March 7, 2026 • 22 mins
In the garden with Ruud, he shared his tips and tricks for coaxing a frangipani plant back to life and how to get rid of wasps.
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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):
Radio RUD A very good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
A very good morning to you, Piero. Is everything all
right with you? Yeah? Good, thanks buddy, And you're not
running the big raw?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
No, no, I get the perfect excuse. I suppose theoretically
I used to do it. Actually I did it a
couple of times with him a dad back in the day,
way way way back.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Gosh, No, I've never done it because I was always
on air since nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, I think I probably did it in about nineteen
eighty two or eighty three, probably, yeah, back when it
was actually ten k's and it started from in at
Victoria Park and you ran all the way. But anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
it's awesome. It's an awesome event.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Should we get amongst it.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I'd see there's a couple of these green things on the.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah yeah text too, So someone takes very look. Quarter
to eight was the first text for you morning peak.
When road comes, can you ask them where all the
two we have gone? We live just south of Taie
Happy and usually have about six or eight bouncing around.
But in the last few months. None, we feed them
and it's strange and we miss them.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, that's quite weird, isn't it. The joke I can
do is, of course, if you're talking about tie Happy,
there is a street called Tooy Street, right, they might
be there now on it. To be quite honest, I
don't know, because sometimes these things go finding their foods elsewhere,
if there is another tree that's you know, whatever, sending
(01:44):
some food into the air, right whatever, and then they
buger off for a while and they know exactly when
it is too. That's very clever, actually, but I reckon.
Normally these things will come back. They will restore themselves.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, good to know. But they will go with the fooders,
I guess, oh.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
All the time. Yeah, yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
They're not loyal as such.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
They don't. They don't wry about your food.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
A very good morning to.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
You, Hope, Yes, good morning, rude. I must want to
know about my friend Chipanny, which I've had for about
twenty years now. When I got it, I spent the
first ten years having at indoors until it got too big.
I've since put it outside and it did well for
(02:33):
a while, but the last two years it hasn't flowered.
Almost wondering the polridge is very healthy, but no flowers.
And I was just wondering what.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I could do fertilizer.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
What yeares I have fertilized it such?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yes, with what a phosphorus?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I think it was posphorus.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Okay, you're talking about the quay.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
And it was something I brought from King Bahn.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it is. It's it's interesting because
we have we live in christ Church and Julie has
her We've got a couple of frenchip barnies in a
glasshouse which works quite well. The only thing in the
hot glasshouse. You sometimes little mite's going in there and
stuffing around. But you've got yours outside. Where where are
(03:30):
you in Auckland?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Somewhere is in Auckland and I've got it to they sheltered.
It does get to six hours sunlight that it requires.
But and you know, I've looked nursed at like a baby.
But and this the last two years, the forage are
lovely in healthy, but there's no flowers, have you?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah? So so what really what I was talking about
there was the NPK. The cay is for potash. Potash
is the stuff that makes the plant flower and then
set seeds if you like later on, I suppose, But
it's weird as it does that. So I would suggest
you get some fertilizer that contains a really decent amount
(04:15):
of K from mp K. So what a heart?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
When do I give it to it?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
What I would do it now, because they will be
probably starting to flower from now on, won't they.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well no, not really. I think that it's getting colder now.
I'm not my it used to flower in the summertime.
It's never it's never grown cold tall, but it's wide,
and it's in a pot. But and I've repotted it
when it didn't flower and put a fresh soil in
(04:49):
a potting mix, but the no flowers.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
So what I would do is get some sulfate of potash.
Sulfate of potash which is basically mostly potash and a
little bit and water that little a little bit into
the into the system, into the whole root zone and
all that sort of stuff. And the reason I'm saying
doing it now, if you're doing it now, you're actually
warning the plant. Here's some food. Now, do something during
(05:13):
the winter, get yourself together, and in springtime, I'd like
to see some buds. Please may you do it again?
Then there you go on.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I thought for japanis they like to be in ostia conditions.
I mean you don't treat them with great love.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
No, you don't have to do much, just a little bit.
