November 2, 2024 • 20 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be just.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Quickly before we talk to Rude. We've got a bunch
of questions around that, the Fencing Act and being our guest,
who's the lawyer around that? So we're going to actually
try and get Ben back on the show before the
end of the year, which is scarily close, and answer
some of those question, particularly ones around trees and boundaries
and you know what your rights are. You know, what
can you do to lop off but some pieces of
(00:34):
your neighbor's tree if it hangs over the boundary, because
we've all done that, haven't we.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Rud?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Hey, hello, Rud, Now I can what's happening here? Rud?
Are you with me? Hello? Rud? Just hold on there,
I'll go back to here in conference. Hello, good, there
you go. Yeah, yeah, hit it with a beginning.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I was waiting. I was waiting for the first mistake,
and there it was.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
There was just like that.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I'm happy to oblige typically with mistakes. It's the one
thing I'm good at.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I love things like that. I always like to take
the mickey, are you good?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I am, thank you?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And you get excellent. I mean, one of the best
places in the world in his mine is fifteen. At
the moment, he BENI burn good grip. It's gold believable. Actually,
the helicopters are doing frost fighting at the moment. It's
just unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I must have.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Even this week in Auckland, I got up, you know, early,
and jumped in the car, hit it off, and I thought, gee,
it's still quite cold for this time of year.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Did you notice it was a really chilly week. I know, yeah,
I know, But it's cool because the guy who I'm
staying scared to Cousin Road for the first time going
out with his drone and spraying his crops, his grapes
with the drone. He's huge. Drone unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Wow, technology, technology, it is a crazy I saw a
lot of those fields here.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, that's right. Hey, listen before we go and you yeah, well,
let's do that. But first I want to talk about
the flat worm, and then I want about Black Elevator.
So you remember we got this call or an email
or text whatever it was from Dennis Hunt see what
had some problems with the irrigation case. Yes, in his card,
and I finally got the picture and I chucked it
(02:32):
on our naturalist and I'm not one hundred percent sure
if it is exactly good, but we think it's a
flat worm that can make themselves really thin as they
go into little tiny holes and basically when it's dry,
they tried to look for water, I suppose, and they
must have gone into that irrigation hit and basically then
drunk some water, got fatter and couldn't care.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I mean, that's all logical, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It is a little bit logical, but it's still, you know,
it's still hard to see what the worm was like.
It looked like that that. If anybody at Dimensionist looks
it up and says, no, it's not that, it's something different,
then I'd like to know. But it looked it looked
like that. So there you go. There was one of
those crazy stories from the gardens that these things can
actually block your irrigation.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I'm intrigued now because I don't have nozzles for irrigation
in the garden. I've essentially got a dripline, right, so
soca hose, so it has small perforations at regular distances
along you know, semi rigid piping and I've got that
very just below the mulch, So potentially would I have
worms trying to enter through those? Or is that too small?
(03:44):
Like we're talking half a million now, unless.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You're if I think I know what you're talking about.
It's a really minute thing. This might have been a
slightly bigger one. But I have to say those flatworms
can literally do all the crazy things with their body
by making themselves really thin and you know, and then
being bulging on either end and making the thinness moved
through the obstruction. It's crazy. I think this sort of
(04:11):
yeah it is, yeah, right, I hope you're taking your calls.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Thees open. The number is eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
A text question for you. Good morning, my MAA lemon
has doubled in size this year. It has flowers, but
the leaves on most of the new growth are a
paler green color, almost yellow. Is this normal? Will it
green up? Or is it a deficiency of some sort?
