October 12, 2024 • 19 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be well, A very good morning. The route climb passed.
How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
A very good morning to you, Peter. Are you all okay? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, yeah, hanging in there, hanging.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, I'm sure you are sure? So that was that
was it. I listened to that little story about you know,
people saying things about you. I don't even know. I
thought that, you know, this is this is media, just
suck it and just.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, I kind of wondered about that, and then I thought, stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It is because you're you're absolutely right you. I think
it needs to be said.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
People out every now and then. Yeah, my friend has
text me and asked about passion fruit and I haven't
texted them back yet to say, might not be the
person to talk to about this, but his passion fruit
has kind of what he said, passion fruit plant doing
exceptionally well flowered now has started withering and dying. Oh
(01:04):
what's going on?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh gosh, that could be all sorts of things. It
could be could be lack of fertilizer, could be wrong,
too much water, right, it could be not enough water.
You know it could be. It depends on your soil, I.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Suppose, right. But if it was going well one year
and then suddenly it's turned up its toes.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And it's only two years, you think that it's alive
because special fruits are not very long lived.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Ah okay, maybe that's maybe it's reaching the end of
its life.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Maybe it is, but that point the years, Okay, some
something to go on. Yeah, now that might be. It
might be an idea to look at that and put
a new plant in.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
All right, there you go, Simon, that's your job for today, right, Tony,
A very good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I have an old apple tree, the coppers orange, and
I wanted to know about the efficacy of these pheromone
traps and when you put them out, if they are,
it is good and we.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
You pot them.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Okay. The traps themselves are not there to control the
actual coddling moth. The traps are there to give you
an idea that they are around, and you have to
check them from this time onwards, almost every other day
or so, to see if you've got some of those
(02:28):
moths stuck on the sticky tape in the trap. By
the way, the trap you hang in your tree somewhere.
You can have one tree, one tree, one trap, no problem.
So that's easy. You can put them wherever you like.
They will guard you. That particular smell go on.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Two but two opinions. One it's under the tree, you know,
they's as far away up the tree, because otherwise them
just the carriages who go to the tree.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
No, it doesn't matter whether they go to the tree
or not. It's and you're not going to control them
with just a trap. The trap is there to give
you the exact timing when they start flying, and when
they start flying, they will you. Males fight and females
no matter where the trap is, it makes no difference
at all. Males find females, and then the females will
(03:13):
lay their eggs on the very small little apples that
have developed after flowering. So as you can see from
now on the little apples, the coddlings as they call them,
the coddlings are developing, and those females lay their eggs
on it. You've got ten days if you like, between
the first moths flying in to the moment that those
(03:34):
eggs actually hatch into caterpillars. And once they hatch into caterpillars,
they go into the fruit and there's nothing you can
do about it. So this is your timing.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Yeah, okay, Also very quickly, I've got the trees in
the middle of a lawn. How do I feed it?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You've got a what in the middle of the lawn.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
The tree is in the middle of a lawn. How
do I feed the tree?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh, basically by putting some fertilizer around the root zone
of the tree. So you put a handful of you know,
you know roughly what the roots are, and it's like
it goes as far as the edges of the tree
if you go down in in a vertical line.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
So I mean lawn now, I mean I can't do
get the lawn.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Now, you don't have to dig up the lawn. You
put the fertilizer on the lawn. It will then water
itself in or drift drift itself into the root zone
of the tree and then it gets its fertilizer.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That's okay, that's what I thought.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And a good one is liquid fertilizer.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yes, that has them last year, which I sprayed on
the foliage. That's actually something got from budding. And that's
a hose on and it's supposed to ceaseful. I think
it is. Yeah, and liquid's large, letting me good.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, it is good. And especially if it's got
a high higher amount of potash, which is the k
of np K. You can see this right, Yeah, you
got it. And and remember there's one thing. I think
it's a myth that folia fertilizer is important because folia
fertilizer is the stuff you spray on the leaves and
(05:07):
then it goes into the leaves. But I don't know
if you ever have been breathing through other holes than
your nose. I think in this case the fertilizer needs
to go to the roots. The roots take up the fertility,
not the leaves. There you go by.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Much pressure and tiny you have a great day and
fail a very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Money, How are you?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
We're good.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
In the tother moment, she heavy has like a rust
coming up on my leaves, on my.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Fruit trees of your lemon trees.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Living and orange yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Okay, And that rust is that orange stuff on the
top of the leaves.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
It is yeah, yes, orange you did green yeah yeah
yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
The orange is still yeah, the orange is still working.
