February 7, 2026 • 18 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for February 8 2026, Ruud discusses the best kind of associate to use for poison ivy, how to handle grass grubs, and what the best pre-spray for ants is.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
From the German variety, I think, yeah, or to common variety. Yeah,
the common variety is from Germany and the Germans from England.
I like that right here, No, don't go there. I'm
not going to do this, not now.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I did have to tackle a wasp nest that had
developed sort of underneath the roof tiles, right, so a
little crack and the grouting in and out they were coming.
So I'm up there with a couple of cans of
spray just having a go, and Cam, who's from Select
Home Services who are servicing the heat pumps, goes, oh,
(00:49):
We've got all this fancy equipment for doing that, and
I'm like, don't worry about I'll have a crack anyway.
He comes out later on and he's got like this
four me long extension of some conduit and some special
powder mixed up with a little blowergun and he's just
standing happily four meters away poking this into the thing,
where as I'm standing there half a meter away with
two spray cands, thinking this will be fine. I'll be fine. Butichy, gee,
(01:13):
they get upset.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Those wasps have no sense of humor me about it. No,
it's terrible, and to be quite honest, it's it's probably
better to do that at night and let this guy
who knows everything hold the torch.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Anyway, I think I've dealt to it. And actually one
thing I did learn from this is there is a
thing called wasp powder which you can sort of puff
into wasp nests and so on. So I dealt with
that one, and then I went to cut the hedges
and I think somewhere along the line I cut through
a wasp nest as well, and that's when I got
stung off. So there you goes. It was an awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Day that that's an entomological day. That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
All I feel better now that I've contributed to science
in some way.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
No good on you, actually to be quiet. What is
that powder? Because I know there used to be a
powder in the old days. Is there a new stuff
out there? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I had a quick look online and I ended up
going to my deten yesterday to pick some up. And
it's just in like a little puffer bottle and you
can just apply lots of pro ethrum. I think in
there but it will sit around the opening, and then
as they fly through the opening, they'll pick it up
and that will be enough to take it into the nest.
And then if they go to another nest, it'll kill
that nest as well, is the theory.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I'm going to have a look at, mister and missus
m dantasy. Yes, yeah, it's I've lost that. I've lost
that one somewhere.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It's out there, so excellent. Good right here, let's get
amongst it, ladies and gentlemen. Rids here you can call now,
well you can't actually because we've got a full border calls.
But in a moment you can't. Linnette, good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Good morning, Hi, Hi, Hi, how can we do with you?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Lynnette?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well, I've got in a contained area of astron area.
I've got some an accrepensuls and a large dandelion flying,
and I wondered if I cut off and painted with
strong round up whether it harm the area?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, you could. So you're talking about what do you
want to what do you want to control? Sorry I
did not get Sorry.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
There's a love handylion and and an egga pans growing in.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
This The agapenta is basically is best dug out of
the ground to be. If it's an old fashioned agapanthus,
they are a pain in the bum. If there's a
little bit left, you really need to keep digging it.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I think I wouldn't the round up, wouldn't switch down
in the ropes at all, go down.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I don't know if roundup would be the quick one
to go if you have agapanths. Let me have a
quick look.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Here, you know, but the stone I can't pull it out.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Is it that big?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, it's not. It's got about four little growing up.
It's only that come when you fire.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Okay, yeah, but you really want to get rid of
it completely, don't you.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Okay, try try this stuff called associate associate associate. It's
metsal furrol metha. It's a material that works really well
on gorge, broom and all sorts of other things. And
I reckon it will do that too. And if you
really give it a whack one or and maybe another
one in about a week later or two weeks later,
(04:25):
I think it might not be. It won't be happy, okay.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
And some.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
That's got silvery.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Ladies, oh no silver leaf.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
And I thought I'll did look it up the other day.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Off.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, I would. I would not. I wouldn't muck around
with it, get get rid of it and plant another one,
but not in the same spot. Please. Oh really, I'd
be a bit careful with that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Okay, then good luck with that, Lynette, and I think
associates on your mind as well. Mary, Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
You've just a better answer my question. Rud was talking
about associated kill ivy and I'm wanting to know. Does
it trends like clay through the ground to other plants.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
No, because you actually take you put your put the
stuff on the on the on the on the leaves,
if you like, off the plant or whatever you want
to get it. What what do you want to spray for?