(04:35):
I find I feed it with chilletts, chillatts and lemon
food and water regularly from Amanda.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Okay, that, yeah, that's a bit weird, because I would
say it is important to fertilize them, especially when they're
growing and producing fruit. That could be the yellowing. The
yellowing is also a sign of maybe not enough nitrogen
or too much. No, no, not not enough nitrogen or
not enough I think it's phosphate. You get the yellowing
(05:02):
of the leaves as well. So you have to have
a balanced fertilizer to make sure that that plant gets
everything it wants. Literally. But then, you know, citrus can
be real dodgy or what do you call it grumpy,
you know, and sometimes doesn't do what it wants, what
it needs to do, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
You might find it's you know, it'll.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Work okay when you're fertilized.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, so, and what's that best type of fertilizer.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Oh, general, a general fertilizer or a citrus fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Right, Okay. I was in the garden yesterday doing well,
right at the end of the day. Finally got into
the garden and one of the things I was doing
was going around with a bit of liquid fertilizer, just
sort of giving a top up to everything and the
hedges and pieces.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, and I'll tell you what, this is the most
generous time to do it. Because it's the biggest time
of growth in the garden.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Okay, that's good to know.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Another before we go, I just want to say this
christ and Bobby from Clark Cultivated told me if people
want to get a look at the Clark Cultivator, go
to the website, which is Glack Cultivated dot co dots
order one and if they mention that they read it
on your show here, they are doing a very generous discount.
So just saying, if you want a number of good
(06:19):
Christmas presents ever, go at Clack Cultivated dot co dot
in jet polishly brilliant.
Speaker 3 (06:25):
Certainly if you give them one, you'll never have to
buy them another one because they're as strong as all
get out.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, it's lovely.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It's lovely, So there you go. Right.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah. Another question from Paul. I've got some space out
the back of my section between a shed and a fence,
approximately five by two meters. It's often overgrown and he
just sort of hits it with the weed eater. It's
predominantly in the shade. But he's wondering if he can
make use of the space to grow vegetables. So the
question is what vegetables could I possibly grow in a
(06:57):
shady area.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Oh well, hm hmm. I always go the other way
and in the sunny side. This is why I am
now thinking what would work in a shady sign. Look, tomatoes,
if they get more than five hours sun a day,
(07:22):
will probably do it. If I look at my tunnel house,
sometimes you didn't fish with stuff growing around the tunnel house,
especially into this time of the year shades the tunnel
house a bit more than it does in midsummer. You'll
find that they can stand things like that. But it's
not ideal, to be quite.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Honest, what would be sort of the minimum number of
hours of sunlight you would need on a vegetable garden
to get reasonable growth.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Well, to be quite honest, I've had not bad results
in a not too shit, not too sunny side with broccoli,
for instance, And we're talking maybe only six seven hours
a day rather than the ten or ten or so
that you get in summertime, you know, because you go
(08:11):
down there towards the horizon, so you do get shaped anyway.
So but I've never really had to measure that because
I've got a north facing section yep, and it goes
down as you know, you know, and you can basically
you've got sun all day.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It's amazing, and that is to be quite on the
best way. Oh no, sorry, I can't without doing any research.
And that's a bit hard to do.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Where I am right now. I find that I would
find it very hard to give you a crop that says, oh,
I can do it on four hours.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I mean, that's one of those things where he's looking
to utilize a little bit of land on one and
just you know, put Vigi's into stop the weeds sort
of thing. Then maybe he's off doing a groundcover maybe yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Or there's another thing. If you, for instance, have what
do you call the passion fruit when he grows, let's
see a beta right input of sunlight the yep, I
go higher up, Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Shrugs of trees.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We take the question before we go to the break.
I've got a small flowering cherry tree that weeps down.
It has flowered for the first time now and the
leaf but it has tiny little holes all over the leaves.
What could have caused that?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Quite often it's tiny beetles. If it's in the north,
it could be brown beetles. It could be bronze beetles. Sorry,
it could be stuff like that. Generally speaking, if something
choose little holes in your leaves, it has very little
impact on the health of the plant, because that plant
will refurbish itself and grow new leaves if the balance
of green leaves versus the rest of the bulk of
(09:59):
the plant is disturbed, so it will actually make new leaves.
And it looks a bit crappy, you know, but that's okay,
don't worry about it. Usually these glands will survive brilliantly.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
One more texts before we go to the break. We
are taking you calls too, folks, So eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty, but here's one and I'm my ears
pricked up with us. Ridd I've got Ficus toffy which
is curling at the top. Otherwise it's green and healthy.