But what you're doing when you give them a little
bit of potash, you basically waken them up. And if
you do that again in springtime, it might say, oh, yeah,
I remember this, I can do this, and they probably
have a much better way of putting the flowers up
for you.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Oh, thank you very much that I know you don't
water them. You have to wait until they're completely dry
to water them.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah, don't go over the exactly, don't go over the
top with them. But yes, but this case, the little
bit of potash will do quite often wake them up.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Yeah, thank you so much for that.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
More than welcome to take care of Hope.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
And by the way, that was interesting to have a
Hope call it our show give them hope. Yes, yes, exactly,
and the producers they was Hope.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Not friends say, just for what it's worth, one of
my favorite plants.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I think, Yes, it's good, isn't it coolous? We've got
one that does a different color flower as well, So
we got two in the in the glass. It's sexually
quite lovely and yes yesterday, yesterday. Actually that's it. For
people that have them in the in tunnel houses and
stuff like that. These things can sometimes have a problem
with mites on the leaves, and that can cause serious
(06:51):
troubles because the leaves become quite gray. And what I
do is I spray them with something like a kneem oil,
and I do that quite regularly, top and bottom of
the leaves. And if you do that a couple of times,
say a week or so apart, you'll find that you
can control them. I just thought i'd mentioned that too.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Right, Oh, Jill, Good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Good morning guys. I'm ringing from Hastings, and I don't
think territorial in I've got inks anytime I have anything
on bench, I get invaded completely. And I'm wondering whether
I could have that ant recipe that you gave out
a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Route Okay, this is an ant recipe that I got
when I was working for the Ministry of Agriculture in
nineteen eighty three there.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And when you gave it out last time.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah, okay, so the thing we use in those days,
and I'm not one hundred percent sure what of these
particular materials are still available, to be quite honest, but
what I got, what I make is a bait that
has a low toxicity for humans. If you like six
hundred milli liters of water, six hundred mills, three hundred
grams of sugar, sixty grams of honey, any honey, any
(08:22):
honey sweet stuff, sixty grams of bor x b O
r a X, and sixty grams of boric acid which
is related to the box, and you heat it up
to make a syrup, and you have got a really
nice sweet bait for sweet loving ants, which is most
(08:44):
of the ants that they do that. I also have
a similar sort of version for ants that like protein,
so they don't eat sweet stuff, but they do the
same sort of stuff. So what you get is you
get a bait with six hundred and fifty grams of
peanut butter, fifty milli liters of cooking oil makes it
(09:11):
nice slippery, sixty grams of borax, and sixty grams of
boric acid b O r ic boric acid.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
We don't get the boric acid from uh.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Probably I have ever ever ever asked of one of
your chemists, if you like, you never know where you
get there, will know where to get it from if
it's still available like that. Otherwise you use just the borax.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
You mix it sixty again.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Sixty grams of boric acid. Yeah, you've got to mix
it all well together till the boric and the boric
acids are perfectly dissolved. There you go.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Okay, thank you very much. Now that that's all just
the inside. Can you use any of it for outside
as well?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yes you can, Yes you can. But you put it
in various little pottles so that you create a a
space where they can eat. And then five meters further
up you have a different group of ants because they've
got a different territory, and that's why you have various
pottles lying around or in your house or next to
your house.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I have to do that every couple of weeks months.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, you probably will. Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Good luck with that. I know a little bit of
home chemistry. It sounds fantastic, Margaret, A very good morning.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Hello. I've got a passion fruit vine that's finished fruiting,
and i'd like to know whether I can trim it
back a bit because there's a lot of greenery on
it it Now.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yes, I think you can, and I'm quite sure that
that could be done. But you do it after you've
harvested the fruit, of course. Yeah, yes, now, fine, fine,
it's good.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
But it's got heavy, you know, and it's you know,
growing out towards the sun, and it needs it looks heavy,
needs to be trimmed. But I just wonder whether you
can't do that.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yes, you can trim it, yeah, yeah, not not go
don't go over the top, but you know what I mean,
a little bit at the time you go. Yeah, absolutely, Just.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
What sort of plants can I put on my bugy garden? What?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Right now?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Also?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Wait, also no, I wouldn't I wouldn't wait because well
where are you ringing from?
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Silverdale?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Silverdale? Know you you still got quite a bit of
stuff you can do. You can do all sorts of
beans and peas and things like that, no problem at all, Okay. Yeah.
