February 21, 2026 • 20 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for February 22 2026, Ruud discusses the best time of year to prune fruit trees, how to take care of spiders creeping into your car, and shares his two cents on lawn care.
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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):
Ed b Well, a very good morning to you, Dred,
welcome home. Thank you, Matie, and thank you to you
and Julie for your wonderful hospitality the other night, the
other afternoon, it was lovely to come out and have
a cup of tea and wander around the garden and
that was great, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
And go down to the quarry and all that.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, it was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
No, it's lovely. Yeah, how's your boys?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, no, settling in, settling in. He's flowing the coop
and he's having a great time. So yeah. And I
mentioned at the beginning of the show somber day for
christ Church today, of course, fifteen years since the earthquake. Yeah,
and the impact that that had on the city, both
in terms of the people and the structures. I guess
it's it's quite phenomenal to see the rebuild.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
A little bit, a little bit. I've got a little
I always foind it this strange thing to do, but
I was playing a game of tennis at the time
of that big earthquake.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And I was playing with my French son in law. Yes,
and I won the point.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Just the time of the youthquake.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Exactly because he was about just literally smack the ball
so hard back to me because I made a real
woozy out of it, and he lost this balance and
we did not actually realize it was such a big earthquake.
We kept going because this was a real fight. Strange stuff.
These things happened and they go, oh yeah, it was especially
(01:36):
after after shots were awful, awful, absolutely nasty.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Absolutely. Now, just before we go to Owen, my apple
tree produced five apples, recently stolen by pook Ecko. New
flowers have appeared on new branches. Will they mature as well?
So this is I mean, this is way late in
the season, isn't it for new branches on there.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I don't think there's going to be anything there. Just
leave them, let them be, don't take them off, Let
let the plants be, and you'll get a new system
again in spread.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Done right, awesome, Right, let's get amongst it, folks. The
lines are open. The number to call is eight hundred
eighty ten eighty Owen, Good.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Morning, good morning, Rote, good morning, Pete. I've got residents,
spiders and my wing mirrors and the cars which be
a testing they to how slow am my driving is,
And so I don't want to put spray in there
and kill them because of poor things become a spider.
Drove goes in there, I will kill the thing. I'd
(02:36):
rather stop than going in the first place. And I
tried wiping peppermint oil in there on the end of
a handy towel and they just asked if I had
any chocolate chops to go with it, and they're stilled
for them.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
They're quite happily, it sounds like it. Yeah, have you
ever tried doing some vacuum clean with a vacuum cleaner?
You know, one of those little that gets into that
system too, because they get into it with their website,
don't they.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I think I did try a vacuum cleaner up there
on my other car, but think sooner or later, and
it's normally sooner. They just they just come back anyway,
And I think, well, if you're not bringing back and
they're unsucking the poor guys out of their home, and
I'd rather not kill spiders all the time, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, yeah, no, I totally agree with you, And to
be quite honest, yes, but if you if you've got
a lot of these websites literally doing something like your
mirror and start to you know, really reduce your vision.
I think there's something you will need to do. Is
there a way of having some sticky stuff that you
can put in the area where they can get in
(03:49):
you know what I mean? Yeah, go on?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Sorry, So with a wingerror, you've got to get you know,
the basic the mirrors are adjustable within their housing, so
you've got that gap all the way around there. So
I mean I could wipe something around. It's just something
that they really don't like. I could something I could
wipe around, as long as that's not going to deteriorate
the plastic on my relatively new car.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
No, I don't think that would be the case. But
but what would be good? You will be driving the
car mostly, won't you. Yeah, So it's a matter of
just doing it once see if that would work. But
I reckon that's one of the ways to go. Another
thing you can do is put something literally that in
that opening in some way. You know, something that.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Is particular sticky stuff that you can recommend. But there's
something they really don't like.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, there are some really good sticky materials that you
get from bindings and all that sort of stuff that
that will stop them from going in there. There's no
doubt about that. Especially if you put the non sticky
side on the outside. They can walk on it, but
they can't get in.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You mean, also leaves you with like a research around
the winger and all the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, I know, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I hear what you're saying, John, But I just wonder
whether a little bit of spray and the fact that
spiders aren't living in you it's not going to upset
the ecological balance of the night of the entire planet
if he gets through the spiders out of his cars.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
On that level, it's not. But i'd like I like
the way you're thinking about it. It's good.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah. Absolutely, Hey Bernie, good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Yeah, good morning, Yeah, very word.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Hello, it's rude here. How are you hello?
