October 18, 2025 • 20 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for October 19, 2025, Ruud and Pete discuss their home-made ruru boxes, how catch and relocate weta, and the nuances of your neighbour's trees crossing the property boundary.
Get The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast every Sunday morning on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.
LISTEN ABOVE
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talk sedb.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Of September twenty five. Oh yeah, no worry, don't even
go and sort that. No, well, I've not even wallet.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Right, don't worry.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
We'll sort it for you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We're a radio show, not a text show.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Sorry, but I will read out some texts and just
a moment and I did a quick search because we
were just talking about ruboxes. So again I saw that.
Super excited. My sister sent me a photograph yesterday. They
put it up and I know, well, there's Ruru in
the area, so if one of them comes lives at
her place, that'll be exciting. And I've made a couple
(00:46):
based on your plans. And I was saying to people,
if they want the plans, go and have a look
for the wing Span.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I just said, a look, it's great. I can't find
it on the Wingspan Facebook and whatever.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
And I couldn't find it either. But when I went
to doctor Google and went Wingspan, RURU plan is up
a link to the pdf. You can download the pdf.
All the details are there.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, Noel knows what to do. Noel will do that,
will do that, Okay, so that's number one. So that's
that's lovely to know. By the way, in terms of
those particular things, I've also made a box for little owls,
which is the smaller species that only lives in the
South Island, and that has only got to be quite honest,
the best boxes, I think have got two stories like
(01:32):
you like you talked about, you know, the two different levels,
but I've also got a very straight long one level
if you like little owl box. Yes, and here comes
to think always position taken apart by stylings. They they
love it. They love those boxes too.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Because someone to tick through before and go, so, okay,
you make it? What stops someone else occupying it?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And obviously stylings do.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Then and you know what, So the little owl about
half the size of ruru and it's so small, it's
really small. But if there is a styling in their box,
they will get the styling, kill it and eat it.
And that's that styling is only maybe the half the
size of of of one of those little owls. To
(02:25):
be quite honest, they know how to defend their gig.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It's good fun asking for a friend, yeah, who may
well be visiting christ Church next year. If we came
to see you, would you have owls around?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
No? No, I don't know. You're not allowed to have
owls in captivity. But I can show you what the
boxes look like. And I can also show you when
we climb into one of those boxes what happens when
these owls have been sitting in there for about two
months and have breed bread and all that. Because you
get these pellets that they eject. These creatures they eat
(03:02):
something and the pellets are basically spewed out like that,
and they're beautiful green gray with the what you call
it material that is ejected by the mice that they eat,
for instance. And if you get those pelletts, and you
can get them at a wingspan as well, you can
actually make them wet and pull them apart and get
(03:24):
all the bits and pieces which were the diet of
that owl. If you take that to school, you can
totally recreate the complete system of an owl, all the
all the things are there to make the owl again
from the inside.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
It's just wonderful, fabulous radio.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Let's get amongst a face before we go.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Hang on, before we go, remember we were going to
do something about now. We were going to talk about
chaos gardening.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Oh remember, yes, yes, please.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So Yates do a yearly thing which is which is
the Yates Gardening. If you're like weak, if you and
this year they're doing chaos gardening, which is what you
and I have talked but for a long time about
not mowing your lawn cell accurately the whole time, et cetera.
So but I Fiona Arthur and it's says that Gale's
(04:15):
Gardening is a movement that encourages both creativity and environmental responsibility.
Now it's on from Monday till next next month. They
for a whole week. But they're also going to give
us a and literally and lots of different seeds that
you can get from the AHS. Basically we give one
(04:36):
away for a gardener question this week. And so there
you go. I just thought i'd tell you.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, And it's bring out and we're starting to see
it because you're right, there is a movement that goes, well,
you know, do we just put down lawn and mowet
and that's what I was doing yesterday, or do we
go wildflowers and then it's habitat for bees and other
insects and not having to get out there with the mower.
So yeah, chaos gardening.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
It's those seeds.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, and those seeds are part of that get those
pollinators in all the others. So that's the whole idea.
