August 15, 2026 • 21 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from News Talks Edd climb Pass.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good morning, sir, Hello Lolo Peter, and as we celebrate
one hundred years. You were there at the beginning.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I was there at the beginning. And were you at
the at the gig last? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I did go on Friday. It was great. We missed you.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, sorry you realized I had something else
to do in in in in the Line Island.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But that's all can so we did think it hecked.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Me off mostly, Oh no, it was.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh, look it was. It was a good thing. It
was a good thing to celebrate, and there was some
very very entertaining speakers, so it was it was good fun.
Actually I'm not sure what time other people got home,
but I was a bit sensible and left before it
all got you know, too rollicky, right into the garden.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I actually was home in time.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I did. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wandered down, hopped on
the fury and got home at a reasonable hour. So
that was good because you can do those things in Auckland. Now, yes, indeed, indeed, right,
how's the garden?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Oh pretty, okay, we're getting there slowly. You know, but
it's it's it's also we've had this crazy weather. But
on the other end, you know, it works quite well.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah good because I mean we you know Auckland, I know,
you know, we have a little bit of ice and suddenly,
actually it was quite funny. I was in Fiji this week,
so I went up with Laser group of plumbing and
drainage people and in Fiji. I was in Fiji, Yeah,
just for like two nights. So went up at the
conference started on Thursday, but on the Wednesday, they organized
(01:45):
this task force thing and they took close to one
hundred plumbers and electricians to a local school, right that
that really needs help, right, And they changed lights, and
they changed distribution boards, and they painted, and they changed
taps and systems. It was fantastic with the Laser group.
And then I'm the only carpenter there, so I got
to make a bookcase with a kid. But it was
(02:09):
just awesome to go up and do that. So and
then I was talking to the kids. I had this
group of about ten, you know, twelve to thirteen year olds,
and I was it's a beautiful day out there. It's
twenty seven degrees and dah da da da da, And
I was saying, look, two weeks ago when I got
up in the morning, there was ice on the windscreen
in my car and the eyes lit up and they're
like far out, and I'm thinking, yeah, but hey, if
(02:31):
I'm not in Wanaka, right, so my mate's down the
air it's snowing right there down there. But hour was gorgeous,
as gorgeous. It was great fun. And you know, one
hundred trades can do quite a lot of work in
a couple of hours, so freshened up the school and hugely.
But you know, like I'm thinking, we had a couple
(02:51):
of cold days in Auckland, but now it feels warmer,
and then you know, September is not too far away.
I know that first of September is not springtime, but
you kind of feel like, gee, it's it's that might
have been winter.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, yeah, no, I have been planting some vegetables and
things like that in the tunnel house. Yeah. Course, and
because it's getting you know, because it's nice and sheltered,
you actually get these extra degrees inside your tunnel house. Yes,
and that is working quite well.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Right, let's get amongst it. If you've
got a question for it, you should call right now.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Gale, good morning
to you, Good.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Morning, Good morning, Rude and Peter. I've got a problem.
I've got two big Federation daisy plants are yellow the
flood all winter, through frost, hail. But what do I
do now? Do I want them looking nice at Christmas
because we've got a garden ramble at our place? Do
I cut them back? Or do I dig them out
(03:53):
and replant?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Or I've never mucked around with those, so I wouldn't
actually know what to do. But have you thought about
and you've obviously never had this gig as well in
the past, haven't you You've not? Yeah, okay, just try
a few bye by, you know, reducing them and then
(04:14):
see what happens with those and leave the other ones go,
because that means you're basically hedging your bets now and
you're learning at the same time, because I wouldn't know
what to do, to be quite.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Honest, Do they last three of Federation daisies.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
As I think they would be? Yes? From what I
from what I remember, I think they should they should.
You're talking about yeah, yeah, yeah, you're talking about. Oh well, okay,
I'm just getting a really amazing alper year says, cut
them back gently if you have frost still, if you've
(04:49):
still got frost, cut them back gently. There you go easy,
these things coming back.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Go on something else quickly. I looked at my plumbago.
It has all brand Are you doing anything?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
What happened to it? Do you think the frost? Oh?
The frost? Okay, look in this case, wait for it
to go back if you if you, if your frost
is over, you'll probably find it. The blumbago will go
back again. It shouldn't be all It's not all gone,
is it.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
It's all frosted, all its leaves.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Are frosted deepest. Oh gosh, there's another one of those
things you see. I've never hit this. I have no
idea what you would do in this case. I would
leave it to see what happens. Yeah, ok yeah, fingers crossed.
