June 29, 2024 • 20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from News Talk Sedbden with still shop free accessories
this winter at steel Shop.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Ah, that was brilliant, right rude.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good morning sir, A very good morning to you, pierrero Indeed,
is it all going well?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
To be fair, I had a mild panic attack during
the week because I was out, and then a maid
of mine who's into the football text and goes, oh,
we won't be seeing you, and I'm thinking, hang on,
hang on, hand, what do you mean Netherlands didn't qualify
for the last sixteen of euro But they did. But
in the meantime I was quite distracted for a short
(00:48):
period of time there. Anyway, he was with my emotions.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I think, oh, now, yeah, but that's easy, that's easy
with you.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
God's anyway, you're all good.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, yeah, it's good. I reckon it's my dear loved
you because you easy to toy with emotions.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
She'll be listening to right suitably embarrassed. Let's get over
the calls. So a very good morning, good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I have three sacrament on my bench in a corner
where they get some sort of afternoon some on the
flowers anyway up between twenty and thirty flowers each. Can
I feed it? Put some seafruit tea in the water
that I stand them in when they droop.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Absolutely, and I would use exactly that because that's the
one that actually gets your flowers going. Seaweed tea. Seaweed tea,
that's the one.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Seewheed tea.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
How much I make it really weak tea. You know
the color of a very weak tea when you when
you water them. That's all you need to do. Don't
go over the top. I went over the top a
little bit with something I can't remember what it was
at home, and that that was so strong that the
plant went like whoa, whoa, whoa, and I needed to
(02:14):
really nurture it back to health because it was really
a bit too much, so really weak.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
TI.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
You got an amazing amount of flat When I finish flaring, Yeah,
do I feed them then or just leave them?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I wouldn't worry because when they stopped flowering, they usually
have got enough stuff in there in their system to
get the next lots of leaves going. You know, they
have to sort of take it easy for a while
and create some more leaves.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yes, Yes, there you go.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Don't worry too much about that every now and then.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Thanks very much. Yeah, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
See that's fantastic. Hey, now the quick takes. How do
we stop possums eating our lemons? Any tips? And then
another one tips on pruning pear trees. What can you
do to stop possums?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Okay, trap the cat, get a possum trap and get
a flipping tommy. If you flipping timmy they call it,
which is like the old fashioned possum trip that you
can hang up in a tree so it's safe for
for instance, your your dogs and things like that. And yeah,
you use you use shoot, what was it? I got it?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Day? Then Vaneesh told me that he uses this white
stuff that smells really nice, some sugar and something else
and he puts it together in a big blaze of
white stuff. Oh, they love it. Cinnamon. There you go,
and they'll climb up and go and go and get it. Yep, yep,
little apple, little piece of apple. Where you go.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Wow, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Right here, elistair, A very
good morning to.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
You, morning leads. We're a little bit of a problem
with my lawn it's my pride and joy obviously behind
my wife. And I've got a few toadstools, our little
brown ones that have come up out of nowhere. I
put some line on last year, which I thought would
have maintained the pH But just looking at one there,
I'm sure you can see it through the phone, dark
(04:13):
brown that are size of a fifty cent piece.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
A little cap, a little cap on the top. That's it. Yep, yeah, yeah, excellent.
And that to me is the fact that I don't
show you how old is your lawn. By the way,
when did you put it in?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Oh that two and a half three years ago?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Okay? And did you use a lot of composts in there?
Speaker 7 (04:34):
No?
Speaker 6 (04:34):
I used eggreasy, have a soil condition. I put that
on first, little pearls in your sprint around it could be.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You have to remember that these particular things in your
lawn are of no concern to your lawn at all,
because basically what it does is does the finishing touch
of decomposting, of composting, so there is material in your
soil there at some places where the compost has not
been composted properly yet, and those fungi come in through
(05:02):
spores that go in the air, and they say, land here, folks,
this is where we need. We are required to actually
get this soil in a perfect condition. I would not
worry about it at all.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Well, that's good. Now they're also causing the odd teen
cinimeter circle of sort of.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Eggs exactly I was, I thought. Now, I'm not going
to say that, but if you fly into christ Each
airport at this time of the year, you'll find circles
on the side of the runway everywhere you can see it.