It's just in the new growth. I can't see any insects,
and I've sprayed with soapy water as a precaution. Any
(10:32):
advice please from Phil.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well selfie water if it is an insect, would only
clean the insect. Yeah enough, I've been saying that a lot.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
That So, so what's goot the symptoms?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
The top the new growth is curling, Yeah, yeah, cooling Okay,
that could that could be, for instance, and deficiency of
certain fertilizers too, a cooling thing. I expected this. It's
it is.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Do you throw the inside insight?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I think of stuffian's bound to be outside as a
huge That's what I would say.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, but sometimes people okay, but yeah, but yes it
would be an outsider. I think it's to do with
a fertilizer deficiency, and for that reason I would give
it some some general fertilizer on the regular basis, but
also the stuff you get for trace elements fertilizer, which
is just a small bag a little bit then full
(11:34):
water it well in and you'll find that it quite
often does the curling. Give the curling a bit of
a rectification if you want.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I put some Nitrofoscar blue around the fighters about a
month ago. Should I do it again?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
You can do it in a couple of a month.
A month ago, do it in another month.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I think that that's a good spacing for it. And
my night of Fosco blue is that one of those
wonderful general fertilizers. You water the then of course to
get it to the root zone, and it will last
quite a while because it's cranular as you can see,
so it slowly steps into the ground and on the
root zone with every time you water or every time
it rains.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah, fantastic. Right, we're going to take a short break.
Is with us. If you've got a question for Red
call eight hundred and eighty ten eighty you're a new
stalks been us or eleven minutes away from nine o'clock.
Rudd is with me and we're going to have a
go at this whole conference call thing patch. Good morning
to you.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
You good one of guys are young, We're good, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
We're just gonna port wine magnolia hedge that it seems
still all tips and everything going yellow and all the
new green shirts are all curling getting plenty of water.
We're just wondering what what might be. It looks like
it's almost dying the whole hedge.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
My goodness. That too much water? Is that by your
sor is said by rainfall?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
And no, we've just been irrogating it. I don't know
if that's it's got too much water or could that
be the case, or.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
No, it's both too much. Too much water is really
not that great for magnolia as they do like it
well drained. I'm not saying you've got to stave them
off water, but you know, take it easy with that
and the other things. Are you telling me you've never
friend liked it at all or something?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Once? You what do you do?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Sorry?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Sorry I lost you there for a segain, I said,
I said, do you fertilize it often or not at all?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Or once a year?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Not?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Not at all, not at all at all?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
You see, No, that's my my old question is how
many breakfast do you have on theverage each year? Do
you know what I mean? So, so here we go.
So forget forget about the watering at the moment. Washing
itself is okay if it's dry. That is the only
reason you water. Number two, regular fertilizer is really important.
(14:12):
So I would have a shot at getting a general
fertilizer going something like that Nitrophosca blue, or a liquid fertilizer.
But the problem with liquid fertilizers you water it at
the same time, which we weren't gonna do. Remember, so
get yourself some granular granular fertilizer, general fertilizer, something like
(14:32):
Nitroposca blue. You'll get it in all stores and fall
to the square meter on the root zone of the plant,
and the moment that rains, it just goes into the
root zone and the plant will feed itself that way,
or it uses the nutrients to do photosynthesis and that
is when it finds it's healing powership.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
You like, Okay, what's some like putting some new sort
of like gaden flow on top?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Helpers are what do you under dead?
Speaker 5 (15:02):
What do you compact and compo? So what's the soil like,
We've got pretty good soil here. Everything else grows pretty well.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
If you've got pretty good soil, I would not put
too much new stuff on it at this stage.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I'd rather you would fertilize it. If you have some melch,
you just put some melch on.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
But that is really not your problem at the moment.
You can do that if the spans refurbish themselves and
get back into nurturing net health. That's why you can
think about putting some melt on, because melch is always
good to keep nutrients in the ground and the moisture
in the ground so you don't have the water too often.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Okay, Oh, thanks very much, very hard your mother, welcome,
good luck.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Honestly, keep your fingers crossed.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Absolutely again pricked up as soon as you mentioned port
wine magnolia because we've got one on a place that
I look after, and I gave it I really short
back insides the other day. So do you think I
should feed it after I've pruned it so vigorously.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
A little bit of fertilizers always good, full stoff. If
you have cut say a third of the flower, the
foliage off, they need to be the need to be
refurbished with that in terms of nitrogen and a bit
of uh posphake and things like that. So yes, it
will be good to put.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Some Okay, all right, that's another job. See every time
I talk to you, I walk out of the stradio
with this big, long list of jobs to do.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
A big geography, Gareth here about growing grapes. That is
a big garden here.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
You know that?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
A couple of quick texts. Then who's here? We go?