Thank you, you're might and welcome all of this.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Thank you, Gail Berwin, Good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Good morning Dondon Inquiry. We've got an awesome crop of yeams.
We've heading them for two years now. But our problem
is why we're what can we do to deal with
it for next year's planting.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, I know, Yeah, I had a similar sort of thing.
I had the ms and but they worked fine. Actually,
to be quite honest, if you've got wireworm, they I
take it they were in the soil with the plants.
Is that roughly what happened?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
They are in there and attacking them.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Now, okay, I think what might Well, you're you have harvested.
They should be finished by now, almost, shouldn't they.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
That's quite a big quite a big block. And uh
but they're just you know, they just destroy them in need.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Mum hm, okay, have you are your wire worms? Are
they just below the level of the soil or are
they they on the actual on the actual gems.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
They're on the actual games and below the level of
the soil.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, okay. It's tricky to spray, that, isn't it. Yes, Yeah,
I'm just thinking what would you do? Oh goodness gracious me.
And it's all over the place, so it's not just
it's oh gosship gollie. No, I can't No, I wouldn't
know exactly what to do in this case. I never
(07:26):
had this in my garden. As I said, I got
them out, not that long ago, about a month or
so ago, and that went quite well. No, I don't.
I wouldn't know. This is an amazing question. Again, I
have no idea.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Okay, No, they're out in paddecks, not an ordinary typical garden.
But there's just the damage that's done. It's unreal and
we haven't been able to find a solution.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
No, I wouldn't. I have not either. I've never actually
had that trouble, to be quite honest, that is the
strange thing about it.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Okay, all right, well thry about Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
All the I hope it goes well. And actually before
the break, let's talk to Helen. Good morning.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Yes, it's interesting talking about my favorite for our plants,
the Federation daisies or Margarie daisies as you can form
and if you google Life and Leisure magazine issue sixty three,
they did a four page article on my gardens around
an old stone cottage at the Chatham Islands.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
So the Jennims.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Yeah, then where I come from there?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
What would you do with the Federation daisies?
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Then cut them back, got their heads from and they're
very tough and they don't mine here in the west
of Nelson. They're getting frosted. I put a towel over
the every night. And I'm used to the coastal. They
love sand and coastal areas. And they self seed from
(09:06):
net climates and there's so many colors for sale, and
they on filter butts, number ones and single ones. But
you look up the Life and Leisure magazine as you
sixty three and dunder Hell and hen and Jack Hobbs
took photos of my gardens also two and seventeen. I
(09:29):
think of some net gardening magazine.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, yeah, there's you know, it's interesting enough. It's interesting
you're talking about all these these particular you know, things
that you can read about, and it's all from the
past that we we had a lot of these sort
of things, didn't We end up in the old days,
a lot of good things that were written down in
New Zealand. Gardener still does the same thing. It's absolutely wonderful.
(09:56):
But you've got to know exactly where to get it.
At the moment, you know where to get this particular info.
Yeah that's right. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
What a few plans to side like the Chamac silver
flexes from the Chathams. It grows on the centers and
all over the place down there in the chathaml and
Lily's done the world. They call it Lily really, but it's.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, it's not Lily really.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Yeah, there you go, blue love, blue flails forget me
not on the way.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
That's cool. I used to do with with with Julie.
I used to have do tours studio Chatterms and it
was absolutely wonderful because the locals there could tell you
exactly of all the lovely things in the Chettam Islands.
It's a great place to go.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Actually, yeah, you're stepping back into the fifties and it's
become really popular for tourists because of that.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
Yeah, but the gardening is different. But I had massive
free the Russian daies all through my gardens and they
just thrived a nice, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Lovely Helen, you should give us a call and we
can talk about your old stone house that you're redoing.
Yeah yeah, let's talk about that one day too. Lovely Helen,
all the very best, even New Storks. He'd be And
apparently it's an amazing old place that she's got on
the Chathams and doing some restoration on that as well.
