May 2, 2026 • 19 mins
And in the garden with Ruud we chatted about how to clean up 'honeybee poo' from your windows, tips on how to deal with different types of lawn and the best fertiliser to use when your nectarine tree is dropping half ripe fruit.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from News Talk sed B.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Right.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
He oh, it is a great pleasure to welcome to Well,
I shouldn't be welcoming you to this space, because this
is your space. I'm in the I'm Goldilocks is snuck
in here, and I've eaten your porridge and I've gone
to sleep in the corner. It's good to see You're
nice to see you too.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
So good to see.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What a gorgeous, what a beautiful time to be in
christ Church as well. Yeah, I mean there's a lot
of composts out there that I see. The leaves are
down on the on the footpath outside there. It's beautiful,
it's crisp, it's in the city, feels great.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
It does actually hit the moment and you.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Don't need a Jeff for telling you that, but oh no.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
But it's the funny thing is we've had quite a
rubbishy summer, right and suddenly it's becoming like this on
a regular basis, and you go like, that's me.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, it's beautiful. It's absolutely stunning.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
You some more in the garden, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Absolut ltely right now, we've got options to chat. We
can text, or you can text if you want nine
two nine two or s BC. He'd be from membobile
phone or better still, give us a call. Eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Let's
get into it. Noel, good morning, No CHRISTOPHERA this wait
(01:27):
for next week, all right.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, because he'll be in a different studio next week,
so you'll have to have a different number.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
I'm surrounded by T Tree, my my wife and Ivy
planted a heap of teacher about twenty old years ago,
and a heap of.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It right, Sorry, which one teach you?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
T Tree?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
T three? I got it there, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Yeah, and my wife's got a big, beautiful race bush
elevens every bit our.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
Oil?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
How do I extract oil at A?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I've never done that? Wow? How do you do that?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
You're asking me now? I suppose no I would have
asked you. I never had this idea, never had this
way of doing that. I have never done it in
my life.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Look at it's a homebridge, still a proper I put
out nine out of it. Sure, I reckon they can
use it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I think so. I think that If you've got that already,
you're well ahead of me, my friend. Yep, I reckon.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Just just carry on like I would like, try not.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
To try and make try not to make it too
too hot, I think, because some of these oils could
degenerate a bit, you know in the heat. Yeah, but no,
I'd like to know that.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
When I reconnol that often you'll find like there's a
local collective, right, so there'll there'll be someone around who's
into you know, the harvesting and collecting and that sort
of thing.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, yeah, local ewie will probably be that that I reckon,
That's where i'd go. They have the knowledge, you know what.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I mean, what a great little project.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
What's a strange things.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Also, and it's like the you know, extracting the oils
for the lavender that sort of thing. Yeah, but that's
a press, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yes, it is more, but it's also heating and and
I suppose but again I've never done that.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It's fantastic. I got some stuff the other day cower Kowa,
yeah bomb, you know, yeah, amazing.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Do you know about the cow Kawa?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, I know some yeah, I know the plant and
I bought some of this barm at one of the
Home and Garden shows, and I've used it and it's like,
this is awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yes it is. And and but if you go to
the cowacara itself, it comes with little holes in it
that are eaten in there by caterpillars that only eat
coor co all right, but here comes to thing. When
they have a lot of holes in it, the pressure
or the actual material inside the leaf becomes higher, and
(04:11):
your if you're like your your working facility is becoming
higher as well. Now, Maury knew that five hundred and
six out of seven hundred years ago, because the question
was do you use those leaves with lots of holes
for fewer holes, for little holes or no holes to
make tea?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
And that tea is really good for your body. The
more holes you have, the stronger it is. Maury knew
that for five hundred years. And now everybody going, can
I do it?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
You can?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Amazing, fantastic, This is awesome.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Marta rang Amori.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Absolutely, Radio Graham, Good morning to you guys. Graham.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I just need to get some sort of resolution, you
might say, to imagine that there's honeybee. It's on the
wing at the present time around dropping its little pops
et cetera on the windows of your house.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Now, is this something that's common or was a particular
time of the year.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
No, they only started it in nineteen eighty five. Now
I'm just joking they've been doing all their life.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Maybe there's stuffing up my window.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yes, yes, wedn't forget have got really cool stuff from
with which you can actually clean your windows very fast
and very cleverly. First of all, you clean it, you know,
generally speaking, and then you get this wonderful stuff that
you use on your windows. Goes quick, dribbles off and
(05:50):
will be clean. Yes, sometimes you need to do it again,
I know, but it goes quickly and it works.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
And is there I think at a certain time of
the year that they're actually target you know, the sort
of stuff they leave behind. Yeah. Or is it because
they're looking for nesting somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
No, it's it depends on what they've been eating. Really,
it's what they've been getting in terms of flowers and
their contents, you know, the nectar, and they pop out
what they don't like. But they've been doing that for decades.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Yeah, And that's the certain places people like to own
you know a nest, number of nests, you know on
their properties, which is fair enough. It's all good stuff.
