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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resonant Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks B.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good morning, we climb passed. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'm good, by the way. When you're talking about relaxing, yes,
I think lawn mowing, new strawberry planting. Wait and forget
the tunnel house, which really needs a bit more clear stuff.
I've got to sew my tomato seeds, so I've got
the ringking seeds. So what have you got new? I've
got to go and mix new top soil and compost
from a tunnelhouse because now I know why it's going
(00:39):
a bit slow. So I think instead of making too
much compost, Actually I've just learned something.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
What have you know everything already?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
No, I don't linking know everything. I make crap mistakes everywhere,
as you well know. But I just realized that when
you've got a tunnel house, you can't just keep on
putting composts on. You need soil in there too. That
gives you the structure of the soil. And now I
know why everything was drying out so quickly because that
wasn't enough. So I'm going to eighty percent soil for
(01:08):
soil and twenty percent compost boom. That's me. So all
that sort of stuff is happening. And after apart from that,
I was in in.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
The oh in Wingspan.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Our wingspan was wonderful. Good. That was just wonderful and
it was lovely to see you. To see Claudia there
and all the other which has a lot of people
I knew there was fabulous. And and oh you know what,
we got some new new grow new flyers there as well,
new what I called them falconers if you like. Yes, great,
and they've trained the falcons to go after this drone.
(01:43):
I still think it's one of the most it's one
of the most amazing things you can see at Wingspan,
the falcon hitting a drone out of the air by
surfing it down. I think it's the best way to
describe it. Yeah. Great.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Now can I ask just someone who might be listening,
do they have els at Wingspan as well?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Absolutely? They have more box knox is there, and they
have baran owls and the banal. As you may know, Peter,
we've talked about it is the latest New Zealand native
bird of prey. It got here by itself about two
thousand and eight. Flu to Kaititire a pair started breeding
(02:22):
in a hollow tree and basically we now estimate there
must be at least five hundred maybe eight hundred barin
owls in New Zealand, going all the way through Northland, Auckland,
Waiketto mostly but also further south. And we've even seen
one or two here in christ.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And according to a post that I saw, and I
was very excited about this one sitting in a tree
on Ponsone Road.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
That's right, and that was what the thing was about
with the box. Yeah, and you know what barn owls
do too. This is something that if you're a bit screamership,
just avert your eyes. But imagine feeding a banal or
dead owl that bar now will completely swallow the whole
owl in ten.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Secs old now or a mice mouse they're not eating
their own, Yes, they're eating.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Mice and they leave it. They leave quite often the
tails speaking.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh fabulous. Right now, I've got your design for a
barn ol box and maybe I'm going to commit and
go this week I'll make one and then i'll put
up some pictures of it. Yes, I will do that
this week. Yeah, all that kind of stuff. So I'll
(03:37):
do it and people can find out because I have
had a number of questions about it. So I'll get
one done this week, I promise, and then on the
first day of September, which we all know is not
the first day of spring, I will We can talk
about it. There you go, right, let's rip into a
couple of callers. Catherine, good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Good morning, guys. I've got a problem for a client
of mine. I'm a support worker, and one of my
clients said, what can I do about all the ants
coming into my kitchen?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
First of all, what you need to do. You've got
to stop feeding them, right, you know, when you spill
some spaghetti bolonnaise behind the stove, the ants will come
in and say, look, oh so oh nice, Look, don't
worry about a thing. I'll clean this up for you
real quick. And they come and they make these little
(04:28):
trails and they literally get rid of all this junk
that is there. And it could be sweet stuff, it
could be protein stuff, it could be sources, it could
be anything. So that's number one. If that doesn't really
you know, if they also go into places like inside
your walls and in your ceilings and all that sort
of stuff, sometimes it pays to actually have a good
(04:51):
if you like bait for ants. Ants love either sweet
or protein baits, and they take that back to the nest.
They feed it to the queen, and in the bait
is a poison that will but literally knock out the
queen and all the others that are in that bait. Right,
So a good end bait will do it. I think
(05:11):
that there's a good end bait from wed and Forget
that works really well. There's all sorts of different baits.
