August 1, 2026 • 19 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talk SEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:14):
Your news Talk said be is with us. Good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
A very good morning to you, Peter. And you know
I preferred to bake and cook on gas anyway.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's a funny old thing, isn't it. You know, I've
got gas hobs at home as well, and I really
enjoy it. And then the other day I'm talking with
me mate and he goes, he had gas. Then he
moved to an apartment had induction, and he went, oh,
it's fantastic. Then I talked to him on Friday and
he goes, oh, buddy, induction, I hate it, and all
the rest.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I'm like, hang on, mate, Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
That works for you.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It works for you exactly. That's the point.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
All I did enjoy with the conversation is around, you know,
taking food scraps, processing it, capturing the gas, and then
using that again. And I know every time we talk
about food scraps collection and urban areas, people go just
have a compostle and et cetera, et cetera. But maybe
that's not practical. So the idea of capturing it rather
than just sending it off the landfill seems to me
(01:12):
a really good idea.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
You got it?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, I think so renewables right hey, and you're all.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Good, yeah, more rud. I've just got two little things too,
if I think it's starting from now on.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, so what you're going to stay at springtime?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah? Well, you know it's beautiful. It was only minus
one today.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I was going to say it was minus I keep
an eye on the temperature in christ Shoots these days.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I just got to say. It's Garden Marlborough. That's a
yearly thing. It's in November fifth to the eighth of
November twenty six. I think it would be really good
for people if you want to get your tickets, just
to get them as soon as you can, because it's
always linking full right. And the other one which I
am usually involved with every two years, every second year,
it's every two years it's a garden and arts festival
(01:59):
in the Bay of Plenty and that's November seventeenth till
the twenty second. And I really enjoy that because you
go for walks with gardeners and you get questions, you
get observations, you learn things. I learned so much from
really good gardeners. That's what it's about, isn't it. I
love that just coming up again that time.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Do you think that we have like a garden tourism
in New Zealand?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, we do, I think. So you have people coming, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Julie is quite you know, she's available at the unit
at the Grocer's botanic gardens, and there are people coming
from all over the world actually quite often take trips
and journeys and they learn about what's growing here and
(02:44):
what they are et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It's beautiful, yeah, I think so. Now I'm just thinking
some friends of mine have just been to the UK
and part of the trip was six or seven days
guided tour of all of these gardens around the south
coast of England, southwest coast of England.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Sounds amazing, it is, oh yeah yeah. Oh and there's
you know how it is in Adalant.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Oh of course the tulips.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I've been to the kirk and Off yeah yeah, gok.
And it is ten years spectacular, isn't it. It just
defies comprehension.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And then you you know, when they finish, you see
them mowing them and it's.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Like what, yeah, what was that? It?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Sorry, But the good news is they'll be back again,
just like you and I. They yeah, always back again.
Just when you think you've got rid of us, we're
back the next Sunday. Right, let's get into it. If
you've got a question for it. Eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number. Bill, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
To you, good movie.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Sir? Well that.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Thank Bill?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Bill? Build this Bill. I've got some troubles hearing what
you're saying. Every other word is not working for me.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
How do we do that?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Do you know how that works at your place? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Look it sounds like my car connection. But anyway, Bill,
try try again.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Okay, how's that now much better?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You're gorgeous, you're swallowing. Go on, go for it.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I've got I've got mechanamy in natin.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Now, I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll pop you
back on hold and we'll try a new line. And
in the meantime, let's talk to James in Wellington, where
apparently there's a beautiful, beautiful morning.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
James stunning. There's always been wind blows and it rains.
We've got a question about blueberries. I'm being adventuress and
trying to grow them from seed. So how are They're
sitting in a coconut type mulch for seedlings and they
popped up and they're about five mile high? I wanted
to know what medium should I then transplant them into
(05:00):
because the coconut has to has limited nutrients. But if
you get suggestions to what to plant them and getting
to start getting some decent nutrients and grin.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
No, I've never done that, to be quite honest, blueberries,
But I would say a good soil with a nice
np K with higher k th np will probably be
the stuff that will make the plants grow well. And
I'm quite sure that I can say that because that
that usually I don't think you need to worry too
(05:32):
much about the uh whether it's and what do you
call that soil that's very acid or not so acid?
