July 20, 2024 • 22 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):
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Speaker 2 (00:28):
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and Red Climb passed a very good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good morning the ruders here too. Isn't that a lovely
thing to.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Do is running where you are.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's a gorgeous day. Actually it's it was very cold,
it's it's quite blue skyish and all that. But seeing
we're waiting for some I know, but we need some
more callers. So before that, I just want to tell
you a story that I thought it was really cool.
I've got I had some I have some really good
Dutch friends that I've known almost from the day I
came into New Zealand. And Dawn and she lives in
(01:00):
Taroto and in the Taroto region. She told me this
story that I've totally forgotten about. And she asked me
this question about bulbs, how to do bulbs and how
to you know, you have to call them down in
the to get a nice cold winter over winter dry
in the fridge. Okay, that sort of stuff. So I
just came from the Netherlands and I said, well, you
put them in the freezer there? Do you know the
(01:23):
fridge there? Do you know where this is going?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I can imagine, Well, well you can imagine.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
So the frieze there's a French word that's used in
Dutch for the fridge actually, but it's also about where
the freezer is, and this was where the she puts
them in the freezer and there they were mushy, and
she told me that after about fifty years of living
in New Sield. You know, I never told you this story.
That was a really stupid advice.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
But could you put them in the fridge, not the freezer.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's got to be the fridge. It's got to be
the fridge in a paper bag to to literally give
them this overwintering side. But don't put them in the freezer,
because I probably said freezer, thinking oh that's the work.
But it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Classic learning English funny that you mentioned that, because my
sister was talking about planting bulbs the other day, and
you know the issue was that it just doesn't get
that cold in Auckland, and it certainly doesn't get that cold.
And Wayhiki, so you know where she's got this magnificent garden.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
She sent such a good gardener. Lovely when it happened.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, but it was all about timing. We were talking.
We was seeing Mum the other day and it was like,
oh no, I got to wait right till the end
because I put them in Now they'll just go crazy. Yeah,
way to her.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, I love that. Those are the stories that you think, gosh,
those are the old days. Oh, by the way, and Tony,
her husband was a builder, and he I remember building
with him, building part of my house. This is in
the day before there were consents and all that. You know,
don't even go there.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I love it. Right now, let's get amongst the calls.
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighties the number to call
Hello Allister, good ay, what.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Can we do for you?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Day here? Not a very good day here? It's raining
right Hell.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I can't help you with it. I'm afraid I've tried that,
but it never worked me neither.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
You're right. Look, I want to talk to you about
strawberries and my strawberries. I've grown strawberries here for years
and years and years, and they've usually been terrific. Now,
the last season, we had terrific plants. They were very
healthy plants and bushy and everything, but very few strawberries.
(03:42):
And I'm wondering now what to do about that, because
I want to put some. I'm just about to dig
them up.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Why dig them or replant them or something?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Replant? Yeah, yeah, so I don't know. First of all,
the plants are there and they're still very bushy, but
they've got lots of runners. Can I use the runners
for the new season?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Alistair? I've used runners all my life. Last year, last
year was a crappy year in which I had virtually
no strawberries at all. I have I was going to
ask you the same question. Yeah, I don't know what
happened last year. Yeah, I don't know, but I'm having
another goal.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yep, yeah, I'm having another goal.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I can hear we're talking over each other. Go on,
get on with it.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yes, we had very few strawberries. There are beautiful strawberries,
but there are only a very few of them.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Funny that camarosa and all the things that I used
to used to have there's quite a few nice varieties
that I can grow here in Canterbury, and they were
they were a pain in the bum last year. There
was nothing happening. The birds would get the rest, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. I do not know what it is.
