August 22, 2026 • 21 mins
This week, Pete and Ruud answer your questions about keeping your garden in the best shape it can be this season!
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
That must be our tune mate.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Get I I think so, Hello, Peter Greasings Greasings you. Well, yeah, yeah,
I think so. I'm pretty good. Yeah, it's been, it's been. Yeah,
there's you know, for looking after the fact that I
fell off my bike, for instance, in that.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I don't worry sore knee. Yep, I should be laughing
but I'm sure once you damn.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
And Julie is but you went so slow.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Toppling off. We've all been otherwise. Yeah, great, good, good, Right,
let's let's get into it. Let's get into it. We've
got a bunch of calls, so let's let's race into it.
Tom A, very good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Yes, question for rude, please go. I'm just wondering that
I've got a plum tree which it doesn't really fruit,
and the leaves and curled. So what's the problem there a.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Plump tree that doesn't fruit and it and what is
curled the leaves or the new fruits or no fruits
at all?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Yeah, the leaves. There are a few fruits, but they
are they're very small.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Do you fertilize your plum tree, be honest. That's that's okay,
that's all right, that's fine. I mean, I mean, I'm
from now on, I'm going to basically get rid of
all your dinners and morning meals and mid day little
bits and pieces that you take to work. In other words,
(01:51):
if you don't feed your plant, you're not going to
get anything, right, Okay, yeah, okay, here we go, because
it's going to be it's a plant.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
So it's a plum tree. How how tall is it?
Do you know? Roughly?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Oh to thesbe big now probably two and a half
meters excellent?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
And and did it have some fruit in the beginning?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
No, no, no, I bought it, as you know, from
from a from a from a shop.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Got it?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Okay? Good? All right? And now it's in a garden,
isn't it?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Fertilizers for fruit trees np K. That means that you
need some fruit that have nitrogen phosphate and potation n
B and K. The K is for for getting the
fruit going, actually and and and so on and so
for the pea is to get the roots going, and
the and the end is for literally the leaves and
all the other stuff. So it's a general fertilizer for fruit.
(02:49):
If you use that from now on, and I would
do that as soon as I can from now on
onto your area where the roots of this tree are
basically you know, going into the soil. That's how you
can actually get that plant to make, you know, basically
the stuff that you want fruit.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
What's the fertilizer.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Look, it's a general fertilizer, but it's a fertilizer that
you'd basically use for.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Planting or for planting or fruit. So that could be
anything that has plants if you like. Go to your
local garden center and ask for something for fruit, and
you'll find that you get a high K if you like,
which is the potash. And if you do that on
a regular basis with some moisture, there's some water so
that these fertilizers go into the soil, your plant will
(03:42):
be slowly coming back to where it should be.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Okay, great, thanks for you help ever.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Go away or Tom take care and Linda, good morning
to you.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Oh, good morning, good morning road.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Hi Linda.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
I have a cofie tree that I planted when I
came to this property that was all new soil and
probably not and this concession. But it hasn't flowered in
three and a half years. And when I bought it
it would have been about a meter high and it
was a healthy looking space. A moment a chat them island.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
Cool fight.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
I never had a flower much.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Oh, it's the same sort of question. Do you fertilize
it every now and then?
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Well, i'd have to say that I haven't really been.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well, these are these are these are probably quite important
things that you do. So you've got the flower, Sorry,
not the flowers. The plants are looking good, They've got
nice colored leaves. If you like they are growing, I suppose.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Yeah, it's subsciring.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, in that case, gets yourself something that you put on,
like I just talked to to Tom about get something
that these plants really like. So the stuff that gives
you the fertilizer for the flowers, and later on if
you like the fruit, if you want fruit on it,
you know what I mean, and things like that. But
in this case you do so far.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
YEA a general fertilizer. Would that be sufficient or does
it need to be something about more subject.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
No, a general fertilizer would be just fine. And what
I tend to do on these things.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Is I use.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Materials such as hit what do you call it? The
stuff from wet and forget, which is a general fertilizer,
and I use that basically to get the plant going
and it goes all over the place from that moment onwards.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It's really cool. Okay, thank you very much, have a go,
good luck with.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It way all. Thank you very much for that. Am
I getting a hit of the game to go? It
feels like it's well in this part of the country.
You're warming up a bit, and I'm thinking about, you know,
seeing not quite some new buds, but you know, the
plum tree, the ficus. Do we start thinking about a
(06:11):
bit of a feed now? Is it a bit too early?