I think it's brilliant.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
So someone who phones through today will get a packet
that will get you into chaos gardening. Now, Margaret, A
very good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Hey, thank you very much. So here here's a question
for your rude, which I know is the topic that
you talk about every week. But you know, you know
the coddling moth. I've got the I bought the mad
X three spray or you know, the bottle of the
thing ready for spray, and I've got I've got some
(05:42):
apples and pears and I'm just noticing now that there
looks like the formation of little fruit and I'm thinking,
oh god, when do I have to spray them? I'm
just not sure when do I need to get the
pheromone traps to know that the or when do I spray?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You don't really need the pheromone trap well, look, to
be quite honest, that's what official growers of apples do
you know?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Really?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You know, yeah, the apple orchids and all that because
they want to know exactly when the moths are on
the wing. Well, I can tell you that's from now on.
This today is the day really because at my place
in Christian's no, just look at Christier's same thing. We've
got most of the apples have flowered, and the little toodlinks,
(06:31):
which are the little developing, little tiny fruitlets, are coming out.
And this is the time when I should I'm going
to put Madis tree on this afternoon boom, just like that.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Okay, So I just got to wait for the wind
to die down a weaver. Unfortunately, it's quite windy. We're
in the Manawatu here. Good. And if the top branches
of the trees are a little bit high, do I
have to try and get to all of those top branches?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Would you pick you? Would you pick your fruit from
the altitude?
Speaker 6 (07:03):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
No, probably not actually it's thought. Yeah, And how how
much time do I have, like if it's a bit
too windy today or if it's going to rain.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I'll tell you what. I've already had a go last
week with a little bit remains from a neighbor, a
neighbor of mindset here, I've got some left and I
had to go then just for the hell of it.
But to be quite honest, I know from now on
it's going to be the time. Yeah, and do it
about you know, three weeks again later and so on
and so forth. So you make a yeah, you know
(07:36):
what I mean, you make a little area for it
in terms of time, so that all these codly moths
are not going to make it so.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
And Texas sorry, Margaret, text has come through as well
about this. So what is the product that you mentioned
about the coddling moth. This is the Maddox, isn't it
you guys?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Maddix three which Maddics two used to exist, but I
think they've pulled out of it because it wasn't really
working for them. But that's another story. But madex M
A d E X three and you can get it
from Good to Grow, en set us you Farmlands, PG
(08:13):
Rights since I suppose Fruit Fed and Haughty Center those
are some of the main providers of them, but there's
others as well.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Go never look fantastic, Thank you, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Just one last little thing because the product is you know,
at stores in the freezer. I've heard you say in
the past. Does it remain a liquid in a liquid
state or you have absolutely you know.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It remains a liquid, but it's because it's it's got
a density of course that it needs really lots of
coolness for it to do set, but it doesn't, so
use it then, yeah, keep it in the freezing.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, yeahs lovely to chat with you.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Take care of question by the way, Oh yeah, great question,
surely going to you.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
I've got around a property and load of picks where
very good, and keep the trees down. The house of
the story was two story really the spacemen on the
house above and the punt of trees along their garden
on the property. But the trees over years have grown
(09:21):
so tall that when they're there they are like maples
and forms and things, and the right over my house
and the spouting. You can keep them from too, you know,
certain hiatus.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
But.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Once I get up there, they win wind blows spouting,
spouting fills up and blocks and it runs down the
tooth tourist side and then it runs into their house.
Is I've asked them to trim the trees back, I say,
they like them, I'm not going to do it. There's
(09:57):
also bird dropping, so ron nats pulled leaves and another
three fingered leaf tree right on the fruit pie. There's
there anything I can do about it. It's just inconvenience
of it, ugly wouldn't on the one autumn.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Peter, you've had a lawyer on this gig.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
We have so.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Surely because it's a legal question, not really a gardening question.
But in any sense, anything that hangs over your boundary
you have one hundred percent right to just trim that back.
So you can just you know, dead straight up from
the boundary line, cut anything you want off there. And
then in terms of the height of the trees and
sign you can get an enforcement through legislation and the
(10:46):
Property Act, which gives you, you know, sort of a
right to enjoy a view or an aspect and so on.
But it has to be enforceable under the Property Act.
