May 16, 2026 • 21 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for May 17, 2026, Ruud discusses a new type of bait for stoats, how to handle cluster flies, and his favourite product for getting rid of weeds.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks d Be.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
The Rude Climb Pass.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Good morning, sir, A very good morning to you. Are
you all okay and lovely? Parmerson North at this town
of the year, you land really lovely?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, no, it'll be nice. I'll be on the flight
at ten thirty down there at just before twelve, and
then come again on the five o'clock I think, so
it'll be lovely. It'll be like that part of the country.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Used to go there a lot, to the various schools,
but also especially when I go to the Wire Rapper.
An hour and a bit drive to get to the
Wire Rapper, and that is probably the place where I've
done most of the work with teachers and kids, and
it's all over the place. It's just beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's fair looking forward to it. Yeah, and amazing. I
just got my boarding passed by it through the app
just a moment ago. That's just yeah, it's fantastic. Now
Judy's been waiting for a while. But before that, I
just I packed up on a story yesterday about a
new type of bait for stoats that space.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I saw that, Yes, I saw that. So that is
something that they've been working with at DOC for quite
a while. I've forgotten the name of the lady, but
I saw it. And it's something that they're really really
keen to use and really keen to develop a bit better.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, but also sounds phenomenally successful, like this is this
is science and then outcomes and testing and wow, that's incredible.
Like they love it obviously, and they What intrigued me
is that it sounded like they go through and drop
non toxic bait to get the stoats to like that
(01:41):
particular taste, and then they do the poisoning.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Basically, Yeah, you give them something, they go like, oh,
we like this and this is even better. Look at
that's it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I mean, nobody feels bad about a stoat.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You know what, it's a native of the Netherlands.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
They can have them back then.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, I used to have ferrets. I had obtained ferret
at hell right, and that was that was one of
the went through my when goes up your pants and
somewhere it's brilliant, honestly.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, I will talk about wings spend the minute too.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
This is a very and I've got something to say
about safe works. But I think that comes in in
one of the questions.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
We're going to Hey, Judy, a very good morning to you. Hi,
hi there, how are you?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I'm good.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I don't speak to brute or you may be able
to help this world. Peter about growth like and growing
on the fringe of my canvas. Morning, I don't I'm
not sure how to do it to kill it. And
of course when you wind it up under the eaves
that put it away for the winter, mind you, but
sunday to that to kill the kill the likan because
(03:02):
it's sort of digging right into the canvas, and of
course his mold on the fringe as well. But the
rest of the awning is okay, Yeah, are you aware
that my can it can be sprayed on or something?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Oh? Yeah, you can. You could use you can use
all sorts of stuff that does fungal material, you know,
to really control fungi. And and that's really what you
need because liken is basically a combination of a couple
of organisms. One of them is one of them is
in a fungus and the other one is are all
sorts of bits and pieces, but you'll find that the
(03:35):
fungal material will actually control that if you do that
a couple of times. Fungus funger spray if you.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Like, Oh you just go okay, like miser tune or something.
They just have the pray called fungus spray.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well, there's canvas. Yes, there's lots of fungi that we
use on plants of course that get fungy. And this
is the same sort of stuff that you use in
this case. And it's not gonna I don't think it's
gonna hurt your canvas at all, to be quite honestly.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
What I was worried about. You know, that's great, So
I'll better ease it in. I'll be off down to
Miser team today.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And you do it both sides if you like, because
sometimes the funki go through your canvas as well, and
do the other.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Side eats into the the material.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yep, you got it. That's exactly what it does.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Good thanks for that duty. And actually just it can
grow on you know, hard surfaces like for example, color
coated roofing, right, so long run that sort of thing
and it will start to eat through the paint. So
if you start to see liking on your roof as well,
make sure you spray it treated because it will damage
the coating.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
If I ever told you about this fungus or this
li like and it grows on ashfeldt or on places
where you can walk, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's that lovely green one with like tentacles. Ah, yeah,
I quite like the look of it.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
But yes, there's so many different species. Now I'm talking
about one particular species you' often find on on things
like pathways or walkways and things like that, but also
on the road. And it is indeed slightly greenish but
also slightly whitish, and it's got this lovely round version,
and it is an absolutely amazing thing. It's called sexy
(05:23):
pavement lichen.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Is this a name that you've just made up?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I thank you for saying that, but it's not true.