I would go to the neutral stuff.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Yeah, putting putting mix are probably right in the interim
until it really developsouldn't that? Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And also what you can quite often do with potting
mix is mix that in the soil when it goes
into the soil, so you've got this nice balance you
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
No, I think you're doing the right way thing if
you think about that way absolutely ever, go brilliant.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Think you very much.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You are more than welcome as success.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
With that, all the very best to you. Take care, James,
thank you very much. Because we were talking with gas
in zed and someone asked me what the website is.
It's just gas in z dot org dot in z
and they're just a kind of an advocacy group, I
guess for gus. But someone here's text if you have
a compost heap, it will release me than which I
presume is true, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah? I think so did it makes sense to me? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And then they go on, so it's just like having
your own cow. I'm not sure if it's that it
contributes that much to the environment, I'm sure, but you know,
this is the commercial capture of food waste and that
sort of thing, and being able to reuse it, I
think makes it's a no brainer, right.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
We should be doing it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Sena. Good morning to you. Ah, Hi, good morning, s Hi.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
How are you Rod?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
We're pretty good? Thank you.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
It's good. It's a nice, cold, frosted morning. And Nelson
I've got a question. My lemon tree died, and my citrus.
I've got a mandarin and a lime and an orange,
and they're all flourishing. But I'm just wondering if I
need to what I can put on the soil to
(07:23):
perhaps I want to put another tree there bit I
probably need to change the soil into a pH What
can I put on the ground to get this oil prepared.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Five and a half to six and a half pH
five point five six point five something like that, And
that range is where you like your lemon trees to go.
But let me ask you first, this is really important, singer.
Why did that lemon tree die?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I'm not sure it was. It was flourishing everything and
then last year the leaves fell off and it it
just it had still had fruit on it, but then
it just just died. But it was next to the
mandarin tree and that everything like there is flourishing. I
(08:17):
had enough water. I think, like, yeah, I don't. I
don't have no idea.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
No there was. It was not to do with overwatering
or underwatering or blah blah blah that sort of stuff.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Well, I don't think so maybe a little bit of underwatering,
perhaps because it we had quite a hot summer the
year but you know, the year before. But I also
put the oil. I spray the oil, you know, on
the leaves if it gets a little bit black that.
But yeah, I have no idea because the other rest
(08:54):
of the other fruit trees that I mean, the citrus
trees are flourishing and they're not very far from it.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, and you didn't have a wet patch there for
for instance, I'm just giving you this idea of root rath,
for instance, phytoft, when when that patch where that particular
tree was is relatively much wetter than the other bits,
and it could be something to do with how the
water is not being carried away if you like, by
a system, then you can get a fight off for
(09:22):
a root rot or something like that, and that could
be a trouble because I would if that's the case,
I would not plant another one of those citrus plants
in the same spot.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Oh okay, okay, all right, okay, So I.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Just want you to go back through the time when
that whole plant went backwards quickly and then started to
slowly you know, literally collapse if you like. That is
quite often something like that root rot and you've got
to be careful.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
With that, okay, all right, So maybe I just plant
it somewhere else, yeah, and not in the area then.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yep, but have it think about whether that could be it.
I'm just making it up because it happen, especially in
this winter time when it's been very wet, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Yes, okay, all right? And if I headed that, like,
can I plant something else there?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Like absolutely absolutely, but not one of the one of
the limit lemon trees or anything else of the c varieties.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Okay, okay, awesome, Oh thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Roche tried it.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I tried to do it that way all the very business,
and thank you very much for that. I think someone
got the impression that it was myself who was going
on the strip to the UK to look at gardens. No,
it was friends of mine, but they did point out
a couple of estates to go and have a look at.