It's brilliant in the grass. And that is exactly they
call them fairy rings, and that is exactly what that's about.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I've said though, but this is actually just bigger than
a cup. So it's actually that ten centimeters in diameter.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah they can lawn, yeah, some and some are ten
meters diameter. And they probably have been going for something
like three or four years, five years, and they go
further out further out. Every year they go a bit
further out, So the cups will become plates, and the
plates will become a tire, and the tire will be
where you go.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Off, not stay.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Now, this is the point. This is to me, that
tells me that you've got a bloody good garden and
a good lawn, and that you are using the biodiversity
that runs this planet to actually make it into a
real good balance. So I wouldn't be too old.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
My neighbors are on the out of town, I'll say,
what's that spotted bloody lawn you've got?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Tell them it goes under the house, It takes the
foundations out, it does all that, and they have to
ring Peter again where you go?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
But OK, brilliant, all the very visti elsity, you take care.
Now there was a text as well. It probably was,
oh please ask rud if the wall mats for stopping
reducing weeds are effective or is there something better?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
So there there are some good wall mats that, yeah,
use it. I get it. I've never used them, but
I've heard that pretty good. But again, you're you're putting
something in there that will decay, and you might get fucky.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But I mean in terms of, you know, if you're
thinking that whole thing around reduce, reuse, recycle, circular economy
and so on, if we're taking old wool that we
can't use for anything else, turning it into these mats
that you can put down as a weed suppressant, which
will then buy a degrade as well.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Absolutely, there is one thing I'm just shall I say
it or not the only thing, the only creature for
it's all the only insect that can actually decay or
take wool apart and recycle it. Two things. One is
the clothes moth, right, and the other one is the
(07:51):
carpet beetle. Now those are two of the creatures that
I'd at least liked in the.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, I was going to say the number of times
people have rung out to go I want to get
rid of those moths. So I want to get rid
of those carpet beetles. But the way you're creating an
environment for them outside of your.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
House, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
No downside to that. We're going to take a short break.
We'll come back and talk to Bruce in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
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Speaker 2 (08:23):
Right O, Tom, A very good morning to you. Hello Tom, Hello.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Tom, Good after morning tea. Tom. I think he's first.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Gone gone for a cup of tea. Talk to me
about your pond.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, I was talking to Rude. I think
it was the last week I say about this big
one ach well, probably about a two acre pond going
in the back of the property of working on the
one with a little bunker, and we planted Holland plant
heats and native plants and there's actually starting to look
really nice now. But what we've know this is what
are the little freshwater crayfish we have in New Zealand.
(09:01):
Cold there's because there's a stream that runs in the
pine and goes out of the pond down the other
in the property, and it seems there's quite a few
of those around. We're sitting down here in lunch one
day and one of the guys threw a bit of
ham into the pond, you and they sort of swarmed
after and ate it all. And we're thinking we should
we be doing it or not really for native things
like that. They seem to enjoy them, thinking well, well,
(09:21):
I probably probably shouldn't be feeding them, should be relying
on the native food, but they seem to enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
An that's right now, But every look, you could do
that as a you know, if you do it, let's
say once every two months, when you get some people
for Denners say coming everything with this, you know what
I mean? I think if they're there in that number,
they will get their prey anyway, They get their protein
anyway from other from other bits and pieces. But it
(09:50):
shows you.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
We counted a bit we chump at about fifteen of
them at one time, and.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
The lucky good on you.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
It seems to be like a whole fabure in there,
and it's like, yeah, so they're just hiding.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
On some of the native plants with planting we've planned
to them, so they actually hang over that. You'll side
there and they seem to be congregating under there. But
you go there and go, oh there, aren't you any
to throw a bit of a little bit of hem
like a small little finger sized piece in there? Next
minute they all can dart in the out there.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
They are to be quite I think that is that. Yes,
I was just going to say, the best indicator for kids,
the best indicator for people that come to show you
that by diversity is actually working. And you know, if
you don't don't go over the top, you're you already
got the feeling you shouldn't do that. Don't go over
the top. But if you want to check how many
(10:40):
idents and then you can do this other thing, do it?