I have not made this up. This is the name
of the thing, and the reason is and this is
can you amaze? This is a serious story, by the way.
The reason is that some people apparently in China, worked
out that if you scrape it off the of your
of your your your issue, like the place where you walk,
(05:51):
you know, and all that sort of stuff, but also
on road sides and you then you then can basically
use that material to it actually has the same active
ingredient as the stuff in what do you.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Call that viagra?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
That's the one. And to pick it up from the ground,
you know, with all the rubbish that comes from cars
and all that sort of stuff. It's not recommended. But honestly,
that's why they call it sexy pavement like it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Right, only you could bring that to the table, thank you. Right,
let's talk to Marian about flies.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Good morning, It's Mary and here from Vicago. We've got
cluster of flies in a heritage building, yep, and I'd
like to know how to treat them, how to manage them,
and preferably to how to eradicate the little devils. So
I'm mining your knowledge.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, okay, then the mo knowledge is very simple. These
things are basically coming at this time of the year,
probably came a bit earlier, especially in your area, to
go and hibernate. They sealing, they go up your ceilings,
they go all sorts of places, and they are really
really they'll be very lazy. They sit there, do nothing
and they wait for the weather to get a bit
(07:15):
better after six months, you know what I mean. Okay,
And they stink like hell too. Have you noticed you're right, yes, okay, Well, well,
one of the things I will do, and I've got
a little thing with me that safe Works is a
group of companies. It's a company actually that that has
(07:36):
very good insecticides but also funger sights and things like that.
And what I would do is find out from safe
Works to get some of their aircraft sprays that we
invented in the nineteen eighties, sprays that there are very
very useful to use and stay long on the material
in which is spray. And those poor little custofliers do
(08:00):
not like that particular material because they will they will die,
that they will die. So safe Works is the game
of the company safe Works with an X.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I've got it written down, yep.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
And they are. There's there's one in Christs, there's one
in Wellington, one and New Plymouth and three in Auckland.
Now i've seen you're you're the closest in christ Give
them a call and tell them you and I have
talked about this, and see if you can get some
residual aircraft spray residual stuff that they're using.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Plaines, So has there been any research done on the pheromones?
Quite like you just said, they stink like nobody's business
is there. You know, I've listened to research on pheromones
on other inseix and and you trick them into, you know,
doing stuff that they normally don't do. So you know,
but is there any research on their pat.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Their pheromones is what brings them together at your point, No, yeah,
and there is. There is nothing you can do about it.
You know, you can try and close them off as
close off the little holes as much as you can,
but you know, for that you need to go to
a builder. Now. I don't know if there's a builder
in the in the in the program at the moment, but.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
There might be a bit of an issue because this
is a listed building.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yeah, yep, yeah, well there you go. But it would
be good to actually to see how they get in
and whether or not you can actually close it off.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
What do you think, Peter, I mean, in a modern building,
we do, like there's lots of cavities and ventilation, and
we do try and make them insect proof. But I
mean a clusterfly is tiny, right, That's that's a large battle.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Some size of a blue bottle if you like, you know, Oh, okay,
they're reasonably sized yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, I mean if there are well, the hard thing
would be as soon as you open the windows, right, yeah, yeah,
you're in so a little bit more challenging that I
would have thought.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, but in this case, I would suggest Marion to
use some some chemical that will they hate, They can't,
they will that once survived there.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Okay, So use it often or once once it's.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Enough, once it's more than enough. If you've got that
stuff now, you will at least have three or four
four months worth of residue. Oh wow, that's pretty desperate.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yeah, yeah, right, and then thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You are more than welcome. That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Thank you very much for that, Marian, much appreciated. And Robin,
a very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Oh, good morning, good morning, Rude impiger. I just was
wondering if you'd be able to help me about our
lemon tree please. I'm in christ Church and this is
our third lemon tree. We grew two out in the
garden and tried to cover them and they didn't survive.
We've got one we've had now for about three years
in a pot. We thought it would be a bit
more protected and it was going really well. I took
(10:57):
all the flowers off the first year to encourage growth,
but we had good lemons last year and since then
it's just been yelling and the leaves are cooling. And
I've got you citrus fertilizer. Someone suggested ip some salts.