Just in general for the guard.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I think you can do that for certain things, because
some of the plants like we've got we've got in
our garden that are already flowering and that means and
that means that your fruit is coming in a couple.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Of months or in a month's time.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Say sure, so, yeah, yeah, absolutely, And it depends exactly
on what you've got to do it from now on,
just gently on and you'll find that if you do
it on a regular basis, Pete, it's you get you
get constant fruit or flowers, whatever you need.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Awesome, right, I'm onto that today. Heather, good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (06:45):
Good morning, hello, hello, Rude. I managed to get a
monarch emerged from its chrystlis in the last few days,
and we've been feeding its honey water. Is there anything
else we could feed it?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I would say flowers that they actually like.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You knows many of those in the garden at the moment.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
No, that's right, but they will get whatever is coming
up from now onwards. I still have some flowers that
the monarchs eat, and although I haven't seen them for
the last couple of months, I know that they will
come back to get them. All sorts of stuff that
you can use, to be quite honest. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely,
that's what you do.
Speaker 10 (07:32):
Okay, it's easy.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Thank you, Yeah, I would bye bye bye all this hither.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Thank you very much for that. Peter A very good
morning to you.
Speaker 11 (07:46):
Hi, Hey, how are you?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
What can we do for you?
Speaker 11 (07:50):
I was ringing up a bit of my plungery.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Actually, what is it? What is it doing? Or rather
what is what is not? What is it not doing?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
It?
Speaker 11 (07:59):
Gave a very heavy two years ago and then it
gave a small crop. But I've actually bring it to
a bit a third of the size that it was.
Is it? And I don't know if it's going to
come away again or not? That's what I wanted today.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I'm quite sure it is. It still well off the ground,
it's still reasonably okay. I wouldn't worry about it. Half
fall excellent, But don't forget to fertilize that plant because
from now on that's going to need to do that
in order to get going.
Speaker 11 (08:30):
Yeah, okay, because I've I actually prey in taste all
the cuts that are made, so still come away with
that being here?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah, it probably would too. It depends exactly on what
variety it is. But you've got to be a little
bit knowledgeable in terms of what variety is it that
particular plumb tree? Do you know.
Speaker 11 (08:54):
It was? It's not a race face when it's half
red and sort of half green fish but very sweet.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Oh yeah, okay, Because and this is quite important, sometimes
you need a second plant to get across, you know,
across movement of the two together so that they like
each other, and then you get a better you get
a better fruit coming coming out if you.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
Like, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
So that's another idea. Yeah right.
Speaker 11 (09:28):
Otherwise I'll give us some fertilizer and wait and see.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, and don't go over the top next don't go
over the top next year with your pruning. Do it
in bits, do it in thirds, I think, Peter, we've
talked about it in the past.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Do it in the.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Third exactly second and the third second year, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Give it a bit of time for that. But also,
some of.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
These fruit trees really like to know somebody who lives
next to them, and they literally share their pollen if
you like, the pollination, and therefore they will get their
fruit going.
Speaker 11 (10:05):
Okay, take true off.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You go, all the very best tea.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Thanks, thanks Peter, all the best. We take a break
in a minute. Hey, just by the way, too. I
quite enjoy listening to podcasts, and one of the ones
that I've tuned into recently has been this, the new
z B one celebrating one hundred years of z B.
The new one drops today, by the way, so just
letting people know, which means I've still got to finish
the second one before I listen to the third one.
(10:32):
But I'll get onto that maybe while I'm out fertilizing
the garden today.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
So there's so many stories, Pete.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, they're great stories, and to be fair made it was.
It was a pretty good storytelling session. Was it Friday
week ago in Auckland here with some familiar faces from
years ago and just that depth of history, and yeah,
that was awesome. But if you're on tune into the podcast.
(11:00):
Just go to iHeartRadio and you'll find the podcast there. Easy, easy, Right,
we'll take a short break. We'll come back and talk
to Alistair after the break. Rud Climb pass us with
us this morning and Alistair, good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Morning. Lead's just throwing up wood on Pete's comment about
the early flare and other than patient for a three
year old, tell us to debt of vittaria. Is it
too early to give it a bit of a trend?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It's an early spring. Is not a bad time to
do it. In fact, that is really the time to
do it. I assume you don't have any flowers in it.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
I thought trying and beat the flowers is.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yeah, yeah, beat the flowers excellent. Yere you go.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
So, so this time of the year, cutback, especially the
vigorous side shoots if you like and about you know,
two about one third and maybe half, And now's the
time to do it. Honestly, this is good because after
that you'll be fine. Don't forget fertilizer on the roots.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Easy.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
I was got to use my huge trummor Would that work?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Right?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Is it that big?