Maybe once every month, and then someday you realize that
in certain times of the year there might be fewer
colder than in other times of the year. And what
you're actually doing is a scientific observation. I think there's
nothing wrong with it, don't you know, Just a tiny
bit and you know they're there, they'll be there. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Yeah, they're kind of like family pits. Now.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
It's awesome, and maybe maybe a few eels in the
future as well. That would I went to actually, I
was doing a job at a place a couple of
months back, and again little streams running through the property there,
and there was one heel that had his favorite spot
up there and another one a little bit further down,
and they kind of drift around. They just hang around.
They know people look after them.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
And I was I was staying with a friend in
there in Hamilton the other day. They had some in
their little little stream as well, and exactly the right places,
and they would migrate because if you go to the
next spot, then the other one, the old one would
come back. Say right, it was so cool.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, like you mandad didn't see them. They'd be straight
in the smoker, lovely right, Tom Greetings.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
Good morning, sir, hey there, good morning, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Did you wake up? Tom? Did you wake up? You?
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Could?
Speaker 9 (11:56):
You could say that yes, No, I'm standing by another
radio and talking to it like thought, I heard your call.
But sorry, but a big quick about this rude. I'm
often concerned an old carp and I'm off to turn
about bora. And I looked recently in short bora all
through my old five little miss peat. But when does
(12:17):
bora into timber? We only know when it's coming out
the holes, aren't.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
We Well, they come out of the holes in say November,
remember late October November, that's the time when you would,
if you like, spray your wood because when they come out,
they look for a mate, they do their dastly things,
and then they go and lay eggs on the timber again.
So that happens in in springtime. That's exactly the time
when it happens. So yeah. So the best way to
(12:45):
control borer depending on where it is, and especially of
woods on wood surfaces that are not in direct sunlight.
You can get your material from from a company that
makes a residual insecticide for aircraft, so we don't get
creepy crawlers in the country. That we don't want. And
(13:06):
the company that has that particular material is safe Works,
and Works is spelled with an X at the end.
Safe Works. You'll find them online. They're in Auckland, Wellington
and I think christ Church, but they'll probably send it
up to you as well. Get hold of them.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Hey, thanks very much for that. Tom had on that
because I, you know, store a bit of timber under
the house and they all these precious pieces of timber,
and I know there's a bit of boar in there.
So if I was to use some of the safe
Work stuff as a residual spray and just sort of
distribute it around, that would be effective.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Absolutely, And do it in particularly if you do it
later in the septemberate mid October, and that will last
you at least especially under the house. No sun last
year for three or four months. That's the whole season.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Perfect, all right, that's going in the diary. Bruce. Greetings, Bruce, Yeah,
claud Hey doing now.
Speaker 10 (14:02):
Listen, I've got a Kaikuria lawn and it's I've got
the sparrows coming in by the dozens and dozens and
tearing it to pieces. Yeah, I think I've got rid
of that because I've brought four little black cats that
you buy online and you peg them into the lawn,
and it seems to keep the sparrows away. But now
(14:24):
the buddy finchers are coming in by the dozens and
dozens and feeding on the lawn.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yep, I know. And if the first lot was it
silings or sparrows.
Speaker 10 (14:36):
No, sparrows, dozens and dozens of them.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, well it might be.
Speaker 10 (14:40):
They seem to stand on their head and dig right
down into it, and they actually tear the grass off.
So you end up with all your grass looking brown
because all the little bits that the torn off the
sun makes them go brow.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
There you go. Yeah, But also there must be some
seeds there, and there must be something that they really enjoy. Now.
Finches and sparrows of course have a similar sort of
food preference, you know, which is usually the seeds and
new parts of plants, new buds and so on and
so forth. And basically that's what that's about. And to
be quite honest, does it really make a lot of
(15:15):
damage or are you just a bit peeved off about
the fact that they can stand on their head and
dig deep.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
No?
Speaker 10 (15:21):
No, if they spoil the lawn, the lawn should be
a beautiful green lawn, but it's not brown.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
No, the lawn should be the lawn should be actually
a complete How do you call that thing with native
wildflowers that you never have to mow maybe once three
times a year. Can you imagine having a lawn of
wildflowers that goes up to your knees almost and you
only mow it two or three times a year and
you get flowers as well. I think that's what I
(15:50):
call a lawn.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
No, no, no, Because we live by the beach, we're
only a couple of hundred yards away from the sea.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Well there you are. What do you think Lord Almighty
used to make in the form of a lawn?