Speaker 5 (05:36):
That's Bertty here. I'm just threwing up regardian my nice
green lawn. Who's got some nice brown little pictures from
my little doggie running around on the lawn. It's called
a high pH And I'm just wanning if there's anything
better than all the bits and pieces are under worn
to be treated with.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
These are these are holes in the lawn where the
grass is died. If you like yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
so I'm going to I'm going to have a really
amazing guess. And the guess is that your dog that
does that is a female.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Yes, there's definitely a female.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
How do you How do you think? I know that.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Because someone has told me it. That's normal and a
female dog that does that.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, because a boy dog goes, you know how, they
lift up their leg and they do it a little
tiny one and then they move on. So that usually
doesn't do any damage at all. But if you're if
you're a female and you just really need to go
and you go like I'm going now, yep, that's it,
you get such an over over lot a lot of
stuff that Yeah, no, that's what happens. Look, that's all
(06:46):
it is. It's a matter of getting the dog to
go pee somewhere else and yeah exactly. I used to
have a dog called Rollie, and Rollie would really laugh
about that.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
I think.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I think my dog's wanted to be near.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah yeah, yeah, But that's that's the thing, and that
is that can be tricky. So it's either away from
the lawn or things like that, or take them out
for a walk and then we get it all down
somewhere else.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yeah, okay, I've been trying all sorts of things with
it and every other and it's just yeah, once I
get it so right and it goes back to normal again.
So yeah, you go working process every day.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I'd say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there you.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Go, all the very busy Bernie much appreciated Peter Lemon trees.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
That's right, high rude. The lemon tree I've got. It's
very very old, but it's it's really growing tall and
I need to print it because I can't even get
the lemons off the tree now it's too high. When's
the best time to do that? And the problem is,
(08:02):
I'm pretty sure that I'm going to cut off a
lot of you know, a lot of lemons, little lemons.
But that's the way it goes. I suppose could you
please tell me when?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well, the best time to prune is basically in late spring,
so you're a bit too late with this, but let
me put it this way. It's very simple. Look, it's
don't worry about it too much because you obviously have
got quite a few fruit coming in there, which usually
developed in winter time, right all right, yeah, So here
comes to think, if you take off let's say a
(08:36):
third or a quarter of your branches now and a
quarter next year or the next time you go that
is in springtime, and another quarter a year later, you
are actually able to reduce your height of your big
lemon tree without doing too much damage on the amount
of lemons that you get in your Comparisodah.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Yeah, that sounds to the right solution.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
So yeah, that's how that's how you use it.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Sounds like it becomes a timing issue, doesn't it. And
this is you know, this is me as I'm learning, right,
So I'm listening to you and I'm going with especially
with fruiting trees and so on, there's a right time
to prune, and it varies from tree to tree. So
I'm thinking about my plum tree at the moment, which
probably needs pruning. Now. Now fruit's already gone, leaves are
still on the tree. Now's the time to do it,
(09:30):
whereas not the time to do citrus, for example.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
No, that's right, that's exactly the point. And citrus. The
other thing with citrus is that if you do it
a bit later, where but by the way. Where where
do you? Where do you? Where are you from?
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Not Wellington?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I think Wellington? Okay, there you go. Well, look, the
problem is that if you do it now you also
get these borer beetles into your right. So do it
a bit later is probably much better.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Okay, all right, much much onwards. But I know I've
got jobs to do. And talking of jobs to do
to do, good morning to you. Job on.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
Guys.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
How are we very well?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Well?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You are pretty good, y'all.
