November 30, 2024 • 22 mins
This week, Pete and Ruud answer your questions about keeping your garden in the best shape it can be this season!
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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 B had a very very good morning to you.
Red Climb passed, how are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Ell?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Hello, good morning. Can you hear me, Peter, because we
had some.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Trouble such, I can hear you fine? Can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Yeah? I can hear you totally, mate, it's not a
big deal.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We can both hear the callers. Then we're winning, I
think so.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I think we're going to do that. You know we
are going to win somehow.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Hey, by the way, Bora just quickly. Yes, it's late
October early November when they start flying, and that means
that you spray the if you like, the wood that
has got the borer with that particular safe works aerosol,
and you do that so that when they come out
they feel really sick because they say, who's been spraying
(00:54):
this stuff that I'm just coming out of and before
they're actually trying to mate. But that's not going to help,
not going to work, not like.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
That, right it's they don't find it in effort?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Is yet it's not an effort right now?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
If you were to do it now, would it be
too late and an effectual.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
You might be okay if they are in a slightly
later phase. The reason I use it residual is so
you have at least a month or six weeks of
when the beatles come out later they will still be
knocked about, so you can have a go with it. Yeah,
go try your local safe works. Safe works with the
X they've got that particular material that we invented for
(01:34):
aircraft spraying, and have a go at it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, because I've noticed little piles of sawdust and my
precious wood pile underneath the house where I fossic away
all my little bits of architraves and pieces of timber
and all the rest of it. Because you never know
where you're going to need it, is my theory.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Are you Dutch or.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, that's right saying that. The other day I went
to a job as an old school hall and they went, oh,
there's a bit of rot in that corner and we
need a little, you know, like a meter long piece
of this particular profile. And I went home and fossicked
around and sure enough I had exactly they they needed.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
So and doesn't that feel good?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Mate? Absolutely, because you guarantee if I had to cut
it up for firewood, I would have needed next week. Anyway,
we're not talking about building. We're talking about the garden,
and let's get into it. Broad Beans, Peter, good morning, Yeah,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
What can we do with you? Peter? Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
And I've got a good crop of broad beans that
currently about twelve hundred high, and the pods of the
lower area just about ready to pack. But the top,
top part of it, something is eating all the leaves
and it's black and right round where they're eating, and
(02:55):
also causing the new pods coming through to blacken as
well when some of them are dying. I was thinking
of splaying it with Conqueror, but I think it's probably
too late. When I'm new starting into.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Picking, it might be. So tell me about the eating pattern.
Is it small holes on the edges that are taken off,
It's not whole big.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Chunks out of the leaf and here big chunks black
and right round the edge with eating.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Oh oh, are you have you got possums?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
No, I'm just asking because because sometimes that can happen
from the top, but they usually chew a lot more.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
I find that one of the main things that they
say on the on the pack of the U conqueror
they list to the end. It's probably one of those.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I think, Yeah, okay, have it go with that otherwise
otherwise yeah, and conqueror oil would be good. But if
it differences caterpillars, which I can't think of what. Actually,
there might be some weavils doing that.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
There are some anything on the one one little green
in green back, but found on one of them, but
the trend only one. Okay, would it be too late
to spray the ones we're going to be picking any day?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Well, with conquer oil, you don't have any problem. No, No,
you can wash it off that problem. No, And you
get the stuff from inside anyway, So that's it. Hey,
another I had another question, but I've forgotten what it
is already. Can you imagine that went quick? No? No,
I mean that because there was something else that was
going to say, But no, I've lost it. Oh yes,
you haven't gone outside at night to have a look.
(04:43):
I think you might want to do that. If there
is something there in the evening, like princess caterpillars that
come up and do this sort of stuff, then if
you have caterpillars, it might be an idea. To use
some material called Success, which is a Yates product that
does really good, good good repellent of caterpillars.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
There you are, yeah, one of us the future crops
next to you. Again, what's a good time to sprader
to avoid all of this fast stage of the plant?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Hard to say. It depends entirely. You first have to
find evidence who's done it. Then we can talk further.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Okay, So conquer is going to be quite safe on
the one who we're picking.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
It certainly will because it won't go and it's not systemic,
so it doesn't go into the beans that you're going
to eat now.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yep, okay, thanks, more welcome.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Okay, all.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
You have a great day. And another Peter, this time
about blueberries.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Years. Good morning day. I've got a blueberry bush. It's
in a wooden clatter box. I've had it for about
seven years and it's produced very very good blueberry crops.