So it's going to be a lawyer's question rather than
a gardening question in that instance, because we love trees,
but if you put them on the wrong place and
it becomes a nuisance, it is just a pain in
the button.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
But you have to remember one thing that I always
remember from David Stone. He said, if you do cut,
somebody's on your side of the fence. Yes, some branches off.
You have to put the branches back on their territory.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Because otherwise I think it's considered theft.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yes, came flying over the feats the other time.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It also means you don't have to get rid of.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
The absolutely absolutely quick one before the break. Is it
possible to catch and relocate wetter My neighbor is going
to remove a private hedge between our properties?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Oh wow, Oh yes you can. Yeah, I reckon you can.
And the best thing to do is to actually get
those wetter in suitable suitable trees with little holes in them,
if you like. There's all sorts of ways of doing
old pool really moth holes, for instance in North Ireland.
And this is the sort of stuff I tend to
do with schools every now and then. It is unbelievable.
(12:08):
Yes you can, and you just do it very gently.
You make sure that you actually literally copy their favorite
holes and trees and things like that, right, Or you
make your own wetter motels out of sunlight in the shade,
let's say, of bamboo pieces which you've got a roof
in the top which means that is where is closed
(12:29):
off and an opening on the bottom and you chuck
that onto a treat trunk and you'll find they'll they
don't mind, they'll come back.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Fantastic Radio will take your calls, will take a short
break if you've got a question for it, call us
right now. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty here,
ten minutes away from nine o'clock, and a very good
(12:59):
morning to you, John.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Good morning gas. It is a nice morning here. I'm
sitting on the river way the tide to go out, and.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's a lovely thing to do.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Very nice, my Christian. Really, I feed my fruit trees
as you suggested, and I've got a bump of a
crop this year on all of them, a peach. What
do I do near keep them? Feed?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Just yeah, just every now and then you put a
little bit of that stuff on you you are now
you're not harvesting anything yet, are you? No? I don't know,
So just just gently. You don't have to go over
the top. This is why I when I water, for instance,
a tree, I use this this wet and forget stuff. Seafood, seafood,
(13:55):
seaweed tea I use that's got more potash if you like,
then seafood soup, and I would use it as not
only a watering but I do it very low levels
in my watering can. And you have a constant supply
of potash basically as well.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Oh that's good, Yeah, thank you, it's good. I'm so
surprised how many yeah fruit I've got, I mean the
tree starting the sheet, all the small ones especially.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, because they don't they need, they don't want to
have too many fruit here. You notice that?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't have to go around
and put the small ones off the aisle.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
No, don't have to do They'll sort it out themselves,
which is the neat way how nature operates.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
That's sure.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, yeah, I'll worry about it.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Yeah, okay, Oh well, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
More time for more time for fishing.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Yeah, it goes well. See I have this picture in
my mind of John's there, he's done a successful little
bit of white bait. He's back at home, fry pan,
egg white eight and the beautiful white bake, a beautiful
yeah Warwick, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
You're good morning as Oh no, I've been a commercial
bar and I've been a garden normal life, and then
the seventies we've had recently last year and this year
a plague of miniature ants. They're about a quarter of
the size of a normal end. Any pot plants, any
any pots anything, any like. We're in a rural area
(15:34):
on the fence where you put your tape along the fence,
electric fence, you pull those off. Those little black containers
they're in behind that. They build nests everywhere. How do
I stop them?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's hard work. So they're inside an electric switch machine,
are they?
Speaker 6 (15:49):
No? No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
They're getting in those little fittings to go on the
side of fences.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
But any pot plants.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Or tomatoes growing outside and pots, I've only got them
in the greenhouse. And what you notice is a little
pile of dry air sort of coming out to the
side around the black side of the pot. And then
you go in there and there's just thousands and thousands
of these miniature ants.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah. Sorry, Then now you're better off than I thought,
because I've once had an ant colony in an electric
switch and these ants they all shortcutted themselves into the
switch and started making a real mess by smell as well,
because they killed themselves, of course. And then others come in.
Other ants come in and say I'm helping you and
(16:27):
helping you. That's gone, you know what I mean. Okay,
so what you do with the you want? So you
want to get rid of those ends, out of those areas,
out of those little holes.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Ay, well, it's just.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Every single pot, any anything that does on it and
plant kind they just getting these ants being built. I mean, seriously,
are they a danger to the roots of the plant?
