May 30, 2026 • 21 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for 31 May 2026, Ruud talks about residual insecticide, what's stopping your fruit trees from flowering, and how do you spot mushroom scale?
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks a.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Red Climb Pass. Good morning sir.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Good morning Peter. Have you been well? I heard your
less yesterday on the radio with the enormous amount of
different ways of spelling Peter and Peter cheer and oldiflower
coll You know what that's that's that's unbelievable, isn't It's
the same with Ruth Rudolph.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, that's fantastic anyway, fun yeah, yeah, yeah. Back to
the Home and Garden Show later on this morning, and
I quite enjoy those. It's kind of like, well, it's
not a live version of this show, but it's it's
you know, having people in front of you and then
trying to stop early enough to then engage with a
(01:01):
bit of conversation. I really enjoy that sort of process.
So it's nice you're looking.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
For lovely, isn't it lovely? How many people recognize you
and go and come and talk to you and you
have all these lovely That's a nice way.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
For a chat, you know, so exactly can we have
a bit of a chat about this and a bit
of a chat and look, that's why I'm there. I'm
more than happy to have a bit of a guess
with anyone that wants to come up and say hi. So, yeah,
I'll be there this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Right, it's about so yeah, just before before we go
before yeah, Gardener's good. I'm just going to do something
that starts next week with with young Jack Tame.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
At the moment, it is the Fungus of the Year
twenty twenty six. You know, we've got a bird of
the year ago, an insect of the year ago.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Now we've got Fungus of the Year.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It's been going for a while. But Peter W. Kennan
is an old maid of mine and he's he's we're
going to give you a really good thing on Jack Dame,
but I'll probably do something on our show here as well. Brilliant,
absolutely fabulous stuff. Go and have a look the Fungus
of the Year twenty twenty six and it's on till
the eighteenth of June. I think it's brilliant. The stories
(02:12):
are fabulous.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Sorry, So the fungus that you got when you had
athletes foot, would that qualify?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
All right, just yep, it does as well as real
as well as the wood ear, which is a thing
that you can pick up from You gotta know what
you do though. You can't just take anything and eat anything.
But there are absolutely yes, no, we you and me, mate,
we can do this. There's facial exema fungus. How about that?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Fantastic? Right, we're straying into dangerous territory here. I did
love your section with Jane yesterday with Jack about in
your little audio of the birds at your place. That
was phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
That was actually recorded at my place.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
There were like hundreds of these things. It's fighting for
a bit of fund. It was brilliant, brilliant, but it
wasn't about the food. It was about bring them there.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Get me thinking about making a little sugar water to
spend some feeder thing.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, either that or you can get one one of
those ones made from from plastic or from from glass,
if you like some really nice ones. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You know me, I'm going to make one myself.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, if you can do that with glass. See I
used to be a glass person, so I used to
do it with glass. And I'm not joking, but but yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You find it fun whatever you like. Yeah, go for
wine bottle somewhere. Right, let's get into it. Peter, talk
to me about orchards.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Morning, mate. Hey, I wanted to ask you. I'm growing orchards.
I'm in I'm in manu Ewa. Yeah. Yeah. When they flower,
there seems to be a bug that eats all the flowers.
I'm just wanting it. You can help us out there.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So the orchards themselves, or the flower the frailers.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Now, the plants are fine, so I just said one.
It's a small white one. It's not a great big symbidium,
but it had there was a six spiker and white
fires and when the fares came out, these bags have
been eating all the failers.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Okay, well it could be some of the insects, but
I cannot pick which one it would be. To be
quite honest, have you seen anybody eating their of you?
Have you seen a culprit doing that?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
No, I can't find the culprit. I have pride using
dearest dust, but it doesn't seem to do much.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You might have been too late with the derorist dust.
That's not the point. If I can see, if I
can tell you which one of these, especially with all
these dendrobiums and pullernopsis and all the other things. Then
at least we can have a bit of a look.
But yeah, okay, so what can you do? Derorost dust
is not a bad one, but you've got to be
before they come to your orchard, right, does that make sense? Yeah?