But you can often sort of see that there's something nearby,
because it hasn't always been on that case where you've
actually had that sort of residue being shown on your windows.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It depends entirely on what you and your neighbors are
planting in the garden. What has the best nectar, What
is the most attractive to these bees, and they'll go
and get it, and as they fly away, they will
take all the good stuff in their stomach and they
literally get rid of the stuff they don't like, known
as pools.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
All okay, well, well you've answered a question that I
had a discussion for the person about that does have
these bees, so I have these mess and he indicated
that that situation does occur. But yes, you can often
tell how close they are, but it pears you know
what direction they're living in, you might say, with the
(07:27):
mess to get a better idea of where it's coming from.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Direction that's quite often because they tried to do a
thing by hitting the neighbors. Those bees. They have this
little game. No, I'm just y.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Off.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
You go see bye, thanks very much for that.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Graham text has come through. I have a still I
only ever made essential oils with it.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Just go for it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Keep the water as hydrosol as keep the water as
hydrousol for insect repeller. I've made lemongrass, rose, geranium, curry leaf, etcetera.
It's fabulous.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
It's it's one of those things I have never ever done.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Funny a and something another one here, The unripe green
fruit is the most potent part.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Of the cower color.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, fantastic, loving us. Right, we'll take one more call
before the break. Roger greetings, Hello Roger.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Oh yes, it's Roger here. Think so that I'm from Tamaru.
On your previous couple of programs, you sort of ran
out of time to answer to guys with questions on lawns.
The one guy said he had yarra and he didn't
know what to do with it. Tell him to go
there in mine, attend and look for the product round
(08:50):
up for lawns in the blue bottle. Put some gloves
in the mask on because it's got to die in it,
and spray it on and then and then leave for
seven days and then mo and and then see what
comes up after that.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
But if you hang on, hang on, Roger, if you
use if you use round up, you will actually kill
all the grasses and other plants that are in that lawn.
I don't it, doesn't it?
Speaker 7 (09:16):
No, it's round up for lawns. It's in a blue bottle,
so it's in the spring bottle.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
It's a specific material that is not as as general
generous if you like, with its killing tricks as as
the other ones as the normal round up. Yes, got
you know, I've never used it. I didn't know that. Good.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
It's in the dark blue bottle and it's got a
blue dye in it.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Good.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Thanks, you can see any And the other caller said,
how do I get rid of pest spell in his lawn?
Speaker 5 (09:49):
You know?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Wheel bear it and a lady's fork in digred and
throw it to the tip. You're gonna she actually gets
rid of it because I had about two hundred of
them in a sort of packed lawn up and Wallington.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
It's a pain in the bum, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Yeah? You know it comes from the sort of why ghetto,
I think, yeah, sort of spread steer.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, But originally it came from whole sorts of other
places on the planet. Of course, there you are. But
it is a pain, isn't it. If you're really wanting
to have a nice lawn, I willn't even go there. Yeah,
which is why I don't have a nice lawn.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Great view, but not a nice lawn. That's all right, Hey, Roger,
thanks very much for that. I wonder if we can, no,
we'll take a quick break. It is let me see four.
