September 14, 2024 • 21 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from news Talks at b.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
A red cloud passed a very good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
A very good morning or cura indeed morena, let's.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Is the wiki it is?
Speaker 5 (00:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
You realize that I do love that.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, it's awesome. It's awesome. Right, you're well, I am,
I am. So people can call because there's no one
calling right now. I wait one hundred and eighty ten
eighty if you've got any questions for it.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
You don't do social media, do you?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
No? No, I will never be your friend on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
By I will send you a little video that I
made that has has amused some people. Anyway, I'll try
and send that to you shortly.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
And is that the one you've put on the album?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So I've made them, but I've made them for small birds.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So now I've got two, one of which is going
to my sister. That will be suitable I think for
for example, but barn owl boxes are considerably larger. I'm
going to have to scout around for some more script
number and so we can get to anyway stand by
on that one. So I'll do some updates but people
are loving the content, I think.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And at the moment from what I get, well, I'm
surrounded by little owls, which is a species set game
from Europe.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Right, it's a tiny it's a small owl.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
And every evening or night sometimes Julie wakes me up
to the key here that it's literally sitting there, going
next to our BedHead. Just thats and then you know
that they're actually you know, they're active there work and
it is fabulous. That thing only occurs in the South Island,
by the way, but yeah, it's it's mating time all
(01:59):
over the place.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
It's really, really, really active. It's good.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Do you have owl boxes at your place?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yes? I do do, okay, yes, and also in.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
The quarry where we live, we have quite a few up,
and also den Venesha's place, so we've got about I
think five or six or seven boxes. I think that
the reason I put up and now it's it's and
we we check them and we bend the babies.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's that's very cool, right, Gary. A very good morning
to you, sir.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
You're boring to you. Not a bad day here in Hamilton,
clearing up nicely after down pall last night.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
How it Yeah, it's been it's been rough, isn't it
the last few days? Gary? And it's been a bit rough,
hasn't it lately?
Speaker 7 (02:47):
And it's going to be next week as well at
the forecast right, spoke to rain again tomorrow. How my
question is I put in about twelve Gazaan years earlier.
This year, three of them are flowering beautifully orange and color.
The roost are having your sulk. In fact, they haven't
even got flower bloods on any particular reason to that.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
They may be, they may be flowering later. They might
just not really want to play ball yet with you.
Uh what I what I suggest you can do, And
this is generally a pretty standard way for me to
actually get plants to flower a bit earlier or a
bit more prolifics by giving them a little bit of potash.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
So give yourself.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
You can get a little bag of sulfate of potash,
put it around the root zone, water it well in,
and the plants suddenly wake up saying, my god, Oh
that's Gary.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Oh he needs he needs flowers. Let's go.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Yeah, I've actually got passion. I've listened to your other
shows and you've recommended it all the way through so
that's what I'll do. The honey trouble is is we
met down and there's Mark on top of it. But
I'll do my best anyway, and here we get on.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, I'm not a great fan of wheat met anymore.
I used to have it and then I thought that,
no good.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Yeah, well we could. I don't have had it either,
But I've got company and to do some landscape. And
that's the way they finished the project.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
And it's this.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Whole fellow that couldn't do it, and that's why I
got them in to do it. But I'll cad I
Niching the weed mat and see if I can get
the party shonder them excellent.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, good Solary by all.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It's funny how the whole weed mat thing is has
kind of fallen out of favor for good reason. If
you've ever pulled a garden up that's wat mat like
underneath it, it's just it's like a there's nobody on
a pancake of just soil.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
It's but it's not even that's what I call dirt,
right right, You know how I'm.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Against the people saying calling dirt soil. That's dirt. It's
got nothing in it.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, yeah, so mulch is way more effective. Well, it's
better for the garden. It's just mulching if you're doing
weed control. Yep, yeah, brilliant Phil. Have very good morning
to you.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
How you doing.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
We're good? Thanks. What can we help you with?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
About ten years ago I put the under floor plastic
on the earth under the house, and I recently installed
a new toilet and went under to check the ceramics
and everything and the the amount of dust from the borer.
And there's quite a few peoples of the t and
g that are you know, that have given way that
(05:30):
I've had to sort of cut out and replace. What's
the process for trying to either save what's there or pete,
what's the process of replacing the floor in a house?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Okay, well let's start off. Let's let's start off with
the borer life cycle. The borer will start to fly,
so they're coming out of the timber about late October
early November, so that is the flight time of it.