(05:13):
And and the other thing you can do is you
can do sometimes bits with oh what do you call that?
The stuff that you use for some of these pests. Oh,
you can use any sort of insecticide if you like,
as long as it's residual, it stays with your plant.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, a couple of shelf It is not
for insects, that's for for all sorts of other things.
But but if you've got an insecticide that lasts longer, ah,
try something like safe works. Where you where where do
you live?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Roughly in and South or money?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Okay, there's a there's a company called safe Works. One
word and works ends with an X. Safe works. It's
a safety company actually, and they have little pesticites in
in machines, in little things that you can activate. And
if you put that on your plant very gently, you
know you'll find that that stuff will last for at
(06:18):
least something like eight weeks. Nobody will get there nobody
will start eating it because if they do it, they
literally kill themselves. So the safe works besticite is absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
All right, I will look for that. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
You're morning.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Welcome all the very misty people.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Okay, bye bye bye, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Take care and if you've got a question for it,
you should call now. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty years the number question for you, written via the text.
Two temarillo trees that they've grown from seed three years ago.
One has had non stop fruiting from two years old
and needs pruning. It's at least ten foot high. New
flowers arrive. Also, the second one hasn't fruited at all.
(07:03):
Should they just prune the fruiting one? And how do
I get the other one to fruit? I do use fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
That's got Yeah, it's funny that it's becoming a show.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
The breakfast.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, how many breakfast do you every every week? Anyway,
you have to remember they and that My question is
are they back? Are they together or are they in
different places? Because here comes the thing. A tamarilla usually
has begins usually flowering after a year and a half
or two years or something. Like that, right, But if
the tree is mature but failing to actually bloom, it's
(07:40):
usually a lack of sunlight, you know, so they need
really neat light. There could be wind damage because those
little turmorillas are actually quite susceptible to some wind damage,
or things like not that the fertilizer we discuss discussed,
or poor watering, not regular watering, and not too much
(08:00):
watering either. So there's all these different things that I've
had the same thing with temarillas. In one place they
go like billy oh, and the other thing side they said,
not enough light, thank you, not enough exposure, that's it.
And then cold strong winds is another one that can
cause troubles, you know, right, it's a place of where
(08:20):
are you?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So if they were alongside each other, yeah, that would
be unusual because then they're both roughly in the same condition.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I would say, so, especially if you got both of
them at the same time together, probably from the same deliverer,
you know what I mean. Incorrect watering, that sort of stuff.
Nutrient imbalances are usually the same thing too, but they
will use the same thing. So it's I don't think
it's that, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, A mystery so it really depends on whether or
not they're.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Together in a different thing. Yeah, okay, yeah, And as
soon as they get too much wind, I know, they
start to get really iffy with that. I've had one
like that that didn't last very long at all, but
a year, and that was boff gone.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Okay. Now a small tree that's infested with what I
think is mushroom scale. And now I've seen another one
that's infested. Should I remove it before it's spreads through
the garden? First question for me is what is mushroom scale?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I don't know. It's it's, it's it depends on what
it depends on what the species is. But mushroom scale,
it means it's got it. Probably that that particular plant
or a tree has got scale like things on it's
on its body if you like, or on it's it's
it's it's legs. In that case, I suggest you use
a material that you use for fungus control fungus sites
(09:44):
if you like. That is probably the only thing that
I can think of. But which one it is? My goodness?
There are here we.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Go, right, This is whether or not it's up for
Fungus of the year. There you go now can we
deal with the controversy before we go to the news.
The break Rather, someone has ticked through sugar water is
an no, they become dependent on it and stop drinking
where the natural liquids are and the likes of flex flowers.