I want no, No, just do that. You'll find it's
okay as long, especially if the ivy is really dense,
you'll find it takes and it takes a long time.
It takes something like two or three months before you
(05:41):
go like the ivy is gone. How God, there was
slower than continental drift, you know.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
But I've got a boreham here and the ivy is
growing through it, and I don't want it to kill
the Is it a spray or paint.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's a spray, okay, so spawn, well, I wouldn't I
wouldn't like to spray the bit of spoiler minder. I
don't think that would No.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
I know that, but I just don't want it to
kill the heedge. It's all and.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
The hedges m and the hedge is pito.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Growing through it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, well I would if you can spray it only
on the ivy leaves and not on the pit of
If you can be that very clever and careful, you
might be having a good time. But when you start
getting you know, quite a bit on the on the
on the on the pit of sporum, you might get
into trouble with that.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Okay, all right, okay, well I'll give it a go,
very cheerfully.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah. Another thing, of course you can do. Another thing
you can do is, of course, try and get the
stuff from way below, get it out there as much
as you can, and only spray the regrowth away from
the pit sporum.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Yeah, okay, right, thank you for that, Good.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Luck, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Must to chat with you and Lynn A very good
morning to you.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Hi Roll, Hi guys, I have my I have a
couple of my daughter's beehives on my property. Now up
until I have them and I'm happy with them. I've
had terrible trouble with grass grub and I have one
and twice a year used a key week here granule, Yes,
(07:28):
and I'm not having any luck. Now. I know there's
a problem because not everyone does their lawns, so they travel.
Any other suggestions other than sending the hives back to
her place and treating with something evil.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Well that you've got that grass grub thing from Keywik Care.
Isn't it a silly prin or something? It's called yates
have got a grub thing as well for parina and
things like that. I would try exactly you got it,
but why wasn't it working? I was wondering.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
My only thought is that, and I put you know,
I sprinkled on generously and have watered it in because
there's cats around here. And I got it back again
this year. Did patches of grass When I pulled them up,
they come up and they lift the turf off, just
like always.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Yes, Now, quite a few years ago I contacted you,
I think with photos. I had something that looked like
large fleas, huge fleas, fly sized fleas flying in front
of my house and you said they were a Tasmanian import.
Are they a different bug that's immune?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah, that could that could be the Tasmanian watching
them call it? Yeah, I know what you mean. Do
you where is it inside?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (08:51):
They had they were flying and I had about I
don't know thirty of them inside the ranch slide the windows,
flying above the table we were playing cards on. I
couldn't believe my eyes. We killed them. But but yeah,
so I just wanted with there are a different grass
grub means different chemicals.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Or yeah, to be quite honest, no, if the same
grass croup and the same family, I don't think that
I think that everything like that we were just discussed
will work.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Do they travel? I mean they travel widely because they fly, Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
They do. Yeah, so all grass grubs can fly. All
the beetles fly, so that's the way. Yeah, they're all
beetled up species, so they all fly around. But the
point is, of course they go at some stage under
your ground, and you really need to do with the
granules something to get them where they normally have made
those little those holes if you like what places. Yeah, exactly,
(09:47):
that's the way to go, honestly, And you're going to
be really good with your eyes there.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Yeah, well I think I might send the hives time
and they really Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, you're careful with the bees.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Yeah, all right, I appreciate your help.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Thank you, no worries.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Awesome, awesome thing, Thank you very much. Sorry, I'm just
distracted because I was going to mention something earlier and
then I forgot. Now I've got to do it. And
it's not necessarily gardening related. But in Devenport we've got
a community workshop called the Clay Store. They're going to
be doing a tool Bizarre, right, so if anyone's interested
(10:25):
in old tools, secondhand tools, gardening equipment, that sort of thing.
Sunday morning, the twenty second of February is when it's on.
If you just search for Clay Store, Devenport Tool Bizarre,
it'll come up. It's all over social media. You'll love
this sort of thing, you know, community workshop and it's
just fantastic if you want to get some nice old spades.