I think what I'm going to do in the next
(05:03):
month or so is put a whole lot of new
top soil on and and start again if you like,
you know, but also keep those keep those runners going,
because that's what your new varieties are. But I'm going
to get some new anyway. Blow it. I'm going to
old drinks and get some Yeah, okay, yeah, you can
(05:23):
use those as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yeah, and maybe make a few new new plants and
with them.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yes, do and also dig the stuff up for a change,
get some nice organic material in their compost da DA data,
and and see if next year is going to be
better this coming season. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
So I got a big pile of melch here, for example,
I dig that in with the compost.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
What sort of melch is that, by the way, Oh,
it's just.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Old, old, old wood that's been ground up and it's
sitting just sitting there.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Are you sure you would use that. I would probably
use organic material like compost rather than the than the wood,
because when the cays it takes it takes quite a
bit of nitrogen out of the soil as well. Yeah,
I think so. Yeah, And that means that the soil
condition is not as fabulous for strawberries as, for instance,
a good organic material.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Sure, sure, sure. And what else would you use to
say of give them a bit of life?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's very simple. What I tend to use is a
liquid fertilizer from wet and forget. It's called seafood soup
or seaweed tea. In this case, I mix them up. No,
I don't mixed up. I alternate them. One week I
do the seafood soup, the next week I do the
seaweed tea.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Okay, that's what I want, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And you know what I do. I use those both
those materials in a watering can and I do a
little bit of it in the ten liters watering can
so that it looks like really weak tea, not too strong,
like really you know that light brown wikia stopy stuff. Yeah, yeah,
that's what it's your look not too much eager, easy.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Okay, you have a great ta take care. Oh and
eighty ten and you've got a couple of spell lines
pin a good morning.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Good morning, good morning. I've been mean to ringing last
two weekends working on the beginning. But we've got some
popcorn scale and see it on our orange mix an
orange blosso, and we can't sin We get rid of
it spready with conger oil several times. But the leafy
part of the plant's really healthy, but the wooden part's
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just covered in it.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Okay, so this is the this is this is in
the in This is not an edible plant, of course, yeah,
it's it's it's yeah, I know. So for that reason,
what I would choose is a material that's come out
a couple of years ago, and it's called grow ventive.
So g R O V E N T I ve
(08:07):
grow ventive. Okay, that is that's a pretty good material
for scale and sex and medi bugs and a fits
and things like that.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
It's quite strange. A spread it several times with the conqueror,
but it just doesn't seem and the green of the
plant is still quite lash and green and lovely, but
the wooden pats just covered on and the popcorn scale.
Don't seen that they're doing anything that.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, No, the grow VENTI grow ventive is a material
that is being taken up by the plant and goes
through the system upon which those particular scales feed. So
they feed on the flowam, the floam, which is part
of the system inside the leaves and inside the twigs,
and that will be then, if you like, poisoned by
(08:52):
the grow ventive. So they literally eat a material that
kills them. And it's it's systemic, as we call it.
It goes into the plant and it is a really
good material to stop it from being sucked upon by
these stepsucking creatures. You cannot use grow ventive on edible crops,
but you can do it on ornamental crops.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
That's great, that's what I want to hear.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
It'll work well, Yeah, it works fabulously. I've tried it
so many times. It's it's it's really really good and
really quick too. It goes within a couple of weeks.
And if you think that, you go on.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I was gonna say, my wife was at the station
and I pull out the whole bloody's hinge.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
SI, no need to, no need to. You can save
it you'll be the hero of the day.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
I'm ald the hero.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Beautiful, beautiful, probably be married for years. Alright, we will
take a short break. Actually, fist up tixt. Please give
advice on what to feed higherbiscus.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Ah, depends on how high it is. It could be
a low biscus. Now I'm joking. I at this stage,
I wouldn't feed anything yet. As such, the soil. You
can put stuff on the soil. I talked to Jack
about it yesterday with potash, with the ash from fires.
I put that on because I keep that actually in
(10:19):
the top layers of the soil, and it doesn't really
go away that quickly. Well yeah, within a couple of months.
But you know, by the time that the temperatures are
going up, that is when a plant starts to take
in the nutrients. So at the moment it's dormant. No
point in fertilizing until it's a.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Bit warmer, right, which will be when.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Depends on where you are exactly. Yeah, no, yeah, you
know what I mean. It's it's it's really safe for me.
It would be here late August, early September.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I started looking like August, well late augustus next month.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I know, but you know, don't waste your time and
your money by putting stuff in the ground that is
not being used by the plants, because they're very ungrateful,
little moral so don't take it, you know, and you
pay for it.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Sorry, one dutchment or another right forty two. We'll be
back after the break.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
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Speaker 2 (11:24):
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is EBZB for mobile phone. RUDD. Is now a good
time to be doing some planting.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yes, if you have a Tunguel house for instance, where I.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Am now, I'm thinking about like proper outdoor planting trees.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yes it is. It's excellent. This is the time to plant.
This is why all these organizations that restore New Zealand
are basically having their Saturday's gone. We had one line
in Horswalk Quarry like yesterday. And of course Nigel told
me that I wasn't there. He was right because I forgot.