Speaker 10 (10:11):
Know I sort of. We've just bought a property, get
in but the le what and we've got some apple
and pear trees that are quite well overgrown. Good to
supply brout on them, but I wanted to wanting to
give them a bit of a hem. Bet it would
(10:33):
be them.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Which one would you like to do first? Apples or
peers either? Okay? I think again you could do it
probably in winter is your best time, to be quite honest,
if you really want to grow get them lower, you
know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, so that is the
time to do it. Then what you can do is
(10:58):
you can do again, do let's say half of it now,
half of it next year, simple as that.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
Okay. Also got another ways sword question. If we go
a bit trains planting, great.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Point grapevine, that should be at the moment starting to
produce fruit, right and especially especially especially fruit that you
can drink at a later age. But but it's yeah,
you know what I mean. But at the moment, this
is the time to do it. I would start the
(11:35):
pruning later on, after you've harvested your your crop, so
that'll be in March April.
Speaker 10 (11:41):
That thing, okay, So because what's happened on that perspectors,
it's coming from a relative space. We don't want to
tack a whole lot out, but we just want to
take throw ourselves.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
No, that's right, that's right. And apple trees and things
like that. Usually you do in July July August. It
is probably your best time when it's dormant.
Speaker 10 (12:03):
You know, right, and you can just dance not half,
but then for a start and do the other half
following year, or.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Wait till you get into July August. Do you have
we're what are we talking about apples?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Now?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Are we talking about your.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
Your go on? Yeah, we're talking about both.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Epple Yeah, yeah, that's a winter gig. Yeah, do a
winter time easy.
Speaker 10 (12:39):
All, you can just transplant for the great thought of
you can just take your clutting off any branch and
then just stick it on the ground and way you'll go.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Or serious today, Yeah, you can do it like that,
No problem that they'll they'll get they'll, they'll they'll they'll
they'll live there nicely and they will keep going, no worries.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
All of it sounds like he's not transplanting. He's actually
just taking a cutting and then yeah, yeah, okay, so
slightly different thing, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
There's three different things in one one one talking.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Pack of max. That's what it is. It is also
eight forty six will take a break back in a
mow and re climb passed of course as well. And
let me see we're we at dimmy good morning.
Speaker 11 (13:34):
Good morning.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Good?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
We're good? Thanks god.
Speaker 11 (13:37):
Hey, just want to know how do we prevent our
fruit from rotting on the tree before it's really features lickerines.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
A oh my goodness. Okay, air circulation, not too moist,
that sort of stuff. You know what I mean that
is to prevent it, But what I would do if
it happens a lot more so, if you, for instance,
have something that gets wet quite a bit or is
in it in a moist condition, and the foliage get
(14:09):
wet all the time. That's how you get fungi. Basically everywhere.
There could be all sorts of things. Sometimes people use
sulfur and copper, which are organic materials that you spray
on the leaves and on the developing fruit. And if
you do that on a regular basis, say, well, well
a couple of a couple of weeks before you harvest,
(14:32):
if you like, you don't want to go do over
the top, but if you use copper and sulfur, you'll
find that that will stop fungi getting hold in your
plants and in your developing fruit.
Speaker 11 (14:44):
Oh okay, so that while the fruits on the trees.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yes, yeah, well it's developing, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
So the best thing is to go go to your
local garden center wherever you live, because they'll have all
sorts of stuff there and they may say, what works
well in our area at the moment is to use
this funger side that works on that particular material, whether
it's apples or whatever.
Speaker 11 (15:09):
Yeah, okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
All, We have a great day. Take care. Mary good morning,
Hi Mary.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Hello, Hello, it's Mary here. Hey, I wrote great show,
Thank you. I've got four little snail plants which I've
gone from steeds, from king seeds, and they were going
to be planted earlier than now, but the home handy
man person has not got the fencing finished and I'm
(15:43):
going to have to finish it myself. So these little
guys are about there's four of them, and they're about
fifteen or twelve fifteen centimeters high.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
How many flowering yet? No? Okay, are you talking about
those wonderful white and purple things?