But I'm interested to see whether or not, you know,
like if overseas visitors come to New Zealand and then
(10:54):
there is a formal tour that might take them to
some private gardens as well as some of the I mean,
obviously if you're coming, you'd go to Hamilton Gardens, won't you.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I mean that's spectacular, yes, oh yeah, the modern, brilliant
Hamilton Gardens. I really should go back there again. But
but also the Auckland Potannic Gardens, you know, absolutely fabulous
Canterbury of course, yes, it's great. There's lots of good ones,
but it's often people that what do you call it,
(11:22):
they're they're the own gardeners, yourself, you and you know
when you go overseas, right, this is a good place
to go, So people go there.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It's kind of a network of gardening.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
And it's not for free.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, absolutely, except for Hamilton.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
That's worth while, right. Eight forty five will take a
short break. We'll come back with Eryl in just a moment.
Sweepers keep reminding me I started a job on Tuesday
and it's still not finished.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Red. Oh yeah, no, I've started a job a couple
of months ago and it's don't even go there.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I'll tell you what. Lots of people are texting and
and now that we've started this thing about gardens, Ali's
garden and.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Arli's gardening, just yeah, absolutely, that's brilliant, that's beautiful and so.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
That the bay of plenty of garden tool that you're
going to be it later in the year. That's the
same sort of thing. People's private gardens are open to
the public, is that right?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yep, you can go there too. Yes, But there's also
all sorts of stuff about garden Festival that has so
many different facets and it's on for four or five days.
You can go wherever you like. Beautiful. Yeah. Also, and
also I just want to thank somebody who said, gave
me hell here saying blueberries the advice is wrong. That's
probably true. They do like acidic soils and not just
(12:41):
you know, if you like normal normal soils, if you
like right.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
In this case it's better. And then he says, better
to say I don't know than provide innative information. That
is absolutely right. And if you give me a work
on the hand, if I do it, tell me is
the way it is.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I'm not even going to go down the text about
the hedgehogs right now.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
But you've seen that, yes, no, you know I haven't
seen it, but i'll find.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
All right, don't get upset. All right, I've told you,
don't get upset. It is eight fifty. We'll talk to Cheryl.
Good morning to you, criky, and now you've got a
bit of string attached to your telephone. Come a little closer, Cheryl.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh sorry, I'm actually out on the beach at the
moment walking my dog.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
So just stand still, Just stand still and we can
hear you much better if you stand staying e it's
close to Can I can hear? I can even hear
the Cody tree? Can I can I hear the Cody tree?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
That's probably the seed to the So that's all good.
I bought a tree, and I'm on to the South Island,
and I bought the carry tree because apparently just too
expensive to buy in the shop. Should I put it
in the.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Down So you are talking Cowdi tree, our New Zealand
native core oh curry leaves. I see this is it?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
You know?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I think you can see most trees, or most trees
can be put in in reasonably good pots. You have
to remember that those pots might need to be replaced
by bigger ones s trees and shrubs grow. But you're
absolutely right if that's the way to go. Put it
in a controlled environment, if you like, and at the
(14:39):
right place in terms of sun and shade, because I
don't know exactly what they need and when they grow, yes,
or when the roots go over the particular place where
they live the pot if you like, then it needs
a bigger pot after a while. You got it.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
That's great, Oh, thank you to That should be.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
No problem as well. Just just for clarity, we are
talking about a curry tree as insane. You are not
a cold tree.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah. This is where where we both had a bit
of a trouble. But what it was about, but it
was the beach.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It's a curry tree, all right.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
That there was such a thing.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, yeah, Oh god, there's all sorts of stuff. Oh man,
there's just ridiculous amounts.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
All right, that's awesome, Nicole, Good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Oh good morning.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
How we're going? Well, my dear, I'm.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Out walking my dog too, and I thought I'll trying
to brilliant ask a question. I've got a lot of
mondo grass planted in between my uh papers, and I'm
just I've yet to find a wheat spray that I
can use between the wandos without killing them? Would you
(15:54):
have any suggestions? There would.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
No, because if you don't want to kill your other
grass then you you know what I mean, then you
get both of them. So that is not a clever idea.
