August 17, 2024 • 20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks, b.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Red Climb past us in the house. Are in the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Good morning Root, Good morning Peter. Yes, I'm in the
studio where it was rather we just like you had
all that stuff beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We had a christ Church caller earlier on and yes
he updated us is to the all the situation. Yeah
here as well, it was pretty miserable to be.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I think what we need to do here in CHRISTI
is just not ventilate so much, but actually drill hole
in holes in concrete so that the water goes away.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh tell you what, you know that that whole thing
around permeable surfaces and making cities more spongy. Yeah, absolutely,
we need to be doing.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
That, Peter. At the moment, they are building so many
subdivisions in a place that I saw flood at during
the just after the earthquake because or River couldn't cope
with it. I reckon there will be serious troubles with
this growth. It is unbelievable. I have no absolutely no
(01:10):
what do you call it? The I have no idea
what's going to happen, but my goodness, water everywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, Yeah, absolutely right. Let's rip into it because we've
got a whole bunch of people want to chat about
the wonderful world of the garden and Mike, good morning
to you. Morning.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Hey Mike, what can we do with you? I'm like,
are you okay? You're not getting attacked? Are you?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
No? Not for a moment. I want to know about apricots,
rather the lack of them. Five trees here that blossom
fultimately every year and if we're lucky, we get one
apricot per tree.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Wow, that's not much. No, that's not much. Do you
you fertilize the trees? I'm sure a little?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Yeah, not a lot?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, okay. But but this there is quite often the
queue here that in order to get a flower and
to get a fruit after the flower, the the k
of np K, which is the potash, is a really
important nutrient. So what I would do from now on?
And they're probably flowering now.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Are they just just coming in? The flower?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Same here? Yeah, mine started over the last week and
I sent Peter a photo of it. Yeah, you flower
and and and then suddenly we're getting this weather. But
never mind, the point. The point is that, yes, to
get it going to keep it going selfate of potash
or general NPK fertilizer with a handful of selfate of
(02:51):
potash added to it to raise that particular growth of
the fruit.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Okay, well, what surprises me, I guess is that we
have almond trees and they flower, or they've been flowering
about three weeks ago, and they they fruit, no problem
at all. Yeah, I wonder if it has something to do,
would trust or whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yes, it could be, it could be. But in this case,
it does pay, and it does pay to use a
bit of potash for those fruit trees. Absolutely, it goes
for a lot of different fruit trees for citrus as well.
And the nice thing, for instance, in citrus is that
if you use a litt or a little bit of
potash extra, that the fruit is a lot sweeter.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Okay, okay, well, I'll keep trying.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
All this good.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Thank you. Now. Talking about fertilizer, I know we've talked
about it, and it's often me, No, you've got to wait.
You got to wait before you start applying it. So
the carro heade out the front of our place has
put on so much growth in the last two weeks.
It's quite phenomenal. It's awesome, it's beautiful. So obviously the
plants are emerging from their winter dormancy, dormancy and is
(04:05):
now if you see that sort of growth, does that
mean it's okay to add fidilizer or should we still wait?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
But no, no do hand full shells. Usually later on,
I always say wait till September. But in this case,
we've had a pretty mild winter, especially here too. You
might be a couple of weeks early, which is exactly
what you were.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Okay, all right, but no harm, no, all right, all right, just.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Chicken in a waste.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
That's why I spent two and a half hours in
my workshop yesterday making a cap that I could have
bought for fifty bucks. But hey, two and a half
hours and it was free. I'm winning. I'm winning.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Cherry greetings, It's good morning. I grow my tomatoes in
our conservatory, and I had a bad dose of white play. Yeah,
and I'm about to plant my new ones and there now,
(05:02):
because I was sprouted them a wee while ago, and
and I'm just wondering, is there something I can do
to help make sure that there are no white fly
around and things like that?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Well, the point is yes, that's I and I do
exactly the same thing. I use a material called grow ventive.
Grow ventive. You can make it up almost as you
hear it. That is not something you spray on plants
that are bearing fruit because it's not good for it.
But I reckon it would be, especially if your tunnel
(05:38):
house or your glass house has got a bit of
weeds and other things in there that you don't eat.