Now if you've got a rust on a leak on
a leaf eaves. Generally the best way to spray it
is with copper and sulfur, such as a copper sulfur
mix like Nature's Way fungus spray.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Oh yes.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And the reason I'm saying that one is because you
have a tree that you're going to be eating the
fruit from, you know, so instead for instance, of using
microlob O'Neil and some other fungus sides, I think it
might be an idea to use a a fungus site
that is actually organic like copper and sulfur, and it
(06:39):
doesn't hurt you or you know, it's not not bad
for you to have that on the on the leaves.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
And if and I do have a client, so that
would be good for eighty two?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Would it for aphyts?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, I would use it. But I wouldn't use a
funger site on aphiths for a fix. I would use
something like the pyrethrums, which is another one of those
organs neck materials that the fits not like.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Okay, and I can get that from Runnings or mind
Tina somewhere, do I They all have it? Okay, are wonderful?
Speaker 7 (07:20):
It is?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
I have one more thing my lemon, my orange tree.
I find it. It's very it's all up. It's not
spreading out. What would be causing that?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Your your lemon tree is not what do you mean
it's not spreading out?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
My orange tree. I have it in the big pot
and it's all coming up that just a couple of
branches are more coming out that the other ones are
all How do I ship pulling close? Pulling out a
wee bit?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Will they have to do that through growth? So I
am not underd percent sure what's happening there. Sometimes when
you prune your tree, you'll find that the buds below
where you've pruned it will go outwards. That would be good,
but you know what, to be quite honest, faye, I
think lemon trees and citrus trees are probably best planted
(08:13):
in soil rather than in containers.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Yeah, my lemon tree, I've had it in my big pot.
I think it must have been a miniture one. But
I get heat, the heat fruit on it and it's
for about thirteens. Now, well that's good.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
That's that is good. Going to be quite honest, yes,
that's good. But generally speaking, there comes a time that
the pot is becoming too small for the root zone,
isn't it?
Speaker 6 (08:43):
And my meat, I mean to say to my meat
is a bit dying of it dusty thing. So would
that be ideal for that too?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, you could use that, I suppose. Why not on
the copper or on the Yeah, use the copper has
always had?
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Faie?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
What do you reckon the chance of meat? There's still
being some pancake better leftover by the time I get.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Home, not very little it now.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
They would have hoovered them up by now by the
time I get home. Anyway, we live, and hope we'll
take sure break. We'll be back in just a moment.
I would climb Puss with us this morning, angel a
very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Oh good morning. Yes, rude, I've got a real big problem.
We bought an old home, an old house that's been
rented out for ten years. We've got garden beds around
the perimeter of the house and on the around the fence,
(09:50):
and I'm having a problem with weeds and grass growing
in those beds that hadn't been dug for ten years. Foolishly,
I guess when we first moved in, I spent a
whole week weeding out and sifting soil on the front
(10:12):
fence bed, and then I put compost in it and
top soil and planted, and within a week the weeds
were growing higher than the plants. So what I've tried
to do now is lay down, lay down a cardboard
(10:37):
and weed mat, and then put pebbles on top, and
just put my plants in pots. But I've got some
existing shrubs in there that I don't want to I
want to know if there's a weed killer, either vinegar
or something in a store that I can spray on
(11:02):
the pebble garden in between each shrub without killing the shrubs. Sorry,
I'm not very good explaining, but I get what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
So this is it. So that you've got a heck
of a lot of weeds, you try to do alsos
of thing with cardboard and pebbles on top of the
weed math you're you're, for instance, not keen on using
stuff like roundup.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
No no, no, no no no no. Well I don't
I don't mind, but I don't want to kill a
nice big hydranger bush and one or two shrubs that
are within the existing beds. I've covered them with pebbles,
and what's happening now is I'm having to lay down.