This is according to Tom from Great Barrier Island.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I don't think so. I think it is better than,
for instance, stuff like that you get from other sweet
SAPs that are natural SAPs. The reason we're getting the
sugar water in there is because it could take It's
not too dense that sugar, to be quite honest. But
the point is to get those creatures near your garden
(10:38):
where they will be regularly right into spring and even
into early summer when they are having kids and babies
and all that sort of stuff. And the reason is
that you want to get them used to flying to
your place with all the you know, the things of
this is where I live. And what they do after
(10:58):
that is they basically get rid of all the pests
that are then on your plants. That is the whole
idea of feeding them now and getting them used to
flying to your place, not one, two or three, not fifty,
sometimes up to six hundred of them yeah, regularly.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, all right, so we're not getting them hooked on
the good stuff, and then they're not going to drink
the natural stuff anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
We're getting them hooked on your place, where you live
and where you've got your normal pests control needed if
you like.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Right, awesome, Right, we've dealt with that. Now we can
take a break. Let's do that. We'll come back and
chat with Sharon straight after the break. It seems like
we've stumbled into a horns list of questions around the
sugar water.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
And sugar water. Oh yeah, yeah, I know, I know,
but it's not that bad. It's actually is. They love it.
It gives them a really quick amount of nutrient and
they know where it is, and I think that's really important.
They'll come back.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, excellent, righto, Sharon, Good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Oh good morning.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
There.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
We have a tomato plant. It's a single tomorrow so plant.
It's about two and a half meters high and it's
five meters by three meters and etcetera. It's absolutely a
monstrous it's got loads of flowers on us.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Let me get it has one fruit?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Well yeah, actually he's got little wee ones and that's
not many of them. So what are we done? What
have we help it? Is it too bad?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Okay? So but you do get but the species, the
variety of this thing. Is this something that you bought
some time ago?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Oh no, recently, I'm not that long.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Ago, okay, And it is a variety that gives you
small fruit?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Well I think so, I mean honestly with you, I
can't remember, but I don't know that it does. Actually
I'm not sure that.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
See this is it sometimes these things?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Okay, well so we're not sure then what the variety is. Okay.
So there's lots of things that can go on here.
You could have a nutrient related problem, or you could
have something that it was actually the original if you
like tomato species that holds the grafted one on it,
(13:24):
you know what I mean, So.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
That your yeah, it is proper sized tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Apparently it's a grafted one. Okay, good. Well, in that case,
you've got things that sometimes have a magnesium deficiency, or
they've got a blossom and rot, they've got not enough fertilizer,
and the fruit starts splitting when things go wrong at
the bottom. You know that the little things, especially those
little little things, do that you do get some of them?
(13:58):
How come you got them now? Because there? This is
almost the end of tomato end, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
I know we've had we've had thousands of flowers us
for quite a long time. And if there isn't any
no fruit on it really at all, it's just this
great plant when there's loads of tomato flowers on that.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Okay, what do you fertilize it with?
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Normal?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Just general garden fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Okay, and not something that has an an attitude of Here,
I'll give you a lot of potash, which is the
np K of NPK. If you have something that has
a higher pottage number, you'll find that it will make
far more fruit, you know what I mean. That's the
thing that gives it. The general fertilizer NPK of equal
(14:49):
equal equal if you like, is not something that is
very gives you a lot of different fruit, a lot
of different So if you get so, you get a
tomato fertilizer or a rose fertilizer, everything that is normally
living on particular plants with fruit and flowers like that. Yeah, right,
(15:09):
have you got it? Have you got it in a glasshouse?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
No, it's in our vegetable garden outside.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Okay, right, I've got mine in a glasshouse. It's still
going and it's still fruiting. Not for very long, I think,
because they're getting a bit old now, but that is
usually the way. It's that fertilizer that is aiming for
things that make flowers and fruits.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Okay, all right, we'll give that a world and you know,
we'll see what happens. But yeah, it's most unusual this
time of the year.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It is, I must say it is. Don't expect too
much from now on, but for next year, you are
armed with a different fertilizer for the for these things.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Yeah, that's lovely.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Thank you very much for help, no worries.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Nice to talk to you, Sharon. You take care.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
A couple of ticks someone's thinking could be slugs for
the orchards.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, but you always find their trails, you know, those
slime trails. Yes, yeah, yeah, because if they don't watch out,
they slip over and they fall off.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Now, someone suggests that paint brush flower to flower for
the pollination. That's got to be about the tomatoes. M No,
seems like a lot of work.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
No, I wouldn't what I would do is I would
get my my my thing that has got on it
that that does my you know my if if I
if I do something like my toothbrush, yes, you know yes,
because when you start making a toothbrush without I suppose
the brush, but something that goes you actually make the
(16:48):
flowers that as they are going on and their new
plants pollinate themselves, because that is how bumblebees do it,
by going on these plants.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And what sort of creates a little mushroom cloud of pollination.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, that's yeah, Yeah, that's what I've that's I think
that's I've done it with my my old, my old
tomato plants right now at home, and they still get
new fruit by going with my toothbrush. Julie is not
too happy because she thinks I brush my teeth with
the same.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Both a picture of you wandering through the garden with
your toothbrush.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Yes, it's not uncommon. It is not uncommon.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And having been to your garden now I've got a
very clear picture of you wandering around with your new knee.