Oh gosh, you golly, now those are exactly and there
(12:09):
were about seventy or eighty people. I think, and this
is really cool stuff because that's what it's. This is
what your environment is. Next time you come in Christ Peter,
I'll show you what happened over the last twenty five
years in that particular quarry, because that is now becoming
a real cool bird paradise. There's lizards, they all sort
of amazing bugs and things like that. It is really
(12:31):
really good and it's all done by the people of
Hallswell if you like. Off west southwest.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
How much has changed because I was down there Shivers
six seven years ago actually filming a little piece in
the quarry there. We just needed somewhere to sit and
have a chat with the people that we were filming with,
and I remember sort of seeing the emergence of all
of this restoration, this ecological restoration and sort of interesting. See,
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and you're absolutely right. If you go around the country
these days, I think that there is there are just
literally thousands of people out working in their community doing
planting at the moment, it is so massive.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It's great, and I would like to say thank you
New Zealanders because it's done by all of us. So
we're bending birds. We do bird bending in the quarry
for instance, and we train other people, dock people and
comes from people how to do that with nuts and
how to put the things around their rings, around their
legs and all that. And we are now starting to
find more and more and more birds there and it
(13:33):
is absolutely stunning yet great.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I just I'm curious about you using the ash from
the wood burner or from the fire. So what do
you do? You try and sort of thin it out?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Obviously you keep it and let it You're not putting
it on warm obviously it's outside. It cools down, is there?
Like do you let it kind of semi compost before
you apply it or do you.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Just you can do that if you've got a compost
bend that is still that a is still going. But
you you remember, it's pretty cool, but you have to
really make it thin. Don't put it in a huge
layer on the rise because the sprint cement. Yeah, so
I do it. I do it on the windy day.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, brilliant, and your neighbors get some of the benefit
as well as well.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
And also and only do it of course, on the
plants that need that use the coote alium for flowers
and fruit, So the flowers and fruiting plants, and that
you know, even although they might not use it now,
it will be used, as you said, at the end
of next month.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
There you go, brilliant Tom A very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Good morning, Peat and and others the route. I've got
something on your line right now. To my surprise, the
last couple of weeks, as I look on my back
door in this house which i'm by myself except for
my departed wife's for cats, there's about fifty bees stationary
(14:55):
on the glass and some on the ledge.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Of your glasshouse, of your glasshouse.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
No, this is my my residence, which I built sixty
four years ago. Right, okay, back door, let's go out.
It's a four light glass door.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
See sure. So where are you ringing from? What part
of New Zealtists is the north? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Yes, don on my road.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
There you go. Okay, you have to remember that the
time is coming that bees are starting to swarm. That
is number one but you're only mentioning let's say sixty
or so bees, so it might not be yet a
big swarm. It might be a small swarm. But the
point is that at the moment, my bees, or the
bees of my neighbor here in christ Church are still
flying around. So for some reason they think it's warm
(15:45):
enough on a good day like today looks a good
day actually with a bit of sun. Later on you'll
find the bees are still moving. That's number one. But
the second thing is that usually a swarm doesn't happen
until late October, early September onwards, if you like, so,
maybe this might be an earlier group.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Are you going to do with them?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Well? Are they on the outside of your house?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
No? The inside?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Oh really? Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:16):
I have a big glass front in which there is
a broken piece at the top, and my wife when
she was here, would spend ten minutes getting an odd
bee out that got lost. But these ones have been
here for two weeks. I thought there were fires for
a start. They if you touch them, they will, they
can move. They're alive.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah, okay, right in this case, get yourself. You need
to go to your local area, ask your local people
that know about these things. Who is a beekeeper in
your area, and they may want to get some of
those for a new I feel like a new breed
that they're looking at.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Oh right, okay, do you know what I mean? I do.
I've got the answer to that prime Okay, But I
didn't get rid of the cockroaches by the time you
told me to use soapworks. They're all through the house.
Because by myself, Yeah, that can happen.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
But you have to remember, many cockroaches aren't really not
that troublesome. The native ones basically come inside because it's
too cold outside, and they will move outside again to
clean up all the stuff in your garden. You know,
they're recyclists, so that's what they do. But in the
winter time they think, oh, this is a nice place
that Tom's got. I think I might move in. By
the way he built that house over the top of
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our habitat, we might move in.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Well, when I first came here, I never saw any Well,
occasionally there was when they delivered the Herald, there was
a few big ones in the bag of that.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, the herald. The Herald spreads cockroaches all over the place.
You've known that all your life, haven't you.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
No, not me. All our others have talked about not cockroaches.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
No, okay, that's sorry, Tom, Different things, all the best.
Slightly confused by the snake's teats, Hey, roud, please advise
on how to get bitter flowering from two baros tubros.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, cube ros.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Put them on the fridge, not in the freezer. We
know that, but yeah, no, in the fridge. Yeah you
could do that.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
But on the other end, what you can do is,
if they've been there and the plants are in good condition,
use some of that potash sulfate of potash, or if
you like, a little layer of the stuff from the garden,
from your from your fireplace, to put that potash into
the root zone. And it is the potash that makes
the tube brosis flour.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Right.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
That's that follows on nicely from what we talked about before.