And we've just been away and come back and the
fruit that is on the tree hasn't grown at all
(11:19):
and it looks to me pretty much like it's dying.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Oh wow, So how do you think, do you?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
So?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I law the fact that you use some fertilizers. How
often did you do that a lot?
Speaker 7 (11:34):
I haven't. I haven't used it very often, maybe about
six months apart. I've put someone on, I mean a
little while ago. Somebody suggested ip some salts, which I tried.
But it's just dropping leaves all the time, and the
leaves where they have gone yellow.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, there's something. There's something not right. Then, if you've
done your fertilizer, your citrus fertilizer, and you've done it
in a medium number of days or times you've done
it if you like, there shouldn't be any problems. There
must be something strange with your soil. There might be
I don't know what what's your sory like? By the way, Ah, oh, it.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Was reasonably heavy. We've we've put on a raised garden
to use rather than being down. But this one, this
one I've put in a pot and we used really
good soil mix with it. So I'm a bit mustardfied
and I just think maybe it's not gonna survive.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Maybe it's a good idea to raise the bed. That's
something that Peter and I quite quite often talking about
raising beds because you've got far more control about what
you're going to put in there in terms of soil.
You know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Maybe do you also?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I guess?
Speaker 7 (12:40):
I guess. My My question route is how do you
feel about growing a lemon tree in a large pot
as opposed to growing it in the soil.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
We've done it, we're doing it. In fact, we we
Julian and I did quite a bit of work with
some lemon trees and it was to that yesterday. So
you no, that should be fine. We've got a strange lemon.
It's a very strange variety of lemon that it's very
anyway weird. But that's been in a pot for a
year and a half, two years, no.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Problems, yeah, I M not feel whether to try another
one on a pot or whether to go back to
the open soil raised bed. Okay to bed. Thank you
so much for your time, the best time.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Have a great day, Robin, take care. We're going to
take a short break. We'll be back in just a moment. Ruddy, oh, Tony,
A very good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Very good morning, rodent, Peter. I've got a very quick question. Really,
I want to know what weed killing product do you
recommend as the best one for keeping weeds away for
the longest period of time once I've been killed. Do
you have any do you have any preferential stype of
one or any particular chemical you really would go for
(13:53):
for that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
And here I have an enormous list with all the
different weed killers for different weeds. So is this about
hydrocottl or scrub cut or conquest tord on, Is this
about eliminator? Is this about medical fur on? Is this
about anything? What are your weeds? Is the question?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Well, that's a very good question. I wouldn't have a
clear because it was originally a backyarden with that poly
you know that black stuff on the ground, and it's
just sort of come to pieces, and I just really
want to sort of most of them. The black polyothane
has been remergent, and there's a lot of still things
sort of growing there that it's not grass, and I
(14:34):
just wonder what we're looking at the best sort of
one for, you know, for keeping them away before I
put some grass down.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
There are incredible different imbounds, very different species of stuff
you can use as weedkillers, and it depends entirely on
really what you want to do. So what I suggested
to you is identify what your main weed is and
all that get back to me, or go and go
to your local you know, mity ten and things like
(15:02):
that and see if they've got anything for that, because honestly,
I've got literally a whole a four page here with
all one to two, ten fifteen of these weak killers
that are really working well and long long long as well,
you know what I mean, the longer junial. Yeah, it's important.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Well, well, I would say I did try one which
was extensively advertised on it, but I'm not going to
mention it quite a while ago until they sold the company,
and I never found it very successful at all.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
So okay, that wasn't helping.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Okay, it wasn't helping at all though.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
No, no, But if you have gorse and broom and
BlackBerry and all that sort of stuff, but you're probably
talking about smaller things that is popping up. Yeah, yeah,
it might be you know, it could be something for grass.
It's very simple, you know, try identifying at first, Get
it identified at your local place, your local company if
you like that sells those things and they'll know what
to do. I bet you all of this, all of this.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And actually just a quick two ticks that are coming.
Hawks tracking yesterday between Southbridge and cost Ford and Canterbury
saw four beautiful hawks that are out together feeding and
the other two eating the road kill. They're incredibly clever
at pulling the kill off the road. Thank you for
your interest in them. From Carol. Second one, thank you Pauling.