Why is my daughter's chives and garlic chives filled with aphids?
My daughter has sprayed them, changed the dirt, sprayed with
soapy water, no change. They have just about suck them dry.
She's in Hamilton. It doesn't seem to affect anything. Else
(17:11):
in the garden, so aphids and the garlic chives.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I know exactly what this is about. This is always
the same with these things. First of all, it's not dirt.
It's soil.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Soil, yes, number twos not mine, by the way I've learned.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
No, I know it's not. But I've been having a
go at teachers here too, which is really funny. Anyway,
so we're talking about the language of gardening and the
language of respect here as well. Anyway, dirt and so yeah,
I love you. Secondly, if you've got aports on these,
on these particular things, and you do what I said
before to you, you do that the soapy water, all
you do is you've made them really shiny and clean.
(17:48):
So meme oil is the material you can use, which
is an organic It will basically make those aphts. It
doesn't kill them directly, but it makes them very humpy
because they stop eating. They literally stop the yes that
nemo stops them from from consuming these things, causing the troubles,
and then slowly, because they don't eat anymore, they just
(18:10):
fall off and die. And it's the way to go
with it, because and the cool thing is that you
can still use those chibes when you watch them under
the tip for yourselves and whatever you've got.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
It's safe, awesome, that's good to know.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Now.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Avocado tree with the round variety. There's sixty or seventy
fruit on the tree, but they're absolutely tasteless. What do
you suggest from Derek?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Often with fruits and especially citizens and whatever plums and
bruins and things like that, it's quite often.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
A bit of potage that gives them a much.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
More dense flavor spectrum.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
So just some sulfate of potage around the place, have
a look, see if that works, and come back to
us later on to see it much maybe next year.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Because you have to do it on a basis. Don't
go over the top, but.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Make sure you've got some pottage.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Around the roots.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
In a quick last text, super quick, hostier, hostier getting
holes on the leaves. I think it could be snails.
What do you do to stop from the attacking?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Go out to night with a torch, the bucket, Put him.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
In the bucket, to him over the fence. It's go
go perfect yea.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
All right, enjoy your travels. We'll catch up with you
next week. All the very best to take care of it.
Dred will be back next Sunday. I will be back
next Sunday. Thank you very much for your company this
morning on the program, we had a tremendous response to
Ben Thompson, our property or lawyer, with regard to the
Fencing Act and that sort of thing. So I'll do
(19:45):
my best to see if we can find space to
get him back on the show again before the end
of the year, which keepers It's starting to loom, isn't
it for all of us. Have a great week, take
care and see you again next Sunday.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
That'd be just.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Quickly before we talk to Rude. We've got a bunch
of questions around that, the Fencing Act and being our guest,
who's the lawyer around that? So we're going to actually
try and get Ben back on the show before the
end of the year, which is scarily close, and answer
some of those question, particularly ones around trees and boundaries
and you know what your rights are. You know, what
can you do to lop off but some pieces of
(00:34):
your neighbor's tree if it hangs over the boundary, because
we've all done that, haven't we.
Speaker 4 (00:37):
Rud?
Speaker 3 (00:38):
Hey, hello, Rud, Now I can what's happening here? Rud?
Are you with me? Hello? Rud? Just hold on there,
I'll go back to here in conference. Hello, good, there
you go. Yeah, yeah, hit it with a beginning.
Speaker 2 (01:03):
I was waiting. I was waiting for the first mistake,
and there it was.
Speaker 4 (01:06):
There was just like that.
Speaker 3 (01:07):
I'm happy to oblige typically with mistakes. It's the one
thing I'm good at.
Speaker 2 (01:15):
I love things like that. I always like to take
the mickey, are you good?
Speaker 3 (01:19):
I am, thank you?
