November 9, 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):
At Brodo Rot Climb Pass.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Good morning, sir, A very good morning to you, pierrero.
Are you all good?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, very well, thank you. Now right, we've got a
whole border of calls. But artillery fungus, shotgun fungus.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Tell me it's a it is actually a fungus that
lives that originates from mulch in the garden if you like. So,
if you've got a lot of mulch there, there's a
fungus if you like, that wants to spread its spores
literally by shooting it into the quite a long way,
(00:46):
usually to something with a light colored surface that it
has deliberately, yes, because that's probably the best way for
the fungal spores to actually germinate. Okay, so so it
knows where your carri is back. Wow, I love it.
I've gone I cart be for too. And and so
(01:09):
that's basically how it works. So it's it's it's in
a fungus that occurs in New Zealand. And it hasn't
it hasn't a wonderful name. Actually, it's sphere O bolus stellatis,
which means it's it's aiming at things, you know, like
literally like an artillery. What can you do? Well? The
first thing is, if you have this stuff in your
(01:30):
in your mulch, try using pine mulch. I understand that
pine mulch is not that good for that particular fungus.
That's number one. Number two, try wet and forget. It's
really hard to get rid of. By the way, Try
wet and forget. You never know if that's going to
work that out. Otherwise you use some nice warm look
(01:50):
warm water or warm water maybe oh what can you
put into it? Oh gosh, maybe some soap and things
like that. And but it's it's pretty hard to get
out of there actually, to be quite honest, it's really hard.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That was what you know. The original question was around
sort of the durability, right, the persistence of this growth,
and that in some cases someone had had it on
weatherboards and then trying to get it off with the boards.
Now the other comment just very quickly, I don't want
to take too much of your time, but it was
about a caller said it's moths that were leaving like
(02:28):
a shell casing on the exterior of the weatherboard that
was also incredibly difficult to get off.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Oh, don't think so. I know. I know they can
lay their eggs on surfaces like that, and they but
especially once they hatch, they will be kay. I've also
heard of spiderwebs and I called them websites. Now kids
love that I call them anyway, those websites. But the
moths egg cases as well. Yes, you need to be
(02:57):
very careful, you know. With paint, you've got to you
can't scrape it too much because you can damage you
know what I mean. But it's stuff like that. It'll
come off, and so will that the artillery fungus, but
it can take quite a.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Long time, right, and a lot of elbow grease.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
But I think it's so cool of nature of these things.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yes, it's so exciting. Well I don't want it, but
the fact that it was out there is awesome. Right,
let's rip into a few calls. Errol A very good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Good morning to you, rude. I've got a problem with
the plum tree. It's about three years old. Last year
we only got one plum off it. I've sprayed it
during winter with two lots of copper, and now we've
got plums on there. But some of them look like
(03:51):
they've got a puncher. They've gone flat.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Ah, yes, I know what you mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh that is bladder plum, and I think you should
have had some if you like, some fungal material on there. Yes,
actually blader plum. If you want to google it, you
can do that yourself. And it's it's I think you
(04:16):
need some fungicide before there's those plums are starting to ripen,
and I think some of that could from memory. It
might have something to do with spraying it in autumn
time as well. I'll have to look that up to
be quite honest, Errol, I haven't seen it for a while,
and it's famous on certain plum species. The fact that
you have few plums could something could be something to
(04:38):
do with the fact that you might need a pollinator.
Does that makes sense? Yeah, yeah, So have have another
have another plum tree nearby that will that will so
you get to cross pollination and that gives you a
lot more.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Fruit this year. There are there are quite a few
other plums there, but there there are the flat ones
as well, So.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, there later Okay, in that case it might not
be that proper, But bladder bloom certainly is. And it's
it's a it's a lovely it's a strange look, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yes? Yeah? Will it go away or will it just continue?
Or is it doing any damage to the tree?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Or let me have a look in the head break
to see what I can do with leader plum for you,
and I'll let you know as soon as I find out.
I'd just quickly google that.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
No worries.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Take one quick call from UK good morning to UK Good.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Morning, gentlemen. I have a bee or kind of problem.
I've got bumblebees coming into my nice flairy gun. But
now I've noticed they come have come to the little
vent in the Omoru stone at the base where there's
like a little ooth wire and the gap, and they're
(06:00):
just coming in and out beautifully.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I ad all the bees, but should I be doing
something about it or can we just enjoy them?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Last week I've been working at the school in Tacpo
where we are going to put bee bumblebee nest boxes
up and also the right plants to get bumblebees back
into Takapo. And there's four species in New Zealand and
they want to do something about a really rare species that,
by the way, is no extinct in the UK. But bumblebees.
