April 25, 2026 • 19 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for April 26, 2026, Ruud shares more advice on handling ants, where and when to use hitman on weeds, and is it too late to over-sow your lawn?
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:15):
I feel that we should have some sort of like
triumphal trumpet sound the return to the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Get hold.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
He look, that's awesome. It must get us to be
back in the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah. And drove in my own car too, ye yeha.
It's still getting out of the car and indicar. But
it's okay. You know, it'll brilliant.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
All right, So you're up and about, which is awesome.
You're in the studio now. Actually, just quickly, would you
mind some company next week?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Next week? Yeah? Are you going to be in christ
I am oh, well, look, I mean honestly, that'll be
just we'll talk about that. That'll be great.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Let's do that, all right.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And before we do that, can we just talk about
Mike last week who had a ginger plant of two
and a half meter stores couldn't read the roots. They
tried all sorts of things and didn't know what to do.
And I spent about half an hour. This was really
cool story, good stuff. I've spent about half an hour
sorting his trouble out. If you can't get there, all
you need to well what I reckon you can do
(01:16):
is you get yourself some hit man, which is that
wet and forget stuff. Ah, And if you spray that
literally on the leaves wherever you can get them, you'll
find that within about four or five hours, those leaves
go yep, right, they fall off. The next lot will
come do it a couple of days later, three days later, whatever,
(01:39):
another lot, and you literally start to scrape them down
to oblivion. That's the way to go, and they will
not be able to get more roots or more leaves
in there in a while. And you don't have to
get closer than whatever it is, a meter or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You want, easy, brilliant, Okay, So wait and forget for
the ginger.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, for the ginger plant. And it's a wedding for
it's called hit Man, which is literally sorry man, of
course it's called headman that it's made the same crowd, yeah, yeah, yeah,
same crowd. But it go. You know, if you have
no rain or no whatever, and you've got a nice
sunny day, you can do it on weeds in your
garden with Hitman. Within two and a half hours, those
(02:22):
weeds are going.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I was going to say, it feels like the sort
of job you could do, get a cup of tea
and just watch it happen exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Wayne Harris and I were always talking about that. You
could feel them going around your ankles.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh brilliant, brilliant. Hey, now I'm going to be really
rude to rude and just I want to address this
text because it is saving the planet, right, Pete. Driving
in Blockhouse Bay the other day, I noticed a developer
hosing off a big spill from his concrete dry concrete
delivery truck into the stormwater system. What what can a
proper citizen do? From Andy, Well, I'll tell you in
(02:56):
a minute. But rude, when you see this sort of thing,
you know, people discharging into stormwater. Right, if it runs
to a local creek or no matter where it runs,
it has that simontitiousterial in it has a massive impact day.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yes it does because the pH changes, for instance, that's
an important one. But on the other hand, also it
actually takes all the things that are actually part of
the ecosystem and the food system of everything that lives
there and totally stuffs it up completely.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So the good news, Andy, if you're still listening, is
ring the pollution hotline and they will send someone out immediately.