(11:52):
I've got a thrider. I'm an old woman, I'm in
the late seventies. I'm having to lay down on the
ground and lean over and pull out the weeds and
blades of grass and stuff that are coming through the stone,
through the pebbles. So what you know, I gave up
(12:13):
on the front bed. I got full packets of wildflower seeds,
and I thought, I'll beat you buggers. I'm going to
sprinkle wildflowers all over you. And that's what I did.
So I've now got a wildflower bed at the front
of the house. I can't do it all the.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Way around, Okay, So there are ways of actually spraying
the weeds with let's say, like woody weed killer or whatever,
roundup e typestock grass.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
It's a lot of it is grass egg.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh that's even better because that is reasonably easy to
control with that sort of stuff like roundup. But I'm
just saying, there is a way of actually putting pieces
of cardboard to protect your your your your various plants
that you want to keep, you know, from beyond me.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
I already put down cardboard, sick cardboard from cardboll boxes,
and then you know, on top of the weed mat
and then pebbles, but it's still coming through.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Okay, Okay. So the idea is to actually get your
weed killer whatever you use, from a nozzle that you
can actually aim in the right place. But what I'm
saying about the cardboard is, have you thought about also
having cardboard in a vertical manner so that if there
is a bit of drift of wheat killer, that it
(13:39):
doesn't go over your hydrangels, that it doesn't even get there,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Yeah, why don't you get to the roots through the
soil underneath?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Not if you take it easy and just do the
grass from the top, you don't have to overdo it. Honestly,
you don't. And this is why, this is why I
mentioned things like woody weed killer and round up and
all these other things. A lot of people don't like them,
and I can imagine that's the case. But if you know,
if you if you put a sticker on those which
means a sticker is just so affectant that it sticks
(14:11):
to the grass leaves themselves, you don't need it much
before it goes down.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Into I don't mind you, I don't mind using round up.
But yeah, I just can't keep lying down on the
ground with arthri hibs and trying to do it.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I have the same problem. Don't worry, I know exactly
what I mean. I've got to try to do the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So good luck with that, Jills. Over time, hopefully you
get on top of it. But yeah, you can. You
can just picture a you know, teen years of sort
of lack of attention.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
It is a mess. It's absolute mess. And sometimes you
would use you need napem.
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Oh and now let's see what's going on, Trish with
your lemon tree.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Yeah, Hio, morning rude. I've got a lemon tree and
a lime tree, both planted at the same time, about
twelve years ago. The lime tree is massive. I'm just
abundant with fruits. The lemon tree is not even a
meter high. It's not so healthy. And we get about
four lemons the here.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Okay, what's the lemon tree's name? What's its variety? Mayor
mayor lemon? Well, sometimes that happens. I we at the
moment on the porthills have a bit of a problem
with lemon trees. It's not the right place for them.
D you need to dig a whole big hole with
new new soil if you like it. Is that sort
of stuff sometimes and if but if you're a lime
(16:39):
which is I assume not too far away from the
lemon tree. No, if that does well, then you might
have got a lemon tree that is not that not
that healthy, not that good, not that well if you
like grown in the nursery, and you might need another
one that is quite often helps that quite often.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
Helps wrap it out. You reckon.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
No, don't rip it out. No, don't drip it out,
because you always need two lemons if you maya for instance,
for for for the fact that they sometimes work one
year not the other year, and you need pollinatus. So
sometimes it pays to keep it there and put the
next one next door to it and see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, awesome, good luck to you. Take care and Ross
a mystery, Hey Ross, Yeah, Hi, Hey.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
We've got to big brief. We got one minute.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Yeah hi. I've got this creeping sort of weed. It's
it's about three or four millimeters. It's flat, and it's green,
and it's I think it goes better or worse, which
every way to call it in the shade. But it's
just invasive and it's just growing all over the place,
starts off and cracks and it just spreads what is it?
(18:01):
And how do you get rid of it?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I can't see that from this distance. Ross to be
quite on stuffy.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
It's always fish scales. It's like fish scales. It's just
a flat weed that goes on the surface of the soil.