Speaker 8 (12:05):
I've got a few made us to do, so I
thought I'd just use the instrum and walk along and
just chop it deck by a third or half.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Maybe I would do it.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I'd do it with clippers, to be quite honest, But
that's just me because I want to have something growing
and something not so growing, you know what I mean?
Something wants to go left and something wants to go right.
I don't want it to go like like a what
do you call it, like a like a like a gate.
But no, I would do it a bit more gentle
with that than that, to be quite honest.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Okay, all right, just one other thing too. I've got
to act the quite pro teer. I want to do
a couple of cuts on but I don't have any paste.
There's anything else you can use for that printing paste?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Well, after pruning, do you think that you will get problems?
With the holes you create.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
If you had this pea.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Worry about the pro tier marking the cats?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, maybe not, but that means well, why would you
then you really want.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
To have it shorter, don't you.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, okay, No, have a go at it. And I
think if that plant is okay and happy, I don't
think you should really have to have the yeah, the
stuff to put on the wound. No, I wouldn't worry. No,
you'll be fine at this time.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Here we go. I wouldn't do that. I don't No,
I wouldn't do that. I love that idea.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Good on you, especially if it's not an old turn
that's around the back of the shed. That's still the
old lead baster.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Oh yes, I found one of those too.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You can take those on for recycling. Get rid of
that stuff out of the back of the shed, rightio,
and good morning to you.
Speaker 12 (13:45):
Good morning. Check of things very well. But now I
want to enlarge on the lady rang before about the
cosine up flowering. Sure, I've had two over the years,
so I do know a bit about them. One was
the seedling which my brother grew as a little child
down on the Catlands, and it later was planted in
(14:05):
my guard in christ Church. And another one I have
now in a native area is that little tangled one
microphilire and most of a long time. So after I
heard that lady, I googled it and typically it can
be up to ten years, and the way microphilia up
to fifteen years before they flower.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
It's the main one is.
Speaker 12 (14:29):
That they look different for quite a long time.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Yeah, okay, so you need to.
Speaker 12 (14:33):
At least eight years before I got flowers. And the
other thing with Kofi, you need to keep the watchful
eye out. They have their own caterpillar. Yes, one I
had first. It was decimated at one stage, and they
look exactly like the little branchy things in a gray
black sort of color, and they can do a lot
(14:54):
of damage very quickly.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I can't see that. Yeah, you're right,
but the timing is good. Your timing comments are really good.
I also know that these things can take a lot
of time to get there gently, especially these very fine
leaved ones.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
That's the ones you're talking about, isn't it.
Speaker 12 (15:13):
The first one wasn't Yeah, the second one it is.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 12 (15:17):
Okay, Yeah, they most took a long time.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 12 (15:21):
I think you have to let them do their thing
and we'll just be patient.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, And what I found about the caterpillars on Cofi
they are actually sometimes they're there for it, let's say
one year, and then you won't see them very much
for the next few years at all.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
So that goes up and down as well.
Speaker 12 (15:36):
Ay, well, a lot of those infestations are like there, aren't.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
They, Yeah, exactly, but go Fi specifically.
Speaker 12 (15:42):
I had the spot to begin with because they're so
camouflage themselves.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
They're good. Yeah, they're really good. Event you're right.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Luckily I've got I've got good good eyes me too.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Thank you for take care and Enna, good morning to you.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Good morning. I've got a mature red robin hide that
runs on fifty meters that's been there forever and has
done really well. But over the last two to three years,
I've slowly noticed some of them, some of the trees
dying off and they're getting.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
The new shoots.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
Just the new shoots always come, but then they get
blistered and distorted and kind of die off, and some
of the trees have lost all their leaves, and some
of them are okay, and the mixture all through the
hedge but there's definitely something going on.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
What's the hedge, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
You're talking about the for Tenia red robin heads.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, they can do that
sometimes because especially if difference is in a very wet soil,
they can they don't they might not like that.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Is that? Is that the case? Or did you have
another road?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
No?
Speaker 10 (16:53):
Not really. We are in the white shadow though, yes,
but with actually yeah, we actually have had some wetter
summers that if that anything to go by, but you
usually it's not. It's not so bad. It's been there
for thirty years.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Okay, all right, have you got any leaf spots, for instance,
have you got any signs of of fungle problems?
Speaker 10 (17:19):
There's like little black black one of black spots all
on the new leaves.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Ah, okay, go to your local garden center and get
yourself some fungal fungal stuff that that actually takes that down,
you know what I mean, so.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Fuel material.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I would do that, yep, absolutely, and get your red
get your red robin back again to proper red robin
sigh size and and you know color, I think, so yeah,
you'll be right with that.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Okay, cooler, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Take care then then, and Karen, good morning to you.