In fact, I'm going to be writing a little bit
for Jack Thames program on a Sunday on Saturday morning
in in the next week or two about exactly what
you can still do right now before it becomes really
(12:03):
winter and the other thing, Margaret, because this was such
a really nice question. And Peter wolf Camp is always
the guy that takes the mickey out of me for
never ever having grown a picture in my life.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Notice my restraint today.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I did you know why, because i'd have. I got on.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
This success, success for the patient for it. That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Did you not see it when you were there? Yes,
you must have seen it anyway.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I'm surprised it wasn't the first thing you showed me
up there as.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
The cat didn't there, I didn't. It's still there.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It's good, fantastic, Oh, thank you very much. That's wonderful.
Oh fantastic. Right, we'll take a short break, will be
back in a moment. It is eight forty four. We're
racing along and Tom, good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Good morning sir, and.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I love us.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
A while back I tried to find out what was
the powder of the suicide.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Powder for what that's right, Yes, and I didn't get.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
To hear about it over I must have missed.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Could you tell me what it is?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Please?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
A powder? Footed wasps? I don't know. I still don't.
I still don't know what it is now.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I went I went and found some. I find it.
You Bunning's had it, Yes, yes, And I got some.
It was ah, give me a couple of minutes and
I'll get the proper name for it. But just came
in like a little squirt bottle basically. So I attacked
the wasp nest that had found a home underneath some
(13:39):
like a gap in the ridge tiles of a concrete
tile roof, and so I stupidly went up with a
couple of cans of spray can standing on top of
the ladder sh doing that, which provoked one hell of
an outrage from the wasps that were inhabiting that particular space,
but did knock them out quite successfully, only to be
(14:00):
then told by someone, hey, there's this wasppowder stuff. Which
I went back about a week later and found that
there was still was coming in and out of the
same aperture. So I then applied the wasp powder and
I'll go back and have a look this week. But
carry on chatting, gents, and I'll find the info for you.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Okay, there you go, Tom, that's it. That's what. Yeah, No,
that's one of the ways to go. The other one
is to do it at night. Of course, with a
good a good aerosoult, as long as somebody else holds
the torch. Yeah, and it's not a joke because that's
true because the wasps always go to the place where
(14:44):
the light is.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Okay, hey, here we go, no surprises. It's yates and
it is their home pest and and and wasp dust.
And I got it at mine, deten, there you go,
yates and and wasp dust.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And now I remember, I remember, I've seen that before.
That's absolutely right. Then go, thank you tom Well for.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It, mate. I tell you what. Just curiously, I also
have noticed that wasps are tending to make a home
in ficus hedges.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Oh yeah, is that papers?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, the German ones, the unhappy ones. And I discovered
that because when I was trimming said fighter's hedge, I
must have cut through the nest to find myself getting
stung on the face by one of them. They were
not happy. So but what was interesting is I then,
on a different fighters hedge, thought that there was another
(15:39):
infestation used some of the stuff. It actually kind of
adheres to the leaves. It stayed there for quite a while.
I'm not sure that that was the most the best
way of using that particular product, but squirting it into
the aperture seems to have made quite a difference.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, getting.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Stung on a face not so much fun.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
No, it's not. It hurts for a little while.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
But they do not have a sense of humor, not
at all. No, no, no, down around.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Oh, Marian Gray, things to you.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Great things. Hello, how are you?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, we're good. What are you doing with your monarchs?
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Well? I haven't got any monarchs, but my grandson last
year he had some Christmases and they were watching them,
watching them, watch them and have them inside. And I
don't think they came to anything, because I never heard
about it. But I was wondering whether I could have
a go and he could have a go. And I
(16:35):
know that you used to have a swamp plant which
we had run in the garden. But how do you
get the monarchs in this place? How do you?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
How do you get them? Like inside?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Now?
Speaker 7 (16:46):
How do you if you're starting off a fresh how
do you get a monarch?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Or?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
There are many? Look, first of all, there is this
this look. There's a group of really cool things with
Jesse moths and butterfly of New Zealand. Trust that if
you if you can look that up. There is enormous
amounts of information there on what species you can use
(17:15):
and what sort of plants they can they can feed on,
and things like that. And we all know, of course
that the monarch butterflies got some plants that they always
sit on, but not always to sell the same ones.
And I think and you can actually start that if
you haven't got any of them for them at the moment.
We know that at the moment not doing very well
in some areas of New Zealand, but it would be
(17:37):
really cool if you had those plants working away, maybe
not from now onwards, so you've got at least a
plant that is surviving.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
You have to plant a swarm plant.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah, plants, yes you do. Yes, all garden centers will
have them, no problem. But also because you're starting now,
you still have a plant that's plants will still be
okay in springtime. It might even grow big by then.