(06:32):
The nests themselves in your wall usually are of no
concern to your house or to the bees or anything else,
and it might be just a wonderful place for them
to live and pollinate your all your plants in the garden.
I don't think they are of any concern for you whatsoever.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Oh, thank you very much. We'll enjoy them. Thank you, great.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You, Bye bye, take care. Just a quick note before
you take an head break. Clark Cultivator have still got
this little thing on that says if you if you
want to Clark Cultivator. Whenin seven days of saying of
getting hold of them on their website, Clark Cultivator dot
coder and said, you tell them you've heard this and
(07:15):
you can get a reduced price on a Clark Cultivator
And that actually might come in really handy as a
Christmas present, just saying.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That's right, suddenly we're all thinking about that. You can
find them online. Just look for Clark Cultivator. It'll it'll
come up. No trouble at all. Right, we'll take a break.
We'll talk to Diane in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yes, answer blood plum go yeah, oh, here we go, well,
blood of plum, very simple, Yes you do. I remember
there was a connection with that, that particular leaf curl
that plum sometimes have, and that means you spray them
in late autumn all the leaves are falling off at
(07:55):
the time when your plumb leaves are falling off. Double
dose of copper, that's what you use. Double dose of
copper at late autumn when the tree goes domed. And
then during the winter you can have a couple of
copper or copper and sulfur things like yates, nature's wake
funger pray to actually stop that that plum disease developing
(08:18):
in early spring when the plants start to flower. How's
that copper spray? Copper spray, Yeah, eager it's prevented from happening. Easy.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Someone's asking me the text message about weed killers to
spray directly onto the leaves of agapanthus and ladder ferns
growing from rock wall through the fence can't get to
the roots and all don't want to kill what's the
next part of the text question, I don't want to
kill any plants nearby?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh? Yeah, that's aiming. You can't you can't have a
wheat killer that there's a there's very few wheat killers.
That for us is to only do grass and nothing else,
you know what I mean. But you're going to be
that's aiming. But a pretty good weed killer is something
like metsol furroon, which is associated known as associate, which
(09:08):
you can get from or you know all these these
what do you call it? Culture? So usually that so
associate and eradicate a raven's down material. That is a
pretty good week killer for stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Absolutely, And we hit with the NEEDLERB for the New
Yates zero, which is life say free. And I'm always curious,
so I went out and bought some used it and
it works, so I shouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
But she's pretty quick, isn't it. That's great. It's pretty
fast the way it works.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, seem to get right through the roots, right, Diane.
Let's talk about Bora.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Oh, good morning, I want to I've got bora in
my Mexican elders. I've got them in my backyard on
three sides, and I pleached them and they really look lovely.
But they've got Bora and I just I've tried. I've
(10:13):
got the yates. Is it yates? No more borer? I think?
I know, it's key, we care, I think. And there's
so many little holes everywhere, and some of the branches
are dying.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Now.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
I want to save these because I inherited these trees.
It's about fort thirty of them, and I pleached them.
And they stop me looking at lots and lots of
roots in front of my backyard. What can I do?
I mean, I can't see myself getting, you know, dealing
(10:51):
with all those little holes and cutting back every dead branch.
Well I can cut down back every dead branch, that's
not a problem. But I need to save them because
I need to save my my view.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
You know, yeah, I know, I know what you're saying.
So these are the tiny borer holes that go in
the Mexican elder, right, it's ellness, yeah's correct, yeah, yeah, okay,
goodness me. That is a hard thing to do because
you basically there is very little you can do apart
from spraying at the right time when these when these
(11:28):
beetles are actually laying their eggs on the tree and
probably in the old holes of the tree as well.
That is really hard to get into. Can I I
need to really look at this, to be quite honest
and Diane, because I have to really find out if
(11:50):
there's anything specific that you can use for this particular case,
and what the timing of that particular borer is and
what the borer actually is. So there's a lot of
homework for me to do. If you give your name
and phone number to the producer, I'll call you back
when I finished that particular exercise. That might take a
(12:11):
couple of hours at home this afternoon. So that's me done.