Are they going to cause the problem as far as
the roots to contend?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It actually depends on what species it is. And we've
got so many new species in New Zealand that I'm
totally lost, lost track of this. But the best thing
of you to do is to put those pots in
a big bucket full of water, hot water, not stinking
hot water, but just warm water, and those ants cannot
stay in there forever and ever and ever. Basically, what
(17:15):
you're doing is you sort them out by inundating them.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 8 (17:20):
So, No, you've got any new big part like the
big black ones, you know, the twenty liter ones, anyone
supposed that we fill up with new soil, new comfast. Yeah,
within a week, there's an ant colony being established in
every single one.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, Well, in that case, it would be an idea
to actually do something about putting that in a pot
of water, in a big bucket of water if you like,
with hot water or warm water, if you like. You
could also use some insecticides in that water and give
them and you know what I mean, not you don't
have to go high quality, low quality, not too much, right,
(17:55):
and that will get them out of there.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
Right, But I mean them burying around and amongst the
rich like a tomato plants or little plants or whatever.
Is that going to cause a problem.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
No, No, it wouldn't be, because you normally would spray
insecticides on some of these crops anyway, But in this case,
the ants other once they don't like the insecticides at all.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Yeah, okay, all right, yeah, well let's we'll give it
a go and see if you can get rid of them.
But are they introduced species?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Probably I'm quite likely.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
I mean I've not been around on my life and
I've never seen them before. So it's just the volume
of them, Yeah, taking over the town.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
There you go. Well, no, sorry, I I think that's
the best way to do. I remember doing that myself
in big buckets yeah, good right. They don't like it?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
All right? Mate?
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Thanks very well?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Bye, Okay, thanks for I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
How far are we well?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I'm just thinking, yeah, someone says ant sand and a
four year old nosey dog? Is it safe to use
the ants hanging around the outside of the house too?
The worse this year is it? Is it sort of
ant season? Is that what we're looking at?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Answer?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Now? Getting into their into their system. Oh gosh, make
no mistake, they're.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Out there looking around looking for all of us this summer.
Fair enough to Hey, I reckon Margaret would love the
seeds for the chaos gardening.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I totally agree with you.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Well, Margaret, we're the same page.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I'm sure that Locke's got every every detail of Margaret.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
By now, how are you working labor weekend?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I'm when is that again?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Next Sunday? Let's do it next Sunday.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Take care right to see then bye.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp, listen
live to NEWSTALKSB on Sunday mornings from six, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talk sedb.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Of September twenty five. Oh yeah, no worry, don't even
go and sort that. No, well, I've not even wallet.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
Right, don't worry.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
We'll sort it for you.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We're a radio show, not a text show.
Speaker 4 (00:25):
Sorry, but I will read out some texts and just
a moment and I did a quick search because we
were just talking about ruboxes. So again I saw that.
Super excited. My sister sent me a photograph yesterday. They
put it up and I know, well, there's Ruru in
the area, so if one of them comes lives at
her place, that'll be exciting. And I've made a couple
(00:46):
based on your plans. And I was saying to people,
if they want the plans, go and have a look
for the wing Span.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
I just said, a look, it's great. I can't find
it on the Wingspan Facebook and whatever.
Speaker 4 (00:59):
And I couldn't find it either. But when I went
to doctor Google and went Wingspan, RURU plan is up
a link to the pdf. You can download the pdf.
All the details are there.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Yeah, Noel knows what to do. Noel will do that,
will do that, Okay, so that's number one. So that's
that's lovely to know. By the way, in terms of
those particular things, I've also made a box for little owls,
which is the smaller species that only lives in the
South Island, and that has only got to be quite honest,
the best boxes, I think have got two stories like
(01:32):
you like you talked about, you know, the two different levels,
but I've also got a very straight long one level
if you like little owl box. Yes, and here comes
to think always position taken apart by stylings. They they
love it. They love those boxes too.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Because someone to tick through before and go, so, okay,
you make it? What stops someone else occupying it?
Speaker 2 (01:59):
And obviously stylings do.
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (02:03):
Then and you know what, So the little owl about
half the size of ruru and it's so small, it's
really small. But if there is a styling in their box,
they will get the styling, kill it and eat it.