For instance, I would suggest you give that a hank now,
simply because you will reduce the amount of those of
those white fly that are hibernating. I know it's only
a few, but it will work. It will work to
keep your numbers down. And then when they do come up,
(06:01):
you'll need to have something else, you know, to literally
keep them on the control. And that could be a
pyrethroid and something like oh what do you call that?
By rhythm for instance, which is something that especially in
a glasshouse, will decay very quickly. It's not toxic for
(06:23):
a long time. It's not actually not terribly toxic to
people at all, but it will basically keep those creatures
under control, especially if you spray the underside of the leaves.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Uhh right, yep, No, it's a conservatory, so anything in
there is in pots. So it can actually move all
those outside for a short while too.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
But you're not hang on, hang on. If you take
them outside and put them inside after spraying, then you
won't have treated the things that are in pots that
are not edible, right do you know what? Do you
know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
So? Yeah, so they would still be hiding.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
In the and the pots and the plants. Yes, those
plants need a treatment that adds well. And it could
be anything you know, Promelias, no, not Promellia's, but something
like that. So as long as it's not something that
you eat or consume or you know, crop, just give
them a goal and you will literally reduce the amount
of whitefly to start with. You can do it two
(07:26):
times a week apart as well, and remember they quite
often sit on the underside of leaves.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Okay, right, thank you very much all the very you.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Take care and a very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Yes, good morning guys. I have a problem with my
lemon tree. I live undern Dowie and every morning I
wake up and another lemon or two have they have
been peeled the skin?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Good eh, I love that for prepeeled lemons. That's hard.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Fine, it is, and they are you pay big money
for that because okay, bib I put out red traps. No, nothing,
not reds No, it's these ones possums.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Well, I don't know that there are possums in the area.
I've never seen them near me.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Do you often go out in the middle of the night.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Well I did last night.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
To say it.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
I thought I've got to catch these things.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I've seen them. It's really cool.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Well, I think it's cool.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yes, it's great. It's really funny because because once, once
they sit in your tree and you suddenly turn up,
they get all all huffy puffy, and they go and
they've run away. But anyway, posta trap right there you go, So.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Where do I get?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Where do I get those gun centers whatever? Yeah, and
the bottom trap at the moment is a really good
thing to sort of bait with a little bit of
apple and and so on. Yeah, and all sorts of
other little bits and pieces. And just have a google,
have a google of how to catch a boss them.
(09:23):
It'll be lovely.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I shall look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
All the very best. You have a great take care.
We'll take a short break, we will chat with Kerry
and just to mo.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Just like that.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
It was a lot of text and I made the
comment about spending time in the workshop to save fifty
eight bucks. Two and a half hours for fifty bucks.
I've got some jobs for you, Pete exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
But then again, it's nice doing things like that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Look, I went out into the workshop and I was
going to do a whole lot of different jobs and
they all required moving in and out, and it was raining.
I I just can't shag. And then I found this
bit of scrap or off cut color steel. Oh that's right.
I was going to make that witch's cap. And then okay,
well that's a little bit. You know, you've got to
think about it and you got to draw it up.
You can make a little template. No, And so I
did it, and I'm bloody stoked to be fair exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Hey, something totally different before we go on next week,
I'm going to be in roder and then TAPO basically
at the school. So that's all. That's all good, and
that's I'm so looking forward to it. It's going to
be great. But on the way back on Friday, I'm
coming back to Rhoderua and I'm going to go to
Wingspan that they'll flight. So I just want to tell
people if they've got any questions for Peter or for me,
(10:34):
come to Wingspan right absolutely and book yourself. Actually, the
Wingspan people don't know it, so don't tell them. Rock coming.
I'm rocking up. Come over to Wingspan this Friday and
I'll be there. It'll be fun because my flight is
not till three o'clock or something.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So from downtown rod to Wingspan is what how long
is the drive? Not long?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Quarter of an hour?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Perfect?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, Bassy to find.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Wingspan ends it at gmail dot com. There you are.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Perfect, all right. There you go and rock up and
have a chat to Carrie. Good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Go for it.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Like I had two lemon trees. One is quite big
and it's in the ground. Never had many lemons on
it at all, So I bought another one and I've
put it in one of those large clusts that containments at.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
The front door.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
And it gets the sun all day, but it's got
leaf curls coiled right up it. I mean it gets rain.