And the best thing to do, and I've worked quite
a lot with that sort of stuff in all the houses.
Under under the under the houses is to spray a
(06:05):
high if you like a high density permethrin which lasts
for a long time, that is residual onto those beams
that are infected, and you do that literally just before
the flight season, so late October, last week of October
is the best time to do it. The material that
I use, and this is just my standby stuff that
(06:28):
I use for things like that, is a permethrin that
you can get from a company called safe Works. Safe
Works ends with the letter X. You can find them online.
They have shops in Auckland, Wellington, christ Church probably elsewhere
and I'm sure that if you ring them up they
will send them to you if you come to some
(06:49):
agreement with them, use that particular material. It will last
you in shaded areas for something like twelve weeks, and
that is exactly the time when you need that protection.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
So that's the end of October. And yeah, some areas
of it are quite rotten with it, so.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Well in that case. In that case you get rid
of it. So I have to pass you on to
the builder.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Look, I think if it's stripped flooring you can sort
of cut sections out and replace them if you can
find matching boards of it. It'll be strip flooring that's
been eaten typically you won't see bora in like particle
board and plywood and those sorts of things, because they're treated.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
The beers and all that seem quite very much. Just
the T ANDNG that's sort of given away.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, find the matching stuff first, then cut out the
bits that are rotten and work it that way. It's
a little bit of a tricky task, but it's certainly doable,
which is great, Diane, thank you for calling. How are
you this morning?
Speaker 6 (07:50):
I'm very well, thank you, right, Ruth, can you help me?
I can't put in a veggie garden anymore because I
have earweeks.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Whether they do to you, they eat all my pants
at that time of the year.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Now, they particularly this time of the year. I've been
to all the nurseries and all that around here to
try and get something to fix it, but I just
can't seem to do it. And they even eat my
put a whole lot of bulbs, and I thought I
(08:31):
was going to come home to some beautiful daffodils, but
they were all eaten. All the flowers are all eaten.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I don't think that's earwigs.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
What do you think it is?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I have no idea I should you know? What I
would do if I were at your place, I would
go out at night with the torch to see who's there.
It could be slugs, it could be snails. It could
be caterpillars. It could be beetles, It could be a
whole lot of different things. What I've noticed with earwigs
is that they will sometimes eat plants and sometimes the
flowers of certain plants at the time when they are
(09:06):
not needing protein. Earweks are far more protein eaters. They
are actually pest controllers in your garden.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
Oh well, they don't seem to eat anything but the
things that I want to have, Like I just put
vegies in there and I come home and the no
vigic and no broccoli and all that.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, And I know my culprit is sparrows and other
birds they do it. And the other and the other
one is that I have possums as well, and I've
got mice and rabbits and they will do the same thing.
And they do it with great verva as well, So
we need to actually do it totally different things. I've
(09:50):
got earweks too, but they are more interested in eating
a fits.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
No, my ewigs are a little bit fringier than that.
Love all of the plants that I love.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Okay, all right, Well if you if you think that
it's the earweks that do it, good luck, because you'll
have to work on the on on those on those earweks,
I would say, but I know for a fact that
they are not that bad at all. They are always blamed,
but that's quite often other creatures that do it. And
(10:22):
the only way to do it is to go out
at night, have a look in your garden with the torch.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Who's there? Honestly?
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Well, I googled eweks and they said to put sources
of kitchen oil in the garden. So I did that,
and I ended up with so many eweks in this oil.
And then I thought, oh well, and I'll pick some flowers,
which I tried to pick some flowers, and I bought
(10:50):
them inside into a vase, and I had all these
earweks all coming out of them.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yep, that can happen. There can be many. Yeah, you
know what's really interesting, Diane. In the Netherlands, in.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
The orchards, the apple orchids, for instance, the orchardice there
hang up a little containers with with with all sorts
of material that ewigs can hide into so that at
night they go out and eat all the pests that
would normally eat the apples.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Isn't it the same species? Actually?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah, interesting because my my apples have all been we're
all chew dead.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
But I thought that was problem, but it.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Probably was godling.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
It probably was godling, and that's what the ewiks eat too,
as soon as they can.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Well, it's mainly the ewigs are mainly where my apple
trees are. So and I've got a whole lot of
orchards underneath the apple trees because of the orchards love
the shades. Now, could they be in there? Could they
be in amongst the orchards? Do you think?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, they could hide there. If there's lots of IID
hole places during the day, that's where they'll be.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Absolutely, So what do I put there there? That's what
I'm just trying to work out. What do I How
do I kill them?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I don't know. I'm going to say, I don't know. No,
I don't.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Kill them, Okay, okay, I know, all right, Well, thank
you very much, but I'm.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
A nice bit of all the very best. But now
the show could easily just become a show all about owls.