And then you know you're actually going ahead now because
there's still nice warm temperatures.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Good, so I've got quite a bit of land we
can put them on, so that'll be good and I'll give.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Them going to Yeah, yeah, no, it's lovely.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Tell me tell me the brown cockroaches are.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Oh, yes, is there a bit smaller than normal? Yes,
they usually are the native ones. That's trouble.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
The whole big black ones.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Well they're not horrible. They're big and black. But but
this is the point, they're really not a big deal.
To be quite honest, fair you know this if I
really want to, if people are really hassled about cockroaches,
I can tell you one thing that not many people know,
and that cockroaches are probably one of the cleanest animals
(19:04):
on the When I.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
I don't mind the brown ones, it's.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Just I've got them on my hands and so to
show them, for instance, to kids and teachers. And the
funny thing is when I take him off my hand
and put him somewhere in its container, the first thing
he does he licks himself completely clean, because my hand
is really really nasty in that.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
In the feeling of that and the other thing, I'm
rud I'm coming down to christ Church at anxic weekend
and staying with my son. That is there anything I
can have a look at down there. I've been in
the wildlife place I was going to go to around
the park. I know that.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
It's a lovely place to go. Yeah. Absolutely, And I've.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
Been around your way the quarry.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The quarry is great. Yeah, and it's.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Done a lot to it and something there.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Yeah, anywhere else you can think of, Oh.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Lots of places where you can go to in huge.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
The Botannic guns, but Danny Guns.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
That's right. It was just sorry, how do I know
my wife's actually one of the one of the don't
even go now, I'm not going to do that. Yes,
it's next to Hagley Park. Basically it's wonderful.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Yes, yes, okay, I'm just make it warmer.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
It'll be great. Enjoy that, Marian. I have to say
I really enjoyed christ Church when we were there a
couple of weeks ago. All right, hey, now, just on
the WASP. Someone's pointed out that where's.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
The text gone the yellow legged hornets?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Someone was asking about that. I noticed the signs are
creeping ever closer to my place. Not that it's all
about me, but no, I don't really want them near
my place, to.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Be exactly the point. Yeah, winning go.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
On paper WASPS obviously different to German WASPS. German was
live in the.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Ground yesterday, either underground or in holes in hollow logs
if you like. But but the paper wash also make
their own. They are the ones that make their own
little nests from that, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
They're the ones that you often see like on a
safita or something like that, and it just grows over time.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
But it's still not mean more than about four inches
in diameter. Really.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, but that's a decent sized nest. That's a lot
of work. That's quite a bit of construction job for
a small creature. Yeah, with that canceled without a permit
and without plans and without having to go to the
team to get some materials. It's incredible, isn't it. And
there's also another product called carbaryl carburrel ca. Yeah, yeah,
(21:52):
apparently that works as well.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Very good. Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Wonderful. Well now the people texting have got it, so
there you go. Nice mate, Thank you, get your lady
of my friends take care of all of this riiety.
Oh folks, thank you very much for your company this morning.
It's been absolute delight. Thank you to Hope for jumping
in and producing the show this morning. Have a great
week and take care. We'll be back with you again
(22:16):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Radio RUD A very good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
A very good morning to you, Piero. Is everything all
right with you? Yeah? Good, thanks buddy, And you're not
running the big raw?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
No, no, I get the perfect excuse. I suppose theoretically
I used to do it. Actually I did it a
couple of times with him a dad back in the day,
way way way back.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Gosh, No, I've never done it because I was always
on air since nineteen eighty six.
Speaker 2 (00:40):
Well, I think I probably did it in about nineteen
eighty two or eighty three, probably, yeah, back when it
was actually ten k's and it started from in at
Victoria Park and you ran all the way. But anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah, no,
it's awesome. It's an awesome event.
Speaker 3 (00:58):
Radio.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Should we get amongst it.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
I'd see there's a couple of these green things on the.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
Yeah yeah text too, So someone takes very look. Quarter
to eight was the first text for you morning peak.
When road comes, can you ask them where all the
two we have gone? We live just south of Taie
Happy and usually have about six or eight bouncing around.