You might need right at aol to scrape it out
or whatever in that way, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Right?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Yes, Yes, I do weed a lot, and I thought
there might be something on the market that could whack
them back, like a monocot spray or some sort of
yes spray that didn't specifically tie at the mondograss.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah. To be quite honest, I do not know. I
don't think if that such a thing exists, but I
could be wrong, And I think you should talk to
somebody in the in your garden center to see if
they if they know better, because.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I don't know, right, And I know what you're saying, Nicole, Like,
there was a garden where we planted a whole lot
of Poor Knight's kuprosma. Right there's a groundcover, but then
it got a little bit neglected, and when I was
back there the other day, you know, the weeds had
taken off, and then it's like, well, I can't spray them.
I'm just going to have to get in there with
a little fork and get rid of all the weeds.
(17:01):
And the hope that the poor knights will will grow
and provide me with a cover that suppress the weeds.
But it got a bit woody and then suddenly the
weeds were back sort of thing.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
So yes, yes, and I guess it gets a little
bit tricky to especially if the weeds seed right.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You noticed, you noticed it?
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, I noticed. But life is busy and you
can't always get in there and when when you're supposed
to do so. No, no, thanks very much for that.
I'll I'll talk to some local guys up here and
see if they can help all.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I've got a lovely I've got a lovely thing here
full of all sorts of different weed killers. Yes, I
wouldn't use those on those things if you want they
want to get them knocked around.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Because most of them are generic. I know you can
get like sprays for lawns where it'll it'll hit the
broad leaf and leave the other stuff alone, But not
so easy in the garden.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I guess it's pretty tricky. You've gotta you've got to
know where to hit.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, And I mean, look, I I wandered out into
the garden the other day and I'm thinking, chure supposed
to quieten down over winter. But the weeds didn't get
that memo.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
No, definitely not. And I totally agree. And this is
where when I when I get that, I do the
lot and re populated within you right thing, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, I think I'll wait till I've finished all my
other jobs.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, that's right. I used I used that wet and
forget stuff that hit man. Gosh, that is good. Five
hours and it's gone.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
It's gone. Not brilliant, brilliant, right, hey mate, thank you
very much. Well, I think we'll do it again next Sunday.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
That's your great, it's a great plan. You take care
of all the very Thank you to rud. Thank you
to Jeffrey Clark, who was from guess Inzed who joined
us on the show. Thank you to everyone that contributed
and were kind of We got dangerously close to just
straying off to a whole program about hammers, which, to
be fair, I would be quite happy spending a morning
just talking about your favorite tools. We might do that
(19:06):
next week, all will continue to talk about all things
building and construction. Have a great week, and again, thank
you to those people that supported me with dry July
I really appreciate it. More importantly, the cancer support people
really appreciate it.
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Take care for more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp.
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Speaker 2 (00:14):
Your news Talk said be is with us. Good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
A very good morning to you, Peter. And you know
I preferred to bake and cook on gas anyway.
Speaker 2 (00:25):
It's a funny old thing, isn't it. You know, I've
got gas hobs at home as well, and I really
enjoy it. And then the other day I'm talking with
me mate and he goes, he had gas. Then he
moved to an apartment had induction, and he went, oh,
it's fantastic. Then I talked to him on Friday and
he goes, oh, buddy, induction, I hate it, and all
the rest.
Speaker 3 (00:42):
I'm like, hang on, mate, Yeah, it's funny.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
That works for you.
Speaker 3 (00:46):
It works for you exactly. That's the point.
Speaker 2 (00:50):
All I did enjoy with the conversation is around, you know,
taking food scraps, processing it, capturing the gas, and then
using that again. And I know every time we talk
about food scraps collection and urban areas, people go just
have a compostle and et cetera, et cetera. But maybe
that's not practical. So the idea of capturing it rather
than just sending it off the landfill seems to me
(01:12):
a really good idea.
Speaker 3 (01:15):
You got it?
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Yeah, I think so renewables right hey, and you're all.
Speaker 3 (01:19):
Good, yeah, more rud. I've just got two little things too,
if I think it's starting from now on.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Okay, so what you're going to stay at springtime?
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Yeah? Well, you know it's beautiful. It was only minus
one today.