But I've got to say this text first, one person,
we've got a little owl and in Lower North Island.
That's awesome, this one. I had some sort of owl
sitting on one of my fences the other night and
it appeared to be eating a mouse. Is this a
(12:50):
regular food for them? Would it be worth me putting
an ol box on the fence from Kevin?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Well, Well, if you ever go to Wingspan and you
watch the flying thing, you've got to go, Peter.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I'll make sure to look after you. But we've got
We've got Jarlie who is.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
The barnail there and during a normal flight, would eat
quite easily two or three mice.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Fantastic in one. But they don't do it.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
It goes straight in and the coolest thing feeder is
the tail hangs out of the mouth, out of the
beak for about ten twenty seconds, right, as if it's
the end of a god knows what.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You know, or flossing. Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah, it's wonderful. So yeah, those owls eat eat mice.
They do.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Ah, this is wonderful. Right, we're gonna take a short break.
We'll be back before of your calls just a moment,
Bright Sandy are very good morning to you. Hello Sandy, Hello.
Speaker 8 (13:46):
It's Sandy here in Belmont and little hat Reason. Good morning.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
What can we do for you?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Now?
Speaker 8 (13:55):
I've got seaweed in a bucket and it's cementing. It's
really horrible. Can I still use it on my garden?
Walter it down?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I'm sure you can, because that is exactly what basically
happens to seaweed when you chuck it in the bucket
and they don't use it. Don't use too much of
it if you like, but you will find that the
fermentation will stop the moment it will come out of
the bucket and dry up.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Good, and it's not going to burn the leaves on
my new plants.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, the idea with that is to maybe put it
to the side of the plant so that you only
get it around the root zone, so you use that
seaweed literally as a compostible fertilizer around the plant, not
right on top.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Okay, I got well, I'll do that now. That does
That's all I wanted to know. Absolute. Oh, I don't
know about this, Yeah, rude, it's always saying. It just
looks like absolutely tea.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
That's another thing that's that's the same with the with
the wet and forget seaweed tea and seafood soup. I
always make it, but I water it really well down
to it looks like like really weak tea. But in
this case, if it's got too much acid or whatever
it is that made it from ment, if there's too
much of that sort of stuff, I would also dilute
it as well, and make sure you don't literally if
(15:20):
you're like, dump it right on the leaves, but just around. Oh,
if the plant keeps growing, just do it in maybe
about two weeks, three weeks again, that sort of stuff,
all right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
And another thing, the lady with the airwaves and you
were talking about snails. I have upturned or turned down
power shells or sprinkled all around my garden, you know,
the whole shell. And I catch snails and slugs.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
In them, absolutely, and they're very good at hiding too, and.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
So it is.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
It's great. And I think, you know I've got I
haven't got any slugs and I've got no snails, and
I've got probably twelve power shells scattered in different places
my gardens, and I lift them up every day and
I would get at least three slugs, and every now
and again a whole bunch of baby snails. And then
I'll find the mother, braw the daddy. And yeah, it's
(16:19):
a great way of finding them. And you're not out
in the middle of the night of the torch and
the cold and the wet.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
And then what you do, what do you do with them?
Then you put them? You toss them over the fence
to the neighbors.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Or no, no, I put them on top of the
bit of my garden on a piece of concrete, and
I smash them and the birds eat them, and the
slugs go to my fish in the fish pond.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Excellent. There you go. That's an ecosystem.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Then there you go a cycle of life there as
I take away for the local birds. That's fantastic.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
Yeah, and I love your program. And another thing, we
have a more pork around here. And probably once or
twice in the evening I hear it just when I
go to bed. It always makes me smile. I just
love it.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
That's more.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
I've actually got You've just got to hear this. I've
actually got us.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
There you go, there you go, Thank you. That's lovely,
A good day you do.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
That's fantastic, Thank you, Sandy. That's that's absolutely awesome. A
couple of texts of coming about these l boxes. If
you want instructions and that sort of thing, just send
me an email here at zb so Pete at newstalksb
dot co dot m Z and I'll see if I
can get something out to you. So just send them
directly here to ZIB and I'll sort it out from there, right, Roger.
