November 16, 2024 • 21 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from Newstalks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
EDB Summer is on its way. Only a couple of
weeks left. Still Shops biggest ever spring sale on now
with all Still tools on sale and unexpectedly affordable too,
this is your chance to get your hands on the
widest range of battery and petrol powered gardening tools in
the land. Don't miss out big savings on all things
(00:32):
Still chainsaws, line shrimmers, head strimmers, lawnmowers, blowers, water blasters
and more. And in getting your property and garden and shape,
we'll approach the end of the year. Will the years
come into a close? You also need that you're going
to need the right advice and the right equipment for
your particular needs too, So Still Shop eight times award
winner of the Consumer People's Choice Retailer for gardening equipment,
(00:57):
on site products, servicing online, click and collect or home
delivery over eighty five stores nationwide. Only weeks left with
the big spring sail, don't miss out go see your local.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Ziby.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The Road Climb pasted on the move as always, but
we've tracked you down. How's no wronger.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Wrong is absolutely wonderful. This good an arts festival. Man,
it's just wonderful. Had one rainy day, but even that
was not a big deal.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Right, well, probably go to the garden this time of year.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Absolutely, And apparently they were really looking for some water
around here because it hadn't been quite dry, which was
unusual because I would say it was, you know, it
was quite wet, but it was they I reckon they
needed it, sell dig the growers. Yeah, this was amazing, mate.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Awesome, that's great. Right, let's grab some calls. I think,
let's not wuck around, so we let's we're out. We're
out of here for the commentary.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Sure, I know.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Actually, I'll tell you what quick text question, Pete, would
you please ask Rid how to stop tiny wasps from
eating my monarch caterpillars on a very large swan plant? Please?
Feels like we do get this question every year, don't
we every year?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And the idea is, yeah, and small wasps. I don't
know what it means with small or issue means with
small wasps, but basically all the predatory wasps like German
wasps and common wasps and some of those those paper wasps,
they will go for meat, their meat eaters. Right, So
this is the idea. I would not plant by my
(02:33):
swan plant in the ground. I would put it in
a large pot so I can move it. And the
reason for that is that wasps are very clever with GPS.
Once they've found out where the caterpillars live, they know
where to go. When you change it to the back
of the house, they suddenly go like, holy heck, I'm
sure there were caterpillars here, and they're really dumb, you
(02:53):
know what I mean. So you can actually choose to
choose to change their location, right, and that will work
really nicely to stop them from getting at them.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Okay, and knitting does that work.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Netting will work too, of course. But netting will also
work against butterflies laying eggs. So once you've got your eggs, yes,
you can net it absolutely all.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Right, let's get into the calls carry a very good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yes, morning, gentlemen, Peter en rude problem with my glass house.
What's the first sign of that blight that PEPs tomatoes
and potatoes because the leaves are pearling up and the
fruits dying of funny shape.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Oh, I don't know which particular fungus that would be.
It depends. There are a couple of things that can
do that best. The best thing to do is if
you have problems with this, the quickest solution now is
to spray some copper over the plants, copper and sulfur mixtures.
I would say, yah, Nature's way fungus spray, which is
copper and sulfur mixed. And what you do with that
(03:55):
spray is you actually stop the fungi spreading around to
the other parts of the plant. So basically that's your
best way to go without even seeing what the fungus
is so I can't see it from here of course,
being in but there you are. That's my best guess.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Okay, thanks very much. I'll give that a hit this morning.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Excuse me, Alistair grisolineas.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Late's I've got a grizzlinear hedge that's a couple of
years old, which I thought was going to be either
green forever, but time it's going very deciduous and yellow.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yes, yes, it does happen. I've get I'm getting more
and more of those questions from Grizzly for a grizzlin ea,
and that could it could be a is your hedge
on in quite a wet spot for.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Instance, it is yeah shaded yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And that is without again, without seeing, because you really
need to identify these things properly. But what I tell you,
my guess is that it's something like a fight of
a root rot and that could be totally what do
you call it fatal for most of the plants, especially
as they spread their spores underground through what they call
(05:09):
freyetic water, and that means that they basically infect one
plant after the next.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
So I go to the cardos, can I use my
fightof for chemicals that will use on the other cardos.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I think that's a very clever idea. Why don't you?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Okay, I'll try, I hope so.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
But the point of course is, once you've got it
in the ground, you do realize you're fighting all the time.