But in the last few months. None, we feed them
and it's strange and we miss them.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, that's quite weird, isn't it. The joke I can
do is, of course, if you're talking about tie Happy,
there is a street called Tooy Street, right, they might
be there now on it. To be quite honest, I
don't know, because sometimes these things go finding their foods elsewhere,
if there is another tree that's you know, whatever, sending
(01:44):
some food into the air, right whatever, and then they
buger off for a while and they know exactly when
it is too. That's very clever, actually, but I reckon.
Normally these things will come back. They will restore themselves.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
Yeah, good to know. But they will go with the fooders,
I guess, oh.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
All the time. Yeah, yeah, no doubt about it.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
They're not loyal as such.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
They don't. They don't wry about your food.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
A very good morning to.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
You, Hope, Yes, good morning, rude. I must want to
know about my friend Chipanny, which I've had for about
twenty years now. When I got it, I spent the
first ten years having at indoors until it got too big.
I've since put it outside and it did well for
(02:33):
a while, but the last two years it hasn't flowered.
Almost wondering the polridge is very healthy, but no flowers.
And I was just wondering what.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
I could do fertilizer.
Speaker 4 (02:50):
What yeares I have fertilized it such?
Speaker 3 (02:53):
Yes, with what a phosphorus?
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I think it was posphorus.
Speaker 3 (02:59):
Okay, you're talking about the quay.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
And it was something I brought from King Bahn.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it is. It's it's interesting because
we have we live in christ Church and Julie has
her We've got a couple of frenchip barnies in a
glasshouse which works quite well. The only thing in the
hot glasshouse. You sometimes little mite's going in there and
stuffing around. But you've got yours outside. Where where are
(03:30):
you in Auckland?
Speaker 4 (03:30):
Somewhere is in Auckland and I've got it to they sheltered.
It does get to six hours sunlight that it requires.
But and you know, I've looked nursed at like a baby.
But and this the last two years, the forage are
lovely in healthy, but there's no flowers, have you?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Yeah? So so what really what I was talking about
there was the NPK. The cay is for potash. Potash
is the stuff that makes the plant flower and then
set seeds if you like later on, I suppose, But
it's weird as it does that. So I would suggest
you get some fertilizer that contains a really decent amount
(04:15):
of K from mp K. So what a heart?
Speaker 4 (04:17):
When do I give it to it?
Speaker 3 (04:19):
What I would do it now, because they will be
probably starting to flower from now on, won't they.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
Well no, not really. I think that it's getting colder now.
I'm not my it used to flower in the summertime.
It's never it's never grown cold tall, but it's wide,
and it's in a pot. But and I've repotted it
when it didn't flower and put a fresh soil in
(04:49):
a potting mix, but the no flowers.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
So what I would do is get some sulfate of potash.
Sulfate of potash which is basically mostly potash and a
little bit and water that little a little bit into
the into the system, into the whole root zone and
all that sort of stuff. And the reason I'm saying
doing it now, if you're doing it now, you're actually
warning the plant. Here's some food. Now, do something during
(05:13):
the winter, get yourself together, and in springtime, I'd like
to see some buds. Please may you do it again?
Then there you go on.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
I thought for japanis they like to be in ostia conditions.
I mean you don't treat them with great love.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
No, you don't have to do much, just a little bit.
But what you're doing when you give them a little
bit of potash, you basically waken them up. And if
you do that again in springtime, it might say, oh, yeah,
I remember this, I can do this, and they probably
have a much better way of putting the flowers up
for you.
Speaker 4 (05:51):
Oh, thank you very much that I know you don't
water them. You have to wait until they're completely dry
to water them.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
Yeah, don't go over the exactly, don't go over the
top with them. But yes, but this case, the little
bit of potash will do quite often wake them up.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Yeah, thank you so much for that.
Speaker 2 (06:11):
More than welcome to take care of Hope.
Speaker 3 (06:15):
And by the way, that was interesting to have a
Hope call it our show give them hope. Yes, yes, exactly,
and the producers they was Hope.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Not friends say, just for what it's worth, one of
my favorite plants.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
I think, Yes, it's good, isn't it coolous? We've got
one that does a different color flower as well, So
we got two in the in the glass. It's sexually
quite lovely and yes yesterday, yesterday. Actually that's it. For
people that have them in the in tunnel houses and
stuff like that. These things can sometimes have a problem
with mites on the leaves, and that can cause serious
(06:51):
troubles because the leaves become quite gray. And what I
do is I spray them with something like a kneem oil,
and I do that quite regularly, top and bottom of
the leaves. And if you do that a couple of times,
say a week or so apart, you'll find that you
can control them. I just thought i'd mentioned that too.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Right, Oh, Jill, Good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (07:15):
Good morning guys. I'm ringing from Hastings, and I don't
think territorial in I've got inks anytime I have anything
on bench, I get invaded completely. And I'm wondering whether
I could have that ant recipe that you gave out
a couple of weeks ago.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Route Okay, this is an ant recipe that I got
when I was working for the Ministry of Agriculture in
nineteen eighty three there.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
And when you gave it out last time.