Not everybody's got a fireplace anymore, of course, So you
can now buy little granules called sulfate off potash, which
is the same sort of material and that literally makes
the plant increase its flowering and fruiting capacity. If you like,
you can use them for all those different things.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Awesome, Thank you very much. That's awesome. Cheryl, A very
good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Good morning. I'd just like to ask Rudy question.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Please go for it.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
I have see all hoyas in my soun room, one
of them being forty years old. Other ones are just
collected now. They all flare beautiously. However, because of the
sun roam. The son of Mia and I do have
a shade cloth. But over leaves are going through pale.
(19:36):
What can I give them to bring the leaves back
to grainygins?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
A little bit of fertilizer, liquid fertilizer when you water them.
You don't you don't water your hoyas too often. If
you've done it forty years. I don't need to tell
you how to grow hoyas.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Oh well, the forty year one the eighteens belonged to
my mother. But I am old enough to have had
it for forty years.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
But yeah, but you know you don't overwater them, generally speaking.
But from now on, what I would do if you,
if I were you and big are inside, I would
give them a bit of liquid fertilizer. Just a little
bit of the liquid fertilizer in the watering can that
you water your hoyas with, and that will that will
sort out the yellowing of your leaves.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
I'm sure, is it because they oh, you know, the
old one has fifty players, you know, every time at
players and some I've just pulls up mistee and several players.
It's a really good twice.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
It is a good And you know what. I used
to have a hoya in the Netherlands when I was
a student that would go right around my room. That
hoya would be about one two, three, four times five
twenty meters long tendrils and yeah, and I literally trained
it right around the ceiling of my of my of
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my room where I was staying, absolutely gorgeous flowering every year.
At the moment, my hoyas are in a slightly too
dark condition, and Julie was all ready saying, we need
to do something about that, so we're going to put
it in a slightly lighter place.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
I would say, yeah, okay, well, thank you very much today.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Vice. It's great, Cheryl, You're doing a great job. I
love the who And there's so many different varieties of them.
Have you seen that? Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:23):
I know, I know, I wish I could get some
of the different talented ones, but they're quite hard or
quite winter.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yes, I know my days. It was you could get
them from anybody. As students in the Netherlands, we changed them.
Of course, there's not nothing. It was very simple.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Yeah right, good, thanks very much.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Bye, Hey morning, welcome, bye bye all Cheryl cool that
it's so good.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Well you enjoy a good day because up here it's
just a little bit on the damp side.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I get it. And that's why I molded lawn yesterday
because I've not been able to do it since February.
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Seriously, yes, true it Wow, finally dry yesterday.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Crikey, you know you know drink I'd be doing hours
on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
You go there. Oh hey, can't you be down.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It's not Next Sunday, take care all the best, Bye bye,
Thank you folks for your company. Love the text mission.
I'm actually going to add up all of the answers
and try and get an actual answer, and then next
week we'll do more polls. Let's do it again next Sunday.
Have a great week.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Take care.
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Peter wolf Camp the Resident Builder with light four solar,
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Your news talks at be Peg wolf Camp with you
and Red Climb passed a very good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
Good morning the ruders here too. Isn't that a lovely
thing to.
Speaker 2 (00:35):
Do is running where you are.
Speaker 3 (00:38):
It's a gorgeous day. Actually it's it was very cold,
it's it's quite blue skyish and all that. But seeing
we're waiting for some I know, but we need some
more callers. So before that, I just want to tell
you a story that I thought it was really cool.
I've got I had some I have some really good
Dutch friends that I've known almost from the day I
came into New Zealand. And Dawn and she lives in
(01:00):
Taroto and in the Taroto region. She told me this
story that I've totally forgotten about. And she asked me
this question about bulbs, how to do bulbs and how
to you know, you have to call them down in
the to get a nice cold winter over winter dry
in the fridge. Okay, that sort of stuff. So I
just came from the Netherlands and I said, well, you
put them in the freezer there? Do you know the
(01:23):
fridge there? Do you know where this is going?
Speaker 1 (01:27):
No?
Speaker 2 (01:27):
I can imagine, Well, well you can imagine.
Speaker 3 (01:29):
So the frieze there's a French word that's used in
Dutch for the fridge actually, but it's also about where
the freezer is, and this was where the she puts
them in the freezer and there they were mushy, and
she told me that after about fifty years of living
in New Sield. You know, I never told you this story.
That was a really stupid advice.
Speaker 2 (01:51):
But could you put them in the fridge, not the freezer.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
It's got to be the fridge. It's got to be
the fridge in a paper bag to to literally give
them this overwintering side. But don't put them in the freezer,
because I probably said freezer, thinking oh that's the work.