Go and knock yourself out and try it. And here's
the most important thing to remember that it might not
be one colony of ents that goes into your house,
but different colonies, and they have different territories, so the
baits have to be distributed over various territories, say two
(05:34):
or three or four meters apart, and that is your
best tactic to get rid of them.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Great, I will tell her about that. I care you
guys are doing a wonderful job. Sake for your help.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Bye, lovely talk, you have a great day, and Joe
a very good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Good morning, guys. I've got some bulbs that I purchased
from the supermarkets and I was wondering, can I because
can you do drive them out and put them in
(06:13):
the next year that type of thing you've.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Just have, you just bought them? Yeah? What what? What
that develops? Uh?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
There is a Oh mom would grow me a flowery one.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Mobile growner grown at me. My mom would do exactly
the same thing, you silly bugger. Don't you know that's
a narcissus or that's a crocus or whatever.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Yeah, it's basically like some sort of onion, the bulb itself,
and then I've got a miniature for the cats of society.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But narcissus. That's a niccissus week, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Yeah, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Look plant them. Plant them anyway, even if you've got
it wrong, if you've got the wrong time for planting,
you will find that those bulbs are usually quite resilient
and they will actually go back into their normal, if
you like system, their normal system of flowering and growing
and getting leaves and all that, even if you go
(07:31):
the wrong time. Now, so do not feel too awful
about that. Plant them now. If you're not one hundred
percent sure what they are right now, it's a good
time to do it.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
A really flower and they seem to Yeah, you buy them.
They're not gorgeous and valla, you know. So I'm like,
I'm sure I can revive or keep or maintain them
for maybe in a special little pot.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
You think I were put them into soil.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yeah, yeah, put.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Them in the soil. Do it now, and maybe only
as a half the you know the depth of the
bulb itself, if you like, you know what I mean. Yeah,
have a go, Thank you, good luck, you take care.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
By then, I think you've you've you've made people a
bit concerned. So text message from Andy. Do barn owls
prey on more pork?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
No they don't know, they don't.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Between the owl varieties.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
No, it was no better at all because because what
barns eat is mice and rats and introduced finches things
like that. So that's what we found was their most
common bird that they would eat, you know, cheffinches and
things like that. Yeah, absolutely, sparrows. And that's that's okay,
that's actually, let's fine. They're going for the not so
(08:57):
native creatures.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Awesome, okay, Hey Paul, good morning to you. Hello, Paul,
it's a.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Good morning the general.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Good after morning people, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Good afternoon. Good yeah, good morning. I had a little
byside pet. I knew your found. He's one of the
good guys.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Thank you, mate, that's much appreciate.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
I've got some rubat plants and they've got I've dug
a hole, put some sheep menu in the bottom of
sheep pelots in by fertilize them every now and then.
And I've got great green leaves but very short stems.
Oh yeah, the leaves are actually bigger than the stems,
and they're not brilliantly green.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
What did you furtilize you with? If I may ask, Paul,
I used.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Some liquid seaweed fertilizers. Occasionally. I put some sheep cults
around them occasionally.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, it should be fine. I can't believe that.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
All the plants are brilliant.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Okay, tell me in the sun. Are they in shady
conditions or shunny conditions?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Half and half one sort of gets once impact on
gether that sort of Uh. One one gets in the
at and some the other one gets through the most
of the day and the other one. One of them
actually went to seed the other day. And it's a gander. Yes, Bob,
will that come back?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, there will be. I'm sure it will be. That's
that that has been flowering, of course some time ago,
and now the seeds are coming up. There's are quite
quite lovely flowers, aren't they. But tell me the flower
must be longer than your leave.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Surely then didn't get that tip because my wife said
I was going to see you chopped it off?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Okay, all right, fair enough? What the heck? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
What what would I put them in a like a
tube and I hope they should have grown long to
the sun.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
No, I wouldn't do that, No, I wouldn't. Just what
I would do is get get some I would get
some general fertilizer like nitroposca blue, nitro fosca blue. Get
a little bit of that and a little bit of
what do you call that trace elements. Those are two
things you can get at shops. The trace elements will
(11:12):
might be because you have to do a soil test
to find out what it needs for it or what
it lacks, you know what I mean. But without doing that,
you could buy some simply general fertilizer. And as I said,
nitro Fosca blue is good, which basically goes after every
rain it soaks back into the soil. Into the root
zone and the trace elements will probably balance you if
(11:33):
you miss some trace elements like copper or zinc or
things like that, and then you might find that the
plant will grow taller, taller. Stems might not doing that
sometimes and if I gave it trace elements, they go oh, yep,
sorry they did it. Boom and they go larger.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
They do Okay, thank you, jentleman. I'll try that more.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Welcome to just before the break root. Quick question Anthony
engineer here can you ask for it? What's the best
tool to cut or trim flax? I have some seriously
large flax by the house that need a haircut.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
How that very easy? There is in most guns centers
you will get a Japanese night that is that is
sickle shaped and has the and has really fine ultra
sharp teeth. You hold the flex by, you know, one
of the flex things by itself, and he goes hip
and it's gone. Literally it's like wa wa, And it's
(12:29):
just exactly what I have to do tomorrow before my
guys come from advanced three services, get the flex out
of the way so they can climb the trees. And
that it is really a piece of cake. You would
love that thing. I've forgotten the Japanese name of the thing,
but you'll, you'll, they'll have it. I'm sure they'll have
it in any shopping center.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Now, Yeah, I think it'll come to me as well.