Last year blueberries formed into fruit and then they just
(06:10):
shriveled up and died. And this year, this year, the
same thing appears to be happening. The fruit is forming
and starting to ripen, and then they just shrivel up
and die. I have fertilized the soil with acid fertilizer,
and the bushes looking extremely healthy. But I'm not sure
(06:35):
why these fruit are just shrilling up and dying.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Oh dear, oh dear, So it's the fruit. It's not
the leaves that are dying in this case.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
No, no, no, no. The bush is very healthy, particularly
since I've fertilized it.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And you say they are shriveling up as they develop
if you.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Like, yes, yes, yes, so they form into into the
fruit themselves and then from there they just don't shrivel up.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
That reminds me of and I have not grown a
lot of blueberries, but I remember there was a case
of nthrec noose, which is a disease and threk nose
a n th h r a c n o s.
It's a fruit rot if you like. And if you
can stop that by spraying a preventative funger side before
(07:30):
those you know, after the after those fruits are starting
to form, when they're still small, and you put a
good funger side on there. You could use probably something
like Yates Nature's Way fungal spray, which is a organic
so it's not going to be any trouble later. On
eating those berries. Yeah, but it will prevent that particular
(07:53):
thing from happening. I am not one hundred percent sure
if there is something you need more specific, but if
you google the name and threk nose or look it,
look it up and threcnose, you'll find that it might
it might work with that particular preventative material.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Okay, we'll try that.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Have a go.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
More than welcome, Peter, Yes, Peter.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
A quick text from Shane rud I have a hint
which is dying due to what I've been told is
weeping aphids. What spray can I use to get rid
of the aphids?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Please?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I've never heard of weeping aphens.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Or if I have not even heard of laughing aphids, screepers,
weeping aphids. I think that might be something to do
with the fact that they actually poop out honeyjew that
might be the weeping. But anyway, a hatch dying of
weeping apa no, I find it too, and that's too
(08:51):
unknown to me those terminologies, to be quite honest, I
don't know what that would be. No, I can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
This is the sort of thing where people just make
up stuff like, oh, you've got this disease and I
call it weeping aphis.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Yes, exactly, I call it. You exactly what it is.
So what scientists do They find and say an organism
that does this sort of damage, and they look up
the scientific name. And once you got a scientific name,
you can do within any language in the world and
you know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Right, it is important.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And just before we go to the break, could you, Pete,
could you ask rud to give us the exact name
of the safe works aircraft space that will work on
the borer. Please. I've found several options. I want to
get the right one.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
The right option is the one that they use as
a systemic, which means it's it goes into the animals
and it goes into the so you know it's a no,
not systemic, sorry, residual. So it stays on the surface.