(17:52):
Last one for the morning, good morning.
Speaker 10 (17:54):
Good morning. I just sort of about grass, that seaweed.
I make a lot of seawood here and the good,
the fake, the heavy stuff, and I would learn and
put it in the I've got one hundred and twenty
liter tub and I put it in there and half
(18:17):
full of water. Now, and I have two drums, and
that one is my master drum, and I fill a
half full of water, and I put the seaweed in
and then the leaves it there for about six months
now there, and then in six months time I've got
the other drum. I take say twenty liters out pour
(18:38):
into the other drum, ye diluted about eight times. Yeah,
And I use that my stock and the rainy day,
I get some out and they just pour it over
the plants and everything and it doesn't hurt the plants.
And within ten days if you see the growth moving. Yeah,
(18:58):
it's amazing stuff. But boy it does not smell.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
It smells.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
But if it's too strong, you can also you could
do some damn, which I would say, you know, if
it's that concentrated. This is why I say, try to
dilute it sometimes.
Speaker 10 (19:12):
Yes, well from concentrate out of the first drum is
diluted about ten times before I put it on the plant.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Anyway, there you go, that's exactly, and that's great.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
My other question is is when you are a lawn.
You know, I've got some produce crates and I have
a lot of grass, and I put in the produce
crate and it'll heat up. And for men, yes, I
put that on the drip line of the trees, my
fruit trees, because the juice runs out and after I've
(19:44):
read a couple of months, it's just a sort of
a little sloshy. Miss. Now, can I put that in
my compossible and just throw it on top?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yes? Why not?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
But the point is that if it's just a lot
of grass, you will also need quite a bit of
carbon and for that the best thing to use is
chipped wood, so wood chips.
Speaker 10 (20:04):
I've got heaps in that and I put that to
but you see after the grass is pet it up
and a lot that juice runs out on the drip
line those trees, so that pized that. Now the remainder
is just a message slosh. You know one of the
orbans periods that day. Can I go that?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
And yes you can, but again make sure you've got
a lot more garbon to actually neutralize it.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
That's really important, because thanks very much for that, Roger Wis.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
That's a good one, right, yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
It's really good and fat. And that's the thing with composts.
That shouldn't be mushy, no rush, no gosh, it's all
about the balance.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I like I've just replied to the little text from
the hands that's chipper and all that. Yeah, brilliant, brilliant,
it's really important those things.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I'll send you a little video. I know what I've
been up to. We'll do it again next week, which
is the Quinnox.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
We'll be back next Sunday. Next Sunday on the program
the Minister for Building and Construction Chris Kink For.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
More from the resident builder with Peter Wolfcamp. Listen live
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You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from news Talks at b.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
A red cloud passed a very good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:15):
A very good morning or cura indeed morena, let's.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Is the wiki it is?
Speaker 5 (00:25):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:25):
You realize that I do love that.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
Yeah, it's awesome. It's awesome. Right, you're well, I am,
I am. So people can call because there's no one
calling right now. I wait one hundred and eighty ten
eighty if you've got any questions for it.
Speaker 6 (00:41):
Now.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
You don't do social media, do you?
Speaker 4 (00:44):
No? No, I will never be your friend on Twitter.
Speaker 2 (00:46):
By I will send you a little video that I
made that has has amused some people. Anyway, I'll try
and send that to you shortly.
Speaker 4 (00:57):
And is that the one you've put on the album?
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (00:59):
Yeah, yeah yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
So I've made them, but I've made them for small birds.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
Right.
Speaker 2 (01:06):
So now I've got two, one of which is going
to my sister. That will be suitable I think for
for example, but barn owl boxes are considerably larger. I'm
going to have to scout around for some more script
number and so we can get to anyway stand by
on that one. So I'll do some updates but people
are loving the content, I think.
Speaker 3 (01:27):
And at the moment from what I get, well, I'm
surrounded by little owls, which is a species set game
from Europe.
Speaker 4 (01:34):
Right, it's a tiny it's a small owl.
Speaker 3 (01:37):
And every evening or night sometimes Julie wakes me up
to the key here that it's literally sitting there, going
next to our BedHead. Just thats and then you know
that they're actually you know, they're active there work and
it is fabulous. That thing only occurs in the South Island,
by the way, but yeah, it's it's mating time all
(01:59):
over the place.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
It's really, really, really active. It's good.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Do you have owl boxes at your place?