Unfortunately in this case the damage is done. But it's
the sort of thing if you see it, report it,
and you know, people should face significant fines for that sort.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Of Yeah, I'm not I don't want to go straight
to the fines. I just want to talk about and say,
you know, if I go fishing in here, for instance,
most people really like fishing, for instance, Or if you
go and have a look with the kids here, you're
actually completely changing who lives in that water and that
is going to be for a long long time, quite
(04:04):
an important name, if you like.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And I mean for a lot of the groups that
you've been working with now for decades, right around restoring
the natural environment, replanting with natives, controlling pests and so on,
a lot of those groups are also now turning their
attention to the health of the waterways, the little creeks
and streams and so on that lead to estuaries and
eventually to our harbors. And they do a massive amount
(04:29):
of work and you see tuna eels returning, little crayfish,
different types of fish and so on, and then some
planker you know, hoses out a concrete truck and I've
got nothing against concrete trucks, but you know there's processes
for managing that, right, so you hose that out into
the storm water, and eventually it finds its way down
to those estuaries and it's just devastating.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, can I can I put my hand up and
saying not many people realize I'm actually the patron of
the Wetland Trust Radio. That's all I'm going to say.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
No, you would have seen this firsthand, right, you know,
a community group that spent hundreds of hour I was
working to restore the environment, to rejuvenate the nature that
survives and thrives there, and then someone with a chemical
discharge or just a lack of concern. It's just this
environmental vandalism. It's awful. Ye be gentle with it, absolutely absolutely,
(05:25):
But yeah, if you see it, report it, and I
hope they get fined like the people that I reported
on a little while ago. Cost them several thousand dollars
and bloody good on them. We'll get on council for
getting there and getting sorted right. He Oh that's the
angry but out of the way, James, greetings to you.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Oh yeah, good morning, route. I recently shifted into town
in a small village of Huntle in the ring Attiki
and I noticed ants in the lawn. I shifted in
in October and over the some of the ants and law,
I've just got a little They came into the scrapt
bucket inside and I found them in another cupboard and
(06:02):
I've got rhythm. Is there anything you could spray around
the lawn outside so before they got near the.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
House, I am not. It depends on what species they are,
to be quite honest, it's really hard to tell, James,
if they if they if they are okay outside, let
them be, you know. If they're coming inside, yeah, go on.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
But they are starting to come in size or oneter thing.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Could be both could be either depending on exactly where
you are in New Zealand, I know where you are.
But that's the point that it depends on how they go.
But what they do do if they do like being
in your place, they'll go into your ceiling for instance,
where they're homeless, and then they make these little trails
that go to your wherever your food is being stored
or whatever. You know, that sort of stuff, and that
(06:53):
is how they start operating. Now the idea is to
get a good and trap if you like an ant killer,
and you can get all sorts of different varieties of that,
and you put those end traps or those end base
it's exactly in different places where those ants walk around.
So you just keep your eyes open. You see where
they walk. That's the that's the trick of how they
(07:16):
get up and down. And if you put the end
bait in that particular area where they always walk. They
can't help themselves but get that end bait and if
they have enough of it, take it back to the
to the nest, feed the queen. Then things are becoming
You gotta day. You know exactly what I mean.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Now, Yeah, it's like a list, you got it.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
But the most important thing is here is to have
many different spots where you put that bait. Because every
end group has its own territory. So one territory is
see so one particular end bait for one territory and
another one further up for another territory. So it's a
little Actually, the kids are really good at spotting where
(08:00):
they walk.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Yeah, well on nearly eight at two, so I haven't
got you still have kids.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I just sawt of I.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Sprayed around the outside that before they got near the house,
I'd get.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Rid of here.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, that's one way. But if they are already inside,
you are going backwards now, so you've got to go
to where they are. Get the tricks. Get the tricks.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Okay, all right, good luckily, Thank you very much for.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
It, right, mister James, thank you quick text for it.
Will hit man kill paspellum?
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, awesome. All right, good to know.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Berry.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Talk to me about your box hedge.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Yeah, hi, yeah, Rudy a box hedge which has got
extensive dial off, which is probably a blight of some sort.
I'm just wondering if there's a remedy that I can
bring it back.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
What is the variety of the boxes it boxes? Is
it the actual boxes?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Yeah, I don't really know that. It's it's been here
for a while and I've got it around gardens and
quite decorative.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
So can you can you describe the diseases. It's got
brown patches and streaks and things like that.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Yes, it's just in several parts of the hedge, it's
got to die off and the leaves go brown and
they're falling off, and it's trying to shoot again that
I noticed the new shoots are starting to go brown
as well. So it's like a blight of some sort.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
That's so if we say that it's a blight, what
can we use a blight fighter if you like, which
is called grow safe buxis blight fighter, that sort of stuff,
and you can get it from from your local garden center.