And this is what they use for the holes for
the aircraft holds. That's another giveaway.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Residual residual. Wonderful. Right, we'll take a short break. We'll
be back with Kevin in just a moment. Climb past
us with us and Kevin A very good morning.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Yes, good morning, thanks for taking my core road. I
hear you moving back up towards about Plenty, leaving the
Christ Church Morgan coming to the traffic in the new mirror,
eh you rotter.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I was there for the Bay of Plenty Arts and
Garden festival, and I will never never leave christ.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
That's okay because you remember walkland traffic from your days.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I was there, I was, I was in. I was
actually Wayaki Island over the last week, and I've seen
the upland traffic, don't I know exactly what you're talking
about made? And you know what CHRISTI is going the
same way, and so is Queenstown.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
So rebuilding and all them textpayer money that we intend
to put lovely wide streets and lovely green areas. I
thought it was good for fifty years, that's said Kevin.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
We need growth at all costs. You ask any any
economists whatever an economists, and we need gross of all
of course, so we'll be in for it for the
long haul. My dear there we are talk.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
To friends in your homeland and family and people in Europe,
not people in other parts of the world that don't
come here with a good work ethic. That's a lot
of there you go I've been in this house and
the west side of Hamilton for about twenty years and
only two streets away from wide open areas peat land
(11:34):
grass to the area and never be built on the orange tree,
the sanby and lemon and the Lisbon lemon. The oranges
were a very plentiful supply this year, and in fact
all the birds, I think minor or other larger birds
were taking all the fruit and leaving the skin on
the tree. So obviously I had to throw an itto
(11:55):
the sandbyn they don't touch. And my problem is the
thicker skinned lemons that are ripening nicely. Now. I'll go
out one day and two or three have no skin
left on them whatsoever. I've never seen a rat or
a cat, or an elephant or even a bird, and
there's no bird droppings under them. Who would be taking
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my skin?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I'll tell you, I'll tell you what you listen for
at night.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Yeah, what wood pigeons I have? We have wood pigeons here, I.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Reckon, you've got bossums.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Boy, Well, why don't.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
They leave some little black identifying marks? But I think
they're right a neighbours. But there's no dirt on the ground.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
No, Oh, well, you mean booze. No, that's they don't
always pull directly under the tree where they are, but
they will do it somewhere. Yeah. Now that's classic bossom stuff.
I've had that in all the metropolis that I used
to live in.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Yeah, Auckland, you mean yeah, Okay, get on with it.
I'll throwing it over and see if they ripped in
it to piece. Thanks very much for you and have
a great day.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Thank you you too, mate, good good story. Bye.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Thank you very much given for that. And Jenny, Hello there, Hirod.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
I'm bringing you a about flying ants. Yes, now, what
can I do about them? Because last year at this
time I bought the key week care no ants, burrier
spray and the ants, and but I can't find a
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nest anywhere. And I checked on mister Google and they
said that this is the time that they're mating. And
they're congregating all over the window cells and in front
of the ranch sliders, on the cushions along the the
(14:04):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I you know what they're doing though, Jenny, Jenny, I
can tell you what's got going on. These things are
coming out and they actually mate on the wing. So
they fly up and boys find girls and girls find boys,
and if it's not too windy like in Wellington, they
are usually reasonably successful. But it's when they come down
that you have to be a bit more worried about,
(14:27):
because they could either come back into your house or
they go to the neighbors. And that's mean. So you're
actually far too late with your idea of controlling them.
That should have happened before they fly out, to be
quite honest, and here comes to thing. This is a
couple of things you need to know about ants. They
all have their own territory, which means that if you
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put a for instantant a bait station in one spot
in the house, that means you will only have that territory,
not the territory next door, to the left, to the right,
and above and below. So you'll need many different, if
you like, areas where you can put the bait stayations
down so that you have a large coverage of that bait.
(15:10):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 8 (15:11):
Okay, well it does, yes, But I mean I've checked outside,
and I checked outside last year for a NISS but
couldn't find anything. Really, do you think I should get
an exterm terminator in and to get rid of them?
Speaker 4 (15:31):
What? What sort of damage do they do to you?
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Well, they're not doing any damage, they're just being a nuisance.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Well and that.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Case, thank you every day.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Well that's that's only for a couple of days while
they're actually on the wing, I would say, so I
wouldn't be too worried, to be quite honest.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Okay, all right, thank you Rhodes.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Thank you to bybe all the very busy Jenny, take care. Shane.
A question about eucalyptus.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Well, Hi, it's actually about live up in Auckland and
there seems to be a mass dying off of pine trees,
Eucalyptus trees, macrocarp trees, Cyprus shot belts. They just all
the leaves fall off and they just dropped there.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah, that's for some of the ones you mentioned there,
for which some of the months you mentioned, like pines
and macrocarpers and that sort of conifers. There are some
cankers around that are new or recently more or less
recently got into New Zealand, and they have those particular symptoms,
to be quite honest. But the other the eucalyptus, well
(16:45):
they could have other symptoms, you know what I mean.