Speaker 4 (02:05):
Yes? I do do, okay, yes, and also in.
Speaker 3 (02:08):
The quarry where we live, we have quite a few up,
and also den Venesha's place, so we've got about I
think five or six or seven boxes. I think that
the reason I put up and now it's it's and
we we check them and we bend the babies.
Speaker 2 (02:26):
That's that's very cool, right, Gary. A very good morning
to you, sir.
Speaker 7 (02:31):
You're boring to you. Not a bad day here in Hamilton,
clearing up nicely after down pall last night.
Speaker 4 (02:37):
How it Yeah, it's been it's been rough, isn't it
the last few days? Gary? And it's been a bit rough,
hasn't it lately?
Speaker 7 (02:47):
And it's going to be next week as well at
the forecast right, spoke to rain again tomorrow. How my
question is I put in about twelve Gazaan years earlier.
This year, three of them are flowering beautifully orange and color.
The roost are having your sulk. In fact, they haven't
even got flower bloods on any particular reason to that.
Speaker 3 (03:07):
They may be, they may be flowering later. They might
just not really want to play ball yet with you.
Uh what I what I suggest you can do, And
this is generally a pretty standard way for me to
actually get plants to flower a bit earlier or a
bit more prolifics by giving them a little bit of potash.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
So give yourself.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
You can get a little bag of sulfate of potash,
put it around the root zone, water it well in,
and the plants suddenly wake up saying, my god, Oh
that's Gary.
Speaker 4 (03:37):
Oh he needs he needs flowers. Let's go.
Speaker 8 (03:40):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (03:41):
Yeah, I've actually got passion. I've listened to your other
shows and you've recommended it all the way through so
that's what I'll do. The honey trouble is is we
met down and there's Mark on top of it. But
I'll do my best anyway, and here we get on.
Speaker 3 (03:55):
Yeah, I'm not a great fan of wheat met anymore.
I used to have it and then I thought that,
no good.
Speaker 7 (04:01):
Yeah, well we could. I don't have had it either,
But I've got company and to do some landscape. And
that's the way they finished the project.
Speaker 4 (04:09):
And it's this.
Speaker 7 (04:10):
Whole fellow that couldn't do it, and that's why I
got them in to do it. But I'll cad I
Niching the weed mat and see if I can get
the party shonder them excellent.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Yeah, good Solary by all.
Speaker 2 (04:24):
It's funny how the whole weed mat thing is has
kind of fallen out of favor for good reason. If
you've ever pulled a garden up that's wat mat like
underneath it, it's just it's like a there's nobody on
a pancake of just soil.
Speaker 3 (04:37):
It's but it's not even that's what I call dirt,
right right, You know how I'm.
Speaker 4 (04:44):
Against the people saying calling dirt soil. That's dirt. It's
got nothing in it.
Speaker 2 (04:49):
Yeah, yeah, so mulch is way more effective. Well, it's
better for the garden. It's just mulching if you're doing
weed control. Yep, yeah, brilliant Phil. Have very good morning
to you.
Speaker 5 (05:04):
How you doing.
Speaker 4 (05:05):
We're good? Thanks. What can we help you with?
Speaker 5 (05:09):
About ten years ago I put the under floor plastic
on the earth under the house, and I recently installed
a new toilet and went under to check the ceramics
and everything and the the amount of dust from the borer.
And there's quite a few peoples of the t and
g that are you know, that have given way that
(05:30):
I've had to sort of cut out and replace. What's
the process for trying to either save what's there or pete,
what's the process of replacing the floor in a house?
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Okay, well let's start off. Let's let's start off with
the borer life cycle. The borer will start to fly,
so they're coming out of the timber about late October
early November, so that is the flight time of it.
And the best thing to do, and I've worked quite
a lot with that sort of stuff in all the houses.
Under under the under the houses is to spray a
(06:05):
high if you like a high density permethrin which lasts
for a long time, that is residual onto those beams
that are infected, and you do that literally just before
the flight season, so late October, last week of October
is the best time to do it. The material that
I use, and this is just my standby stuff that
(06:28):
I use for things like that, is a permethrin that
you can get from a company called safe Works. Safe
Works ends with the letter X. You can find them online.