And that's that styling is only maybe the half the
size of of of one of those little owls. To
(02:25):
be quite honest, they know how to defend their gig.
Speaker 4 (02:28):
It's good fun asking for a friend, yeah, who may
well be visiting christ Church next year. If we came
to see you, would you have owls around?
Speaker 2 (02:39):
No? No, I don't know. You're not allowed to have
owls in captivity. But I can show you what the
boxes look like. And I can also show you when
we climb into one of those boxes what happens when
these owls have been sitting in there for about two
months and have breed bread and all that. Because you
get these pellets that they eject. These creatures they eat
(03:02):
something and the pellets are basically spewed out like that,
and they're beautiful green gray with the what you call
it material that is ejected by the mice that they eat,
for instance. And if you get those pelletts, and you
can get them at a wingspan as well, you can
actually make them wet and pull them apart and get
(03:24):
all the bits and pieces which were the diet of
that owl. If you take that to school, you can
totally recreate the complete system of an owl, all the
all the things are there to make the owl again
from the inside.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
It's just wonderful, fabulous radio.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Let's get amongst a face before we go.
Speaker 2 (03:46):
Hang on, before we go, remember we were going to
do something about now. We were going to talk about
chaos gardening.
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Oh remember, yes, yes, please.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
So Yates do a yearly thing which is which is
the Yates Gardening. If you're like weak, if you and
this year they're doing chaos gardening, which is what you
and I have talked but for a long time about
not mowing your lawn cell accurately the whole time, et cetera.
So but I Fiona Arthur and it's says that Gale's
(04:15):
Gardening is a movement that encourages both creativity and environmental responsibility.
Now it's on from Monday till next next month. They
for a whole week. But they're also going to give
us a and literally and lots of different seeds that
you can get from the AHS. Basically we give one
(04:36):
away for a gardener question this week. And so there
you go. I just thought i'd tell you.
Speaker 4 (04:43):
Yeah, And it's bring out and we're starting to see
it because you're right, there is a movement that goes, well,
you know, do we just put down lawn and mowet
and that's what I was doing yesterday, or do we
go wildflowers and then it's habitat for bees and other
insects and not having to get out there with the mower.
So yeah, chaos gardening.
Speaker 5 (05:02):
It's those seeds.
Speaker 2 (05:04):
Yeah, and those seeds are part of that get those
pollinators in all the others. So that's the whole idea.
I think it's brilliant.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
So someone who phones through today will get a packet
that will get you into chaos gardening. Now, Margaret, A
very good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
Hey, thank you very much. So here here's a question
for your rude, which I know is the topic that
you talk about every week. But you know, you know
the coddling moth. I've got the I bought the mad
X three spray or you know, the bottle of the
thing ready for spray, and I've got I've got some
(05:42):
apples and pears and I'm just noticing now that there
looks like the formation of little fruit and I'm thinking,
oh god, when do I have to spray them? I'm
just not sure when do I need to get the
pheromone traps to know that the or when do I spray?
Speaker 2 (06:01):
You don't really need the pheromone trap well, look, to
be quite honest, that's what official growers of apples do
you know?
Speaker 5 (06:09):
Really?
Speaker 2 (06:09):
You know, yeah, the apple orchids and all that because
they want to know exactly when the moths are on
the wing. Well, I can tell you that's from now on.
This today is the day really because at my place
in Christian's no, just look at Christier's same thing. We've
got most of the apples have flowered, and the little toodlinks,
(06:31):
which are the little developing, little tiny fruitlets, are coming out.
And this is the time when I should I'm going
to put Madis tree on this afternoon boom, just like that.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
Okay, So I just got to wait for the wind
to die down a weaver. Unfortunately, it's quite windy. We're
in the Manawatu here. Good. And if the top branches
of the trees are a little bit high, do I
have to try and get to all of those top branches?
Speaker 2 (06:59):
Would you pick you? Would you pick your fruit from
the altitude?
Speaker 6 (07:03):
No?
Speaker 3 (07:04):
No, probably not actually it's thought. Yeah, And how how
much time do I have, like if it's a bit
too windy today or if it's going to rain.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
I'll tell you what. I've already had a go last
week with a little bit remains from a neighbor, a
neighbor of mindset here, I've got some left and I
had to go then just for the hell of it.