(10:47):
I think there might even be a chance. So anyway,
put that in your diary folks for the twenty second
of February. Let's take a short break. We'll come back
and talk to Barry in just a moment Radio roots
with us right through it till nine o'clock and berry
a very good morning.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah, good morning to you. I just wanting to ask
ruder question. If you don't mind, please go.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, we can do that. We can organize that because
if you let me walk all the way from Christus
to Auckland, I can talk to you direct. Get on
with it.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
That Collington's pre spray that you recommend for ants, et cetera.
Is it safe to spray in your house rand your
window sills and where you've got animals, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
What do you like? What sort of animals?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Well, we've got a dog, Oh, okay, et cetera. And
we've been told that it's not safe if you've got animals.
Is it safe and spray like you round your windows?
Et cetera.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that as as much
as that. What I would do is, if you're talking
about that particular material, you use it only in the
places where you need to use it. So if you,
for instance, got insects that are going up into your ceiling,
you do the ceiling. Dogs won't be affected at all,
and you're spraying when the dog is not inside. I mean,
(12:18):
those are very sensible things to do, of course, so
don't worry about that if you've got a dog that
is I remember I had a Jack Russell that would
lack everything. Not a good idea for the dog either.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Oh okay, so just use my kneapp and the ceilings
exeter where you've got answer.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Oh you want to do? Okay, you want to do
and control? Yes, in the ceilings, no problem at all.
You could do that because if it because it lasts
for two months, those ants have no idea where the
help to go and they can they had to die
or say no, I'm going next door flower it.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Oh yes, so don't use it inside like rand your
windowsill applies, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
No, what I would do there is very simple. I
would get a bait, going a bait for the ants.
So you know how ants are always finding something to eat,
all right, So the bait that I would suggest, I've
got it. Actually I've got an I've got a thing
here for them from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
from nineteen eighty three. Right here, just like that a
(13:28):
recipe basically, and you can use a bait with a
low toxicity for humans and pets. Six hundred milli liters
of water, three hundred grams of sugar yes, sixty grams
of honey yes, sixty grams of bor x bore x
(13:56):
x yes, and sixty grams of boric acid. And you
make it into a so boric acid, and you make
it into a syrup, and you put that syrup in
various places, in little containers that the ants can get
in but nobody else. And basically, because they've got their
own territory, you know, you'll find that it's a really
nice material that you can get those ants.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
The one you've talked, the other one has abandon astailua.
That's Collington's pre sprie.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
No, no, no, no, it isn't why this is a
different material I'm talking about. No, no it's not. No,
it's not at all.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Oh I thought that. Oh okay, I heard a rumor,
but I wasn't sure. But no, that's fine. That's what
I wanted to know.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Also, the lovely sweet bait have it go to help? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Thanks very all the very best, Diane, very good morning.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
He is hello the essay I'm ringing from Blinham's. Yes,
got a heddrow of ribbon wood, which are probably probably
six meters tall. And I've also got another he drow
of ribbon wood which are probably four meters. They're a
bit younger, they're probably five or six years old. Problem
(15:10):
is they're getting a borer in them. Yeah, and it's
like tiny wee holes.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah tiny. I was just going to say that they're
very small one, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Small hole? And also you can see the brownie really
fine chewed up stuff around the edges of the holes.
Now it wouldn't be a problem, but some of them
are succumbing to it. So some of the mature trees,
which are as tall as your single story gutter, you know,
like these are good mature trees. Sure, some of those
(15:42):
have gradually died and succumbed. And now there's also borer
in some of the younger ones. And I just think,
you know how in the fruit tree borer, you know,
you're supposed to squirt something down each hole. Well, there's
no way in the world you could get into all
(16:02):
these holes. And is there anything that what would be
the best thing to spray? To have a go at them?
Like I imagine that they're probably not going to kill
all a bug ones.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I remember there was a material called no borer noor
from Kiwi Care. Have you heard of Key Good Company
and Kenterbury And basically what they say, I think what
they normally say with Kiwi Care no borer is to
treat it by by injecting the flight holes. Yeah, so
(16:39):
when I know they're small, but if you've got a
little what oh you know one of those little things
that you can very small things with the with the
Kiwi Care no boring. If you can go one, two, three, four,
one after the other as much as you can. That's
all I can think of, to be quite honest, is.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Some of the stuffers up on. You know how sick
ribbon wood are when they're being trimmed to a huge
like it's just like a circuit. Yeah, would name oil
be any good or not?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Kneem oil would be good. But I think I would
take something that is a bit stronger than that. If
I were you, I would take something called Actually you
probably could do that associate that we talked about. Associate,
which is a material that you use on ivy and
all sorts of bits and pieces. Oh yes it is.