We'll go to the break, both of us can think.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah, I'm going to look it up, right, we'll.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Be back after the break. Turn the microphone on.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Have you got Have you got the name of that
that sickle? No, you do. It's called knee Washy, Washy
Washy or maru Yoshi. There's two different types, and they're
like chicos literally, and they're available are see online everywhere. Yeah,
I want to forget the name made.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But it's got teeth on it. It's not just a
straight slaid god.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
No, it's got very fine teeth and a sharp ass.
I know because I can look at my fingers now
and it's a little bit like what happened when the
two we got me last last week. Anyway, long story.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Brilliant, right, Donna, A very good morning.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
To you, Good morning pea, good morning route. I live
in Christitch, Hi.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Yeah, our look of it beautiful with a beautiful with
it lately I've got three three little things, but I
just want to know my I've got a definitely that's
in a pot. It's been in a pot for probably
about three four years, and and it's it's very it's
all sort of sleeves. A second, I've given lots of
food and stuff. I just don't know if I can
(14:05):
revive it or I should just replace it.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Tell me where is the pot inside? Outside?
Speaker 7 (14:12):
No, it's outside. It's outside in a nice sheltered area.
So like it's it's loved it up until the sheer.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Do you think the roots the roots are a little
bit what if you're like tight in that pot.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
It's a big pot. It's probably a pot so out
about like about to be about uh half the size
of a barrel, you know, like that, it's quite a
big it's quite a big part. Too much water, yeah,
one of us is too much water. Not enough water.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Is the way to kill it. Too much is the
way to kill it. Definitely is not one of those
things that likes to be dread drenched the whole time.
I think should just replace it. Yeah, replace it and
make sure that you can ex you control the amount
of water that that goes that goes in there, you
know what I mean, under eaves and things like that.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
I've got a I've got a knick drink tree that's
for the last four years old, the last three years.
If a year it has brown rot the day they
come to life to peck them. I've spread it with
copper the last three times over winter and then not copper, uh,
conquer oil. And I've just done a copper and I
(15:35):
wanted if to do a fungus fighter.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I was just going to say.
If it is a brown rot, that's a fungal disorder,
is no point put in conquer oil in this for insects.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Just coming into blossom, just coming into the blossom. Now
do I wait until all those flowers and all and off?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Do it? No, do it no, because you want to
actually if you if you use some fungus fighter for instance,
that is quite it's a little bit residual, and that
will cover the plant from infection from now on. That's
so you're actually doing a preventative job.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
Okay, Okay, So I just thought I've got the apricot
right next door to that doesn't have that. So I
just got my shore. I don't touch the apricot.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Different is going to matter, no different thing apricot. But
if you think that you don't have any diseases on apricot, do.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
You, No, I haven't ready disease. And that they're just
not very sweet. They're just they're just they're just like
frozen water though. There's just no there's no flavor to
my apricot.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Okay, here's a sweet tip sulfate of pots.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Yeah, a little bit of there were.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well just once uh after flowering if you like, okay, yeah,
when the fruit is starting to develop, go on.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Okay. And then the last quick thing. I put a
whole lot of bags of chicken manure from rotary yesterday
and christ it what plants don't like it?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
All of them?