Is that all right? Do you mind? Diane?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Oh shivers, Sorry, I'll keep forgetting my mic Diane will
just pop you back to Lilia producer and she'll grab
your number and Robin a very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Oh, good morning, Pete, Good morning, Rude. It's Robin.
Speaker 8 (12:38):
I'm calling from Hawswell in christ Jooch and Rude. We
have a pick a picker bood feeder.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I know and I know the pecker picker you feel
you go on?
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Yes, we also have another arrangement there where we've got
to just bird seed and the sparrows and the black
birds and they're loving it, but we're not managing to
attract any native birds to a pick a picker bird feeder.
And I just wonder do you have any thoughts on?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yes, I do. What would you like to attract? Is
that silver eyes? Silver eyes? And what do you call
these things? Yeah? Anyway, go on, well.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Yes, so I think we've seen a few silverized I
would love to attract TOUI because I'm from the Hawk's
Bay and we used to have lots and lots of
towey in their garden.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
I've got a small kofi.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
Growing, but it's only tiny so far.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah. Can I tell you? Can I tell you that
in Hallswell we have hardly any two weee at all,
like I see maybe maybe one every year.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, And the reason is they're not established here. You
might find the odd one in the Botannic guns and
you will find TOOI I'll tell you that for free
on Banks Peninsula in Akaroa, where they've been reintroduced. So
it's going to take a while, So you'll have to
do with all your other nectar feeders, which is as
I said, usually usually those little silver eyes and yeah
(14:09):
and things like that, and those are the ones that
will come to your.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Pecker pecket feeder and maybe one day we'll get some
CHOI you.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Might just get them over the top of the hill
from Kennedy's boysh all the way down to Hallswell.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Thank you so much, a long newly planted ecological corridor.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Perhaps you've perhaps you could well do it. How do
you know all these things?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Because I've been listening to you and you've been a
wonderful inspiration, I have to say, for many years. I'll
tell you what. Actually, there's a lot. There's a Facebook page,
and I know you don't have much time for Facebook
and all the rest of it, but there is a
sort of birds of Auckland page. I can't even believe
I'm talking about this, but there is one particular contributor
(14:53):
who has cameras set up to capture the ruroute that
are nesting in his backyard. And it is just fabulous.
And now, almost like a proud dad, he's talking about
the three ruru checks that he's be able to identify
using night vision cameras and picking up three little sets
of eyes peering out waiting for Mum and Dad to
(15:13):
come home with more live food. So Ruu's hunt quite
a lot, don't they.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
This is exactly it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, absolutely,
and that is that is the beauty of it. At
the moment, I am looking at a little nest of
little owls, right and really, and because I have not
been home for about ten days, I have to go
back with Peter and see what's in there in the meantime.
But we banned those little little babies. Just just gorgeous,
(15:42):
just gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Me a photo right, yes, well please do tom Hello there.
Speaker 9 (15:49):
Good morning, Rude Pete and others. With a quick question. Please,
I've got a white plum tree which has a huge one. Now,
I've been very old, had millions of plums. If you
don't go near it for a while, you can't walk
on the ground about. But yeah, but a tree, my
earliest red plum. It stopped having plums except for half
(16:13):
a dozen many years, a decade or two. I've been
here a long time, and I'm wondering about that. I
think it was a wie hki, a good one.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So you're telling me that you don't get plums right now, No.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
I get thousands of flower It's a large tree growing
from the bos. I haven't looked after much. Thousands of
flowers and then you've got to look to find one
or two plums, and they were delicious red ones earlier.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Okay, well, plum trees do need a pollinator, to be
quite honest, and.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
Yeah, I know that. I'll be fun.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
So if you've got, for instanceant European plum, you need
a European pollinator. If you've got a Japanese plum, you
need a Japanese pollinator. So those sort of things need
to be planted literally almost next to each other, but
you know, or in the same garden, not too far
from each other. And have you got any pollinator like that? Well?
Speaker 9 (17:11):
I had one tree that I don't remember planet fifty
years ago that might have helped a little bit digits
and have problems. E was a rad one. But but
for a decade or two this had beautiful red early prums.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Maybe your neighbor or did you have another country that
died in the meantime.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
That that could be it? I guess, okay, well, what's
my what have I got in this Japanese plum very
early rate here? Well, and you might have been awaiki
you left.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
To talk to them, and if they say dog got
you marimas, it's a Japanese plum.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Ah, well, I don't know. That's sort of intom.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Stuff, don't you know what I mean? You need to
identify what you've got. That's really what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
Yeah, sure, I'll thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
That's if if it's a European one, you stick with
European pollinators, and that the Japanese, you do Japanese pollinator.