Speaker 2 (01:30):
I was going to say it was minus I keep
an eye on the temperature in christ Shoots these days.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
I just got to say. It's Garden Marlborough. That's a
yearly thing. It's in November fifth to the eighth of
November twenty six. I think it would be really good
for people if you want to get your tickets, just
to get them as soon as you can, because it's
always linking full right. And the other one which I
am usually involved with every two years, every second year,
it's every two years it's a garden and arts festival
(01:59):
in the Bay of Plenty and that's November seventeenth till
the twenty second. And I really enjoy that because you
go for walks with gardeners and you get questions, you
get observations, you learn things. I learned so much from
really good gardeners. That's what it's about, isn't it. I
love that just coming up again that time.
Speaker 2 (02:18):
Do you think that we have like a garden tourism
in New Zealand?
Speaker 3 (02:23):
Yeah, we do, I think. So you have people coming, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Julie is quite you know, she's available at the unit
at the Grocer's botanic gardens, and there are people coming
from all over the world actually quite often take trips
and journeys and they learn about what's growing here and
(02:44):
what they are et cetera, et cetera.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
It's beautiful, yeah, I think so. Now I'm just thinking
some friends of mine have just been to the UK
and part of the trip was six or seven days
guided tour of all of these gardens around the south
coast of England, southwest coast of England.
Speaker 3 (03:01):
Sounds amazing, it is, oh yeah yeah. Oh and there's
you know how it is in Adalant.
Speaker 2 (03:06):
Oh of course the tulips.
Speaker 1 (03:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
I've been to the kirk and Off yeah yeah, gok.
And it is ten years spectacular, isn't it. It just
defies comprehension.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (03:21):
And then you you know, when they finish, you see
them mowing them and it's.
Speaker 3 (03:23):
Like what, yeah, what was that? It?
Speaker 4 (03:28):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (03:28):
Sorry, But the good news is they'll be back again,
just like you and I. They yeah, always back again.
Just when you think you've got rid of us, we're
back the next Sunday. Right, let's get into it. If
you've got a question for it. Eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number. Bill, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (03:41):
To you, good movie.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 5 (03:46):
Sir? Well that.
Speaker 6 (03:51):
Thank Bill?
Speaker 3 (03:53):
Bill? Build this Bill. I've got some troubles hearing what
you're saying. Every other word is not working for me.
Speaker 6 (04:00):
How do we do that?
Speaker 3 (04:02):
Do you know how that works at your place? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (04:04):
Look it sounds like my car connection. But anyway, Bill,
try try again.
Speaker 5 (04:09):
Okay, how's that now much better?
Speaker 3 (04:13):
You're gorgeous, you're swallowing. Go on, go for it.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
I've got I've got mechanamy in natin.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
Now, I'll tell you what we'll do. We'll pop you
back on hold and we'll try a new line. And
in the meantime, let's talk to James in Wellington, where
apparently there's a beautiful, beautiful morning.
Speaker 5 (04:38):
James stunning. There's always been wind blows and it rains.
We've got a question about blueberries. I'm being adventuress and
trying to grow them from seed. So how are They're
sitting in a coconut type mulch for seedlings and they
popped up and they're about five mile high? I wanted
to know what medium should I then transplant them into
(05:00):
because the coconut has to has limited nutrients. But if
you get suggestions to what to plant them and getting
to start getting some decent nutrients and grin.
Speaker 3 (05:12):
No, I've never done that, to be quite honest, blueberries,
But I would say a good soil with a nice
np K with higher k th np will probably be
the stuff that will make the plants grow well. And
I'm quite sure that I can say that because that
that usually I don't think you need to worry too
(05:32):
much about the uh whether it's and what do you
call that soil that's very acid or not so acid?
I would go to the neutral stuff.
Speaker 5 (05:45):
Yeah, putting putting mix are probably right in the interim
until it really developsouldn't that? Yes?
Speaker 3 (05:51):
And also what you can quite often do with potting
mix is mix that in the soil when it goes
into the soil, so you've got this nice balance you
know what I mean.