Speaker 7 (17:02):
They all like it, or they don't.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Know, they all don't like it. What you need to
do with the chicken when you it's so strong that
you need to take it through a compost cycle. Okay,
that's the whole thing. Don't because honestly you get not
only will you get tears in your eyes, but so
will the plants. It's so strong, that stuff, it's so
full of of.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
A whole lot of hanging bascus on my dar, right, beans,
they got nothing? You don't ready to put them nice
plowers in for for our spring. So I put it
in near with the mixed up with the soil in dear,
and save it for a couple of weeks until I
put my plants on.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yes you can, but only minute amounts. Please put it
through a compost cycle. You're much better off put it
in a compost. Other stuff fine with soil and organic
material and leaves and everything that can be composted.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
What sort of ratio stuff?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I would say, Uh, look, don't My thing is not
too much. Let's put it that way. Depends on how
big your compost thing is. But if you instance one
of those tumbles, is that you have to turn around
best one.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh, I love them. I know that you mock me
for my compost, but I think.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I'm not mocking anything. But what I would do is
I would put only a good spadeful of that in
the tumblr.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
That's all right, don't go too far, brilliant, that's donner. Yeah, no,
I like it. But you've got to get the balance
right eh.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah, that's the point.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
The other day it was no more grass clippings because
it's getting a bit mushy, so lots of leaves in there.
I spent all the stuff that I took off the
plum tree and prune the other day, chop that up
into small pieces that'll go in there. Actually it's looking
quite nice at the moment. I'm quite surprised at my
new brew. And you know how sometimes in those sorts
(19:01):
of enclosed bins it does get mushy. But mine's nice
and light and loamy.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
And that is because the ratio of nitrogen, your mushy stuff,
the green thing, and the carbon, which is the little
things that you chipped up, it should be about seventy
percent carbon and thirty percent green stuff. Now that's that
is that is totally unexpected, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I'm just a little bit excited about all of the
new growth in the garden and keen to get a
hit of the whole fertilizer thing. Can I get going
with my fertilizer?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Absolutely awesome? Why not? All right? You could start from
now on. This is the time to do it.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
So I'm really wanting to look after the plum tree.
What could I put around the plum tree?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
General fertilizer with a little bit of potsh extra all right,
look because it's flowering.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Ever go yeah, no, it's looking lovely. A it's a
great time of year. It's nice, it really is. Right,
let's talk on the first day of September, which is
let's do that for a change, all right, let's do that.
Take care of all the best of your work. Thanks you, hey,
and folks, thanks for tuning into the show. Because my
boss rang me and said, hey, you're number one, So
thank you very much for that. And that's all because
(20:10):
of you.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Good morning, we climb passed. How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:16):
I'm good, by the way. When you're talking about relaxing, yes,
I think lawn mowing, new strawberry planting. Wait and forget
the tunnel house, which really needs a bit more clear stuff.
I've got to sew my tomato seeds, so I've got
the ringking seeds. So what have you got new? I've
got to go and mix new top soil and compost
from a tunnelhouse because now I know why it's going
(00:39):
a bit slow. So I think instead of making too
much compost, Actually I've just learned something.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
What have you know everything already?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
No, I don't linking know everything. I make crap mistakes everywhere,
as you well know. But I just realized that when
you've got a tunnel house, you can't just keep on
putting composts on. You need soil in there too. That
gives you the structure of the soil. And now I
know why everything was drying out so quickly because that
wasn't enough. So I'm going to eighty percent soil for
(01:08):
soil and twenty percent compost boom. That's me. So all
that sort of stuff is happening. And after apart from that,
I was in in.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
The oh in Wingspan.
Speaker 3 (01:21):
Our wingspan was wonderful. Good. That was just wonderful and
it was lovely to see you. To see Claudia there
and all the other which has a lot of people
I knew there was fabulous. And and oh you know what,
we got some new new grow new flyers there as well,
new what I called them falconers if you like. Yes, great,
and they've trained the falcons to go after this drone.
