January 17, 2026 • 23 mins
On the Gardening Show with Pete and Ruud, the pair chatted about the best fertilisers, how to attract hornets and the best things to counter moths in your wardrobe.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It balks be Bang on twenty nine let's call it
eight thirty and is really good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
A very good morning, creet. It is already half past goodness.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
On the knocker today on the money, I know. And
thank you again for taking the time out yesterday to
reply to our five year old entomologist who was very
excited to discover what was it a too spiked as spider?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, the two spines spider because it has these funny
little twitter spines on the back of its its body.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And little creature.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I have to say, it's unbelievably beautiful. That is a
beautiful one. And at the moment it's got these lovely
websites which are very very nicely organized and put together,
and they're quite common in the North Island. We don't
see them much in this for the South, but yeah, no,
I love them. And you know what, it was really
(01:12):
funny when we discovered this thing in the seventies or eighties.
They looked just like literally spiders with Madonna's bra on
their you know what I mean. It looks like. So
that's what I that's sort of how I described it.
And guess what the what do you call that? The
(01:33):
artificial intelligence? Now call it the Madonna's right because they
have the dumb bugger called the anyway, I can't stand it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Actually, just talking about that. You can use eye naturalists
to identify bugs as well, or just.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Plants, spiders, plants, everything, droppings, tracks, skulls, bones, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Everything fantastic.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It's really an amazing material. The game.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Thanks for taking time out, and the go was absolutely delighted.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Radio.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Let's get amongst the calls. Cody, good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Hi, good morning, good morning. If I use a fertilizer
containing itrogen, phosphorus and potassium, I don't agent using blood
and bone as well.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You could if you want, because blood and bone basically
is a fertilizer which is a bit minimal in terms
of what it has in terms there's only a couple
of things in that stuff, but it also uses You
can use that to change the what do you call it? Uh,
the fertilizers and the yes, the pH that's it. That's
(02:51):
the word I was looking for, the pH. But generally speaking, yes,
you can absolutely so if you if you need as.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Say that again, sorry, sorry, drafted and huge in board
one containing nightagen, phosphorus and potassium as well as blood
and born.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yes you can because the blood and bone will give
you the different material that you use for the pH
So if you need a PHDT lower or a bit higher,
you can use that. Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Thank you very much for that, Cody, appreciate that. Bruce,
good morning.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Good morning to you. Rude, Hi, hello, good morning. I
remember you and Julie from the Old City Nine Steps
Cafe and took the Reggie way back.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
That is amazing. Gosh, there's some time ago.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
The early nineties.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Roots.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
I've known you a long time and I listened to
your show and what more often than not every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Have you got? Have you nothing better to do with
your time?
Speaker 6 (03:59):
I enjoy your accident ruthe.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh, thank you mate, it's good to hear you now.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Rude. I've got I live on the Muharing East Peninsula
out of walk with Yeah. Bookas are really good here,
the lovely big green, glossy leaves and you've got to
cut them back hard at once or even twice a year.
They drop the leaves a lot, but I don't mind that.
But I've got one which has got has gone yellow,
and it looks as that's dying as a Really it's
(04:28):
as yellow as I sent a picture to Samuel on
Friday of a thinking a picture is worth a thousand words.
But you know it's got it's gone weak and horrible
and like like yellow team h what do you think?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I don't know. The irony is that Julie got herself,
the same Julie that you just described got. He got
a book a tree literally not that long ago, like
in the last last month or so. And we've at
the moment putting it in a pot and it's doing
quite well. But if you get a yellow wing, I
(05:05):
am not undred percent sure what causes that. It depends
if it Sometimes it means that its roots don't get
enough fertilizer, that it is to asset, or that it
is too much in the wind, the soil is different,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Can you've got one
(05:25):
in a different spot.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
No, it's amongst a whole lot. In fact, there's one
or two right beside it which are thriving, always fantastic.
There are big trees three four meters high, and I
cut them back and they thrive really really well. But
this one I even put some nitro phosphorus fosca around im,
thinking it may need some more nitrogen or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
I mean it looks like I need to cut it back.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I feel like I've talked with you to you for
fifty years about these things, nitro fosca, blue and all that.
I love it. That's great, Okay, So these are the things.
These are usually stress signals if you like, there could
be a root rot, because they do if you if
you give them, for instance, two too much water, you
can get some root rots on these trees. Actually, so
(06:10):
that's number one. You could have drought and frost and
not an auckland of course, but that sort of stuff
I don't know's it's a whole lot of different thing.
