March 21, 2026 • 18 mins
In the garden with Ruud Kleinpaste, he shared advice on unknown weeds, pruning peach trees, and looking after monarch butterflies.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from News Talks B.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Righty, oh, good morning, root.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
He lower lower loaf. You're all good? Yeah, absolutely, and
so yeah yeah yeah yeah, pretty good so far. I yeah,
next week I might be doing this by telephone from home.
Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm getting my left knee done.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
That's right. You got two of them, you might as
well have both done.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well yeah, yeah, let's do it. There's also we'll work
it out rightio.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
The leaves are turning, you know, it's the suddenly it's
you know, I get up at a b of a
time and suddenly it's like, oh, it's a little bit
darker outside, and then the garden sort of goes into
a dormancy, but not not. Yes, hey it's still quite
a bit happening in the garden.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yes, there is still a bit more movement still because
we've had we've had a reasonably warmer late summer. Yes,
we've gone into we've gone into autumn now of course,
just now yeah, yeah, I think yeah, yeah, yeah. Equinox
because that's actually that's a really lovely word. Equinox the
same size, the same length of equi, its the same
(01:29):
Knox is night and the other one is day right day,
day and night at exactly the same time now, same
same length. Good fun. And but anyway, what I'm going
to say is that it was quite It's been quite
nice here in christ Shows with. The weather has been
quite warm. So yes, stuff is still growing. I still
have lots of tomatoes going all that sort of stuff
(01:50):
is going.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, certainly in Auckland. That's the weather in the last
couple of weeks has been absolutely stunning, like settled, calm weather,
but also finally well, not not that it's a good thing,
but you can see the lawn getting really dry, and
you know, and talking to next you, to one of
my sisters, she goes that the water tanks are empty.
There's not really a lot of rain on the horizon,
(02:12):
so it's going to be a little bit challenging.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
That's right. And two weeks ago last week, of course,
the week before last, he was in Auckland for most
of the week anyway, working with kids and teachers there
at the schools. That was really good. We talked about
that last week.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Fantastic radio. Let's get amongst it. If you've got a
question for you can call right now. Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and mark a very good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Good morning, Hello, I've put a Hello. I've brought a
new raised a ventual gun in and I had to
bring soil in by the contractor about two years ago.
It's a very warm spot. But what's happened is that
it's almost like a weed net underneath the service. There's
no green shoots coming to the service. It almost looks
(02:56):
like twitch, but I'm not sure it is twitch, and
I don't know what to do about it. It is spreading
quite quite quickly.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Quite quickly, so it pays to have that identified first.
Out of this twitch? Is this something that is for
your vegetables?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yes, it's in my vegetable garden and it's underneath the surface.
I dig it up and it looks like twitch, but
there's no green shoots coming to the surface.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Oh I wonder what that is?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Then?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, yeah, I'll know. But I mean it's really hard
to see. Where are you from, Auckland. No, I'm from Timuru,
timrou Okay, so from here to look at Timaru is
at least a five hour drive. No, it's not that few,
but it's three hour drive from where I am let's
put it that way. Gosh, I no, I don't know
without without really knowing what this is about, and it
(03:47):
doesn't come to the surface.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
You say, no, it doesn't know. It's underneath, it's not
getting any sunlight. But when I dig up the when
I dig up these these sort of the sort of
root system, it's still live.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's still alive, and there's no way of digging it
all out. That's too much, I suppose, how because your garden.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
There, well it's probably about six square meters.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Wow, yeah, that's a bit much, isn't it really?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Have you got any other vegetables in there that are
in the ground that you can see and that work.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah, I mean I've planted vespalls and potatoes and they're
all growing. But when I when I was walking with Soilo, right,
I had to discover these sort of twitch like roots.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Now, but the best, the best thing is to get
some of those twitch like roots and take them to
your local garden center, see and get them properly identified.
In Timuru, they'll know, they'll know what it is, and
then you can start working on it. Now. Okay, it's
really hard to do that without seeing it or without
knowing what it is.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Right, thank you very much, right Owen greetings.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Oh, good morning. Hey, I've just run back with a
good happy news, good solution. I've found to a problem.