Every tree has its own suite of pests and especially diseases.
So this eucalyptus of yours, is that a big one?
Is that an old one?
Speaker 9 (16:58):
Well, they're they're old, but it's more the pine trees
seems to be a mess dying off of pine trees
with aole different ages as well.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
Yeah, they could be in a shelter belt, or that
could be in a plantation. There'll be ten per say
of them might be dropping dead, but there's a lot
of older, real granddaddy ones. They're all dying at the
same time.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yeah, I can see that. I can see what you're saying.
What I would do. I cannot identify every tree with
every disease right through the telephone here to you. So
it might be an idea to pick up somebody who's local,
an eyeborist who knows diseases of trees, who can identify
what really the culprit is, and then you are going
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to get an idea of what to do or whether
or not you can do something, and if so, what
to do because it's really difficult for me to guess
on that. Yeah. Yeah, it's all over the place.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
Yeah, okay, then sorry, thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Good luck with that. Yeah, I'm not a big fan
of you clip the streets.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
No, well I am, because I just put an Eucalyptus
gum emperor moth on whit tree. Ah. We are one
of the southernmost places where these amazing moths occur, to
be quite honest. So that's really really cool, all rights.
Something else last week. Last week we had somebody about
onion weat control. Yes, a very quick one. I found
(18:27):
something that was quite good. You can use a motrol
or key we care weed weapon for those things. And
the reason is that the onion wheed is of course
very resistant to most of the sprays, so you need
a sticker with it and surffactant as well, And a
motrol and key we care weed weapon are really good
(18:48):
for those things if you use a surffactant on it
as well.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Right, people are asking about coddling moth as well. Spraying
for coddling moth on fruit trees. Too late, you can't
do it. Doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
No, too late, okay, you should do it literally after
they dropped their flowers, So when the flowers have flowered,
that's when you do it. And at this stage I've looked,
I've used my med x and Medex is a brilliant
material that I said.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, okay, hey Diane, how are you on good things?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Pete and high road high really simple. I'm in Dunedin.
How do I stop my pocket choy from bolting to seed?
What am I doing wrong?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Oh it's a winter crop.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Well, it's an all round crop here in Donedin, I
would sunk. Okay, no matter what time of it doesn't
matter what time of the year you grow. It literally
doesn't matter. I don't water during the sun. It gets fertilizer,
it gets a general fertilizer. It gets also blue stuff
as well because it's a leaf. So yeah, it's looked after.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
But it's yeah, I can see.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I know the third got now is bolted to the sky. Again.
If I cut the seed heads off a naborious part, pask,
But what would that do?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Then you can try that? But well, have a go
I don't I don't know what it is what because
you you just literally mentioned all the things I would
have said. So your your bloody good, that's for sure.
So you tell those plants watch it, you're good. Chalks
(20:26):
have have a go at, you know when they start bolting. Ever,
go as soon as see the first sign of bolting,
smack that top bit out and see if you can
get a change. Yes, all right, so that's.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Where I met at the moment. I've noticed it yesterday,
so I'll go down today do that.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
I agree. I agree with your with your method of
of of battling.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Good, brilliant. Thank you, Diane, all the very best to
you right now. Aphids just quickly. Some people are saying
this seems to be an abundance of aphids this year.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
There is actually I've noticed quite a few of them.
It's really cool. And what you do with afits is
very simple. If you have a fits on, for instance,
fruit trees and things like that, you could use knem oil.
Make sure you do it underside and top side. You know,
all sides. If you can and do it repeatedly, that
means another week or two ten days further up. The
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reason is once these aphorts have got young or have eggs.
If they have eggs, some don't actually or most of
them don't, you'll find that you need to re spray
it because the young ones might have not basically been brilliant.
If you're like laid by the mother.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, I'm with you. That's awesome. Well, I'm going back
to the theater today. You don't mind music though, No.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I love music.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, musical again this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
I'll tell them you've got a good choice.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Oh all right, you take care of foxby Company. It's
been an absolute pleasure on the first day of December.