So you can't, for instance, if you if you've got
a whole o in a row and a hedge, if
the hedge is started to fall apart in some places,
you might find it spreads somehow anyway, and it means
maybe it's an idea to think about getting a different
hedge with a different resilience to fight after, if you like.
(05:56):
And basically every species has its own fight off for
almost so you find that you can actually stop the
infestation from grissolinia and start something totally different. That's just
another idea.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I have no recommendations of something that is resistant to.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Anything anything else. PROSBA is all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Okay, good night.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
All of this were welcome.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Take care. He seems to have an unusual advantage in
the sense that he's already running an evocata orchard.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
So he knows what you do. That's easy.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, that's brilliant, right, Roger, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Good morning. I've got some asparagus there, and because it
was bad weather, it's run away on us and we
haven't my minister cut any If I cut it now,
will it be okay? Would I get any more asparagus
or should I?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yes, yes you will. I've had the same complaints with
my darling Julie, because when I was away for a
couple of weeks, she didn't really catch up with the
asparagus and they became about two meters high. I cut
them off and decided to blow it. I'm going to
ever go and yes they are coming back, so don't
worry about that.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Oh God, I'll just cut it back a little crow again.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yes, absolutely, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Sharpe, Yes, sharp, that's the key. It is eight twenty
six here at news Tippy do we I think we
need to take a break. We'll take a break and
then we'll be back.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
The Redcline passed joining us this morning on the show.
As always, quick text from Bonnie morning. Should I paint
my garden box and trellis with waste oil? No?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I wouldn't. No, No, I don't think that's a good idea. No, No,
that makes sense. Mecrocarpa quite often does it without any
you know, for years and years, years without any treatment
at all.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
There are bitter ways seen the waste oil back to
the appropriate people for recycling radio right. I love like that.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Here's another one, by the way. You know, we've had
all these questions about what we have to do with
tomatoes and fat off and all these sort of things.
The talk that I'm going to give in about an
hour and half's time he had plenty of garden and
Arce festival is how to murder your plants more slowly.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And the key point to that is the key point.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
To it is that there's all sorts of ways to
actually stop all these troubles by actually being really nice
to your plants. That's what it is. Oh, by the way,
your friend Brian Rinches was really talking to him. Yes,
it was really funny. It was typicalt wasn't it. So
we were at King Seeds smucking around there and he
works there, and he tells me the whole story about
you and your parents and all that.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Sort of stuff. My folks and his folks were great
friends back in the day exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
That was so cool.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And I'm pretty sure that it's his brother who's bought
the part of the Beautiful Gardens and Eshburton that I
visited a little while ago as well.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Ah yeah, yeah, yeah, I must go.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And it's fabulous right now, let's get into it. Mailing
good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Good morning. I've just got a problem with I think
they are fan tails. I've got two that persistently hit
my windows. What can I do to stop them from
putting the windows?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You can't do anything for the simple reason, you know,
like put on.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
A window or to stop them. I don't know. They
can actually break the window.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
They're not fent tails breaking windows.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Tiny very long, big yellow and bluish color.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I was just got to say this. Here's the gig
mailing is very simple. They see themselves in the window
and thinking it is a competitor, and they go, oh,
get out of here. So then you'll dive bombing on themselves.
But it usually ends up bed for the for the bird.
I yeah, four things.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Look at me.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, I don't, I know, I know, and they keep going.
It's if they have no idea what they're doing. But
this is the thing. What you can do is you
can put these little stickers on your window that actually
show them that this is a window and not just nothing.
So if you have these stickers on the window, falcons
and foot pigeons do the same thing. They try to
go through the house because they can see the window
(10:33):
on the other side of the house and thinking if
I fly through here, I exit on the other side.
Would that be a possibility.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
A good luck, very good luck, and dot A very
good morning.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
Hello Dodo, morning up and kai Kura. We've got swarms
of these round visuals which I believe a little grass
grubs and the wingdside for my fruit trees, and they
striple the laves and actually stripple the leaves on the
rubb as well. How can't we control them?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I am not one hundred percent sure if they are
grass grub it could be. But we also have a
bronze beetle in the north, and I'm not sure if
they go as far south as gy Cota. I must
look that up actually, But yes, the beetles themselves are
creatures that like to eat leaves and sometimes also fruits
or beginning fruits if you like. And that is basically
to give them a good if you like, body for
(11:37):
mating and laying eggs in the soil so they can
so their kids can come back to your place next year.