And I've already been there and then not so much
in the winter. But yeah, so the cool the leaves
are cooled right up.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And have you had any fruit on it yet?
Speaker 8 (11:45):
No, but it's got small little buds.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
So okay, there you got. The irony of leaf curl
on citrus is that it is actually a cosmetic disease.
It means it looks rotten, it looks silly, and honestly,
it might decrease your amount of fruit that you get
by about ten or twenty percent. That's it. But if
you do want to get rid of it, just use
(12:07):
a copper spray and do it maybe three times a
couple of weeks apart, and you'll find you can actually
control it that way. But honestly, in terms of your
your your your harvest, I don't think there's any problem
with that really, not noticeably.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
The big one. I'm feeding banana skins and egg shells
and you name it.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
But those trees don't eat eggshells.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
I just put it around so that you know, to
get snails in it. They hate it, apparently.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
No, that's another urban bit. I should we should have
you on for the whole whole whole program, because you
go after urban myth, after urban myth, forget about the eggshells.
That's nonsense. They are the best thing to put in
your compost bin. They are not really giving you a
lot of calcium eid, so that's nonsense as well. And
the other thing is that snails. I have photographs of
(13:02):
snails literally traversing a Stanley knife, brand new ultra sharp
Stanley knife, which is a lot sharper than a couple
of eggshells. All right, okay, so don't worry about don't
worry about the leaf girl. Yes, copper will do it
if you really must, but it's just cosmetic, okay, than.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
All the very best. Can we talk about myths in
if you've got a raised garden bed and you do
a strip of copper wire around the perimeter, will let's
stop slugs and snails from crawling over?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yes, if you put a polar electricity thing on it
from left to right so that when they have to
go over that particular thing, they start frothing so much
and all their their their teeth fall out of their.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Just the copper wire in and of itself, as attractive
as that sound.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
No, no, no, you really need you need a battery
on either end, all right, and maybe maybe only twelve
volds will do it. They don't like that.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Jam talk to me about possums.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Hello Jam Hello, only communications person for the Eastern Bays
Songbird Project and one of the things we do is
eliminate pets, including possams, rap et cetera, from the Eastern
Bays which is the old RK Local Bays Local Board
area in Auckland and watch Glen Dowie as part of
(14:33):
so that lady can just gets in touch with us
and borrow a possum trap. In fact, we even have
a great guy called Edward the Possam Destroyer who will
actually put it in in patrol it for her. He'll
come back and get the possibility catch with it.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
That's lovely. So if Pepper's listening, so tell me. So,
how do they get hold of you?
Speaker 7 (14:57):
Well, we have a we have a website which is
songbird dot org dot m Z because we're about trying
to try to bring a native birds back, but of
course that includes trees and lemon trees eaten by possums.
And we have the possum guy. If she just emails possums,
(15:22):
was that possible possums? I think it's possums. A songbirds
dot org dot.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
In z excellent, Thank you so much, Edwards.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Yes, and he will help her or else look on
the website and everyone else should look on the website
because we have free trap handle which they borrow them.
They don't have to buy them, they borrow them and
then they can return them and that every two weeks
around the Iraqi local Board area we have a handout.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Great.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
So I'm sorry she hasn't know that it's our great
big signs.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
So anyway, thank you, that's wonderful. What is that? What
is that? What is that white stuff that you put
near the possum trip to attract them? What does that
white flower? Each stuff?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
A little bit of apple inside the track something like that. Anyway, No,
thank you, Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
That's brilliant, brilliant, And that website again songbird dot org
dot NZ. And I mean you know this, there are
so many groups now that are going you know, if
no one else is going to do it, we are
is sort of the sense of it, isn't it. So
whether it's this group at Oraki, the Restoring Taharaki people
(16:41):
that I know in Devenport, and we've got the same
as Nigel who cycles round with his little trailer on
the back of his bike delivering rat traps to could
you not probably hundreds of households now across the Devenport
Peninsula have got rat traps.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Isn't that great?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Isn't it?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Isn't that? Isn't that what preda free is all about?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
There you go, and looking at the two e's and
the white eyes that were I was actually I tried
to take a photo yesterday of the tree with all
these like just a for just heaps of white eyes
sitting in there, you know, feasting away and that sort
of thing, and that sort of rejuvenation, let's say, of
the bird life is because we don't have the bloody
(17:20):
rats anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
There you go, you got it, exactly fantastic.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Grant greetings, hey Grant Hire you.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
I just have some teatoki treats that have probably been
known for about twenty years in probably about three meters diameter,
and what time of years best to cut them back?