Speaker 13 (17:57):
Good morning. Look I'm ringing because my graph is slowly
dying off and it looks like people with sprigs and
their boots have been running up and down on us.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
And what so is that in your in your in
your lawn?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Yes?
Speaker 13 (18:15):
Yeah, and our lawn?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
And who's running around there? The grandkids?
Speaker 13 (18:21):
No, they early on in the season they had to
be run with it. But someone thought it could have
been oh, what's the little grab grass grub? Oh yep, yeah,
what do you think it is?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Where? Where? Where are where? Which area of New Zealand
are you Kane?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I was just going to say, if that's Kane, I
have heaps of those grubs here, the grass grub, They
are everywhere at the moment. It's unbelievable. In fact, my
my spiders like them, that's another story. And some of
the birds like them because they go with their with
them and starlings for instance, and things like that. They
go into the soil and they know exactly where those
(19:06):
grubs are and they make holes for Africa?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Is that? Is that? What it could be?
Speaker 13 (19:11):
So how do you believe this?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Well?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
What can you do in this case? I am not
one hundred percent sure what you can do with grass grub,
Go and have a look at your local garden center
to see if they've got something that you can actually
spray over the grass grub infested area.
Speaker 13 (19:28):
Yeah, oh no, I'll do that in that fine.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yeah, there is there is a material that Yeah, there's
a material that Yates makes and it's called a Sally Prene.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
So if you if you, if I if I put
that out to you, it's ace L E p R
y N. It's from Kiwi Care.
Speaker 13 (19:51):
There you go right here, look, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Off you go have fun with that.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Hye bye, thanks very much for that.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Karen.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
We're gonna have to be super quack. Paul, you've got
forty seconds, go for it.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Oh, how are you good?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Quick?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
I'm here from Timloo and I'm a keen gardener. And
years ago I got one of these little boxes new
Wood used to sell for a leaf cutter bees ah,
and the man gave it to me and I took
it home and I tried it out. But what I
discovered was the the Barabie mites got in the back
because there's all these gaps between the reboards. Yes, so
(20:31):
I thought, right, I've got to come up with another plan.
So I did research. And in America in the thirties,
I think it was they had something bee say it out,
so they had leaf cutter bees saved the crops apparently.
And the paddocks. I've seen photos. They've got paddocks full
of sheds with all these little blocks of wood. And
so I did I have blocks of wood. I drill
(20:53):
six and eight more holes, and I put these blocks
of wood under the feet and I've got all these
left cut of bees and they fill the nest up
and they put play on the front, just like the
old masonfly, and then they on ahead and it's fascinating.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
So it sounds I tell you what we're going to
pick up on this next week. Let's do that. Take care,
you have a great week, everyone, All the best.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
That must be our tune mate.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Get I I think so, Hello, Peter Greasings Greasings you. Well, yeah, yeah,
I think so. I'm pretty good. Yeah, it's been, it's been. Yeah,
there's you know, for looking after the fact that I
fell off my bike, for instance, in that.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I don't worry sore knee. Yep, I should be laughing
but I'm sure once you damn.
Speaker 4 (00:38):
And Julie is but you went so slow.
Speaker 2 (00:44):
Toppling off. We've all been otherwise. Yeah, great, good, good, Right,
let's let's get into it. Let's get into it. We've
got a bunch of calls, so let's let's race into it.
Tom A, very good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (00:57):
Yes, question for rude, please go. I'm just wondering that
I've got a plum tree which it doesn't really fruit,
and the leaves and curled. So what's the problem there a.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Plump tree that doesn't fruit and it and what is
curled the leaves or the new fruits or no fruits
at all?
Speaker 5 (01:21):
Yeah, the leaves. There are a few fruits, but they
are they're very small.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
Do you fertilize your plum tree, be honest. That's that's okay,
that's all right, that's fine. I mean, I mean, I'm
from now on, I'm going to basically get rid of
all your dinners and morning meals and mid day little
bits and pieces that you take to work. In other words,
(01:51):
if you don't feed your plant, you're not going to
get anything, right, Okay, yeah, okay, here we go, because
it's going to be it's a plant.
Speaker 4 (02:00):
So it's a plum tree. How how tall is it?
Do you know? Roughly?
Speaker 5 (02:03):
Oh to thesbe big now probably two and a half
meters excellent?
Speaker 4 (02:10):
And and did it have some fruit in the beginning?