(17:36):
Yeah you can't do that. Yeah, no, sorry, you're right.
I thank god. I was just thinking of getting this.
I was just thinking of getting these things in a
really nasty way, and I said, no, it's not good
for the plant. Now, don't do it. I missed, missed
it complete.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
What would you use the thing? But the thing with.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
The oil?
Speaker 6 (17:58):
That's only nothing till Watson those bor holes right, because
once the bor is hatch, don't they fly away? They
will the proper territorial now come back to they were.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I don't think they're going to be terictorial. I think
that the females will then lay their eggs on other
patches of the of the plant, off the tree.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Okay, last question. They presuming because they like plumb, true,
don't they they like hardwood?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
They will, they will quite a few of things. Yeah,
that's it. But this is a typical ribbon wood one.
I'm sorry. Do you quite bad for that could be
of this particular species?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yes, thanks very much, Diane and Rudd, Thank you, sir.
Have a great day, take care and folks, enjoy the week,
and we'll be back with you again next Sunday.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
From the German variety, I think, yeah, or to common variety. Yeah,
the common variety is from Germany and the Germans from England.
I like that right here, No, don't go there. I'm
not going to do this, not now.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
I did have to tackle a wasp nest that had
developed sort of underneath the roof tiles, right, so a
little crack and the grouting in and out they were coming.
So I'm up there with a couple of cans of
spray just having a go, and Cam, who's from Select
Home Services who are servicing the heat pumps, goes, oh,
(00:49):
We've got all this fancy equipment for doing that, and
I'm like, don't worry about I'll have a crack anyway.
He comes out later on and he's got like this
four me long extension of some conduit and some special
powder mixed up with a little blowergun and he's just
standing happily four meters away poking this into the thing,
where as I'm standing there half a meter away with
two spray cands, thinking this will be fine. I'll be fine. Butichy, gee,
(01:13):
they get upset.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Those wasps have no sense of humor me about it. No,
it's terrible, and to be quite honest, it's it's probably
better to do that at night and let this guy
who knows everything hold the torch.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
Anyway, I think I've dealt to it. And actually one
thing I did learn from this is there is a
thing called wasp powder which you can sort of puff
into wasp nests and so on. So I dealt with
that one, and then I went to cut the hedges
and I think somewhere along the line I cut through
a wasp nest as well, and that's when I got
stung off. So there you goes. It was an awesome.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Day that that's an entomological day. That's right.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
All I feel better now that I've contributed to science
in some way.
Speaker 2 (01:57):
No good on you, actually to be quiet. What is
that powder? Because I know there used to be a
powder in the old days. Is there a new stuff
out there? Yeah?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
I had a quick look online and I ended up
going to my deten yesterday to pick some up. And
it's just in like a little puffer bottle and you
can just apply lots of pro ethrum. I think in
there but it will sit around the opening, and then
as they fly through the opening, they'll pick it up
and that will be enough to take it into the nest.
And then if they go to another nest, it'll kill
that nest as well, is the theory.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
I'm going to have a look at, mister and missus
m dantasy. Yes, yeah, it's I've lost that. I've lost
that one somewhere.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
It's out there, so excellent. Good right here, let's get
amongst it, ladies and gentlemen. Rids here you can call now,
well you can't actually because we've got a full border calls.
But in a moment you can't. Linnette, good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Good morning, Hi, Hi, Hi, how can we do with you?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Lynnette?
Speaker 4 (02:53):
Well, I've got in a contained area of astron area.
I've got some an accrepensuls and a large dandelion flying,
and I wondered if I cut off and painted with
strong round up whether it harm the area?
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Yeah, you could. So you're talking about what do you
want to what do you want to control? Sorry I
did not get Sorry.
Speaker 4 (03:12):
There's a love handylion and and an egga pans growing in.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
This The agapenta is basically is best dug out of
the ground to be. If it's an old fashioned agapanthus,
they are a pain in the bum. If there's a
little bit left, you really need to keep digging it.