(01:43):
I still think it's one of the most it's one
of the most amazing things you can see at Wingspan,
the falcon hitting a drone out of the air by
surfing it down. I think it's the best way to
describe it. Yeah. Great.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Now can I ask just someone who might be listening,
do they have els at Wingspan as well?
Speaker 3 (02:01):
Absolutely? They have more box knox is there, and they
have baran owls and the banal. As you may know, Peter,
we've talked about it is the latest New Zealand native
bird of prey. It got here by itself about two
thousand and eight. Flu to Kaititire a pair started breeding
(02:22):
in a hollow tree and basically we now estimate there
must be at least five hundred maybe eight hundred barin
owls in New Zealand, going all the way through Northland, Auckland,
Waiketto mostly but also further south. And we've even seen
one or two here in christ.
Speaker 2 (02:40):
And according to a post that I saw, and I
was very excited about this one sitting in a tree
on Ponsone Road.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
That's right, and that was what the thing was about
with the box. Yeah, and you know what barn owls
do too. This is something that if you're a bit screamership,
just avert your eyes. But imagine feeding a banal or
dead owl that bar now will completely swallow the whole
owl in ten.
Speaker 2 (03:05):
Secs old now or a mice mouse they're not eating
their own, Yes, they're eating.
Speaker 3 (03:12):
Mice and they leave it. They leave quite often the
tails speaking.
Speaker 2 (03:16):
Oh fabulous. Right now, I've got your design for a
barn ol box and maybe I'm going to commit and
go this week I'll make one and then i'll put
up some pictures of it. Yes, I will do that
this week. Yeah, all that kind of stuff. So I'll
(03:37):
do it and people can find out because I have
had a number of questions about it. So I'll get
one done this week, I promise, and then on the
first day of September, which we all know is not
the first day of spring, I will We can talk
about it. There you go, right, let's rip into a
couple of callers. Catherine, good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
Good morning, guys. I've got a problem for a client
of mine. I'm a support worker, and one of my
clients said, what can I do about all the ants
coming into my kitchen?
Speaker 3 (04:06):
First of all, what you need to do. You've got
to stop feeding them, right, you know, when you spill
some spaghetti bolonnaise behind the stove, the ants will come
in and say, look, oh so oh nice, Look, don't
worry about a thing. I'll clean this up for you
real quick. And they come and they make these little
(04:28):
trails and they literally get rid of all this junk
that is there. And it could be sweet stuff, it
could be protein stuff, it could be sources, it could
be anything. So that's number one. If that doesn't really
you know, if they also go into places like inside
your walls and in your ceilings and all that sort
of stuff, sometimes it pays to actually have a good
(04:51):
if you like bait for ants. Ants love either sweet
or protein baits, and they take that back to the nest.
They feed it to the queen, and in the bait
is a poison that will but literally knock out the
queen and all the others that are in that bait. Right,
So a good end bait will do it. I think
(05:11):
that there's a good end bait from wed and Forget
that works really well. There's all sorts of different baits.
Go and knock yourself out and try it. And here's
the most important thing to remember that it might not
be one colony of ents that goes into your house,
but different colonies, and they have different territories, so the
baits have to be distributed over various territories, say two
(05:34):
or three or four meters apart, and that is your
best tactic to get rid of them.
Speaker 4 (05:40):
Great, I will tell her about that. I care you
guys are doing a wonderful job. Sake for your help.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Bye, lovely talk, you have a great day, and Joe
a very good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (05:53):
Good morning, guys. I've got some bulbs that I purchased
from the supermarkets and I was wondering, can I because
can you do drive them out and put them in
(06:13):
the next year that type of thing you've.
Speaker 3 (06:16):
Just have, you just bought them? Yeah? What what? What
that develops? Uh?
Speaker 5 (06:24):
There is a Oh mom would grow me a flowery one.
Speaker 3 (06:37):
Mobile growner grown at me. My mom would do exactly
the same thing, you silly bugger. Don't you know that's
a narcissus or that's a crocus or whatever.
Speaker 5 (06:48):
Yeah, it's basically like some sort of onion, the bulb itself,
and then I've got a miniature for the cats of society.
Speaker 3 (07:02):
But narcissus. That's a niccissus week, isn't it.
