September 29, 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 EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You and News Talks ed B. Had climb passed a
very good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Sir, A very good morning to you. Trots Garden I have.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I have.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I was there yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
There's only a bugger. You should have told me anyway,
Is it that lovely?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's absolutely gorgeous. I mean, look to be fair South
Island at the moment. What a beautiful time of year
to be there. So just briefly I ended up flying
into christ Church Friday morning, went out and had a
look at the SIPs Foremance SIPs factory, drove out through
the Rakaiah Gorge Methven, had a toasted sandwich there, into Geraldine,
(00:51):
to the Military Museum, down to Timaru home, shown Timaru
back up and Rob, who I know because our parents
were friends right back in the day. He sent me
a message via the old Facebook and said, hey, look
stop by, and so I did it. And it's absolutely gorgeous.
Trot's garden beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Allan Trot's been years of course he made this amazing place.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yes, wonderful, it's stunning and you know, all the rhododendrons
are full and the magnolias are coming out and just wonderful. Yeah, no,
it it was really nice to wander around. It's just gorgeous,
so beautiful part of the country and a beautiful time
a year to be there.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It certainly is. I totally agree with you, because although
in the next few weeks I'm going to be in Auckland,
so I'll see you probably next week in the studio.
I'll make sure i'll do that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
That'll be awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
And something else. Remember you sent me an email from
a lady who said I've got troubles getting mad X too.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, hasn't been phased out.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Is that the issue? No, it's not at all. It's
just that the key industries are the people that import it.
This is so just to make sure that everybody understands
MADEX comes into two versions. If you like MADX three
and MEDX two, it is basically made I think in
Switzerland something like that, and Key industry basically got both
(02:18):
things in. But the MADX two was is a bit
of a tricky thing to work with. It did not
sell as well for the simple reason that a lot
of the garden centers that stocked. It did not stock
it in a fridge is where you need to have it,
so there's some costs involved with that. You can imagine
that would have trouble. MADX three, on the other hand,
(02:41):
is the professional material that growers that orchidist use. MADX
three is everywhere available if you look for that. We
know it's a bit more expensive, but the right The
nice thing is I've got madx three from five years
ago that I store in the freezer and it is
(03:01):
still perfectly working. So if you get, for instance, one
bottle of medics which is larger than the Medix two,
and you shared with a couple of neighbors, you basically
end up a lot cheaper off and it will work
for a long long time.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And obviously it's it's effective in terms of controlling coddling.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Moth, unbelievably effective. You may have to do it. I
think that official growers do it three four times a year.
I do it maybe twice time, twice a year, and
I still have ninety nine percent no coddling moth. The
odd one that whatever, I don't care it's too much,
(03:40):
but it works fabulously. And the cool thing is Peter.
It is a virus that you're spraying around on the
developing fruit. The virus only kills codling moth caterpillars, nothing else,
so it's really very specific specific. And don't forget to
do your walnuts and your crab apples as well, because
(04:03):
they can have the same pest called coddling moth.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Okay, fantastic, thanks for theo on that, Emma. A very
good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Good morning. How are you?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Thank you? Emma.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I have a row of Portuguese laurels and they're all
doing really well, but I have one in particular that
is not looking flesh. The leaves are sort of turned
down and the rest of them are just starting to
really green up and push up again, and I'm a
bit worried. I've actually replaced the same laurel last year.
(04:39):
The same thing happens, and I'm beginning to wonder if
it's the soil.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I was just going to say, did you put it
in the same spot.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I did dig out quite a bit of soil and
replace some that I am I've been spraying and feeding
and the same things happening.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So what are the symptoms symptoms? Emma? You say that
the leaves are starting to droop.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yes they are.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
And then what happens? Did you let them go down
the gurglers so that the whole thing died.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, the whole thing dies, or the leaves dropped off,
and I dug the old one out, so I didn't
want the rest of them to go.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Down as well.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I'm going to have a look at this. I am
not sure because I haven't I've not got great experience
with Portuguese laurel. I may have to look this up.
What I would like you to do? Then you give
uh Sia your number so I can call you later on. Yes,
of course, just down the one and down and I'll
(05:43):
give you a call later on when I'm home.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
And I.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Quick text Rut. Could you ask rud what the best
type of lemon tree for Timaru with the conditions? Well,
Timuru yesterday was gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Good. I think the best ones are the normal, the
normal lemons that we always get, not the ben yen
and the other bits and pieces, but your regular regular lemon.