Speaker 4 (03:28):
I think I wouldn't the round up, wouldn't switch down
in the ropes at all, go down.
Speaker 2 (03:34):
I don't know if roundup would be the quick one
to go if you have agapanths. Let me have a
quick look.
Speaker 4 (03:42):
Here, you know, but the stone I can't pull it out.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Is it that big?
Speaker 4 (03:49):
Well, it's not. It's got about four little growing up.
It's only that come when you fire.
Speaker 2 (03:57):
Okay, yeah, but you really want to get rid of
it completely, don't you.
Speaker 4 (04:03):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Okay, try try this stuff called associate associate associate. It's
metsal furrol metha. It's a material that works really well
on gorge, broom and all sorts of other things. And
I reckon it will do that too. And if you
really give it a whack one or and maybe another
one in about a week later or two weeks later,
(04:25):
I think it might not be. It won't be happy, okay.
Speaker 5 (04:31):
And some.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
That's got silvery.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
Ladies, oh no silver leaf.
Speaker 4 (04:39):
And I thought I'll did look it up the other day.
Speaker 6 (04:43):
Off.
Speaker 2 (04:44):
Yeah, I would. I would not. I wouldn't muck around
with it, get get rid of it and plant another one,
but not in the same spot. Please. Oh really, I'd
be a bit careful with that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:59):
Okay, then good luck with that, Lynette, and I think
associates on your mind as well. Mary, Good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 7 (05:07):
You've just a better answer my question. Rud was talking
about associated kill ivy and I'm wanting to know. Does
it trends like clay through the ground to other plants.
Speaker 2 (05:19):
No, because you actually take you put your put the
stuff on the on the on the on the leaves,
if you like, off the plant or whatever you want
to get it. What what do you want to spray for?
I want no, No, just do that. You'll find it's
okay as long, especially if the ivy is really dense,
you'll find it takes and it takes a long time.
It takes something like two or three months before you
(05:41):
go like the ivy is gone. How God, there was
slower than continental drift, you know.
Speaker 7 (05:48):
But I've got a boreham here and the ivy is
growing through it, and I don't want it to kill
the Is it a spray or paint.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
It's a spray, okay, so spawn, well, I wouldn't I
wouldn't like to spray the bit of spoiler minder. I
don't think that would No.
Speaker 7 (06:08):
I know that, but I just don't want it to
kill the heedge. It's all and.
Speaker 2 (06:13):
The hedges m and the hedge is pito.
Speaker 7 (06:20):
Growing through it.
Speaker 2 (06:21):
Yeah, well I would if you can spray it only
on the ivy leaves and not on the pit of
If you can be that very clever and careful, you
might be having a good time. But when you start
getting you know, quite a bit on the on the
on the on the pit of sporum, you might get
into trouble with that.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
Okay, all right, okay, well I'll give it a go,
very cheerfully.
Speaker 2 (06:45):
Yeah. Another thing, of course you can do. Another thing
you can do is, of course, try and get the
stuff from way below, get it out there as much
as you can, and only spray the regrowth away from
the pit sporum.
Speaker 7 (06:58):
Yeah, okay, right, thank you for that, Good.
Speaker 2 (07:01):
Luck, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
Must to chat with you and Lynn A very good
morning to you.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Hi Roll, Hi guys, I have my I have a
couple of my daughter's beehives on my property. Now up
until I have them and I'm happy with them. I've
had terrible trouble with grass grub and I have one
and twice a year used a key week here granule, Yes,
(07:28):
and I'm not having any luck. Now. I know there's
a problem because not everyone does their lawns, so they travel.
Any other suggestions other than sending the hives back to
her place and treating with something evil.
Speaker 2 (07:41):
Well that you've got that grass grub thing from Keywik Care.
Isn't it a silly prin or something? It's called yates
have got a grub thing as well for parina and
things like that. I would try exactly you got it,
but why wasn't it working? I was wondering.
Speaker 8 (08:03):
My only thought is that, and I put you know,
I sprinkled on generously and have watered it in because
there's cats around here. And I got it back again
this year. Did patches of grass When I pulled them up,
they come up and they lift the turf off, just
like always.
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Yes.
Speaker 8 (08:23):
Yes, Now, quite a few years ago I contacted you,
I think with photos. I had something that looked like
large fleas, huge fleas, fly sized fleas flying in front
of my house and you said they were a Tasmanian import.