Right eight forty three will take a short break. We'll
(11:18):
talk to Kats straight after the break. I noticed this
couple of interesting texts with regard to the yams and
the wire worm, both people suggesting planting mustard as a control.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Oh wow, well why not? Yeah, well must must have
its a bit like you.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Know, So it's that sort of well, I don't know
what's the technical term. It's not bio moment. It's just
I guess it's an organic approach to say, hey, you
can control this particular creature with this particular plant.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah. Yeah, I can imagine that would be. That would
be it would not be nice for them, but I'm
not sure if that's going to do the one hundred percent right.
Probably give them a bit of a but that's that's.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
What persuade them to go elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yeah, exactly, go to Fiji.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, well do something else. It was pretty awesome, look
at working with the kids was awesome.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Ka, good morning, Good morning lads. I spoke to you
about a year ago and regarding a couple of banana
plants that I've been given, and you suggest that I
actually planted them. What a bloody good idea that was,
Because they're now, thank you. But I'm actually phoning about
(12:32):
flueerry trees. I've got one on the farm that's probably
forty odd years old, but it's had babies. Now. I've
had a landscaping chap up to do some other stuff
and he said leave them alone, and I've sort themselves out.
But my original one, which is fabulous and massive, is
now not so said cabulous. It's fighting. So I'm just
(12:53):
checking do I chop the other ones down or just.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
It depends on how many you want there. I mean, honestly,
it's it's your it's your area, so you can choose
what you like. But if you want to get rid.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Of they're just they're swamping the original one. It's not
doing so anymore.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
So yeah, so you're telling me that the original one,
which has grown to reasonable size by now, I would say, right.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Very much. So, yeah, a couple of story list.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Do you think that other poor trees would would outcompete them?
Is that what you're thinking? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yeah, they're very very close, like within a meter of
the main trunk. Yeah, the original.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Okay, and and there's so there's a big there's quite
a bit of competition. I suggest you're right, get rid
of the one of the one or ones that are
closest to your big one.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Okay, yep, let's what I thought, go with my gut feeling.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, that is exactly what I would do. Yeah, but god,
don't look gorgeous those trees.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Yeah yeah, the wood purgeons and the stories absolutely love them.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Except you got it. It's not just a tree, it's
it's it does everything else, you know, with the birds
and things like that. Wonderful.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Yeah's awesome, I'll get the time for off you go.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, that's brilliant. It's brilliant. Gosh, that might be on
my list to sharpen the chainsaw today. I don't need
to use it for anything, but.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I've done mine the other day. It's good.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
How do you sharpen yours?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Oh? With great difficulty by holding it straight. Remember I
do have a degree in forestry, so I know you
anywhere you go.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
But do you have all the flesh hairy tools or
do you just get around file and okay, yep, good
on you easy. Yeah, it is kind of well I
say that, but I still haven't done it.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
But anyway, be the idea is to keep it really
in one particular level, right and mugging around. That's so
important because I did it a lot of marketing in
the Netherlands. Yeah, I got that in those days, and
it's still with me.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Then, goodness, it becomes sort of muscle memory, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
It does.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, fantastic. Right, Well, when I come down, I might
just bring a cup of old blunt chains and you
sort of powerful would, right, okay, Pauline, good morning, Good
morning guys.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
A nice little story, rude. I have a lot of
birds come into my garden, and quite frequently I will
have sparrows which will have a few white feathers or
even one whole creamy colored one, and I know that's lucism.
But I also get a lot of greenfinches, and I
now have a yellow greenfinch is visiting me new every day.
(15:40):
Have you seen a yellow greenfinch?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
No, I've seen bits of some of the of the
yellow on a green fish. You know, sometimes they get
they get a partial yellow wing if you like. But
is this one completely yellow?
Speaker 8 (15:54):
They're completely yellow, apart from a couple of dark feathers
down the main wing and a little bit on his head.
It's not I've looked whether it was a sell bunting
but they're pretty rare, aren't they. And they're more sparrow
like sells.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
You're in the hang on, hang on, you're in the
white ghetto, aren't you. Yes, you know that one of
the places where you get soil buntings is in my
backyards in christ You. Yeah, they are not common. They're
not common in places.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Right, But no, this this is definitely a green felts.
But the thing is he's so plump and he's absolutely beautiful.
So I presume that there's still lucism.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
That's that's exactly. That's yeah, that's that's that's There's all
sorts of words for these things, but you're right, and
it's just one of those things. It doesn't necessarily have
to be bad for the bird, but it is.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Right, and it's lovely the way they all work together,
eating on bits and pieces that they find. He's like
a little ray of sunshine out on my lawn when
he comes.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah, and they know where to find that stuff. A
you know that's true.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
If you if you get so they come every day.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Oh good, it's like to hear that. Hey. And by
the way, are you do you feed him at all? Pauline?