I spoke a couple of weeks back, right, I wanted
to spy. It is from living in my carmeras and
putting spider webs all over them at less, I probably
wouldn't pick up any of them in speeding tickets when
(05:16):
they sumer car on that stuff. But I found Kingsman spray,
which is a spider to turn that you can get
from Rep Coo. It's only twelve bucks for a little
squired a bottle. It's New Zealand made with a whole
of the natural stuff. And be honest, you look at
the ingredients of pet normal the time you go and
buy all that stuff, you're better off to buy the
Kingsman spray. And it works. The spiders women shifted out
(05:40):
and shifted out gone, nothing has come back, and never
it would never be free for more than them. In
a day or two before cleaning, we've off go out
It's back again sort of thing. So yeah, you pull
kings spray, Yeah, Kingsman something or other. I can, but
Kingsman anyway, Rep Co twelve bucks for a little fifty
(06:00):
mili spray bottle. It works brilliant and I'd much rather
do that than kill a little yeah, because otherwise I
put that toxin and every spy that came on to
take a look, I'd kill them. So I feel like.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's not very nice, is it? Because they're usually pretty good.
We have a good creatures, I know absolutely. I totally
agree with you. What can I see on Kingsman's spray? Oh,
here you go, Kingsman Spiders spray from Repco. No, I
did not know that. I'll have a look at that
actually to see whether it contains a lot of toxins
or not. Might not.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Sorry your previous callers problem. I would describe it as
a live, alive but not twitching.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Clever.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Very good, very good, Thank you, Thank.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You for this Kingsman Spiders pray. I'll ever knows you
that and they'll be called to know. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
All the best. On Hey, I'm just on things that
have emerged in the garden. I have been absolutely staggered
the last couple of days behind the lawns a couple
of different places, and the number of those little skinks
that are lurking around in the grass. Like you know,
if normally, if I'm owing the lawns, i'd see a
couple right now. I spent probably an hour and a
(07:17):
half bowing the lawns. It would have to be like
thirty or forty in that time.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, that's that nasty Australian thing.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Is this breeding season for them, because a lot of
them are tiny, like maybe forty to fifty millimeters long.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yes, they've been going all over to the summer. I
would I say these things, and I've seen them. I
saw them in Auckland too. We don't have them here
in Canterbury, which is nice because I can say the
same about my little skinks that are native and live
in my garden, and not just one or two, also
a couple of dozen every now and then. It's brilliant.
But yeah, that particular skink is a real bugger and
(07:57):
I don't know what we can do about that. I
don't think anybody knows.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I think that ship has sailed, hasn't it. I mean
that are literally everywhere at the moment.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Radio Sally, good morning.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Good morning. I have got two Golden Queen peach.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Trees golden so which once golden queen, Oh, golden queen. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
And I'm just wondering how much should I prune off them?
Because last year I pruned a third off and I
never got well, I've got about three peaches, but the
year before I was laden with them. And I'm on
the north here of Auckland, and now one of you
(08:45):
can help me. How much can I prune off?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
A third is not a bad gas normally, but it
depends exactly where you go. So if you do it
on one side of the tree, the other side will
still go in its normal system, and then you go
the next year another third on the side, and at
last third you've done it all, you know what I mean.
So you do it in three bits of one third,
(09:10):
that is probably your best bead. So don't you do
everything from the top down, because that could be causing
the troubles that you are just describing.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Yes, it's just amazing because at the last place I lived,
I had golden cream peaches, yeah, coming off and backut
loads for fifty years.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yeah oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Where are you ringing from?
If I may ask Melford on North Milford. Okay, we
used to have golden queens when we lived in Titirangi
and places like that, and they were always a pain
in the bum because they quite often got all sorts
of diseases too, if you didn't watch out. Did you
have any trouble with that?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
No, I actually the bad sicks that were left on
the tree and blew off in the wind. I only
had one that had brown rot.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Okay, yep, there's brown rot. And there was also silver
leaf quite often with these things, and that was always
obtained in the bottom. But you're right, pruning actually happens now.
March is a good time, February March, maybe a bit
early April, so you can still do it. But as
I said, do a third of your tree, and not
(10:22):
all over the tree, but in one spot.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yeah, thank you very much, all the very best to you.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Take care. I got told off by the other day.
I can't think of another way of describing it. But
he came to look at doing some work on the
pudica tree which is in front of our place, and
then he knew that we'd taken some olves out at
the back and replaced it with a hedge, and so
he came down to have a look at that as well. Oh,
(10:49):
nice job doing the trimming, and then he looked at
my plum tree and went, ah, I said, I've only
just started pretty He was like, no, you've done that wrong.