Speaker 2 (01:20):
And you get excellent. I mean, one of the best
places in the world in his mine is fifteen. At
the moment, he BENI burn good grip. It's gold believable. Actually,
the helicopters are doing frost fighting at the moment. It's
just unbelievable.
Speaker 4 (01:35):
I must have.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Even this week in Auckland, I got up, you know, early,
and jumped in the car, hit it off, and I thought, gee,
it's still quite cold for this time of year.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Did you notice it was a really chilly week. I know, yeah,
I know, But it's cool because the guy who I'm
staying scared to Cousin Road for the first time going
out with his drone and spraying his crops, his grapes
with the drone. He's huge. Drone unbelievable.
Speaker 3 (02:02):
Wow, technology, technology, it is a crazy I saw a
lot of those fields here.
Speaker 2 (02:09):
Yeah, that's right. Hey, listen before we go and you yeah, well,
let's do that. But first I want to talk about
the flat worm, and then I want about Black Elevator.
So you remember we got this call or an email
or text whatever it was from Dennis Hunt see what
had some problems with the irrigation case. Yes, in his card,
and I finally got the picture and I chucked it
(02:32):
on our naturalist and I'm not one hundred percent sure
if it is exactly good, but we think it's a
flat worm that can make themselves really thin as they
go into little tiny holes and basically when it's dry,
they tried to look for water, I suppose, and they
must have gone into that irrigation hit and basically then
drunk some water, got fatter and couldn't care.
Speaker 3 (02:57):
I mean, that's all logical, isn't it.
Speaker 2 (03:00):
It is a little bit logical, but it's still, you know,
it's still hard to see what the worm was like.
It looked like that that. If anybody at Dimensionist looks
it up and says, no, it's not that, it's something different,
then I'd like to know. But it looked it looked
like that. So there you go. There was one of
those crazy stories from the gardens that these things can
actually block your irrigation.
Speaker 3 (03:22):
I'm intrigued now because I don't have nozzles for irrigation
in the garden. I've essentially got a dripline, right, so
soca hose, so it has small perforations at regular distances
along you know, semi rigid piping and I've got that
very just below the mulch, So potentially would I have
worms trying to enter through those? Or is that too small?
(03:44):
Like we're talking half a million now, unless.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
You're if I think I know what you're talking about.
It's a really minute thing. This might have been a
slightly bigger one. But I have to say those flatworms
can literally do all the crazy things with their body
by making themselves really thin and you know, and then
being bulging on either end and making the thinness moved
through the obstruction. It's crazy. I think this sort of
(04:11):
yeah it is, yeah, right, I hope you're taking your calls.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Thees open. The number is eight hundred eighty ten eighty.
A text question for you. Good morning, my MAA lemon
has doubled in size this year. It has flowers, but
the leaves on most of the new growth are a
paler green color, almost yellow. Is this normal? Will it
green up? Or is it a deficiency of some sort?
(04:35):
I find I feed it with chilletts, chillatts and lemon
food and water regularly from Amanda.
Speaker 2 (04:42):
Okay, that, yeah, that's a bit weird, because I would
say it is important to fertilize them, especially when they're
growing and producing fruit. That could be the yellowing. The
yellowing is also a sign of maybe not enough nitrogen
or too much. No, no, not not enough nitrogen or
not enough I think it's phosphate. You get the yellowing
(05:02):
of the leaves as well. So you have to have
a balanced fertilizer to make sure that that plant gets
everything it wants. Literally. But then, you know, citrus can
be real dodgy or what do you call it grumpy,
you know, and sometimes doesn't do what it wants, what
it needs to do, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera.
You might find it's you know, it'll.
Speaker 4 (05:23):
Work okay when you're fertilized.
Speaker 3 (05:25):
Yeah, so, and what's that best type of fertilizer.
Speaker 2 (05:29):
Oh, general, a general fertilizer or a citrus fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (05:33):
Right, Okay. I was in the garden yesterday doing well,
right at the end of the day. Finally got into
the garden and one of the things I was doing
was going around with a bit of liquid fertilizer, just
sort of giving a top up to everything and the
hedges and pieces.
Speaker 2 (05:48):
Yeah, and I'll tell you what, this is the most
generous time to do it. Because it's the biggest time
of growth in the garden.