Speaker 10 (16:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, there you go go. Never look go never look
on native native fields and you'll get You'll get all
sorts of flowers. Now, I'm just saying that's the way this.
But what do you do about it? I don't think
you can do much about it, to be quite honest,
about getting these creatures to go for the food that
they really enjoy in your lawn. And Kai Kuu is
actually quite a strange lawn because it came from from Africa.
(16:30):
K Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
Good for beach.
Speaker 10 (16:34):
It's good for lawns by the beach.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I totally agree, Yes it does. But you mow yourself, silly.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
No, No, I just mow the lawn once a week,
like I normally know any other lawn.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, ye're fair enough, but forget it. Forget it, and
it'll go right through the borders, won't it.
Speaker 10 (16:52):
So there's nothing I can put on there now that'll
get rid of the finches.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
No, no, you can't. You can catch them with a
big net and a cannon a cannon net, you know. No,
I'm not going to go there. Don't worry now. I'm
just thinking it might.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Just be a case of everyone's got to eat.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Jiminy.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
You're up toil over Denmark by the way.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, I wish, I wish the thunder was going on.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I can't even hit the buttons anymore. Oh, David, greetings
to you.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Good morning, Rude. I'm fine, thank you. I have a
problem with a more park apricot tree.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Oh more pack my favorite variety.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Yeah, not mine. It's ten years old, it's going into
tenth season and it's had more birthdays than apricots.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Oh, good on you. So you did fertilize it, I
suppose regularly.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Well, I started out fertilizing it seemed to make no difference,
so I gave up on there. It's been gulched. I've
pruned it carefully. I've just sprayed it with copper and oil.
Tree is very healthy, very sound. It's on a gentle
north facing slope, so it's well drained, and last spring
(18:22):
was no blossom at all.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That's right. So what I want to talk to you
about is what I just said before. What did you
feed it? How many breakfasts do you have every week?
Speaker 7 (18:35):
No, I haven't feed it for a week, for one
or two for a while.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
No, that's right. But what would you What did you
use to fertilize it with?
Speaker 7 (18:43):
I had some general fertilizer, and what's another one, the
one for fruzing.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
What's it called tomato or roast fertilizer whatever?
Speaker 7 (18:55):
No, no, no, no, no, I don't know is that
the one? Is it?
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Well?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I would use stuff that you use for creatures or
plants that need flower and fruit, like roses and tomatoes
and all these things, because that means that there's more
potash in the mix. And the potash is the material
that actually makes them flour and makes the flowers set
seeds and fruits, and that is how you get your fruit.
(19:23):
And that's all to do with potash in the fertilizer.
There you go.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Is this the right time of year to give it
the potash?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
No, not until spring. You'll have to do the spring.
There At the moment, nothing is working, so nothing will
be feeding off that stuff at all. I'm sorry, David,
if you have to wait a little potash fertilizer, so
high potash fertilizer, ask your local garden center for high
potash fertilizer.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I'm going to write that down too, because it feels
like the time to sort of start fertilizing is not fun.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You No, no, not until a right, yeah, don't remind
me then.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
In fact, let's talk.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Next week.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
By For more for the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp,
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You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from News Talk Sedbden with still shop free accessories
this winter at steel Shop.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Ah, that was brilliant, right rude.
Speaker 3 (00:22):
Good morning sir, A very good morning to you, pierrero Indeed,
is it all going well?
Speaker 2 (00:27):
To be fair, I had a mild panic attack during
the week because I was out, and then a maid
of mine who's into the football text and goes, oh,
we won't be seeing you, and I'm thinking, hang on,
hang on, hand, what do you mean Netherlands didn't qualify
for the last sixteen of euro But they did. But
in the meantime I was quite distracted for a short
(00:48):
period of time there. Anyway, he was with my emotions.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
I think, oh, now, yeah, but that's easy, that's easy
with you.
Speaker 2 (01:00):
God's anyway, you're all good.
Speaker 3 (01:04):
Yeah, yeah, it's good. I reckon it's my dear loved
you because you easy to toy with emotions.
Speaker 2 (01:11):
She'll be listening to right suitably embarrassed. Let's get over
the calls. So a very good morning, good morning.