You've done it.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
It is a bit tricky because even I have to
sometimes go in a book for very sting. Okay, what
down was it again? Yep, that's okay, good done right,
you know and where Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So I'm going to I now have to fix that
before he comes back to do the work on the tree.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Is he grumpy?
Speaker 7 (11:18):
He was.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
He was very blunt in his assessment of my bruning skills.
So he could be dutchy, a delightful guy and he's
going to do a great job of them food coetry.
So I can't wait for that. Right, We're going to
take a short break. We'll come back with Christine in
just a moment. Ruda's with us this morning, and Christine,
good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Oh, good morning. Yeah, I'm just talking to you about
last week. You were talking about mont butterflies.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Sure, and a woman rang up.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
I think she lived in Auckland and she couldn't figure
out why there were no mon butterflies and caterpillars around
on her swan plants. Well, I've got a sister in
a wonderful in the Sepharland. But she she's been looking
after her swan tans and monarchs for years and she reckons.
(12:09):
It's the little paper wasps that come along and sting
does thing and kill the little caterpillars, the crysplasses, so
they don't even eat them. They just come along and
just kill everything that they can see. And so one
plants are everywhere, but there's no butterflies or caterpillars because
(12:30):
of these little paper wasps.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, and we've talked about this before in the past,
and you know what the best solution is to this
system is to have your monarch butterflies and their host
plants in containers that you can shift from place to place.
So once those wasps have got they've got the idea,
(12:54):
oh my god, there is that's our food. It's right
here in front of the house, blower blah, on the
left hand side of the entry. And if that, if
you see that happen, you take it to the other
side of the house or totally different place, and those
wasps come there and say I reckon there was right,
those things, where the hell are they now? And basically
(13:14):
what you're doing is you're playing a really good game
with them by literally making it totally different for them
or difficult for them to actually find those things. Again.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
Yeah, that's a good idea of she stick to her
and she she actually cuts off the swan plant branches
and brings them inside, puts them in jazz.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, would be pots as much, I bet right, But
you do the whole lot at the same time. And honestly,
it goes the same for these German wasps because they
do it too, not just the paper wasps, but all
these predators will go for these things is unbelievable. Yeah, yeah,
all right, all right, well.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Thank you very much, all.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You take care and Lynn of very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Good morning. I've been dogging old strawberry plants out of
my gas and there's a there's a lot of grass
grub underneath. Now I dig it iver and I can
squash them, but what can I put on the garden
Because I've got a lot of other good strawberry plants
that I want to cake, but I will be under there, So.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, take the runners off, those off those particular plants
and put them back in another place of the garden.
Make sure you really dig the garden nicely, give it
a lovely place. Blah blah blah. And by the time
you get spring next year, it's all starting again.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
And what about the plants that I'm actually keeping.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
There, that's okay, you can keep them there. But if
you if you really need to clean your garden from
all the all the other stuff that's here, you know, whatever,
weeds and stuff, it pays to take them out or
move them to a place where you can put your
your your new suffer next year.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Okay, the strikes that are run for the most of
my garden, I know, you can do put some something
on the lawns. You can spray something, because can you
do that on a garden or not?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, well, what depends on what you what you want
to spray. What is it that you need to spray?
Speaker 7 (15:19):
You think, Well, just trying to try to get rid
of grass grub, and even in my flower garden as
well in the beach. You can be in the flare garden.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
You're talking about grass grub. Yes, okay, yates have got
the lawn grub, a grass grub and a pirhina grub
that you can get from your local garden center Yates lawn.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Grub, and that I can use as well. And it's
not sick the plant.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
No, it's what this is against these these insects.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Yeah, it's just the grub itself that's in the garden.
Hard to control the inticks themselves.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, or you can you can hire. You can hire
a whole lot of stylings too, which is what I
do in my lawn.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Good luck with all the very best you take care.
I'm actually just on the skinks. One person said, they're
beautiful little creature. I'm amazed how many are in the garden.