It never goes more than about two milimeters high. It's
just like a fish.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Scale green, so it's on the ground itself. It's not wondering,
Willy look, No, I don't know. I'd have to look
at it. I have to look at it to see
what I is. Get now, get it identified. Put it
on I Naturalist on your phone, I net you list.
It's an app for free and you'll learn very quickly
(18:38):
how to use it, and it identifies what the weed
is and then we can get somewhere.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I might test that out today because I think I've
got the same thing creeping out across the broken concrete
path at my place.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Okay, right, I'll try there. Any different things go.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Who knows, it's always a pleasure. Look after yourself, take care,
and we'll we'll talk to you again next Sunday. All right, right,
I'm going to go and see whether there's any pancake.
Add a lift in the bottom of the Bowl. I
think my chance is a slim but it's worth while. Joseph,
I'm making pancakes this morning radio. Have a good week. Actually,
i'll be back tonight. I'm here at six to do
(19:14):
Sunday at six here at ZEDB this evening as well,
so looking forward to that. Otherwise, have a good week,
and if you tuned in again next Sunday, we'll be here.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be well, A very good morning. The route climb passed.
How are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
A very good morning to you, Peter. Are you all okay? Yeah?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, yeah, hanging in there, hanging.
Speaker 3 (00:20):
Yeah, I'm sure you are sure? So that was that
was it. I listened to that little story about you know,
people saying things about you. I don't even know. I
thought that, you know, this is this is media, just
suck it and just.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
Yeah, I kind of wondered about that, and then I thought, stuff.
Speaker 3 (00:37):
It is because you're you're absolutely right you. I think
it needs to be said.
Speaker 2 (00:43):
People out every now and then. Yeah, my friend has
text me and asked about passion fruit and I haven't
texted them back yet to say, might not be the
person to talk to about this, but his passion fruit
has kind of what he said, passion fruit plant doing
exceptionally well flowered now has started withering and dying. Oh
(01:04):
what's going on?
Speaker 3 (01:06):
Oh gosh, that could be all sorts of things. It
could be could be lack of fertilizer, could be wrong,
too much water, right, it could be not enough water.
You know it could be. It depends on your soil, I.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Suppose, right. But if it was going well one year
and then suddenly it's turned up its toes.
Speaker 3 (01:24):
And it's only two years, you think that it's alive
because special fruits are not very long lived.
Speaker 2 (01:29):
Ah okay, maybe that's maybe it's reaching the end of
its life.
Speaker 3 (01:32):
Maybe it is, but that point the years, Okay, some
something to go on. Yeah, now that might be. It
might be an idea to look at that and put
a new plant in.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
All right, there you go, Simon, that's your job for today, right, Tony,
A very good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (01:51):
I have an old apple tree, the coppers orange, and
I wanted to know about the efficacy of these pheromone
traps and when you put them out, if they are,
it is good and we.
Speaker 5 (02:04):
You pot them.
Speaker 3 (02:05):
Okay. The traps themselves are not there to control the
actual coddling moth. The traps are there to give you
an idea that they are around, and you have to
check them from this time onwards, almost every other day
or so, to see if you've got some of those
(02:28):
moths stuck on the sticky tape in the trap. By
the way, the trap you hang in your tree somewhere.
You can have one tree, one tree, one trap, no problem.
So that's easy. You can put them wherever you like.
They will guard you. That particular smell go on.
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Two but two opinions. One it's under the tree, you know,
they's as far away up the tree, because otherwise them
just the carriages who go to the tree.
Speaker 3 (02:51):
No, it doesn't matter whether they go to the tree
or not. It's and you're not going to control them
with just a trap. The trap is there to give
you the exact timing when they start flying, and when
they start flying, they will you. Males fight and females
no matter where the trap is, it makes no difference
at all. Males find females, and then the females will
(03:13):
lay their eggs on the very small little apples that
have developed after flowering. So as you can see from
now on the little apples, the coddlings as they call them,
the coddlings are developing, and those females lay their eggs
on it. You've got ten days if you like, between
the first moths flying in to the moment that those
(03:34):
eggs actually hatch into caterpillars. And once they hatch into caterpillars,
they go into the fruit and there's nothing you can
do about it. So this is your timing.