Speaker 3 (07:51):
Yeah, okay, so the thing we use in those days,
and I'm not one hundred percent sure what of these
particular materials are still available, to be quite honest, but
what I got, what I make is a bait that
has a low toxicity for humans. If you like six
hundred milli liters of water, six hundred mills, three hundred
grams of sugar, sixty grams of honey, any honey, any
(08:22):
honey sweet stuff, sixty grams of bor x b O
r a X, and sixty grams of boric acid which
is related to the box, and you heat it up
to make a syrup, and you have got a really
nice sweet bait for sweet loving ants, which is most
(08:44):
of the ants that they do that. I also have
a similar sort of version for ants that like protein,
so they don't eat sweet stuff, but they do the
same sort of stuff. So what you get is you
get a bait with six hundred and fifty grams of
peanut butter, fifty milli liters of cooking oil makes it
(09:11):
nice slippery, sixty grams of borax, and sixty grams of
boric acid b O r ic boric acid.
Speaker 5 (09:25):
We don't get the boric acid from uh.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
Probably I have ever ever ever asked of one of
your chemists, if you like, you never know where you
get there, will know where to get it from if
it's still available like that. Otherwise you use just the borax.
Speaker 5 (09:40):
You mix it sixty again.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Sixty grams of boric acid. Yeah, you've got to mix
it all well together till the boric and the boric
acids are perfectly dissolved. There you go.
Speaker 5 (09:53):
Okay, thank you very much. Now that that's all just
the inside. Can you use any of it for outside
as well?
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yes you can, Yes you can. But you put it
in various little pottles so that you create a a
space where they can eat. And then five meters further
up you have a different group of ants because they've
got a different territory, and that's why you have various
pottles lying around or in your house or next to
your house.
Speaker 5 (10:20):
I have to do that every couple of weeks months.
Speaker 3 (10:25):
Yeah, you probably will. Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
Good luck with that. I know a little bit of
home chemistry. It sounds fantastic, Margaret, A very good morning.
Speaker 6 (10:39):
Hello. I've got a passion fruit vine that's finished fruiting,
and i'd like to know whether I can trim it
back a bit because there's a lot of greenery on
it it Now.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yes, I think you can, and I'm quite sure that
that could be done. But you do it after you've
harvested the fruit, of course. Yeah, yes, now, fine, fine,
it's good.
Speaker 6 (11:07):
But it's got heavy, you know, and it's you know,
growing out towards the sun, and it needs it looks heavy,
needs to be trimmed. But I just wonder whether you
can't do that.
Speaker 3 (11:20):
Yes, you can trim it, yeah, yeah, not not go
don't go over the top, but you know what I mean,
a little bit at the time you go. Yeah, absolutely, Just.
Speaker 6 (11:30):
What sort of plants can I put on my bugy garden? What?
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Right now?
Speaker 6 (11:36):
Also?
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Wait, also no, I wouldn't I wouldn't wait because well
where are you ringing from?
Speaker 6 (11:42):
Silverdale?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Silverdale? Know you you still got quite a bit of
stuff you can do. You can do all sorts of
beans and peas and things like that, no problem at all, Okay. Yeah.
In fact, I'm going to be writing a little bit
for Jack Thames program on a Sunday on Saturday morning
in in the next week or two about exactly what
you can still do right now before it becomes really
(12:03):
winter and the other thing, Margaret, because this was such
a really nice question. And Peter wolf Camp is always
the guy that takes the mickey out of me for
never ever having grown a picture in my life.
Speaker 2 (12:17):
Notice my restraint today.
Speaker 3 (12:20):
I did you know why, because i'd have. I got on.
Speaker 2 (12:23):
This success, success for the patient for it. That's amazing.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Did you not see it when you were there? Yes,
you must have seen it anyway.
Speaker 2 (12:31):
I'm surprised it wasn't the first thing you showed me
up there as.