Let's call it forty four and a half minutes after eight.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
That's what I would say, forty four. This endicular place
will only do the halves.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
We'll do the halves here I having been to the stadium,
we'll go for halftime radio. It's Red n Pete here
in New Storks. He'd be back after the rightio. That
must be our two. And if there's nothing going and
it's us talking, but of course we're chatting away and
catching up during the break as well, rightio, Oh, eight
hundred and eighty ten might have time for Actually, let's
(11:07):
do a couple of quick texts. Someone who has someone's
traveling for five weeks over winter? Is it safe to
leave a frost cloth bag covering the lemon for that
long or will the lack of light lack of air
solute air circulation cause an issue.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
If it's a frost cloth and it's light in color,
you have no problem at all. I would say, okay, now, all.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Right, enjoy your travels, Chris morning Peak, please ask for
it it. Last year I planted broad beans, good, high
vigorous growth. Thought the beans were not as good as
the year before. So do I do the same thing?
And they've used some mushroom compost?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Okay, I would go to a little bit more decent compost,
not mushrooms just by itself, but I would use you
a much more different thing as well, general fertilizer. And
also because it's going to be coming of course, things
that are becoming flowering for the actual broad beans themselves.
Something with a potash NPK with a higher.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
K, right, and someone with lemons they want to espeliate
a lemon tree on a wire on against a sunny
concrete wall. First year, quite a few limbs or a
few lemons, and the last few years no lemons at all.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
It's that potash again, Oh yes, all right, yeah NK.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Simple as that. So it's nothing to do with the
espelier or anything.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Nothing. No gosh no, no, no, no no, because the block.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Wall axis sort of increases the temperature, doesn't it. It
creates like a little micro environment. Yeah, perfect, right, Cedric
talk to us about monic butterflies.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, we are, my friend. How are you, Cedric? Where
have you been all this time?
Speaker 8 (12:49):
I've been busy with my monics. I have thousands, thousands
of plants, and I've got monchs. I've got crystaliss and
little caterpillars by the thousands.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Yeah, good.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Years.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
And the way I have it, I've got it on
three sides of my house. You got to back and
get rid of your lawn and bark the ground and
you get thousands of plants.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
It's fantastic, to be fair. It sounds a little bit
like my dad in the last He would go out
and clicked up caterpillars and then he hanged them inside
and look after them and record and slocate. Yeah, brilliant,
you know what.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
And it's something that Cedric needs to know as well.
And also the people in Auckland. In Auckland, there are
some serious troubles with things like red admiral butterflies. Right,
beautiful big one yesterday Julian Ira in the kitchen mucking around,
and there was this brand new one that just came
out of the cocoon, sitting there on the window, just
sitting there, waiting and weaving. And you look at these
(14:01):
amazing colors of bright red and bright black and bright
white and all these other and they're fingers crossed. Still
really well well done here and very nice and grat.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Again like other the under threats. Yeah, okay, troubles and
the monarchs in terms of because I know people often
call through and they go, I don't see as many
and and so on, And that's a predator thing. It's
a habitat thing, it's a pesticide thing.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
All that sort of stuff. At the same time, there's
a lot of different things that are starting to muck around, right.
That's awful.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Radio. I'm where are we at, scott Bumblebees?
Speaker 9 (14:46):
Good team, go for it, Yeah, get get it, guys.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
So just wondering.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
Living here in Christians around our place over in Summerfield,
we are where I am seeing different sized bumblebees. So
I've got some that are, you know, sort of what
you'd call the normal size. They have a same as
your thumbnail. But then I've got more saying some others
that would be sort of up to five cinemats long,
(15:13):
like really big, thick, fat, fluffy bumblebees. Are they the
same variety or species or are they different species? Are
they just older? Are they what would be the goat?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
All of the same. They are all the same. The
big ones are the queens. They are the ones that
actually do all the reproduction in the hives. The little ones,
the smaller ones usually go actually there actually there's males,
but there's also females that are actually active in collecting
nectar and stuff like that. They're all different sizes. But
(15:45):
you have to remember that here in Canterbury we have
two more different species. And you find the princess in
the Potendic gardens here and also where we are right
here in Christi at Central. And if you get to
get to know how to make the difference, how to
see the difference between these different species, you will now
see three common species in Canterbury that you can find
(16:09):
on an almost daily basis, not so much in winter.