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Oh there gorgeous snail vine them? Yeah, oh there gorgeous
yeah yeah yeah yeah. So so you've got somebody who
is in is needing to do some work. He hasn't
done it yet, and now you're not sure where you
need to plant them right now? I think I would
plant them, What the heck I've got?
Speaker 8 (16:23):
I can't. If I plant them, I'm going to end
up sprying them with paints?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Is that the next gig paint? No, I wouldn't. I
wouldn't get it near the paint. No, no, exactly.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
So the things with it, the things where they're going
to be planters plan they're going to be planted with
the thing for them to grow up needs to be painters.
It's been water blasted and process of getting it prepped.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Chuck those snail vines on in big pots so you
can plant them later or replant them later on the
place where you want them.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
That's what I wanted to know, because I want to
know can I go from the little pot to a
big pot? And then how long do I have to wait?
Because I don't don't I don't believe you meant to
move plants around too quickly, is it right?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You'll see how they go if you put them on, yeah,
a medium sized pot, whatever. Sometimes you might need to
get them into a bigger pot. And I think the
snail vine is an absolutely wonderful thing, and I reckon
it will cope with that. And then if you plant them,
let's say in autumn time, when everybody has done the
things that they should have done.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
It's a whole other issue.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
Looks particular soil while in the intermediate big pot. Is
there anything I do have to do with the soil?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
A good potting mix with a little bit of general
general potting mix if you like, so mix them up,
work no worries.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I've just had a look at snail vine because it's
it's quite a cute little flower, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
It's an incredibly beautiful thing. Yes, it is, Yeah, exactly exactly.
I'm going to do something with Jack Tame. I think
on that because I may have done I can't remember whatever,
but it's beautiful. Yeah, lovely, excellent to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Paul Bamboo.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Morning Morning.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Yeah. About two years ago we returned to a property
that's been neglected for fifteen odd years. Someone part of
a bamboo and yeah, when we came back, it's about
twenty thirty square meter bloody. Yeah, but we've chopped it
(18:42):
all down.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah. You know it's coming back, is it.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Yeah, it's and it's well, I've got a digit here
now and we're digging it out, all the roots out.
We're just drying it out and we're going to smash
it up and pull the west of the roots out.
It's quite a big area. But we've got the lawn
back under control as well. But it's popping up in
the lawn further out. How far do I have to go?
I don't really want to dig the whole lorn up.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
No, you don't have to dig the whole lorn up. Okay,
so show you. But you really do want to get
get rid of it, don't you.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (19:15):
Yeah, yeah, we don't want to back. So I'm digging
up the buttle load of where all the dirts did
around the house. But it's still creeping out. But I'm
not sure because we've only just started digging it out
of little kurtile the ones that are creeping out into
the lawn.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yeah, okay, there is. I remember when I lived in Auckland,
I had a huge amount of bamboo that I actually
curtailed by digging a big So I wanted to bamboo
there because it was good for for UH security and
all that sort of stuff. And also the wind would
take would be stopped by that bamboo. And you can
(19:55):
do that, for instance, by making a huge trail around
where those things are. The other thing you can do
is exactly what you're doing. Let them grow to let's
say foot long, and put some neat material on their
and neat stuff that kills the bamboo.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
That'll do it. Hey, rid, Thanks very much, folks, enjoy
your day, Catch you next week. Take care
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
Ed b Well, a very good morning to you, Dred,
welcome home. Thank you, Matie, and thank you to you
and Julie for your wonderful hospitality the other night, the
other afternoon, it was lovely to come out and have
a cup of tea and wander around the garden and
that was great, Thank you.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
And go down to the quarry and all that.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, it was fantastic.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
No, it's lovely. Yeah, how's your boys?
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, no, settling in, settling in. He's flowing the coop
and he's having a great time. So yeah. And I
mentioned at the beginning of the show somber day for
christ Church today, of course, fifteen years since the earthquake. Yeah,
and the impact that that had on the city, both
in terms of the people and the structures. I guess
it's it's quite phenomenal to see the rebuild.
Speaker 3 (00:55):
A little bit, a little bit. I've got a little
I always foind it this strange thing to do, but
I was playing a game of tennis at the time
of that big earthquake.