That's scary. Yes, I am going to go back to
I'll tell a center today to watch Ellis a musical,
a wonder end musical today. This still second is available too.
I might catch you there at four o'clock. Have a
good week. Take care.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
At B had a very very good morning to you.
Red Climb passed, how are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Ell?
Speaker 4 (00:15):
Hello, good morning. Can you hear me, Peter, because we
had some.
Speaker 2 (00:18):
Trouble such, I can hear you fine? Can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Yeah? I can hear you totally, mate, it's not a
big deal.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
We can both hear the callers. Then we're winning, I
think so.
Speaker 4 (00:28):
I think we're going to do that. You know we
are going to win somehow.
Speaker 2 (00:32):
Absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 4 (00:34):
Hey, by the way, Bora just quickly. Yes, it's late
October early November when they start flying, and that means
that you spray the if you like, the wood that
has got the borer with that particular safe works aerosol,
and you do that so that when they come out
they feel really sick because they say, who's been spraying
(00:54):
this stuff that I'm just coming out of and before
they're actually trying to mate. But that's not going to help,
not going to work, not like.
Speaker 2 (01:01):
That, right it's they don't find it in effort?
Speaker 4 (01:04):
Is yet it's not an effort right now?
Speaker 2 (01:08):
If you were to do it now, would it be
too late and an effectual.
Speaker 4 (01:13):
You might be okay if they are in a slightly
later phase. The reason I use it residual is so
you have at least a month or six weeks of
when the beatles come out later they will still be
knocked about, so you can have a go with it. Yeah,
go try your local safe works. Safe works with the
X they've got that particular material that we invented for
(01:34):
aircraft spraying, and have a go at it. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:39):
Yes, because I've noticed little piles of sawdust and my
precious wood pile underneath the house where I fossic away
all my little bits of architraves and pieces of timber
and all the rest of it. Because you never know
where you're going to need it, is my theory.
Speaker 4 (01:53):
Are you Dutch or.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (01:57):
Yeah, that's right saying that. The other day I went
to a job as an old school hall and they went, oh,
there's a bit of rot in that corner and we
need a little, you know, like a meter long piece
of this particular profile. And I went home and fossicked
around and sure enough I had exactly they they needed.
Speaker 4 (02:14):
So and doesn't that feel good?
Speaker 5 (02:17):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (02:17):
Mate? Absolutely, because you guarantee if I had to cut
it up for firewood, I would have needed next week. Anyway,
we're not talking about building. We're talking about the garden,
and let's get into it. Broad Beans, Peter, good morning, Yeah,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (02:32):
What can we do with you? Peter? Yeah.
Speaker 5 (02:35):
And I've got a good crop of broad beans that
currently about twelve hundred high, and the pods of the
lower area just about ready to pack. But the top,
top part of it, something is eating all the leaves
and it's black and right round where they're eating, and
(02:55):
also causing the new pods coming through to blacken as
well when some of them are dying. I was thinking
of splaying it with Conqueror, but I think it's probably
too late. When I'm new starting into.
Speaker 4 (03:06):
Picking, it might be. So tell me about the eating pattern.
Is it small holes on the edges that are taken off,
It's not whole big.
Speaker 5 (03:17):
Chunks out of the leaf and here big chunks black
and right round the edge with eating.
Speaker 4 (03:25):
Oh oh, are you have you got possums?
Speaker 5 (03:30):
No?
Speaker 4 (03:31):
No, I'm just asking because because sometimes that can happen
from the top, but they usually chew a lot more.
Speaker 5 (03:39):
I find that one of the main things that they
say on the on the pack of the U conqueror
they list to the end. It's probably one of those.
Speaker 4 (03:50):
I think, Yeah, okay, have it go with that otherwise
otherwise yeah, and conqueror oil would be good. But if
it differences caterpillars, which I can't think of what. Actually,
there might be some weavils doing that.