And I think if you do that on a regular basis,
you do it according to what it says on the label,
(10:17):
you might have chance of getting that blight under control.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Right, Okay? Now should I be cutting it in the
meantime trimming it?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I wouldn't at this stage. I would give it a
way with that blight fighter first to see if you
can get as much, if you like, coverage that you're
creating there, so that most of those plants are actually
starting to come back after the blight is being being treated,
if you like.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Yeah, okay, And what about watering? Would I water to
have water in the foliage or keep it away?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Keep it away from there, but also try not to
water too much because too much water will dilute quite often.
So if you do use that material, don't water it
at all for a while, or do it at a
time when there is not too much rain.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Okay, that's very helpful.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Awesome, ever, go all the very besty berry.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Thank you, Take care, take care.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
We'll be back right after the break. It is eight
forty five. Rud is back in the studio, which is delightful,
and Philip a very good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Okay from Morning Routes. Hello, I have a problem with
pest plum in my lawn. Yeah, when it seeds or
is it worth the time? Is it to go and
cut those seeds off before.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
You make your lawn so and then put them in
the rubbish so?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
So hang on, So you've got past pellum in your lawn, right, yeah,
and you want to reseed the lawn? Is that what
you want to do?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
No, no, no, no, no, no no no no. The
seed heads on the pest pellum.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, I've been going around with a pair of snippers
and carrying them off before I made the lawn. But
it's quite a tedious little job at the moment. Is
it worth doing it now?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I would just go over the top with the lawn though, Yeah, no,
I mean I just wanted to whether you put them
in the compost net, whether it's going to spread it
or what. It depends. It depends how your compost is going.
If that's going nice and high temperature, da da da day,
you might find that your best pellum is not going
to go very far. I think that is actually that
(12:24):
Actually you could do that trial yourself in a small
in a small bin if you like, with that material,
and see what happens. And if it doesn't go any further,
you know that when it's nice and dry and you
got that stuff off and you can get rid of it,
you'll find that it's not going to survive. That it's
still going to go on.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
What do you reckon being being over cutting them all
offt be in a bit of a pain.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Have you noticed? I agree? Not a good idea.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Have it go?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Thanks, Thanks good mate.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
And Ray Greasings.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Yes, how do you do? Look I've got a problem here.
Last year I've got a lovely lawn in the front
of my heres and last year during the winter I
got a lot of musk grow on it, and somebody
told me, don't cut it so low before the winter.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Is this correct?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
It might be so, but there's also things that a
lot of people use like things like yates, feed and
weed and lawn muss or moss blah blah blah blah,
and oh and wet and Forget has got a really
cool one too. What is it called? Hang on, what's
it called? What's it called? What's I've forgotten what it is,
doesn't matter. Oh, it's called wet and forget seven parts
(13:42):
of water. There you go apply it on a cool,
dry day and reapply annually to prevent regrowth off that
particular material.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Just like that.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
So there are these things that you can use if
you don't really like the moss. But to be quite honest, Ray,
I'm too too lazy to do moss control. I don't
mind moss every now and then because the moss itself
is a good place for my insects and my creepy
crawlies on the soil, you know. So I'm not too worried.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah, but that looks horrible. It was really quite sick.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
And Ray, have you seen yourself in the mirror.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
At eighty five years of age, I'd say I'm looking
pretty old, dear.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, you know what I mean? No, I know, no, look,
I know what you're saying. I'm just taking the mickey,
But you're right some people don't like it fair enough,
go for it.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yeah, So if I left my lornd to grow longer
before and don't cut it so low, it would help, wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yes, it would because the moss has got fewer access
to green stuff. If you like to do some some
green work. Yeah, it's getting too dark there.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yeah, all right, that's much appreciative for your time and trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I love it. Good question, Mary, No trouble at all.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
That's brilliant, right, Hey, a couple of ticks as well.
There we go, hang on hand, I'm having trouble with buttons.
Now here we go.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Morning.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Once my fijo a hedge has finished fruiting, which should
be about now, can we try it back based in Wellington.
It's in desperate need of a haircut.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And I think short back and sides.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Like, don't give it any any more than it needs
out boom.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, because they do take a prune quite well, don't they. Yeah,
there will fijas typically Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
In fact, you can take half of it off with
literally with the chaseaw right. I am not joking. I can.