So what do you do with exact yep, I know
we used to have them in Auckland a lot. That
was amazing, absolutely brilliant. So what are you going to
do with it? It's very tricky. The best thing to
do is to have, if you like, a repellent on
(11:58):
there or something they really don't like, and that could
be something like an insecticide that is really okay, what
can you use success You can try that. It does
cetporus at the same time, by the way.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
Yeah, go on, yeah, because I was frying the trees
with one that was Oh it wasn't a shield, but
it was. Yeah, it was a spry that and that
it was supposed to keep them sticks away, and they
just keep eating and you know, dive come out at nighttime.
(12:40):
They just become an absolute swarm.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Okay, DoD here comes to good news. Honestly, this is
this is true. If you have a tree or a
shrub and you get somebody eating the leaves off, that
is the least of the worry for the tree. It
won't die as a result. It might look a bit silly,
but it will replace those leaves really, really quickly. It
is the step sucking bugs that can do all sorts
(13:04):
of damage to your trees. Theers like beetles and caterpillars
are of no if you like health concern to the tree.
So I wouldn't be too worried about it at all.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Okay, so the young trees, they they'll just leave up.
Well last year they leaped up again.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
But that's what I mean. Yeah, yeah, got it right.
Oh and Dot, by the way, I've got a wetter
that I've got here with me, and her name is Dorothy.
And no it's not it's not it's not because the
same thing. I asked the kids, what is the short
(13:43):
name for Dorothy? And the kids don't know. But people
over forty eight do. They say, Oh, that's Dot. I said,
all right, if your name is Dot, what would be
your email address?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (13:54):
I know my work was dot dot.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Get you dot dot dot com. There you go. Yeah.
I loved it. And the kids think it's so funny.
They think it's brilliant. I think you've got the best
name of the planet. There you were. Everybody that knows
Dorothy knows you. Now there you go.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
I have to spell it all the time. Absolutely ridiculous.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, lovely to talk to you, Dot. It's fabulous. All right,
we're got to take a break while we stopped laughing.
It is eight thirty seven here at new stalk z
B Beck and here it's it is eight forty you
remember we've got live commentary of the All Blacks Fee France.
Let's kick off at nine o'clock. Commentary from about eight
(14:49):
fifty this morning. Julie, good morning, Hi.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
What can we do for you? What can we do
for you?
Speaker 8 (14:56):
All right? I just like to know it's just I
fund at a little around very black spider that things
like old plant pots and what have you. And presume
it's white. Eat six little spiders are about this rhand
(15:21):
your little finger or not little finger, but little finger nail.
I should say in just gipt that they're always hiding
in the dark.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, that's what they do. And they, you know, do
a great job. You realize that, don't.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
You, yep?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Because yeah, well they can. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Go on, when I the fine one, I just put it,
you know, put a cover it back up again.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah good, that's a lovely one. And because these guys
are basically your your your your graph is best controllers.
They will eat caterpillars, They will eat all sorts of things,
little meggats, little flies, and all the things you don't
want in your garden.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
What what's it called?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I have no idea without seeing it. We've got about
twelve thousand different species of spiders in New Zealand, and
without seeing them, it's really hard to tell that it
could be if it's a very quick spider, you know,
the one that runs really fast in the summertime, Yep, yep,
it could be that one. Because it has also a white,
wonderful white. If you like egg case, that could be
(16:23):
the fleet footed spider. I love that name because it's
fleet footed, it runs like anything. There you are.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Hope that helps all the very best to Julie, thank
you very much for that. And Dave, good morning.
Speaker 10 (16:37):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
What's wrong with your letters? And now I can't hear you,
but what's wrong with your letters?
Speaker 10 (16:44):
There's something. It's about the size. It's a little bit
smaller than an ant, and it's white, and it's eating
my leaders and of course the leaves.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yeah, but it might not be Yeah, Okay, The question
here is who started it? If you talk about something
as small as that, it might be springtails. Spring are
white creatures that are literally creatures that don't eat the plants,
but they actually make the plant that it's been attacked
to decompose into compost. But the question is who causes
(17:19):
the plants to be decomposing? You know what I mean
to go off? And it could be things like wireworms,
It could be slugs and snails. It could be a
whole lot of different things. Those little springtails are the
ones that literally recycle the stuff after when it's dying.