Speaker 4 (01:19):
I have three sacrament on my bench in a corner
where they get some sort of afternoon some on the
flowers anyway up between twenty and thirty flowers each. Can
I feed it? Put some seafruit tea in the water
that I stand them in when they droop.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Absolutely, and I would use exactly that because that's the
one that actually gets your flowers going. Seaweed tea. Seaweed tea,
that's the one.
Speaker 4 (01:49):
Seewheed tea.
Speaker 3 (01:50):
How much I make it really weak tea. You know
the color of a very weak tea when you when
you water them. That's all you need to do. Don't
go over the top. I went over the top a
little bit with something I can't remember what it was
at home, and that that was so strong that the
plant went like whoa, whoa, whoa, and I needed to
(02:14):
really nurture it back to health because it was really
a bit too much, so really weak.
Speaker 5 (02:19):
TI.
Speaker 3 (02:20):
There you go.
Speaker 4 (02:21):
You got an amazing amount of flat When I finish flaring, Yeah,
do I feed them then or just leave them?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
I wouldn't worry because when they stopped flowering, they usually
have got enough stuff in there in their system to
get the next lots of leaves going. You know, they
have to sort of take it easy for a while
and create some more leaves.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Yes, Yes, there you go.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Don't worry too much about that every now and then.
Speaker 4 (02:47):
Thanks very much. Yeah, goodbye.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
See that's fantastic. Hey, now the quick takes. How do
we stop possums eating our lemons? Any tips? And then
another one tips on pruning pear trees. What can you
do to stop possums?
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Okay, trap the cat, get a possum trap and get
a flipping tommy. If you flipping timmy they call it,
which is like the old fashioned possum trip that you
can hang up in a tree so it's safe for
for instance, your your dogs and things like that. And yeah,
you use you use shoot, what was it? I got it?
Speaker 5 (03:25):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (03:26):
Day? Then Vaneesh told me that he uses this white
stuff that smells really nice, some sugar and something else
and he puts it together in a big blaze of
white stuff. Oh, they love it. Cinnamon. There you go,
and they'll climb up and go and go and get it. Yep, yep,
little apple, little piece of apple. Where you go.
Speaker 2 (03:47):
Wow, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Right here, elistair, A very
good morning to.
Speaker 6 (03:52):
You, morning leads. We're a little bit of a problem
with my lawn it's my pride and joy obviously behind
my wife. And I've got a few toadstools, our little
brown ones that have come up out of nowhere. I
put some line on last year, which I thought would
have maintained the pH But just looking at one there,
I'm sure you can see it through the phone, dark
(04:13):
brown that are size of a fifty cent piece.
Speaker 3 (04:17):
A little cap, a little cap on the top. That's it. Yep, yeah, yeah, excellent.
And that to me is the fact that I don't
show you how old is your lawn. By the way,
when did you put it in?
Speaker 6 (04:27):
Oh that two and a half three years ago?
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Okay? And did you use a lot of composts in there?
Speaker 7 (04:34):
No?
Speaker 6 (04:34):
I used eggreasy, have a soil condition. I put that
on first, little pearls in your sprint around it could be.
Speaker 3 (04:41):
You have to remember that these particular things in your
lawn are of no concern to your lawn at all,
because basically what it does is does the finishing touch
of decomposting, of composting, so there is material in your
soil there at some places where the compost has not
been composted properly yet, and those fungi come in through
(05:02):
spores that go in the air, and they say, land here, folks,
this is where we need. We are required to actually
get this soil in a perfect condition. I would not
worry about it at all.
Speaker 6 (05:15):
Well, that's good. Now they're also causing the odd teen
cinimeter circle of sort of.
Speaker 3 (05:20):
Eggs exactly I was, I thought. Now, I'm not going
to say that, but if you fly into christ Each
airport at this time of the year, you'll find circles
on the side of the runway everywhere you can see it.
It's brilliant in the grass. And that is exactly they
call them fairy rings, and that is exactly what that's about.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
I've said though, but this is actually just bigger than
a cup. So it's actually that ten centimeters in diameter.
Speaker 3 (05:45):
Yeah they can lawn, yeah, some and some are ten
meters diameter. And they probably have been going for something
like three or four years, five years, and they go
further out further out. Every year they go a bit
further out, So the cups will become plates, and the
plates will become a tire, and the tire will be
where you go.