And you can I cut back to branches of this
known prem lease on sort of thing. I had it.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
The best time to do that was two days ago. Okay, no, no,
I'm not. Your winter is usually a good time. Do
it now as soon as you can. You can actually
trim them, I think to at least a third of
their their load, you know what I mean, So a
third down and a third white and all that, and
(18:12):
also get a little bit out of the inside. Well now,
actually totokey doesn't mind. Just take out what you want,
but go up to a third. You'll be fine. Thank
you very much, weight and welcome success with that. Have
you seen that text about the dichondra lawn? Yes, yes,
(18:33):
I had a trouble with that because dichondra is not
a grass, it's actually a convolvulus, so it belongs to
the convolvulacy. So quite often when you google things, you think,
is that to actually get rid of dichondra in the
lawn or is this to get rid of weeds in
the dichondra? Now I think I've got it sorted. I
think it is the lawn Pro Turf clean from from
(18:56):
my local key we Care group here that is actually
getting the weeds out of a dichondra lawn. But I'm
not one hundred percent sure. So my advice to ever
whoever that was is to ring up Kiwikare and just
check it with them, because there is some misinformation sometimes
on Google. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, no surprises. Also that if we're people are interested
in the song the possum guy, just go to the
song bird dot org dot in z website. I don't
think the emails the right one, so just go to
songbird dot org dot inz. Navigate from there quick one
from you ret conifer trees brown and leaves disappearing, getting petchy.
(19:36):
What can they do?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
There could be all sorts of things, depends on what
conifer it is. There are some cancers and cancers at
the moment, which h y do yah yeah, yeah yah yeah,
thu ya is the one that can get these sort
of things. It could also be too much salt wind.
If you near a coast, it could be too much
wind full stop, and not enough water. It could be
(19:57):
too much water. See, all these things are exactly those symptoms,
and without seeing the tree, it's really hard to diagnose.
Get an arborist in.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, sooner rather than later. Yeah, awesome, Always a pleasure.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Root.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You have a great week and enjoy wingspan. That'll be
awesome on Friday.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Well, yeah, and I enjoyed our pos. It'd be great
going back to the old team. Oh they're doing so.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Great, nice, it's just wonderful, fantastic. Take care, say talk soon,
take care. Thank you very much for your company this morning.
It is always a pleasure. And it's a bit wet
and while and miserable out there, but find something nice
and warm and dry to do today. We'll catch up
with you again next Sunday. My thanks to Hope, my
producer today as well. Have a great week, Take care
of folks.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Hellow game at run Kids.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Red Climb past us in the house. Are in the studio.
Speaker 3 (00:14):
Good morning Root, Good morning Peter. Yes, I'm in the
studio where it was rather we just like you had
all that stuff beautiful.
Speaker 2 (00:23):
We had a christ Church caller earlier on and yes
he updated us is to the all the situation. Yeah
here as well, it was pretty miserable to be.
Speaker 3 (00:32):
I think what we need to do here in CHRISTI
is just not ventilate so much, but actually drill hole
in holes in concrete so that the water goes away.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Oh tell you what, you know that that whole thing
around permeable surfaces and making cities more spongy. Yeah, absolutely,
we need to be doing.
Speaker 3 (00:49):
That, Peter. At the moment, they are building so many
subdivisions in a place that I saw flood at during
the just after the earthquake because or River couldn't cope
with it. I reckon there will be serious troubles with
this growth. It is unbelievable. I have no absolutely no
(01:10):
what do you call it? The I have no idea
what's going to happen, but my goodness, water everywhere.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yeah, Yeah, absolutely right. Let's rip into it because we've
got a whole bunch of people want to chat about
the wonderful world of the garden and Mike, good morning
to you. Morning.