A question for rud I'm on a lifestyle block. I've
(16:24):
got hawks attacking and killing my hens. What can I do?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
That's it? That first of all, hands easy, keep them
covered right, you know, in your hand, in your in
your hand place if you like. Honestly, that's important. Number
one that you talked about. I bet you those four
hawks that you are harriers are part of the team
that we band it over the last four years, right,
we do work exactly in that area. And this is
(16:50):
the time when you see literally harriers Mum quite often
with some kids still she teaches them how to to
to to hawk if you need to find that white food.
And that's how it works. And this is how we
got our cages up and catch them and put bands
around them. It's unbelo believable how they operate together as
a team. And it is brilliant to see them on
(17:10):
the side of the road when say anything that fell
over like a rat, but even a possum, they will
go and get them. They take them off the road
and they you know, use them for whatever they like
and they share the meal. Boom. Right, Oh, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Talking about sharing a meal. There is I know you're
not big on the old social media, but the good
people at Wingspan put up a video i think yesterday
of the ruru eating a Hooho brug bug. It is
the most delightful little video. Check it out on you. Oh,
it's just fantastic. The curiosity on the like there's kind
(17:48):
of nocel attitude towards the thing. And then the fight.
It's just fantastic.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I usually take these things to Wingspan if I go there,
or even a wetter and rhyme. Oh I don't love it.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, it's fantastic. The video is just as cute as
all get out. Nikky, good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Good morning, Payton Road. I have listened to what you
said about cluster flies. We've got a lot of We've
got a lot of clustom flies where sort of on
a farm. I've got some really good spray spraying around
the outside on in the ledges. We've got a two
(18:30):
story place, but they only come up to the top floor.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
The flies do and correct.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
That's really good. I didn't know that, but this this
is what I found out. But the spray is really good.
But what I want to know is I was told
that they breed in grass and then they come out
certain times with the year. I want to know what
we spray for that the grass and when we spray it.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I don't think the fact that they are in grass
is very simple. Is and this because they actually leave
their eggs and that will kill some of the what
do you call them, the things that live in the grass,
you know, the long thin ones. What do you I've
lost totally lost lost my track here they actually live.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Sorry you still snaky.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. They develop through earthworms.
They are actually they're actually eating earthworms. That's why they're
in the grass. And once they did that, they go
up in the winter time to hibernate at your place.
(19:49):
So that's that is the strange, the strange life cycle
of these clusterflies. So they feed on earthworms. They they
they're not too bad to be quite honest, but they
will probably do some damage. But then they go up
and this is the time of the year when they
sit at your place.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
All right, thank you. Yeah, this is the worst year, apparently,
because we've only been in this place. This is our
second year. But the neighbors said this is the worst,
and she's been here for quite a while, the worst
she's ever had them.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, yeah, I've heard that too this year, and there's
been quite a few. And they actually have you seen
those flies. They're gorgeous with those golden hairs on their bodies,
actually quite lovely.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Sorry, your ability to see the beauty in all of
God's creash is remarkable. As always, Nikki, Thank you and
good luck with the clusterflies. Well, I'm enjoying. I'm going
to enjoy my flight down and back, but more importantly
(20:51):
I enjoy the wood turning at the woodworking Expo. That'll
be awesome. I'm off to Parmister North on a flight
very soon. So thank you, Reed, have a great fun,
take care of mate, all the best, and we'll come
back and do it all again next week, possibly after
a glorious victory by Auckland d FC in the final.
Here at go Media, go Auckland f C. Well done.
(21:13):
Take care.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
The Rude Climb Pass.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Good morning, sir, A very good morning to you. Are
you all okay and lovely? Parmerson North at this town
of the year, you land really lovely?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
Yeah, no, it'll be nice. I'll be on the flight
at ten thirty down there at just before twelve, and
then come again on the five o'clock I think, so
it'll be lovely. It'll be like that part of the country.
Speaker 3 (00:33):
Used to go there a lot, to the various schools,
but also especially when I go to the Wire Rapper.
An hour and a bit drive to get to the
Wire Rapper, and that is probably the place where I've
done most of the work with teachers and kids, and
it's all over the place. It's just beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
It's fair looking forward to it. Yeah, and amazing. I
just got my boarding passed by it through the app
just a moment ago. That's just yeah, it's fantastic. Now
Judy's been waiting for a while. But before that, I
just I packed up on a story yesterday about a
new type of bait for stoats that space.