And I've totally forgotten the name of the damn thing.
But that's not a problem. That's the most hardy in
terms of frost, for instance, and that sort of stuff,
and if we can grow it quite well in Canterbury,
(06:17):
you can certainly do it in Timoru.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Wonderful, right, you know, Robert, A very good morning to you,
big morning.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
I'd like to ask Rude about a problem of grass
grubs in my lawn which is devastated.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Is that?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
So? What?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
How okay? In your lawn grass grub You've got these
little grubs that are going, if you like, at root
level of the grass, those.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Little coy all they must have come out of the ground,
because the stones come down by the hundreds and take
them up and there's just thousands of little holes in
the ground.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah, you got it all right. That is very likely
some of the grass grubs, or one of the grass
grub species, if you like, And it used to be
something that was not very easy to control. But I
do have some reasonably good news, although I've also got
some bad news. The bad news is that there's no
point in spraying it now because those things are literally
(07:16):
coming to the tops of the soil and will fly out,
you know what I mean. So you're a bit late
in the season for that, mind you. The starlings do
a great job by burying, no by picking them up,
digging them up and eating them. So you might be
all right in this case. But let me tell you
this way. There is a material on the market that
is basically in this case sold by Kiwi Care. You
(07:41):
might have seen that in the shops.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
And it is.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Kiwi Cares is a company here that is actually based
in crushes, and it's a silly print. It's called Yates
have got a grub and Purrhina spray. Probably. I think
it's the same active ingredient as Kiwi Cares that you
need to spray at you know, earlier, if you like,
(08:06):
in the year, But that will work now much better
to control the grass, grub and lawns.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
So I have to wait for autumn or do it now.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I know, Well, you could try it now, but I'm
not sure if you can really get them all you
can ever go. But I think it would be better
to do that in autumn time.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah great, because man, it's absolutely devastated
the lawn.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Hm hmmm mmmm. This is probably one of the reasons
I don't care about lawn, you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I know.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Years ago around up the whole lawn and and put
fertilizer down and resowed the grass, and for two or
three or four years it was absolutely magnificent. And from
there on it's just got worse and worse. But I
guess that's my problem for probably not looking at it.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I see you're paying Robert. I know exactly you've been through.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It's just cocuia.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Just let it go.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It's the only thing that doesn't brown off in Auckland
and summer. Right, we're going to take a short break.
We'll talk to Gail and just a moment. If you'd
like to join us, we'd love to hear from you.
It is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. That's the
number to call. Just a quick text about the maddox.
Someone's saying, Amanda's saying, do you use it before you
see signs of coddling moth as a preventative or do
(09:32):
you wait until you've actually seen the coddling moth?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
No, there's two there's two things you can do. You
can have one of those pheromone traps that tell you
immediately when coddling moth are flying that need you have
to check it every day. Then you have ten days
a time to spray that maddox onto your developing tiny apples.
(09:55):
Just you know what happens when the apple blossom falls off,
is you get these tiny apples. You are you aware
the old English name for the tiny apples is a coddling. Huh,
that's why it's right, okay anyway, so yes, So you've
got ten days to actually do that, because that's when
the eggs hatch and the caterpillars will go into those
little coddlings and start start off with the damage already.
(10:19):
The second time will be a couple of months later
in in in more towards summer, when a second generation
of codling moth could do more damage. So that's the
point you've got.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Brilliant, that's gright in FORO. Gail, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
I've got a problem with my deciders, magnoledgers. They're quite
young and but they were shooting away and they do
really well here. But I've got them cut back and
now they've got very just storted leaves. I'm really worried.
They're all curly and sort of they're still green, but
very curly, and they look terrible.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Have you have you had what's your story like? Is
it a bit dry?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (11:05):
Could be that try that. You know, I live on
the way Cato and a train door, wouldn't he So
that's been normal.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, but quite often what I remember from magnolias, they're
quite shallow rooted, if you like. And that means that
if you've got a couple of weeks of no rain
at all and it becomes dry, that the trees start
to do this this strange curly and hanging off the leaves.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
Yes, well half of one bush is fine, but the
other half.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, well that is that, you know what, Just try
it out to see if that particular part of that
bush that is fine is relatively wetter than the other side.