Speaker 3 (01:28):
Hey Mike, what can we do with you? I'm like,
are you okay? You're not getting attacked? Are you?
Speaker 4 (01:37):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:37):
No? Not for a moment. I want to know about apricots,
rather the lack of them. Five trees here that blossom
fultimately every year and if we're lucky, we get one
apricot per tree.
Speaker 3 (01:57):
Wow, that's not much. No, that's not much. Do you
you fertilize the trees? I'm sure a little?
Speaker 5 (02:05):
Yeah, not a lot?
Speaker 3 (02:07):
No, okay. But but this there is quite often the
queue here that in order to get a flower and
to get a fruit after the flower, the the k
of np K, which is the potash, is a really
important nutrient. So what I would do from now on?
And they're probably flowering now.
Speaker 5 (02:27):
Are they just just coming in? The flower?
Speaker 3 (02:30):
Same here? Yeah, mine started over the last week and
I sent Peter a photo of it. Yeah, you flower
and and and then suddenly we're getting this weather. But
never mind, the point. The point is that, yes, to
get it going to keep it going selfate of potash
or general NPK fertilizer with a handful of selfate of
(02:51):
potash added to it to raise that particular growth of
the fruit.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Okay, well, what surprises me, I guess is that we
have almond trees and they flower, or they've been flowering
about three weeks ago, and they they fruit, no problem
at all. Yeah, I wonder if it has something to do,
would trust or whatever.
Speaker 3 (03:15):
Yes, it could be, it could be. But in this case,
it does pay, and it does pay to use a
bit of potash for those fruit trees. Absolutely, it goes
for a lot of different fruit trees for citrus as well.
And the nice thing, for instance, in citrus is that
if you use a litt or a little bit of
potash extra, that the fruit is a lot sweeter.
Speaker 5 (03:35):
Okay, okay, well, I'll keep trying.
Speaker 3 (03:38):
All this good.
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Thank you. Now. Talking about fertilizer, I know we've talked
about it, and it's often me, No, you've got to wait.
You got to wait before you start applying it. So
the carro heade out the front of our place has
put on so much growth in the last two weeks.
It's quite phenomenal. It's awesome, it's beautiful. So obviously the
plants are emerging from their winter dormancy, dormancy and is
(04:05):
now if you see that sort of growth, does that
mean it's okay to add fidilizer or should we still wait?
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Ye?
Speaker 3 (04:10):
But no, no do hand full shells. Usually later on,
I always say wait till September. But in this case,
we've had a pretty mild winter, especially here too. You
might be a couple of weeks early, which is exactly
what you were.
Speaker 2 (04:21):
Okay, all right, but no harm, no, all right, all right, just.
Speaker 3 (04:26):
Chicken in a waste.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
That's why I spent two and a half hours in
my workshop yesterday making a cap that I could have
bought for fifty bucks. But hey, two and a half
hours and it was free. I'm winning. I'm winning.
Speaker 4 (04:42):
Cherry greetings, It's good morning. I grow my tomatoes in
our conservatory, and I had a bad dose of white play. Yeah,
and I'm about to plant my new ones and there now,
(05:02):
because I was sprouted them a wee while ago, and
and I'm just wondering, is there something I can do
to help make sure that there are no white fly
around and things like that?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
Well, the point is yes, that's I and I do
exactly the same thing. I use a material called grow ventive.
Grow ventive. You can make it up almost as you
hear it. That is not something you spray on plants
that are bearing fruit because it's not good for it.
But I reckon it would be, especially if your tunnel
(05:38):
house or your glass house has got a bit of
weeds and other things in there that you don't eat.
For instance, I would suggest you give that a hank now,
simply because you will reduce the amount of those of
those white fly that are hibernating. I know it's only
a few, but it will work. It will work to
keep your numbers down. And then when they do come up,
(06:01):
you'll need to have something else, you know, to literally
keep them on the control. And that could be a
pyrethroid and something like oh what do you call that?
By rhythm for instance, which is something that especially in
a glasshouse, will decay very quickly. It's not toxic for
(06:23):
a long time. It's not actually not terribly toxic to
people at all, but it will basically keep those creatures
under control, especially if you spray the underside of the leaves.