That's generally the golden rule.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Tell me, because I'm never afraid of answering them asking
a dumb question, what's the difference between a European pollinator
and a Japanese pollinator?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Well, there there are Japanese plant plum varieties and European
plum varieties. That's why I call them Japanese and Europeans,
and they have they are slightly they're actually quite quite
different in terms of their genetics, different origins and different
pollinators needed to match them up. Okayally what I'm saying, yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Thank you very much, Tom, all the very best to you, righty, oh,
thank you mate. Well, now next week we are starting earlier.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yes, I get it that. I heard that. Awesome, And
I'm going to be in Tiro at the They Bestival
and the Art Trail as well, and the art trail
that's going to be great.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
And I am on my way to the Saint Leo's School,
Fear School, Fear It'll be It'll be awesome. Actually, the
White Elephants looking great, the box are there, the clothing's there,
the food is fantastic. I'm into it right. Busy day ahead.
Hopefully I'll see you at the fair. Take care of
it all the very best and folks, thanks for your company.
Looking forward to being back with you again next Sunday.
(19:19):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
At Brodo Rot Climb Pass.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Good morning, sir, A very good morning to you, pierrero.
Are you all good?
Speaker 2 (00:17):
Yeah, very well, thank you. Now right, we've got a
whole border of calls. But artillery fungus, shotgun fungus.
Speaker 3 (00:25):
Tell me it's a it is actually a fungus that
lives that originates from mulch in the garden if you like. So,
if you've got a lot of mulch there, there's a
fungus if you like, that wants to spread its spores
literally by shooting it into the quite a long way,
(00:46):
usually to something with a light colored surface that it
has deliberately, yes, because that's probably the best way for
the fungal spores to actually germinate. Okay, so so it
knows where your carri is back. Wow, I love it.
I've gone I cart be for too. And and so
(01:09):
that's basically how it works. So it's it's it's in
a fungus that occurs in New Zealand. And it hasn't
it hasn't a wonderful name. Actually, it's sphere O bolus stellatis,
which means it's it's aiming at things, you know, like
literally like an artillery. What can you do? Well? The
first thing is, if you have this stuff in your
(01:30):
in your mulch, try using pine mulch. I understand that
pine mulch is not that good for that particular fungus.
That's number one. Number two, try wet and forget. It's
really hard to get rid of. By the way, Try
wet and forget. You never know if that's going to
work that out. Otherwise you use some nice warm look
(01:50):
warm water or warm water maybe oh what can you
put into it? Oh gosh, maybe some soap and things
like that. And but it's it's pretty hard to get
out of there actually, to be quite honest, it's really hard.
Speaker 2 (02:07):
That was what you know. The original question was around
sort of the durability, right, the persistence of this growth,
and that in some cases someone had had it on
weatherboards and then trying to get it off with the boards.
Now the other comment just very quickly, I don't want
to take too much of your time, but it was
about a caller said it's moths that were leaving like
(02:28):
a shell casing on the exterior of the weatherboard that
was also incredibly difficult to get off.
Speaker 3 (02:35):
Oh, don't think so. I know. I know they can
lay their eggs on surfaces like that, and they but
especially once they hatch, they will be kay. I've also
heard of spiderwebs and I called them websites. Now kids
love that I call them anyway, those websites. But the
moths egg cases as well. Yes, you need to be
(02:57):
very careful, you know. With paint, you've got to you
can't scrape it too much because you can damage you
know what I mean. But it's stuff like that. It'll
come off, and so will that the artillery fungus, but
it can take quite a.
Speaker 2 (03:11):
Long time, right, and a lot of elbow grease.
Speaker 3 (03:14):
But I think it's so cool of nature of these things.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yes, it's so exciting. Well I don't want it, but
the fact that it was out there is awesome. Right,
let's rip into a few calls. Errol A very good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Good morning to you, rude. I've got a problem with
the plum tree. It's about three years old. Last year
we only got one plum off it. I've sprayed it
during winter with two lots of copper, and now we've
got plums on there. But some of them look like
(03:51):
they've got a puncher. They've gone flat.