Speaker 5 (04:03):
There are some anything on the one one little green
in green back, but found on one of them, but
the trend only one. Okay, would it be too late
to spray the ones we're going to be picking any day?
Speaker 4 (04:18):
Well, with conquer oil, you don't have any problem. No, No,
you can wash it off that problem. No, And you
get the stuff from inside anyway, So that's it. Hey,
another I had another question, but I've forgotten what it
is already. Can you imagine that went quick? No? No,
I mean that because there was something else that was
going to say, But no, I've lost it. Oh yes,
you haven't gone outside at night to have a look.
(04:43):
I think you might want to do that. If there
is something there in the evening, like princess caterpillars that
come up and do this sort of stuff, then if
you have caterpillars, it might be an idea. To use
some material called Success, which is a Yates product that
does really good, good good repellent of caterpillars.
Speaker 5 (05:01):
There you are, yeah, one of us the future crops
next to you. Again, what's a good time to sprader
to avoid all of this fast stage of the plant?
Speaker 4 (05:13):
Hard to say. It depends entirely. You first have to
find evidence who's done it. Then we can talk further.
Does that make sense?
Speaker 5 (05:22):
Okay, So conquer is going to be quite safe on
the one who we're picking.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
It certainly will because it won't go and it's not systemic,
so it doesn't go into the beans that you're going
to eat now.
Speaker 5 (05:33):
Yep, okay, thanks, more welcome.
Speaker 6 (05:36):
Okay, all.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
You have a great day. And another Peter, this time
about blueberries.
Speaker 7 (05:45):
Years. Good morning day. I've got a blueberry bush. It's
in a wooden clatter box. I've had it for about
seven years and it's produced very very good blueberry crops.
Last year blueberries formed into fruit and then they just
(06:10):
shriveled up and died. And this year, this year, the
same thing appears to be happening. The fruit is forming
and starting to ripen, and then they just shrivel up
and die. I have fertilized the soil with acid fertilizer,
and the bushes looking extremely healthy. But I'm not sure
(06:35):
why these fruit are just shrilling up and dying.
Speaker 4 (06:41):
Oh dear, oh dear, So it's the fruit. It's not
the leaves that are dying in this case.
Speaker 7 (06:45):
No, no, no, no. The bush is very healthy, particularly
since I've fertilized it.
Speaker 4 (06:50):
And you say they are shriveling up as they develop
if you.
Speaker 7 (06:55):
Like, yes, yes, yes, so they form into into the
fruit themselves and then from there they just don't shrivel up.
Speaker 4 (07:06):
That reminds me of and I have not grown a
lot of blueberries, but I remember there was a case
of nthrec noose, which is a disease and threk nose
a n th h r a c n o s.
It's a fruit rot if you like. And if you
can stop that by spraying a preventative funger side before
(07:30):
those you know, after the after those fruits are starting
to form, when they're still small, and you put a
good funger side on there. You could use probably something
like Yates Nature's Way fungal spray, which is a organic
so it's not going to be any trouble later. On
eating those berries. Yeah, but it will prevent that particular
(07:53):
thing from happening. I am not one hundred percent sure
if there is something you need more specific, but if
you google the name and threk nose or look it,
look it up and threcnose, you'll find that it might
it might work with that particular preventative material.
Speaker 7 (08:11):
Okay, we'll try that.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Have a go.
Speaker 7 (08:14):
Thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (08:15):
More than welcome, Peter, Yes, Peter.
Speaker 2 (08:17):
A quick text from Shane rud I have a hint
which is dying due to what I've been told is
weeping aphids. What spray can I use to get rid
of the aphids?
Speaker 5 (08:28):
Please?
Speaker 2 (08:28):
I've never heard of weeping aphens.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Or if I have not even heard of laughing aphids, screepers,
weeping aphids. I think that might be something to do
with the fact that they actually poop out honeyjew that
might be the weeping. But anyway, a hatch dying of
weeping apa no, I find it too, and that's too
(08:51):
unknown to me those terminologies, to be quite honest, I
don't know what that would be. No, I can't tell you.