Speaker 3 (12:34):
The cat didn't there, I didn't. It's still there.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
It's good, fantastic, Oh, thank you very much. That's wonderful.
Oh fantastic. Right, we'll take a short break, will be
back in a moment. It is eight forty four. We're
racing along and Tom, good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (12:53):
Good morning sir, and.
Speaker 4 (12:57):
I love us.
Speaker 6 (12:58):
A while back I tried to find out what was
the powder of the suicide.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Powder for what that's right, Yes, and I didn't get.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
To hear about it over I must have missed.
Speaker 4 (13:10):
Could you tell me what it is?
Speaker 2 (13:11):
Please?
Speaker 3 (13:12):
A powder? Footed wasps? I don't know. I still don't.
I still don't know what it is now.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
I went I went and found some. I find it.
You Bunning's had it, Yes, yes, And I got some.
It was ah, give me a couple of minutes and
I'll get the proper name for it. But just came
in like a little squirt bottle basically. So I attacked
the wasp nest that had found a home underneath some
(13:39):
like a gap in the ridge tiles of a concrete
tile roof, and so I stupidly went up with a
couple of cans of spray can standing on top of
the ladder sh doing that, which provoked one hell of
an outrage from the wasps that were inhabiting that particular space,
but did knock them out quite successfully, only to be
(14:00):
then told by someone, hey, there's this wasppowder stuff. Which
I went back about a week later and found that
there was still was coming in and out of the
same aperture. So I then applied the wasp powder and
I'll go back and have a look this week. But
carry on chatting, gents, and I'll find the info for you.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
Okay, there you go, Tom, that's it. That's what. Yeah, No,
that's one of the ways to go. The other one
is to do it at night. Of course, with a
good a good aerosoult, as long as somebody else holds
the torch. Yeah, and it's not a joke because that's
true because the wasps always go to the place where
(14:44):
the light is.
Speaker 2 (14:45):
Okay, hey, here we go, no surprises. It's yates and
it is their home pest and and and wasp dust.
And I got it at mine, deten, there you go,
yates and and wasp dust.
Speaker 3 (15:00):
And now I remember, I remember, I've seen that before.
That's absolutely right. Then go, thank you tom Well for.
Speaker 2 (15:07):
It, mate. I tell you what. Just curiously, I also
have noticed that wasps are tending to make a home
in ficus hedges.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Oh yeah, is that papers?
Speaker 2 (15:18):
Yeah, the German ones, the unhappy ones. And I discovered
that because when I was trimming said fighter's hedge, I
must have cut through the nest to find myself getting
stung on the face by one of them. They were
not happy. So but what was interesting is I then,
on a different fighters hedge, thought that there was another
(15:39):
infestation used some of the stuff. It actually kind of
adheres to the leaves. It stayed there for quite a while.
I'm not sure that that was the most the best
way of using that particular product, but squirting it into
the aperture seems to have made quite a difference.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
Yeah. Yeah, yeah, getting.
Speaker 2 (15:54):
Stung on a face not so much fun.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
No, it's not. It hurts for a little while.
Speaker 2 (15:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
But they do not have a sense of humor, not
at all. No, no, no, down around.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Oh, Marian Gray, things to you.
Speaker 7 (16:08):
Great things. Hello, how are you?
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, we're good. What are you doing with your monarchs?
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Well? I haven't got any monarchs, but my grandson last
year he had some Christmases and they were watching them,
watching them, watch them and have them inside. And I
don't think they came to anything, because I never heard
about it. But I was wondering whether I could have
a go and he could have a go. And I
(16:35):
know that you used to have a swamp plant which
we had run in the garden. But how do you
get the monarchs in this place? How do you?
Speaker 3 (16:43):
How do you get them? Like inside?
Speaker 1 (16:46):
Now?
Speaker 7 (16:46):
How do you if you're starting off a fresh how
do you get a monarch?
Speaker 1 (16:50):
Or?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
There are many? Look, first of all, there is this
this look. There's a group of really cool things with
Jesse moths and butterfly of New Zealand. Trust that if
you if you can look that up. There is enormous
amounts of information there on what species you can use
(17:15):
and what sort of plants they can they can feed on,
and things like that. And we all know, of course
that the monarch butterflies got some plants that they always
sit on, but not always to sell the same ones.
And I think and you can actually start that if
you haven't got any of them for them at the moment.