Speaker 1 (01:04):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
And I was playing with my French son in law. Yes,
and I won the point.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
Just the time of the youthquake.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Exactly because he was about just literally smack the ball
so hard back to me because I made a real
woozy out of it, and he lost this balance and
we did not actually realize it was such a big earthquake.
We kept going because this was a real fight. Strange stuff.
These things happened and they go, oh yeah, it was especially
(01:36):
after after shots were awful, awful, absolutely nasty.
Speaker 2 (01:40):
Absolutely. Now, just before we go to Owen, my apple
tree produced five apples, recently stolen by pook Ecko. New
flowers have appeared on new branches. Will they mature as well?
So this is I mean, this is way late in
the season, isn't it for new branches on there.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
I don't think there's going to be anything there. Just
leave them, let them be, don't take them off, Let
let the plants be, and you'll get a new system
again in spread.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Done right, awesome, Right, let's get amongst it, folks. The
lines are open. The number to call is eight hundred
eighty ten eighty Owen, Good.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
Morning, good morning, Rote, good morning, Pete. I've got residents,
spiders and my wing mirrors and the cars which be
a testing they to how slow am my driving is,
And so I don't want to put spray in there
and kill them because of poor things become a spider.
Drove goes in there, I will kill the thing. I'd
(02:36):
rather stop than going in the first place. And I
tried wiping peppermint oil in there on the end of
a handy towel and they just asked if I had
any chocolate chops to go with it, and they're stilled
for them.
Speaker 3 (02:49):
They're quite happily, it sounds like it. Yeah, have you
ever tried doing some vacuum clean with a vacuum cleaner?
You know, one of those little that gets into that
system too, because they get into it with their website,
don't they.
Speaker 4 (03:07):
I think I did try a vacuum cleaner up there
on my other car, but think sooner or later, and
it's normally sooner. They just they just come back anyway,
And I think, well, if you're not bringing back and
they're unsucking the poor guys out of their home, and
I'd rather not kill spiders all the time, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:27):
Yeah, yeah, no, I totally agree with you, And to
be quite honest, yes, but if you if you've got
a lot of these websites literally doing something like your
mirror and start to you know, really reduce your vision.
I think there's something you will need to do. Is
there a way of having some sticky stuff that you
can put in the area where they can get in
(03:49):
you know what I mean? Yeah, go on?
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Sorry, So with a wingerror, you've got to get you know,
the basic the mirrors are adjustable within their housing, so
you've got that gap all the way around there. So
I mean I could wipe something around. It's just something
that they really don't like. I could something I could
wipe around, as long as that's not going to deteriorate
the plastic on my relatively new car.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
No, I don't think that would be the case. But
but what would be good? You will be driving the
car mostly, won't you. Yeah, So it's a matter of
just doing it once see if that would work. But
I reckon that's one of the ways to go. Another
thing you can do is put something literally that in
that opening in some way. You know, something that.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Is particular sticky stuff that you can recommend. But there's
something they really don't like.
Speaker 3 (04:40):
Well, there are some really good sticky materials that you
get from bindings and all that sort of stuff that
that will stop them from going in there. There's no
doubt about that. Especially if you put the non sticky
side on the outside. They can walk on it, but
they can't get in.
Speaker 2 (04:58):
You mean, also leaves you with like a research around
the winger and all the rest of it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Yeah, I know, Yeah.
Speaker 2 (05:08):
I hear what you're saying, John, But I just wonder
whether a little bit of spray and the fact that
spiders aren't living in you it's not going to upset
the ecological balance of the night of the entire planet
if he gets through the spiders out of his cars.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
On that level, it's not. But i'd like I like
the way you're thinking about it. It's good.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Yeah. Absolutely, Hey Bernie, good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Yeah, good morning, Yeah, very word.
Speaker 3 (05:32):
Hello, it's rude here. How are you hello?
