December 27, 2025 • 20 mins
On the Sunday Session expert gardener Jo McCaroll joined Francesca Rudkin for Garden Hour to answer listeners questions about getting rid of stubborn weeds, growing peaches, safe pest control, and more.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Sunday Session podcast with Francesca Rudkin
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be on the faces. What the hell is the
sweet stuff? Yeah? And why is the car park flooded?
And that sort of thing. But look clear, well sunny,
not really clear, but it's a good old sunny day
in La now. So looking forward to getting out and
getting him with the sunshine.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, that's right. It doesn't. It
rarely arrange there, I suppose in some funny silly way.
But there you go. What was I going to say? Oh?
You say where I'm going to be back next year?
It depends on Hailey. I'm doing some work with Haley.
Now you's just a joke.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Away will be into it. I think we'll be into it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well, she was the one that gave me. She was
the one that gave me the first text this morning
at about six o'clock saying everything all right. I thought
it was so good good on that, good on y,
Happy Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Indeed, indeed, just look at those ticks, baby bumblebees dying.
Have you picked up on this at all?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I mean, hey, we'll take your call. So if you've
got give us A.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, give us a call, because I'd like to hear
that what you mean with that? Because there are bumblebees.
We've got about four. We've got four species in New Zealand.
Actually that is actually a fabulous story. We've got four
species in New Zealand. They all were imported from the UK.
They all have different tongue lengths for different sized and
organized plants if you like, and flowers. And here comes
(01:45):
the thing. The fourth species is actually very rare. I
don't know if I ever told you that the fourth
species of the three is very rare, only occurs around
take a bone around the back of the need and
I suppose. And we started this project last year in
getting the kids to grow more of that really rare
particular species of bumblebee. And and the kids loved it
(02:08):
because they had to bed and you know, raise beds
up with the right food plants and all that sort
of stuff. And they loved it. It was fabulous. And
and here comes the thing. We got some scientists on
the job as well at the moment, and and it's
it's really starting to look really cool. But here comes
the biggest joke of all. I said to the kids,
(02:29):
if we've got lots of these wonderful that specific really
rare bumblebee. We should really get some pregnant queens and
send them back to the to the to England where
they came from. And the kids said, no, there are bumblebee.
Said hang on, sorry, I forgot to tell you something
(02:50):
in the UK that bumblebee is now extinct. And they
suddenly they noticed, they got the whole idea, said we're
going to do that. And that's school, that's takap Our Primary.
They are really working at it and they'll be busy
again in February when they're at school. Man, just like that.
It'sn't it nice?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Interesting? Yes, because I was again from the brief amount
of time that we spent sort of in the countryside,
but we were outside and it was reasonably rural, and
it's that typical sort of English countryside buckingshere or where
we were. You know, you travel a couple of kilometers
or a couple of miles, there'd be another small town,
(03:31):
a pub, a church, a collection of houses. Then you'd
be into the farmers fields and so on, and the
amount of wildlife. I mean, unfortunately, we're driving around and
that's a rural area. Did see a number of dead
foxes on the side of the road, a deer that
had been hit by a car, that sort of thing.