It'll go down now. But they are different because we
have introduced into New Zealand four different species of bumblebee,
and they all and they all came from the UK
in the nineteen eighties. They all have different lengths of
tongues because that means they can then get them their
(16:30):
stuff from smaller and larger if you like, flowers from
which they can get the nectar. Now, those four different
ones are basically introduced here to do red clover, black cloth,
all sorts of different particular things that they wanted to
be to have in the padducks, if you like. And
they're still here except for one that is really rare,
(16:52):
and that's where my kids in Takapo are working on
to get them back to the UK because in the
UK that fourth species is extinct.
Speaker 9 (17:02):
Okay, So a bumblebee is not like a honeybee that
produces the honey. A bumblebee is just straight out for pollination.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Uh yes, it does pollination, but it does do that
by getting the honey, getting the necktie, and that is
how they get their whole the whole group going. You know,
that's how you eat.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
Yeah, But like a bumblebee, as a traditional honeybee or
you know, drone or whatever goes around and collects the
nigga from a flower or a plant or whatever, they
also pollinate, but bumblebees don't actually take honeybeit to hive
and create the honey combs as such. Do they all
do that?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yes, they do have a little bit of that, because
when you get little babies that need to that need
to eat before they become adults, they are feeding on
these wonderful sweet materials.
Speaker 9 (17:48):
Yeah, okay. The other there was one stuck stuck behind
my outside door with it being open, and it was,
as I say, nearly as big as my thumb.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, and it's trying to get out, doesn't it.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
Yeah. Well I was able to get out all right,
but yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Didn't get They usually end up with headaches.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Now, yeah, awesome, you have a great day. No, that
that's absolutely fantastic, right, Well we may not get time
for Simon, but.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Well no, it's.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Such a it's been such a pleasure being christ I
have to say, see I can see yeah maybe, but no, look,
it's fabulous and it's lovely to see you and see
how you're going. And I know the knees still playing
up a bit, but that'll you'll be all right.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Next time you take deb over, will have something, do
something useful with your life.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Actually, I'm on the road again next week, so Wellington
Home and Living Show next next week I'll be down
in Wellington on Saturday, so if you're around popping Home
and Living Show, I'll probably do a presentation at some
stage during the day as well. Radio folks, my thanks
to to Hope who stepped in is producer. It's a
little bit tricky obviously because I'm in a different studio
(19:12):
and anyway it's worked well, so thank you very much
for that.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Hope.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Have a great week. What am I doing. I'm back
on the tools, so I got all sorts of jobs
to do next week. I'll tell you all about it
next Sunday on the show. Have a great week, Take
care all.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
The best, al can we still be something Between? Something Between?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp, listen
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You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from News Talk sed B.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Right.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
He oh, it is a great pleasure to welcome to Well,
I shouldn't be welcoming you to this space, because this
is your space. I'm in the I'm Goldilocks is snuck
in here, and I've eaten your porridge and I've gone
to sleep in the corner. It's good to see You're
nice to see you too.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
So good to see.
Speaker 3 (00:30):
What a gorgeous, what a beautiful time to be in
christ Church as well. Yeah, I mean there's a lot
of composts out there that I see. The leaves are
down on the on the footpath outside there. It's beautiful,
it's crisp, it's in the city, feels great.
Speaker 4 (00:46):
It does actually hit the moment and you.
Speaker 3 (00:48):
Don't need a Jeff for telling you that, but oh no.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
But it's the funny thing is we've had quite a
rubbishy summer, right and suddenly it's becoming like this on
a regular basis, and you go like, that's me.
Speaker 3 (01:00):
Yeah, it's beautiful. It's absolutely stunning.
Speaker 4 (01:03):
You some more in the garden, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
Absolut ltely right now, we've got options to chat. We
can text, or you can text if you want nine
two nine two or s BC. He'd be from membobile
phone or better still, give us a call. Eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty is the number to call. Let's
get into it. Noel, good morning, No CHRISTOPHERA this wait
(01:27):
for next week, all right.