I was awesome. We'll check to John very quickly. Hello John,
got good baby.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
What can we do for you?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I'll put a peach tree on a couple of years
ago from out the back. And it's gone massively and
we've got two.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Peaches, two peaches, all of it.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
All of.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Then we trimmed it up and uh, this year grew massively.
That's the same I and I've got no features and
just heaps and heaps and leaves on us. Just gavern
and leaves.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Okay, pollination, pollination, what are you doing in terms of fertilizer?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Oh, just garden fertilizer and wear more.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, that's that's a little bit like the previous the
previous conversations we had. If you want peachers, you need
something that actually really makes the peatures grow on the tree.
So you need something with a high k n p
k so a good pollination and and and and and
(19:05):
if you like, yeah, a pollination system that makes your
plants grow fruit bingo, that's what it is.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
So you're getting you're getting anything that you use on
apples and on pears and on peaches and stuff like that,
and you will have a lot better result.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Ye okay, easy, awesome to try something.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, John in spring, Okay, lovely to talk to you.
Thank you very much. Now, slugs and the worm farm. Yeah,
is that a good thing?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Slugs in the worm farm?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, they're okay. They they do their own thing, they
get their own stuff, They know what to do.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I mean, maybe not so much fun when you happen
to get one between your fingers when you're doing the compost.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
But hey, yes, that's another one.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Right right. We'll leave the controversy of the sugar water
for another day. But I was going to ask for
a recipe. Maybe we'll do that next week, because now
that we're coming into winter, maybe we do need to
start feeding the local wildlife. Absolutely, Okay, let's do that.
Let's do it next day. Enjoy King's birthday tomorrow. Take
will enjoy the day off all the best. Thank you, Rud,
(20:13):
Thank you folks. Have a great day. I'm off to
the Home and Garden Show. Might see you there at
Eden Park. Take care of have a great weak.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
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from News Talks a.
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Red Climb Pass. Good morning sir.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Good morning Peter. Have you been well? I heard your
less yesterday on the radio with the enormous amount of
different ways of spelling Peter and Peter cheer and oldiflower
coll You know what that's that's that's unbelievable, isn't It's
the same with Ruth Rudolph.
Speaker 2 (00:39):
Yeah, that's fantastic anyway, fun yeah, yeah, yeah. Back to
the Home and Garden Show later on this morning, and
I quite enjoy those. It's kind of like, well, it's
not a live version of this show, but it's it's
you know, having people in front of you and then
trying to stop early enough to then engage with a
(01:01):
bit of conversation. I really enjoy that sort of process.
So it's nice you're looking.
Speaker 3 (01:06):
For lovely, isn't it lovely? How many people recognize you
and go and come and talk to you and you
have all these lovely That's a nice way.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
For a chat, you know, so exactly can we have
a bit of a chat about this and a bit
of a chat and look, that's why I'm there. I'm
more than happy to have a bit of a guess
with anyone that wants to come up and say hi. So, yeah,
I'll be there this morning.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Right, it's about so yeah, just before before we go
before yeah, Gardener's good. I'm just going to do something
that starts next week with with young Jack Tame.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (01:40):
At the moment, it is the Fungus of the Year
twenty twenty six. You know, we've got a bird of
the year ago, an insect of the year ago.