But it wasn't.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Classic learning English funny that you mentioned that, because my
sister was talking about planting bulbs the other day, and
you know the issue was that it just doesn't get
that cold in Auckland, and it certainly doesn't get that cold.
And Wayhiki, so you know where she's got this magnificent garden.
Speaker 3 (02:25):
She sent such a good gardener. Lovely when it happened.
Speaker 2 (02:29):
Yeah, but it was all about timing. We were talking.
We was seeing Mum the other day and it was like,
oh no, I got to wait right till the end
because I put them in Now they'll just go crazy. Yeah,
way to her.
Speaker 3 (02:39):
Yeah, I love that. Those are the stories that you think, gosh,
those are the old days. Oh, by the way, and Tony,
her husband was a builder, and he I remember building
with him, building part of my house. This is in
the day before there were consents and all that. You know,
don't even go there.
Speaker 2 (02:57):
I love it. Right now, let's get amongst the calls.
Eight hundred and eighty ten eighties the number to call
Hello Allister, good ay, what.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
Can we do for you?
Speaker 4 (03:08):
Day here? Not a very good day here? It's raining
right Hell.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
I can't help you with it. I'm afraid I've tried that,
but it never worked me neither.
Speaker 4 (03:18):
You're right. Look, I want to talk to you about
strawberries and my strawberries. I've grown strawberries here for years
and years and years, and they've usually been terrific. Now,
the last season, we had terrific plants. They were very
healthy plants and bushy and everything, but very few strawberries.
(03:42):
And I'm wondering now what to do about that, because
I want to put some. I'm just about to dig
them up.
Speaker 3 (03:50):
Why dig them or replant them or something?
Speaker 4 (03:52):
Replant? Yeah, yeah, so I don't know. First of all,
the plants are there and they're still very bushy, but
they've got lots of runners. Can I use the runners
for the new season?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
Alistair? I've used runners all my life. Last year, last
year was a crappy year in which I had virtually
no strawberries at all. I have I was going to
ask you the same question. Yeah, I don't know what
happened last year. Yeah, I don't know, but I'm having
another goal.
Speaker 4 (04:28):
Yep, yeah, I'm having another goal.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:32):
I can hear we're talking over each other. Go on,
get on with it.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
Yes, we had very few strawberries. There are beautiful strawberries,
but there are only a very few of them.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
Funny that camarosa and all the things that I used
to used to have there's quite a few nice varieties
that I can grow here in Canterbury, and they were
they were a pain in the bum last year. There
was nothing happening. The birds would get the rest, et cetera,
et cetera, et cetera. I do not know what it is.
I think what I'm going to do in the next
(05:03):
month or so is put a whole lot of new
top soil on and and start again if you like,
you know, but also keep those keep those runners going,
because that's what your new varieties are. But I'm going
to get some new anyway. Blow it. I'm going to
old drinks and get some Yeah, okay, yeah, you can
(05:23):
use those as far as I'm concerned.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Yeah, and maybe make a few new new plants and
with them.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yes, do and also dig the stuff up for a change,
get some nice organic material in their compost da DA data,
and and see if next year is going to be
better this coming season. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (05:42):
So I got a big pile of melch here, for example,
I dig that in with the compost.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
What sort of melch is that, by the way, Oh,
it's just.
Speaker 4 (05:52):
Old, old, old wood that's been ground up and it's
sitting just sitting there.
Speaker 3 (06:02):
Are you sure you would use that. I would probably
use organic material like compost rather than the than the wood,
because when the cays it takes it takes quite a
bit of nitrogen out of the soil as well. Yeah,
I think so. Yeah, And that means that the soil
condition is not as fabulous for strawberries as, for instance,
a good organic material.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
Sure, sure, sure. And what else would you use to
say of give them a bit of life?
Speaker 3 (06:29):
It's very simple. What I tend to use is a
liquid fertilizer from wet and forget. It's called seafood soup
or seaweed tea. In this case, I mix them up. No,
I don't mixed up. I alternate them. One week I
do the seafood soup, the next week I do the
seaweed tea.
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Okay, that's what I want, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (06:49):
And you know what I do. I use those both
those materials in a watering can and I do a
little bit of it in the ten liters watering can
so that it looks like really weak tea, not too strong,
like really you know that light brown wikia stopy stuff. Yeah, yeah,
that's what it's your look not too much eager, easy.
Speaker 2 (07:12):
Okay, you have a great ta take care. Oh and
eighty ten and you've got a couple of spell lines
pin a good morning.