Speaker 3 (05:54):
Okay, that's good to know.
Speaker 2 (05:56):
Another before we go, I just want to say this
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So just saying, if you want a number of good
(06:19):
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Speaker 3 (06:25):
Certainly if you give them one, you'll never have to
buy them another one because they're as strong as all
get out.
Speaker 2 (06:30):
You got it.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Yeah, it's lovely.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
It's lovely, So there you go. Right.
Speaker 3 (06:34):
Yeah. Another question from Paul. I've got some space out
the back of my section between a shed and a fence,
approximately five by two meters. It's often overgrown and he
just sort of hits it with the weed eater. It's
predominantly in the shade. But he's wondering if he can
make use of the space to grow vegetables. So the
question is what vegetables could I possibly grow in a
(06:57):
shady area.
Speaker 2 (07:00):
Oh well, hm hmm. I always go the other way
and in the sunny side. This is why I am
now thinking what would work in a shady sign. Look, tomatoes,
if they get more than five hours sun a day,
(07:22):
will probably do it. If I look at my tunnel house,
sometimes you didn't fish with stuff growing around the tunnel house,
especially into this time of the year shades the tunnel
house a bit more than it does in midsummer. You'll
find that they can stand things like that. But it's
not ideal, to be quite.
Speaker 3 (07:40):
Honest, what would be sort of the minimum number of
hours of sunlight you would need on a vegetable garden
to get reasonable growth.
Speaker 2 (07:51):
Well, to be quite honest, I've had not bad results
in a not too shit, not too sunny side with broccoli,
for instance, And we're talking maybe only six seven hours
a day rather than the ten or ten or so
that you get in summertime, you know, because you go
(08:11):
down there towards the horizon, so you do get shaped anyway.
So but I've never really had to measure that because
I've got a north facing section yep, and it goes
down as you know, you know, and you can basically
you've got sun all day.
Speaker 4 (08:26):
It's amazing, and that is to be quite on the
best way. Oh no, sorry, I can't without doing any research.
And that's a bit hard to do.
Speaker 2 (08:35):
Where I am right now. I find that I would
find it very hard to give you a crop that says, oh,
I can do it on four hours.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
I mean, that's one of those things where he's looking
to utilize a little bit of land on one and
just you know, put Vigi's into stop the weeds sort
of thing. Then maybe he's off doing a groundcover maybe yeah.
Speaker 2 (08:55):
Or there's another thing. If you, for instance, have what
do you call the passion fruit when he grows, let's
see a beta right input of sunlight the yep, I
go higher up, Yes, I do.
Speaker 4 (09:14):
Shrugs of trees.
Speaker 3 (09:19):
We take the question before we go to the break.
I've got a small flowering cherry tree that weeps down.
It has flowered for the first time now and the
leaf but it has tiny little holes all over the leaves.
What could have caused that?
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Quite often it's tiny beetles. If it's in the north,
it could be brown beetles. It could be bronze beetles. Sorry,
it could be stuff like that. Generally speaking, if something
choose little holes in your leaves, it has very little
impact on the health of the plant, because that plant
will refurbish itself and grow new leaves if the balance
of green leaves versus the rest of the bulk of
(09:59):
the plant is disturbed, so it will actually make new leaves.
And it looks a bit crappy, you know, but that's okay,
don't worry about it. Usually these glands will survive brilliantly.
Speaker 3 (10:11):
One more texts before we go to the break. We
are taking you calls too, folks, So eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty, but here's one and I'm my ears
pricked up with us. Ridd I've got Ficus toffy which
is curling at the top. Otherwise it's green and healthy.
It's just in the new growth. I can't see any insects,
and I've sprayed with soapy water as a precaution. Any
(10:32):
advice please from Phil.
Speaker 2 (10:35):
Well selfie water if it is an insect, would only
clean the insect. Yeah enough, I've been saying that a lot.
Speaker 4 (10:44):
That So, so what's goot the symptoms?
Speaker 2 (10:46):
The top the new growth is curling, Yeah, yeah, cooling Okay,
that could that could be, for instance, and deficiency of
certain fertilizers too, a cooling thing. I expected this. It's
it is.