Speaker 2 (08:56):
This is the sort of thing where people just make
up stuff like, oh, you've got this disease and I
call it weeping aphis.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Yes, exactly, I call it. You exactly what it is.
So what scientists do They find and say an organism
that does this sort of damage, and they look up
the scientific name. And once you got a scientific name,
you can do within any language in the world and
you know exactly what you're talking about.
Speaker 2 (09:22):
Right, it is important.
Speaker 4 (09:25):
Uh.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
And just before we go to the break, could you, Pete,
could you ask rud to give us the exact name
of the safe works aircraft space that will work on
the borer. Please. I've found several options. I want to
get the right one.
Speaker 4 (09:36):
The right option is the one that they use as
a systemic, which means it's it goes into the animals
and it goes into the so you know it's a no,
not systemic, sorry, residual. So it stays on the surface.
And this is what they use for the holes for
the aircraft holds. That's another giveaway.
Speaker 2 (09:58):
Residual residual. Wonderful. Right, we'll take a short break. We'll
be back with Kevin in just a moment. Climb past
us with us and Kevin A very good morning.
Speaker 6 (10:08):
Yes, good morning, thanks for taking my core road. I
hear you moving back up towards about Plenty, leaving the
Christ Church Morgan coming to the traffic in the new mirror,
eh you rotter.
Speaker 4 (10:20):
I was there for the Bay of Plenty Arts and
Garden festival, and I will never never leave christ.
Speaker 6 (10:31):
That's okay because you remember walkland traffic from your days.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
I was there, I was, I was in. I was
actually Wayaki Island over the last week, and I've seen
the upland traffic, don't I know exactly what you're talking
about made? And you know what CHRISTI is going the
same way, and so is Queenstown.
Speaker 6 (10:50):
So rebuilding and all them textpayer money that we intend
to put lovely wide streets and lovely green areas. I
thought it was good for fifty years, that's said Kevin.
Speaker 4 (10:58):
We need growth at all costs. You ask any any
economists whatever an economists, and we need gross of all
of course, so we'll be in for it for the
long haul. My dear there we are talk.
Speaker 6 (11:13):
To friends in your homeland and family and people in Europe,
not people in other parts of the world that don't
come here with a good work ethic. That's a lot
of there you go I've been in this house and
the west side of Hamilton for about twenty years and
only two streets away from wide open areas peat land
(11:34):
grass to the area and never be built on the orange tree,
the sanby and lemon and the Lisbon lemon. The oranges
were a very plentiful supply this year, and in fact
all the birds, I think minor or other larger birds
were taking all the fruit and leaving the skin on
the tree. So obviously I had to throw an itto
(11:55):
the sandbyn they don't touch. And my problem is the
thicker skinned lemons that are ripening nicely. Now. I'll go
out one day and two or three have no skin
left on them whatsoever. I've never seen a rat or
a cat, or an elephant or even a bird, and
there's no bird droppings under them. Who would be taking
(12:16):
my skin?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I'll tell you, I'll tell you what you listen for
at night.
Speaker 6 (12:24):
Yeah, what wood pigeons I have? We have wood pigeons here, I.
Speaker 4 (12:30):
Reckon, you've got bossums.
Speaker 8 (12:31):
Boy, Well, why don't.
Speaker 6 (12:33):
They leave some little black identifying marks? But I think
they're right a neighbours. But there's no dirt on the ground.
Speaker 4 (12:40):
No, Oh, well, you mean booze. No, that's they don't
always pull directly under the tree where they are, but
they will do it somewhere. Yeah. Now that's classic bossom stuff.
I've had that in all the metropolis that I used
to live in.
Speaker 6 (12:54):
Yeah, Auckland, you mean yeah, Okay, get on with it.
I'll throwing it over and see if they ripped in
it to piece. Thanks very much for you and have
a great day.
Speaker 4 (13:05):
Thank you you too, mate, good good story. Bye.