I've done this all the time. Actually, my future. We're
actually we're at the moment we've got in the household.
We're discussing what to do with all these fijo quick man,
boy there quick and and yeah we're going halfway.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I'd say, yeah, you've just added something to my list
as well.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Always come up with you.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Now, Oh, can you tell me how to kill off
coculear grass effectively? But I I mean, if you're going
to do something like that on a lawn, it's it's
the whole lawn that's going to be lot back, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, you got to either do it or not. You go,
you take it, you leave it. You take it or
you leave it.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Boom right, Okay, So so targeting, I mean you can
get sprays for like broad leaf and a lawn, but
not courlier, which is a grass.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I guess awful. Yeah, not a nice place, not a
nice blink to do radio.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
So the fijo we've done, Oh, sulfate of iron for
moss control.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah yeah, always good.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
And with the busus, is there now like a hybrid
busus that doesn't get that blight?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I know there are different types of blight. Ah okay,
but one is from South America from memory. God, that's
a long time ago. One is from South America, the
other one is from somewhere else, so they are different species.
But we quite you can control them almost the same anyway.
But it is hard work because they don't always react
quite nicely to those boxes things. That's why I don't
(17:16):
use it. I don't spray it at all.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, okay, now this is a nice one. Hey pey,
please ask for the best stuff to attract and feed
TWOI from Linen.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Okay, there are you know, you can have all sorts
of feeding stations for birds and for tui and bell
birds and silver eyes just as my three favorite. If
you like nectar feeders, what I have is one of
those those what do you call it glass feeders that
I put full of really nice sugar water in a
(17:51):
high density, high quality. Once they know where the sugar
water is, they A know your place where you live.
B they know the size, where it is on which
side of the garden. Number three, they know your I
was going to say your number of your house, et cetera.
(18:12):
And they come back as much as they can and
too wei and in my case bellbirds and silver rice
they love it. They go nuts from as soon as
the sun comes up.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
We've got listen in a minute. A risky for good
quality sugar water.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You take sugar and you do about I think a
quarter of the whole thing full of sugar. You mix
it as hard as you can and as quick as
you can with nice warm water, and then you have
the most dense sugar water. And even I love that.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Brilliant that works, righty, opening old friend next week and
then you arrive. If all goes well and I can
get access through the security, I'll be in the studio.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I'll get you excellent, excellent.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
So yeah, the two of us together in the studio.
It'll be chaos, folks, chaos next week, but I'm really
looking forward to it. Glad that you're up and about,
lovely that you've got your mobility back, and thanks for
joining us as always the Sunday morning. Love all right,
take care to your yours rightio. Folks. Hey, thanks very
much for your company this morning. Tomorrow of course, public holiday.
(19:19):
Enjoy the day. If you're going to do some work,
do it safely and I'll catch up with you from
christ Church next Sunday. Take care
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Speaker 2 (00:15):
I feel that we should have some sort of like
triumphal trumpet sound the return to the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Get hold.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
He look, that's awesome. It must get us to be
back in the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Yeah. And drove in my own car too, ye yeha.
It's still getting out of the car and indicar. But
it's okay. You know, it'll brilliant.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
All right, So you're up and about, which is awesome.
You're in the studio now. Actually, just quickly, would you
mind some company next week?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Next week? Yeah? Are you going to be in christ
I am oh, well, look, I mean honestly, that'll be
just we'll talk about that. That'll be great.
Speaker 2 (00:53):
Let's do that, all right.
Speaker 3 (00:54):
And before we do that, can we just talk about
Mike last week who had a ginger plant of two
and a half meter stores couldn't read the roots. They
tried all sorts of things and didn't know what to do.