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Yes, yes, I do. And I know that you said
last week to not feed them.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Now, thank you for saying that, Thank you for thank
you for keeping honest.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
I do know that you said that, Yeah, because it's it.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Is quite important. But you know what I find really
interesting is that we've so far only got two of
those birds, the cot with that flu a the.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
Bird fingers crossed.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Welcome, go all the movies to you. Thank you very much, Pauline,
And just on that. It feels like a community. Notice.
Do you want to read the text out? Or shall I?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Now you do the text?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
This is great? Hang on, there we go. Sorry, here
we go? Right? Can you please tell my husband to
stop feeding the birds? He says he misses them and
that they're hungry wax eyes and tui. And this is great.
That's ken of red beech. He's heard what you've said
about feeding them. So, in all seriousness, this is actually
(18:17):
a genuine concern, isn't it that it is as a
practical response to the threat of bird flu or avian flu,
we should stop putting out food and encouraging birds to congregate.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
That's right, and especially if the birds are birds species
that do congregate, you get a much quicker if you
like connection with other birds and airport the stuff is
doing now and the other ones. Of course the silver
eye silver eye does that as well. They come in
flocks of fifty to one hundred sometimes and I'm not
(18:52):
saying that they are, but I don't like that idea
because they will get together at some stage, and they
do that because they go in big flocks. So I
believe we have to be very careful with feeding them.
And the other thing you can do is, if you
do have a little bit of a feeding idea and
it's okay, sometimes put it in different places, in different
(19:13):
parts of the garden, so it has to go from
A to B to C to D and they don't
always get together, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Right?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Another critics before we Go, does ash from an untreated
from untreated firewood give pot ash to plants? We empty
our firebox every two days.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I saw that one and I thought, yes, that's what
I do too, okay, exactly what I've got a fireplace
and you do. The thing is you do not go
over the top, don't write too much little bits at
the time, but you can put them literally. You can
put them literally on your in your in your in
your place where you normally put your firewood bingo easy.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And in terms of not going over the top, would
you if you end up with I mean this in
modern fireplaces is not actually that much ash, but the
ash that you might collect. Let's say you had a
cup of ash. Would that be enough for one reasonable
tree or would it be half a cup of ash?
What's the kind of ratio?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I I flow fly it out into the into the
area where the plants are plants or trees are right,
In other words, what you do if you actually make
it move towards where those where those where those plants
live and where their root zones are, and that with
a little bit of rain brings it nicely down not.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Right, so just a sort of an application over a
wide area and then obviously the rain sucks it down
into the ground.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Exactly got it awesome?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
She r my compostan as well NPK. Okay, you've got
the K and the K is potessium. Why isn't P potessium.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
H P is for phosphate. That was already taken.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I still remember that from sixth form chemistry. There you
go radio always a pleasure to take care and we'll
be back again. Nick Sundery, Hey, folks, thanks very much
for joining us this morning on the program. If you're
listening for a really good podcast, do tune into the
one hundred years of ZB. I'll listened to the first
one yesterday while I was painting. I'll do the same today.
Take care, see you next week.
Speaker 1 (21:20):
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You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from News Talks Edd climb Pass.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good morning, sir, Hello Lolo Peter, and as we celebrate
one hundred years. You were there at the beginning.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I was there at the beginning. And were you at
the at the gig last? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:23):
I did go on Friday. It was great. We missed you.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Oh yeah, yeah, sorry you realized I had something else
to do in in in in the Line Island.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
But that's all can so we did think it hecked.
Speaker 3 (00:35):
Me off mostly, Oh no, it was.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh, look it was. It was a good thing. It
was a good thing to celebrate, and there was some
very very entertaining speakers, so it was it was good fun.
Actually I'm not sure what time other people got home,
but I was a bit sensible and left before it
all got you know, too rollicky, right into the garden.
Speaker 3 (00:59):
I actually was home in time.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
I did. Yeah, yeah, yeah, I wandered down, hopped on
the fury and got home at a reasonable hour. So
that was good because you can do those things in Auckland. Now, yes, indeed, indeed, right,
how's the garden?