Speaker 5 (05:36):
That's Bertty here. I'm just threwing up regardian my nice
green lawn. Who's got some nice brown little pictures from
my little doggie running around on the lawn. It's called
a high pH And I'm just wanning if there's anything
better than all the bits and pieces are under worn
to be treated with.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
These are these are holes in the lawn where the
grass is died. If you like yeah, yeah, yeah, okay,
so I'm going to I'm going to have a really
amazing guess. And the guess is that your dog that
does that is a female.
Speaker 5 (06:10):
Yes, there's definitely a female.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
How do you How do you think? I know that.
Speaker 5 (06:17):
Because someone has told me it. That's normal and a
female dog that does that.
Speaker 3 (06:23):
Yeah, because a boy dog goes, you know how, they
lift up their leg and they do it a little
tiny one and then they move on. So that usually
doesn't do any damage at all. But if you're if
you're a female and you just really need to go
and you go like I'm going now, yep, that's it,
you get such an over over lot a lot of
stuff that Yeah, no, that's what happens. Look, that's all
(06:46):
it is. It's a matter of getting the dog to
go pee somewhere else and yeah exactly. I used to
have a dog called Rollie, and Rollie would really laugh
about that.
Speaker 6 (07:03):
I think.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
I think my dog's wanted to be near.
Speaker 3 (07:08):
Yeah yeah, yeah, But that's that's the thing, and that
is that can be tricky. So it's either away from
the lawn or things like that, or take them out
for a walk and then we get it all down
somewhere else.
Speaker 5 (07:20):
Yeah, okay, I've been trying all sorts of things with
it and every other and it's just yeah, once I
get it so right and it goes back to normal again.
So yeah, you go working process every day.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
I'd say, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, there you.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Go, all the very busy Bernie much appreciated Peter Lemon trees.
Speaker 7 (07:42):
That's right, high rude. The lemon tree I've got. It's
very very old, but it's it's really growing tall and
I need to print it because I can't even get
the lemons off the tree now it's too high. When's
the best time to do that? And the problem is,
(08:02):
I'm pretty sure that I'm going to cut off a
lot of you know, a lot of lemons, little lemons.
But that's the way it goes. I suppose could you
please tell me when?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Well, the best time to prune is basically in late spring,
so you're a bit too late with this, but let
me put it this way. It's very simple. Look, it's
don't worry about it too much because you obviously have
got quite a few fruit coming in there, which usually
developed in winter time, right all right, yeah, So here
comes to think, if you take off let's say a
(08:36):
third or a quarter of your branches now and a
quarter next year or the next time you go that
is in springtime, and another quarter a year later, you
are actually able to reduce your height of your big
lemon tree without doing too much damage on the amount
of lemons that you get in your Comparisodah.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Yeah, that sounds to the right solution.
Speaker 3 (09:05):
So yeah, that's how that's how you use it.
Speaker 2 (09:09):
Sounds like it becomes a timing issue, doesn't it. And
this is you know, this is me as I'm learning, right,
So I'm listening to you and I'm going with especially
with fruiting trees and so on, there's a right time
to prune, and it varies from tree to tree. So
I'm thinking about my plum tree at the moment, which
probably needs pruning. Now. Now fruit's already gone, leaves are
still on the tree. Now's the time to do it,
(09:30):
whereas not the time to do citrus, for example.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
No, that's right, that's exactly the point. And citrus. The
other thing with citrus is that if you do it
a bit later, where but by the way. Where where
do you? Where do you? Where are you from?
Speaker 8 (09:44):
Ah?
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Not Wellington?
Speaker 3 (09:45):
I think Wellington? Okay, there you go. Well, look, the
problem is that if you do it now you also
get these borer beetles into your right. So do it
a bit later is probably much better.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Okay, all right, much much onwards. But I know I've
got jobs to do. And talking of jobs to do
to do, good morning to you. Job on.
Speaker 9 (10:08):
Guys.
Speaker 8 (10:08):
How are we very well?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Well?
Speaker 3 (10:10):
You are pretty good, y'all.
Speaker 10 (10:11):
Know I sort of. We've just bought a property, get
in but the le what and we've got some apple
and pear trees that are quite well overgrown. Good to
supply brout on them, but I wanted to wanting to
give them a bit of a hem. Bet it would
(10:33):
be them.