And I spent about half an hour. This was really
cool story, good stuff. I've spent about half an hour
sorting his trouble out. If you can't get there, all
you need to well what I reckon you can do
(01:16):
is you get yourself some hit man, which is that
wet and forget stuff. Ah, And if you spray that
literally on the leaves wherever you can get them, you'll
find that within about four or five hours, those leaves
go yep, right, they fall off. The next lot will
come do it a couple of days later, three days later, whatever,
(01:39):
another lot, and you literally start to scrape them down
to oblivion. That's the way to go, and they will
not be able to get more roots or more leaves
in there in a while. And you don't have to
get closer than whatever it is, a meter or whatever.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
You want, easy, brilliant, Okay, So wait and forget for
the ginger.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Yeah, for the ginger plant. And it's a wedding for
it's called hit Man, which is literally sorry man, of
course it's called headman that it's made the same crowd, yeah, yeah, yeah,
same crowd. But it go. You know, if you have
no rain or no whatever, and you've got a nice
sunny day, you can do it on weeds in your
garden with Hitman. Within two and a half hours, those
(02:22):
weeds are going.
Speaker 2 (02:25):
I was going to say, it feels like the sort
of job you could do, get a cup of tea
and just watch it happen exactly.
Speaker 3 (02:31):
Wayne Harris and I were always talking about that. You
could feel them going around your ankles.
Speaker 2 (02:36):
Oh brilliant, brilliant. Hey, now I'm going to be really
rude to rude and just I want to address this
text because it is saving the planet, right, Pete. Driving
in Blockhouse Bay the other day, I noticed a developer
hosing off a big spill from his concrete dry concrete
delivery truck into the stormwater system. What what can a
proper citizen do? From Andy, Well, I'll tell you in
(02:56):
a minute. But rude, when you see this sort of thing,
you know, people discharging into stormwater. Right, if it runs
to a local creek or no matter where it runs,
it has that simontitiousterial in it has a massive impact day.
Speaker 3 (03:09):
Yes it does because the pH changes, for instance, that's
an important one. But on the other hand, also it
actually takes all the things that are actually part of
the ecosystem and the food system of everything that lives
there and totally stuffs it up completely.
Speaker 4 (03:24):
Right.
Speaker 2 (03:24):
So the good news, Andy, if you're still listening, is
ring the pollution hotline and they will send someone out immediately.
Unfortunately in this case the damage is done. But it's
the sort of thing if you see it, report it,
and you know, people should face significant fines for that sort.
Speaker 3 (03:43):
Of Yeah, I'm not I don't want to go straight
to the fines. I just want to talk about and say,
you know, if I go fishing in here, for instance,
most people really like fishing, for instance, Or if you
go and have a look with the kids here, you're
actually completely changing who lives in that water and that
is going to be for a long long time, quite
(04:04):
an important name, if you like.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
And I mean for a lot of the groups that
you've been working with now for decades, right around restoring
the natural environment, replanting with natives, controlling pests and so on,
a lot of those groups are also now turning their
attention to the health of the waterways, the little creeks
and streams and so on that lead to estuaries and
eventually to our harbors. And they do a massive amount
(04:29):
of work and you see tuna eels returning, little crayfish,
different types of fish and so on, and then some
planker you know, hoses out a concrete truck and I've
got nothing against concrete trucks, but you know there's processes
for managing that, right, so you hose that out into
the storm water, and eventually it finds its way down
to those estuaries and it's just devastating.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Yeah, can I can I put my hand up and
saying not many people realize I'm actually the patron of
the Wetland Trust Radio. That's all I'm going to say.
Speaker 2 (05:00):
No, you would have seen this firsthand, right, you know,
a community group that spent hundreds of hour I was
working to restore the environment, to rejuvenate the nature that
survives and thrives there, and then someone with a chemical
discharge or just a lack of concern. It's just this
environmental vandalism. It's awful. Ye be gentle with it, absolutely absolutely,
(05:25):
But yeah, if you see it, report it, and I
hope they get fined like the people that I reported
on a little while ago. Cost them several thousand dollars
and bloody good on them. We'll get on council for
getting there and getting sorted right. He Oh that's the
angry but out of the way, James, greetings to you.