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Oh pretty, okay, we're getting there slowly. You know, but
it's it's it's also we've had this crazy weather. But
on the other end, you know, it works quite well.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah good because I mean we you know Auckland, I know,
you know, we have a little bit of ice and suddenly,
actually it was quite funny. I was in Fiji this week,
so I went up with Laser group of plumbing and
drainage people and in Fiji. I was in Fiji, Yeah,
just for like two nights. So went up at the
conference started on Thursday, but on the Wednesday, they organized
(01:45):
this task force thing and they took close to one
hundred plumbers and electricians to a local school, right that
that really needs help, right, And they changed lights, and
they changed distribution boards, and they painted, and they changed
taps and systems. It was fantastic with the Laser group.
And then I'm the only carpenter there, so I got
to make a bookcase with a kid. But it was
(02:09):
just awesome to go up and do that. So and
then I was talking to the kids. I had this
group of about ten, you know, twelve to thirteen year olds,
and I was it's a beautiful day out there. It's
twenty seven degrees and dah da da da da, And
I was saying, look, two weeks ago when I got
up in the morning, there was ice on the windscreen
in my car and the eyes lit up and they're
like far out, and I'm thinking, yeah, but hey, if
(02:31):
I'm not in Wanaka, right, so my mate's down the
air it's snowing right there down there. But hour was gorgeous,
as gorgeous. It was great fun. And you know, one
hundred trades can do quite a lot of work in
a couple of hours, so freshened up the school and hugely.
But you know, like I'm thinking, we had a couple
(02:51):
of cold days in Auckland, but now it feels warmer,
and then you know, September is not too far away.
I know that first of September is not springtime, but
you kind of feel like, gee, it's it's that might
have been winter.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Yeah, yeah, no, I have been planting some vegetables and
things like that in the tunnel house. Yeah. Course, and
because it's getting you know, because it's nice and sheltered,
you actually get these extra degrees inside your tunnel house. Yes,
and that is working quite well.
Speaker 2 (03:22):
Yeah, yeah, fantastic. Right, let's get amongst it. If you've
got a question for it, you should call right now.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighty Gale, good morning
to you, Good.
Speaker 4 (03:32):
Morning, Good morning, Rude and Peter. I've got a problem.
I've got two big Federation daisy plants are yellow the
flood all winter, through frost, hail. But what do I
do now? Do I want them looking nice at Christmas
because we've got a garden ramble at our place? Do
I cut them back? Or do I dig them out
(03:53):
and replant?
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Or I've never mucked around with those, so I wouldn't
actually know what to do. But have you thought about
and you've obviously never had this gig as well in
the past, haven't you You've not? Yeah, okay, just try
a few bye by, you know, reducing them and then
(04:14):
see what happens with those and leave the other ones go,
because that means you're basically hedging your bets now and
you're learning at the same time, because I wouldn't know
what to do, to be quite.
Speaker 4 (04:23):
Honest, Do they last three of Federation daisies.
Speaker 3 (04:29):
As I think they would be? Yes? From what I
from what I remember, I think they should they should.
You're talking about yeah, yeah, yeah, you're talking about. Oh well, okay,
I'm just getting a really amazing alper year says, cut
them back gently if you have frost still, if you've
(04:49):
still got frost, cut them back gently. There you go easy,
these things coming back.
Speaker 4 (04:55):
Go on something else quickly. I looked at my plumbago.
It has all brand Are you doing anything?
Speaker 3 (05:06):
What happened to it? Do you think the frost? Oh?
The frost? Okay, look in this case, wait for it
to go back if you if you, if your frost
is over, you'll probably find it. The blumbago will go
back again. It shouldn't be all It's not all gone,
is it.
Speaker 5 (05:24):
It's all frosted, all its leaves.
Speaker 3 (05:26):
Are frosted deepest. Oh gosh, there's another one of those
things you see. I've never hit this. I have no
idea what you would do in this case. I would
leave it to see what happens. Yeah, ok yeah, fingers crossed.
Thank you, you're might and welcome all of this.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
Thank you, Gail Berwin, Good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (05:50):
Good morning Dondon Inquiry. We've got an awesome crop of yeams.
We've heading them for two years now. But our problem
is why we're what can we do to deal with
it for next year's planting.
Speaker 3 (06:06):
Yeah, I know, Yeah, I had a similar sort of thing.