Normally a pooka would shed its yellow leaves.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Yes, well, I've left it rude, thinking maybe I just
leave it shed and see and looking for signs of
you know, coming back again with new shoots, because they
shoot from just the stems. Cut step, that's right, you
have to do. So I've given a bit of an
opportunity to to have a go to revivee I'm going
(06:47):
to leave it for another month or so, and then
I'm gonna have to cut it back because it yet
look looks sick.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You know, we don't want to Bruce Bruce if every
if it doesn't work. And that is an important thing.
Remember I said, if it's too much watered, you quite
often get a root rot called fightoftra in the system.
If you ever get that, get red of the damn
thing and don't plant anything in the same spot, not another,
because that particular fight aftra could be the one that
(07:14):
causes the trouble of your poker.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
All right, do you say that fight opra.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Fight aftra pH r pH y h yeah t O
pH t yeah h O r A.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Oh fantastic. I've lived so much from you over the years.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Route we both had Bruce the feelings mutual mate No.
Eighty ten eighty the number called Tony, good morning.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Good morning, can speak to very close.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, he's just hanging. He's just handed me the telephone
from Auckland.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
I thank you, thank you very much. I've got some
chrystalers or some little thing looks like a something's crawl
air on the on my lawn. I just it's about
three scene two, the three scene the meters long and
it's it's a mahogany brown and I don't know whether
(08:16):
it's been blown out of a tree or something that
I just don't want care the pillars or something in
the lawn.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
So why not they w No, they were well before
you they were there. Yeah, so they're caterpillars, you think
they are.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Well, they look like crystalists, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Do they move? Do they move?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
No? No, No, they just just lying on the top
of the grass.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Okay, all right, Look, it could be indeed a chrystalist.
I'm just I'm just making sure that we talk about
the same thing. Uh, And it could probably be something
that could be if you like, the crystals off something
like a beetle, you know, like a grasscrub beetle or
something like that. If that's the case, what do you
think you should be doing? Do you think they do
any damage to you?
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Well, my previous property we had problem with grass grubby.
Just this made the whole lawn.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So yeah, that's it, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
I haven't seen these things before. We're just sort of
moved into a new property. Side. I don't know whether
they've blown out of a tree, or we've got some
olive trees around the around the perimeter.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So I got you, Tony. We we just spoke about
eye Naturalist, which is something you put on your app
on your phone and if you you learned within a
couple of minutes how that works. Take a photo, put
it on a nice sharp photo close by, like a
close up almost. If you can check it on I
(10:03):
naturalist and you will get exactly what it is. Then
you can go online and find out what it does,
and then whether or not you should take you know,
some action for this or not. High naturalist one word.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Check it out.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It is a tremendous resource for young entomologists and others.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
And older ones and older ones as well.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
We might take short break now, I think, yeah, let's now,
we'll take the break. We'll come back with John in
just a moment. Your news talks. It'd be got to
climb past with us and John.
Speaker 10 (10:39):
A very good morning, Good morning to you guys. I'd
like to test Crew Rude some memory about insects. Yesterday
I found one. The borax in the head was like
a very small bumblebee, but the body was quite big
(11:01):
and it was shiny black. I wonder what it is.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Like a bumblebee? Is it the size of a bumblebee
as well?
Speaker 10 (11:12):
H like a very small one? Yes, oh he is,
And yeah I've had various sizes bumblebees coming out of five,
but no, that X in the head was like a
small bumblebee. Body was shiny and black and quite big.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Okay, okay, tell me is it is it? Does it
live near the soil on the ground or was it
just playing around?
Speaker 10 (11:42):
I don't know. I found it in one of our
flowers and I thought, gee, that looks strange, so I
grabbed and popped it in and examined it. But it
doesn't appear to have had a sting sticking out the back.
But it was hard to say.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Now you're you're very good at your observations, think you.
I think you have finding. They're one of our native
species of bee. Native bees we've got. We've got twenty
eight different species of native bee, very varying from the
size of a bee or a small bumble bee. Actually,
(12:23):
but be is probably the largest ones you get, and
native bee so only in New Zealand, right, native bee
and the smallest ones are probably in centimeter and a sorry,
a millimeter and a half in length, a very very
tiny one.
Speaker 10 (12:39):
Yeah, yeah, so seeing those.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Actually, yeah, and so am I. And we have heaps
of them here, and they live in soil. They make
these little holes in the soil, and those holes quite
often have countersink entrances. Do you know what that means?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
A counter See?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, you got builders know that, I mean, pet the
counters exist.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I'm all over a good old countersink.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yes, there you go. Isn't that interesting now? Bees literally
dig into the ground with a countersink a whole entry,
so they always can get out and easily clean it.