Speaker 3 (03:54):
Ah, yes, I know what you mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Oh that is bladder plum, and I think you should
have had some if you like, some fungal material on there. Yes,
actually blader plum. If you want to google it, you
can do that yourself. And it's it's I think you
(04:16):
need some fungicide before there's those plums are starting to ripen,
and I think some of that could from memory. It
might have something to do with spraying it in autumn
time as well. I'll have to look that up to
be quite honest, Errol, I haven't seen it for a while,
and it's famous on certain plum species. The fact that
you have few plums could something could be something to
(04:38):
do with the fact that you might need a pollinator.
Does that makes sense? Yeah, yeah, So have have another
have another plum tree nearby that will that will so
you get to cross pollination and that gives you a
lot more.
Speaker 4 (04:52):
Fruit this year. There are there are quite a few
other plums there, but there there are the flat ones
as well, So.
Speaker 3 (05:02):
Yeah, there later Okay, in that case it might not
be that proper, But bladder bloom certainly is. And it's
it's a it's a lovely it's a strange look, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (05:14):
Yes? Yeah? Will it go away or will it just continue?
Or is it doing any damage to the tree?
Speaker 3 (05:23):
Or let me have a look in the head break
to see what I can do with leader plum for you,
and I'll let you know as soon as I find out.
I'd just quickly google that.
Speaker 4 (05:33):
Okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 3 (05:35):
No worries.
Speaker 2 (05:36):
Take one quick call from UK good morning to UK Good.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
Morning, gentlemen. I have a bee or kind of problem.
I've got bumblebees coming into my nice flairy gun. But
now I've noticed they come have come to the little
vent in the Omoru stone at the base where there's
like a little ooth wire and the gap, and they're
(06:00):
just coming in and out beautifully.
Speaker 6 (06:02):
You know.
Speaker 5 (06:03):
I ad all the bees, but should I be doing
something about it or can we just enjoy them?
Speaker 3 (06:10):
Last week I've been working at the school in Tacpo
where we are going to put bee bumblebee nest boxes
up and also the right plants to get bumblebees back
into Takapo. And there's four species in New Zealand and
they want to do something about a really rare species that,
by the way, is no extinct in the UK. But bumblebees.
(06:32):
The nests themselves in your wall usually are of no
concern to your house or to the bees or anything else,
and it might be just a wonderful place for them
to live and pollinate your all your plants in the garden.
I don't think they are of any concern for you whatsoever.
Speaker 5 (06:51):
Oh, thank you very much. We'll enjoy them. Thank you, great.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
You, Bye bye, take care. Just a quick note before
you take an head break. Clark Cultivator have still got
this little thing on that says if you if you
want to Clark Cultivator. Whenin seven days of saying of
getting hold of them on their website, Clark Cultivator dot
coder and said, you tell them you've heard this and
(07:15):
you can get a reduced price on a Clark Cultivator
And that actually might come in really handy as a
Christmas present, just saying.
Speaker 2 (07:25):
That's right, suddenly we're all thinking about that. You can
find them online. Just look for Clark Cultivator. It'll it'll
come up. No trouble at all. Right, we'll take a break.
We'll talk to Diane in just a moment.
Speaker 3 (07:34):
Yes, answer blood plum go yeah, oh, here we go, well,
blood of plum, very simple, Yes you do. I remember
there was a connection with that, that particular leaf curl
that plum sometimes have, and that means you spray them
in late autumn all the leaves are falling off at
(07:55):
the time when your plumb leaves are falling off. Double
dose of copper, that's what you use. Double dose of
copper at late autumn when the tree goes domed. And
then during the winter you can have a couple of
copper or copper and sulfur things like yates, nature's wake
funger pray to actually stop that that plum disease developing
(08:18):
in early spring when the plants start to flower. How's
that copper spray? Copper spray, Yeah, eager it's prevented from happening. Easy.
Speaker 2 (08:29):
Someone's asking me the text message about weed killers to
spray directly onto the leaves of agapanthus and ladder ferns
growing from rock wall through the fence can't get to
the roots and all don't want to kill what's the
next part of the text question, I don't want to
kill any plants nearby?
Speaker 3 (08:48):
Oh? Yeah, that's aiming. You can't you can't have a
wheat killer that there's a there's very few wheat killers.
That for us is to only do grass and nothing else,
you know what I mean. But you're going to be
that's aiming. But a pretty good weed killer is something
like metsol furroon, which is associated known as associate, which
(09:08):
you can get from or you know all these these
what do you call it? Culture? So usually that so
associate and eradicate a raven's down material. That is a
pretty good week killer for stuff like that.
