
Yeah, I used pea straw on the top. And also
to have the plant as you plant. This is what
I'm going to be doing very soon as you As
you plant the plants, now you put it with pea
straw over the top, a little bit little hole so
that they can get light and all that. But the
important thing of pea straw in this case, and this
is where I don't know about your pines. The good
(17:17):
thing for pea straws is that when you get fruit,
you let the fruit go on top of the pea straw,
so they're not going to be in touch with the
very moist soil.
Speaker 9 (17:30):
All right, Can you buy pea straw etc. From Miter
ten or somewhere like that.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
Where are you which area.
Speaker 9 (17:41):
WORKU?
Speaker 3 (17:42):
We are you cool?
Speaker 4 (17:43):
I know.
Speaker 3 (17:43):
Go never look there might be the peastra. You might
have peace through there, pea straw there. It's quite a
South Island thing, by the way, I've noticed.
Speaker 9 (17:53):
Yeah, all right, Well you don't know much about pine
needles either.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Yes, I do. I can tell you that they usually
I tell you why I'm saying that, because pine needles
are really good. If you want slightly more what do
you call it, the you need a pH that is
lower and pine needles do that when you put them on.
So if you use pine needles too much, for instance,
(18:20):
for your strawberries, your pH might go too far down.
In other it it becomes stu acidic. That's why. Yeah,
but that's why I was thinking of strawberries.
Speaker 9 (18:33):
No, not necessarily. Strawberries are meant for anything.
Speaker 3 (18:36):
Oh, you can use it for a lot of different things,
especially stuff like camellias that like a good a good
low pH.
Speaker 9 (18:44):
Did not know that or what else besides garmelias.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Camellias, anything else that wants that wants a pH that
is of low level. If you like so nice and
and and and not sweet but quite sour, the go all.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Right, good luck with that, Carol, And I think we've
just got time for geness. Good morning, good.
Speaker 10 (19:14):
Good morning there, Good morning to you both. Rude. Our
lawn here in Taranaki is beautiful and green, well kept
under the shade. But once the sun starts to come out,
the rest of the lawn looks as it's got the measles.
Oh but that it's just dry brown patches come through
(19:35):
on the lovely green lawn. No weeds, just I don't know,
the lawn just seems to die and patches.
Speaker 3 (19:42):
Oh god, you don't have dogs that do the wheeze there,
not at all. No, okay, just asking, Okay, that could
be that could be something to do with fertilizer. Maybe
you would need to get some fertilizer for your lawns
to make it, to make it a little bit happier.
Go to your garden center, get the right stuff. You'll
be fine.
Speaker 10 (20:03):
Okay, thank you very much, good morning, welcome to you.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Thank you very much for that, Jeanette, Yes, or is
a bit disconcerting. Yeah, how I mean in terms of
the garden, I've been like, I like genuinely yesterday out
I was trying to do some painting and thought this
is great sunshining, but it was actually just a little
bit too warm. So as things are warming up, you
got fifteen seconds key things to do. I said, oh,
(20:29):
do warm in the garden right now. What's the thing
if you wanted to do a job in the garden
this week.
Speaker 3 (20:35):
Water it, yeah, and put them and put some liquid
fertilizer on their boom. Perfect.
Speaker 2 (20:40):
I'll get some today as well. All right mate, nice
to talk to you. Let's do it again next week.
Thank you folks for your company. It's been a pleasure.
And enjoy your projects this week, and we'll talk about
it again next Sunday here at news Talk ZB.
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