I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, that's genius, fabulous, Hey John, Hopefully that's that's solved
that particular mystery. Actually, let's run through a couple of
quick texts. Say, three tomatoes and a pot, two beefsteak,
one raman or One pot is full afternoon sun, the
other gets a little bit of morning sun. Both are fruiting.
(13:39):
What's There's something going on there where I've lost the text.
Here we go, one in full sun does not two
have blossoms the other one doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Oh yeah, that's strange because there are some varieties of
tomatoes that take a while for them to actually saying,
oh yep, oh forgot about it, forgot about the sex. Yeah,
you know what I mean. And so that can happen.
But in this case, what and this is what ident
to do a lot and I'm using it all the time.
Sea weed tea that is in a wet and forget
(14:12):
material that you can mix in water, you know, till
you get let's say this lovely watering system. And because
you've got seaweed tea in there, it contains the wonderful
stuff that creates more and more flowers and fruit and
that will set it going.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Okay, brilliant olive trees that flour but don't fruit. The
trees look healthy. We prune and fertilize, no fruit and
central otago.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Oh yeah, I've had olives and a bit grumpy sometimes again,
a little bit of fertilizer with the cave for the
np K, the potash which is in that in that
sea weed tea might do that. That might start them
(14:59):
doing that.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, you know, this is a tricky. This is one
of those sort of in a vertant or basically an accident. Right,
So good morning. We've got a thirty year old Albizia
tree alb busier tree that's flourished for many years recently
had the house washed. We suspect that the chlorine may
have affected the tree. The effect is severe, with initial
(15:24):
significant foliage loss and now no leaves left on the tree.
We've mulched and watered once we noticed the tree. The
leaves falling didn't have much of an effect. It may
have been the timing of the insult or the injury rather,
as the tree had very few new leaves appearing at
(15:44):
the time. Is there anything we can do? How do
we know it's still alive?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Well, that's it. Keep going for a little while longer
because this is the time when that should happen. She'd recover.
But chlorine is not a good material to be associated
with plants. And that is where my feeling comes like, ooh,
you're going a bit too far.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, another quick one, rude, How do I get rid
of brown rot on the peach and nectarine trees?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Please? Oh gosh. That's that is basically in the material
that you spray over it before everything happens. Fungus sides,
you know, good fungus sides, and that is before everything
starts to develop and then grow. You know, if it
(16:31):
happens now you're a bit too late.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It's a lesson learned for next year basically. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, Carolyn,
very good morning, welcome.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
Yes, good morning to you. Morning rude. Hi my, I've
been listening with interests with the different concoctions you use
to attract hornets and wasps. And I happened to be
I happen to be listening to a program help. I
bought a village and there were some breads that went
(17:03):
over to France and they were looking after through a
house area there and they had the problem with hornets.
So they went to the local people and they suggested
Cassie's red wine and there.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
And doesn't that sound like some perfect French recipe?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Do you know what time it is? Caroline? Do you
know what time it is?
Speaker 9 (17:35):
So clearly in the morning exactly? I thought you might
enjoy that.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah it is?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Is this fair dicing?
Speaker 9 (17:49):
Absolutely? I can't believe it myself.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah, I can imagine that some of these some of
these homenoptera would like that that material excellent because they
are normally they are normally what do you call it?
They do all the the stuff on the flowers which
contains a lot of sweets and things like that. Yeah,
so I'm not that surprised.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Fantastic.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
I just thought that the French solution was worth sharing.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
We made out by the problem.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And look, if you're troubled by them, you won't be
after you've had just a little bit of either of
those ingredients. So that might be that part of the
solution too. That's fantastic. Actually, do your insight. Do we
have an update on where we're at with the hornets.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
No, I still think that they're holding it from what
the last thing that I read it was a couple
of days ago. They're still holding it in the same area,
in this area where you live on the north Shore,
and that I don't think there's any reports of further movement,
which is which I think is encourageable.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I mean, look, I have noticed that, you know, initially
there was the and then there was sort of an
exclusion or a zone, and then the zone widened. But
to the best of my knowledge, in the last couple
of weeks, that hasn't widened again.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, that's right. I think it's because you came back
from Europe.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah's hope. So, and hey, look there might be a
bit of citizen science. People have trapped a few or
something like that. Let's hope Anna, we can wrap up
today with you, Anna, wardrobe moths use.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Good morning going.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I got such a problem here with my moss. I've
got a walk in wardrobes that have taked me for years.