Are they a different bug that's immune?
Speaker 2 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah, that could that could be the Tasmanian watching
them call it? Yeah, I know what you mean. Do
you where is it inside?
Speaker 4 (08:51):
Oh?
Speaker 8 (08:51):
They had they were flying and I had about I
don't know thirty of them inside the ranch slide the windows,
flying above the table we were playing cards on. I
couldn't believe my eyes. We killed them. But but yeah,
so I just wanted with there are a different grass
grub means different chemicals.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Or yeah, to be quite honest, no, if the same
grass croup and the same family, I don't think that
I think that everything like that we were just discussed
will work.
Speaker 8 (09:20):
Do they travel? I mean they travel widely because they fly, Yes.
Speaker 2 (09:24):
They do. Yeah, so all grass grubs can fly. All
the beetles fly, so that's the way. Yeah, they're all
beetled up species, so they all fly around. But the
point is, of course they go at some stage under
your ground, and you really need to do with the
granules something to get them where they normally have made
those little those holes if you like what places. Yeah, exactly,
(09:47):
that's the way to go, honestly, And you're going to
be really good with your eyes there.
Speaker 8 (09:51):
Yeah, well I think I might send the hives time
and they really Yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:57):
Yeah, you're careful with the bees.
Speaker 8 (09:59):
Yeah, all right, I appreciate your help.
Speaker 2 (10:03):
Thank you, no worries.
Speaker 3 (10:05):
Awesome, awesome thing, Thank you very much. Sorry, I'm just
distracted because I was going to mention something earlier and
then I forgot. Now I've got to do it. And
it's not necessarily gardening related. But in Devenport we've got
a community workshop called the Clay Store. They're going to
be doing a tool Bizarre, right, so if anyone's interested
(10:25):
in old tools, secondhand tools, gardening equipment, that sort of thing.
Sunday morning, the twenty second of February is when it's on.
If you just search for Clay Store, Devenport Tool Bizarre,
it'll come up. It's all over social media. You'll love
this sort of thing, you know, community workshop and it's
just fantastic if you want to get some nice old spades.
(10:47):
I think there might even be a chance. So anyway,
put that in your diary folks for the twenty second
of February. Let's take a short break. We'll come back
and talk to Barry in just a moment Radio roots
with us right through it till nine o'clock and berry
a very good morning.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah, good morning to you. I just wanting to ask
ruder question. If you don't mind, please go.
Speaker 2 (11:13):
Yeah, we can do that. We can organize that because
if you let me walk all the way from Christus
to Auckland, I can talk to you direct. Get on
with it.
Speaker 5 (11:26):
That Collington's pre spray that you recommend for ants, et cetera.
Is it safe to spray in your house rand your
window sills and where you've got animals, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
What do you like? What sort of animals?
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Well, we've got a dog, Oh, okay, et cetera. And
we've been told that it's not safe if you've got animals.
Is it safe and spray like you round your windows?
Et cetera.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
No, I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that as as much
as that. What I would do is, if you're talking
about that particular material, you use it only in the
places where you need to use it. So if you,
for instance, got insects that are going up into your ceiling,
you do the ceiling. Dogs won't be affected at all,
and you're spraying when the dog is not inside. I mean,
(12:18):
those are very sensible things to do, of course, so
don't worry about that if you've got a dog that
is I remember I had a Jack Russell that would
lack everything. Not a good idea for the dog either.
Speaker 5 (12:31):
Oh okay, so just use my kneapp and the ceilings
exeter where you've got answer.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Oh you want to do? Okay, you want to do
and control? Yes, in the ceilings, no problem at all.
You could do that because if it because it lasts
for two months, those ants have no idea where the
help to go and they can they had to die
or say no, I'm going next door flower it.
Speaker 5 (12:55):
Oh yes, so don't use it inside like rand your
windowsill applies, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
No, what I would do there is very simple. I
would get a bait, going a bait for the ants.