Speaker 4 (01:28):
Yeah, because he'll be in a different studio next week,
so you'll have to have a different number.
Speaker 5 (01:33):
All right.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (01:39):
I'm surrounded by T Tree, my my wife and Ivy
planted a heap of teacher about twenty old years ago,
and a heap of.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
It right, Sorry, which one teach you?
Speaker 3 (01:49):
T Tree?
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (01:50):
T three? I got it there, Thank you.
Speaker 6 (01:51):
Yeah, and my wife's got a big, beautiful race bush
elevens every bit our.
Speaker 7 (01:58):
Oil?
Speaker 6 (02:00):
How do I extract oil at A?
Speaker 4 (02:03):
I've never done that? Wow? How do you do that?
Speaker 5 (02:07):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (02:07):
You're asking me now? I suppose no I would have
asked you. I never had this idea, never had this
way of doing that. I have never done it in
my life.
Speaker 6 (02:15):
Look at it's a homebridge, still a proper I put
out nine out of it. Sure, I reckon they can
use it.
Speaker 4 (02:25):
I think so. I think that If you've got that already,
you're well ahead of me, my friend. Yep, I reckon.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
Just just carry on like I would like, try not.
Speaker 4 (02:38):
To try and make try not to make it too
too hot, I think, because some of these oils could
degenerate a bit, you know in the heat. Yeah, but no,
I'd like to know that.
Speaker 3 (02:52):
When I reconnol that often you'll find like there's a
local collective, right, so there'll there'll be someone around who's
into you know, the harvesting and collecting and that sort
of thing.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Yeah, yeah, local ewie will probably be that that I reckon,
That's where i'd go. They have the knowledge, you know what.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
I mean, what a great little project.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
What's a strange things.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Also, and it's like the you know, extracting the oils
for the lavender that sort of thing. Yeah, but that's
a press, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (03:26):
Yes, it is more, but it's also heating and and
I suppose but again I've never done that.
Speaker 3 (03:33):
It's fantastic. I got some stuff the other day cower Kowa,
yeah bomb, you know, yeah, amazing.
Speaker 5 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (03:40):
Do you know about the cow Kawa?
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Well, I know some yeah, I know the plant and
I bought some of this barm at one of the
Home and Garden shows, and I've used it and it's like,
this is awesome.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Yes it is. And and but if you go to
the cowacara itself, it comes with little holes in it
that are eaten in there by caterpillars that only eat
coor co all right, but here comes to thing. When
they have a lot of holes in it, the pressure
or the actual material inside the leaf becomes higher, and
(04:11):
your if you're like your your working facility is becoming
higher as well. Now, Maury knew that five hundred and
six out of seven hundred years ago, because the question
was do you use those leaves with lots of holes
for fewer holes, for little holes or no holes to
make tea?
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Sure?
Speaker 4 (04:31):
And that tea is really good for your body. The
more holes you have, the stronger it is. Maury knew
that for five hundred years. And now everybody going, can
I do it?
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (04:44):
You can?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Amazing, fantastic, This is awesome.
Speaker 4 (04:48):
Marta rang Amori.
Speaker 3 (04:50):
Absolutely, Radio Graham, Good morning to you guys. Graham.
Speaker 5 (04:56):
I just need to get some sort of resolution, you
might say, to imagine that there's honeybee. It's on the
wing at the present time around dropping its little pops
et cetera on the windows of your house.
Speaker 4 (05:12):
Yes.
Speaker 5 (05:13):
Now, is this something that's common or was a particular
time of the year.
Speaker 4 (05:17):
No, they only started it in nineteen eighty five. Now
I'm just joking they've been doing all their life.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
Maybe there's stuffing up my window.
Speaker 4 (05:29):
Yes, yes, wedn't forget have got really cool stuff from
with which you can actually clean your windows very fast
and very cleverly. First of all, you clean it, you know,
generally speaking, and then you get this wonderful stuff that
you use on your windows. Goes quick, dribbles off and
(05:50):
will be clean. Yes, sometimes you need to do it again,
I know, but it goes quickly and it works.