So in November we emptied the wardrobe. I washed everything
I could possibly wash. You drive plane. We painted completely
behind the drawers as well as war ceiling, et cetera.
And we had new carpets go down. I've got feedballs
in there that I put in there. I've got some
(19:54):
proden moss catchures, and I've got bay tree leaves and
I'm still inundated with them.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
What do they look like?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Just tiny little moss?
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
What?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
And I find them dead? But I'm finding my clothing
with holes in it. We live in Iraqi and I'm
quite by the water. I've got a lot of garden
and things around, and I do have windows open a lot.
I do have a sliding door on it. And I
tried to keep that clothes as often as possible, but
maybe not as often as I should. Yeah, but it's terrible.
(20:27):
I also had them in my pantry and we've done
the same thing with that as well. And I'm just
constantly wiping out and making sure I don't keep anything
too long. But it's yeah, been going on for years.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Kellington Haven made we did that about forty years ago,
made an aerosol spray that we use in aircraft to
stop pests coming into the country.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
It is I've had that too.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Have you had safe works material?
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Okay, And.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Once I cleared it all out, I haven't used it.
And I mean, look, anything that I wear I washed
straight out. You know, I wear at once and wash it.
And this it's a woman, judy. If it's not next
to my skin, I don't wash it all the time.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
But I mean, you know, no, but it's it's not
about the washing and things like that. It is about
literally leaving that residue of safe works that safe works insecticides.
If you like that, you can get many places and
you spray that on the areas where your clothes are
being stored. So that's in the cupboards, in the drawers
(21:36):
in my case. And it took it takes. It takes
a couple of sprays, you know, about say a week
or three or four apart, a month apart to actually
stop that all from happening. And I reckon that is
still the very best way to go, to be quite honest, Julie,
and I haven't seen one of those particular moths that
we have in christ Church for at least two years now, properly.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Okay, well I'll give it another go there. I need
to empty it all out and do it or just spray.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah, but that's I wasn't going to say anything about
your clothing numbers. But we did. Yeah, we did take
them out. I put them on the on the bed, say,
or on the floor, on the you know, anywhere, and
and yeah, you use a couple of those things. And
but you'll find it'll work. It is amazing stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Good luck with that all the very best. Indeed, there
was there was a thing that I always kind of believed,
which was all had been told. Rather so often with
older houses they would line the wardrobes and little cupboards
in cedar because there's something about the cedar that makes
(22:52):
it less attractive to moths. Is there any scientific evidence
for that that you could think of.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I'm going to look that up because I don't know.
And cedar, of course is a timber, as you well
know that actually, especially when you get nice new see
and smells lovely, and that might not be something that
the insects like that nice smell.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
It's one of those things if you look at like
old bungalows and that sort of thing. Often the cupboards
will be lined in cedar, and I in one couple
of cases, I've done storage for clothing and I've made
the shelving out of cedar, slats out of cedar, and
the hope that it works. But of course I have
no scientific evidence to back that up. That's why I'm
coming to you as a proper scientist. Now we've both
(23:37):
got homework to do.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
But yeah, yeah, I bet, I bet it is.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Talk again next Sunday. You're all the best. Thank you, buddy,
Red Climb Past will be back next Sunday. I'll be
back next Sunday. Have a great week, look after yourselves
with the weather, and have an awesome week. Take care.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
It balks be Bang on twenty nine let's call it
eight thirty and is really good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
A very good morning, creet. It is already half past goodness.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
On the knocker today on the money, I know. And
thank you again for taking the time out yesterday to
reply to our five year old entomologist who was very
excited to discover what was it a too spiked as spider?
Speaker 3 (00:41):
Yeah, the two spines spider because it has these funny
little twitter spines on the back of its its body.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
And little creature.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
I have to say, it's unbelievably beautiful. That is a
beautiful one. And at the moment it's got these lovely
websites which are very very nicely organized and put together,
and they're quite common in the North Island. We don't
see them much in this for the South, but yeah, no,
I love them. And you know what, it was really
(01:12):
funny when we discovered this thing in the seventies or eighties.
They looked just like literally spiders with Madonna's bra on
their you know what I mean. It looks like. So
that's what I that's sort of how I described it.
And guess what the what do you call that? The
(01:33):
artificial intelligence? Now call it the Madonna's right because they
have the dumb bugger called the anyway, I can't stand it.