Speaker 3 (01:05):
I saw that, Yes, I saw that. So that is
something that they've been working with at DOC for quite
a while. I've forgotten the name of the lady, but
I saw it. And it's something that they're really really
keen to use and really keen to develop a bit better.
Speaker 2 (01:20):
Yeah, but also sounds phenomenally successful, like this is this
is science and then outcomes and testing and wow, that's incredible.
Like they love it obviously, and they What intrigued me
is that it sounded like they go through and drop
non toxic bait to get the stoats to like that
(01:41):
particular taste, and then they do the poisoning.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Basically, Yeah, you give them something, they go like, oh,
we like this and this is even better. Look at
that's it.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
I mean, nobody feels bad about a stoat.
Speaker 1 (01:59):
Ah.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
You know what, it's a native of the Netherlands.
Speaker 2 (02:05):
They can have them back then.
Speaker 3 (02:07):
Yeah, I used to have ferrets. I had obtained ferret
at hell right, and that was that was one of
the went through my when goes up your pants and
somewhere it's brilliant, honestly.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
Yeah, I will talk about wings spend the minute too.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
This is a very and I've got something to say
about safe works. But I think that comes in in
one of the questions.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
We're going to Hey, Judy, a very good morning to you. Hi,
hi there, how are you?
Speaker 4 (02:37):
I'm good.
Speaker 5 (02:39):
I don't speak to brute or you may be able
to help this world. Peter about growth like and growing
on the fringe of my canvas. Morning, I don't I'm
not sure how to do it to kill it. And
of course when you wind it up under the eaves
that put it away for the winter, mind you, but
sunday to that to kill the kill the likan because
(03:02):
it's sort of digging right into the canvas, and of
course his mold on the fringe as well. But the
rest of the awning is okay, Yeah, are you aware
that my can it can be sprayed on or something?
Speaker 3 (03:14):
Oh? Yeah, you can. You could use you can use
all sorts of stuff that does fungal material, you know,
to really control fungi. And and that's really what you
need because liken is basically a combination of a couple
of organisms. One of them is one of them is
in a fungus and the other one is are all
sorts of bits and pieces, but you'll find that the
(03:35):
fungal material will actually control that if you do that
a couple of times. Fungus funger spray if you.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Like, Oh you just go okay, like miser tune or something.
They just have the pray called fungus spray.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Well, there's canvas. Yes, there's lots of fungi that we
use on plants of course that get fungy. And this
is the same sort of stuff that you use in
this case. And it's not gonna I don't think it's
gonna hurt your canvas at all, to be quite honestly.
Speaker 5 (04:05):
What I was worried about. You know, that's great, So
I'll better ease it in. I'll be off down to
Miser team today.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
And you do it both sides if you like, because
sometimes the funki go through your canvas as well, and
do the other.
Speaker 5 (04:20):
Side eats into the the material.
Speaker 3 (04:23):
Yep, you got it. That's exactly what it does.
Speaker 2 (04:27):
Good thanks for that duty. And actually just it can
grow on you know, hard surfaces like for example, color
coated roofing, right, so long run that sort of thing
and it will start to eat through the paint. So
if you start to see liking on your roof as well,
make sure you spray it treated because it will damage
the coating.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
If I ever told you about this fungus or this
li like and it grows on ashfeldt or on places
where you can walk, you know.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
It's that lovely green one with like tentacles. Ah, yeah,
I quite like the look of it.
Speaker 3 (05:01):
But yes, there's so many different species. Now I'm talking
about one particular species you' often find on on things
like pathways or walkways and things like that, but also
on the road. And it is indeed slightly greenish but
also slightly whitish, and it's got this lovely round version,
and it is an absolutely amazing thing. It's called sexy
(05:23):
pavement lichen.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Is this a name that you've just made up?
Speaker 3 (05:29):
I thank you for saying that, but it's not true.
I have not made this up. This is the name
of the thing, and the reason is and this is
can you amaze? This is a serious story, by the way.
The reason is that some people apparently in China, worked
out that if you scrape it off the of your
of your your your issue, like the place where you walk,
(05:51):
you know, and all that sort of stuff, but also
on road sides and you then you then can basically
use that material to it actually has the same active
ingredient as the stuff in what do you.