Speaker 5 (07:23):
Good morning, good morning. I've been mean to ringing last
two weekends working on the beginning. But we've got some
popcorn scale and see it on our orange mix an
orange blosso, and we can't sin We get rid of
it spready with conger oil several times. But the leafy
part of the plant's really healthy, but the wooden part's
(07:43):
just covered in it.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Okay, so this is the this is this is in
the in This is not an edible plant, of course, yeah,
it's it's it's yeah, I know. So for that reason,
what I would choose is a material that's come out
a couple of years ago, and it's called grow ventive.
So g R O V E N T I ve
(08:07):
grow ventive. Okay, that is that's a pretty good material
for scale and sex and medi bugs and a fits
and things like that.
Speaker 5 (08:19):
It's quite strange. A spread it several times with the conqueror,
but it just doesn't seem and the green of the
plant is still quite lash and green and lovely, but
the wooden pats just covered on and the popcorn scale.
Don't seen that they're doing anything that.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
Yeah, No, the grow VENTI grow ventive is a material
that is being taken up by the plant and goes
through the system upon which those particular scales feed. So
they feed on the flowam, the floam, which is part
of the system inside the leaves and inside the twigs,
and that will be then, if you like, poisoned by
(08:52):
the grow ventive. So they literally eat a material that
kills them. And it's it's systemic, as we call it.
It goes into the plant and it is a really
good material to stop it from being sucked upon by
these stepsucking creatures. You cannot use grow ventive on edible crops,
but you can do it on ornamental crops.
Speaker 5 (09:15):
That's great, that's what I want to hear.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
It'll work well, Yeah, it works fabulously. I've tried it
so many times. It's it's it's really really good and
really quick too. It goes within a couple of weeks.
And if you think that, you go on.
Speaker 5 (09:31):
I was gonna say, my wife was at the station
and I pull out the whole bloody's hinge.
Speaker 3 (09:36):
SI, no need to, no need to. You can save
it you'll be the hero of the day.
Speaker 6 (09:43):
I'm ald the hero.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Beautiful, beautiful, probably be married for years. Alright, we will
take a short break. Actually, fist up tixt. Please give
advice on what to feed higherbiscus.
Speaker 3 (09:59):
Ah, depends on how high it is. It could be
a low biscus. Now I'm joking. I at this stage,
I wouldn't feed anything yet. As such, the soil. You
can put stuff on the soil. I talked to Jack
about it yesterday with potash, with the ash from fires.
I put that on because I keep that actually in
(10:19):
the top layers of the soil, and it doesn't really
go away that quickly. Well yeah, within a couple of months.
But you know, by the time that the temperatures are
going up, that is when a plant starts to take
in the nutrients. So at the moment it's dormant. No
point in fertilizing until it's a.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Bit warmer, right, which will be when.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Depends on where you are exactly. Yeah, no, yeah, you
know what I mean. It's it's it's really safe for me.
It would be here late August, early September.
Speaker 2 (10:49):
I started looking like August, well late augustus next month.
Speaker 3 (10:53):
I know, but you know, don't waste your time and
your money by putting stuff in the ground that is
not being used by the plants, because they're very ungrateful,
little moral so don't take it, you know, and you
pay for it.
Speaker 2 (11:04):
Sorry, one dutchment or another right forty two. We'll be
back after the break.
Speaker 1 (11:11):
Doing upper house a sorting the guard and asked Pete
for a hand. The resident builder with Peter Wolfcamp and
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Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty US talk z B.
Speaker 2 (11:24):
Lines are open. If you've got a question for Ridd,
you'll need to be quick, but there are a couple
of spare lines right now. So eight hundred eighty ten
eighty or text if you wish. Nine to nine two
is EBZB for mobile phone. RUDD. Is now a good
time to be doing some planting.
Speaker 3 (11:42):
Yes, if you have a Tunguel house for instance, where I.
Speaker 2 (11:44):
Am now, I'm thinking about like proper outdoor planting trees.
Speaker 3 (11:47):
Yes it is. It's excellent. This is the time to plant.
This is why all these organizations that restore New Zealand
are basically having their Saturday's gone. We had one line
in Horswalk Quarry like yesterday. And of course Nigel told
me that I wasn't there. He was right because I forgot.