But to be quite honest, I know from now on
it's going to be the time. Yeah, and do it
about you know, three weeks again later and so on
and so forth. So you make a yeah, you know
(07:36):
what I mean, you make a little area for it
in terms of time, so that all these codly moths
are not going to make it so.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
And Texas sorry, Margaret, text has come through as well
about this. So what is the product that you mentioned
about the coddling moth. This is the Maddox, isn't it
you guys?
Speaker 2 (07:53):
Maddix three which Maddics two used to exist, but I
think they've pulled out of it because it wasn't really
working for them. But that's another story. But madex M
A d E X three and you can get it
from Good to Grow, en set us you Farmlands, PG
(08:13):
Rights since I suppose Fruit Fed and Haughty Center those
are some of the main providers of them, but there's
others as well.
Speaker 4 (08:21):
Go never look fantastic, Thank you, Margaret.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Just one last little thing because the product is you know,
at stores in the freezer. I've heard you say in
the past. Does it remain a liquid in a liquid
state or you have absolutely you know.
Speaker 2 (08:38):
It remains a liquid, but it's because it's it's got
a density of course that it needs really lots of
coolness for it to do set, but it doesn't, so
use it then, yeah, keep it in the freezing.
Speaker 3 (08:50):
Yeah, yeahs lovely to chat with you.
Speaker 4 (08:54):
Take care of question by the way, Oh yeah, great question,
surely going to you.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
I've got around a property and load of picks where
very good, and keep the trees down. The house of
the story was two story really the spacemen on the
house above and the punt of trees along their garden
on the property. But the trees over years have grown
(09:21):
so tall that when they're there they are like maples
and forms and things, and the right over my house
and the spouting. You can keep them from too, you know,
certain hiatus.
Speaker 6 (09:35):
But.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Once I get up there, they win wind blows spouting,
spouting fills up and blocks and it runs down the
tooth tourist side and then it runs into their house.
Is I've asked them to trim the trees back, I say,
they like them, I'm not going to do it. There's
(09:57):
also bird dropping, so ron nats pulled leaves and another
three fingered leaf tree right on the fruit pie. There's
there anything I can do about it. It's just inconvenience
of it, ugly wouldn't on the one autumn.
Speaker 2 (10:17):
Peter, you've had a lawyer on this gig.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
We have so.
Speaker 4 (10:23):
Surely because it's a legal question, not really a gardening question.
But in any sense, anything that hangs over your boundary
you have one hundred percent right to just trim that back.
So you can just you know, dead straight up from
the boundary line, cut anything you want off there. And
then in terms of the height of the trees and
sign you can get an enforcement through legislation and the
(10:46):
Property Act, which gives you, you know, sort of a
right to enjoy a view or an aspect and so on.
But it has to be enforceable under the Property Act.
So it's going to be a lawyer's question rather than
a gardening question in that instance, because we love trees,
but if you put them on the wrong place and
it becomes a nuisance, it is just a pain in
the button.
Speaker 2 (11:07):
But you have to remember one thing that I always
remember from David Stone. He said, if you do cut,
somebody's on your side of the fence. Yes, some branches off.
You have to put the branches back on their territory.
Speaker 4 (11:21):
Because otherwise I think it's considered theft.
Speaker 5 (11:24):
Yes it is.
Speaker 4 (11:25):
Yes, came flying over the feats the other time.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
It also means you don't have to get rid of.
Speaker 4 (11:33):
The absolutely absolutely quick one before the break. Is it
possible to catch and relocate wetter My neighbor is going
to remove a private hedge between our properties?
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Oh wow, Oh yes you can. Yeah, I reckon you can.
And the best thing to do is to actually get
those wetter in suitable suitable trees with little holes in them,
if you like. There's all sorts of ways of doing
old pool really moth holes, for instance in North Ireland.
And this is the sort of stuff I tend to
do with schools every now and then. It is unbelievable.
(12:08):
Yes you can, and you just do it very gently.