Speaker 2 (01:43):
Actually, just talking about that. You can use eye naturalists
to identify bugs as well, or just.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
Plants, spiders, plants, everything, droppings, tracks, skulls, bones, all that stuff.
Speaker 2 (02:01):
Everything fantastic.
Speaker 3 (02:03):
It's really an amazing material. The game.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Thanks for taking time out, and the go was absolutely delighted.
Speaker 4 (02:09):
Radio.
Speaker 2 (02:10):
Let's get amongst the calls. Cody, good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:13):
Hi, good morning, good morning. If I use a fertilizer
containing itrogen, phosphorus and potassium, I don't agent using blood
and bone as well.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
You could if you want, because blood and bone basically
is a fertilizer which is a bit minimal in terms
of what it has in terms there's only a couple
of things in that stuff, but it also uses You
can use that to change the what do you call it? Uh,
the fertilizers and the yes, the pH that's it. That's
(02:51):
the word I was looking for, the pH. But generally speaking, yes,
you can absolutely so if you if you need as.
Speaker 5 (03:03):
Say that again, sorry, sorry, drafted and huge in board
one containing nightagen, phosphorus and potassium as well as blood
and born.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Yes you can because the blood and bone will give
you the different material that you use for the pH
So if you need a PHDT lower or a bit higher,
you can use that. Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
Thank you very much for that, Cody, appreciate that. Bruce,
good morning.
Speaker 6 (03:30):
Good morning to you. Rude, Hi, hello, good morning. I
remember you and Julie from the Old City Nine Steps
Cafe and took the Reggie way back.
Speaker 3 (03:41):
That is amazing. Gosh, there's some time ago.
Speaker 6 (03:47):
The early nineties.
Speaker 7 (03:48):
Roots.
Speaker 6 (03:48):
I've known you a long time and I listened to
your show and what more often than not every Sunday.
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Have you got? Have you nothing better to do with
your time?
Speaker 6 (03:59):
I enjoy your accident ruthe.
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Oh, thank you mate, it's good to hear you now.
Speaker 6 (04:05):
Rude. I've got I live on the Muharing East Peninsula
out of walk with Yeah. Bookas are really good here,
the lovely big green, glossy leaves and you've got to
cut them back hard at once or even twice a year.
They drop the leaves a lot, but I don't mind that.
But I've got one which has got has gone yellow,
and it looks as that's dying as a Really it's
(04:28):
as yellow as I sent a picture to Samuel on
Friday of a thinking a picture is worth a thousand words.
But you know it's got it's gone weak and horrible
and like like yellow team h what do you think?
Speaker 3 (04:44):
I don't know. The irony is that Julie got herself,
the same Julie that you just described got. He got
a book a tree literally not that long ago, like
in the last last month or so. And we've at
the moment putting it in a pot and it's doing
quite well. But if you get a yellow wing, I
(05:05):
am not undred percent sure what causes that. It depends
if it Sometimes it means that its roots don't get
enough fertilizer, that it is to asset, or that it
is too much in the wind, the soil is different,
et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Can you've got one
(05:25):
in a different spot.
Speaker 6 (05:27):
No, it's amongst a whole lot. In fact, there's one
or two right beside it which are thriving, always fantastic.
There are big trees three four meters high, and I
cut them back and they thrive really really well. But
this one I even put some nitro phosphorus fosca around im,
thinking it may need some more nitrogen or whatever.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 6 (05:47):
I mean it looks like I need to cut it back.
Speaker 3 (05:50):
I feel like I've talked with you to you for
fifty years about these things, nitro fosca, blue and all that.
I love it. That's great, Okay, So these are the things.
These are usually stress signals if you like, there could
be a root rot, because they do if you if
you give them, for instance, two too much water, you
can get some root rots on these trees. Actually, so
(06:10):
that's number one. You could have drought and frost and
not an auckland of course, but that sort of stuff
I don't know's it's a whole lot of different thing.
Normally a pooka would shed its yellow leaves.
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Yes, well, I've left it rude, thinking maybe I just
leave it shed and see and looking for signs of
you know, coming back again with new shoots, because they
shoot from just the stems. Cut step, that's right, you
have to do. So I've given a bit of an
opportunity to to have a go to revivee I'm going
(06:47):
to leave it for another month or so, and then
I'm gonna have to cut it back because it yet
look looks sick.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
You know, we don't want to Bruce Bruce if every
if it doesn't work. And that is an important thing.
Remember I said, if it's too much watered, you quite
often get a root rot called fightoftra in the system.