Speaker 2 (01:48):
Now we've got Fungus of the Year.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
It's been going for a while. But Peter W. Kennan
is an old maid of mine and he's he's we're
going to give you a really good thing on Jack Dame,
but I'll probably do something on our show here as well. Brilliant,
absolutely fabulous stuff. Go and have a look the Fungus
of the Year twenty twenty six and it's on till
the eighteenth of June. I think it's brilliant. The stories
(02:12):
are fabulous.
Speaker 2 (02:13):
Sorry, So the fungus that you got when you had
athletes foot, would that qualify?
Speaker 4 (02:18):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (02:20):
All right, just yep, it does as well as real
as well as the wood ear, which is a thing
that you can pick up from You gotta know what
you do though. You can't just take anything and eat anything.
But there are absolutely yes, no, we you and me, mate,
we can do this. There's facial exema fungus. How about that?
Speaker 2 (02:40):
Fantastic? Right, we're straying into dangerous territory here. I did
love your section with Jane yesterday with Jack about in
your little audio of the birds at your place. That
was phenomenal.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
That was actually recorded at my place.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
That's awesome.
Speaker 3 (02:58):
There were like hundreds of these things. It's fighting for
a bit of fund. It was brilliant, brilliant, but it
wasn't about the food. It was about bring them there.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
Get me thinking about making a little sugar water to
spend some feeder thing.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Yeah, either that or you can get one one of
those ones made from from plastic or from from glass,
if you like some really nice ones. Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
Speaker 2 (03:26):
You know me, I'm going to make one myself.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
Yeah, if you can do that with glass. See I
used to be a glass person, so I used to
do it with glass. And I'm not joking, but but yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:37):
You find it fun whatever you like. Yeah, go for
wine bottle somewhere. Right, let's get into it. Peter, talk
to me about orchards.
Speaker 5 (03:48):
Morning, mate. Hey, I wanted to ask you. I'm growing orchards.
I'm in I'm in manu Ewa. Yeah. Yeah. When they flower,
there seems to be a bug that eats all the flowers.
I'm just wanting it. You can help us out there.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
So the orchards themselves, or the flower the frailers.
Speaker 5 (04:08):
Now, the plants are fine, so I just said one.
It's a small white one. It's not a great big symbidium,
but it had there was a six spiker and white
fires and when the fares came out, these bags have
been eating all the failers.
Speaker 3 (04:25):
Okay, well it could be some of the insects, but
I cannot pick which one it would be. To be
quite honest, have you seen anybody eating their of you?
Have you seen a culprit doing that?
Speaker 5 (04:37):
No, I can't find the culprit. I have pride using
dearest dust, but it doesn't seem to do much.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
You might have been too late with the derorist dust.
That's not the point. If I can see, if I
can tell you which one of these, especially with all
these dendrobiums and pullernopsis and all the other things. Then
at least we can have a bit of a look.
But yeah, okay, so what can you do? Derorost dust
is not a bad one, but you've got to be
before they come to your orchard, right, does that make sense? Yeah?
(05:13):
And and the other thing you can do is you
can do sometimes bits with oh what do you call that?
The stuff that you use for some of these pests. Oh,
you can use any sort of insecticide if you like,
as long as it's residual, it stays with your plant.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Okay, so.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, a couple of shelf It is not
for insects, that's for for all sorts of other things.
But but if you've got an insecticide that lasts longer, ah,
try something like safe works. Where you where where do
you live?
Speaker 5 (05:51):
Roughly in and South or money?
Speaker 3 (05:56):
Okay, there's a there's a company called safe Works. One
word and works ends with an X. Safe works. It's
a safety company actually, and they have little pesticites in
in machines, in little things that you can activate. And
if you put that on your plant very gently, you
know you'll find that that stuff will last for at
(06:18):
least something like eight weeks. Nobody will get there nobody
will start eating it because if they do it, they
literally kill themselves. So the safe works besticite is absolutely brilliant.