You make sure that you actually literally copy their favorite
holes and trees and things like that, right, Or you
make your own wetter motels out of sunlight in the shade,
let's say, of bamboo pieces which you've got a roof
in the top which means that is where is closed
(12:29):
off and an opening on the bottom and you chuck
that onto a treat trunk and you'll find they'll they
don't mind, they'll come back.
Speaker 5 (12:38):
Yep, yep.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Fantastic Radio will take your calls, will take a short
break if you've got a question for it, call us
right now. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty here,
ten minutes away from nine o'clock, and a very good
(12:59):
morning to you, John.
Speaker 6 (13:02):
Good morning gas. It is a nice morning here. I'm
sitting on the river way the tide to go out, and.
Speaker 2 (13:10):
That's a lovely thing to do.
Speaker 6 (13:13):
Very nice, my Christian. Really, I feed my fruit trees
as you suggested, and I've got a bump of a
crop this year on all of them, a peach. What
do I do near keep them? Feed?
Speaker 2 (13:32):
Just yeah, just every now and then you put a
little bit of that stuff on you you are now
you're not harvesting anything yet, are you? No? I don't know,
So just just gently. You don't have to go over
the top. This is why I when I water, for instance,
a tree, I use this this wet and forget stuff. Seafood, seafood,
(13:55):
seaweed tea I use that's got more potash if you like,
then seafood soup, and I would use it as not
only a watering but I do it very low levels
in my watering can. And you have a constant supply
of potash basically as well.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
Oh that's good, Yeah, thank you, it's good. I'm so
surprised how many yeah fruit I've got, I mean the
tree starting the sheet, all the small ones especially.
Speaker 2 (14:26):
Yeah, because they don't they need, they don't want to
have too many fruit here. You notice that?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. I don't have to go around
and put the small ones off the aisle.
Speaker 2 (14:38):
No, don't have to do They'll sort it out themselves,
which is the neat way how nature operates.
Speaker 6 (14:44):
That's sure.
Speaker 2 (14:44):
Yeah, yeah, I'll worry about it.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
Yeah, okay, Oh well, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (14:50):
More time for more time for fishing.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Yeah, it goes well. See I have this picture in
my mind of John's there, he's done a successful little
bit of white bait. He's back at home, fry pan,
egg white eight and the beautiful white bake, a beautiful
yeah Warwick, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (15:12):
You're good morning as Oh no, I've been a commercial
bar and I've been a garden normal life, and then
the seventies we've had recently last year and this year
a plague of miniature ants. They're about a quarter of
the size of a normal end. Any pot plants, any
any pots anything, any like. We're in a rural area
(15:34):
on the fence where you put your tape along the fence,
electric fence, you pull those off. Those little black containers
they're in behind that. They build nests everywhere. How do
I stop them?
Speaker 2 (15:44):
That's hard work. So they're inside an electric switch machine,
are they?
Speaker 6 (15:49):
No? No, no, no, no no.
Speaker 8 (15:50):
They're getting in those little fittings to go on the
side of fences.
Speaker 6 (15:52):
But any pot plants.
Speaker 8 (15:53):
Or tomatoes growing outside and pots, I've only got them
in the greenhouse. And what you notice is a little
pile of dry air sort of coming out to the
side around the black side of the pot. And then
you go in there and there's just thousands and thousands
of these miniature ants.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Yeah. Sorry, Then now you're better off than I thought,
because I've once had an ant colony in an electric
switch and these ants they all shortcutted themselves into the
switch and started making a real mess by smell as well,
because they killed themselves, of course. And then others come in.
Other ants come in and say I'm helping you and
(16:27):
helping you. That's gone, you know what I mean. Okay,
so what you do with the you want? So you
want to get rid of those ends, out of those areas,
out of those little holes.
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Ay, well, it's just.
Speaker 8 (16:41):
Every single pot, any anything that does on it and
plant kind they just getting these ants being built. I mean, seriously,
are they a danger to the roots of the plant?
Are they going to cause the problem as far as
the roots to contend?