I had the ms and but they worked fine. Actually,
to be quite honest, if you've got wireworm, they I
take it they were in the soil with the plants.
Is that roughly what happened?
Speaker 6 (06:22):
They are in there and attacking them.
Speaker 3 (06:24):
Now, okay, I think what might Well, you're you have harvested.
They should be finished by now, almost, shouldn't they.
Speaker 6 (06:38):
That's quite a big quite a big block. And uh
but they're just you know, they just destroy them in need.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Mum hm, okay, have you are your wire worms? Are
they just below the level of the soil or are
they they on the actual on the actual gems.
Speaker 6 (07:01):
They're on the actual games and below the level of
the soil.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Yeah, okay. It's tricky to spray, that, isn't it. Yes, Yeah,
I'm just thinking what would you do? Oh goodness gracious me.
And it's all over the place, so it's not just
it's oh gosship gollie. No, I can't No, I wouldn't
know exactly what to do in this case. I never
(07:26):
had this in my garden. As I said, I got
them out, not that long ago, about a month or
so ago, and that went quite well. No, I don't.
I wouldn't know. This is an amazing question. Again, I
have no idea.
Speaker 6 (07:40):
Okay, No, they're out in paddecks, not an ordinary typical garden.
But there's just the damage that's done. It's unreal and
we haven't been able to find a solution.
Speaker 3 (07:55):
No, I wouldn't. I have not either. I've never actually
had that trouble, to be quite honest, that is the
strange thing about it.
Speaker 6 (08:02):
Okay, all right, well thry about Okay, yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:08):
All the I hope it goes well. And actually before
the break, let's talk to Helen. Good morning.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
Yes, it's interesting talking about my favorite for our plants,
the Federation daisies or Margarie daisies as you can form
and if you google Life and Leisure magazine issue sixty three,
they did a four page article on my gardens around
an old stone cottage at the Chatham Islands.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
So the Jennims.
Speaker 7 (08:37):
Yeah, then where I come from there?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
What would you do with the Federation daisies?
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Then cut them back, got their heads from and they're
very tough and they don't mine here in the west
of Nelson. They're getting frosted. I put a towel over
the every night. And I'm used to the coastal. They
love sand and coastal areas. And they self seed from
(09:06):
net climates and there's so many colors for sale, and
they on filter butts, number ones and single ones. But
you look up the Life and Leisure magazine as you
sixty three and dunder Hell and hen and Jack Hobbs
took photos of my gardens also two and seventeen. I
(09:29):
think of some net gardening magazine.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Yeah, yeah, there's you know, it's interesting enough. It's interesting
you're talking about all these these particular you know, things
that you can read about, and it's all from the
past that we we had a lot of these sort
of things, didn't We end up in the old days,
a lot of good things that were written down in
New Zealand. Gardener still does the same thing. It's absolutely wonderful.
(09:56):
But you've got to know exactly where to get it.
At the moment, you know where to get this particular info.
Yeah that's right. Oh my goodness.
Speaker 7 (10:03):
What a few plans to side like the Chamac silver
flexes from the Chathams. It grows on the centers and
all over the place down there in the chathaml and
Lily's done the world. They call it Lily really, but it's.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
Yeah, it's not Lily really.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Yeah, there you go, blue love, blue flails forget me
not on the way.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
That's cool. I used to do with with with Julie.
I used to have do tours studio Chatterms and it
was absolutely wonderful because the locals there could tell you
exactly of all the lovely things in the Chettam Islands.
It's a great place to go.
Speaker 7 (10:36):
Actually, yeah, you're stepping back into the fifties and it's
become really popular for tourists because of that.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (10:44):
Yeah, but the gardening is different. But I had massive
free the Russian daies all through my gardens and they
just thrived a nice, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Lovely Helen, you should give us a call and we
can talk about your old stone house that you're redoing.
Yeah yeah, let's talk about that one day too. Lovely Helen,
all the very best, even New Storks. He'd be And
apparently it's an amazing old place that she's got on
the Chathams and doing some restoration on that as well.
Right eight forty three will take a short break. We'll
(11:18):
talk to Kats straight after the break. I noticed this
couple of interesting texts with regard to the yams and
the wire worm, both people suggesting planting mustard as a control.
Speaker 3 (11:31):
Oh wow, well why not? Yeah, well must must have
its a bit like you.