Speaker 2 (06:06):
Call that viagra?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
That's the one. And to pick it up from the ground,
you know, with all the rubbish that comes from cars
and all that sort of stuff. It's not recommended. But honestly,
that's why they call it sexy pavement like it.
Speaker 2 (06:25):
Right, only you could bring that to the table, thank you. Right,
let's talk to Marian about flies.
Speaker 6 (06:34):
Good morning, It's Mary and here from Vicago. We've got
cluster of flies in a heritage building, yep, and I'd
like to know how to treat them, how to manage them,
and preferably to how to eradicate the little devils. So
I'm mining your knowledge.
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Well, okay, then the mo knowledge is very simple. These
things are basically coming at this time of the year,
probably came a bit earlier, especially in your area, to
go and hibernate. They sealing, they go up your ceilings,
they go all sorts of places, and they are really
really they'll be very lazy. They sit there, do nothing
and they wait for the weather to get a bit
(07:15):
better after six months, you know what I mean. Okay,
And they stink like hell too. Have you noticed you're right, yes, okay, Well, well,
one of the things I will do, and I've got
a little thing with me that safe Works is a
group of companies. It's a company actually that that has
(07:36):
very good insecticides but also funger sights and things like that.
And what I would do is find out from safe
Works to get some of their aircraft sprays that we
invented in the nineteen eighties, sprays that there are very
very useful to use and stay long on the material
in which is spray. And those poor little custofliers do
(08:00):
not like that particular material because they will they will die,
that they will die. So safe Works is the game
of the company safe Works with an X.
Speaker 6 (08:09):
I've got it written down, yep.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
And they are. There's there's one in Christs, there's one
in Wellington, one and New Plymouth and three in Auckland.
Now i've seen you're you're the closest in christ Give
them a call and tell them you and I have
talked about this, and see if you can get some
residual aircraft spray residual stuff that they're using.
Speaker 6 (08:29):
Plaines, So has there been any research done on the pheromones?
Quite like you just said, they stink like nobody's business
is there. You know, I've listened to research on pheromones
on other inseix and and you trick them into, you know,
doing stuff that they normally don't do. So you know,
but is there any research on their pat.
Speaker 3 (08:52):
Their pheromones is what brings them together at your point, No, yeah,
and there is. There is nothing you can do about it.
You know, you can try and close them off as
close off the little holes as much as you can,
but you know, for that you need to go to
a builder. Now. I don't know if there's a builder
in the in the in the program at the moment, but.
Speaker 6 (09:14):
There might be a bit of an issue because this
is a listed building.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
Yeah, yep, yeah, well there you go. But it would
be good to actually to see how they get in
and whether or not you can actually close it off.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
What do you think, Peter, I mean, in a modern building,
we do, like there's lots of cavities and ventilation, and
we do try and make them insect proof. But I
mean a clusterfly is tiny, right, That's that's a large battle.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Some size of a blue bottle if you like, you know, Oh, okay,
they're reasonably sized yeah.
Speaker 2 (09:45):
Yeah, I mean if there are well, the hard thing
would be as soon as you open the windows, right, yeah, yeah,
you're in so a little bit more challenging that I
would have thought.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Yeah, but in this case, I would suggest Marion to
use some some chemical that will they hate, They can't,
they will that once survived there.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Okay, So use it often or once once it's.
Speaker 3 (10:13):
Enough, once it's more than enough. If you've got that
stuff now, you will at least have three or four
four months worth of residue. Oh wow, that's pretty desperate.
That's pretty good.
Speaker 6 (10:25):
Yeah, yeah, right, and then thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:28):
You are more than welcome. That's a good question.
Speaker 2 (10:31):
Thank you very much for that, Marian, much appreciated. And Robin,
a very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Oh, good morning, good morning, Rude impiger. I just was
wondering if you'd be able to help me about our
lemon tree please. I'm in christ Church and this is
our third lemon tree. We grew two out in the
garden and tried to cover them and they didn't survive.
We've got one we've had now for about three years
in a pot. We thought it would be a bit
more protected and it was going really well. I took
(10:57):
all the flowers off the first year to encourage growth,
but we had good lemons last year and since then
it's just been yelling and the leaves are cooling. And
I've got you citrus fertilizer. Someone suggested ip some salts.