Do you know what I mean? Cause? The cause and cause,
(17:41):
the cause and effect yeah, there were hard to tell.
Speaker 10 (17:46):
What what maybe I think, okay, is this year I'm
going to have no lelesses of this keeps up. So
do you think after the lettuce and tomatoes and we
go into a new season, if I just leave the
bead with nothing growing in it, will let's let knock
them off.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
It depends on what the problem is. I can't tell
you what exactly the problem is. I think the spring
Tales are basically cleaning up after the mess, so we
need to know who done it first. First of all,
is it too wet in your place? Is it very
wet in your garden? Yes? I live in That's an
exact That is exactly what they're springtails like wet habitats
(18:26):
and stuff that is dying because of fungal attacks and
things like that. All right, thanks, sorry, so you can't
help you any more.
Speaker 10 (18:34):
Than that, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
That's right, Yeah, bye matey. Just on the glass thing,
there's a thing called window Alert that people have taxed through.
So apparently they're like a plastic square that you can
put on and then that deflects the bird or dissuade
them from crashing into the glass somehow.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
That's right, because they can see three D again, you
know they they don't see the glass otherwise I have
no idea. Yeah, okay, so good good one.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Thank you for the morning filled willing to you.
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I'll pick it quick.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
I've got a chemptry that would have been a real
beast in its day. A trunk was about four five
feet across at the bottom. I wanted to I'm trying
to get rid of the stump and plant co Bi
and cuck a beacon its place. I've taken the stump
down to about two two and a half feet below
the surface. Well, I plan, and I plan to do
(19:35):
as much damage to it as possible. Is there something?
Speaker 10 (19:40):
Is there something?
Speaker 11 (19:41):
Because because it comes back, it's like the terminator.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Here you go, Phil, Phil, Phil, listen. Two things. One
is nape arm yeah, and the other one is a
drill bit ten minutes millimeter drill bit. And put vigilant
and all these other things in there, and you you
literally make it a perforated hole. Put that stuff in it,
and you will find that that won't be able to recover.
(20:06):
For Betty Gabtree, sorry, you you're.
Speaker 11 (20:08):
Winning because because I I just don't want it to
because I want to plant at the top to bring
the boozer, but I don't want what the boys and
the stump worth to fit those from you know, the
new trees. So if I if I just I've got
a big long, you know, like one of those twenty
(20:30):
mile orgabism yep, and I was going to drill into
it as sleep as I could. So if I just
pour something in the.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Absolutely fabulous, that will be okay, no problem at all.
You called it, I will say vigilant. Yeah, there's vigilance.
So go to the You'll find heaps of different things
like that.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Okay, good luck with it. I know they are tremendously persistent,
just like rude. Right, enjoy your time and start on it,
and we'll talk again next week, all of us through
the right brightens in them, and we're going to hand
over to the commentary team. All Blacks kick off at
nine o'clock.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
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from Newstalks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
EDB Summer is on its way. Only a couple of
weeks left. Still Shops biggest ever spring sale on now
with all Still tools on sale and unexpectedly affordable too,
this is your chance to get your hands on the
widest range of battery and petrol powered gardening tools in
the land. Don't miss out big savings on all things
(00:32):
Still chainsaws, line shrimmers, head strimmers, lawnmowers, blowers, water blasters
and more. And in getting your property and garden and shape,
we'll approach the end of the year. Will the years
come into a close? You also need that you're going
to need the right advice and the right equipment for
your particular needs too, So Still Shop eight times award
winner of the Consumer People's Choice Retailer for gardening equipment,
(00:57):
on site products, servicing online, click and collect or home
delivery over eighty five stores nationwide. Only weeks left with
the big spring sail, don't miss out go see your local.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Ziby.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
The Road Climb pasted on the move as always, but
we've tracked you down. How's no wronger.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
Wrong is absolutely wonderful. This good an arts festival. Man,
it's just wonderful. Had one rainy day, but even that
was not a big deal.
Speaker 2 (01:27):
Right, well, probably go to the garden this time of year.