Speaker 2 (09:23):
Absolutely, And we hit with the NEEDLERB for the New
Yates zero, which is life say free. And I'm always curious,
so I went out and bought some used it and
it works, so I shouldn't be surprised.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
But she's pretty quick, isn't it. That's great. It's pretty
fast the way it works.
Speaker 2 (09:43):
Yeah, seem to get right through the roots, right, Diane.
Let's talk about Bora.
Speaker 7 (09:48):
Oh, good morning, I want to I've got bora in
my Mexican elders. I've got them in my backyard on
three sides, and I pleached them and they really look lovely.
But they've got Bora and I just I've tried. I've
(10:13):
got the yates. Is it yates? No more borer? I think?
I know, it's key, we care, I think. And there's
so many little holes everywhere, and some of the branches
are dying.
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Now.
Speaker 7 (10:30):
I want to save these because I inherited these trees.
It's about fort thirty of them, and I pleached them.
And they stop me looking at lots and lots of
roots in front of my backyard. What can I do?
I mean, I can't see myself getting, you know, dealing
(10:51):
with all those little holes and cutting back every dead branch.
Well I can cut down back every dead branch, that's
not a problem. But I need to save them because
I need to save my my view.
Speaker 3 (11:07):
You know, yeah, I know, I know what you're saying.
So these are the tiny borer holes that go in
the Mexican elder, right, it's ellness, yeah's correct, yeah, yeah, okay,
goodness me. That is a hard thing to do because
you basically there is very little you can do apart
from spraying at the right time when these when these
(11:28):
beetles are actually laying their eggs on the tree and
probably in the old holes of the tree as well.
That is really hard to get into. Can I I
need to really look at this, to be quite honest
and Diane, because I have to really find out if
(11:50):
there's anything specific that you can use for this particular case,
and what the timing of that particular borer is and
what the borer actually is. So there's a lot of
homework for me to do. If you give your name
and phone number to the producer, I'll call you back
when I finished that particular exercise. That might take a
(12:11):
couple of hours at home this afternoon. So that's me done.
Is that all right? Do you mind? Diane?
Speaker 2 (12:25):
Oh shivers, Sorry, I'll keep forgetting my mic Diane will
just pop you back to Lilia producer and she'll grab
your number and Robin a very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (12:34):
Oh, good morning, Pete, Good morning, Rude. It's Robin.
Speaker 8 (12:38):
I'm calling from Hawswell in christ Jooch and Rude. We
have a pick a picker bood feeder.
Speaker 3 (12:45):
I know and I know the pecker picker you feel
you go on?
Speaker 6 (12:49):
Yes, we also have another arrangement there where we've got
to just bird seed and the sparrows and the black
birds and they're loving it, but we're not managing to
attract any native birds to a pick a picker bird feeder.
And I just wonder do you have any thoughts on?
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Yes, I do. What would you like to attract? Is
that silver eyes? Silver eyes? And what do you call
these things? Yeah? Anyway, go on, well.
Speaker 8 (13:18):
Yes, so I think we've seen a few silverized I
would love to attract TOUI because I'm from the Hawk's
Bay and we used to have lots and lots of
towey in their garden.
Speaker 6 (13:28):
I've got a small kofi.
Speaker 8 (13:31):
Growing, but it's only tiny so far.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Yeah. Can I tell you? Can I tell you that
in Hallswell we have hardly any two weee at all,
like I see maybe maybe one every year.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Wow.
Speaker 3 (13:44):
Yeah, And the reason is they're not established here. You
might find the odd one in the Botannic guns and
you will find TOOI I'll tell you that for free
on Banks Peninsula in Akaroa, where they've been reintroduced. So
it's going to take a while, So you'll have to
do with all your other nectar feeders, which is as
I said, usually usually those little silver eyes and yeah
(14:09):
and things like that, and those are the ones that
will come to your.
Speaker 8 (14:12):
Pecker pecket feeder and maybe one day we'll get some
CHOI you.
Speaker 3 (14:16):
Might just get them over the top of the hill
from Kennedy's boysh all the way down to Hallswell.
Speaker 2 (14:23):
Thank you so much, a long newly planted ecological corridor.
Speaker 3 (14:27):
Perhaps you've perhaps you could well do it. How do
you know all these things?