Speaker 5 (02:14):
No, no, no, I bought it, as you know, from
from a from a from a shop.
Speaker 6 (02:21):
Got it?
Speaker 4 (02:21):
Okay? Good? All right? And now it's in a garden,
isn't it?
Speaker 6 (02:25):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (02:25):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (02:26):
Fertilizers for fruit trees np K. That means that you
need some fruit that have nitrogen phosphate and potation n
B and K. The K is for for getting the
fruit going, actually and and and so on and so
for the pea is to get the roots going, and
the and the end is for literally the leaves and
all the other stuff. So it's a general fertilizer for fruit.
(02:49):
If you use that from now on, and I would
do that as soon as I can from now on
onto your area where the roots of this tree are
basically you know, going into the soil. That's how you
can actually get that plant to make, you know, basically
the stuff that you want fruit.
Speaker 5 (03:10):
What's the fertilizer.
Speaker 4 (03:13):
Look, it's a general fertilizer, but it's a fertilizer that
you'd basically use for.
Speaker 3 (03:20):
Planting or for planting or fruit. So that could be
anything that has plants if you like. Go to your
local garden center and ask for something for fruit, and
you'll find that you get a high K if you like,
which is the potash. And if you do that on
a regular basis with some moisture, there's some water so
that these fertilizers go into the soil, your plant will
(03:42):
be slowly coming back to where it should be.
Speaker 5 (03:45):
Okay, great, thanks for you help ever.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Go away or Tom take care and Linda, good morning
to you.
Speaker 7 (03:54):
Oh, good morning, good morning road.
Speaker 4 (03:56):
Hi Linda.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
I have a cofie tree that I planted when I
came to this property that was all new soil and
probably not and this concession. But it hasn't flowered in
three and a half years. And when I bought it
it would have been about a meter high and it
was a healthy looking space. A moment a chat them island.
Speaker 8 (04:20):
Cool fight.
Speaker 7 (04:21):
I never had a flower much.
Speaker 4 (04:25):
Oh, it's the same sort of question. Do you fertilize
it every now and then?
Speaker 7 (04:31):
Well, i'd have to say that I haven't really been.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
Well, these are these are these are probably quite important
things that you do. So you've got the flower, Sorry,
not the flowers. The plants are looking good, They've got
nice colored leaves. If you like they are growing, I suppose.
Speaker 8 (04:51):
Yeah, it's subsciring.
Speaker 3 (04:53):
Yeah, in that case, gets yourself something that you put on,
like I just talked to to Tom about get something
that these plants really like. So the stuff that gives
you the fertilizer for the flowers, and later on if
you like the fruit, if you want fruit on it,
you know what I mean, and things like that. But
in this case you do so far.
Speaker 7 (05:14):
YEA a general fertilizer. Would that be sufficient or does
it need to be something about more subject.
Speaker 3 (05:21):
No, a general fertilizer would be just fine. And what
I tend to do on these things.
Speaker 4 (05:27):
Is I use.
Speaker 3 (05:29):
Materials such as hit what do you call it? The
stuff from wet and forget, which is a general fertilizer,
and I use that basically to get the plant going
and it goes all over the place from that moment onwards.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
It's really cool. Okay, thank you very much, have a go,
good luck with.
Speaker 2 (05:49):
It way all. Thank you very much for that. Am
I getting a hit of the game to go? It
feels like it's well in this part of the country.
You're warming up a bit, and I'm thinking about, you know,
seeing not quite some new buds, but you know, the
plum tree, the ficus. Do we start thinking about a
(06:11):
bit of a feed now? Is it a bit too early?
Just in general for the guard.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
I think you can do that for certain things, because
some of the plants like we've got we've got in
our garden that are already flowering and that means and
that means that your fruit is coming in a couple.
Speaker 4 (06:26):
Of months or in a month's time.
Speaker 3 (06:28):
Say sure, so, yeah, yeah, absolutely, And it depends exactly
on what you've got to do it from now on,
just gently on and you'll find that if you do
it on a regular basis, Pete, it's you get you
get constant fruit or flowers, whatever you need.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
Awesome, right, I'm onto that today. Heather, good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (06:45):
Good morning, hello, hello, Rude. I managed to get a
monarch emerged from its chrystlis in the last few days,
and we've been feeding its honey water. Is there anything
else we could feed it?
Speaker 4 (07:03):
I would say flowers that they actually like.
Speaker 2 (07:07):
You knows many of those in the garden at the moment.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
No, that's right, but they will get whatever is coming
up from now onwards. I still have some flowers that
the monarchs eat, and although I haven't seen them for
the last couple of months, I know that they will
come back to get them. All sorts of stuff that
you can use, to be quite honest. Yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely,
that's what you do.