Speaker 3 (01:30):
Absolutely, And apparently they were really looking for some water
around here because it hadn't been quite dry, which was
unusual because I would say it was, you know, it
was quite wet, but it was they I reckon they
needed it, sell dig the growers. Yeah, this was amazing, mate.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
Awesome, that's great. Right, let's grab some calls. I think,
let's not wuck around, so we let's we're out. We're
out of here for the commentary.
Speaker 3 (01:55):
Sure, I know.
Speaker 2 (01:56):
Actually, I'll tell you what quick text question, Pete, would
you please ask Rid how to stop tiny wasps from
eating my monarch caterpillars on a very large swan plant? Please?
Feels like we do get this question every year, don't
we every year?
Speaker 3 (02:12):
And the idea is, yeah, and small wasps. I don't
know what it means with small or issue means with
small wasps, but basically all the predatory wasps like German
wasps and common wasps and some of those those paper wasps,
they will go for meat, their meat eaters. Right, So
this is the idea. I would not plant by my
(02:33):
swan plant in the ground. I would put it in
a large pot so I can move it. And the
reason for that is that wasps are very clever with GPS.
Once they've found out where the caterpillars live, they know
where to go. When you change it to the back
of the house, they suddenly go like, holy heck, I'm
sure there were caterpillars here, and they're really dumb, you
(02:53):
know what I mean. So you can actually choose to
choose to change their location, right, and that will work
really nicely to stop them from getting at them.
Speaker 2 (03:02):
Okay, and knitting does that work.
Speaker 3 (03:05):
Netting will work too, of course. But netting will also
work against butterflies laying eggs. So once you've got your eggs, yes,
you can net it absolutely all.
Speaker 2 (03:13):
Right, let's get into the calls carry a very good morning.
Speaker 4 (03:17):
Yes, morning, gentlemen, Peter en rude problem with my glass house.
What's the first sign of that blight that PEPs tomatoes
and potatoes because the leaves are pearling up and the
fruits dying of funny shape.
Speaker 3 (03:32):
Oh, I don't know which particular fungus that would be.
It depends. There are a couple of things that can
do that best. The best thing to do is if
you have problems with this, the quickest solution now is
to spray some copper over the plants, copper and sulfur mixtures.
I would say, yah, Nature's way fungus spray, which is
copper and sulfur mixed. And what you do with that
(03:55):
spray is you actually stop the fungi spreading around to
the other parts of the plant. So basically that's your
best way to go without even seeing what the fungus
is so I can't see it from here of course,
being in but there you are. That's my best guess.
Speaker 4 (04:11):
Okay, thanks very much. I'll give that a hit this morning.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Thanks.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Excuse me, Alistair grisolineas.
Speaker 5 (04:22):
Late's I've got a grizzlinear hedge that's a couple of
years old, which I thought was going to be either
green forever, but time it's going very deciduous and yellow.
Speaker 3 (04:31):
Yes, yes, it does happen. I've get I'm getting more
and more of those questions from Grizzly for a grizzlin ea,
and that could it could be a is your hedge
on in quite a wet spot for.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Instance, it is yeah shaded yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
And that is without again, without seeing, because you really
need to identify these things properly. But what I tell you,
my guess is that it's something like a fight of
a root rot and that could be totally what do
you call it fatal for most of the plants, especially
as they spread their spores underground through what they call
(05:09):
freyetic water, and that means that they basically infect one
plant after the next.
Speaker 5 (05:17):
So I go to the cardos, can I use my
fightof for chemicals that will use on the other cardos.
Speaker 3 (05:24):
I think that's a very clever idea. Why don't you?
Speaker 5 (05:28):
Okay, I'll try, I hope so.
Speaker 3 (05:31):
But the point of course is, once you've got it
in the ground, you do realize you're fighting all the time.
So you can't, for instance, if you if you've got
a whole o in a row and a hedge, if
the hedge is started to fall apart in some places,
you might find it spreads somehow anyway, and it means
maybe it's an idea to think about getting a different
hedge with a different resilience to fight after, if you like.
(05:56):
And basically every species has its own fight off for
almost so you find that you can actually stop the
infestation from grissolinia and start something totally different. That's just
another idea.
Speaker 5 (06:09):
I have no recommendations of something that is resistant to.
Speaker 3 (06:12):
Anything anything else. PROSBA is all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 5 (06:18):
Okay, good night.