Speaker 2 (05:57):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (05:57):
And is there I think at a certain time of
the year that they're actually target you know, the sort
of stuff they leave behind. Yeah. Or is it because
they're looking for nesting somewhere else.
Speaker 4 (06:11):
No, it's it depends on what they've been eating. Really,
it's what they've been getting in terms of flowers and
their contents, you know, the nectar, and they pop out
what they don't like. But they've been doing that for decades.
Speaker 5 (06:24):
Yeah, And that's the certain places people like to own
you know a nest, number of nests, you know on
their properties, which is fair enough. It's all good stuff.
But you can often sort of see that there's something nearby,
because it hasn't always been on that case where you've
actually had that sort of residue being shown on your windows.
Speaker 4 (06:47):
It depends entirely on what you and your neighbors are
planting in the garden. What has the best nectar, What
is the most attractive to these bees, and they'll go
and get it, and as they fly away, they will
take all the good stuff in their stomach and they
literally get rid of the stuff they don't like, known
as pools.
Speaker 5 (07:05):
All okay, well, well you've answered a question that I
had a discussion for the person about that does have
these bees, so I have these mess and he indicated
that that situation does occur. But yes, you can often
tell how close they are, but it pears you know
what direction they're living in, you might say, with the
(07:27):
mess to get a better idea of where it's coming from.
Speaker 4 (07:31):
Direction that's quite often because they tried to do a
thing by hitting the neighbors. Those bees. They have this
little game. No, I'm just y.
Speaker 5 (07:41):
Off.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
You go see bye, thanks very much for that.
Speaker 3 (07:45):
Graham text has come through. I have a still I
only ever made essential oils with it.
Speaker 5 (07:51):
Just go for it.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
Keep the water as hydrosol as keep the water as
hydrousol for insect repeller. I've made lemongrass, rose, geranium, curry leaf, etcetera.
It's fabulous.
Speaker 4 (08:04):
It's it's one of those things I have never ever done.
Speaker 3 (08:08):
Funny a and something another one here, The unripe green
fruit is the most potent part.
Speaker 1 (08:14):
Of the cower color.
Speaker 4 (08:16):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, there you go.
Speaker 3 (08:17):
Yeah, fantastic, loving us. Right, we'll take one more call
before the break. Roger greetings, Hello Roger.
Speaker 7 (08:26):
Oh yes, it's Roger here. Think so that I'm from Tamaru.
On your previous couple of programs, you sort of ran
out of time to answer to guys with questions on lawns.
The one guy said he had yarra and he didn't
know what to do with it. Tell him to go
there in mine, attend and look for the product round
(08:50):
up for lawns in the blue bottle. Put some gloves
in the mask on because it's got to die in it,
and spray it on and then and then leave for
seven days and then mo and and then see what
comes up after that.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
But if you hang on, hang on, Roger, if you
use if you use round up, you will actually kill
all the grasses and other plants that are in that lawn.
I don't it, doesn't it?
Speaker 7 (09:16):
No, it's round up for lawns. It's in a blue bottle,
so it's in the spring bottle.
Speaker 4 (09:21):
It's a specific material that is not as as general
generous if you like, with its killing tricks as as
the other ones as the normal round up. Yes, got
you know, I've never used it. I didn't know that. Good.
Speaker 7 (09:36):
It's in the dark blue bottle and it's got a
blue dye in it.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Good.
Speaker 7 (09:42):
Thanks, you can see any And the other caller said,
how do I get rid of pest spell in his lawn?
Speaker 5 (09:49):
You know?
Speaker 7 (09:49):
Wheel bear it and a lady's fork in digred and
throw it to the tip. You're gonna she actually gets
rid of it because I had about two hundred of
them in a sort of packed lawn up and Wallington.
Speaker 4 (10:05):
It's a pain in the bum, isn't it.
Speaker 7 (10:08):
Yeah? You know it comes from the sort of why ghetto,
I think, yeah, sort of spread steer.