Speaker 4 (05:41):
Oh yeah, good morning, route. I recently shifted into town
in a small village of Huntle in the ring Attiki
and I noticed ants in the lawn. I shifted in
in October and over the some of the ants and law,
I've just got a little They came into the scrapt
bucket inside and I found them in another cupboard and
(06:02):
I've got rhythm. Is there anything you could spray around
the lawn outside so before they got near the.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
House, I am not. It depends on what species they are,
to be quite honest, it's really hard to tell, James,
if they if they if they are okay outside, let
them be, you know. If they're coming inside, yeah, go on.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
But they are starting to come in size or oneter thing.
Speaker 3 (06:32):
Could be both could be either depending on exactly where
you are in New Zealand, I know where you are.
But that's the point that it depends on how they go.
But what they do do if they do like being
in your place, they'll go into your ceiling for instance,
where they're homeless, and then they make these little trails
that go to your wherever your food is being stored
or whatever. You know, that sort of stuff, and that
(06:53):
is how they start operating. Now the idea is to
get a good and trap if you like an ant killer,
and you can get all sorts of different varieties of that,
and you put those end traps or those end base
it's exactly in different places where those ants walk around.
So you just keep your eyes open. You see where
they walk. That's the that's the trick of how they
(07:16):
get up and down. And if you put the end
bait in that particular area where they always walk. They
can't help themselves but get that end bait and if
they have enough of it, take it back to the
to the nest, feed the queen. Then things are becoming
You gotta day. You know exactly what I mean.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Now, Yeah, it's like a list, you got it.
Speaker 3 (07:39):
But the most important thing is here is to have
many different spots where you put that bait. Because every
end group has its own territory. So one territory is
see so one particular end bait for one territory and
another one further up for another territory. So it's a
little Actually, the kids are really good at spotting where
(08:00):
they walk.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Yeah, well on nearly eight at two, so I haven't
got you still have kids.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
I just sawt of I.
Speaker 4 (08:12):
Sprayed around the outside that before they got near the house,
I'd get.
Speaker 5 (08:14):
Rid of here.
Speaker 3 (08:16):
Yeah, that's one way. But if they are already inside,
you are going backwards now, so you've got to go
to where they are. Get the tricks. Get the tricks.
Speaker 4 (08:25):
Okay, all right, good luckily, Thank you very much for.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
It, right, mister James, thank you quick text for it.
Will hit man kill paspellum?
Speaker 6 (08:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (08:37):
Oh yeah, oh yeah, oh yeah, oh.
Speaker 2 (08:43):
Yeah, awesome. All right, good to know.
Speaker 3 (08:46):
Berry.
Speaker 2 (08:47):
Talk to me about your box hedge.
Speaker 6 (08:50):
Yeah, hi, yeah, Rudy a box hedge which has got
extensive dial off, which is probably a blight of some sort.
I'm just wondering if there's a remedy that I can
bring it back.
Speaker 3 (09:08):
What is the variety of the boxes it boxes? Is
it the actual boxes?
Speaker 6 (09:15):
Yeah, I don't really know that. It's it's been here
for a while and I've got it around gardens and
quite decorative.
Speaker 3 (09:28):
So can you can you describe the diseases. It's got
brown patches and streaks and things like that.
Speaker 6 (09:34):
Yes, it's just in several parts of the hedge, it's
got to die off and the leaves go brown and
they're falling off, and it's trying to shoot again that
I noticed the new shoots are starting to go brown
as well. So it's like a blight of some sort.
Speaker 3 (09:55):
Yeah, that's exactly what it is.
Speaker 4 (09:57):
Now.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
That's so if we say that it's a blight, what
can we use a blight fighter if you like, which
is called grow safe buxis blight fighter, that sort of stuff,
and you can get it from from your local garden center.
And I think if you do that on a regular basis,
you do it according to what it says on the label,
(10:17):
you might have chance of getting that blight under control.