Speaker 4 (05:59):
Yeah, that's yeah.
Speaker 3 (06:00):
No, I think you're doing the right way thing if
you think about that way absolutely ever, go brilliant.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Think you very much.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
You are more than welcome as success.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
With that, all the very best to you. Take care, James,
thank you very much. Because we were talking with gas
in zed and someone asked me what the website is.
It's just gas in z dot org dot in z
and they're just a kind of an advocacy group, I
guess for gus. But someone here's text if you have
a compost heap, it will release me than which I
presume is true, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Yeah? I think so did it makes sense to me? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
And then they go on, so it's just like having
your own cow. I'm not sure if it's that it
contributes that much to the environment, I'm sure, but you know,
this is the commercial capture of food waste and that
sort of thing, and being able to reuse it, I
think makes it's a no brainer, right.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
We should be doing it.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Sena. Good morning to you. Ah, Hi, good morning, s Hi.
Speaker 6 (06:59):
How are you Rod?
Speaker 3 (07:00):
We're pretty good? Thank you.
Speaker 6 (07:02):
It's good. It's a nice, cold, frosted morning. And Nelson
I've got a question. My lemon tree died, and my citrus.
I've got a mandarin and a lime and an orange,
and they're all flourishing. But I'm just wondering if I
need to what I can put on the soil to
(07:23):
perhaps I want to put another tree there bit I
probably need to change the soil into a pH What
can I put on the ground to get this oil prepared.
Speaker 3 (07:38):
Five and a half to six and a half pH
five point five six point five something like that, And
that range is where you like your lemon trees to go.
But let me ask you first, this is really important, singer.
Why did that lemon tree die?
Speaker 6 (07:55):
I'm not sure it was. It was flourishing everything and
then last year the leaves fell off and it it
just it had still had fruit on it, but then
it just just died. But it was next to the
mandarin tree and that everything like there is flourishing. I
(08:17):
had enough water. I think, like, yeah, I don't. I
don't have no idea.
Speaker 3 (08:24):
No there was. It was not to do with overwatering
or underwatering or blah blah blah that sort of stuff.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Well, I don't think so maybe a little bit of underwatering,
perhaps because it we had quite a hot summer the
year but you know, the year before. But I also
put the oil. I spray the oil, you know, on
the leaves if it gets a little bit black that.
But yeah, I have no idea because the other rest
(08:54):
of the other fruit trees that I mean, the citrus
trees are flourishing and they're not very far from it.
Speaker 3 (08:59):
Yeah, and you didn't have a wet patch there for
for instance, I'm just giving you this idea of root rath,
for instance, phytoft, when when that patch where that particular
tree was is relatively much wetter than the other bits,
and it could be something to do with how the
water is not being carried away if you like, by
a system, then you can get a fight off for
(09:22):
a root rot or something like that, and that could
be a trouble because I would if that's the case,
I would not plant another one of those citrus plants
in the same spot.
Speaker 6 (09:32):
Oh okay, okay, all right, okay, So I.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
Just want you to go back through the time when
that whole plant went backwards quickly and then started to
slowly you know, literally collapse if you like. That is
quite often something like that root rot and you've got
to be careful.
Speaker 6 (09:52):
With that, okay, all right, So maybe I just plant
it somewhere else, yeah, and not in the area then.
Speaker 3 (10:00):
Yep, but have it think about whether that could be it.
I'm just making it up because it happen, especially in
this winter time when it's been very wet, you know
what I mean?
Speaker 6 (10:11):
Yes, okay, all right? And if I headed that, like,
can I plant something else there?
Speaker 3 (10:18):
Like absolutely absolutely, but not one of the one of
the limit lemon trees or anything else of the c varieties.
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Okay, okay, awesome, Oh thank you so much.
Speaker 3 (10:31):
Roche tried it.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
I tried to do it that way all the very business,
and thank you very much for that. I think someone
got the impression that it was myself who was going
on the strip to the UK to look at gardens. No,
it was friends of mine, but they did point out
a couple of estates to go and have a look at.