Speaker 2 (16:53):
It actually depends on what species it is. And we've
got so many new species in New Zealand that I'm
totally lost, lost track of this. But the best thing
of you to do is to put those pots in
a big bucket full of water, hot water, not stinking
hot water, but just warm water, and those ants cannot
stay in there forever and ever and ever. Basically, what
(17:15):
you're doing is you sort them out by inundating them.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 8 (17:20):
So, No, you've got any new big part like the
big black ones, you know, the twenty liter ones, anyone
supposed that we fill up with new soil, new comfast. Yeah,
within a week, there's an ant colony being established in
every single one.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
Yeah, Well, in that case, it would be an idea
to actually do something about putting that in a pot
of water, in a big bucket of water if you like,
with hot water or warm water, if you like. You
could also use some insecticides in that water and give
them and you know what I mean, not you don't
have to go high quality, low quality, not too much, right,
(17:55):
and that will get them out of there.
Speaker 8 (17:58):
Right, But I mean them burying around and amongst the
rich like a tomato plants or little plants or whatever.
Is that going to cause a problem.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
No, No, it wouldn't be, because you normally would spray
insecticides on some of these crops anyway, But in this case,
the ants other once they don't like the insecticides at all.
Speaker 8 (18:19):
Yeah, okay, all right, yeah, well let's we'll give it
a go and see if you can get rid of them.
But are they introduced species?
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Probably I'm quite likely.
Speaker 6 (18:25):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
I mean I've not been around on my life and
I've never seen them before. So it's just the volume
of them, Yeah, taking over the town.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
There you go. Well, no, sorry, I I think that's
the best way to do. I remember doing that myself
in big buckets yeah, good right. They don't like it?
Speaker 6 (18:44):
All right? Mate?
Speaker 8 (18:45):
Thanks very well?
Speaker 4 (18:47):
Bye, Okay, thanks for I really appreciate that.
Speaker 2 (18:55):
How far are we well?
Speaker 4 (18:57):
I'm just thinking, yeah, someone says ant sand and a
four year old nosey dog? Is it safe to use
the ants hanging around the outside of the house too?
The worse this year is it? Is it sort of
ant season? Is that what we're looking at?
Speaker 5 (19:09):
Answer?
Speaker 2 (19:09):
Now? Getting into their into their system. Oh gosh, make
no mistake, they're.
Speaker 4 (19:14):
Out there looking around looking for all of us this summer.
Fair enough to Hey, I reckon Margaret would love the
seeds for the chaos gardening.
Speaker 2 (19:22):
I totally agree with you.
Speaker 4 (19:24):
Well, Margaret, we're the same page.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
I'm sure that Locke's got every every detail of Margaret.
Speaker 4 (19:28):
By now, how are you working labor weekend?
Speaker 2 (19:31):
I'm when is that again?
Speaker 4 (19:33):
Next Sunday? Let's do it next Sunday.
Speaker 5 (19:34):
Take care right to see then bye.
Speaker 1 (20:25):
For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp, listen
live to NEWSTALKSB on Sunday mornings from six, or follow
the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Popular Podcasts
CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist
It’s 1996 in rural North Carolina, and an oddball crew makes history when they pull off America’s third largest cash heist. But it’s all downhill from there. Join host Johnny Knoxville as he unspools a wild and woolly tale about a group of regular ‘ol folks who risked it all for a chance at a better life. CrimeLess: Hillbilly Heist answers the question: what would you do with 17.3 million dollars? The answer includes diamond rings, mansions, velvet Elvis paintings, plus a run for the border, murder-for-hire-plots, and FBI busts.
Crime Junkie
Does hearing about a true crime case always leave you scouring the internet for the truth behind the story? Dive into your next mystery with Crime Junkie. Every Monday, join your host Ashley Flowers as she unravels all the details of infamous and underreported true crime cases with her best friend Brit Prawat. From cold cases to missing persons and heroes in our community who seek justice, Crime Junkie is your destination for theories and stories you won’t hear anywhere else. Whether you're a seasoned true crime enthusiast or new to the genre, you'll find yourself on the edge of your seat awaiting a new episode every Monday. If you can never get enough true crime... Congratulations, you’ve found your people. Follow to join a community of Crime Junkies! Crime Junkie is presented by audiochuck Media Company.
Stuff You Should Know
If you've ever wanted to know about champagne, satanism, the Stonewall Uprising, chaos theory, LSD, El Nino, true crime and Rosa Parks, then look no further. Josh and Chuck have you covered.