Speaker 6 (10:22):
Right, Okay? Now should I be cutting it in the
meantime trimming it?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Ah?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
I wouldn't at this stage. I would give it a
way with that blight fighter first to see if you
can get as much, if you like, coverage that you're
creating there, so that most of those plants are actually
starting to come back after the blight is being being treated,
if you like.
Speaker 6 (10:48):
Yeah, okay, And what about watering? Would I water to
have water in the foliage or keep it away?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Keep it away from there, but also try not to
water too much because too much water will dilute quite often.
So if you do use that material, don't water it
at all for a while, or do it at a
time when there is not too much rain.
Speaker 6 (11:08):
Okay, that's very helpful.
Speaker 2 (11:10):
Awesome, ever, go all the very besty berry.
Speaker 6 (11:12):
Thank you, Take care, take care.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
We'll be back right after the break. It is eight
forty five. Rud is back in the studio, which is delightful,
and Philip a very good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (11:24):
Okay from Morning Routes. Hello, I have a problem with
pest plum in my lawn. Yeah, when it seeds or
is it worth the time? Is it to go and
cut those seeds off before.
Speaker 5 (11:38):
You make your lawn so and then put them in
the rubbish so?
Speaker 3 (11:43):
So hang on, So you've got past pellum in your lawn, right, yeah,
and you want to reseed the lawn? Is that what
you want to do?
Speaker 5 (11:51):
No, no, no, no, no, no no no no. The
seed heads on the pest pellum.
Speaker 4 (11:55):
Yeah, I've been going around with a pair of snippers
and carrying them off before I made the lawn. But
it's quite a tedious little job at the moment. Is
it worth doing it now?
Speaker 3 (12:03):
I would just go over the top with the lawn though, Yeah, no,
I mean I just wanted to whether you put them
in the compost net, whether it's going to spread it
or what. It depends. It depends how your compost is going.
If that's going nice and high temperature, da da da day,
you might find that your best pellum is not going
to go very far. I think that is actually that
(12:24):
Actually you could do that trial yourself in a small
in a small bin if you like, with that material,
and see what happens. And if it doesn't go any further,
you know that when it's nice and dry and you
got that stuff off and you can get rid of it,
you'll find that it's not going to survive. That it's
still going to go on.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
What do you reckon being being over cutting them all
offt be in a bit of a pain.
Speaker 3 (12:49):
Have you noticed? I agree? Not a good idea.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Have it go?
Speaker 5 (12:57):
Thanks, Thanks good mate.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
And Ray Greasings.
Speaker 5 (13:04):
Yes, how do you do? Look I've got a problem here.
Last year I've got a lovely lawn in the front
of my heres and last year during the winter I
got a lot of musk grow on it, and somebody
told me, don't cut it so low before the winter.
Speaker 6 (13:19):
Is this correct?
Speaker 3 (13:21):
It might be so, but there's also things that a
lot of people use like things like yates, feed and
weed and lawn muss or moss blah blah blah blah,
and oh and wet and Forget has got a really
cool one too. What is it called? Hang on, what's
it called? What's it called? What's I've forgotten what it is,
doesn't matter. Oh, it's called wet and forget seven parts
(13:42):
of water. There you go apply it on a cool,
dry day and reapply annually to prevent regrowth off that
particular material.
Speaker 6 (13:50):
Just like that.
Speaker 3 (13:51):
So there are these things that you can use if
you don't really like the moss. But to be quite honest, Ray,
I'm too too lazy to do moss control. I don't
mind moss every now and then because the moss itself
is a good place for my insects and my creepy
crawlies on the soil, you know. So I'm not too worried.
Speaker 5 (14:11):
Yeah, but that looks horrible. It was really quite sick.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
And Ray, have you seen yourself in the mirror.
Speaker 5 (14:20):
At eighty five years of age, I'd say I'm looking
pretty old, dear.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, you know what I mean? No, I know, no, look,
I know what you're saying. I'm just taking the mickey,
But you're right some people don't like it fair enough,
go for it.