Quite often it's a moisture thing with these things.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Oh well, I wondered if perhaps we made a mistake
cutting them back after flowering.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Ah, maybe you've been a bit too rough with it.
Do you think you've done a bit too much? Yeah,
maybe maybe that could be. Could be. I find it
hard to tell from.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
This distance, but they're very distorted and green and curly
and look horrible.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
It might be something like that. There's no nobody sprayed
any weed killers around there, age, No, that's what I
wonder that. No, okay, that's another option. See, I've got
lots of these options, but I don't think so. There
you are sulking after sulking. It might be okay, listen,
just fertilize it a little bit, just a little bit,
not going over the top. Put the water back on.
(12:41):
So liquid fertile ago, liquid fertilizer easily, and see and
see if that plant will restore itself.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Nice one. Good luck with that, Gail, Hope it all
goes well and clear. Tell me about your wedding cake tree.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
And what not.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
I'm not sure what the official name is, but Rudel
was wondering what ton of years this plant? A winning
cake tree. Obviously that's not worth the true formal name
of it. But I saw that the first time I
saw them was down at Lantt Castle. There was three
in a row that was just beautiful.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
It's one of the cornerses, isn't it corners?
Speaker 6 (13:18):
I think?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I'm yeah. The best time to plant those things is
really winter time. And I must say, you're getting a
bit late. But if you are promising not to go
on holiday and and you you know what I mean,
I don't, I don't there you go now. But honestly,
it's a It's a gorgeous plant, isn't it? And the
(13:41):
levels are perfect perfect. Yeah, I know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
What a freaky looking thing?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Clear?
Speaker 9 (13:48):
I saw them Atlantic Castle. They were just beautiful and
I asked the gardeners what they were the first time
I'd ever seen anything like it.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Corners controversa very gata. There you go, wonderful.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
I'll either get going or wait till next week.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, ob bastly clear. You take care, thank you? And
Diane hello there, oh.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Good morning roods. I have some books ten no, fifteen
blossom trees, and we've planted five of them. We're about
to plant the other ten, and I want to know
how do you feed them? You rave on about the
(14:34):
the weshn't forget What is it that.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Seaweede that use enormous amounts?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Is that good for tree?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
It is absolutely. Tell me, first of all, what do
you call a blossom tree?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
What species is it? What kind is it?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
The spreading ones are our I'm not yes, yes, And
the other one is an upright instead of the spreading has.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
It flowered yet?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
The stems about five meters and then you've got the
some blossom on the top. And now they're going green leaves.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Okay, So but did you have a reasonable amount of
blossom before?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Well, I've only just put them on the ground. I've
been here for probably a month and there wasn't a
lot of blossom. It wasn't obviously the first year that
they're okay, yeah, flat out all right.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
This is what I do with these trees. And this
is always a good trick. So if five, for instance,
come back to these two wait and forget products. One
of them is called seafood soup and the other one
is called the seaweed tea. Now, the seafood soup is
a material that I would use on plants if they
don't flower. That means that you're actually getting more browannches,
you're getting sturdier branches, you're getting good plant health just
(16:02):
before the flowers should be coming. That would be let's
say a month of go for next year, you know
what I mean. I will start the seaweed tea on
a reasonably regular basis because that will put the flower
buds in a good space to do to flower. So
seweet tea is more has got far more potash in
it than the seafood soup. But I was I was missed, miss.
(16:27):
I have to think about what they're called, because they
sound the same, don't they. But anyway, you got you go,
you know what I mean. So general fertilizer from now on,
every now and then. And what I could what you
could do is do an autumn time, do a bit
of seaweet tea to get some potash to set the
buds for flowering for next year, and do it again
when it all starts.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
So the seaweed tea. And about what season did you.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Say, Let's let's say a little bit of seaweetea before
it becomes autumn, and then do it, and then do
it just as the buds are coming in springtime again
that is the time when the park really likes you.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
And just just one so we'll give it a few goes,
a few.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Goes every every four or five days. Boom easy, yep.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
And the other one, the seafood soup is what regularly.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yeah, every every two two weeks, three weeks or so.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Yeah, all it's life.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
The only when not in winter? No, okay, just a
little bit. Yeah no, you don't have to go over
the top, you know. But what I do with the
seaweed sewete and seafood soupers. I put it in a
in a in a in a in a can, you know,
watering can, and I make it very weak so it
looks like them. No no, no, no, no no no,
(17:53):
hang on you can. The good thing about these things
is that you can also put it on a hose
and let it do. Let the hose do the job
of taking enough of it, doubt in the water stream,
so you can do it by the hose. Say for
fifteen trees.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Okayrilliant, fantastic love enjoyed, Diane, Thank you very much. Sorry,
I just really there, Dave.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Hello there in morning road.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Here you going good, good, good, thank you.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Listen, about eight years ago we planted two magnolia trees.