But obviously they've made efforts to sort of restore their
(03:53):
native wildlife as well. But I didn't realize that they'd
completely lost bumblebees.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, well they lost that particular species there are there? Yeah,
that's yeah, and that is the one that came to
New Zealand. And we we've got probably we're one of
the few groups in the world that still have that
particular DNA of that particular species here, So I think
isn't it a lovely project for a school though?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Oh? Good on them, Absolutely amazing. Right, Hey, look, if
you've got a question, you should give us a call. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
The other text that's come through is good morning. Could
you please tell me a way to get rid of
rust safely? Now? Are they talking of middle rust?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I think it's the brown rust that you've got on
the plants, and I think that a mixture of copper
and sulfur is the way to go with that copper
and sulfur. So there are many different fungal sprays that
you can get. Go to your local garden center and
see what they've got. Honestly, that will work, but you'll
have to do it every now and then, So every
(04:58):
ten days or so I think would be a good idea.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, okay. The other thing is last week we were
talking about middle rust and we got talking about pilly
lilies or lily Pilli's what lily pilly, isn't it. Someone
I know who's a gardener has noticed that there's a
little green bug that is now infesting lily pilly as well,
about a centimeter along light green color.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I don't know it. It might be. I might have
to google that and break but no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Like devastating, like half of the foliage stripped gone.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Oh really? Oh well, that's that's exciting. That's probably an
terloper from overseas. Probably a nausea.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I'll see if I can find out a bit more
as well. They we're taking your calls this morning on
the show. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is that
number to call as always sort of is with us,
and if you've got a gardener or an entomological question,
you can give us a call. Wait one hundred eighty
ten eighty is that number to call, just waiting for
Chris and to get themselves sorted.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, you can do that. And if Guava Mathis is trouble,
you can always ring yea, I'll bet you that is
one of the things that a lot of people are
still not on the on the top of got to
you gotta know what to do. So if that's the case,
give us a yell or aiight underd eighty to eighty.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Years Are we coming into the season for guavemov now?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Absolutely when things are starting to ripe and that's the time.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, I'm just thinking that. When I left, I saw
the beginning of a couple of little plums on the
plum tree at home. But I'm guessing that by the
time I get back they will have fruited. It's a
Christmas plum. I might have the few drinks, but otherwise
I might have missed out on the plums. This year.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I saw some of those Christmas plums on the on
the Port Hills here when I go home, and some
of the kids in the last day of school they
knew where to get the blinking things.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Some things haven't changed. Hey, Chris, a very good morning
to you.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yes, thank you, rude. I don't know whether you do.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Birds or not, but yeah, I do birds. Good.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Where are of town? So we're sort of rural by
the beach, and for the last well two or three weeks,
we've heard at night. I thought it was a cat
crying like a cat, mew, mew, mew, but it appears
to be a bird of some kind. Do you know
(07:28):
of any birds that make that kind of noise, very strident,
very noisy, in the middle of the night.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Are you close to the beach.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yes, we are. We're overlooking it.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Ah, being goal. See I reckon that that that funny
sound you just made. I'm not saying you're funny, but
the sound you made is something simple that quite often
these these beach goers, the goals and that sort of
creatures make, and especially when they're awake at night. So
is that is that? What's the time?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Yes? And this morning it was like in the morning.
Ye have a look and it was definitely a boot.
Well it's all very high pine trees.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, ah there, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I reckon
it's one of those things. But it's really hard to see.
What I think you should do is go get yourself
binoculars and and see see if you can actually find
out who it is. That will be cool because there's
all sorts of different things they do.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Then.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Okay, so definitely being about to see as probably a seabird.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
From the sounds you made, you know, despite the fact
you're a human and not a bird, I suppose it
sounded exactly like one of those things you hear on
the beach side with all those beachgoers.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yeah, okay, well, thank you for that. I was going
to straight.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, thank you very much for that. One of my
little traditions is to swim New Year's even news day.
So I get back just in time and hopefully will
be nice stay and the tides will be right speaking
about the beach, looking forward to seeing that again. Radio Judith,
good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Good morning lovely. Hi. Could you please tell me I
think that's creaking butter cap of gotten my garden an
easy solution to get rid of?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
There is there something else that is near that buttercup
that you don't want to spray to death?
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Well? Yes, some yeah, some of that on my beauty
Garden stated in there as well.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Okay, is there any way you can do it by hand.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
There, that's what I've been doing.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, it's a common doc, isn't it. Oh my gosh,
I no, Okay, I'll tell you if I would have this,
let's say, in a place where I don't care if I,
you know, miss a little bit here there and everywhere.