Speaker 5 (06:31):
All right, I will look for that. Thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
You're morning.
Speaker 2 (06:34):
Welcome all the very misty people.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
Okay, bye bye bye, thank you.
Speaker 2 (06:40):
Take care and if you've got a question for it,
you should call now. Oh eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty years the number question for you, written via the text.
Two temarillo trees that they've grown from seed three years ago.
One has had non stop fruiting from two years old
and needs pruning. It's at least ten foot high. New
flowers arrive. Also, the second one hasn't fruited at all.
(07:03):
Should they just prune the fruiting one? And how do
I get the other one to fruit? I do use fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (07:10):
That's got Yeah, it's funny that it's becoming a show.
Speaker 2 (07:15):
The breakfast.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
Yeah, how many breakfast do you every every week? Anyway,
you have to remember they and that My question is
are they back? Are they together or are they in
different places? Because here comes the thing. A tamarilla usually
has begins usually flowering after a year and a half
or two years or something. Like that, right, But if
the tree is mature but failing to actually bloom, it's
(07:40):
usually a lack of sunlight, you know, so they need
really neat light. There could be wind damage because those
little turmorillas are actually quite susceptible to some wind damage,
or things like not that the fertilizer we discuss discussed,
or poor watering, not regular watering, and not too much
(08:00):
watering either. So there's all these different things that I've
had the same thing with temarillas. In one place they
go like billy oh, and the other thing side they said,
not enough light, thank you, not enough exposure, that's it.
And then cold strong winds is another one that can
cause troubles, you know, right, it's a place of where
(08:20):
are you?
Speaker 2 (08:21):
So if they were alongside each other, yeah, that would
be unusual because then they're both roughly in the same condition.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
I would say, so, especially if you got both of
them at the same time together, probably from the same deliverer,
you know what I mean. Incorrect watering, that sort of stuff.
Nutrient imbalances are usually the same thing too, but they
will use the same thing. So it's I don't think
it's that, you know.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah, A mystery so it really depends on whether or
not they're.
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Together in a different thing. Yeah, okay, yeah, And as
soon as they get too much wind, I know, they
start to get really iffy with that. I've had one
like that that didn't last very long at all, but
a year, and that was boff gone.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
Okay. Now a small tree that's infested with what I
think is mushroom scale. And now I've seen another one
that's infested. Should I remove it before it's spreads through
the garden? First question for me is what is mushroom scale?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I don't know. It's it's, it's it depends on what
it depends on what the species is. But mushroom scale,
it means it's got it. Probably that that particular plant
or a tree has got scale like things on it's
on its body if you like, or on it's it's
it's it's legs. In that case, I suggest you use
a material that you use for fungus control fungus sites
(09:44):
if you like. That is probably the only thing that
I can think of. But which one it is? My goodness?
There are here we.
Speaker 2 (09:52):
Go, right, This is whether or not it's up for
Fungus of the year. There you go now can we
deal with the controversy before we go to the news.
The break Rather, someone has ticked through sugar water is
an no, they become dependent on it and stop drinking
where the natural liquids are and the likes of flex flowers.
This is according to Tom from Great Barrier Island.
Speaker 3 (10:16):
I don't think so. I think it is better than,
for instance, stuff like that you get from other sweet
SAPs that are natural SAPs. The reason we're getting the
sugar water in there is because it could take It's
not too dense that sugar, to be quite honest. But
the point is to get those creatures near your garden
(10:38):
where they will be regularly right into spring and even
into early summer when they are having kids and babies
and all that sort of stuff. And the reason is
that you want to get them used to flying to
your place with all the you know, the things of
this is where I live. And what they do after
(10:58):
that is they basically get rid of all the pests
that are then on your plants. That is the whole
idea of feeding them now and getting them used to
flying to your place, not one, two or three, not fifty,
sometimes up to six hundred of them yeah, regularly.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
Yeah, all right, so we're not getting them hooked on
the good stuff, and then they're not going to drink
the natural stuff anymore.