We know that at the moment not doing very well
in some areas of New Zealand, but it would be
(17:37):
really cool if you had those plants working away, maybe
not from now onwards, so you've got at least a
plant that is surviving.
Speaker 7 (17:47):
You have to plant a swarm plant.
Speaker 3 (17:50):
Yeah, plants, yes you do. Yes, all garden centers will
have them, no problem. But also because you're starting now,
you still have a plant that's plants will still be
okay in springtime. It might even grow big by then.
And then you know you're actually going ahead now because
there's still nice warm temperatures.
Speaker 7 (18:12):
Good, so I've got quite a bit of land we
can put them on, so that'll be good and I'll give.
Speaker 3 (18:18):
Them going to Yeah, yeah, no, it's lovely.
Speaker 7 (18:24):
Tell me tell me the brown cockroaches are.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Oh, yes, is there a bit smaller than normal? Yes,
they usually are the native ones. That's trouble.
Speaker 7 (18:40):
The whole big black ones.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Well they're not horrible. They're big and black. But but
this is the point, they're really not a big deal.
To be quite honest, fair you know this if I
really want to, if people are really hassled about cockroaches,
I can tell you one thing that not many people know,
and that cockroaches are probably one of the cleanest animals
(19:04):
on the When I.
Speaker 7 (19:06):
I don't mind the brown ones, it's.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
Just I've got them on my hands and so to
show them, for instance, to kids and teachers. And the
funny thing is when I take him off my hand
and put him somewhere in its container, the first thing
he does he licks himself completely clean, because my hand
is really really nasty in that.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
In the feeling of that and the other thing, I'm
rud I'm coming down to christ Church at anxic weekend
and staying with my son. That is there anything I
can have a look at down there. I've been in
the wildlife place I was going to go to around
the park. I know that.
Speaker 3 (19:47):
It's a lovely place to go. Yeah. Absolutely, And I've.
Speaker 7 (19:51):
Been around your way the quarry.
Speaker 3 (19:54):
The quarry is great. Yeah, and it's.
Speaker 7 (19:57):
Done a lot to it and something there.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Yeah, that's right.
Speaker 7 (20:00):
Yeah, anywhere else you can think of, Oh.
Speaker 3 (20:04):
Lots of places where you can go to in huge.
Speaker 2 (20:08):
The Botannic guns, but Danny Guns.
Speaker 3 (20:10):
That's right. It was just sorry, how do I know
my wife's actually one of the one of the don't
even go now, I'm not going to do that. Yes,
it's next to Hagley Park. Basically it's wonderful.
Speaker 7 (20:27):
Yes, yes, okay, I'm just make it warmer.
Speaker 2 (20:34):
It'll be great. Enjoy that, Marian. I have to say
I really enjoyed christ Church when we were there a
couple of weeks ago. All right, hey, now, just on
the WASP. Someone's pointed out that where's.
Speaker 3 (20:45):
The text gone the yellow legged hornets?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
Someone was asking about that. I noticed the signs are
creeping ever closer to my place. Not that it's all
about me, but no, I don't really want them near
my place, to.
Speaker 3 (20:58):
Be exactly the point. Yeah, winning go.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
On paper WASPS obviously different to German WASPS. German was
live in the.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Ground yesterday, either underground or in holes in hollow logs
if you like. But but the paper wash also make
their own. They are the ones that make their own
little nests from that, you know.
Speaker 2 (21:19):
They're the ones that you often see like on a
safita or something like that, and it just grows over time.
Speaker 3 (21:25):
But it's still not mean more than about four inches
in diameter. Really.
Speaker 2 (21:29):
Yeah, but that's a decent sized nest. That's a lot
of work. That's quite a bit of construction job for
a small creature. Yeah, with that canceled without a permit
and without plans and without having to go to the
team to get some materials. It's incredible, isn't it. And
there's also another product called carbaryl carburrel ca. Yeah, yeah,
(21:52):
apparently that works as well.
Speaker 3 (21:54):
Very good. Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 2 (21:56):
Wonderful. Well now the people texting have got it, so
there you go. Nice mate, Thank you, get your lady
of my friends take care of all of this riiety.
Oh folks, thank you very much for your company this morning.
It's been absolute delight. Thank you to Hope for jumping
in and producing the show this morning. Have a great
week and take care. We'll be back with you again
(22:16):
next Sunday. Here at News Talks EDB.
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