I tend to have hit men from wet and forget
(10:13):
because if I spray, if I spray that on these
sort of weeds, and it's dry, so don't do it
when it's wet, but when it's dry, nice and dry,
within a matter of hours. I'm talking about five hours,
you'll see the difference. Boom, m hm gone, Okay, I
(10:34):
am not joking. That is an unbelievable great uh. If
you like pesticide maker for for for these for these
rubbish things that you don't want, and and the whole thing,
all the green becomes white. Boom, just like that.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Okay, So and the beaty garden, I'll have to pull
it by hand.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yes, that's why. But be aware you don't want to
hit what you don't want to hit.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Yeah, okay, you don't get all the road first rains
of the.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Three hind yep, that is true, and that's that is
that is also. That is also when you spread with
with that hitman. But you'll have to do it again
and again. If you've done it two or three times,
you'll find that you're actually winning. Yep, Okay, I think
that's important.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Good luck with all the very best to you. Some
time ago, I lost my favorite weeding fork.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Oh did you?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I don't know, Yeah, in the garden somewhere, and I'm like,
you know, what will happen? I found one, so I
bought a replacement while I've been traveling.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Of course you were this.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Thing to bring home. But anyway, I'll get into the
garden next week when we're home, and I'll find it.
Of course, now, of course you will. But you know
that that whole thing about trying to get the weeds
out with the root is to get in there with
the fork, get down, loosen up the soil, and the
gently sort of pluck it out.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
That's right, Go down to be the way to go
it is.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I'm actually quite a lot look forward to getting back
into the garden. I love this text, I have to say,
just it sets quite the picture. Morning guys on the
chain saw So can't ring? I have I have a plant?
Why is this not working for me. Bloody machine today
is terrible. Right morning, guys on the chain saw so
(12:27):
can't ring quick question. I have a plant that monarch
butterfly lay their eggs on. I keep seeing the eggs
being laid on the leaves, but the next morning they're gone.
I did notice ants on the plant, so I was
wondering if the ants are eating the eggs laid by
the monarch. Better get back to annoying the neighbors. Cheers
from Dave. It could only be a swan plant, couldn't it.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, it should be, it could be. It's usually that
sort of stuff. But if you do have eggs, yes,
those ants will have a go with that sort of
material because it contains a heck of a lot of protein. Right, yeah,
that might happen yep.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And to stop the ants getting up the tree, would
you put a bit of a bate around the bottom
if you want to protect the monarch.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yes, yes you can do that, and you can put
it you can lesterally put it at the bottom sel
it doesn't crawl up too much. That's right. Yeah, that's brilliant.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
All right, we're a couple of calls coming up. We'll
take a break first, we're into it. If you'd like
to call us, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty the
number to call red with us through tall nine o'clock
this morning. Herod. Consensus on the bird seems to be
it might have been an owl, which.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Oh it could be, could be, Yeah, it could be,
I suppose. But if the sound that I was presented with,
yea far more far more creatures like gulls and things.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, yeah, cool, I think more ls the better I
say good morning to you, Hello, Brad.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Yeah, borning boys on a sago plant in a giant
pot that I have loved for about eight years, so
I beg the pot. I had to use a high
ad when I moved houses to get here. Now this summer,
in the last month or two, I think I proved
it back maybe eighteen months ago, and it's grown a
(14:19):
beautiful new set of fronds. It started to go yellowy again,
and I've looked at the underside and I've got a
whole load of white, little iggy spotty things under all
the leaves. Now, either could be an infestation, but along
with those, there are quite a few whitey gray moths
floating around. But I don't know if there's enough of
(14:39):
them to be causing that's a sure if it's some
sort of fungal disease. But there are little little moths
all over it as well, So any advice much appreciated.
Before I just chopped them all and let it regrow again.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
No, no, I'll be gentle with this because that could
be I remember that on the PI Sago I've seen
lace wing eggs, but then you know, quite a few,
but not like in thousands. That's what.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah, it's yeah, there's a lot, a lot like you
know that each front underneath would be sort of, you know,
fifty percent covered in them sheepers.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Okay, now can you see if what I would what
I'll do if I were you, is checked to see
what comes out of those eggs and that and that's
scratching them now.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
I'm just staying it now, and I'm sort of scratching them.
They kind of like they're quite stubborn, but it comes
off like a powdery little thing, you know. I mean
as I scratch it, they're just very tiny, you know, might.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Forget it there. I don't know. They're not parasitic wasps
or anything. And but lace wings I remember seeing lace
wings on there and lace wings are actually beneficial predators,
but not in that sort of number that is ridiculous.