We were in pep Mark. One tree would be about
now three and a half meters high and doing really healthily.
The other one is struggling quite yellow leaves and there's
only about two meters high. All the other plants around
(18:42):
the garden and around that three are healthy and that
one is not, and that one is not planted and
treated the same.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
So how long ago? How old are they?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Eight years?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Eight years? Okay? Well, in that case, I think it
might be that particular tree. There might be something wrong
with that thing, and do you as all you want? Yeah,
you go, and it's been struggling all its life, So
there is either something in the soil or there's something
not right genetically with that thing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Yeah, we we have treated a bit whole garden in
the in and around that same area the same, and
all other plants and trees are healthy.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah. Okay. The question though, is is that a problem
of the soil or is it the problem of the plant?
Do you really need that particular magnolia where it is now?
Is that what you really want to keep it there?
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Well?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Not really? We either want it healthy or are we
abandoned it.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
So so what I would do is I would get
something else, because it might be something in the soil
that the magnolia doesn't like. And if you get another
tree there, another plant, something different, you might find that
you've basically dealt with the with the tree not coping
where it is, And for me, I can't see that
(20:13):
from this distance, to be quite honest, do you know
what I mean?
Speaker 6 (20:16):
We're doing a shock treatment of podcast or something.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yeah, you can have it. This is time for experimentation
the boy.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, all of this, you dave. I'll tell you what
it's weird because I planted a little camellia in a
garden in front of entrance to a property, right, and
it sat there for about two years, struggling away, and
I fed it and I talked to it and I
looked after it, and eventually, about I don't know, six
months ago, I dug it up and I moved it.
I could you not no more than six meters away?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Right?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And I looked at it the other day when I
was maying the lords, and I was like, it's as
happy as Larry.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, that's exactly what it could be. That's why I'm saying,
this is time for believable, good boy, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
That makes you make me feel quite good to be fair, right, Yeah,
And that's what gardens do.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
They make you good.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
It is.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
In fact, I might go and feed mine today. That
seems like you've been to do on a Sunday.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Are you have a good day. I'll question you next
week and I'll see you there.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Look forward to it, alright, that'll be dangerous ridden in
the studio with the next Sunday. Are criky. Hold on
your hats, folks, it'll be a wild ride next Sunday,
so I be very afraid. Enjoy your week, folks. Catch
you next week. Take care, have a happy week once
she's a friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
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from News Talks EDB.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
You and News Talks ed B. Had climb passed a
very good morning.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Sir, A very good morning to you. Trots Garden I have.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
I have.
Speaker 2 (00:22):
I was there yesterday.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
There's only a bugger. You should have told me anyway,
Is it that lovely?
Speaker 2 (00:31):
It's absolutely gorgeous. I mean, look to be fair South
Island at the moment. What a beautiful time of year
to be there. So just briefly I ended up flying
into christ Church Friday morning, went out and had a
look at the SIPs Foremance SIPs factory, drove out through
the Rakaiah Gorge Methven, had a toasted sandwich there, into Geraldine,
(00:51):
to the Military Museum, down to Timaru home, shown Timaru
back up and Rob, who I know because our parents
were friends right back in the day. He sent me
a message via the old Facebook and said, hey, look
stop by, and so I did it. And it's absolutely gorgeous.
Trot's garden beautiful.
Speaker 3 (01:13):
Allan Trot's been years of course he made this amazing place.
Speaker 2 (01:17):
Yes, wonderful, it's stunning and you know, all the rhododendrons
are full and the magnolias are coming out and just wonderful. Yeah, no,
it it was really nice to wander around. It's just gorgeous,
so beautiful part of the country and a beautiful time
a year to be there.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
It certainly is. I totally agree with you, because although
in the next few weeks I'm going to be in Auckland,
so I'll see you probably next week in the studio.
I'll make sure i'll do that.
Speaker 2 (01:41):
That'll be awesome.