Oh gosh, you golly, now those are exactly and there
(12:09):
were about seventy or eighty people. I think, and this
is really cool stuff because that's what it's. This is
what your environment is. Next time you come in Christ Peter,
I'll show you what happened over the last twenty five
years in that particular quarry, because that is now becoming
a real cool bird paradise. There's lizards, they all sort
of amazing bugs and things like that. It is really
(12:31):
really good and it's all done by the people of
Hallswell if you like. Off west southwest.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
How much has changed because I was down there Shivers
six seven years ago actually filming a little piece in
the quarry there. We just needed somewhere to sit and
have a chat with the people that we were filming with,
and I remember sort of seeing the emergence of all
of this restoration, this ecological restoration and sort of interesting. See,
(12:57):
and you're absolutely right. If you go around the country
these days, I think that there is there are just
literally thousands of people out working in their community doing
planting at the moment, it is so massive.
Speaker 3 (13:11):
It's great, and I would like to say thank you
New Zealanders because it's done by all of us. So
we're bending birds. We do bird bending in the quarry
for instance, and we train other people, dock people and
comes from people how to do that with nuts and
how to put the things around their rings, around their
legs and all that. And we are now starting to
find more and more and more birds there and it
(13:33):
is absolutely stunning yet great.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
I just I'm curious about you using the ash from
the wood burner or from the fire. So what do
you do? You try and sort of thin it out?
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (13:45):
Obviously you keep it and let it You're not putting
it on warm obviously it's outside. It cools down, is there?
Like do you let it kind of semi compost before
you apply it or do you.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
Just you can do that if you've got a compost
bend that is still that a is still going. But
you you remember, it's pretty cool, but you have to
really make it thin. Don't put it in a huge
layer on the rise because the sprint cement. Yeah, so
I do it. I do it on the windy day.
Speaker 2 (14:11):
Yeah, brilliant, and your neighbors get some of the benefit
as well as well.
Speaker 3 (14:15):
And also and only do it of course, on the
plants that need that use the coote alium for flowers
and fruit, So the flowers and fruiting plants, and that
you know, even although they might not use it now,
it will be used, as you said, at the end
of next month.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
There you go, brilliant Tom A very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
Good morning, Peat and and others the route. I've got
something on your line right now. To my surprise, the
last couple of weeks, as I look on my back
door in this house which i'm by myself except for
my departed wife's for cats, there's about fifty bees stationary
(14:55):
on the glass and some on the ledge.
Speaker 3 (14:59):
Of your glasshouse, of your glasshouse.
Speaker 6 (15:03):
No, this is my my residence, which I built sixty
four years ago. Right, okay, back door, let's go out.
It's a four light glass door.
Speaker 3 (15:12):
See sure. So where are you ringing from? What part
of New Zealtists is the north? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (15:18):
Yes, don on my road.
Speaker 3 (15:21):
There you go. Okay, you have to remember that the
time is coming that bees are starting to swarm. That
is number one but you're only mentioning let's say sixty
or so bees, so it might not be yet a
big swarm. It might be a small swarm. But the
point is that at the moment, my bees, or the
bees of my neighbor here in christ Church are still
flying around. So for some reason they think it's warm
(15:45):
enough on a good day like today looks a good
day actually with a bit of sun. Later on you'll
find the bees are still moving. That's number one. But
the second thing is that usually a swarm doesn't happen
until late October, early September onwards, if you like, so,
maybe this might be an earlier group.
Speaker 6 (16:06):
Are you going to do with them?
Speaker 3 (16:08):
Well? Are they on the outside of your house?
Speaker 6 (16:11):
No? The inside?
Speaker 3 (16:14):
Oh really? Oh?
Speaker 6 (16:16):
I have a big glass front in which there is
a broken piece at the top, and my wife when
she was here, would spend ten minutes getting an odd
bee out that got lost. But these ones have been
here for two weeks. I thought there were fires for
a start. They if you touch them, they will, they
can move. They're alive.
Speaker 3 (16:35):
Yeah, okay, right in this case, get yourself. You need
to go to your local area, ask your local people
that know about these things. Who is a beekeeper in
your area, and they may want to get some of
those for a new I feel like a new breed
that they're looking at.
Speaker 6 (16:52):
Oh right, okay, do you know what I mean? I do.
I've got the answer to that prime Okay, But I
didn't get rid of the cockroaches by the time you
told me to use soapworks. They're all through the house.
Because by myself, Yeah, that can happen.
Speaker 3 (17:07):
But you have to remember, many cockroaches aren't really not
that troublesome. The native ones basically come inside because it's
too cold outside, and they will move outside again to
clean up all the stuff in your garden. You know,
they're recyclists, so that's what they do. But in the
winter time they think, oh, this is a nice place
that Tom's got. I think I might move in. By
the way he built that house over the top of
(17:29):
our habitat, we might move in.
Speaker 6 (17:35):
Well, when I first came here, I never saw any Well,
occasionally there was when they delivered the Herald, there was
a few big ones in the bag of that.