Speaker 6 (06:08):
Off, not stay.
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Now, this is the point. This is to me, that
tells me that you've got a bloody good garden and
a good lawn, and that you are using the biodiversity
that runs this planet to actually make it into a
real good balance. So I wouldn't be too old.
Speaker 6 (06:28):
My neighbors are on the out of town, I'll say,
what's that spotted bloody lawn you've got?
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Tell them it goes under the house, It takes the
foundations out, it does all that, and they have to
ring Peter again where you go?
Speaker 2 (06:41):
But OK, brilliant, all the very visti elsity, you take care.
Now there was a text as well. It probably was,
oh please ask rud if the wall mats for stopping
reducing weeds are effective or is there something better?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
So there there are some good wall mats that, yeah,
use it. I get it. I've never used them, but
I've heard that pretty good. But again, you're you're putting
something in there that will decay, and you might get fucky.
Speaker 2 (07:11):
But I mean in terms of, you know, if you're
thinking that whole thing around reduce, reuse, recycle, circular economy
and so on, if we're taking old wool that we
can't use for anything else, turning it into these mats
that you can put down as a weed suppressant, which
will then buy a degrade as well.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Absolutely, there is one thing I'm just shall I say
it or not the only thing, the only creature for
it's all the only insect that can actually decay or
take wool apart and recycle it. Two things. One is
the clothes moth, right, and the other one is the
(07:51):
carpet beetle. Now those are two of the creatures that
I'd at least liked in the.
Speaker 2 (07:57):
Yeah, I was going to say the number of times
people have rung out to go I want to get
rid of those moths. So I want to get rid
of those carpet beetles. But the way you're creating an
environment for them outside of your.
Speaker 3 (08:06):
House, absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 2 (08:09):
No downside to that. We're going to take a short break.
We'll come back and talk to Bruce in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (08:17):
Going with steel Shop free accessories this winter at steel Shop.
Speaker 2 (08:23):
Right O, Tom, A very good morning to you. Hello Tom, Hello.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Tom, Good after morning tea. Tom. I think he's first.
Speaker 2 (08:33):
Gone gone for a cup of tea. Talk to me
about your pond.
Speaker 5 (08:38):
Oh yeah, yeah, I was talking to Rude. I think
it was the last week I say about this big
one ach well, probably about a two acre pond going
in the back of the property of working on the
one with a little bunker, and we planted Holland plant
heats and native plants and there's actually starting to look
really nice now. But what we've know this is what
are the little freshwater crayfish we have in New Zealand.
(09:01):
Cold there's because there's a stream that runs in the
pine and goes out of the pond down the other
in the property, and it seems there's quite a few
of those around. We're sitting down here in lunch one
day and one of the guys threw a bit of
ham into the pond, you and they sort of swarmed
after and ate it all. And we're thinking we should
we be doing it or not really for native things
like that. They seem to enjoy them, thinking well, well,
(09:21):
I probably probably shouldn't be feeding them, should be relying
on the native food, but they seem to enjoy it.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
An that's right now, But every look, you could do
that as a you know, if you do it, let's
say once every two months, when you get some people
for Denners say coming everything with this, you know what
I mean? I think if they're there in that number,
they will get their prey anyway, They get their protein
anyway from other from other bits and pieces. But it
(09:50):
shows you.
Speaker 5 (09:51):
We counted a bit we chump at about fifteen of
them at one time, and.
Speaker 3 (09:54):
The lucky good on you.
Speaker 5 (09:58):
It seems to be like a whole fabure in there,
and it's like, yeah, so they're just hiding.
Speaker 8 (10:04):
On some of the native plants with planting we've planned
to them, so they actually hang over that. You'll side
there and they seem to be congregating under there. But
you go there and go, oh there, aren't you any
to throw a bit of a little bit of hem
like a small little finger sized piece in there? Next
minute they all can dart in the out there.
Speaker 3 (10:19):
They are to be quite I think that is that. Yes,
I was just going to say, the best indicator for kids,
the best indicator for people that come to show you
that by diversity is actually working. And you know, if
you don't don't go over the top, you're you already
got the feeling you shouldn't do that. Don't go over
the top. But if you want to check how many
(10:40):
idents and then you can do this other thing, do it?