Speaker 4 (10:14):
Yeah, But originally it came from whole sorts of other
places on the planet. Of course, there you are. But
it is a pain, isn't it. If you're really wanting
to have a nice lawn, I willn't even go there. Yeah,
which is why I don't have a nice lawn.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
Great view, but not a nice lawn. That's all right, Hey, Roger,
thanks very much for that. I wonder if we can, no,
we'll take a quick break. It is let me see four.
Let's call it forty four and a half minutes after eight.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
That's what I would say, forty four. This endicular place
will only do the halves.
Speaker 3 (10:47):
We'll do the halves here I having been to the stadium,
we'll go for halftime radio. It's Red n Pete here
in New Storks. He'd be back after the rightio. That
must be our two. And if there's nothing going and
it's us talking, but of course we're chatting away and
catching up during the break as well, rightio, Oh, eight
hundred and eighty ten might have time for Actually, let's
(11:07):
do a couple of quick texts. Someone who has someone's
traveling for five weeks over winter? Is it safe to
leave a frost cloth bag covering the lemon for that
long or will the lack of light lack of air
solute air circulation cause an issue.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
If it's a frost cloth and it's light in color,
you have no problem at all. I would say, okay, now, all.
Speaker 3 (11:29):
Right, enjoy your travels, Chris morning Peak, please ask for
it it. Last year I planted broad beans, good, high
vigorous growth. Thought the beans were not as good as
the year before. So do I do the same thing?
And they've used some mushroom compost?
Speaker 4 (11:46):
Okay, I would go to a little bit more decent compost,
not mushrooms just by itself, but I would use you
a much more different thing as well, general fertilizer. And
also because it's going to be coming of course, things
that are becoming flowering for the actual broad beans themselves.
Something with a potash NPK with a higher.
Speaker 3 (12:07):
K, right, and someone with lemons they want to espeliate
a lemon tree on a wire on against a sunny
concrete wall. First year, quite a few limbs or a
few lemons, and the last few years no lemons at all.
Speaker 4 (12:21):
It's that potash again, Oh yes, all right, yeah NK.
Speaker 3 (12:26):
Simple as that. So it's nothing to do with the
espelier or anything.
Speaker 4 (12:29):
Nothing. No gosh no, no, no, no no, because the block.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Wall axis sort of increases the temperature, doesn't it. It
creates like a little micro environment. Yeah, perfect, right, Cedric
talk to us about monic butterflies.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Yeah, we are, my friend. How are you, Cedric? Where
have you been all this time?
Speaker 8 (12:49):
I've been busy with my monics. I have thousands, thousands
of plants, and I've got monchs. I've got crystaliss and
little caterpillars by the thousands.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
Yeah, good.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
Years.
Speaker 8 (13:07):
And the way I have it, I've got it on
three sides of my house. You got to back and
get rid of your lawn and bark the ground and
you get thousands of plants.
Speaker 3 (13:21):
It's fantastic, to be fair. It sounds a little bit
like my dad in the last He would go out
and clicked up caterpillars and then he hanged them inside
and look after them and record and slocate. Yeah, brilliant,
you know what.
Speaker 4 (13:39):
And it's something that Cedric needs to know as well.
And also the people in Auckland. In Auckland, there are
some serious troubles with things like red admiral butterflies. Right,
beautiful big one yesterday Julian Ira in the kitchen mucking around,
and there was this brand new one that just came
out of the cocoon, sitting there on the window, just
sitting there, waiting and weaving. And you look at these
(14:01):
amazing colors of bright red and bright black and bright
white and all these other and they're fingers crossed. Still
really well well done here and very nice and grat.
Speaker 3 (14:14):
Again like other the under threats. Yeah, okay, troubles and
the monarchs in terms of because I know people often
call through and they go, I don't see as many
and and so on, And that's a predator thing. It's
a habitat thing, it's a pesticide thing.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
All that sort of stuff. At the same time, there's
a lot of different things that are starting to muck around, right.
That's awful.
Speaker 3 (14:40):
Radio. I'm where are we at, scott Bumblebees?
Speaker 9 (14:46):
Good team, go for it, Yeah, get get it, guys.
Speaker 5 (14:50):
So just wondering.