But I'm interested to see whether or not, you know,
like if overseas visitors come to New Zealand and then
(10:54):
there is a formal tour that might take them to
some private gardens as well as some of the I mean,
obviously if you're coming, you'd go to Hamilton Gardens, won't you.
Speaker 3 (11:02):
I mean that's spectacular, yes, oh yeah, the modern, brilliant
Hamilton Gardens. I really should go back there again. But
but also the Auckland Potannic Gardens, you know, absolutely fabulous
Canterbury of course, yes, it's great. There's lots of good ones,
but it's often people that what do you call it,
(11:22):
they're they're the own gardeners, yourself, you and you know
when you go overseas, right, this is a good place
to go, So people go there.
Speaker 2 (11:29):
It's kind of a network of gardening.
Speaker 3 (11:32):
And it's not for free.
Speaker 2 (11:34):
Yeah, absolutely, except for Hamilton.
Speaker 5 (11:36):
Of course.
Speaker 2 (11:38):
That's worth while, right. Eight forty five will take a
short break. We'll come back with Eryl in just a moment.
Sweepers keep reminding me I started a job on Tuesday
and it's still not finished.
Speaker 3 (11:49):
Red. Oh yeah, no, I've started a job a couple
of months ago and it's don't even go there.
Speaker 2 (11:57):
I'll tell you what. Lots of people are texting and
and now that we've started this thing about gardens, Ali's
garden and.
Speaker 3 (12:03):
Arli's gardening, just yeah, absolutely, that's brilliant, that's beautiful and so.
Speaker 2 (12:09):
That the bay of plenty of garden tool that you're
going to be it later in the year. That's the
same sort of thing. People's private gardens are open to
the public, is that right?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Yep, you can go there too. Yes, But there's also
all sorts of stuff about garden Festival that has so
many different facets and it's on for four or five days.
You can go wherever you like. Beautiful. Yeah. Also, and
also I just want to thank somebody who said, gave
me hell here saying blueberries the advice is wrong. That's
probably true. They do like acidic soils and not just
(12:41):
you know, if you like normal normal soils, if you
like right.
Speaker 1 (12:44):
And.
Speaker 3 (12:46):
In this case it's better. And then he says, better
to say I don't know than provide innative information. That
is absolutely right. And if you give me a work
on the hand, if I do it, tell me is
the way it is.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
I'm not even going to go down the text about
the hedgehogs right now.
Speaker 3 (13:02):
But you've seen that, yes, no, you know I haven't
seen it, but i'll find.
Speaker 2 (13:06):
All right, don't get upset. All right, I've told you,
don't get upset. It is eight fifty. We'll talk to Cheryl.
Good morning to you, criky, and now you've got a
bit of string attached to your telephone. Come a little closer, Cheryl.
Speaker 4 (13:25):
Oh sorry, I'm actually out on the beach at the
moment walking my dog.
Speaker 3 (13:31):
So just stand still, Just stand still and we can
hear you much better if you stand staying e it's
close to Can I can hear? I can even hear
the Cody tree? Can I can I hear the Cody tree?
Speaker 4 (13:47):
That's probably the seed to the So that's all good.
I bought a tree, and I'm on to the South Island,
and I bought the carry tree because apparently just too
expensive to buy in the shop. Should I put it
in the.
Speaker 3 (14:03):
Down So you are talking Cowdi tree, our New Zealand
native core oh curry leaves. I see this is it?
Speaker 1 (14:14):
You know?
Speaker 3 (14:17):
I think you can see most trees, or most trees
can be put in in reasonably good pots. You have
to remember that those pots might need to be replaced
by bigger ones s trees and shrubs grow. But you're
absolutely right if that's the way to go. Put it
in a controlled environment, if you like, and at the
(14:39):
right place in terms of sun and shade, because I
don't know exactly what they need and when they grow, yes,
or when the roots go over the particular place where
they live the pot if you like, then it needs
a bigger pot after a while. You got it.
Speaker 4 (14:56):
That's great, Oh, thank you to That should be.
Speaker 2 (14:59):
No problem as well. Just just for clarity, we are
talking about a curry tree as insane. You are not
a cold tree.