Speaker 3 (11:22):
We're getting them hooked on your place, where you live
and where you've got your normal pests control needed if
you like.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
Right, awesome, Right, we've dealt with that. Now we can
take a break. Let's do that. We'll come back and
chat with Sharon straight after the break. It seems like
we've stumbled into a horns list of questions around the
sugar water.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
And sugar water. Oh yeah, yeah, I know, I know,
but it's not that bad. It's actually is. They love it.
It gives them a really quick amount of nutrient and
they know where it is, and I think that's really important.
They'll come back.
Speaker 2 (11:56):
Yeah, excellent, righto, Sharon, Good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (12:01):
Oh good morning.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
There.
Speaker 4 (12:03):
We have a tomato plant. It's a single tomorrow so plant.
It's about two and a half meters high and it's
five meters by three meters and etcetera. It's absolutely a
monstrous it's got loads of flowers on us.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Let me get it has one fruit?
Speaker 4 (12:22):
Well yeah, actually he's got little wee ones and that's
not many of them. So what are we done? What
have we help it? Is it too bad?
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Okay? So but you do get but the species, the
variety of this thing. Is this something that you bought
some time ago?
Speaker 4 (12:42):
Oh no, recently, I'm not that long.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Ago, okay, And it is a variety that gives you
small fruit?
Speaker 4 (12:51):
Well I think so, I mean honestly with you, I
can't remember, but I don't know that it does. Actually
I'm not sure that.
Speaker 3 (12:59):
See this is it sometimes these things?
Speaker 2 (13:01):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Okay, well so we're not sure then what the variety is. Okay.
So there's lots of things that can go on here.
You could have a nutrient related problem, or you could
have something that it was actually the original if you
like tomato species that holds the grafted one on it,
(13:24):
you know what I mean, So.
Speaker 4 (13:26):
That your yeah, it is proper sized tomatoes.
Speaker 3 (13:34):
Apparently it's a grafted one. Okay, good. Well, in that case,
you've got things that sometimes have a magnesium deficiency, or
they've got a blossom and rot, they've got not enough fertilizer,
and the fruit starts splitting when things go wrong at
the bottom. You know that the little things, especially those
little little things, do that you do get some of them?
(13:58):
How come you got them now? Because there? This is
almost the end of tomato end, isn't it?
Speaker 6 (14:03):
Oh?
Speaker 4 (14:03):
I know we've had we've had thousands of flowers us
for quite a long time. And if there isn't any
no fruit on it really at all, it's just this
great plant when there's loads of tomato flowers on that.
Speaker 3 (14:17):
Okay, what do you fertilize it with?
Speaker 5 (14:22):
Normal?
Speaker 4 (14:23):
Just general garden fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (14:26):
Okay, and not something that has an an attitude of Here,
I'll give you a lot of potash, which is the
np K of NPK. If you have something that has
a higher pottage number, you'll find that it will make
far more fruit, you know what I mean. That's the
thing that gives it. The general fertilizer NPK of equal
(14:49):
equal equal if you like, is not something that is
very gives you a lot of different fruit, a lot
of different So if you get so, you get a
tomato fertilizer or a rose fertilizer, everything that is normally
living on particular plants with fruit and flowers like that. Yeah, right,
(15:09):
have you got it? Have you got it in a glasshouse?
Speaker 4 (15:12):
No, it's in our vegetable garden outside.
Speaker 3 (15:16):
Okay, right, I've got mine in a glasshouse. It's still
going and it's still fruiting. Not for very long, I think,
because they're getting a bit old now, but that is
usually the way. It's that fertilizer that is aiming for
things that make flowers and fruits.
Speaker 4 (15:32):
Okay, all right, we'll give that a world and you know,
we'll see what happens. But yeah, it's most unusual this
time of the year.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
It is, I must say it is. Don't expect too
much from now on, but for next year, you are
armed with a different fertilizer for the for these things.