If you ever get that, get red of the damn
thing and don't plant anything in the same spot, not another,
because that particular fight aftra could be the one that
(07:14):
causes the trouble of your poker.
Speaker 6 (07:17):
All right, do you say that fight opra.
Speaker 8 (07:20):
Fight aftra pH r pH y h yeah t O
pH t yeah h O r A.
Speaker 6 (07:33):
Oh fantastic. I've lived so much from you over the years.
Speaker 2 (07:35):
Route we both had Bruce the feelings mutual mate No.
Eighty ten eighty the number called Tony, good morning.
Speaker 7 (07:44):
Good morning, can speak to very close.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Yeah, he's just hanging. He's just handed me the telephone
from Auckland.
Speaker 7 (07:52):
I thank you, thank you very much. I've got some
chrystalers or some little thing looks like a something's crawl
air on the on my lawn. I just it's about
three scene two, the three scene the meters long and
it's it's a mahogany brown and I don't know whether
(08:16):
it's been blown out of a tree or something that
I just don't want care the pillars or something in
the lawn.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
So why not they w No, they were well before
you they were there. Yeah, so they're caterpillars, you think
they are.
Speaker 7 (08:40):
Well, they look like crystalists, you know.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Do they move? Do they move?
Speaker 7 (08:49):
No? No, No, they just just lying on the top
of the grass.
Speaker 3 (08:54):
Okay, all right, Look, it could be indeed a chrystalist.
I'm just I'm just making sure that we talk about
the same thing. Uh, And it could probably be something
that could be if you like, the crystals off something
like a beetle, you know, like a grasscrub beetle or
something like that. If that's the case, what do you
think you should be doing? Do you think they do
any damage to you?
Speaker 7 (09:16):
Well, my previous property we had problem with grass grubby.
Just this made the whole lawn.
Speaker 3 (09:24):
So yeah, that's it, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (09:27):
I haven't seen these things before. We're just sort of
moved into a new property. Side. I don't know whether
they've blown out of a tree, or we've got some
olive trees around the around the perimeter.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
So I got you, Tony. We we just spoke about
eye Naturalist, which is something you put on your app
on your phone and if you you learned within a
couple of minutes how that works. Take a photo, put
it on a nice sharp photo close by, like a
close up almost. If you can check it on I
(10:03):
naturalist and you will get exactly what it is. Then
you can go online and find out what it does,
and then whether or not you should take you know,
some action for this or not. High naturalist one word.
Speaker 9 (10:20):
Check it out.
Speaker 2 (10:20):
It is a tremendous resource for young entomologists and others.
Speaker 3 (10:26):
And older ones and older ones as well.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
We might take short break now, I think, yeah, let's now,
we'll take the break. We'll come back with John in
just a moment. Your news talks. It'd be got to
climb past with us and John.
Speaker 10 (10:39):
A very good morning, Good morning to you guys. I'd
like to test Crew Rude some memory about insects. Yesterday
I found one. The borax in the head was like
a very small bumblebee, but the body was quite big
(11:01):
and it was shiny black. I wonder what it is.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Like a bumblebee? Is it the size of a bumblebee
as well?
Speaker 10 (11:12):
H like a very small one? Yes, oh he is,
And yeah I've had various sizes bumblebees coming out of five,
but no, that X in the head was like a
small bumblebee. Body was shiny and black and quite big.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Okay, okay, tell me is it is it? Does it
live near the soil on the ground or was it
just playing around?
Speaker 10 (11:42):
I don't know. I found it in one of our
flowers and I thought, gee, that looks strange, so I
grabbed and popped it in and examined it. But it
doesn't appear to have had a sting sticking out the back.
But it was hard to say.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
Now you're you're very good at your observations, think you.
I think you have finding. They're one of our native
species of bee. Native bees we've got. We've got twenty
eight different species of native bee, very varying from the
size of a bee or a small bumble bee. Actually,
(12:23):
but be is probably the largest ones you get, and
native bee so only in New Zealand, right, native bee
and the smallest ones are probably in centimeter and a sorry,
a millimeter and a half in length, a very very
tiny one.
Speaker 10 (12:39):
Yeah, yeah, so seeing those.
Speaker 3 (12:43):
Actually, yeah, and so am I. And we have heaps
of them here, and they live in soil. They make
these little holes in the soil, and those holes quite
often have countersink entrances. Do you know what that means?
Speaker 4 (12:56):
A counter See?
Speaker 3 (12:57):
Yeah, you got builders know that, I mean, pet the
counters exist.
Speaker 2 (13:01):
I'm all over a good old countersink.