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Yeah, So if I left my lornd to grow longer
before and don't cut it so low, it would help, wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yes, it would because the moss has got fewer access
to green stuff. If you like to do some some
green work. Yeah, it's getting too dark there.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
Yeah, all right, that's much appreciative for your time and trouble.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
I love it. Good question, Mary, No trouble at all.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
That's brilliant, right, Hey, a couple of ticks as well.
There we go, hang on hand, I'm having trouble with buttons.
Now here we go.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Morning.
Speaker 2 (15:08):
Once my fijo a hedge has finished fruiting, which should
be about now, can we try it back based in Wellington.
It's in desperate need of a haircut.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
And I think short back and sides.
Speaker 3 (15:22):
Like, don't give it any any more than it needs
out boom.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
Yeah, because they do take a prune quite well, don't they. Yeah,
there will fijas typically Okay.
Speaker 3 (15:35):
In fact, you can take half of it off with
literally with the chaseaw right. I am not joking. I can.
I've done this all the time. Actually, my future. We're
actually we're at the moment we've got in the household.
We're discussing what to do with all these fijo quick man,
boy there quick and and yeah we're going halfway.
Speaker 2 (15:56):
I'd say, yeah, you've just added something to my list
as well.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Always come up with you.
Speaker 2 (16:05):
Now, Oh, can you tell me how to kill off
coculear grass effectively? But I I mean, if you're going
to do something like that on a lawn, it's it's
the whole lawn that's going to be lot back, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Yeah, you got to either do it or not. You go,
you take it, you leave it. You take it or
you leave it.
Speaker 5 (16:21):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:21):
Boom right, Okay, So so targeting, I mean you can
get sprays for like broad leaf and a lawn, but
not courlier, which is a grass.
Speaker 3 (16:31):
I guess awful. Yeah, not a nice place, not a
nice blink to do radio.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
So the fijo we've done, Oh, sulfate of iron for
moss control.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Yeah yeah, always good.
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Hey.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
And with the busus, is there now like a hybrid
busus that doesn't get that blight?
Speaker 3 (16:53):
I know there are different types of blight. Ah okay,
but one is from South America from memory. God, that's
a long time ago. One is from South America, the
other one is from somewhere else, so they are different species.
But we quite you can control them almost the same anyway.
But it is hard work because they don't always react
quite nicely to those boxes things. That's why I don't
(17:16):
use it. I don't spray it at all.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
Yeah, okay, now this is a nice one. Hey pey,
please ask for the best stuff to attract and feed
TWOI from Linen.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Okay, there are you know, you can have all sorts
of feeding stations for birds and for tui and bell
birds and silver eyes just as my three favorite. If
you like nectar feeders, what I have is one of
those those what do you call it glass feeders that
I put full of really nice sugar water in a
(17:51):
high density, high quality. Once they know where the sugar
water is, they A know your place where you live.
B they know the size, where it is on which
side of the garden. Number three, they know your I
was going to say your number of your house, et cetera.
(18:12):
And they come back as much as they can and
too wei and in my case bellbirds and silver rice
they love it. They go nuts from as soon as
the sun comes up.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
We've got listen in a minute. A risky for good
quality sugar water.
Speaker 3 (18:28):
You take sugar and you do about I think a
quarter of the whole thing full of sugar. You mix
it as hard as you can and as quick as
you can with nice warm water, and then you have
the most dense sugar water. And even I love that.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
Brilliant that works, righty, opening old friend next week and
then you arrive. If all goes well and I can
get access through the security, I'll be in the studio.
Speaker 3 (18:54):
I'll get you excellent, excellent.
Speaker 2 (18:56):
So yeah, the two of us together in the studio.
It'll be chaos, folks, chaos next week, but I'm really
looking forward to it. Glad that you're up and about,
lovely that you've got your mobility back, and thanks for
joining us as always the Sunday morning. Love all right,
take care to your yours rightio. Folks. Hey, thanks very
much for your company this morning. Tomorrow of course, public holiday.
(19:19):
Enjoy the day. If you're going to do some work,
do it safely and I'll catch up with you from
christ Church next Sunday. Take care
Speaker 1 (19:43):
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