Speaker 4 (03:45):
Yeah, okay, Also very quickly, I've got the trees in
the middle of a lawn. How do I feed it?
Speaker 3 (03:51):
You've got a what in the middle of the lawn.
Speaker 4 (03:54):
The tree is in the middle of a lawn. How
do I feed the tree?
Speaker 3 (03:57):
Oh, basically by putting some fertilizer around the root zone
of the tree. So you put a handful of you know,
you know roughly what the roots are, and it's like
it goes as far as the edges of the tree
if you go down in in a vertical line.
Speaker 4 (04:13):
So I mean lawn now, I mean I can't do
get the lawn.
Speaker 3 (04:16):
Now, you don't have to dig up the lawn. You
put the fertilizer on the lawn. It will then water
itself in or drift drift itself into the root zone
of the tree and then it gets its fertilizer.
Speaker 4 (04:27):
That's okay, that's what I thought.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
And a good one is liquid fertilizer.
Speaker 4 (04:33):
Yes, that has them last year, which I sprayed on
the foliage. That's actually something got from budding. And that's
a hose on and it's supposed to ceaseful. I think
it is. Yeah, and liquid's large, letting me good.
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Yeah, yeah, it is good. And especially if it's got
a high higher amount of potash, which is the k
of np K. You can see this right, Yeah, you
got it. And and remember there's one thing. I think
it's a myth that folia fertilizer is important because folia
fertilizer is the stuff you spray on the leaves and
(05:07):
then it goes into the leaves. But I don't know
if you ever have been breathing through other holes than
your nose. I think in this case the fertilizer needs
to go to the roots. The roots take up the fertility,
not the leaves. There you go by.
Speaker 2 (05:26):
Much pressure and tiny you have a great day and
fail a very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (05:31):
Money, How are you?
Speaker 3 (05:32):
We're good.
Speaker 6 (05:34):
In the tother moment, she heavy has like a rust
coming up on my leaves, on my.
Speaker 3 (05:42):
Fruit trees of your lemon trees.
Speaker 6 (05:45):
Living and orange yeah yeah, yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
Okay, And that rust is that orange stuff on the
top of the leaves.
Speaker 6 (05:52):
It is yeah, yes, orange you did green yeah yeah
yeah yeah.
Speaker 3 (05:59):
The orange is still yeah, the orange is still working.
Now if you've got a rust on a leak on
a leaf eaves. Generally the best way to spray it
is with copper and sulfur, such as a copper sulfur
mix like Nature's Way fungus spray.
Speaker 6 (06:17):
Oh yes.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
And the reason I'm saying that one is because you
have a tree that you're going to be eating the
fruit from, you know, so instead for instance, of using
microlob O'Neil and some other fungus sides, I think it
might be an idea to use a a fungus site
that is actually organic like copper and sulfur, and it
(06:39):
doesn't hurt you or you know, it's not not bad
for you to have that on the on the leaves.
Speaker 6 (06:45):
And if and I do have a client, so that
would be good for eighty two?
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Would it for aphyts?
Speaker 4 (06:55):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (06:56):
Yeah, I would use it. But I wouldn't use a
funger site on aphiths for a fix. I would use
something like the pyrethrums, which is another one of those
organs neck materials that the fits not like.
Speaker 6 (07:10):
Okay, and I can get that from Runnings or mind
Tina somewhere, do I They all have it? Okay, are wonderful?
Speaker 7 (07:20):
It is?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
I have one more thing my lemon, my orange tree.
I find it. It's very it's all up. It's not
spreading out. What would be causing that?
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Your your lemon tree is not what do you mean
it's not spreading out?
Speaker 6 (07:38):
My orange tree. I have it in the big pot
and it's all coming up that just a couple of
branches are more coming out that the other ones are
all How do I ship pulling close? Pulling out a
wee bit?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
Will they have to do that through growth? So I
am not underd percent sure what's happening there. Sometimes when
you prune your tree, you'll find that the buds below
where you've pruned it will go outwards. That would be good,
but you know what, to be quite honest, faye, I
think lemon trees and citrus trees are probably best planted
(08:13):
in soil rather than in containers.