Maybe once every month, and then someday you realize that
in certain times of the year there might be fewer
colder than in other times of the year. And what
you're actually doing is a scientific observation. I think there's
nothing wrong with it, don't you know, Just a tiny
bit and you know they're there, they'll be there. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:59):
Yeah, they're kind of like family pits. Now.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
It's awesome, and maybe maybe a few eels in the
future as well. That would I went to actually, I
was doing a job at a place a couple of
months back, and again little streams running through the property there,
and there was one heel that had his favorite spot
up there and another one a little bit further down,
and they kind of drift around. They just hang around.
They know people look after them.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
And I was I was staying with a friend in
there in Hamilton the other day. They had some in
their little little stream as well, and exactly the right places,
and they would migrate because if you go to the
next spot, then the other one, the old one would
come back. Say right, it was so cool.
Speaker 2 (11:40):
Yeah, like you mandad didn't see them. They'd be straight
in the smoker, lovely right, Tom Greetings.
Speaker 9 (11:49):
Good morning, sir, hey there, good morning, thank you.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Did you wake up? Tom? Did you wake up? You?
Speaker 6 (11:56):
Could?
Speaker 9 (11:56):
You could say that yes, No, I'm standing by another
radio and talking to it like thought, I heard your call.
But sorry, but a big quick about this rude. I'm
often concerned an old carp and I'm off to turn
about bora. And I looked recently in short bora all
through my old five little miss peat. But when does
(12:17):
bora into timber? We only know when it's coming out
the holes, aren't.
Speaker 3 (12:21):
We Well, they come out of the holes in say November,
remember late October November, that's the time when you would,
if you like, spray your wood because when they come out,
they look for a mate, they do their dastly things,
and then they go and lay eggs on the timber again.
So that happens in in springtime. That's exactly the time
when it happens. So yeah. So the best way to
(12:45):
control borer depending on where it is, and especially of
woods on wood surfaces that are not in direct sunlight.
You can get your material from from a company that
makes a residual insecticide for aircraft, so we don't get
creepy crawlers in the country. That we don't want. And
(13:06):
the company that has that particular material is safe Works,
and Works is spelled with an X at the end.
Safe Works. You'll find them online. They're in Auckland, Wellington
and I think christ Church, but they'll probably send it
up to you as well. Get hold of them.
Speaker 2 (13:22):
Hey, thanks very much for that. Tom had on that
because I, you know, store a bit of timber under
the house and they all these precious pieces of timber,
and I know there's a bit of boar in there.
So if I was to use some of the safe
Work stuff as a residual spray and just sort of
distribute it around, that would be effective.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
Absolutely, And do it in particularly if you do it
later in the septemberate mid October, and that will last
you at least especially under the house. No sun last
year for three or four months. That's the whole season.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
Perfect, all right, that's going in the diary. Bruce. Greetings, Bruce, Yeah,
claud Hey doing now.
Speaker 10 (14:02):
Listen, I've got a Kaikuria lawn and it's I've got
the sparrows coming in by the dozens and dozens and
tearing it to pieces. Yeah, I think I've got rid
of that because I've brought four little black cats that
you buy online and you peg them into the lawn,
and it seems to keep the sparrows away. But now
(14:24):
the buddy finchers are coming in by the dozens and
dozens and feeding on the lawn.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
Yep, I know. And if the first lot was it
silings or sparrows.
Speaker 10 (14:36):
No, sparrows, dozens and dozens of them.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Yeah, well it might be.
Speaker 10 (14:40):
They seem to stand on their head and dig right
down into it, and they actually tear the grass off.
So you end up with all your grass looking brown
because all the little bits that the torn off the
sun makes them go brow.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
There you go. Yeah, But also there must be some
seeds there, and there must be something that they really enjoy. Now.
Finches and sparrows of course have a similar sort of
food preference, you know, which is usually the seeds and
new parts of plants, new buds and so on and
so forth. And basically that's what that's about. And to
be quite honest, does it really make a lot of
(15:15):
damage or are you just a bit peeved off about
the fact that they can stand on their head and
dig deep.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
No?