Speaker 2 (11:36):
Know, So it's that sort of well, I don't know
what's the technical term. It's not bio moment. It's just
I guess it's an organic approach to say, hey, you
can control this particular creature with this particular plant.
Speaker 3 (11:50):
Yeah. Yeah, I can imagine that would be. That would
be it would not be nice for them, but I'm
not sure if that's going to do the one hundred percent right.
Probably give them a bit of a but that's that's.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
What persuade them to go elsewhere.
Speaker 3 (12:01):
Yeah, exactly, go to Fiji.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
Yeah, well do something else. It was pretty awesome, look
at working with the kids was awesome.
Speaker 5 (12:10):
Ka, good morning, Good morning lads. I spoke to you
about a year ago and regarding a couple of banana
plants that I've been given, and you suggest that I
actually planted them. What a bloody good idea that was,
Because they're now, thank you. But I'm actually phoning about
(12:32):
flueerry trees. I've got one on the farm that's probably
forty odd years old, but it's had babies. Now. I've
had a landscaping chap up to do some other stuff
and he said leave them alone, and I've sort themselves out.
But my original one, which is fabulous and massive, is
now not so said cabulous. It's fighting. So I'm just
(12:53):
checking do I chop the other ones down or just.
Speaker 3 (12:57):
It depends on how many you want there. I mean, honestly,
it's it's your it's your area, so you can choose
what you like. But if you want to get rid.
Speaker 5 (13:05):
Of they're just they're swamping the original one. It's not
doing so anymore.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
So yeah, so you're telling me that the original one,
which has grown to reasonable size by now, I would say, right.
Speaker 5 (13:19):
Very much. So, yeah, a couple of story list.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
Do you think that other poor trees would would outcompete them?
Is that what you're thinking? Yeah?
Speaker 5 (13:29):
Yeah, they're very very close, like within a meter of
the main trunk. Yeah, the original.
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Okay, and and there's so there's a big there's quite
a bit of competition. I suggest you're right, get rid
of the one of the one or ones that are
closest to your big one.
Speaker 5 (13:47):
Okay, yep, let's what I thought, go with my gut feeling.
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Yeah, that is exactly what I would do. Yeah, but god,
don't look gorgeous those trees.
Speaker 5 (13:55):
Yeah yeah, the wood purgeons and the stories absolutely love them.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
Except you got it. It's not just a tree, it's
it's it does everything else, you know, with the birds
and things like that. Wonderful.
Speaker 5 (14:07):
Yeah's awesome, I'll get the time for off you go.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (14:14):
Well, that's brilliant. It's brilliant. Gosh, that might be on
my list to sharpen the chainsaw today. I don't need
to use it for anything, but.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
I've done mine the other day. It's good.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
How do you sharpen yours?
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Oh? With great difficulty by holding it straight. Remember I
do have a degree in forestry, so I know you
anywhere you go.
Speaker 2 (14:32):
But do you have all the flesh hairy tools or
do you just get around file and okay, yep, good
on you easy. Yeah, it is kind of well I
say that, but I still haven't done it.
Speaker 3 (14:44):
But anyway, be the idea is to keep it really
in one particular level, right and mugging around. That's so
important because I did it a lot of marketing in
the Netherlands. Yeah, I got that in those days, and
it's still with me.
Speaker 2 (14:58):
Then, goodness, it becomes sort of muscle memory, doesn't it.
Speaker 3 (15:02):
It does.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Yeah, fantastic. Right, Well, when I come down, I might
just bring a cup of old blunt chains and you
sort of powerful would, right, okay, Pauline, good morning, Good
morning guys.
Speaker 8 (15:15):
A nice little story, rude. I have a lot of
birds come into my garden, and quite frequently I will
have sparrows which will have a few white feathers or
even one whole creamy colored one, and I know that's lucism.
But I also get a lot of greenfinches, and I
now have a yellow greenfinch is visiting me new every day.
(15:40):
Have you seen a yellow greenfinch?
Speaker 3 (15:42):
No, I've seen bits of some of the of the
yellow on a green fish. You know, sometimes they get
they get a partial yellow wing if you like. But
is this one completely yellow?
Speaker 8 (15:54):
They're completely yellow, apart from a couple of dark feathers
down the main wing and a little bit on his head.
It's not I've looked whether it was a sell bunting
but they're pretty rare, aren't they. And they're more sparrow
like sells.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
You're in the hang on, hang on, you're in the
white ghetto, aren't you. Yes, you know that one of
the places where you get soil buntings is in my
backyards in christ You. Yeah, they are not common. They're
not common in places.