(16:02):
If you ever there, you know, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. No, sorry,
I need to see that. I need to see that
before I make what I would do, go and grab
you know, can you do I naturalist? You've heard about that?
Get it identified on I naturalist. Yeah, an app on
your phone costs you nothing and it and it does
(16:24):
absolutely wonderful. Get geeks with your identifications.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Bread and got to admire your dedication. Do you say
this You're going to get a high to move it around?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, we like that.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
We like that a lot. Graham, good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Yes, good morning. How are you doing?
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Man?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Well?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Good?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Thank you? What is your What is your solution for
the buttercup?
Speaker 8 (16:51):
The butter cap? Nothing survives boiling water? Ah, Jesus, that's
a solution. If you've got butter cap, if you've got
weeds growing between cracks and concrete, app it's their buildings
and things like that. Boil the jug makes your coffee,
take the rest the outside, tip it on the weed
(17:12):
and it will die.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, it makes sense, I suppose. But you know, is
there anything of course you don't want to hit something
you don't want to hit today.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Well, that's right, because you have you have accuracy with
the spout of your electric jug.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I totally agree with you. That's actually, that's actually another
bad idea.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Yeah yeah, And every broad leaf weed coming up in
your lawn and fizzles something like that, they all just
frizzle up.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, yeah, good idea. That's great. Have you tried anything
else in the past.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
I have. I tried a number of things. But what
the main failure with a lot of other products is
that they don't get the hard shelled seeds that remain
in cracks, and so they pop up at that boiling
water just annihilates a lot.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Actually, that is yeah, good good comment. Love it, learn something,
Thank you. That is great.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Take care hey, actually just talking about the IT men too,
someone's sticks through. Would it work on ivy because IVY
is a little bit of a tougher character.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Absolutely, But the problem is you have to do it
many many times, to be quite honest, when it comes
to if you want IVY and you really want to
get rid of it. Here is my very favorite stuff.
It's called associate Associate and it is in a metsal
fural methyle thing from New Farm. It's it just it
(18:40):
takes months, but it will go. It sound unbelievable. It
don't worry about it for a while, don't even look
at it, and suddenly you think, shit, where's the ivy gone?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
How amazing?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Yeah, that was good stuff. Honestly, that's really good stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Awesome. Hey mate, again, my thanks to you for your
contribution for the year.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, it's been awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Ways O are you on no duties this year?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
There's been no Dutch people that have made Oliballer this time.
We basically have usually a French meal for Christmas speakause
because you lend the kids and all that. I don't worry.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Come.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
We have been invited to a friend's place and his
temptation or his tempting line, and the invitation was there
will be oliveballer and I'm.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Happy, Puffy a fly well and see you soon.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Forward to it all seeing you, Take care, bye, take
care all of this folks. Thanks very much for your
company and thanks for tuning in while I've been on
the road. Looking forward to being back in New Zealand
in the next couple of days. So I'll be back
in the studio Next Sunday here at News Talks, he'd
be for the first show of twenty twenty six. Happy
New Year to you all and talk to you soon.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
I'd be on the faces. What the hell is the
sweet stuff? Yeah? And why is the car park flooded?
And that sort of thing. But look clear, well sunny,
not really clear, but it's a good old sunny day
in La now. So looking forward to getting out and
getting him with the sunshine.
Speaker 3 (00:28):
Yeah, I can imagine. Yeah, that's right. It doesn't. It
rarely arrange there, I suppose in some funny silly way.
But there you go. What was I going to say? Oh?
You say where I'm going to be back next year?
It depends on Hailey. I'm doing some work with Haley.
Now you's just a joke.
Speaker 2 (00:48):
Away will be into it. I think we'll be into it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Well, she was the one that gave me. She was
the one that gave me the first text this morning
at about six o'clock saying everything all right. I thought
it was so good good on that, good on y,
Happy Christmas.
Speaker 2 (01:05):
Indeed, indeed, just look at those ticks, baby bumblebees dying.
Have you picked up on this at all?
Speaker 3 (01:13):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:17):
I mean, hey, we'll take your call. So if you've
got give us A.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Yeah, give us a call, because I'd like to hear
that what you mean with that? Because there are bumblebees.