Speaker 6 (08:17):
Yeah, my lemon tree, I've had it in my big pot.
I think it must have been a miniture one. But
I get heat, the heat fruit on it and it's
for about thirteens. Now, well that's good.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
That's that is good. Going to be quite honest, yes,
that's good. But generally speaking, there comes a time that
the pot is becoming too small for the root zone,
isn't it?
Speaker 6 (08:43):
And my meat, I mean to say to my meat
is a bit dying of it dusty thing. So would
that be ideal for that too?
Speaker 3 (08:53):
Yeah, you could use that, I suppose. Why not on
the copper or on the Yeah, use the copper has
always had?
Speaker 7 (09:02):
Do you?
Speaker 2 (09:03):
Thank you?
Speaker 5 (09:03):
Faie?
Speaker 2 (09:05):
What do you reckon the chance of meat? There's still
being some pancake better leftover by the time I get.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Home, not very little it now.
Speaker 2 (09:16):
They would have hoovered them up by now by the
time I get home. Anyway, we live, and hope we'll
take sure break. We'll be back in just a moment.
I would climb Puss with us this morning, angel a
very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
Oh good morning. Yes, rude, I've got a real big problem.
We bought an old home, an old house that's been
rented out for ten years. We've got garden beds around
the perimeter of the house and on the around the fence,
(09:50):
and I'm having a problem with weeds and grass growing
in those beds that hadn't been dug for ten years. Foolishly,
I guess when we first moved in, I spent a
whole week weeding out and sifting soil on the front
(10:12):
fence bed, and then I put compost in it and
top soil and planted, and within a week the weeds
were growing higher than the plants. So what I've tried
to do now is lay down, lay down a cardboard
(10:37):
and weed mat, and then put pebbles on top, and
just put my plants in pots. But I've got some
existing shrubs in there that I don't want to I
want to know if there's a weed killer, either vinegar
or something in a store that I can spray on
(11:02):
the pebble garden in between each shrub without killing the shrubs. Sorry,
I'm not very good explaining, but I get what you're saying.
Speaker 3 (11:14):
So this is it. So that you've got a heck
of a lot of weeds, you try to do alsos
of thing with cardboard and pebbles on top of the
weed math you're you're, for instance, not keen on using
stuff like roundup.
Speaker 7 (11:31):
No no, no, no no no no. Well I don't
I don't mind, but I don't want to kill a
nice big hydranger bush and one or two shrubs that
are within the existing beds. I've covered them with pebbles,
and what's happening now is I'm having to lay down.
(11:52):
I've got a thrider. I'm an old woman, I'm in
the late seventies. I'm having to lay down on the
ground and lean over and pull out the weeds and
blades of grass and stuff that are coming through the stone,
through the pebbles. So what you know, I gave up
(12:13):
on the front bed. I got full packets of wildflower seeds,
and I thought, I'll beat you buggers. I'm going to
sprinkle wildflowers all over you. And that's what I did.
So I've now got a wildflower bed at the front
of the house. I can't do it all the.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
Way around, Okay, So there are ways of actually spraying
the weeds with let's say, like woody weed killer or whatever,
roundup e typestock grass.
Speaker 7 (12:41):
It's a lot of it is grass egg.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Oh that's even better because that is reasonably easy to
control with that sort of stuff like roundup. But I'm
just saying, there is a way of actually putting pieces
of cardboard to protect your your your your various plants
that you want to keep, you know, from beyond me.
Speaker 7 (13:06):
I already put down cardboard, sick cardboard from cardboll boxes,
and then you know, on top of the weed mat
and then pebbles, but it's still coming through.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Okay, Okay. So the idea is to actually get your
weed killer whatever you use, from a nozzle that you
can actually aim in the right place. But what I'm
saying about the cardboard is, have you thought about also
having cardboard in a vertical manner so that if there
is a bit of drift of wheat killer, that it
(13:39):
doesn't go over your hydrangels, that it doesn't even get there,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 7 (13:45):
Yeah, why don't you get to the roots through the
soil underneath?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Not if you take it easy and just do the
grass from the top, you don't have to overdo it. Honestly,
you don't. And this is why, this is why I
mentioned things like woody weed killer and round up and
all these other things. A lot of people don't like them,
and I can imagine that's the case. But if you know,
if you if you put a sticker on those which
means a sticker is just so affectant that it sticks
(14:11):
to the grass leaves themselves, you don't need it much
before it goes down.