Speaker 3 (01:42):
And something else. Remember you sent me an email from
a lady who said I've got troubles getting mad X too.
Speaker 2 (01:49):
Yeah, hasn't been phased out.
Speaker 3 (01:51):
Is that the issue? No, it's not at all. It's
just that the key industries are the people that import it.
This is so just to make sure that everybody understands
MADEX comes into two versions. If you like MADX three
and MEDX two, it is basically made I think in
Switzerland something like that, and Key industry basically got both
(02:18):
things in. But the MADX two was is a bit
of a tricky thing to work with. It did not
sell as well for the simple reason that a lot
of the garden centers that stocked. It did not stock
it in a fridge is where you need to have it,
so there's some costs involved with that. You can imagine
that would have trouble. MADX three, on the other hand,
(02:41):
is the professional material that growers that orchidist use. MADX
three is everywhere available if you look for that. We
know it's a bit more expensive, but the right The
nice thing is I've got madx three from five years
ago that I store in the freezer and it is
(03:01):
still perfectly working. So if you get, for instance, one
bottle of medics which is larger than the Medix two,
and you shared with a couple of neighbors, you basically
end up a lot cheaper off and it will work
for a long long time.
Speaker 2 (03:15):
And obviously it's it's effective in terms of controlling coddling.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
Moth, unbelievably effective. You may have to do it. I
think that official growers do it three four times a year.
I do it maybe twice time, twice a year, and
I still have ninety nine percent no coddling moth. The
odd one that whatever, I don't care it's too much,
(03:40):
but it works fabulously. And the cool thing is Peter.
It is a virus that you're spraying around on the
developing fruit. The virus only kills codling moth caterpillars, nothing else,
so it's really very specific specific. And don't forget to
do your walnuts and your crab apples as well, because
(04:03):
they can have the same pest called coddling moth.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Okay, fantastic, thanks for theo on that, Emma. A very
good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (04:12):
Good morning. How are you?
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Thank you? Emma.
Speaker 4 (04:18):
I have a row of Portuguese laurels and they're all
doing really well, but I have one in particular that
is not looking flesh. The leaves are sort of turned
down and the rest of them are just starting to
really green up and push up again, and I'm a
bit worried. I've actually replaced the same laurel last year.
(04:39):
The same thing happens, and I'm beginning to wonder if
it's the soil.
Speaker 3 (04:43):
I was just going to say, did you put it
in the same spot.
Speaker 4 (04:47):
I did dig out quite a bit of soil and
replace some that I am I've been spraying and feeding
and the same things happening.
Speaker 3 (04:56):
So what are the symptoms symptoms? Emma? You say that
the leaves are starting to droop.
Speaker 4 (05:02):
Yes they are.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
And then what happens? Did you let them go down
the gurglers so that the whole thing died.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
Yeah, the whole thing dies, or the leaves dropped off,
and I dug the old one out, so I didn't
want the rest of them to go.
Speaker 5 (05:18):
Down as well.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
I'm going to have a look at this. I am
not sure because I haven't I've not got great experience
with Portuguese laurel. I may have to look this up.
What I would like you to do? Then you give
uh Sia your number so I can call you later on. Yes,
of course, just down the one and down and I'll
(05:43):
give you a call later on when I'm home.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
And I.
Speaker 2 (05:47):
Quick text Rut. Could you ask rud what the best
type of lemon tree for Timaru with the conditions? Well,
Timuru yesterday was gorgeous.
Speaker 3 (05:55):
Good. I think the best ones are the normal, the
normal lemons that we always get, not the ben yen
and the other bits and pieces, but your regular regular lemon.
And I've totally forgotten the name of the damn thing.
But that's not a problem. That's the most hardy in
terms of frost, for instance, and that sort of stuff,
and if we can grow it quite well in Canterbury,
(06:17):
you can certainly do it in Timoru.
Speaker 2 (06:19):
Wonderful, right, you know, Robert, A very good morning to you,
big morning.
Speaker 7 (06:24):
I'd like to ask Rude about a problem of grass
grubs in my lawn which is devastated.
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Is that?
Speaker 6 (06:33):
So? What?
Speaker 3 (06:34):
How okay? In your lawn grass grub You've got these
little grubs that are going, if you like, at root
level of the grass, those.