Speaker 5 (07:06):
Yeah, I wouldn't.
Speaker 3 (07:09):
Look plant them. Plant them anyway, even if you've got
it wrong, if you've got the wrong time for planting,
you will find that those bulbs are usually quite resilient
and they will actually go back into their normal, if
you like system, their normal system of flowering and growing
and getting leaves and all that, even if you go
(07:31):
the wrong time. Now, so do not feel too awful
about that. Plant them now. If you're not one hundred
percent sure what they are right now, it's a good
time to do it.
Speaker 5 (07:43):
A really flower and they seem to Yeah, you buy them.
They're not gorgeous and valla, you know. So I'm like,
I'm sure I can revive or keep or maintain them
for maybe in a special little pot.
Speaker 3 (08:04):
You think I were put them into soil.
Speaker 5 (08:09):
Yeah, yeah, put.
Speaker 3 (08:10):
Them in the soil. Do it now, and maybe only
as a half the you know the depth of the
bulb itself, if you like, you know what I mean. Yeah,
have a go, Thank you, good luck, you take care.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
By then, I think you've you've you've made people a
bit concerned. So text message from Andy. Do barn owls
prey on more pork?
Speaker 3 (08:32):
No they don't know, they don't.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Between the owl varieties.
Speaker 3 (08:37):
No, it was no better at all because because what
barns eat is mice and rats and introduced finches things
like that. So that's what we found was their most
common bird that they would eat, you know, cheffinches and
things like that. Yeah, absolutely, sparrows. And that's that's okay,
that's actually, let's fine. They're going for the not so
(08:57):
native creatures.
Speaker 2 (08:59):
Awesome, okay, Hey Paul, good morning to you. Hello, Paul,
it's a.
Speaker 6 (09:05):
Good morning the general.
Speaker 3 (09:06):
Good after morning people, Yeah.
Speaker 6 (09:09):
Good afternoon. Good yeah, good morning. I had a little
byside pet. I knew your found. He's one of the
good guys.
Speaker 2 (09:15):
Thank you, mate, that's much appreciate.
Speaker 4 (09:17):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (09:18):
I've got some rubat plants and they've got I've dug
a hole, put some sheep menu in the bottom of
sheep pelots in by fertilize them every now and then.
And I've got great green leaves but very short stems.
Oh yeah, the leaves are actually bigger than the stems,
and they're not brilliantly green.
Speaker 3 (09:40):
What did you furtilize you with? If I may ask, Paul,
I used.
Speaker 6 (09:46):
Some liquid seaweed fertilizers. Occasionally. I put some sheep cults
around them occasionally.
Speaker 3 (09:51):
Yeah, it should be fine. I can't believe that.
Speaker 6 (09:55):
All the plants are brilliant.
Speaker 3 (09:57):
Okay, tell me in the sun. Are they in shady
conditions or shunny conditions?
Speaker 6 (10:02):
Half and half one sort of gets once impact on
gether that sort of Uh. One one gets in the
at and some the other one gets through the most
of the day and the other one. One of them
actually went to seed the other day. And it's a gander. Yes, Bob,
will that come back?
Speaker 3 (10:21):
Yeah, there will be. I'm sure it will be. That's
that that has been flowering, of course some time ago,
and now the seeds are coming up. There's are quite
quite lovely flowers, aren't they. But tell me the flower
must be longer than your leave.
Speaker 6 (10:33):
Surely then didn't get that tip because my wife said
I was going to see you chopped it off?
Speaker 3 (10:40):
Okay, all right, fair enough? What the heck? Yeah? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (10:44):
What what would I put them in a like a
tube and I hope they should have grown long to
the sun.
Speaker 3 (10:50):
No, I wouldn't do that, No, I wouldn't. Just what
I would do is get get some I would get
some general fertilizer like nitroposca blue, nitro fosca blue. Get
a little bit of that and a little bit of
what do you call that trace elements. Those are two
things you can get at shops. The trace elements will
(11:12):
might be because you have to do a soil test
to find out what it needs for it or what
it lacks, you know what I mean. But without doing that,
you could buy some simply general fertilizer. And as I said,
nitro Fosca blue is good, which basically goes after every
rain it soaks back into the soil. Into the root
zone and the trace elements will probably balance you if
(11:33):
you miss some trace elements like copper or zinc or
things like that, and then you might find that the
plant will grow taller, taller. Stems might not doing that
sometimes and if I gave it trace elements, they go oh, yep,
sorry they did it. Boom and they go larger.