Speaker 3 (10:35):
Which one would you like to do first? Apples or
peers either? Okay? I think again you could do it
probably in winter is your best time, to be quite honest,
if you really want to grow get them lower, you
know what I mean? Yeah, yeah, so that is the
time to do it. Then what you can do is
(10:58):
you can do again, do let's say half of it now,
half of it next year, simple as that.
Speaker 10 (11:05):
Okay. Also got another ways sword question. If we go
a bit trains planting, great.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
Point grapevine, that should be at the moment starting to
produce fruit, right and especially especially especially fruit that you
can drink at a later age. But but it's yeah,
you know what I mean. But at the moment, this
is the time to do it. I would start the
(11:35):
pruning later on, after you've harvested your your crop, so
that'll be in March April.
Speaker 10 (11:41):
That thing, okay, So because what's happened on that perspectors,
it's coming from a relative space. We don't want to
tack a whole lot out, but we just want to
take throw ourselves.
Speaker 3 (11:54):
No, that's right, that's right. And apple trees and things
like that. Usually you do in July July August. It
is probably your best time when it's dormant.
Speaker 10 (12:03):
You know, right, and you can just dance not half,
but then for a start and do the other half
following year, or.
Speaker 3 (12:11):
Wait till you get into July August. Do you have
we're what are we talking about apples?
Speaker 5 (12:19):
Now?
Speaker 3 (12:19):
Are we talking about your.
Speaker 10 (12:22):
Your go on? Yeah, we're talking about both.
Speaker 3 (12:28):
Epple Yeah, yeah, that's a winter gig. Yeah, do a
winter time easy.
Speaker 10 (12:39):
All, you can just transplant for the great thought of
you can just take your clutting off any branch and
then just stick it on the ground and way you'll go.
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Or serious today, Yeah, you can do it like that,
No problem that they'll they'll get they'll, they'll they'll they'll
they'll live there nicely and they will keep going, no worries.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
All of it sounds like he's not transplanting. He's actually
just taking a cutting and then yeah, yeah, okay, so
slightly different thing, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
There's three different things in one one one talking.
Speaker 2 (13:15):
Pack of max. That's what it is. It is also
eight forty six will take a break back in a
mow and re climb passed of course as well. And
let me see we're we at dimmy good morning.
Speaker 11 (13:34):
Good morning.
Speaker 9 (13:34):
How are you guys?
Speaker 2 (13:35):
Good?
Speaker 3 (13:35):
We're good? Thanks god.
Speaker 11 (13:37):
Hey, just want to know how do we prevent our
fruit from rotting on the tree before it's really features lickerines.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
A oh my goodness. Okay, air circulation, not too moist,
that sort of stuff. You know what I mean that
is to prevent it, But what I would do if
it happens a lot more so, if you, for instance,
have something that gets wet quite a bit or is
in it in a moist condition, and the foliage get
(14:09):
wet all the time. That's how you get fungi. Basically everywhere.
There could be all sorts of things. Sometimes people use
sulfur and copper, which are organic materials that you spray
on the leaves and on the developing fruit. And if
you do that on a regular basis, say, well, well
a couple of a couple of weeks before you harvest,
(14:32):
if you like, you don't want to go do over
the top, but if you use copper and sulfur, you'll
find that that will stop fungi getting hold in your
plants and in your developing fruit.
Speaker 11 (14:44):
Oh okay, so that while the fruits on the trees.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
Yes, yeah, well it's developing, yeah yeah, yeah, yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:52):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
So the best thing is to go go to your
local garden center wherever you live, because they'll have all
sorts of stuff there and they may say, what works
well in our area at the moment is to use
this funger side that works on that particular material, whether
it's apples or whatever.
Speaker 11 (15:09):
Yeah, okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (15:13):
All, We have a great day. Take care. Mary good morning,
Hi Mary.