Why is Ridside dismissive of them? They wouldn't hurt anyone,
says Jeff.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
They're plague skinks, and they eat our current native skinks,
and they eat all our native insects. And they are
a real pain in the proverbial honestly they are. And
we and there are people that say, oh, I gave
my son or daughter a little skink so he could
look out, say I don't.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Don't encourage them. Actually, Andy's got a great idea from
Great Barrier Skinks Morning root Chocks Love eating them. Yeah,
there you go now quickly as well. You mentioned you
did a new spray for coddling moth name and place
(16:58):
that you can buy it.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Oh, they're mad X, MADDX and ad e X. But
wait till you get late in the season, because you
need to use that in springtime, you know, be just
literally you start spraying that just after all the flowers
have finished for the apples med X M A D
e X. And you can get it in med X
(17:21):
three is. I know it's expensive and you can share
it with your neighbors. That's the best way.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
To do, right.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay, that's great. I'm just looking for another tick. Here
we go. How to deal with the huge infestation of
yarrow in a lawn?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yarrow? Yero? Yeah it was I don't know yero, but
I haven't got that problem. What do you use for
a well, that's a bit tricky. What do you use
for that?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
What is zero?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yero? Is one of Is it the grass? I think
it is? Ok let me have a quick look. Hang on,
I'll do what you quite often done. Yeah we can. Yeah,
it's not why I know which one it is?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, okay, we'll do that next week. Now we've only
got a couple of seconds. But pruning lime trees two
years old, two meters tall, when can they prune?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I would do it now?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Okay, yeah, perfect, There you go. That's Sunday sorted at
your place. Welcome, and I might have to go and
deal with my plum tree before the abress comes back
and embarrasses me again. Always lovely to talk. Thank you,
take care and thanks folks for all of your company
this morning, have a great week, and we'll be back
again next Sunday.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Take care.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Righty, oh, good morning, root.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
He lower lower loaf. You're all good? Yeah, absolutely, and
so yeah yeah yeah yeah, pretty good so far. I yeah,
next week I might be doing this by telephone from home.
Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm getting my left knee done.
Speaker 2 (00:37):
That's right. You got two of them, you might as
well have both done.
Speaker 3 (00:40):
Well yeah, yeah, let's do it. There's also we'll work
it out rightio.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
The leaves are turning, you know, it's the suddenly it's
you know, I get up at a b of a
time and suddenly it's like, oh, it's a little bit
darker outside, and then the garden sort of goes into
a dormancy, but not not. Yes, hey it's still quite
a bit happening in the garden.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Yes, there is still a bit more movement still because
we've had we've had a reasonably warmer late summer. Yes,
we've gone into we've gone into autumn now of course,
just now yeah, yeah, I think yeah, yeah, yeah. Equinox
because that's actually that's a really lovely word. Equinox the
same size, the same length of equi, its the same
(01:29):
Knox is night and the other one is day right day,
day and night at exactly the same time now, same
same length. Good fun. And but anyway, what I'm going
to say is that it was quite It's been quite
nice here in christ Shows with. The weather has been
quite warm. So yes, stuff is still growing. I still
have lots of tomatoes going all that sort of stuff
(01:50):
is going.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
Well, certainly in Auckland. That's the weather in the last
couple of weeks has been absolutely stunning, like settled, calm weather,
but also finally well, not not that it's a good thing,
but you can see the lawn getting really dry, and
you know, and talking to next you, to one of
my sisters, she goes that the water tanks are empty.
There's not really a lot of rain on the horizon,
(02:12):
so it's going to be a little bit challenging.
Speaker 3 (02:15):
That's right. And two weeks ago last week, of course,
the week before last, he was in Auckland for most
of the week anyway, working with kids and teachers there
at the schools. That was really good. We talked about
that last week.
Speaker 2 (02:27):
Fantastic radio. Let's get amongst it. If you've got a
question for you can call right now. Oh, eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty and mark a very good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:36):
Good morning, Hello, I've put a Hello. I've brought a
new raised a ventual gun in and I had to
bring soil in by the contractor about two years ago.
It's a very warm spot. But what's happened is that
it's almost like a weed net underneath the service. There's
no green shoots coming to the service. It almost looks
(02:56):
like twitch, but I'm not sure it is twitch, and
I don't know what to do about it. It is spreading
quite quite quickly.
Speaker 3 (03:03):
Quite quickly, so it pays to have that identified first.
Out of this twitch? Is this something that is for
your vegetables?
Speaker 4 (03:11):
Yes, it's in my vegetable garden and it's underneath the surface.
I dig it up and it looks like twitch, but
there's no green shoots coming to the surface.
Speaker 3 (03:21):
Oh I wonder what that is?