They have shops in Auckland, Wellington, christ Church probably elsewhere
and I'm sure that if you ring them up they
will send them to you if you come to some
(06:49):
agreement with them, use that particular material. It will last
you in shaded areas for something like twelve weeks, and
that is exactly the time when you need that protection.
Speaker 5 (07:03):
So that's the end of October. And yeah, some areas
of it are quite rotten with it, so.
Speaker 3 (07:11):
Well in that case. In that case you get rid
of it. So I have to pass you on to
the builder.
Speaker 4 (07:16):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (07:16):
Look, I think if it's stripped flooring you can sort
of cut sections out and replace them if you can
find matching boards of it. It'll be strip flooring that's
been eaten typically you won't see bora in like particle
board and plywood and those sorts of things, because they're treated.
Speaker 5 (07:31):
The beers and all that seem quite very much. Just
the T ANDNG that's sort of given away.
Speaker 2 (07:36):
Yeah, find the matching stuff first, then cut out the
bits that are rotten and work it that way. It's
a little bit of a tricky task, but it's certainly doable,
which is great, Diane, thank you for calling. How are
you this morning?
Speaker 6 (07:50):
I'm very well, thank you, right, Ruth, can you help me?
I can't put in a veggie garden anymore because I
have earweeks.
Speaker 4 (08:02):
Whether they do to you, they eat all my pants
at that time of the year.
Speaker 6 (08:10):
Now, they particularly this time of the year. I've been
to all the nurseries and all that around here to
try and get something to fix it, but I just
can't seem to do it. And they even eat my
put a whole lot of bulbs, and I thought I
(08:31):
was going to come home to some beautiful daffodils, but
they were all eaten. All the flowers are all eaten.
Speaker 4 (08:38):
I don't think that's earwigs.
Speaker 6 (08:41):
What do you think it is?
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I have no idea I should you know? What I
would do if I were at your place, I would
go out at night with the torch to see who's there.
It could be slugs, it could be snails. It could
be caterpillars. It could be beetles, It could be a
whole lot of different things. What I've noticed with earwigs
is that they will sometimes eat plants and sometimes the
flowers of certain plants at the time when they are
(09:06):
not needing protein. Earweks are far more protein eaters. They
are actually pest controllers in your garden.
Speaker 9 (09:14):
Oh well, they don't seem to eat anything but the
things that I want to have, Like I just put
vegies in there and I come home and the no
vigic and no broccoli and all that.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
Yeah, And I know my culprit is sparrows and other
birds they do it. And the other and the other
one is that I have possums as well, and I've
got mice and rabbits and they will do the same thing.
And they do it with great verva as well, So
we need to actually do it totally different things. I've
(09:50):
got earweks too, but they are more interested in eating
a fits.
Speaker 6 (09:56):
No, my ewigs are a little bit fringier than that.
Love all of the plants that I love.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
Okay, all right, Well if you if you think that
it's the earweks that do it, good luck, because you'll
have to work on the on on those on those earweks,
I would say, but I know for a fact that
they are not that bad at all. They are always blamed,
but that's quite often other creatures that do it. And
(10:22):
the only way to do it is to go out
at night, have a look in your garden with the torch.
Speaker 4 (10:26):
Who's there? Honestly?
Speaker 6 (10:28):
Well, I googled eweks and they said to put sources
of kitchen oil in the garden. So I did that,
and I ended up with so many eweks in this oil.
And then I thought, oh well, and I'll pick some flowers,
which I tried to pick some flowers, and I bought
(10:50):
them inside into a vase, and I had all these
earweks all coming out of them.
Speaker 4 (10:54):
Yep, that can happen. There can be many. Yeah, you
know what's really interesting, Diane. In the Netherlands, in.
Speaker 3 (11:04):
The orchards, the apple orchids, for instance, the orchardice there
hang up a little containers with with with all sorts
of material that ewigs can hide into so that at
night they go out and eat all the pests that
would normally eat the apples.
Speaker 4 (11:23):
Isn't it the same species? Actually?
Speaker 3 (11:24):
Yeah, interesting because my my apples have all been we're
all chew dead.
Speaker 6 (11:31):
But I thought that was problem, but it.
Speaker 4 (11:34):
Probably was godling.
Speaker 3 (11:35):
It probably was godling, and that's what the ewiks eat too,
as soon as they can.
Speaker 6 (11:41):
Well, it's mainly the ewigs are mainly where my apple
trees are. So and I've got a whole lot of
orchards underneath the apple trees because of the orchards love
the shades. Now, could they be in there? Could they
be in amongst the orchards? Do you think?