Speaker 8 (15:21):
Hello, Hello, it's Mary here. Hey, I wrote great show,
Thank you. I've got four little snail plants which I've
gone from steeds, from king seeds, and they were going
to be planted earlier than now, but the home handy
man person has not got the fencing finished and I'm
(15:43):
going to have to finish it myself. So these little
guys are about there's four of them, and they're about
fifteen or twelve fifteen centimeters high.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
How many flowering yet? No? Okay, are you talking about
those wonderful white and purple things?
Speaker 8 (16:02):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Oh there gorgeous snail vine them? Yeah, oh there gorgeous
yeah yeah yeah yeah. So so you've got somebody who
is in is needing to do some work. He hasn't
done it yet, and now you're not sure where you
need to plant them right now? I think I would
plant them, What the heck I've got?
Speaker 8 (16:23):
I can't. If I plant them, I'm going to end
up sprying them with paints?
Speaker 3 (16:29):
Is that the next gig paint? No, I wouldn't. I
wouldn't get it near the paint. No, no, exactly.
Speaker 8 (16:38):
So the things with it, the things where they're going
to be planters plan they're going to be planted with
the thing for them to grow up needs to be painters.
It's been water blasted and process of getting it prepped.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Chuck those snail vines on in big pots so you
can plant them later or replant them later on the
place where you want them.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
That's what I wanted to know, because I want to
know can I go from the little pot to a
big pot? And then how long do I have to wait?
Because I don't don't I don't believe you meant to
move plants around too quickly, is it right?
Speaker 3 (17:18):
You'll see how they go if you put them on, yeah,
a medium sized pot, whatever. Sometimes you might need to
get them into a bigger pot. And I think the
snail vine is an absolutely wonderful thing, and I reckon
it will cope with that. And then if you plant them,
let's say in autumn time, when everybody has done the
things that they should have done.
Speaker 2 (17:40):
It's a whole other issue.
Speaker 8 (17:45):
Looks particular soil while in the intermediate big pot. Is
there anything I do have to do with the soil?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
A good potting mix with a little bit of general
general potting mix if you like, so mix them up,
work no worries.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
I've just had a look at snail vine because it's
it's quite a cute little flower, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (18:03):
It's an incredibly beautiful thing. Yes, it is, Yeah, exactly exactly.
I'm going to do something with Jack Tame. I think
on that because I may have done I can't remember whatever,
but it's beautiful. Yeah, lovely, excellent to do it.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Paul Bamboo.
Speaker 4 (18:20):
Morning Morning.
Speaker 9 (18:22):
Yeah. About two years ago we returned to a property
that's been neglected for fifteen odd years. Someone part of
a bamboo and yeah, when we came back, it's about
twenty thirty square meter bloody. Yeah, but we've chopped it
(18:42):
all down.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah. You know it's coming back, is it.
Speaker 9 (18:46):
Yeah, it's and it's well, I've got a digit here
now and we're digging it out, all the roots out.
We're just drying it out and we're going to smash
it up and pull the west of the roots out.
It's quite a big area. But we've got the lawn
back under control as well. But it's popping up in
the lawn further out. How far do I have to go?
I don't really want to dig the whole lorn up.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
No, you don't have to dig the whole lorn up. Okay,
so show you. But you really do want to get
get rid of it, don't you.
Speaker 11 (19:15):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (19:15):
Yeah, yeah, we don't want to back. So I'm digging
up the buttle load of where all the dirts did
around the house. But it's still creeping out. But I'm
not sure because we've only just started digging it out
of little kurtile the ones that are creeping out into
the lawn.
Speaker 3 (19:35):
Yeah, okay, there is. I remember when I lived in Auckland,
I had a huge amount of bamboo that I actually
curtailed by digging a big So I wanted to bamboo
there because it was good for for UH security and
all that sort of stuff. And also the wind would
take would be stopped by that bamboo. And you can
(19:55):
do that, for instance, by making a huge trail around
where those things are. The other thing you can do
is exactly what you're doing. Let them grow to let's
say foot long, and put some neat material on their
and neat stuff that kills the bamboo.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
That'll do it. Hey, rid, Thanks very much, folks, enjoy
your day, Catch you next week. Take care
Speaker 1 (20:19):
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