Speaker 3 (13:03):
Yes, there you go. Isn't that interesting now? Bees literally
dig into the ground with a countersink a whole entry,
so they always can get out and easily clean it.
I think it's wonderful.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Yeah, that's genius, fabulous, Hey John, Hopefully that's that's solved
that particular mystery. Actually, let's run through a couple of
quick texts. Say, three tomatoes and a pot, two beefsteak,
one raman or One pot is full afternoon sun, the
other gets a little bit of morning sun. Both are fruiting.
(13:39):
What's There's something going on there where I've lost the text.
Here we go, one in full sun does not two
have blossoms the other one doesn't.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Oh yeah, that's strange because there are some varieties of
tomatoes that take a while for them to actually saying,
oh yep, oh forgot about it, forgot about the sex. Yeah,
you know what I mean. And so that can happen.
But in this case, what and this is what ident
to do a lot and I'm using it all the time.
Sea weed tea that is in a wet and forget
(14:12):
material that you can mix in water, you know, till
you get let's say this lovely watering system. And because
you've got seaweed tea in there, it contains the wonderful
stuff that creates more and more flowers and fruit and
that will set it going.
Speaker 2 (14:28):
Okay, brilliant olive trees that flour but don't fruit. The
trees look healthy. We prune and fertilize, no fruit and
central otago.
Speaker 3 (14:37):
Oh yeah, I've had olives and a bit grumpy sometimes again,
a little bit of fertilizer with the cave for the
np K, the potash which is in that in that
sea weed tea might do that. That might start them
(14:59):
doing that.
Speaker 2 (15:00):
Yeah, you know, this is a tricky. This is one
of those sort of in a vertant or basically an accident. Right,
So good morning. We've got a thirty year old Albizia
tree alb busier tree that's flourished for many years recently
had the house washed. We suspect that the chlorine may
have affected the tree. The effect is severe, with initial
(15:24):
significant foliage loss and now no leaves left on the tree.
We've mulched and watered once we noticed the tree. The
leaves falling didn't have much of an effect. It may
have been the timing of the insult or the injury rather,
as the tree had very few new leaves appearing at
(15:44):
the time. Is there anything we can do? How do
we know it's still alive?
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Well, that's it. Keep going for a little while longer
because this is the time when that should happen. She'd recover.
But chlorine is not a good material to be associated
with plants. And that is where my feeling comes like, ooh,
you're going a bit too far.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Yeah, another quick one, rude, How do I get rid
of brown rot on the peach and nectarine trees?
Speaker 3 (16:11):
Please? Oh gosh. That's that is basically in the material
that you spray over it before everything happens. Fungus sides,
you know, good fungus sides, and that is before everything
starts to develop and then grow. You know, if it
(16:31):
happens now you're a bit too late.
Speaker 2 (16:33):
It's a lesson learned for next year basically. Yeah, yeah, okay, okay, Carolyn,
very good morning, welcome.
Speaker 9 (16:41):
Yes, good morning to you. Morning rude. Hi my, I've
been listening with interests with the different concoctions you use
to attract hornets and wasps. And I happened to be
I happen to be listening to a program help. I
bought a village and there were some breads that went
(17:03):
over to France and they were looking after through a
house area there and they had the problem with hornets.
So they went to the local people and they suggested
Cassie's red wine and there.
Speaker 2 (17:22):
And doesn't that sound like some perfect French recipe?
Speaker 3 (17:28):
Do you know what time it is? Caroline? Do you
know what time it is?
Speaker 9 (17:35):
So clearly in the morning exactly? I thought you might
enjoy that.
Speaker 3 (17:45):
Yeah it is?
Speaker 4 (17:46):
Is that?
Speaker 3 (17:47):
Is this fair dicing?
Speaker 9 (17:49):
Absolutely? I can't believe it myself.
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yeah, I can imagine that some of these some of
these homenoptera would like that that material excellent because they
are normally they are normally what do you call it?
They do all the the stuff on the flowers which
contains a lot of sweets and things like that. Yeah,
so I'm not that surprised.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Fantastic.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
I just thought that the French solution was worth sharing.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
We made out by the problem.
Speaker 2 (18:27):
And look, if you're troubled by them, you won't be
after you've had just a little bit of either of
those ingredients. So that might be that part of the
solution too. That's fantastic. Actually, do your insight. Do we
have an update on where we're at with the hornets.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
No, I still think that they're holding it from what
the last thing that I read it was a couple
of days ago. They're still holding it in the same area,
in this area where you live on the north Shore,
and that I don't think there's any reports of further movement,
which is which I think is encourageable.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
I mean, look, I have noticed that, you know, initially
there was the and then there was sort of an
exclusion or a zone, and then the zone widened. But
to the best of my knowledge, in the last couple
of weeks, that hasn't widened again.
Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah, that's right. I think it's because you came back
from Europe.
Speaker 2 (19:19):
Yeah's hope. So, and hey, look there might be a
bit of citizen science. People have trapped a few or
something like that. Let's hope Anna, we can wrap up
today with you, Anna, wardrobe moths use.
Speaker 3 (19:30):
Good morning going.
Speaker 4 (19:32):
I got such a problem here with my moss. I've
got a walk in wardrobes that have taked me for years.
So in November we emptied the wardrobe. I washed everything
I could possibly wash. You drive plane. We painted completely
behind the drawers as well as war ceiling, et cetera.
And we had new carpets go down. I've got feedballs
in there that I put in there. I've got some
(19:54):
proden moss catchures, and I've got bay tree leaves and
I'm still inundated with them.
Speaker 3 (20:01):
What do they look like?
Speaker 4 (20:03):
Just tiny little moss?
Speaker 7 (20:05):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (20:05):
What?
Speaker 4 (20:06):
And I find them dead? But I'm finding my clothing
with holes in it. We live in Iraqi and I'm
quite by the water. I've got a lot of garden
and things around, and I do have windows open a lot.
I do have a sliding door on it. And I
tried to keep that clothes as often as possible, but
maybe not as often as I should. Yeah, but it's terrible.
(20:27):
I also had them in my pantry and we've done
the same thing with that as well. And I'm just
constantly wiping out and making sure I don't keep anything
too long. But it's yeah, been going on for years.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Kellington Haven made we did that about forty years ago,
made an aerosol spray that we use in aircraft to
stop pests coming into the country.
Speaker 4 (20:53):
It is I've had that too.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Have you had safe works material?
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Okay, And.
Speaker 4 (21:02):
Once I cleared it all out, I haven't used it.
And I mean, look, anything that I wear I washed
straight out. You know, I wear at once and wash it.
And this it's a woman, judy. If it's not next
to my skin, I don't wash it all the time.
Speaker 3 (21:14):
But I mean, you know, no, but it's it's not
about the washing and things like that. It is about
literally leaving that residue of safe works that safe works insecticides.
If you like that, you can get many places and
you spray that on the areas where your clothes are
being stored. So that's in the cupboards, in the drawers
(21:36):
in my case. And it took it takes. It takes
a couple of sprays, you know, about say a week
or three or four apart, a month apart to actually
stop that all from happening. And I reckon that is
still the very best way to go, to be quite honest, Julie,
and I haven't seen one of those particular moths that
we have in christ Church for at least two years now, properly.
Speaker 4 (22:00):
Okay, well I'll give it another go there. I need
to empty it all out and do it or just spray.
Speaker 3 (22:08):
Yeah, but that's I wasn't going to say anything about
your clothing numbers. But we did. Yeah, we did take
them out. I put them on the on the bed, say,
or on the floor, on the you know, anywhere, and
and yeah, you use a couple of those things. And
but you'll find it'll work. It is amazing stuff.
Speaker 2 (22:31):
Good luck with that all the very best. Indeed, there
was there was a thing that I always kind of believed,
which was all had been told. Rather so often with
older houses they would line the wardrobes and little cupboards
in cedar because there's something about the cedar that makes
(22:52):
it less attractive to moths. Is there any scientific evidence
for that that you could think of.
Speaker 3 (22:59):
I'm going to look that up because I don't know.
And cedar, of course is a timber, as you well
know that actually, especially when you get nice new see
and smells lovely, and that might not be something that
the insects like that nice smell.
Speaker 2 (23:14):
It's one of those things if you look at like
old bungalows and that sort of thing. Often the cupboards
will be lined in cedar, and I in one couple
of cases, I've done storage for clothing and I've made
the shelving out of cedar, slats out of cedar, and
the hope that it works. But of course I have
no scientific evidence to back that up. That's why I'm
coming to you as a proper scientist. Now we've both
(23:37):
got homework to do.
Speaker 3 (23:38):
But yeah, yeah, I bet, I bet it is.
Speaker 2 (23:40):
Talk again next Sunday. You're all the best. Thank you, buddy,
Red Climb Past will be back next Sunday. I'll be
back next Sunday. Have a great week, look after yourselves
with the weather, and have an awesome week. Take care.
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