Speaker 7 (06:42):
Little coy all they must have come out of the ground,
because the stones come down by the hundreds and take
them up and there's just thousands of little holes in
the ground.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Yeah, you got it all right. That is very likely
some of the grass grubs, or one of the grass
grub species, if you like, And it used to be
something that was not very easy to control. But I
do have some reasonably good news, although I've also got
some bad news. The bad news is that there's no
point in spraying it now because those things are literally
(07:16):
coming to the tops of the soil and will fly out,
you know what I mean. So you're a bit late
in the season for that, mind you. The starlings do
a great job by burying, no by picking them up,
digging them up and eating them. So you might be
all right in this case. But let me tell you
this way. There is a material on the market that
is basically in this case sold by Kiwi Care. You
(07:41):
might have seen that in the shops.
Speaker 4 (07:44):
And it is.
Speaker 3 (07:46):
Kiwi Cares is a company here that is actually based
in crushes, and it's a silly print. It's called Yates
have got a grub and Purrhina spray. Probably. I think
it's the same active ingredient as Kiwi Cares that you
need to spray at you know, earlier, if you like,
(08:06):
in the year, But that will work now much better
to control the grass, grub and lawns.
Speaker 7 (08:15):
So I have to wait for autumn or do it now.
Speaker 3 (08:19):
I know, Well, you could try it now, but I'm
not sure if you can really get them all you
can ever go. But I think it would be better
to do that in autumn time.
Speaker 7 (08:28):
Yeah, yeah, okay, yeah great, because man, it's absolutely devastated
the lawn.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
Hm hmmm mmmm. This is probably one of the reasons
I don't care about lawn, you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (08:42):
Yeah, yeah, yeah, I know.
Speaker 4 (08:43):
I know.
Speaker 7 (08:44):
Years ago around up the whole lawn and and put
fertilizer down and resowed the grass, and for two or
three or four years it was absolutely magnificent. And from
there on it's just got worse and worse. But I
guess that's my problem for probably not looking at it.
Speaker 2 (09:04):
I see you're paying Robert. I know exactly you've been through.
Speaker 5 (09:08):
Now.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
It's just cocuia.
Speaker 3 (09:09):
Just let it go.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
It's the only thing that doesn't brown off in Auckland
and summer. Right, we're going to take a short break.
We'll talk to Gail and just a moment. If you'd
like to join us, we'd love to hear from you.
It is eight hundred and eighty ten eighty. That's the
number to call. Just a quick text about the maddox.
Someone's saying, Amanda's saying, do you use it before you
see signs of coddling moth as a preventative or do
(09:32):
you wait until you've actually seen the coddling moth?
Speaker 3 (09:35):
No, there's two there's two things you can do. You
can have one of those pheromone traps that tell you
immediately when coddling moth are flying that need you have
to check it every day. Then you have ten days
a time to spray that maddox onto your developing tiny apples.
(09:55):
Just you know what happens when the apple blossom falls off,
is you get these tiny apples. You are you aware
the old English name for the tiny apples is a coddling. Huh,
that's why it's right, okay anyway, so yes, So you've
got ten days to actually do that, because that's when
the eggs hatch and the caterpillars will go into those
little coddlings and start start off with the damage already.
(10:19):
The second time will be a couple of months later
in in in more towards summer, when a second generation
of codling moth could do more damage. So that's the
point you've got.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
Brilliant, that's gright in FORO. Gail, good morning, Good morning.
Speaker 8 (10:36):
I've got a problem with my deciders, magnoledgers. They're quite
young and but they were shooting away and they do
really well here. But I've got them cut back and
now they've got very just storted leaves. I'm really worried.
They're all curly and sort of they're still green, but
very curly, and they look terrible.
Speaker 3 (11:00):
Have you have you had what's your story like? Is
it a bit dry?
Speaker 5 (11:05):
Yes?
Speaker 8 (11:05):
Could be that try that. You know, I live on
the way Cato and a train door, wouldn't he So
that's been normal.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Yeah, but quite often what I remember from magnolias, they're
quite shallow rooted, if you like. And that means that
if you've got a couple of weeks of no rain
at all and it becomes dry, that the trees start
to do this this strange curly and hanging off the leaves.
Speaker 8 (11:30):
Yes, well half of one bush is fine, but the
other half.
Speaker 3 (11:36):
Yeah, well that is that, you know what, Just try
it out to see if that particular part of that
bush that is fine is relatively wetter than the other side.
Quite often it's a moisture thing with these things.