We've got about four. We've got four species in New Zealand.
Actually that is actually a fabulous story. We've got four
species in New Zealand. They all were imported from the UK.
They all have different tongue lengths for different sized and
organized plants if you like, and flowers. And here comes
(01:45):
the thing. The fourth species is actually very rare. I
don't know if I ever told you that the fourth
species of the three is very rare, only occurs around
take a bone around the back of the need and
I suppose. And we started this project last year in
getting the kids to grow more of that really rare
particular species of bumblebee. And and the kids loved it
(02:08):
because they had to bed and you know, raise beds
up with the right food plants and all that sort
of stuff. And they loved it. It was fabulous. And
and here comes the thing. We got some scientists on
the job as well at the moment, and and it's
it's really starting to look really cool. But here comes
the biggest joke of all. I said to the kids,
(02:29):
if we've got lots of these wonderful that specific really
rare bumblebee. We should really get some pregnant queens and
send them back to the to the to England where
they came from. And the kids said, no, there are bumblebee.
Said hang on, sorry, I forgot to tell you something
(02:50):
in the UK that bumblebee is now extinct. And they
suddenly they noticed, they got the whole idea, said we're
going to do that. And that's school, that's takap Our Primary.
They are really working at it and they'll be busy
again in February when they're at school. Man, just like that.
It'sn't it nice?
Speaker 2 (03:10):
Interesting? Yes, because I was again from the brief amount
of time that we spent sort of in the countryside,
but we were outside and it was reasonably rural, and
it's that typical sort of English countryside buckingshere or where
we were. You know, you travel a couple of kilometers
or a couple of miles, there'd be another small town,
(03:31):
a pub, a church, a collection of houses. Then you'd
be into the farmers fields and so on, and the
amount of wildlife. I mean, unfortunately, we're driving around and
that's a rural area. Did see a number of dead
foxes on the side of the road, a deer that
had been hit by a car, that sort of thing.
But obviously they've made efforts to sort of restore their
(03:53):
native wildlife as well. But I didn't realize that they'd
completely lost bumblebees.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Yeah, well they lost that particular species there are there? Yeah,
that's yeah, and that is the one that came to
New Zealand. And we we've got probably we're one of
the few groups in the world that still have that
particular DNA of that particular species here, So I think
isn't it a lovely project for a school though?
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Oh? Good on them, Absolutely amazing. Right, Hey, look, if
you've got a question, you should give us a call. Oh,
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is the number to call.
The other text that's come through is good morning. Could
you please tell me a way to get rid of
rust safely? Now? Are they talking of middle rust?
Speaker 3 (04:36):
I think it's the brown rust that you've got on
the plants, and I think that a mixture of copper
and sulfur is the way to go with that copper
and sulfur. So there are many different fungal sprays that
you can get. Go to your local garden center and
see what they've got. Honestly, that will work, but you'll
have to do it every now and then, So every
(04:58):
ten days or so I think would be a good idea.
Speaker 2 (05:01):
Yeah, okay. The other thing is last week we were
talking about middle rust and we got talking about pilly
lilies or lily Pilli's what lily pilly, isn't it. Someone
I know who's a gardener has noticed that there's a
little green bug that is now infesting lily pilly as well,
about a centimeter along light green color.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
I don't know it. It might be. I might have
to google that and break but no, I don't.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Like devastating, like half of the foliage stripped gone.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Oh really? Oh well, that's that's exciting. That's probably an
terloper from overseas. Probably a nausea.
Speaker 2 (05:42):
I'll see if I can find out a bit more
as well. They we're taking your calls this morning on
the show. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is that
number to call as always sort of is with us,
and if you've got a gardener or an entomological question,
you can give us a call. Wait one hundred eighty
ten eighty is that number to call, just waiting for
Chris and to get themselves sorted.
Speaker 3 (06:03):
Yeah, you can do that. And if Guava Mathis is trouble,
you can always ring yea, I'll bet you that is
one of the things that a lot of people are
still not on the on the top of got to
you gotta know what to do. So if that's the case,
give us a yell or aiight underd eighty to eighty.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Years Are we coming into the season for guavemov now?