Speaker 3 (06:20):
All of this were welcome.
Speaker 2 (06:22):
Take care. He seems to have an unusual advantage in
the sense that he's already running an evocata orchard.
Speaker 3 (06:27):
So he knows what you do. That's easy.
Speaker 2 (06:32):
Yeah, that's brilliant, right, Roger, A very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (06:39):
Good morning. I've got some asparagus there, and because it
was bad weather, it's run away on us and we
haven't my minister cut any If I cut it now,
will it be okay? Would I get any more asparagus
or should I?
Speaker 3 (06:55):
Yes, yes you will. I've had the same complaints with
my darling Julie, because when I was away for a
couple of weeks, she didn't really catch up with the
asparagus and they became about two meters high. I cut
them off and decided to blow it. I'm going to
ever go and yes they are coming back, so don't
worry about that.
Speaker 6 (07:14):
Oh God, I'll just cut it back a little crow again.
Speaker 3 (07:17):
Yes, absolutely, thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:21):
Sharpe, Yes, sharp, that's the key. It is eight twenty
six here at news Tippy do we I think we
need to take a break. We'll take a break and
then we'll be back.
Speaker 4 (07:32):
Yep.
Speaker 2 (07:34):
The Redcline passed joining us this morning on the show.
As always, quick text from Bonnie morning. Should I paint
my garden box and trellis with waste oil? No?
Speaker 3 (07:46):
I wouldn't. No, No, I don't think that's a good idea. No, No,
that makes sense. Mecrocarpa quite often does it without any
you know, for years and years, years without any treatment
at all.
Speaker 2 (07:59):
There are bitter ways seen the waste oil back to
the appropriate people for recycling radio right. I love like that.
Speaker 3 (08:07):
Here's another one, by the way. You know, we've had
all these questions about what we have to do with
tomatoes and fat off and all these sort of things.
The talk that I'm going to give in about an
hour and half's time he had plenty of garden and
Arce festival is how to murder your plants more slowly.
Speaker 2 (08:25):
And the key point to that is the key point.
Speaker 3 (08:30):
To it is that there's all sorts of ways to
actually stop all these troubles by actually being really nice
to your plants. That's what it is. Oh, by the way,
your friend Brian Rinches was really talking to him. Yes,
it was really funny. It was typicalt wasn't it. So
we were at King Seeds smucking around there and he
works there, and he tells me the whole story about
you and your parents and all that.
Speaker 2 (08:50):
Sort of stuff. My folks and his folks were great
friends back in the day exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:55):
That was so cool.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
And I'm pretty sure that it's his brother who's bought
the part of the Beautiful Gardens and Eshburton that I
visited a little while ago as well.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Ah yeah, yeah, yeah, I must go.
Speaker 2 (09:05):
And it's fabulous right now, let's get into it. Mailing
good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (09:12):
Good morning. I've just got a problem with I think
they are fan tails. I've got two that persistently hit
my windows. What can I do to stop them from
putting the windows?
Speaker 3 (09:25):
You can't do anything for the simple reason, you know,
like put on.
Speaker 7 (09:29):
A window or to stop them. I don't know. They
can actually break the window.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
They're not fent tails breaking windows.
Speaker 7 (09:37):
Tiny very long, big yellow and bluish color.
Speaker 3 (09:47):
I was just got to say this. Here's the gig
mailing is very simple. They see themselves in the window
and thinking it is a competitor, and they go, oh,
get out of here. So then you'll dive bombing on themselves.
But it usually ends up bed for the for the bird.
I yeah, four things.
Speaker 7 (10:10):
Look at me.
Speaker 3 (10:12):
Yeah, I don't, I know, I know, and they keep going.
It's if they have no idea what they're doing. But
this is the thing. What you can do is you
can put these little stickers on your window that actually
show them that this is a window and not just nothing.
So if you have these stickers on the window, falcons
and foot pigeons do the same thing. They try to
go through the house because they can see the window
(10:33):
on the other side of the house and thinking if
I fly through here, I exit on the other side.
Would that be a possibility.
Speaker 8 (10:40):
Yeah, yeah, no, no, fair enough.
Speaker 2 (10:46):
A good luck, very good luck, and dot A very
good morning.