Speaker 10 (15:21):
No, if they spoil the lawn, the lawn should be
a beautiful green lawn, but it's not brown.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
No, the lawn should be the lawn should be actually
a complete How do you call that thing with native
wildflowers that you never have to mow maybe once three
times a year. Can you imagine having a lawn of
wildflowers that goes up to your knees almost and you
only mow it two or three times a year and
you get flowers as well. I think that's what I
(15:50):
call a lawn.
Speaker 10 (15:53):
No, no, no, Because we live by the beach, we're
only a couple of hundred yards away from the sea.
Speaker 3 (15:59):
Well there you are. What do you think Lord Almighty
used to make in the form of a lawn?
Speaker 10 (16:06):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
Well, there you go go. Never look go never look
on native native fields and you'll get You'll get all
sorts of flowers. Now, I'm just saying that's the way this.
But what do you do about it? I don't think
you can do much about it, to be quite honest,
about getting these creatures to go for the food that
they really enjoy in your lawn. And Kai Kuu is
actually quite a strange lawn because it came from from Africa.
(16:30):
K Yeah, but it's.
Speaker 9 (16:33):
Good for beach.
Speaker 10 (16:34):
It's good for lawns by the beach.
Speaker 3 (16:36):
I totally agree, Yes it does. But you mow yourself, silly.
Speaker 10 (16:41):
No, No, I just mow the lawn once a week,
like I normally know any other lawn.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yeah, ye're fair enough, but forget it. Forget it, and
it'll go right through the borders, won't it.
Speaker 10 (16:52):
So there's nothing I can put on there now that'll
get rid of the finches.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
No, no, you can't. You can catch them with a
big net and a cannon a cannon net, you know. No,
I'm not going to go there. Don't worry now. I'm
just thinking it might.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Just be a case of everyone's got to eat.
Speaker 6 (17:11):
Jiminy.
Speaker 2 (17:11):
You're up toil over Denmark by the way.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, I wish, I wish the thunder was going on.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
I can't even hit the buttons anymore. Oh, David, greetings
to you.
Speaker 7 (17:30):
Good morning, Rude. I'm fine, thank you. I have a
problem with a more park apricot tree.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Oh more pack my favorite variety.
Speaker 7 (17:44):
Yeah, not mine. It's ten years old, it's going into
tenth season and it's had more birthdays than apricots.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Oh, good on you. So you did fertilize it, I
suppose regularly.
Speaker 7 (17:58):
Well, I started out fertilizing it seemed to make no difference,
so I gave up on there. It's been gulched. I've
pruned it carefully. I've just sprayed it with copper and oil.
Tree is very healthy, very sound. It's on a gentle
north facing slope, so it's well drained, and last spring
(18:22):
was no blossom at all.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
That's right. So what I want to talk to you
about is what I just said before. What did you
feed it? How many breakfasts do you have every week?
Speaker 7 (18:35):
No, I haven't feed it for a week, for one
or two for a while.
Speaker 3 (18:38):
No, that's right. But what would you What did you
use to fertilize it with?
Speaker 7 (18:43):
I had some general fertilizer, and what's another one, the
one for fruzing.
Speaker 3 (18:52):
What's it called tomato or roast fertilizer whatever?
Speaker 7 (18:55):
No, no, no, no, no, I don't know is that
the one? Is it?
Speaker 6 (19:02):
Well?
Speaker 3 (19:03):
I would use stuff that you use for creatures or
plants that need flower and fruit, like roses and tomatoes
and all these things, because that means that there's more
potash in the mix. And the potash is the material
that actually makes them flour and makes the flowers set
seeds and fruits, and that is how you get your fruit.
(19:23):
And that's all to do with potash in the fertilizer.
There you go.
Speaker 7 (19:26):
Is this the right time of year to give it
the potash?
Speaker 3 (19:30):
No, not until spring. You'll have to do the spring.
There At the moment, nothing is working, so nothing will
be feeding off that stuff at all. I'm sorry, David,
if you have to wait a little potash fertilizer, so
high potash fertilizer, ask your local garden center for high
potash fertilizer.
Speaker 2 (19:46):
I'm going to write that down too, because it feels
like the time to sort of start fertilizing is not fun.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
You No, no, not until a right, yeah, don't remind
me then.
Speaker 2 (19:57):
In fact, let's talk.
Speaker 3 (19:59):
Next week.
Speaker 1 (20:00):
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