Speaker 8 (11:51):
Oh well, I wondered if perhaps we made a mistake
cutting them back after flowering.
Speaker 3 (11:57):
Ah, maybe you've been a bit too rough with it.
Do you think you've done a bit too much? Yeah,
maybe maybe that could be. Could be. I find it
hard to tell from.
Speaker 8 (12:11):
This distance, but they're very distorted and green and curly
and look horrible.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
It might be something like that. There's no nobody sprayed
any weed killers around there, age, No, that's what I
wonder that. No, okay, that's another option. See, I've got
lots of these options, but I don't think so. There
you are sulking after sulking. It might be okay, listen,
just fertilize it a little bit, just a little bit,
not going over the top. Put the water back on.
(12:41):
So liquid fertile ago, liquid fertilizer easily, and see and
see if that plant will restore itself.
Speaker 2 (12:48):
Nice one. Good luck with that, Gail, Hope it all
goes well and clear. Tell me about your wedding cake tree.
Speaker 4 (12:55):
And what not.
Speaker 9 (12:57):
I'm not sure what the official name is, but Rudel
was wondering what ton of years this plant? A winning
cake tree. Obviously that's not worth the true formal name
of it. But I saw that the first time I
saw them was down at Lantt Castle. There was three
in a row that was just beautiful.
Speaker 3 (13:14):
It's one of the cornerses, isn't it corners?
Speaker 6 (13:18):
I think?
Speaker 3 (13:19):
I'm yeah. The best time to plant those things is
really winter time. And I must say, you're getting a
bit late. But if you are promising not to go
on holiday and and you you know what I mean,
I don't, I don't there you go now. But honestly,
it's a It's a gorgeous plant, isn't it? And the
(13:41):
levels are perfect perfect. Yeah, I know what you mean.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
What a freaky looking thing?
Speaker 4 (13:45):
Clear?
Speaker 9 (13:48):
I saw them Atlantic Castle. They were just beautiful and
I asked the gardeners what they were the first time
I'd ever seen anything like it.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Corners controversa very gata. There you go, wonderful.
Speaker 9 (14:04):
I'll either get going or wait till next week.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Yeah, ob bastly clear. You take care, thank you? And
Diane hello there, oh.
Speaker 5 (14:12):
Good morning roods. I have some books ten no, fifteen
blossom trees, and we've planted five of them. We're about
to plant the other ten, and I want to know
how do you feed them? You rave on about the
(14:34):
the weshn't forget What is it that.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Seaweede that use enormous amounts?
Speaker 5 (14:42):
Is that good for tree?
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Yes?
Speaker 3 (14:46):
It is absolutely. Tell me, first of all, what do
you call a blossom tree?
Speaker 1 (14:49):
Is it?
Speaker 3 (14:49):
What species is it? What kind is it?
Speaker 5 (14:53):
The spreading ones are our I'm not yes, yes, And
the other one is an upright instead of the spreading has.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
It flowered yet?
Speaker 5 (15:10):
The stems about five meters and then you've got the
some blossom on the top. And now they're going green leaves.
Speaker 3 (15:20):
Okay, So but did you have a reasonable amount of
blossom before?
Speaker 5 (15:27):
Well, I've only just put them on the ground. I've
been here for probably a month and there wasn't a
lot of blossom. It wasn't obviously the first year that
they're okay, yeah, flat out all right.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
This is what I do with these trees. And this
is always a good trick. So if five, for instance,
come back to these two wait and forget products. One
of them is called seafood soup and the other one
is called the seaweed tea. Now, the seafood soup is
a material that I would use on plants if they
don't flower. That means that you're actually getting more browannches,
you're getting sturdier branches, you're getting good plant health just
(16:02):
before the flowers should be coming. That would be let's
say a month of go for next year, you know
what I mean. I will start the seaweed tea on
a reasonably regular basis because that will put the flower
buds in a good space to do to flower. So
seweet tea is more has got far more potash in
it than the seafood soup. But I was I was missed, miss.
(16:27):
I have to think about what they're called, because they
sound the same, don't they. But anyway, you got you go,
you know what I mean. So general fertilizer from now on,
every now and then. And what I could what you
could do is do an autumn time, do a bit
of seaweet tea to get some potash to set the
buds for flowering for next year, and do it again
when it all starts.