Speaker 3 (06:22):
Absolutely when things are starting to ripe and that's the time.
Speaker 2 (06:26):
Yeah, I'm just thinking that. When I left, I saw
the beginning of a couple of little plums on the
plum tree at home. But I'm guessing that by the
time I get back they will have fruited. It's a
Christmas plum. I might have the few drinks, but otherwise
I might have missed out on the plums. This year.
Speaker 3 (06:41):
I saw some of those Christmas plums on the on
the Port Hills here when I go home, and some
of the kids in the last day of school they
knew where to get the blinking things.
Speaker 2 (06:52):
Some things haven't changed. Hey, Chris, a very good morning
to you.
Speaker 4 (06:56):
Yes, thank you, rude. I don't know whether you do.
Speaker 3 (07:01):
Birds or not, but yeah, I do birds. Good.
Speaker 4 (07:05):
Where are of town? So we're sort of rural by
the beach, and for the last well two or three weeks,
we've heard at night. I thought it was a cat
crying like a cat, mew, mew, mew, but it appears
to be a bird of some kind. Do you know
(07:28):
of any birds that make that kind of noise, very strident,
very noisy, in the middle of the night.
Speaker 3 (07:35):
Are you close to the beach.
Speaker 4 (07:37):
Yes, we are. We're overlooking it.
Speaker 3 (07:41):
Ah, being goal. See I reckon that that that funny
sound you just made. I'm not saying you're funny, but
the sound you made is something simple that quite often
these these beach goers, the goals and that sort of
creatures make, and especially when they're awake at night. So
is that is that? What's the time?
Speaker 4 (08:01):
Yes? And this morning it was like in the morning.
Ye have a look and it was definitely a boot.
Well it's all very high pine trees.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
Yeah, ah there, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, I reckon
it's one of those things. But it's really hard to see.
What I think you should do is go get yourself
binoculars and and see see if you can actually find
out who it is. That will be cool because there's
all sorts of different things they do.
Speaker 5 (08:29):
Then.
Speaker 4 (08:30):
Okay, so definitely being about to see as probably a seabird.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
From the sounds you made, you know, despite the fact
you're a human and not a bird, I suppose it
sounded exactly like one of those things you hear on
the beach side with all those beachgoers.
Speaker 4 (08:47):
Yeah, okay, well, thank you for that. I was going
to straight.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Yeah, thank you very much for that. One of my
little traditions is to swim New Year's even news day.
So I get back just in time and hopefully will
be nice stay and the tides will be right speaking
about the beach, looking forward to seeing that again. Radio Judith,
good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (09:13):
Good morning lovely. Hi. Could you please tell me I
think that's creaking butter cap of gotten my garden an
easy solution to get rid of?
Speaker 3 (09:27):
There is there something else that is near that buttercup
that you don't want to spray to death?
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Well? Yes, some yeah, some of that on my beauty
Garden stated in there as well.
Speaker 3 (09:43):
Okay, is there any way you can do it by hand.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
There, that's what I've been doing.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
Yeah, it's a common doc, isn't it. Oh my gosh,
I no, Okay, I'll tell you if I would have this,
let's say, in a place where I don't care if I,
you know, miss a little bit here there and everywhere.
I tend to have hit men from wet and forget
(10:13):
because if I spray, if I spray that on these
sort of weeds, and it's dry, so don't do it
when it's wet, but when it's dry, nice and dry,
within a matter of hours. I'm talking about five hours,
you'll see the difference. Boom, m hm gone, Okay, I
(10:34):
am not joking. That is an unbelievable great uh. If
you like pesticide maker for for for these for these
rubbish things that you don't want, and and the whole thing,
all the green becomes white. Boom, just like that.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
Okay, So and the beaty garden, I'll have to pull
it by hand.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
Yes, that's why. But be aware you don't want to
hit what you don't want to hit.
Speaker 6 (10:59):
Yeah, okay, you don't get all the road first rains
of the.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
Three hind yep, that is true, and that's that is
that is also. That is also when you spread with
with that hitman. But you'll have to do it again
and again. If you've done it two or three times,
you'll find that you're actually winning. Yep, Okay, I think
that's important.