Speaker 6 (11:50):
They do Okay, thank you, jentleman. I'll try that more.
Speaker 2 (11:54):
Welcome to just before the break root. Quick question Anthony
engineer here can you ask for it? What's the best
tool to cut or trim flax? I have some seriously
large flax by the house that need a haircut.
Speaker 3 (12:06):
How that very easy? There is in most guns centers
you will get a Japanese night that is that is
sickle shaped and has the and has really fine ultra
sharp teeth. You hold the flex by, you know, one
of the flex things by itself, and he goes hip
and it's gone. Literally it's like wa wa, And it's
(12:29):
just exactly what I have to do tomorrow before my
guys come from advanced three services, get the flex out
of the way so they can climb the trees. And
that it is really a piece of cake. You would
love that thing. I've forgotten the Japanese name of the thing,
but you'll, you'll, they'll have it. I'm sure they'll have
it in any shopping center.
Speaker 2 (12:50):
Now, Yeah, I think it'll come to me as well.
We'll go to the break, both of us can think.
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Yeah, I'm going to look it up, right, we'll.
Speaker 2 (12:57):
Be back after the break. Turn the microphone on.
Speaker 3 (13:01):
Have you got Have you got the name of that
that sickle? No, you do. It's called knee Washy, Washy
Washy or maru Yoshi. There's two different types, and they're
like chicos literally, and they're available are see online everywhere. Yeah,
I want to forget the name made.
Speaker 2 (13:18):
But it's got teeth on it. It's not just a
straight slaid god.
Speaker 3 (13:22):
No, it's got very fine teeth and a sharp ass.
I know because I can look at my fingers now
and it's a little bit like what happened when the
two we got me last last week. Anyway, long story.
Speaker 2 (13:33):
Brilliant, right, Donna, A very good morning.
Speaker 7 (13:35):
To you, Good morning pea, good morning route. I live
in Christitch, Hi.
Speaker 3 (13:41):
I'm sorry to hear that.
Speaker 7 (13:43):
Yeah, our look of it beautiful with a beautiful with
it lately I've got three three little things, but I
just want to know my I've got a definitely that's
in a pot. It's been in a pot for probably
about three four years, and and it's it's very it's
all sort of sleeves. A second, I've given lots of
food and stuff. I just don't know if I can
(14:05):
revive it or I should just replace it.
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Tell me where is the pot inside? Outside?
Speaker 7 (14:12):
No, it's outside. It's outside in a nice sheltered area.
So like it's it's loved it up until the sheer.
Speaker 3 (14:21):
Do you think the roots the roots are a little
bit what if you're like tight in that pot.
Speaker 7 (14:28):
It's a big pot. It's probably a pot so out
about like about to be about uh half the size
of a barrel, you know, like that, it's quite a
big it's quite a big part. Too much water, yeah,
one of us is too much water. Not enough water.
Speaker 3 (14:53):
Is the way to kill it. Too much is the
way to kill it. Definitely is not one of those
things that likes to be dread drenched the whole time.
I think should just replace it. Yeah, replace it and
make sure that you can ex you control the amount
of water that that goes that goes in there, you
know what I mean, under eaves and things like that.
Speaker 7 (15:13):
I've got a I've got a knick drink tree that's
for the last four years old, the last three years.
If a year it has brown rot the day they
come to life to peck them. I've spread it with
copper the last three times over winter and then not copper, uh,
conquer oil. And I've just done a copper and I
(15:35):
wanted if to do a fungus fighter.
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Yeah, yeah, that's what I was just going to say.
If it is a brown rot, that's a fungal disorder,
is no point put in conquer oil in this for insects.
Speaker 7 (15:47):
Just coming into blossom, just coming into the blossom. Now
do I wait until all those flowers and all and off?
Speaker 4 (15:53):
No?