Speaker 5 (16:49):
So the seaweed tea. And about what season did you.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
Say, Let's let's say a little bit of seaweetea before
it becomes autumn, and then do it, and then do
it just as the buds are coming in springtime again
that is the time when the park really likes you.
Speaker 5 (17:07):
And just just one so we'll give it a few goes,
a few.
Speaker 3 (17:11):
Goes every every four or five days. Boom easy, yep.
Speaker 5 (17:17):
And the other one, the seafood soup is what regularly.
Speaker 3 (17:23):
Yeah, every every two two weeks, three weeks or so.
Speaker 5 (17:27):
Yeah, all it's life.
Speaker 3 (17:30):
The only when not in winter? No, okay, just a
little bit. Yeah no, you don't have to go over
the top, you know. But what I do with the
seaweed sewete and seafood soupers. I put it in a
in a in a in a in a can, you know,
watering can, and I make it very weak so it
looks like them. No no, no, no, no no no,
(17:53):
hang on you can. The good thing about these things
is that you can also put it on a hose
and let it do. Let the hose do the job
of taking enough of it, doubt in the water stream,
so you can do it by the hose. Say for
fifteen trees.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
Okayrilliant, fantastic love enjoyed, Diane, Thank you very much. Sorry,
I just really there, Dave.
Speaker 6 (18:15):
Hello there in morning road.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Here you going good, good, good, thank you.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Listen, about eight years ago we planted two magnolia trees.
We were in pep Mark. One tree would be about
now three and a half meters high and doing really healthily.
The other one is struggling quite yellow leaves and there's
only about two meters high. All the other plants around
(18:42):
the garden and around that three are healthy and that
one is not, and that one is not planted and
treated the same.
Speaker 3 (18:51):
So how long ago? How old are they?
Speaker 6 (18:55):
Eight years?
Speaker 3 (18:56):
Eight years? Okay? Well, in that case, I think it
might be that particular tree. There might be something wrong
with that thing, and do you as all you want? Yeah,
you go, and it's been struggling all its life, So
there is either something in the soil or there's something
not right genetically with that thing, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (19:14):
Yeah, we we have treated a bit whole garden in
the in and around that same area the same, and
all other plants and trees are healthy.
Speaker 3 (19:25):
Yeah. Okay. The question though, is is that a problem
of the soil or is it the problem of the plant?
Do you really need that particular magnolia where it is now?
Is that what you really want to keep it there?
Speaker 5 (19:45):
Well?
Speaker 6 (19:45):
Not really? We either want it healthy or are we
abandoned it.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
So so what I would do is I would get
something else, because it might be something in the soil
that the magnolia doesn't like. And if you get another
tree there, another plant, something different, you might find that
you've basically dealt with the with the tree not coping
where it is, And for me, I can't see that
(20:13):
from this distance, to be quite honest, do you know
what I mean?
Speaker 6 (20:16):
We're doing a shock treatment of podcast or something.
Speaker 3 (20:22):
Yeah, you can have it. This is time for experimentation
the boy.
Speaker 2 (20:25):
Yeah, all of this, you dave. I'll tell you what
it's weird because I planted a little camellia in a
garden in front of entrance to a property, right, and
it sat there for about two years, struggling away, and
I fed it and I talked to it and I
looked after it, and eventually, about I don't know, six
months ago, I dug it up and I moved it.
I could you not no more than six meters away?
Speaker 4 (20:48):
Right?
Speaker 2 (20:49):
And I looked at it the other day when I
was maying the lords, and I was like, it's as
happy as Larry.
Speaker 3 (20:53):
Yeah, that's exactly what it could be. That's why I'm saying,
this is time for believable, good boy, unbelievable.
Speaker 2 (21:01):
That makes you make me feel quite good to be fair, right, Yeah,
And that's what gardens do.
Speaker 3 (21:05):
They make you good.
Speaker 1 (21:06):
It is.
Speaker 3 (21:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (21:07):
In fact, I might go and feed mine today. That
seems like you've been to do on a Sunday.
Speaker 3 (21:11):
Are you have a good day. I'll question you next
week and I'll see you there.
Speaker 2 (21:14):
Look forward to it, alright, that'll be dangerous ridden in
the studio with the next Sunday. Are criky. Hold on
your hats, folks, it'll be a wild ride next Sunday,
so I be very afraid. Enjoy your week, folks. Catch
you next week. Take care, have a happy week once
she's a friend of mine.
Speaker 1 (21:36):
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