Speaker 3 (12:00):
Yeah, they could hide there. If there's lots of IID
hole places during the day, that's where they'll be.
Speaker 5 (12:05):
Yep.
Speaker 6 (12:05):
Absolutely, So what do I put there there? That's what
I'm just trying to work out. What do I How
do I kill them?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I don't know. I'm going to say, I don't know. No,
I don't.
Speaker 9 (12:22):
Kill them, Okay, okay, I know, all right, Well, thank
you very much, but I'm.
Speaker 4 (12:28):
Sorry about that.
Speaker 2 (12:29):
A nice bit of all the very best. But now
the show could easily just become a show all about owls.
But I've got to say this text first, one person,
we've got a little owl and in Lower North Island.
That's awesome, this one. I had some sort of owl
sitting on one of my fences the other night and
it appeared to be eating a mouse. Is this a
(12:50):
regular food for them? Would it be worth me putting
an ol box on the fence from Kevin?
Speaker 3 (12:54):
Well, Well, if you ever go to Wingspan and you
watch the flying thing, you've got to go, Peter.
Speaker 4 (13:00):
I'll make sure to look after you. But we've got
We've got Jarlie who is.
Speaker 3 (13:04):
The barnail there and during a normal flight, would eat
quite easily two or three mice.
Speaker 4 (13:11):
Fantastic in one. But they don't do it.
Speaker 3 (13:16):
It goes straight in and the coolest thing feeder is
the tail hangs out of the mouth, out of the
beak for about ten twenty seconds, right, as if it's
the end of a god knows what.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
You know, or flossing. Yeah, you got it.
Speaker 4 (13:31):
Yeah, it's wonderful. So yeah, those owls eat eat mice.
They do.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
Ah, this is wonderful. Right, we're gonna take a short break.
We'll be back before of your calls just a moment,
Bright Sandy are very good morning to you. Hello Sandy, Hello.
Speaker 8 (13:46):
It's Sandy here in Belmont and little hat Reason. Good morning.
Speaker 4 (13:51):
What can we do for you?
Speaker 5 (13:54):
Now?
Speaker 8 (13:55):
I've got seaweed in a bucket and it's cementing. It's
really horrible. Can I still use it on my garden?
Walter it down?
Speaker 3 (14:04):
I'm sure you can, because that is exactly what basically
happens to seaweed when you chuck it in the bucket
and they don't use it. Don't use too much of
it if you like, but you will find that the
fermentation will stop the moment it will come out of
the bucket and dry up.
Speaker 8 (14:22):
Good, and it's not going to burn the leaves on
my new plants.
Speaker 3 (14:25):
Well, the idea with that is to maybe put it
to the side of the plant so that you only
get it around the root zone, so you use that
seaweed literally as a compostible fertilizer around the plant, not
right on top.
Speaker 8 (14:41):
Okay, I got well, I'll do that now. That does
That's all I wanted to know. Absolute. Oh, I don't
know about this, Yeah, rude, it's always saying. It just
looks like absolutely tea.
Speaker 3 (14:57):
That's another thing that's that's the same with the with
the wet and forget seaweed tea and seafood soup. I
always make it, but I water it really well down
to it looks like like really weak tea. But in
this case, if it's got too much acid or whatever
it is that made it from ment, if there's too
much of that sort of stuff, I would also dilute
it as well, and make sure you don't literally if
(15:20):
you're like, dump it right on the leaves, but just around. Oh,
if the plant keeps growing, just do it in maybe
about two weeks, three weeks again, that sort of stuff,
all right, yeah, okay.
Speaker 8 (15:34):
And another thing, the lady with the airwaves and you
were talking about snails. I have upturned or turned down
power shells or sprinkled all around my garden, you know,
the whole shell. And I catch snails and slugs.
Speaker 4 (15:50):
In them, absolutely, and they're very good at hiding too, and.
Speaker 5 (15:54):
So it is.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
It's great. And I think, you know I've got I
haven't got any slugs and I've got no snails, and
I've got probably twelve power shells scattered in different places
my gardens, and I lift them up every day and
I would get at least three slugs, and every now
and again a whole bunch of baby snails. And then
I'll find the mother, braw the daddy. And yeah, it's
(16:19):
a great way of finding them. And you're not out
in the middle of the night of the torch and
the cold and the wet.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
And then what you do, what do you do with them?