And we've just been away and come back and the
fruit that is on the tree hasn't grown at all
(11:19):
and it looks to me pretty much like it's dying.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Oh wow, So how do you think, do you?
Speaker 6 (11:25):
So?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
I law the fact that you use some fertilizers. How
often did you do that a lot?
Speaker 7 (11:34):
I haven't. I haven't used it very often, maybe about
six months apart. I've put someone on, I mean a
little while ago. Somebody suggested ip some salts, which I tried.
But it's just dropping leaves all the time, and the
leaves where they have gone yellow.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Yeah, there's something. There's something not right. Then, if you've
done your fertilizer, your citrus fertilizer, and you've done it
in a medium number of days or times you've done
it if you like, there shouldn't be any problems. There
must be something strange with your soil. There might be
I don't know what what's your sory like? By the way, Ah, oh, it.
Speaker 7 (12:10):
Was reasonably heavy. We've we've put on a raised garden
to use rather than being down. But this one, this
one I've put in a pot and we used really
good soil mix with it. So I'm a bit mustardfied
and I just think maybe it's not gonna survive.
Speaker 3 (12:27):
Maybe it's a good idea to raise the bed. That's
something that Peter and I quite quite often talking about
raising beds because you've got far more control about what
you're going to put in there in terms of soil.
You know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (12:37):
Maybe do you also?
Speaker 3 (12:39):
I guess?
Speaker 7 (12:40):
I guess. My My question route is how do you
feel about growing a lemon tree in a large pot
as opposed to growing it in the soil.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
We've done it, we're doing it. In fact, we we
Julian and I did quite a bit of work with
some lemon trees and it was to that yesterday. So
you no, that should be fine. We've got a strange lemon.
It's a very strange variety of lemon that it's very
anyway weird. But that's been in a pot for a
year and a half, two years, no.
Speaker 7 (13:07):
Problems, yeah, I M not feel whether to try another
one on a pot or whether to go back to
the open soil raised bed. Okay to bed. Thank you
so much for your time, the best time.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Welcome.
Speaker 2 (13:23):
Have a great day, Robin, take care. We're going to
take a short break. We'll be back in just a moment. Ruddy, oh, Tony,
A very good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Very good morning, rodent, Peter. I've got a very quick question. Really,
I want to know what weed killing product do you
recommend as the best one for keeping weeds away for
the longest period of time once I've been killed. Do
you have any do you have any preferential stype of
one or any particular chemical you really would go for
(13:53):
for that sort of thing.
Speaker 3 (13:54):
And here I have an enormous list with all the
different weed killers for different weeds. So is this about
hydrocottl or scrub cut or conquest tord on, Is this
about eliminator? Is this about medical fur on? Is this
about anything? What are your weeds? Is the question?
Speaker 4 (14:13):
Well, that's a very good question. I wouldn't have a
clear because it was originally a backyarden with that poly
you know that black stuff on the ground, and it's
just sort of come to pieces, and I just really
want to sort of most of them. The black polyothane
has been remergent, and there's a lot of still things
sort of growing there that it's not grass, and I
(14:34):
just wonder what we're looking at the best sort of
one for, you know, for keeping them away before I
put some grass down.
Speaker 3 (14:42):
There are incredible different imbounds, very different species of stuff
you can use as weedkillers, and it depends entirely on
really what you want to do. So what I suggested
to you is identify what your main weed is and
all that get back to me, or go and go
to your local you know, mity ten and things like
(15:02):
that and see if they've got anything for that, because honestly,
I've got literally a whole a four page here with
all one to two, ten fifteen of these weak killers
that are really working well and long long long as well,
you know what I mean, the longer junial. Yeah, it's important.
Speaker 4 (15:22):
Well, well, I would say I did try one which
was extensively advertised on it, but I'm not going to
mention it quite a while ago until they sold the company,
and I never found it very successful at all.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
So okay, that wasn't helping.
Speaker 4 (15:35):
Okay, it wasn't helping at all though.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
No, no, But if you have gorse and broom and
BlackBerry and all that sort of stuff, but you're probably
talking about smaller things that is popping up. Yeah, yeah,
it might be you know, it could be something for grass.
It's very simple, you know, try identifying at first, Get
it identified at your local place, your local company if
you like that sells those things and they'll know what
to do. I bet you all of this, all of this.