Speaker 9 (14:53):
Living here in Christians around our place over in Summerfield,
we are where I am seeing different sized bumblebees. So
I've got some that are, you know, sort of what
you'd call the normal size. They have a same as
your thumbnail. But then I've got more saying some others
that would be sort of up to five cinemats long,
(15:13):
like really big, thick, fat, fluffy bumblebees. Are they the
same variety or species or are they different species? Are
they just older? Are they what would be the goat?
Speaker 4 (15:24):
All of the same. They are all the same. The
big ones are the queens. They are the ones that
actually do all the reproduction in the hives. The little ones,
the smaller ones usually go actually there actually there's males,
but there's also females that are actually active in collecting
nectar and stuff like that. They're all different sizes. But
(15:45):
you have to remember that here in Canterbury we have
two more different species. And you find the princess in
the Potendic gardens here and also where we are right
here in Christi at Central. And if you get to
get to know how to make the difference, how to
see the difference between these different species, you will now
see three common species in Canterbury that you can find
(16:09):
on an almost daily basis, not so much in winter.
It'll go down now. But they are different because we
have introduced into New Zealand four different species of bumblebee,
and they all and they all came from the UK
in the nineteen eighties. They all have different lengths of
tongues because that means they can then get them their
(16:30):
stuff from smaller and larger if you like, flowers from
which they can get the nectar. Now, those four different
ones are basically introduced here to do red clover, black cloth,
all sorts of different particular things that they wanted to
be to have in the padducks, if you like. And
they're still here except for one that is really rare,
(16:52):
and that's where my kids in Takapo are working on
to get them back to the UK because in the
UK that fourth species is extinct.
Speaker 9 (17:02):
Okay, So a bumblebee is not like a honeybee that
produces the honey. A bumblebee is just straight out for pollination.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Uh yes, it does pollination, but it does do that
by getting the honey, getting the necktie, and that is
how they get their whole the whole group going. You know,
that's how you eat.
Speaker 5 (17:21):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (17:21):
Yeah, But like a bumblebee, as a traditional honeybee or
you know, drone or whatever goes around and collects the
nigga from a flower or a plant or whatever, they
also pollinate, but bumblebees don't actually take honeybeit to hive
and create the honey combs as such. Do they all
do that?
Speaker 4 (17:40):
Yes, they do have a little bit of that, because
when you get little babies that need to that need
to eat before they become adults, they are feeding on
these wonderful sweet materials.
Speaker 9 (17:48):
Yeah, okay. The other there was one stuck stuck behind
my outside door with it being open, and it was,
as I say, nearly as big as my thumb.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (18:02):
Yeah, and it's trying to get out, doesn't it.
Speaker 9 (18:05):
Yeah. Well I was able to get out all right,
but yeah, yeah, I.
Speaker 4 (18:11):
Didn't get They usually end up with headaches.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Now, yeah, awesome, you have a great day. No, that
that's absolutely fantastic, right, Well we may not get time
for Simon, but.
Speaker 4 (18:26):
Well no, it's.
Speaker 3 (18:29):
Such a it's been such a pleasure being christ I
have to say, see I can see yeah maybe, but no, look,
it's fabulous and it's lovely to see you and see
how you're going. And I know the knees still playing
up a bit, but that'll you'll be all right.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Next time you take deb over, will have something, do
something useful with your life.
Speaker 3 (18:50):
Actually, I'm on the road again next week, so Wellington
Home and Living Show next next week I'll be down
in Wellington on Saturday, so if you're around popping Home
and Living Show, I'll probably do a presentation at some
stage during the day as well. Radio folks, my thanks
to to Hope who stepped in is producer. It's a
little bit tricky obviously because I'm in a different studio
(19:12):
and anyway it's worked well, so thank you very much
for that.
Speaker 5 (19:15):
Hope.
Speaker 3 (19:16):
Have a great week. What am I doing. I'm back
on the tools, so I got all sorts of jobs
to do next week. I'll tell you all about it
next Sunday on the show. Have a great week, Take
care all.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
The best, al can we still be something Between? Something Between?
Speaker 1 (19:37):
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