Speaker 10 (07:32):
Okay, it's easy.
Speaker 4 (07:34):
Thank you, Yeah, I would bye bye bye all this hither.
Speaker 2 (07:39):
Thank you very much for that. Peter A very good
morning to you.
Speaker 11 (07:46):
Hi, Hey, how are you?
Speaker 4 (07:48):
What can we do for you?
Speaker 11 (07:50):
I was ringing up a bit of my plungery.
Speaker 4 (07:52):
Actually, what is it? What is it doing? Or rather
what is what is not? What is it not doing?
Speaker 1 (07:58):
It?
Speaker 11 (07:59):
Gave a very heavy two years ago and then it
gave a small crop. But I've actually bring it to
a bit a third of the size that it was.
Is it? And I don't know if it's going to
come away again or not? That's what I wanted today.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
I'm quite sure it is. It still well off the ground,
it's still reasonably okay. I wouldn't worry about it. Half
fall excellent, But don't forget to fertilize that plant because
from now on that's going to need to do that
in order to get going.
Speaker 11 (08:30):
Yeah, okay, because I've I actually prey in taste all
the cuts that are made, so still come away with
that being here?
Speaker 4 (08:39):
Yeah, it probably would too. It depends exactly on what
variety it is. But you've got to be a little
bit knowledgeable in terms of what variety is it that
particular plumb tree? Do you know.
Speaker 11 (08:54):
It was? It's not a race face when it's half
red and sort of half green fish but very sweet.
Speaker 4 (09:04):
Oh yeah, okay, Because and this is quite important, sometimes
you need a second plant to get across, you know,
across movement of the two together so that they like
each other, and then you get a better you get
a better fruit coming coming out if you.
Speaker 11 (09:22):
Like, yeah, okay.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
So that's another idea. Yeah right.
Speaker 11 (09:28):
Otherwise I'll give us some fertilizer and wait and see.
Speaker 3 (09:32):
Yeah, and don't go over the top next don't go
over the top next year with your pruning. Do it
in bits, do it in thirds, I think, Peter, we've
talked about it in the past.
Speaker 4 (09:42):
Do it in the.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
Third exactly second and the third second year, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 4 (09:48):
Give it a bit of time for that. But also,
some of.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
These fruit trees really like to know somebody who lives
next to them, and they literally share their pollen if
you like, the pollination, and therefore they will get their
fruit going.
Speaker 11 (10:05):
Okay, take true off.
Speaker 1 (10:07):
You go, all the very best tea.
Speaker 2 (10:11):
Thanks, thanks Peter, all the best. We take a break
in a minute. Hey, just by the way, too. I
quite enjoy listening to podcasts, and one of the ones
that I've tuned into recently has been this, the new
z B one celebrating one hundred years of z B.
The new one drops today, by the way, so just
letting people know, which means I've still got to finish
the second one before I listen to the third one.
(10:32):
But I'll get onto that maybe while I'm out fertilizing
the garden today.
Speaker 4 (10:37):
So there's so many stories, Pete.
Speaker 2 (10:39):
Yeah, they're great stories, and to be fair made it was.
It was a pretty good storytelling session. Was it Friday
week ago in Auckland here with some familiar faces from
years ago and just that depth of history, and yeah,
that was awesome. But if you're on tune into the podcast.
(11:00):
Just go to iHeartRadio and you'll find the podcast there. Easy, easy, Right,
we'll take a short break. We'll come back and talk
to Alistair after the break. Rud Climb pass us with
us this morning and Alistair, good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (11:13):
Morning. Lead's just throwing up wood on Pete's comment about
the early flare and other than patient for a three
year old, tell us to debt of vittaria. Is it
too early to give it a bit of a trend?
Speaker 3 (11:26):
It's an early spring. Is not a bad time to
do it. In fact, that is really the time to
do it. I assume you don't have any flowers in it.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
I thought trying and beat the flowers is.
Speaker 4 (11:37):
Yeah, yeah, beat the flowers excellent. Yere you go.
Speaker 3 (11:40):
So, so this time of the year, cutback, especially the
vigorous side shoots if you like and about you know,
two about one third and maybe half, And now's the
time to do it. Honestly, this is good because after
that you'll be fine. Don't forget fertilizer on the roots.
Speaker 4 (11:57):
Easy.
Speaker 8 (11:58):
I was got to use my huge trummor Would that work?
Speaker 6 (12:00):
Right?
Speaker 4 (12:03):
Is it that big?