Speaker 4 (06:36):
Uhh right, yep, No, it's a conservatory, so anything in
there is in pots. So it can actually move all
those outside for a short while too.
Speaker 3 (06:45):
But you're not hang on, hang on. If you take
them outside and put them inside after spraying, then you
won't have treated the things that are in pots that
are not edible, right do you know what? Do you
know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (07:00):
So? Yeah, so they would still be hiding.
Speaker 3 (07:04):
In the and the pots and the plants. Yes, those
plants need a treatment that adds well. And it could
be anything you know, Promelias, no, not Promellia's, but something
like that. So as long as it's not something that
you eat or consume or you know, crop, just give
them a goal and you will literally reduce the amount
of whitefly to start with. You can do it two
(07:26):
times a week apart as well, and remember they quite
often sit on the underside of leaves.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Okay, right, thank you very much all the very you.
Speaker 2 (07:37):
Take care and a very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (07:42):
Yes, good morning guys. I have a problem with my
lemon tree. I live undern Dowie and every morning I
wake up and another lemon or two have they have
been peeled the skin?
Speaker 5 (07:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Good eh, I love that for prepeeled lemons. That's hard.
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Fine, it is, and they are you pay big money
for that because okay, bib I put out red traps. No, nothing,
not reds No, it's these ones possums.
Speaker 6 (08:22):
Well, I don't know that there are possums in the area.
I've never seen them near me.
Speaker 3 (08:28):
Do you often go out in the middle of the night.
Speaker 6 (08:31):
Well I did last night.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
To say it.
Speaker 6 (08:36):
I thought I've got to catch these things.
Speaker 3 (08:39):
I've seen them. It's really cool.
Speaker 6 (08:42):
Well, I think it's cool.
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yes, it's great. It's really funny because because once, once
they sit in your tree and you suddenly turn up,
they get all all huffy puffy, and they go and
they've run away. But anyway, posta trap right there you go, So.
Speaker 6 (09:01):
Where do I get?
Speaker 3 (09:02):
Where do I get those gun centers whatever? Yeah, and
the bottom trap at the moment is a really good
thing to sort of bait with a little bit of
apple and and so on. Yeah, and all sorts of
other little bits and pieces. And just have a google,
have a google of how to catch a boss them.
(09:23):
It'll be lovely.
Speaker 7 (09:26):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 6 (09:27):
I shall look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
All the very best. You have a great take care.
We'll take a short break, we will chat with Kerry
and just to mo.
Speaker 3 (09:37):
Just like that.
Speaker 2 (09:39):
It was a lot of text and I made the
comment about spending time in the workshop to save fifty
eight bucks. Two and a half hours for fifty bucks.
I've got some jobs for you, Pete exactly.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
But then again, it's nice doing things like that.
Speaker 2 (09:51):
Look, I went out into the workshop and I was
going to do a whole lot of different jobs and
they all required moving in and out, and it was raining.
I I just can't shag. And then I found this
bit of scrap or off cut color steel. Oh that's right.
I was going to make that witch's cap. And then okay,
well that's a little bit. You know, you've got to
think about it and you got to draw it up.
You can make a little template. No, And so I
did it, and I'm bloody stoked to be fair exactly.
Speaker 3 (10:14):
Hey, something totally different before we go on next week,
I'm going to be in roder and then TAPO basically
at the school. So that's all. That's all good, and
that's I'm so looking forward to it. It's going to
be great. But on the way back on Friday, I'm
coming back to Rhoderua and I'm going to go to
Wingspan that they'll flight. So I just want to tell
people if they've got any questions for Peter or for me,
(10:34):
come to Wingspan right absolutely and book yourself. Actually, the
Wingspan people don't know it, so don't tell them. Rock coming.
I'm rocking up. Come over to Wingspan this Friday and
I'll be there. It'll be fun because my flight is
not till three o'clock or something.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
So from downtown rod to Wingspan is what how long
is the drive? Not long?
Speaker 3 (10:55):
Quarter of an hour?
Speaker 5 (10:56):
Perfect?
Speaker 2 (10:56):
Yeah, Bassy to find.
Speaker 3 (10:59):
Wingspan ends it at gmail dot com. There you are.