Speaker 2 (14:32):
Because I've been listening to you and you've been a
wonderful inspiration, I have to say, for many years. I'll
tell you what. Actually, there's a lot. There's a Facebook page,
and I know you don't have much time for Facebook
and all the rest of it, but there is a
sort of birds of Auckland page. I can't even believe
I'm talking about this, but there is one particular contributor
(14:53):
who has cameras set up to capture the ruroute that
are nesting in his backyard. And it is just fabulous.
And now, almost like a proud dad, he's talking about
the three ruru checks that he's be able to identify
using night vision cameras and picking up three little sets
of eyes peering out waiting for Mum and Dad to
(15:13):
come home with more live food. So Ruu's hunt quite
a lot, don't they.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
This is exactly it. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, no, absolutely,
and that is that is the beauty of it. At
the moment, I am looking at a little nest of
little owls, right and really, and because I have not
been home for about ten days, I have to go
back with Peter and see what's in there in the meantime.
But we banned those little little babies. Just just gorgeous,
(15:42):
just gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (15:43):
Me a photo right, yes, well please do tom Hello there.
Speaker 9 (15:49):
Good morning, Rude Pete and others. With a quick question. Please,
I've got a white plum tree which has a huge one. Now,
I've been very old, had millions of plums. If you
don't go near it for a while, you can't walk
on the ground about. But yeah, but a tree, my
earliest red plum. It stopped having plums except for half
(16:13):
a dozen many years, a decade or two. I've been
here a long time, and I'm wondering about that. I
think it was a wie hki, a good one.
Speaker 3 (16:25):
So you're telling me that you don't get plums right now, No.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
I get thousands of flower It's a large tree growing
from the bos. I haven't looked after much. Thousands of
flowers and then you've got to look to find one
or two plums, and they were delicious red ones earlier.
Speaker 3 (16:43):
Okay, well, plum trees do need a pollinator, to be
quite honest, and.
Speaker 9 (16:48):
Yeah, I know that. I'll be fun.
Speaker 3 (16:51):
So if you've got, for instanceant European plum, you need
a European pollinator. If you've got a Japanese plum, you
need a Japanese pollinator. So those sort of things need
to be planted literally almost next to each other, but
you know, or in the same garden, not too far
from each other. And have you got any pollinator like that? Well?
Speaker 9 (17:11):
I had one tree that I don't remember planet fifty
years ago that might have helped a little bit digits
and have problems. E was a rad one. But but
for a decade or two this had beautiful red early prums.
Speaker 3 (17:26):
Maybe your neighbor or did you have another country that
died in the meantime.
Speaker 9 (17:31):
That that could be it? I guess, okay, well, what's
my what have I got in this Japanese plum very
early rate here? Well, and you might have been awaiki
you left.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
To talk to them, and if they say dog got
you marimas, it's a Japanese plum.
Speaker 9 (17:47):
Ah, well, I don't know. That's sort of intom.
Speaker 3 (17:51):
Stuff, don't you know what I mean? You need to
identify what you've got. That's really what I'm saying.
Speaker 9 (17:56):
Yeah, sure, I'll thank you.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
That's if if it's a European one, you stick with
European pollinators, and that the Japanese, you do Japanese pollinator.
That's generally the golden rule.
Speaker 2 (18:09):
Tell me, because I'm never afraid of answering them asking
a dumb question, what's the difference between a European pollinator
and a Japanese pollinator?
Speaker 3 (18:17):
Well, there there are Japanese plant plum varieties and European
plum varieties. That's why I call them Japanese and Europeans,
and they have they are slightly they're actually quite quite
different in terms of their genetics, different origins and different
pollinators needed to match them up. Okayally what I'm saying, yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (18:40):
Thank you very much, Tom, all the very best to you, righty, oh,
thank you mate. Well, now next week we are starting earlier.
Speaker 3 (18:48):
Yes, I get it that. I heard that. Awesome, And
I'm going to be in Tiro at the They Bestival
and the Art Trail as well, and the art trail
that's going to be great.
Speaker 2 (18:57):
And I am on my way to the Saint Leo's School,
Fear School, Fear It'll be It'll be awesome. Actually, the
White Elephants looking great, the box are there, the clothing's there,
the food is fantastic. I'm into it right. Busy day ahead.
Hopefully I'll see you at the fair. Take care of
it all the very best and folks, thanks for your company.
Looking forward to being back with you again next Sunday.
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