Speaker 8 (12:05):
I've got a few made us to do, so I
thought I'd just use the instrum and walk along and
just chop it deck by a third or half.
Speaker 4 (12:11):
Maybe I would do it.
Speaker 3 (12:13):
I'd do it with clippers, to be quite honest, But
that's just me because I want to have something growing
and something not so growing, you know what I mean?
Something wants to go left and something wants to go right.
I don't want it to go like like a what
do you call it, like a like a like a gate.
But no, I would do it a bit more gentle
with that than that, to be quite honest.
Speaker 8 (12:34):
Okay, all right, just one other thing too. I've got
to act the quite pro teer. I want to do
a couple of cuts on but I don't have any paste.
There's anything else you can use for that printing paste?
Speaker 3 (12:45):
Well, after pruning, do you think that you will get problems?
With the holes you create.
Speaker 4 (12:52):
If you had this pea.
Speaker 8 (12:53):
Worry about the pro tier marking the cats?
Speaker 3 (12:56):
Yeah, maybe not, but that means well, why would you
then you really want.
Speaker 4 (13:01):
To have it shorter, don't you.
Speaker 6 (13:03):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (13:04):
Yeah, okay, No, have a go at it. And I
think if that plant is okay and happy, I don't
think you should really have to have the yeah, the
stuff to put on the wound. No, I wouldn't worry. No,
you'll be fine at this time.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Here we go. I wouldn't do that. I don't No,
I wouldn't do that. I love that idea.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Good on you, especially if it's not an old turn
that's around the back of the shed. That's still the
old lead baster.
Speaker 4 (13:34):
Oh yes, I found one of those too.
Speaker 2 (13:38):
You can take those on for recycling. Get rid of
that stuff out of the back of the shed, rightio,
and good morning to you.
Speaker 12 (13:45):
Good morning. Check of things very well. But now I
want to enlarge on the lady rang before about the
cosine up flowering. Sure, I've had two over the years,
so I do know a bit about them. One was
the seedling which my brother grew as a little child
down on the Catlands, and it later was planted in
(14:05):
my guard in christ Church. And another one I have
now in a native area is that little tangled one
microphilire and most of a long time. So after I
heard that lady, I googled it and typically it can
be up to ten years, and the way microphilia up
to fifteen years before they flower.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
It's the main one is.
Speaker 12 (14:29):
That they look different for quite a long time.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Yeah, okay, so you need to.
Speaker 12 (14:33):
At least eight years before I got flowers. And the
other thing with Kofi, you need to keep the watchful
eye out. They have their own caterpillar. Yes, one I
had first. It was decimated at one stage, and they
look exactly like the little branchy things in a gray
black sort of color, and they can do a lot
(14:54):
of damage very quickly.
Speaker 3 (14:55):
Yeah yeah, yeah, I can't see that. Yeah, you're right,
but the timing is good. Your timing comments are really good.
I also know that these things can take a lot
of time to get there gently, especially these very fine
leaved ones.
Speaker 4 (15:10):
That's the ones you're talking about, isn't it.
Speaker 12 (15:13):
The first one wasn't Yeah, the second one it is.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
Yeah, Yeah, I got it.
Speaker 12 (15:17):
Okay, Yeah, they most took a long time.
Speaker 4 (15:20):
Yeah, makes sense.
Speaker 12 (15:21):
I think you have to let them do their thing
and we'll just be patient.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Yeah, And what I found about the caterpillars on Cofi
they are actually sometimes they're there for it, let's say
one year, and then you won't see them very much
for the next few years at all.
Speaker 4 (15:34):
So that goes up and down as well.
Speaker 12 (15:36):
Ay, well, a lot of those infestations are like there, aren't.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
They, Yeah, exactly, but go Fi specifically.
Speaker 12 (15:42):
I had the spot to begin with because they're so
camouflage themselves.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
They're good. Yeah, they're really good. Event you're right.
Speaker 3 (15:49):
Luckily I've got I've got good good eyes me too.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Thank you for take care and Enna, good morning to you.
Speaker 10 (16:00):
Good morning. I've got a mature red robin hide that
runs on fifty meters that's been there forever and has
done really well. But over the last two to three years,
I've slowly noticed some of them, some of the trees
dying off and they're getting.
Speaker 8 (16:19):
The new shoots.
Speaker 10 (16:20):
Just the new shoots always come, but then they get
blistered and distorted and kind of die off, and some
of the trees have lost all their leaves, and some
of them are okay, and the mixture all through the
hedge but there's definitely something going on.