Speaker 3 (15:54):
Do it? No, do it no, because you want to
actually if you if you use some fungus fighter for instance,
that is quite it's a little bit residual, and that
will cover the plant from infection from now on. That's
so you're actually doing a preventative job.
Speaker 7 (16:10):
Okay, Okay, So I just thought I've got the apricot
right next door to that doesn't have that. So I
just got my shore. I don't touch the apricot.
Speaker 3 (16:17):
Different is going to matter, no different thing apricot. But
if you think that you don't have any diseases on apricot, do.
Speaker 7 (16:24):
You, No, I haven't ready disease. And that they're just
not very sweet. They're just they're just they're just like
frozen water though. There's just no there's no flavor to
my apricot.
Speaker 3 (16:33):
Okay, here's a sweet tip sulfate of pots.
Speaker 7 (16:38):
Yeah, a little bit of there were.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Well just once uh after flowering if you like, okay, yeah,
when the fruit is starting to develop, go on.
Speaker 7 (16:51):
Okay. And then the last quick thing. I put a
whole lot of bags of chicken manure from rotary yesterday
and christ it what plants don't like it?
Speaker 3 (17:00):
All of them?
Speaker 7 (17:02):
They all like it, or they don't.
Speaker 3 (17:03):
Know, they all don't like it. What you need to
do with the chicken when you it's so strong that
you need to take it through a compost cycle. Okay,
that's the whole thing. Don't because honestly you get not
only will you get tears in your eyes, but so
will the plants. It's so strong, that stuff, it's so
full of of.
Speaker 7 (17:24):
A whole lot of hanging bascus on my dar, right, beans,
they got nothing? You don't ready to put them nice
plowers in for for our spring. So I put it
in near with the mixed up with the soil in dear,
and save it for a couple of weeks until I
put my plants on.
Speaker 3 (17:38):
Yes you can, but only minute amounts. Please put it
through a compost cycle. You're much better off put it
in a compost. Other stuff fine with soil and organic
material and leaves and everything that can be composted.
Speaker 7 (17:56):
What sort of ratio stuff?
Speaker 3 (18:01):
I would say, Uh, look, don't My thing is not
too much. Let's put it that way. Depends on how
big your compost thing is. But if you instance one
of those tumbles, is that you have to turn around
best one.
Speaker 2 (18:16):
Oh, I love them. I know that you mock me
for my compost, but I think.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
I'm not mocking anything. But what I would do is
I would put only a good spadeful of that in
the tumblr.
Speaker 2 (18:29):
That's all right, don't go too far, brilliant, that's donner. Yeah, no,
I like it. But you've got to get the balance
right eh.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah, that's the point.
Speaker 2 (18:38):
The other day it was no more grass clippings because
it's getting a bit mushy, so lots of leaves in there.
I spent all the stuff that I took off the
plum tree and prune the other day, chop that up
into small pieces that'll go in there. Actually it's looking
quite nice at the moment. I'm quite surprised at my
new brew. And you know how sometimes in those sorts
(19:01):
of enclosed bins it does get mushy. But mine's nice
and light and loamy.
Speaker 3 (19:08):
And that is because the ratio of nitrogen, your mushy stuff,
the green thing, and the carbon, which is the little
things that you chipped up, it should be about seventy
percent carbon and thirty percent green stuff. Now that's that
is that is totally unexpected, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
I'm just a little bit excited about all of the
new growth in the garden and keen to get a
hit of the whole fertilizer thing. Can I get going
with my fertilizer?
Speaker 3 (19:36):
Absolutely awesome? Why not? All right? You could start from
now on. This is the time to do it.
Speaker 2 (19:40):
So I'm really wanting to look after the plum tree.
What could I put around the plum tree?
Speaker 3 (19:45):
General fertilizer with a little bit of potsh extra all right,
look because it's flowering.
Speaker 2 (19:49):
Ever go yeah, no, it's looking lovely. A it's a
great time of year. It's nice, it really is. Right,
let's talk on the first day of September, which is
let's do that for a change, all right, let's do that.
Take care of all the best of your work. Thanks you, hey,
and folks, thanks for tuning into the show. Because my
boss rang me and said, hey, you're number one, So
thank you very much for that. And that's all because
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of you.
Speaker 1 (20:23):
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