Speaker 9 (10:52):
Hello Dodo, morning up and kai Kura. We've got swarms
of these round visuals which I believe a little grass
grubs and the wingdside for my fruit trees, and they
striple the laves and actually stripple the leaves on the
rubb as well. How can't we control them?
Speaker 3 (11:15):
I am not one hundred percent sure if they are
grass grub it could be. But we also have a
bronze beetle in the north, and I'm not sure if
they go as far south as gy Cota. I must
look that up actually, But yes, the beetles themselves are
creatures that like to eat leaves and sometimes also fruits
or beginning fruits if you like. And that is basically
to give them a good if you like, body for
(11:37):
mating and laying eggs in the soil so they can
so their kids can come back to your place next year.
So what do you do with exact yep, I know
we used to have them in Auckland a lot. That
was amazing, absolutely brilliant. So what are you going to
do with it? It's very tricky. The best thing to
do is to have, if you like, a repellent on
(11:58):
there or something they really don't like, and that could
be something like an insecticide that is really okay, what
can you use success You can try that. It does
cetporus at the same time, by the way.
Speaker 9 (12:16):
Yeah, go on, yeah, because I was frying the trees
with one that was Oh it wasn't a shield, but
it was. Yeah, it was a spry that and that
it was supposed to keep them sticks away, and they
just keep eating and you know, dive come out at nighttime.
(12:40):
They just become an absolute swarm.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Okay, DoD here comes to good news. Honestly, this is
this is true. If you have a tree or a
shrub and you get somebody eating the leaves off, that
is the least of the worry for the tree. It
won't die as a result. It might look a bit silly,
but it will replace those leaves really, really quickly. It
is the step sucking bugs that can do all sorts
(13:04):
of damage to your trees. Theers like beetles and caterpillars
are of no if you like health concern to the tree.
So I wouldn't be too worried about it at all.
Speaker 9 (13:16):
Okay, so the young trees, they they'll just leave up.
Well last year they leaped up again.
Speaker 3 (13:23):
But that's what I mean. Yeah, yeah, got it right.
Oh and Dot, by the way, I've got a wetter
that I've got here with me, and her name is Dorothy.
And no it's not it's not it's not because the
same thing. I asked the kids, what is the short
(13:43):
name for Dorothy? And the kids don't know. But people
over forty eight do. They say, Oh, that's Dot. I said,
all right, if your name is Dot, what would be
your email address?
Speaker 4 (13:54):
Oh?
Speaker 9 (13:54):
I know my work was dot dot.
Speaker 3 (14:02):
Get you dot dot dot com. There you go. Yeah.
I loved it. And the kids think it's so funny.
They think it's brilliant. I think you've got the best
name of the planet. There you were. Everybody that knows
Dorothy knows you. Now there you go.
Speaker 9 (14:18):
I have to spell it all the time. Absolutely ridiculous.
Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, lovely to talk to you, Dot. It's fabulous. All right,
we're got to take a break while we stopped laughing.
It is eight thirty seven here at new stalk z
B Beck and here it's it is eight forty you
remember we've got live commentary of the All Blacks Fee France.
Let's kick off at nine o'clock. Commentary from about eight
(14:49):
fifty this morning. Julie, good morning, Hi.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
What can we do for you? What can we do
for you?
Speaker 8 (14:56):
All right? I just like to know it's just I
fund at a little around very black spider that things
like old plant pots and what have you. And presume
it's white. Eat six little spiders are about this rhand
(15:21):
your little finger or not little finger, but little finger nail.
I should say in just gipt that they're always hiding
in the dark.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Yeah, that's what they do. And they, you know, do
a great job. You realize that, don't.
Speaker 2 (15:36):
You, yep?
Speaker 3 (15:38):
Because yeah, well they can. Yeah.
Speaker 8 (15:41):
Go on, when I the fine one, I just put it,
you know, put a cover it back up again.
Speaker 3 (15:48):
Yeah good, that's a lovely one. And because these guys
are basically your your your your graph is best controllers.
They will eat caterpillars, They will eat all sorts of things,
little meggats, little flies, and all the things you don't
want in your garden.
Speaker 8 (16:00):
What what's it called?
Speaker 3 (16:03):
I have no idea without seeing it. We've got about
twelve thousand different species of spiders in New Zealand, and
without seeing them, it's really hard to tell that it
could be if it's a very quick spider, you know,
the one that runs really fast in the summertime, Yep, yep,
it could be that one. Because it has also a white,
wonderful white. If you like egg case, that could be
(16:23):
the fleet footed spider. I love that name because it's
fleet footed, it runs like anything. There you are.