Speaker 2 (11:26):
Good luck with all the very best to you. Some
time ago, I lost my favorite weeding fork.
Speaker 3 (11:34):
Oh did you?
Speaker 2 (11:34):
I don't know, Yeah, in the garden somewhere, and I'm like,
you know, what will happen? I found one, so I
bought a replacement while I've been traveling.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
Of course you were this.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Thing to bring home. But anyway, I'll get into the
garden next week when we're home, and I'll find it.
Of course, now, of course you will. But you know
that that whole thing about trying to get the weeds
out with the root is to get in there with
the fork, get down, loosen up the soil, and the
gently sort of pluck it out.
Speaker 3 (12:02):
That's right, Go down to be the way to go
it is.
Speaker 2 (12:05):
I'm actually quite a lot look forward to getting back
into the garden. I love this text, I have to say,
just it sets quite the picture. Morning guys on the
chain saw So can't ring? I have I have a plant?
Why is this not working for me. Bloody machine today
is terrible. Right morning, guys on the chain saw so
(12:27):
can't ring quick question. I have a plant that monarch
butterfly lay their eggs on. I keep seeing the eggs
being laid on the leaves, but the next morning they're gone.
I did notice ants on the plant, so I was
wondering if the ants are eating the eggs laid by
the monarch. Better get back to annoying the neighbors. Cheers
from Dave. It could only be a swan plant, couldn't it.
Speaker 3 (12:48):
Yeah, it should be, it could be. It's usually that
sort of stuff. But if you do have eggs, yes,
those ants will have a go with that sort of
material because it contains a heck of a lot of protein. Right, yeah,
that might happen yep.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
And to stop the ants getting up the tree, would
you put a bit of a bate around the bottom
if you want to protect the monarch.
Speaker 3 (13:10):
Yes, yes you can do that, and you can put
it you can lesterally put it at the bottom sel
it doesn't crawl up too much. That's right. Yeah, that's brilliant.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
All right, we're a couple of calls coming up. We'll
take a break first, we're into it. If you'd like
to call us, eight hundred and eighty ten eighty the
number to call red with us through tall nine o'clock
this morning. Herod. Consensus on the bird seems to be
it might have been an owl, which.
Speaker 3 (13:38):
Oh it could be, could be, Yeah, it could be,
I suppose. But if the sound that I was presented with,
yea far more far more creatures like gulls and things.
Speaker 2 (13:49):
Yeah, yeah, cool, I think more ls the better I
say good morning to you, Hello, Brad.
Speaker 7 (13:58):
Yeah, borning boys on a sago plant in a giant
pot that I have loved for about eight years, so
I beg the pot. I had to use a high
ad when I moved houses to get here. Now this summer,
in the last month or two, I think I proved
it back maybe eighteen months ago, and it's grown a
(14:19):
beautiful new set of fronds. It started to go yellowy again,
and I've looked at the underside and I've got a
whole load of white, little iggy spotty things under all
the leaves. Now, either could be an infestation, but along
with those, there are quite a few whitey gray moths
floating around. But I don't know if there's enough of
(14:39):
them to be causing that's a sure if it's some
sort of fungal disease. But there are little little moths
all over it as well, So any advice much appreciated.
Before I just chopped them all and let it regrow again.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
No, no, I'll be gentle with this because that could
be I remember that on the PI Sago I've seen
lace wing eggs, but then you know, quite a few,
but not like in thousands. That's what.
Speaker 5 (15:06):
Yeah, it's yeah, there's a lot, a lot like you
know that each front underneath would be sort of, you know,
fifty percent covered in them sheepers.
Speaker 3 (15:18):
Okay, now can you see if what I would what
I'll do if I were you, is checked to see
what comes out of those eggs and that and that's
scratching them now.
Speaker 7 (15:28):
I'm just staying it now, and I'm sort of scratching them.