Speaker 4 (11:04):
Do you throw the inside insight?
Speaker 3 (11:08):
I think of stuffian's bound to be outside as a
huge That's what I would say.
Speaker 2 (11:12):
Yeah, but sometimes people okay, but yeah, but yes it
would be an outsider. I think it's to do with
a fertilizer deficiency, and for that reason I would give
it some some general fertilizer on the regular basis, but
also the stuff you get for trace elements fertilizer, which
is just a small bag a little bit then full
(11:34):
water it well in and you'll find that it quite
often does the curling. Give the curling a bit of
a rectification if you want.
Speaker 3 (11:43):
I put some Nitrofoscar blue around the fighters about a
month ago. Should I do it again?
Speaker 4 (11:52):
You can do it in a couple of a month.
A month ago, do it in another month.
Speaker 2 (11:58):
I think that that's a good spacing for it. And
my night of Fosco blue is that one of those
wonderful general fertilizers. You water the then of course to
get it to the root zone, and it will last
quite a while because it's cranular as you can see,
so it slowly steps into the ground and on the
root zone with every time you water or every time
it rains.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Yeah, fantastic. Right, we're going to take a short break.
Is with us. If you've got a question for Red
call eight hundred and eighty ten eighty you're a new
stalks been us or eleven minutes away from nine o'clock.
Rudd is with me and we're going to have a
go at this whole conference call thing patch. Good morning
to you.
Speaker 5 (12:37):
You good one of guys are young, We're good, Thank you.
Speaker 2 (12:41):
Hey.
Speaker 5 (12:42):
We're just gonna port wine magnolia hedge that it seems
still all tips and everything going yellow and all the
new green shirts are all curling getting plenty of water.
We're just wondering what what might be. It looks like
it's almost dying the whole hedge.
Speaker 2 (13:02):
My goodness. That too much water? Is that by your
sor is said by rainfall?
Speaker 5 (13:08):
And no, we've just been irrogating it. I don't know
if that's it's got too much water or could that
be the case, or.
Speaker 2 (13:17):
No, it's both too much. Too much water is really
not that great for magnolia as they do like it
well drained. I'm not saying you've got to stave them
off water, but you know, take it easy with that
and the other things. Are you telling me you've never
friend liked it at all or something?
Speaker 4 (13:36):
Once? You what do you do?
Speaker 2 (13:38):
Sorry?
Speaker 5 (13:39):
Sorry I lost you there for a segain, I said,
I said, do you fertilize it often or not at all?
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Or once a year?
Speaker 1 (13:46):
Not?
Speaker 5 (13:46):
Not at all, not at all at all?
Speaker 2 (13:49):
You see, No, that's my my old question is how
many breakfast do you have on theverage each year? Do
you know what I mean? So, so here we go.
So forget forget about the watering at the moment. Washing
itself is okay if it's dry. That is the only
reason you water. Number two, regular fertilizer is really important.
(14:12):
So I would have a shot at getting a general
fertilizer going something like that Nitrophosca blue, or a liquid fertilizer.
But the problem with liquid fertilizers you water it at
the same time, which we weren't gonna do. Remember, so
get yourself some granular granular fertilizer, general fertilizer, something like
(14:32):
Nitroposca blue. You'll get it in all stores and fall
to the square meter on the root zone of the plant,
and the moment that rains, it just goes into the
root zone and the plant will feed itself that way,
or it uses the nutrients to do photosynthesis and that
is when it finds it's healing powership.
Speaker 5 (14:52):
You like, Okay, what's some like putting some new sort
of like gaden flow on top?
Speaker 2 (14:59):
Helpers are what do you under dead?
Speaker 5 (15:02):
What do you compact and compo? So what's the soil like,
We've got pretty good soil here. Everything else grows pretty well.
Speaker 2 (15:17):
If you've got pretty good soil, I would not put
too much new stuff on it at this stage.
Speaker 4 (15:23):
I'd rather you would fertilize it. If you have some melch,
you just put some melch on.
Speaker 2 (15:28):
But that is really not your problem at the moment.