Speaker 2 (16:31):
Hope that helps all the very best to Julie, thank
you very much for that. And Dave, good morning.
Speaker 10 (16:37):
Good morning.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
What's wrong with your letters? And now I can't hear you,
but what's wrong with your letters?
Speaker 10 (16:44):
There's something. It's about the size. It's a little bit
smaller than an ant, and it's white, and it's eating
my leaders and of course the leaves.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Yeah, but it might not be Yeah, Okay, The question
here is who started it? If you talk about something
as small as that, it might be springtails. Spring are
white creatures that are literally creatures that don't eat the plants,
but they actually make the plant that it's been attacked
to decompose into compost. But the question is who causes
(17:19):
the plants to be decomposing? You know what I mean
to go off? And it could be things like wireworms,
It could be slugs and snails. It could be a
whole lot of different things. Those little springtails are the
ones that literally recycle the stuff after when it's dying.
Do you know what I mean? Cause? The cause and cause,
(17:41):
the cause and effect yeah, there were hard to tell.
Speaker 10 (17:46):
What what maybe I think, okay, is this year I'm
going to have no lelesses of this keeps up. So
do you think after the lettuce and tomatoes and we
go into a new season, if I just leave the
bead with nothing growing in it, will let's let knock
them off.
Speaker 3 (18:06):
It depends on what the problem is. I can't tell
you what exactly the problem is. I think the spring
Tales are basically cleaning up after the mess, so we
need to know who done it first. First of all,
is it too wet in your place? Is it very
wet in your garden? Yes? I live in That's an
exact That is exactly what they're springtails like wet habitats
(18:26):
and stuff that is dying because of fungal attacks and
things like that. All right, thanks, sorry, so you can't
help you any more.
Speaker 10 (18:34):
Than that, Thank you very much.
Speaker 2 (18:37):
That's right, Yeah, bye matey. Just on the glass thing,
there's a thing called window Alert that people have taxed through.
So apparently they're like a plastic square that you can
put on and then that deflects the bird or dissuade
them from crashing into the glass somehow.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
That's right, because they can see three D again, you
know they they don't see the glass otherwise I have
no idea. Yeah, okay, so good good one.
Speaker 2 (19:03):
Thank you for the morning filled willing to you.
Speaker 11 (19:08):
Good morning, gentlemen.
Speaker 4 (19:09):
I'll pick it quick.
Speaker 11 (19:10):
I've got a chemptry that would have been a real
beast in its day. A trunk was about four five
feet across at the bottom. I wanted to I'm trying
to get rid of the stump and plant co Bi
and cuck a beacon its place. I've taken the stump
down to about two two and a half feet below
the surface. Well, I plan, and I plan to do
(19:35):
as much damage to it as possible. Is there something?
Speaker 10 (19:40):
Is there something?
Speaker 11 (19:41):
Because because it comes back, it's like the terminator.
Speaker 3 (19:44):
Here you go, Phil, Phil, Phil, listen. Two things. One
is nape arm yeah, and the other one is a
drill bit ten minutes millimeter drill bit. And put vigilant
and all these other things in there, and you you
literally make it a perforated hole. Put that stuff in it,
and you will find that that won't be able to recover.
(20:06):
For Betty Gabtree, sorry, you you're.
Speaker 11 (20:08):
Winning because because I I just don't want it to
because I want to plant at the top to bring
the boozer, but I don't want what the boys and
the stump worth to fit those from you know, the
new trees. So if I if I just I've got
a big long, you know, like one of those twenty
(20:30):
mile orgabism yep, and I was going to drill into
it as sleep as I could. So if I just
pour something in the.
Speaker 3 (20:39):
Absolutely fabulous, that will be okay, no problem at all.
You called it, I will say vigilant. Yeah, there's vigilance.
So go to the You'll find heaps of different things
like that.
Speaker 2 (20:52):
Okay, good luck with it. I know they are tremendously persistent,
just like rude. Right, enjoy your time and start on it,
and we'll talk again next week, all of us through
the right brightens in them, and we're going to hand
over to the commentary team. All Blacks kick off at
nine o'clock.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
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