They kind of like they're quite stubborn, but it comes
off like a powdery little thing, you know. I mean
as I scratch it, they're just very tiny, you know, might.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Forget it there. I don't know. They're not parasitic wasps
or anything. And but lace wings I remember seeing lace
wings on there and lace wings are actually beneficial predators,
but not in that sort of number that is ridiculous.
(16:02):
If you ever there, you know, hundreds and hundreds and hundreds. No, sorry,
I need to see that. I need to see that
before I make what I would do, go and grab
you know, can you do I naturalist? You've heard about that?
Get it identified on I naturalist. Yeah, an app on
your phone costs you nothing and it and it does
(16:24):
absolutely wonderful. Get geeks with your identifications.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Bread and got to admire your dedication. Do you say
this You're going to get a high to move it around?
Speaker 3 (16:36):
Yeah, we like that.
Speaker 2 (16:39):
We like that a lot. Graham, good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (16:43):
Yes, good morning. How are you doing?
Speaker 7 (16:44):
Man?
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Well?
Speaker 6 (16:46):
Good?
Speaker 3 (16:46):
Thank you? What is your What is your solution for
the buttercup?
Speaker 8 (16:51):
The butter cap? Nothing survives boiling water? Ah, Jesus, that's
a solution. If you've got butter cap, if you've got
weeds growing between cracks and concrete, app it's their buildings
and things like that. Boil the jug makes your coffee,
take the rest the outside, tip it on the weed
(17:12):
and it will die.
Speaker 3 (17:14):
Yeah, it makes sense, I suppose. But you know, is
there anything of course you don't want to hit something
you don't want to hit today.
Speaker 8 (17:21):
Well, that's right, because you have you have accuracy with
the spout of your electric jug.
Speaker 3 (17:27):
I totally agree with you. That's actually, that's actually another
bad idea.
Speaker 8 (17:31):
Yeah yeah, And every broad leaf weed coming up in
your lawn and fizzles something like that, they all just
frizzle up.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yeah, yeah, good idea. That's great. Have you tried anything
else in the past.
Speaker 8 (17:43):
I have. I tried a number of things. But what
the main failure with a lot of other products is
that they don't get the hard shelled seeds that remain
in cracks, and so they pop up at that boiling
water just annihilates a lot.
Speaker 3 (17:59):
Actually, that is yeah, good good comment. Love it, learn something,
Thank you. That is great.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Take care hey, actually just talking about the IT men too,
someone's sticks through. Would it work on ivy because IVY
is a little bit of a tougher character.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Absolutely, But the problem is you have to do it
many many times, to be quite honest, when it comes
to if you want IVY and you really want to
get rid of it. Here is my very favorite stuff.
It's called associate Associate and it is in a metsal
fural methyle thing from New Farm. It's it just it
(18:40):
takes months, but it will go. It sound unbelievable. It
don't worry about it for a while, don't even look
at it, and suddenly you think, shit, where's the ivy gone?
Speaker 2 (18:53):
How amazing?
Speaker 3 (18:54):
Yeah, that was good stuff. Honestly, that's really good stuff.
Speaker 2 (18:58):
Awesome. Hey mate, again, my thanks to you for your
contribution for the year.
Speaker 3 (19:04):
Yeah, it's been awesome.
Speaker 2 (19:06):
Ways O are you on no duties this year?
Speaker 3 (19:13):
There's been no Dutch people that have made Oliballer this time.
We basically have usually a French meal for Christmas speakause
because you lend the kids and all that. I don't worry.
Speaker 5 (19:23):
Come.
Speaker 2 (19:24):
We have been invited to a friend's place and his
temptation or his tempting line, and the invitation was there
will be oliveballer and I'm.
Speaker 3 (19:33):
Happy, Puffy a fly well and see you soon.
Speaker 2 (19:37):
Forward to it all seeing you, Take care, bye, take
care all of this folks. Thanks very much for your
company and thanks for tuning in while I've been on
the road. Looking forward to being back in New Zealand
in the next couple of days. So I'll be back
in the studio Next Sunday here at News Talks, he'd
be for the first show of twenty twenty six. Happy
New Year to you all and talk to you soon.
Speaker 1 (20:02):
For more from the Sunday session with Francesca Rudgin, listen
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