Speaker 4 (03:23):
Then?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Yeah, yeah, I'll know. But I mean it's really hard
to see. Where are you from, Auckland. No, I'm from Timuru,
timrou Okay, so from here to look at Timaru is
at least a five hour drive. No, it's not that few,
but it's three hour drive from where I am let's
put it that way. Gosh, I no, I don't know
without without really knowing what this is about, and it
(03:47):
doesn't come to the surface.
Speaker 4 (03:49):
You say, no, it doesn't know. It's underneath, it's not
getting any sunlight. But when I dig up the when
I dig up these these sort of the sort of
root system, it's still live.
Speaker 3 (04:01):
It's still alive, and there's no way of digging it
all out. That's too much, I suppose, how because your garden.
Speaker 4 (04:07):
There, well it's probably about six square meters.
Speaker 3 (04:11):
Wow, yeah, that's a bit much, isn't it really?
Speaker 2 (04:15):
Oh?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Have you got any other vegetables in there that are
in the ground that you can see and that work.
Speaker 4 (04:21):
Yeah, I mean I've planted vespalls and potatoes and they're
all growing. But when I when I was walking with Soilo, right,
I had to discover these sort of twitch like roots.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Now, but the best, the best thing is to get
some of those twitch like roots and take them to
your local garden center, see and get them properly identified.
In Timuru, they'll know, they'll know what it is, and
then you can start working on it. Now. Okay, it's
really hard to do that without seeing it or without
knowing what it is.
Speaker 2 (04:48):
Right, thank you very much, right Owen greetings.
Speaker 5 (04:55):
Oh, good morning. Hey, I've just run back with a
good happy news, good solution. I've found to a problem.
I spoke a couple of weeks back, right, I wanted
to spy. It is from living in my carmeras and
putting spider webs all over them at less, I probably
wouldn't pick up any of them in speeding tickets when
(05:16):
they sumer car on that stuff. But I found Kingsman spray,
which is a spider to turn that you can get
from Rep Coo. It's only twelve bucks for a little
squired a bottle. It's New Zealand made with a whole
of the natural stuff. And be honest, you look at
the ingredients of pet normal the time you go and
buy all that stuff, you're better off to buy the
Kingsman spray. And it works. The spiders women shifted out
(05:40):
and shifted out gone, nothing has come back, and never
it would never be free for more than them. In
a day or two before cleaning, we've off go out
It's back again sort of thing. So yeah, you pull
kings spray, Yeah, Kingsman something or other. I can, but
Kingsman anyway, Rep Co twelve bucks for a little fifty
(06:00):
mili spray bottle. It works brilliant and I'd much rather
do that than kill a little yeah, because otherwise I
put that toxin and every spy that came on to
take a look, I'd kill them. So I feel like.
Speaker 3 (06:13):
It's not very nice, is it? Because they're usually pretty good.
We have a good creatures, I know absolutely. I totally
agree with you. What can I see on Kingsman's spray? Oh,
here you go, Kingsman Spiders spray from Repco. No, I
did not know that. I'll have a look at that
actually to see whether it contains a lot of toxins
or not. Might not.
Speaker 5 (06:36):
Sorry your previous callers problem. I would describe it as
a live, alive but not twitching.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
Clever.
Speaker 2 (06:46):
Very good, very good, Thank you, Thank.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
You for this Kingsman Spiders pray. I'll ever knows you
that and they'll be called to know. Yeah, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
All the best. On Hey, I'm just on things that
have emerged in the garden. I have been absolutely staggered
the last couple of days behind the lawns a couple
of different places, and the number of those little skinks
that are lurking around in the grass. Like you know,
if normally, if I'm owing the lawns, i'd see a
couple right now. I spent probably an hour and a
(07:17):
half bowing the lawns. It would have to be like
thirty or forty in that time.
Speaker 3 (07:24):
Yeah, yeah, that's that nasty Australian thing.
Speaker 2 (07:28):
Is this breeding season for them, because a lot of
them are tiny, like maybe forty to fifty millimeters long.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yes, they've been going all over to the summer. I
would I say these things, and I've seen them. I
saw them in Auckland too. We don't have them here
in Canterbury, which is nice because I can say the
same about my little skinks that are native and live
in my garden, and not just one or two, also
a couple of dozen every now and then. It's brilliant.
But yeah, that particular skink is a real bugger and
(07:57):
I don't know what we can do about that. I
don't think anybody knows.
Speaker 2 (08:00):
I think that ship has sailed, hasn't it. I mean
that are literally everywhere at the moment.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Radio Sally, good morning.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Good morning. I have got two Golden Queen peach.