You can do that if the spans refurbish themselves and
get back into nurturing net health. That's why you can
think about putting some melt on, because melch is always
good to keep nutrients in the ground and the moisture
in the ground so you don't have the water too often.
Speaker 5 (15:46):
Okay, Oh, thanks very much, very hard your mother, welcome,
good luck.
Speaker 2 (15:51):
Honestly, keep your fingers crossed.
Speaker 3 (15:53):
Absolutely again pricked up as soon as you mentioned port
wine magnolia because we've got one on a place that
I look after, and I gave it I really short
back insides the other day. So do you think I
should feed it after I've pruned it so vigorously.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
A little bit of fertilizers always good, full stoff. If
you have cut say a third of the flower, the
foliage off, they need to be the need to be
refurbished with that in terms of nitrogen and a bit
of uh posphake and things like that. So yes, it
will be good to put.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Some Okay, all right, that's another job. See every time
I talk to you, I walk out of the stradio
with this big, long list of jobs to do.
Speaker 2 (16:41):
A big geography, Gareth here about growing grapes. That is
a big garden here.
Speaker 5 (16:46):
You know that?
Speaker 1 (16:49):
Right?
Speaker 3 (16:49):
A couple of quick texts. Then who's here? We go?
Why is my daughter's chives and garlic chives filled with aphids?
My daughter has sprayed them, changed the dirt, sprayed with
soapy water, no change. They have just about suck them dry.
She's in Hamilton. It doesn't seem to affect anything. Else
(17:11):
in the garden, so aphids and the garlic chives.
Speaker 2 (17:15):
I know exactly what this is about. This is always
the same with these things. First of all, it's not dirt.
It's soil.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Soil, yes, number twos not mine, by the way I've learned.
Speaker 2 (17:26):
No, I know it's not. But I've been having a
go at teachers here too, which is really funny. Anyway,
so we're talking about the language of gardening and the
language of respect here as well. Anyway, dirt and so yeah,
I love you. Secondly, if you've got aports on these,
on these particular things, and you do what I said
before to you, you do that the soapy water, all
you do is you've made them really shiny and clean.
(17:48):
So meme oil is the material you can use, which
is an organic It will basically make those aphts. It
doesn't kill them directly, but it makes them very humpy
because they stop eating. They literally stop the yes that
nemo stops them from from consuming these things, causing the troubles,
and then slowly, because they don't eat anymore, they just
(18:10):
fall off and die. And it's the way to go
with it, because and the cool thing is that you
can still use those chibes when you watch them under
the tip for yourselves and whatever you've got.
Speaker 3 (18:20):
It's safe, awesome, that's good to know.
Speaker 2 (18:24):
Now.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
Avocado tree with the round variety. There's sixty or seventy
fruit on the tree, but they're absolutely tasteless. What do
you suggest from Derek?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Often with fruits and especially citizens and whatever plums and
bruins and things like that, it's quite often.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
A bit of potage that gives them a much.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
More dense flavor spectrum.
Speaker 4 (18:51):
So just some sulfate of potage around the place, have
a look, see if that works, and come back to
us later on to see it much maybe next year.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Because you have to do it on a basis. Don't
go over the top, but.
Speaker 4 (19:03):
Make sure you've got some pottage.
Speaker 2 (19:05):
Around the roots.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
In a quick last text, super quick, hostier, hostier getting
holes on the leaves. I think it could be snails.
What do you do to stop from the attacking?
Speaker 4 (19:16):
Go out to night with a torch, the bucket, Put him.
Speaker 2 (19:18):
In the bucket, to him over the fence. It's go
go perfect yea.
Speaker 3 (19:24):
All right, enjoy your travels. We'll catch up with you
next week. All the very best to take care of it.
Dred will be back next Sunday. I will be back
next Sunday. Thank you very much for your company this
morning on the program, we had a tremendous response to
Ben Thompson, our property or lawyer, with regard to the
Fencing Act and that sort of thing. So I'll do
(19:45):
my best to see if we can find space to
get him back on the show again before the end
of the year, which keepers It's starting to loom, isn't
it for all of us. Have a great week, take
care and see you again next Sunday.
Speaker 1 (20:07):
For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp, listen
live to Newstalk ZB on Sunday mornings from six, or
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