Speaker 2 (16:03):
And actually just a quick two ticks that are coming.
Hawks tracking yesterday between Southbridge and cost Ford and Canterbury
saw four beautiful hawks that are out together feeding and
the other two eating the road kill. They're incredibly clever
at pulling the kill off the road. Thank you for
your interest in them. From Carol. Second one, thank you Pauling.
A question for rud I'm on a lifestyle block. I've
(16:24):
got hawks attacking and killing my hens. What can I do?
Speaker 3 (16:27):
That's it? That first of all, hands easy, keep them
covered right, you know, in your hand, in your in
your hand place if you like. Honestly, that's important. Number
one that you talked about. I bet you those four
hawks that you are harriers are part of the team
that we band it over the last four years, right,
we do work exactly in that area. And this is
(16:50):
the time when you see literally harriers Mum quite often
with some kids still she teaches them how to to
to to hawk if you need to find that white food.
And that's how it works. And this is how we
got our cages up and catch them and put bands
around them. It's unbelo believable how they operate together as
a team. And it is brilliant to see them on
(17:10):
the side of the road when say anything that fell
over like a rat, but even a possum, they will
go and get them. They take them off the road
and they you know, use them for whatever they like
and they share the meal. Boom. Right, Oh, it's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
Talking about sharing a meal. There is I know you're
not big on the old social media, but the good
people at Wingspan put up a video i think yesterday
of the ruru eating a Hooho brug bug. It is
the most delightful little video. Check it out on you. Oh,
it's just fantastic. The curiosity on the like there's kind
(17:48):
of nocel attitude towards the thing. And then the fight.
It's just fantastic.
Speaker 3 (17:55):
I usually take these things to Wingspan if I go there,
or even a wetter and rhyme. Oh I don't love it.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, it's fantastic. The video is just as cute as
all get out. Nikky, good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (18:08):
Good morning, Payton Road. I have listened to what you
said about cluster flies. We've got a lot of We've
got a lot of clustom flies where sort of on
a farm. I've got some really good spray spraying around
the outside on in the ledges. We've got a two
(18:30):
story place, but they only come up to the top floor.
Speaker 4 (18:34):
The flies do and correct.
Speaker 7 (18:37):
That's really good. I didn't know that, but this this
is what I found out. But the spray is really good.
But what I want to know is I was told
that they breed in grass and then they come out
certain times with the year. I want to know what
we spray for that the grass and when we spray it.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
I don't think the fact that they are in grass
is very simple. Is and this because they actually leave
their eggs and that will kill some of the what
do you call them, the things that live in the grass,
you know, the long thin ones. What do you I've
lost totally lost lost my track here they actually live.
Speaker 2 (19:25):
Sorry you still snaky.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Yeah, I don't know, I don't know. They develop through earthworms.
They are actually they're actually eating earthworms. That's why they're
in the grass. And once they did that, they go
up in the winter time to hibernate at your place.
(19:49):
So that's that is the strange, the strange life cycle
of these clusterflies. So they feed on earthworms. They they
they're not too bad to be quite honest, but they
will probably do some damage. But then they go up
and this is the time of the year when they
sit at your place.
Speaker 7 (20:05):
All right, thank you. Yeah, this is the worst year, apparently,
because we've only been in this place. This is our
second year. But the neighbors said this is the worst,
and she's been here for quite a while, the worst
she's ever had them.
Speaker 3 (20:18):
Yeah, yeah, I've heard that too this year, and there's
been quite a few. And they actually have you seen
those flies. They're gorgeous with those golden hairs on their bodies,
actually quite lovely.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
Sorry, your ability to see the beauty in all of
God's creash is remarkable. As always, Nikki, Thank you and
good luck with the clusterflies. Well, I'm enjoying. I'm going
to enjoy my flight down and back, but more importantly
(20:51):
I enjoy the wood turning at the woodworking Expo. That'll
be awesome. I'm off to Parmister North on a flight
very soon. So thank you, Reed, have a great fun,
take care of mate, all the best, and we'll come
back and do it all again next week, possibly after
a glorious victory by Auckland d FC in the final.
Here at go Media, go Auckland f C. Well done.
(21:13):
Take care.
Speaker 1 (21:35):
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