Then you put them? You toss them over the fence
to the neighbors.
Speaker 8 (16:30):
Or no, no, I put them on top of the
bit of my garden on a piece of concrete, and
I smash them and the birds eat them, and the
slugs go to my fish in the fish pond.
Speaker 4 (16:43):
Excellent. There you go. That's an ecosystem.
Speaker 2 (16:46):
Then there you go a cycle of life there as
I take away for the local birds. That's fantastic.
Speaker 8 (16:52):
Yeah, and I love your program. And another thing, we
have a more pork around here. And probably once or
twice in the evening I hear it just when I
go to bed. It always makes me smile. I just
love it.
Speaker 4 (17:06):
That's more.
Speaker 8 (17:10):
I've actually got You've just got to hear this. I've
actually got us.
Speaker 4 (17:17):
There you go, there you go, Thank you. That's lovely,
A good day you do.
Speaker 2 (17:27):
That's fantastic, Thank you, Sandy. That's that's absolutely awesome. A
couple of texts of coming about these l boxes. If
you want instructions and that sort of thing, just send
me an email here at zb so Pete at newstalksb
dot co dot m Z and I'll see if I
can get something out to you. So just send them
directly here to ZIB and I'll sort it out from there, right, Roger.
(17:52):
Last one for the morning, good morning.
Speaker 10 (17:54):
Good morning. I just sort of about grass, that seaweed.
I make a lot of seawood here and the good,
the fake, the heavy stuff, and I would learn and
put it in the I've got one hundred and twenty
liter tub and I put it in there and half
(18:17):
full of water. Now, and I have two drums, and
that one is my master drum, and I fill a
half full of water, and I put the seaweed in
and then the leaves it there for about six months
now there, and then in six months time I've got
the other drum. I take say twenty liters out pour
(18:38):
into the other drum, ye diluted about eight times. Yeah,
And I use that my stock and the rainy day,
I get some out and they just pour it over
the plants and everything and it doesn't hurt the plants.
And within ten days if you see the growth moving. Yeah,
(18:58):
it's amazing stuff. But boy it does not smell.
Speaker 4 (19:01):
It smells.
Speaker 3 (19:02):
But if it's too strong, you can also you could
do some damn, which I would say, you know, if
it's that concentrated. This is why I say, try to
dilute it sometimes.
Speaker 10 (19:12):
Yes, well from concentrate out of the first drum is
diluted about ten times before I put it on the plant.
Speaker 4 (19:19):
Anyway, there you go, that's exactly, and that's great.
Speaker 5 (19:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 10 (19:23):
My other question is is when you are a lawn.
You know, I've got some produce crates and I have
a lot of grass, and I put in the produce
crate and it'll heat up. And for men, yes, I
put that on the drip line of the trees, my
fruit trees, because the juice runs out and after I've
(19:44):
read a couple of months, it's just a sort of
a little sloshy. Miss. Now, can I put that in
my compossible and just throw it on top?
Speaker 4 (19:53):
Yes? Why not?
Speaker 3 (19:54):
But the point is that if it's just a lot
of grass, you will also need quite a bit of
carbon and for that the best thing to use is
chipped wood, so wood chips.
Speaker 10 (20:04):
I've got heaps in that and I put that to
but you see after the grass is pet it up
and a lot that juice runs out on the drip
line those trees, so that pized that. Now the remainder
is just a message slosh. You know one of the
orbans periods that day. Can I go that?
Speaker 3 (20:22):
And yes you can, but again make sure you've got
a lot more garbon to actually neutralize it.
Speaker 2 (20:30):
That's really important, because thanks very much for that, Roger Wis.
Speaker 4 (20:34):
That's a good one, right, yeah, I think it is.
Speaker 2 (20:36):
It's really good and fat. And that's the thing with composts.
That shouldn't be mushy, no rush, no gosh, it's all
about the balance.
Speaker 3 (20:44):
I like I've just replied to the little text from
the hands that's chipper and all that. Yeah, brilliant, brilliant,
it's really important those things.
Speaker 2 (20:51):
I'll send you a little video. I know what I've
been up to. We'll do it again next week, which
is the Quinnox.
Speaker 6 (20:56):
There you go.
Speaker 2 (20:57):
We'll be back next Sunday. Next Sunday on the program
the Minister for Building and Construction Chris Kink For.
Speaker 1 (21:04):
More from the resident builder with Peter Wolfcamp. Listen live
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