Speaker 2 (11:01):
Perfect, all right. There you go and rock up and
have a chat to Carrie. Good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (11:07):
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (11:09):
Go for it.
Speaker 8 (11:10):
Like I had two lemon trees. One is quite big
and it's in the ground. Never had many lemons on
it at all, So I bought another one and I've
put it in one of those large clusts that containments at.
Speaker 7 (11:24):
The front door.
Speaker 8 (11:25):
And it gets the sun all day, but it's got
leaf curls coiled right up it. I mean it gets rain.
And I've already been there and then not so much
in the winter. But yeah, so the cool the leaves
are cooled right up.
Speaker 3 (11:41):
And have you had any fruit on it yet?
Speaker 8 (11:45):
No, but it's got small little buds.
Speaker 3 (11:46):
So okay, there you got. The irony of leaf curl
on citrus is that it is actually a cosmetic disease.
It means it looks rotten, it looks silly, and honestly,
it might decrease your amount of fruit that you get
by about ten or twenty percent. That's it. But if
you do want to get rid of it, just use
(12:07):
a copper spray and do it maybe three times a
couple of weeks apart, and you'll find you can actually
control it that way. But honestly, in terms of your
your your your harvest, I don't think there's any problem
with that really, not noticeably.
Speaker 8 (12:24):
The big one. I'm feeding banana skins and egg shells
and you name it.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
But those trees don't eat eggshells.
Speaker 8 (12:35):
I just put it around so that you know, to
get snails in it. They hate it, apparently.
Speaker 3 (12:40):
No, that's another urban bit. I should we should have
you on for the whole whole whole program, because you
go after urban myth, after urban myth, forget about the eggshells.
That's nonsense. They are the best thing to put in
your compost bin. They are not really giving you a
lot of calcium eid, so that's nonsense as well. And
the other thing is that snails. I have photographs of
(13:02):
snails literally traversing a Stanley knife, brand new ultra sharp
Stanley knife, which is a lot sharper than a couple
of eggshells. All right, okay, so don't worry about don't
worry about the leaf girl. Yes, copper will do it
if you really must, but it's just cosmetic, okay, than.
Speaker 2 (13:26):
All the very best. Can we talk about myths in
if you've got a raised garden bed and you do
a strip of copper wire around the perimeter, will let's
stop slugs and snails from crawling over?
Speaker 3 (13:36):
Yes, if you put a polar electricity thing on it
from left to right so that when they have to
go over that particular thing, they start frothing so much
and all their their their teeth fall out of their.
Speaker 2 (13:51):
Just the copper wire in and of itself, as attractive
as that sound.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
No, no, no, you really need you need a battery
on either end, all right, and maybe maybe only twelve
volds will do it. They don't like that.
Speaker 2 (14:07):
Jam talk to me about possums.
Speaker 7 (14:09):
Hello Jam Hello, only communications person for the Eastern Bays
Songbird Project and one of the things we do is
eliminate pets, including possams, rap et cetera, from the Eastern
Bays which is the old RK Local Bays Local Board
area in Auckland and watch Glen Dowie as part of
(14:33):
so that lady can just gets in touch with us
and borrow a possum trap. In fact, we even have
a great guy called Edward the Possam Destroyer who will
actually put it in in patrol it for her. He'll
come back and get the possibility catch with it.
Speaker 3 (14:51):
That's lovely. So if Pepper's listening, so tell me. So,
how do they get hold of you?
Speaker 7 (14:57):
Well, we have a we have a website which is
songbird dot org dot m Z because we're about trying
to try to bring a native birds back, but of
course that includes trees and lemon trees eaten by possums.
And we have the possum guy. If she just emails possums,
(15:22):
was that possible possums? I think it's possums. A songbirds
dot org dot.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
In z excellent, Thank you so much, Edwards.
Speaker 7 (15:31):
Yes, and he will help her or else look on
the website and everyone else should look on the website
because we have free trap handle which they borrow them.
They don't have to buy them, they borrow them and
then they can return them and that every two weeks
around the Iraqi local Board area we have a handout.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
Great.
Speaker 7 (15:51):
So I'm sorry she hasn't know that it's our great
big signs.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
So anyway, thank you, that's wonderful. What is that? What
is that? What is that white stuff that you put
near the possum trip to attract them? What does that
white flower? Each stuff?