Speaker 3 (17:44):
Yeah, the herald. The Herald spreads cockroaches all over the place.
You've known that all your life, haven't you.
Speaker 6 (17:52):
No, not me. All our others have talked about not cockroaches.
Speaker 2 (17:55):
No, okay, that's sorry, Tom, Different things, all the best.
Slightly confused by the snake's teats, Hey, roud, please advise
on how to get bitter flowering from two baros tubros.
Speaker 3 (18:14):
Yeah, cube ros.
Speaker 2 (18:15):
Put them on the fridge, not in the freezer. We
know that, but yeah, no, in the fridge. Yeah you
could do that.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
But on the other end, what you can do is,
if they've been there and the plants are in good condition,
use some of that potash sulfate of potash, or if
you like, a little layer of the stuff from the garden,
from your from your fireplace, to put that potash into
the root zone. And it is the potash that makes
the tube brosis flour.
Speaker 2 (18:41):
Right.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
That's that follows on nicely from what we talked about before.
Not everybody's got a fireplace anymore, of course, So you
can now buy little granules called sulfate off potash, which
is the same sort of material and that literally makes
the plant increase its flowering and fruiting capacity. If you like,
you can use them for all those different things.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Awesome, Thank you very much. That's awesome. Cheryl, A very
good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (19:09):
Good morning. I'd just like to ask Rudy question.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
Please go for it.
Speaker 7 (19:16):
I have see all hoyas in my soun room, one
of them being forty years old. Other ones are just
collected now. They all flare beautiously. However, because of the
sun roam. The son of Mia and I do have
a shade cloth. But over leaves are going through pale.
(19:36):
What can I give them to bring the leaves back
to grainygins?
Speaker 3 (19:42):
A little bit of fertilizer, liquid fertilizer when you water them.
You don't you don't water your hoyas too often. If
you've done it forty years. I don't need to tell
you how to grow hoyas.
Speaker 7 (19:52):
Oh well, the forty year one the eighteens belonged to
my mother. But I am old enough to have had
it for forty years.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
But yeah, but you know you don't overwater them, generally speaking.
But from now on, what I would do if you,
if I were you and big are inside, I would
give them a bit of liquid fertilizer. Just a little
bit of the liquid fertilizer in the watering can that
you water your hoyas with, and that will that will
sort out the yellowing of your leaves.
Speaker 7 (20:19):
I'm sure, is it because they oh, you know, the
old one has fifty players, you know, every time at
players and some I've just pulls up mistee and several players.
It's a really good twice.
Speaker 3 (20:34):
It is a good And you know what. I used
to have a hoya in the Netherlands when I was
a student that would go right around my room. That
hoya would be about one two, three, four times five
twenty meters long tendrils and yeah, and I literally trained
it right around the ceiling of my of my of
(20:57):
my room where I was staying, absolutely gorgeous flowering every year.
At the moment, my hoyas are in a slightly too
dark condition, and Julie was all ready saying, we need
to do something about that, so we're going to put
it in a slightly lighter place.
Speaker 7 (21:11):
I would say, yeah, okay, well, thank you very much today.
Speaker 3 (21:15):
Vice. It's great, Cheryl, You're doing a great job. I
love the who And there's so many different varieties of them.
Have you seen that? Oh?
Speaker 7 (21:23):
I know, I know, I wish I could get some
of the different talented ones, but they're quite hard or
quite winter.
Speaker 3 (21:30):
Yes, I know my days. It was you could get
them from anybody. As students in the Netherlands, we changed them.
Of course, there's not nothing. It was very simple.
Speaker 7 (21:39):
Yeah right, good, thanks very much.
Speaker 3 (21:43):
Bye, Hey morning, welcome, bye bye all Cheryl cool that
it's so good.
Speaker 2 (21:49):
Well you enjoy a good day because up here it's
just a little bit on the damp side.
Speaker 3 (21:53):
I get it. And that's why I molded lawn yesterday
because I've not been able to do it since February.
Thank you?
Speaker 2 (21:59):
Are you kidding?
Speaker 6 (22:00):
No?
Speaker 3 (22:00):
Seriously, yes, true it Wow, finally dry yesterday.
Speaker 2 (22:05):
Crikey, you know you know drink I'd be doing hours
on Thursday.
Speaker 3 (22:09):
You go there. Oh hey, can't you be down.
Speaker 2 (22:11):
It's not Next Sunday, take care all the best, Bye bye,
Thank you folks for your company. Love the text mission.
I'm actually going to add up all of the answers
and try and get an actual answer, and then next
week we'll do more polls. Let's do it again next Sunday.
Have a great week.
Speaker 5 (22:25):
Take care.
Speaker 1 (22:31):
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