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Trees golden so which once golden queen, Oh, golden queen. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,
yeah yeah.
Speaker 6 (08:23):
And I'm just wondering how much should I prune off them?
Because last year I pruned a third off and I
never got well, I've got about three peaches, but the
year before I was laden with them. And I'm on
the north here of Auckland, and now one of you
(08:45):
can help me. How much can I prune off?
Speaker 3 (08:49):
A third is not a bad gas normally, but it
depends exactly where you go. So if you do it
on one side of the tree, the other side will
still go in its normal system, and then you go
the next year another third on the side, and at
last third you've done it all, you know what I mean.
So you do it in three bits of one third,
(09:10):
that is probably your best bead. So don't you do
everything from the top down, because that could be causing
the troubles that you are just describing.
Speaker 6 (09:19):
Yes, it's just amazing because at the last place I lived,
I had golden cream peaches, yeah, coming off and backut
loads for fifty years.
Speaker 3 (09:30):
Yeah oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Where are you ringing from?
If I may ask Melford on North Milford. Okay, we
used to have golden queens when we lived in Titirangi
and places like that, and they were always a pain
in the bum because they quite often got all sorts
of diseases too, if you didn't watch out. Did you
have any trouble with that?
Speaker 6 (09:52):
No, I actually the bad sicks that were left on
the tree and blew off in the wind. I only
had one that had brown rot.
Speaker 3 (10:02):
Okay, yep, there's brown rot. And there was also silver
leaf quite often with these things, and that was always
obtained in the bottom. But you're right, pruning actually happens now.
March is a good time, February March, maybe a bit
early April, so you can still do it. But as
I said, do a third of your tree, and not
(10:22):
all over the tree, but in one spot.
Speaker 4 (10:25):
Yeah, thank you very much, all the very best to you.
Speaker 2 (10:28):
Take care. I got told off by the other day.
I can't think of another way of describing it. But
he came to look at doing some work on the
pudica tree which is in front of our place, and
then he knew that we'd taken some olves out at
the back and replaced it with a hedge, and so
he came down to have a look at that as well. Oh,
(10:49):
nice job doing the trimming, and then he looked at
my plum tree and went, ah, I said, I've only
just started pretty He was like, no, you've done that wrong.
You've done it.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
It is a bit tricky because even I have to
sometimes go in a book for very sting. Okay, what
down was it again? Yep, that's okay, good done right,
you know and where Yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:11):
So I'm going to I now have to fix that
before he comes back to do the work on the tree.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Is he grumpy?
Speaker 7 (11:18):
He was.
Speaker 2 (11:19):
He was very blunt in his assessment of my bruning skills.
So he could be dutchy, a delightful guy and he's
going to do a great job of them food coetry.
So I can't wait for that. Right, We're going to
take a short break. We'll come back with Christine in
just a moment. Ruda's with us this morning, and Christine,
good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (11:36):
Oh, good morning. Yeah, I'm just talking to you about
last week. You were talking about mont butterflies.
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Sure, and a woman rang up.
Speaker 8 (11:49):
I think she lived in Auckland and she couldn't figure
out why there were no mon butterflies and caterpillars around
on her swan plants. Well, I've got a sister in
a wonderful in the Sepharland. But she she's been looking
after her swan tans and monarchs for years and she reckons.
(12:09):
It's the little paper wasps that come along and sting
does thing and kill the little caterpillars, the crysplasses, so
they don't even eat them. They just come along and
just kill everything that they can see. And so one
plants are everywhere, but there's no butterflies or caterpillars because
(12:30):
of these little paper wasps.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Yeah, and we've talked about this before in the past,
and you know what the best solution is to this
system is to have your monarch butterflies and their host
plants in containers that you can shift from place to place.
So once those wasps have got they've got the idea,
(12:54):
oh my god, there is that's our food. It's right
here in front of the house, blower blah, on the
left hand side of the entry. And if that, if
you see that happen, you take it to the other
side of the house or totally different place, and those
wasps come there and say I reckon there was right,
those things, where the hell are they now? And basically
(13:14):
what you're doing is you're playing a really good game
with them by literally making it totally different for them
or difficult for them to actually find those things. Again.
Speaker 8 (13:23):
Yeah, that's a good idea of she stick to her
and she she actually cuts off the swan plant branches
and brings them inside, puts them in jazz.