Speaker 3 (15:08):
Yeah. This is where where we both had a bit
of a trouble. But what it was about, but it
was the beach.
Speaker 2 (15:14):
It's a curry tree, all right.
Speaker 3 (15:15):
Yeah, I didn't know.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
That there was such a thing.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Yeah, yeah, Oh god, there's all sorts of stuff. Oh man,
there's just ridiculous amounts.
Speaker 2 (15:22):
All right, that's awesome, Nicole, Good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (15:26):
Oh good morning.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
How we're going? Well, my dear, I'm.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Out walking my dog too, and I thought I'll trying
to brilliant ask a question. I've got a lot of
mondo grass planted in between my uh papers, and I'm
just I've yet to find a wheat spray that I
can use between the wandos without killing them? Would you
(15:54):
have any suggestions? There would.
Speaker 3 (15:57):
No, because if you don't want to kill your other
grass then you you know what I mean, then you
get both of them. So that is not a clever idea.
You might need right at aol to scrape it out
or whatever in that way, you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (16:11):
Right?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
Yes, Yes, I do weed a lot, and I thought
there might be something on the market that could whack
them back, like a monocot spray or some sort of
yes spray that didn't specifically tie at the mondograss.
Speaker 3 (16:27):
Yeah. To be quite honest, I do not know. I
don't think if that such a thing exists, but I
could be wrong, And I think you should talk to
somebody in the in your garden center to see if
they if they know better, because.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
I don't know, right, And I know what you're saying, Nicole, Like,
there was a garden where we planted a whole lot
of Poor Knight's kuprosma. Right there's a groundcover, but then
it got a little bit neglected, and when I was
back there the other day, you know, the weeds had
taken off, and then it's like, well, I can't spray them.
I'm just going to have to get in there with
a little fork and get rid of all the weeds.
(17:01):
And the hope that the poor knights will will grow
and provide me with a cover that suppress the weeds.
But it got a bit woody and then suddenly the
weeds were back sort of thing.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
So yes, yes, and I guess it gets a little
bit tricky to especially if the weeds seed right.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
You noticed, you noticed it?
Speaker 7 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, I noticed. But life is busy and you
can't always get in there and when when you're supposed
to do so. No, no, thanks very much for that.
I'll I'll talk to some local guys up here and
see if they can help all.
Speaker 3 (17:37):
I've got a lovely I've got a lovely thing here
full of all sorts of different weed killers. Yes, I
wouldn't use those on those things if you want they
want to get them knocked around.
Speaker 2 (17:48):
Because most of them are generic. I know you can
get like sprays for lawns where it'll it'll hit the
broad leaf and leave the other stuff alone, But not
so easy in the garden.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
I guess it's pretty tricky. You've gotta you've got to
know where to hit.
Speaker 2 (18:02):
Yeah, And I mean, look, I I wandered out into
the garden the other day and I'm thinking, chure supposed
to quieten down over winter. But the weeds didn't get
that memo.
Speaker 3 (18:10):
No, definitely not. And I totally agree. And this is
where when I when I get that, I do the
lot and re populated within you right thing, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (18:20):
Yeah, I think I'll wait till I've finished all my
other jobs.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Yeah, that's right. I used I used that wet and
forget stuff that hit man. Gosh, that is good. Five
hours and it's gone.
Speaker 2 (18:35):
It's gone. Not brilliant, brilliant, right, hey mate, thank you
very much. Well, I think we'll do it again next Sunday.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
Yeah, let's do that.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
That's your great, it's a great plan. You take care
of all the very Thank you to rud. Thank you
to Jeffrey Clark, who was from guess Inzed who joined
us on the show. Thank you to everyone that contributed
and were kind of We got dangerously close to just
straying off to a whole program about hammers, which, to
be fair, I would be quite happy spending a morning
just talking about your favorite tools. We might do that
(19:06):
next week, all will continue to talk about all things
building and construction. Have a great week, and again, thank
you to those people that supported me with dry July
I really appreciate it. More importantly, the cancer support people
really appreciate it.
Speaker 1 (19:18):
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