So you know how ants are always finding something to eat,
all right, So the bait that I would suggest, I've
got it. Actually I've got an I've got a thing
here for them from the Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries
from nineteen eighty three. Right here, just like that a
(13:28):
recipe basically, and you can use a bait with a
low toxicity for humans and pets. Six hundred milli liters
of water, three hundred grams of sugar yes, sixty grams
of honey yes, sixty grams of bor x bore x
(13:56):
x yes, and sixty grams of boric acid. And you
make it into a so boric acid, and you make
it into a syrup, and you put that syrup in
various places, in little containers that the ants can get
in but nobody else. And basically, because they've got their
own territory, you know, you'll find that it's a really
nice material that you can get those ants.
Speaker 5 (14:21):
The one you've talked, the other one has abandon astailua.
That's Collington's pre sprie.
Speaker 2 (14:27):
No, no, no, no, it isn't why this is a
different material I'm talking about. No, no it's not. No,
it's not at all.
Speaker 5 (14:33):
Oh I thought that. Oh okay, I heard a rumor,
but I wasn't sure. But no, that's fine. That's what
I wanted to know.
Speaker 2 (14:39):
Also, the lovely sweet bait have it go to help? Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:43):
Thanks very all the very best, Diane, very good morning.
Speaker 6 (14:47):
He is hello the essay I'm ringing from Blinham's. Yes,
got a heddrow of ribbon wood, which are probably probably
six meters tall. And I've also got another he drow
of ribbon wood which are probably four meters. They're a
bit younger, they're probably five or six years old. Problem
(15:10):
is they're getting a borer in them. Yeah, and it's
like tiny wee holes.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
Yeah tiny. I was just going to say that they're
very small one, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (15:20):
Small hole? And also you can see the brownie really
fine chewed up stuff around the edges of the holes.
Now it wouldn't be a problem, but some of them
are succumbing to it. So some of the mature trees,
which are as tall as your single story gutter, you know,
like these are good mature trees. Sure, some of those
(15:42):
have gradually died and succumbed. And now there's also borer
in some of the younger ones. And I just think,
you know how in the fruit tree borer, you know,
you're supposed to squirt something down each hole. Well, there's
no way in the world you could get into all
(16:02):
these holes. And is there anything that what would be
the best thing to spray? To have a go at them?
Like I imagine that they're probably not going to kill
all a bug ones.
Speaker 2 (16:16):
I remember there was a material called no borer noor
from Kiwi Care. Have you heard of Key Good Company
and Kenterbury And basically what they say, I think what
they normally say with Kiwi Care no borer is to
treat it by by injecting the flight holes. Yeah, so
(16:39):
when I know they're small, but if you've got a
little what oh you know one of those little things
that you can very small things with the with the
Kiwi Care no boring. If you can go one, two, three, four,
one after the other as much as you can. That's
all I can think of, to be quite honest, is.
Speaker 6 (16:58):
Some of the stuffers up on. You know how sick
ribbon wood are when they're being trimmed to a huge
like it's just like a circuit. Yeah, would name oil
be any good or not?
Speaker 2 (17:12):
Kneem oil would be good. But I think I would
take something that is a bit stronger than that. If
I were you, I would take something called Actually you
probably could do that associate that we talked about. Associate,
which is a material that you use on ivy and
all sorts of bits and pieces. Oh yes it is.
(17:36):
Yeah you can't do that. Yeah, no, sorry, you're right.
I thank god. I was just thinking of getting this.
I was just thinking of getting these things in a
really nasty way, and I said, no, it's not good
for the plant. Now, don't do it. I missed, missed
it complete.
Speaker 6 (17:51):
What would you use the thing? But the thing with.
Speaker 4 (17:55):
The oil?
Speaker 6 (17:58):
That's only nothing till Watson those bor holes right, because
once the bor is hatch, don't they fly away? They
will the proper territorial now come back to they were.
Speaker 2 (18:12):
I don't think they're going to be terictorial. I think
that the females will then lay their eggs on other
patches of the of the plant, off the tree.
Speaker 6 (18:19):
Okay, last question. They presuming because they like plumb, true,
don't they they like hardwood?
Speaker 2 (18:27):
They will, they will quite a few of things. Yeah,
that's it. But this is a typical ribbon wood one.
I'm sorry. Do you quite bad for that could be
of this particular species?
Speaker 3 (18:38):
Yes, thanks very much, Diane and Rudd, Thank you, sir.
Have a great day, take care and folks, enjoy the week,
and we'll be back with you again next Sunday.
Speaker 1 (18:52):
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