Speaker 7 (16:11):
A little bit of apple inside the track something like that. Anyway, No,
thank you, Okay.
Speaker 2 (16:20):
That's brilliant, brilliant, And that website again songbird dot org
dot NZ. And I mean you know this, there are
so many groups now that are going you know, if
no one else is going to do it, we are
is sort of the sense of it, isn't it. So
whether it's this group at Oraki, the Restoring Taharaki people
(16:41):
that I know in Devenport, and we've got the same
as Nigel who cycles round with his little trailer on
the back of his bike delivering rat traps to could
you not probably hundreds of households now across the Devenport
Peninsula have got rat traps.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Isn't that great?
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Isn't it?
Speaker 3 (16:57):
Isn't that? Isn't that what preda free is all about?
Speaker 2 (17:00):
There you go, and looking at the two e's and
the white eyes that were I was actually I tried
to take a photo yesterday of the tree with all
these like just a for just heaps of white eyes
sitting in there, you know, feasting away and that sort
of thing, and that sort of rejuvenation, let's say, of
the bird life is because we don't have the bloody
(17:20):
rats anymore.
Speaker 3 (17:21):
There you go, you got it, exactly fantastic.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Grant greetings, hey Grant Hire you.
Speaker 9 (17:33):
I just have some teatoki treats that have probably been
known for about twenty years in probably about three meters diameter,
and what time of years best to cut them back?
And you can I cut back to branches of this
known prem lease on sort of thing. I had it.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
The best time to do that was two days ago. Okay, no, no,
I'm not. Your winter is usually a good time. Do
it now as soon as you can. You can actually
trim them, I think to at least a third of
their their load, you know what I mean, So a
third down and a third white and all that, and
(18:12):
also get a little bit out of the inside. Well now,
actually totokey doesn't mind. Just take out what you want,
but go up to a third. You'll be fine. Thank
you very much, weight and welcome success with that. Have
you seen that text about the dichondra lawn? Yes, yes,
(18:33):
I had a trouble with that because dichondra is not
a grass, it's actually a convolvulus, so it belongs to
the convolvulacy. So quite often when you google things, you think,
is that to actually get rid of dichondra in the
lawn or is this to get rid of weeds in
the dichondra? Now I think I've got it sorted. I
think it is the lawn Pro Turf clean from from
(18:56):
my local key we Care group here that is actually
getting the weeds out of a dichondra lawn. But I'm
not one hundred percent sure. So my advice to ever
whoever that was is to ring up Kiwikare and just
check it with them, because there is some misinformation sometimes
on Google. You know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (19:15):
Yeah, no surprises. Also that if we're people are interested
in the song the possum guy, just go to the
song bird dot org dot in z website. I don't
think the emails the right one, so just go to
songbird dot org dot inz. Navigate from there quick one
from you ret conifer trees brown and leaves disappearing, getting petchy.
(19:36):
What can they do?
Speaker 3 (19:37):
There could be all sorts of things, depends on what
conifer it is. There are some cancers and cancers at
the moment, which h y do yah yeah, yeah yah yeah,
thu ya is the one that can get these sort
of things. It could also be too much salt wind.
If you near a coast, it could be too much
wind full stop, and not enough water. It could be
(19:57):
too much water. See, all these things are exactly those symptoms,
and without seeing the tree, it's really hard to diagnose.
Get an arborist in.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Yeah, sooner rather than later. Yeah, awesome, Always a pleasure.
Speaker 5 (20:10):
Root.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
You have a great week and enjoy wingspan. That'll be
awesome on Friday.
Speaker 3 (20:14):
Well, yeah, and I enjoyed our pos. It'd be great
going back to the old team. Oh they're doing so.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
Great, nice, it's just wonderful, fantastic. Take care, say talk soon,
take care. Thank you very much for your company this morning.
It is always a pleasure. And it's a bit wet
and while and miserable out there, but find something nice
and warm and dry to do today. We'll catch up
with you again next Sunday. My thanks to Hope, my
producer today as well. Have a great week, Take care
of folks.
Speaker 3 (20:40):
Hellow game at run Kids.
Speaker 1 (20:49):
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