Speaker 8 (16:35):
What's the hedge, Yeah, that's.
Speaker 4 (16:37):
You're talking about the for Tenia red robin heads.
Speaker 3 (16:40):
Yeah yeah, yeah, yeah, okay, yeah, they can do that
sometimes because especially if difference is in a very wet soil,
they can they don't they might not like that.
Speaker 4 (16:48):
Is that? Is that the case? Or did you have
another road?
Speaker 1 (16:52):
No?
Speaker 10 (16:53):
Not really. We are in the white shadow though, yes,
but with actually yeah, we actually have had some wetter
summers that if that anything to go by, but you
usually it's not. It's not so bad. It's been there
for thirty years.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Okay, all right, have you got any leaf spots, for instance,
have you got any signs of of fungle problems?
Speaker 10 (17:19):
There's like little black black one of black spots all
on the new leaves.
Speaker 3 (17:25):
Ah, okay, go to your local garden center and get
yourself some fungal fungal stuff that that actually takes that down,
you know what I mean, so.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Fuel material.
Speaker 3 (17:36):
I would do that, yep, absolutely, and get your red
get your red robin back again to proper red robin
sigh size and and you know color, I think, so yeah,
you'll be right with that.
Speaker 10 (17:51):
Okay, cooler, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (17:54):
Take care then then, and Karen, good morning to you.
Speaker 13 (17:57):
Good morning. Look I'm ringing because my graph is slowly
dying off and it looks like people with sprigs and
their boots have been running up and down on us.
Speaker 4 (18:10):
And what so is that in your in your in
your lawn?
Speaker 6 (18:14):
Yes?
Speaker 13 (18:15):
Yeah, and our lawn?
Speaker 4 (18:17):
And who's running around there? The grandkids?
Speaker 13 (18:21):
No, they early on in the season they had to
be run with it. But someone thought it could have
been oh, what's the little grab grass grub? Oh yep, yeah,
what do you think it is?
Speaker 4 (18:37):
Where? Where? Where are where? Which area of New Zealand
are you Kane?
Speaker 3 (18:44):
I was just going to say, if that's Kane, I
have heaps of those grubs here, the grass grub, They
are everywhere at the moment. It's unbelievable. In fact, my
my spiders like them, that's another story. And some of
the birds like them because they go with their with
them and starlings for instance, and things like that. They
go into the soil and they know exactly where those
(19:06):
grubs are and they make holes for Africa?
Speaker 4 (19:09):
Is that? Is that? What it could be?
Speaker 13 (19:11):
So how do you believe this?
Speaker 4 (19:15):
Well?
Speaker 3 (19:15):
What can you do in this case? I am not
one hundred percent sure what you can do with grass grub,
Go and have a look at your local garden center
to see if they've got something that you can actually
spray over the grass grub infested area.
Speaker 13 (19:28):
Yeah, oh no, I'll do that in that fine.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yeah, there is there is a material that Yeah, there's
a material that Yates makes and it's called a Sally Prene.
Speaker 4 (19:40):
So if you if you, if I if I put
that out to you, it's ace L E p R
y N. It's from Kiwi Care.
Speaker 13 (19:51):
There you go right here, look, thank you so much.
Speaker 4 (19:55):
Off you go have fun with that.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
Hye bye, thanks very much for that.
Speaker 8 (19:59):
Karen.
Speaker 2 (20:00):
We're gonna have to be super quack. Paul, you've got
forty seconds, go for it.
Speaker 8 (20:05):
Oh, how are you good?
Speaker 4 (20:08):
Quick?
Speaker 6 (20:09):
I'm here from Timloo and I'm a keen gardener. And
years ago I got one of these little boxes new
Wood used to sell for a leaf cutter bees ah,
and the man gave it to me and I took
it home and I tried it out. But what I
discovered was the the Barabie mites got in the back
because there's all these gaps between the reboards. Yes, so
(20:31):
I thought, right, I've got to come up with another plan.
So I did research. And in America in the thirties,
I think it was they had something bee say it out,
so they had leaf cutter bees saved the crops apparently.
And the paddocks. I've seen photos. They've got paddocks full
of sheds with all these little blocks of wood. And
so I did I have blocks of wood. I drill
(20:53):
six and eight more holes, and I put these blocks
of wood under the feet and I've got all these
left cut of bees and they fill the nest up
and they put play on the front, just like the
old masonfly, and then they on ahead and it's fascinating.
Speaker 2 (21:08):
So it sounds I tell you what we're going to
pick up on this next week. Let's do that. Take care,
you have a great week, everyone, All the best.
Speaker 1 (21:19):
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