Speaker 6 (13:35):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yeah, would be pots as much, I bet right, But
you do the whole lot at the same time. And honestly,
it goes the same for these German wasps because they
do it too, not just the paper wasps, but all
these predators will go for these things is unbelievable. Yeah, yeah,
all right, all right, well.
Speaker 8 (13:54):
Thank you very much, all.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
You take care and Lynn of very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (14:00):
Good morning. I've been dogging old strawberry plants out of
my gas and there's a there's a lot of grass
grub underneath. Now I dig it iver and I can
squash them, but what can I put on the garden
Because I've got a lot of other good strawberry plants
that I want to cake, but I will be under there, So.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
Yeah, take the runners off, those off those particular plants
and put them back in another place of the garden.
Make sure you really dig the garden nicely, give it
a lovely place. Blah blah blah. And by the time
you get spring next year, it's all starting again.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
And what about the plants that I'm actually keeping.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
There, that's okay, you can keep them there. But if
you if you really need to clean your garden from
all the all the other stuff that's here, you know, whatever,
weeds and stuff, it pays to take them out or
move them to a place where you can put your
your your new suffer next year.
Speaker 7 (15:01):
Okay, the strikes that are run for the most of
my garden, I know, you can do put some something
on the lawns. You can spray something, because can you
do that on a garden or not?
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, well, what depends on what you what you want
to spray. What is it that you need to spray?
Speaker 7 (15:19):
You think, Well, just trying to try to get rid
of grass grub, and even in my flower garden as
well in the beach. You can be in the flare garden.
Speaker 3 (15:28):
You're talking about grass grub. Yes, okay, yates have got
the lawn grub, a grass grub and a pirhina grub
that you can get from your local garden center Yates lawn.
Speaker 7 (15:41):
Grub, and that I can use as well. And it's
not sick the plant.
Speaker 3 (15:46):
No, it's what this is against these these insects.
Speaker 7 (15:50):
Yeah, it's just the grub itself that's in the garden.
Hard to control the inticks themselves.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
Yeah, or you can you can hire. You can hire
a whole lot of stylings too, which is what I
do in my lawn.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Good luck with all the very best you take care.
I'm actually just on the skinks. One person said, they're
beautiful little creature. I'm amazed how many are in the garden.
Why is Ridside dismissive of them? They wouldn't hurt anyone,
says Jeff.
Speaker 3 (16:19):
They're plague skinks, and they eat our current native skinks,
and they eat all our native insects. And they are
a real pain in the proverbial honestly they are. And
we and there are people that say, oh, I gave
my son or daughter a little skink so he could
look out, say I don't.
Speaker 2 (16:36):
Don't encourage them. Actually, Andy's got a great idea from
Great Barrier Skinks Morning root Chocks Love eating them. Yeah,
there you go now quickly as well. You mentioned you
did a new spray for coddling moth name and place
(16:58):
that you can buy it.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Oh, they're mad X, MADDX and ad e X. But
wait till you get late in the season, because you
need to use that in springtime, you know, be just
literally you start spraying that just after all the flowers
have finished for the apples med X M A D
e X. And you can get it in med X
(17:21):
three is. I know it's expensive and you can share
it with your neighbors. That's the best way.
Speaker 1 (17:26):
To do, right.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
Okay, that's great. I'm just looking for another tick. Here
we go. How to deal with the huge infestation of
yarrow in a lawn?
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yarrow? Yero? Yeah it was I don't know yero, but
I haven't got that problem. What do you use for
a well, that's a bit tricky. What do you use
for that?
Speaker 2 (17:50):
What is zero?
Speaker 3 (17:52):
Yero? Is one of Is it the grass? I think
it is? Ok let me have a quick look. Hang on,
I'll do what you quite often done. Yeah we can. Yeah,
it's not why I know which one it is?
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Yeah, okay, we'll do that next week. Now we've only
got a couple of seconds. But pruning lime trees two
years old, two meters tall, when can they prune?
Speaker 3 (18:18):
I would do it now?
Speaker 2 (18:19):
Okay, yeah, perfect, There you go. That's Sunday sorted at
your place. Welcome, and I might have to go and
deal with my plum tree before the abress comes back
and embarrasses me again. Always lovely to talk. Thank you,
take care and thanks folks for all of your company
this morning, have a great week, and we'll be back
again next Sunday.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Take care.
Speaker 1 (18:40):
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