Speaker 6 (15:49):
Yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
Yeah, that's lovely.
Speaker 3 (15:51):
Thank you very much for help, no worries.
Speaker 2 (15:53):
Nice to talk to you, Sharon. You take care.
Speaker 1 (15:56):
Right.
Speaker 2 (15:57):
A couple of ticks someone's thinking could be slugs for
the orchards.
Speaker 3 (16:03):
Yeah, but you always find their trails, you know, those
slime trails. Yes, yeah, yeah, because if they don't watch out,
they slip over and they fall off.
Speaker 2 (16:14):
Now, someone suggests that paint brush flower to flower for
the pollination. That's got to be about the tomatoes. M No,
seems like a lot of work.
Speaker 3 (16:24):
No, I wouldn't what I would do is I would
get my my my thing that has got on it
that that does my you know my if if I
if I do something like my toothbrush, yes, you know yes,
because when you start making a toothbrush without I suppose
the brush, but something that goes you actually make the
(16:48):
flowers that as they are going on and their new
plants pollinate themselves, because that is how bumblebees do it,
by going on these plants.
Speaker 2 (16:59):
And what sort of creates a little mushroom cloud of pollination.
Speaker 3 (17:05):
Yeah, that's yeah, Yeah, that's what I've that's I think
that's I've done it with my my old, my old
tomato plants right now at home, and they still get
new fruit by going with my toothbrush. Julie is not
too happy because she thinks I brush my teeth with
the same.
Speaker 2 (17:21):
Both a picture of you wandering through the garden with
your toothbrush.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
Yes, it's not uncommon. It is not uncommon.
Speaker 2 (17:35):
And having been to your garden now I've got a
very clear picture of you wandering around with your new knee.
I was awesome. We'll check to John very quickly. Hello John,
got good baby.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
What can we do for you?
Speaker 6 (17:55):
I'll put a peach tree on a couple of years
ago from out the back. And it's gone massively and
we've got two.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
Peaches, two peaches, all of it.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
All of.
Speaker 6 (18:12):
Then we trimmed it up and uh, this year grew massively.
That's the same I and I've got no features and
just heaps and heaps and leaves on us. Just gavern
and leaves.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
Okay, pollination, pollination, what are you doing in terms of fertilizer?
Speaker 6 (18:37):
Oh, just garden fertilizer and wear more.
Speaker 3 (18:43):
Yeah, that's that's a little bit like the previous the
previous conversations we had. If you want peachers, you need
something that actually really makes the peatures grow on the tree.
So you need something with a high k n p
k so a good pollination and and and and and
(19:05):
if you like, yeah, a pollination system that makes your
plants grow fruit bingo, that's what it is.
Speaker 6 (19:11):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
So you're getting you're getting anything that you use on
apples and on pears and on peaches and stuff like that,
and you will have a lot better result.
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Ye okay, easy, awesome to try something.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
Yeah, John in spring, Okay, lovely to talk to you.
Thank you very much. Now, slugs and the worm farm. Yeah,
is that a good thing?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Slugs in the worm farm?
Speaker 4 (19:37):
Why not?
Speaker 3 (19:38):
Yeah, they're okay. They they do their own thing, they
get their own stuff, They know what to do.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
I mean, maybe not so much fun when you happen
to get one between your fingers when you're doing the compost.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
But hey, yes, that's another one.
Speaker 2 (19:52):
Right right. We'll leave the controversy of the sugar water
for another day. But I was going to ask for
a recipe. Maybe we'll do that next week, because now
that we're coming into winter, maybe we do need to
start feeding the local wildlife. Absolutely, Okay, let's do that.
Let's do it next day. Enjoy King's birthday tomorrow. Take
will enjoy the day off all the best. Thank you, Rud,
(20:13):
Thank you folks. Have a great day. I'm off to
the Home and Garden Show. Might see you there at
Eden Park. Take care of have a great weak.
Speaker 1 (21:07):
For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp, listen
live to Newstalk ZEDB on Sunday mornings from six, or
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