Speaker 7 (14:17):
Into I don't mind you, I don't mind using round up.
But yeah, I just can't keep lying down on the
ground with arthri hibs and trying to do it.
Speaker 3 (14:31):
I have the same problem. Don't worry, I know exactly
what I mean. I've got to try to do the
same thing.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
So good luck with that, Jills. Over time, hopefully you
get on top of it. But yeah, you can. You
can just picture a you know, teen years of sort
of lack of attention.
Speaker 3 (14:49):
It is a mess. It's absolute mess. And sometimes you
would use you need napem.
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Oh and now let's see what's going on, Trish with
your lemon tree.
Speaker 8 (15:56):
Yeah, Hio, morning rude. I've got a lemon tree and
a lime tree, both planted at the same time, about
twelve years ago. The lime tree is massive. I'm just
abundant with fruits. The lemon tree is not even a
meter high. It's not so healthy. And we get about
four lemons the here.
Speaker 3 (16:16):
Okay, what's the lemon tree's name? What's its variety? Mayor
mayor lemon? Well, sometimes that happens. I we at the
moment on the porthills have a bit of a problem
with lemon trees. It's not the right place for them.
D you need to dig a whole big hole with
new new soil if you like it. Is that sort
of stuff sometimes and if but if you're a lime
(16:39):
which is I assume not too far away from the
lemon tree. No, if that does well, then you might
have got a lemon tree that is not that not
that healthy, not that good, not that well if you
like grown in the nursery, and you might need another
one that is quite often helps that quite often.
Speaker 8 (17:01):
Helps wrap it out. You reckon.
Speaker 3 (17:04):
No, don't rip it out. No, don't drip it out,
because you always need two lemons if you maya for instance,
for for for the fact that they sometimes work one
year not the other year, and you need pollinatus. So
sometimes it pays to keep it there and put the
next one next door to it and see how it goes.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Okay, awesome, good luck to you. Take care and Ross
a mystery, Hey Ross, Yeah, Hi, Hey.
Speaker 4 (17:35):
Go for it.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
We've got to big brief. We got one minute.
Speaker 5 (17:40):
Yeah hi. I've got this creeping sort of weed. It's
it's about three or four millimeters. It's flat, and it's green,
and it's I think it goes better or worse, which
every way to call it in the shade. But it's
just invasive and it's just growing all over the place,
starts off and cracks and it just spreads what is it?
(18:01):
And how do you get rid of it?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
I can't see that from this distance. Ross to be
quite on stuffy.
Speaker 5 (18:06):
It's always fish scales. It's like fish scales. It's just
a flat weed that goes on the surface of the soil.
It never goes more than about two milimeters high. It's
just like a fish.
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Scale green, so it's on the ground itself. It's not wondering,
Willy look, No, I don't know. I'd have to look
at it. I have to look at it to see
what I is. Get now, get it identified. Put it
on I Naturalist on your phone, I net you list.
It's an app for free and you'll learn very quickly
(18:38):
how to use it, and it identifies what the weed
is and then we can get somewhere.
Speaker 2 (18:42):
I might test that out today because I think I've
got the same thing creeping out across the broken concrete
path at my place.
Speaker 3 (18:49):
Okay, right, I'll try there. Any different things go.
Speaker 2 (18:52):
Who knows, it's always a pleasure. Look after yourself, take care,
and we'll we'll talk to you again next Sunday. All right, right,
I'm going to go and see whether there's any pancake.
Add a lift in the bottom of the Bowl. I
think my chance is a slim but it's worth while. Joseph,
I'm making pancakes this morning radio. Have a good week. Actually,
i'll be back tonight. I'm here at six to do
(19:14):
Sunday at six here at ZEDB this evening as well,
so looking forward to that. Otherwise, have a good week,
and if you tuned in again next Sunday, we'll be here.
Speaker 1 (19:22):
Take care for more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp.
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