Speaker 8 (16:25):
Right, But no, this this is definitely a green felts.
But the thing is he's so plump and he's absolutely beautiful.
So I presume that there's still lucism.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
That's that's exactly. That's yeah, that's that's that's There's all
sorts of words for these things, but you're right, and
it's just one of those things. It doesn't necessarily have
to be bad for the bird, but it is.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Right, and it's lovely the way they all work together,
eating on bits and pieces that they find. He's like
a little ray of sunshine out on my lawn when
he comes.
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Yeah, and they know where to find that stuff. A
you know that's true.
Speaker 8 (17:04):
If you if you get so they come every day.
Speaker 3 (17:09):
Oh good, it's like to hear that. Hey. And by
the way, are you do you feed him at all? Pauline?
Speaker 8 (17:15):
Yes, yes, I do. And I know that you said
last week to not feed them.
Speaker 3 (17:19):
Now, thank you for saying that, Thank you for thank
you for keeping honest.
Speaker 8 (17:25):
I do know that you said that, Yeah, because it's it.
Speaker 3 (17:29):
Is quite important. But you know what I find really
interesting is that we've so far only got two of
those birds, the cot with that flu a the.
Speaker 8 (17:38):
Bird fingers crossed.
Speaker 3 (17:39):
Yeah, exactly.
Speaker 2 (17:42):
Welcome, go all the movies to you. Thank you very much, Pauline,
And just on that. It feels like a community. Notice.
Do you want to read the text out? Or shall I?
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Now you do the text?
Speaker 2 (17:53):
This is great? Hang on, there we go. Sorry, here
we go? Right? Can you please tell my husband to
stop feeding the birds? He says he misses them and
that they're hungry wax eyes and tui. And this is great.
That's ken of red beech. He's heard what you've said
about feeding them. So, in all seriousness, this is actually
(18:17):
a genuine concern, isn't it that it is as a
practical response to the threat of bird flu or avian flu,
we should stop putting out food and encouraging birds to congregate.
Speaker 3 (18:32):
That's right, and especially if the birds are birds species
that do congregate, you get a much quicker if you
like connection with other birds and airport the stuff is
doing now and the other ones. Of course the silver
eye silver eye does that as well. They come in
flocks of fifty to one hundred sometimes and I'm not
(18:52):
saying that they are, but I don't like that idea
because they will get together at some stage, and they
do that because they go in big flocks. So I
believe we have to be very careful with feeding them.
And the other thing you can do is, if you
do have a little bit of a feeding idea and
it's okay, sometimes put it in different places, in different
(19:13):
parts of the garden, so it has to go from
A to B to C to D and they don't
always get together, you know what I mean?
Speaker 6 (19:21):
Right?
Speaker 3 (19:22):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (19:23):
Another critics before we Go, does ash from an untreated
from untreated firewood give pot ash to plants? We empty
our firebox every two days.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
I saw that one and I thought, yes, that's what
I do too, okay, exactly what I've got a fireplace
and you do. The thing is you do not go
over the top, don't write too much little bits at
the time, but you can put them literally. You can
put them literally on your in your in your in
your place where you normally put your firewood bingo easy.
Speaker 2 (19:56):
And in terms of not going over the top, would
you if you end up with I mean this in
modern fireplaces is not actually that much ash, but the
ash that you might collect. Let's say you had a
cup of ash. Would that be enough for one reasonable
tree or would it be half a cup of ash?
What's the kind of ratio?
Speaker 3 (20:13):
I I flow fly it out into the into the
area where the plants are plants or trees are right,
In other words, what you do if you actually make
it move towards where those where those where those plants
live and where their root zones are, and that with
a little bit of rain brings it nicely down not.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
Right, so just a sort of an application over a
wide area and then obviously the rain sucks it down
into the ground.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Exactly got it awesome?
Speaker 2 (20:43):
She r my compostan as well NPK. Okay, you've got
the K and the K is potessium. Why isn't P potessium.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
H P is for phosphate. That was already taken.
Speaker 2 (20:58):
I still remember that from sixth form chemistry. There you
go radio always a pleasure to take care and we'll
be back again. Nick Sundery, Hey, folks, thanks very much
for joining us this morning on the program. If you're
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