Speaker 2 (13:08):
Thank you very much given for that. And Jenny, Hello there, Hirod.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
I'm bringing you a about flying ants. Yes, now, what
can I do about them? Because last year at this
time I bought the key week care no ants, burrier
spray and the ants, and but I can't find a
(13:40):
nest anywhere. And I checked on mister Google and they
said that this is the time that they're mating. And
they're congregating all over the window cells and in front
of the ranch sliders, on the cushions along the the
(14:04):
What is it?
Speaker 4 (14:05):
I you know what they're doing though, Jenny, Jenny, I
can tell you what's got going on. These things are
coming out and they actually mate on the wing. So
they fly up and boys find girls and girls find boys,
and if it's not too windy like in Wellington, they
are usually reasonably successful. But it's when they come down
that you have to be a bit more worried about,
(14:27):
because they could either come back into your house or
they go to the neighbors. And that's mean. So you're
actually far too late with your idea of controlling them.
That should have happened before they fly out, to be
quite honest, and here comes to thing. This is a
couple of things you need to know about ants. They
all have their own territory, which means that if you
(14:49):
put a for instantant a bait station in one spot
in the house, that means you will only have that territory,
not the territory next door, to the left, to the right,
and above and below. So you'll need many different, if
you like, areas where you can put the bait stayations
down so that you have a large coverage of that bait.
(15:10):
Does that make sense?
Speaker 8 (15:11):
Okay, well it does, yes, But I mean I've checked outside,
and I checked outside last year for a NISS but
couldn't find anything. Really, do you think I should get
an exterm terminator in and to get rid of them?
Speaker 4 (15:31):
What? What sort of damage do they do to you?
Speaker 8 (15:35):
Well, they're not doing any damage, they're just being a nuisance.
Speaker 4 (15:39):
Well and that.
Speaker 8 (15:40):
Case, thank you every day.
Speaker 4 (15:43):
Well that's that's only for a couple of days while
they're actually on the wing, I would say, so I
wouldn't be too worried, to be quite honest.
Speaker 8 (15:52):
Okay, all right, thank you Rhodes.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Thank you to bybe all the very busy Jenny, take care. Shane.
A question about eucalyptus.
Speaker 9 (16:03):
Well, Hi, it's actually about live up in Auckland and
there seems to be a mass dying off of pine trees,
Eucalyptus trees, macrocarp trees, Cyprus shot belts. They just all
the leaves fall off and they just dropped there.
Speaker 4 (16:21):
Yeah, that's for some of the ones you mentioned there,
for which some of the months you mentioned, like pines
and macrocarpers and that sort of conifers. There are some
cankers around that are new or recently more or less
recently got into New Zealand, and they have those particular symptoms,
to be quite honest. But the other the eucalyptus, well
(16:45):
they could have other symptoms, you know what I mean.
Every tree has its own suite of pests and especially diseases.
So this eucalyptus of yours, is that a big one?
Is that an old one?
Speaker 9 (16:58):
Well, they're they're old, but it's more the pine trees
seems to be a mess dying off of pine trees
with aole different ages as well.
Speaker 4 (17:07):
Yeah.
Speaker 9 (17:07):
Yeah, they could be in a shelter belt, or that
could be in a plantation. There'll be ten per say
of them might be dropping dead, but there's a lot
of older, real granddaddy ones. They're all dying at the
same time.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
Yeah, I can see that. I can see what you're saying.
What I would do. I cannot identify every tree with
every disease right through the telephone here to you. So
it might be an idea to pick up somebody who's local,
an eyeborist who knows diseases of trees, who can identify
what really the culprit is, and then you are going
(17:42):
to get an idea of what to do or whether
or not you can do something, and if so, what
to do because it's really difficult for me to guess
on that. Yeah. Yeah, it's all over the place.
Speaker 9 (17:55):
Yeah, okay, then sorry, thanks very much.
Speaker 2 (17:59):
Good luck with that. Yeah, I'm not a big fan
of you clip the streets.
Speaker 4 (18:06):
No, well I am, because I just put an Eucalyptus
gum emperor moth on whit tree. Ah. We are one
of the southernmost places where these amazing moths occur, to
be quite honest. So that's really really cool, all rights.
Something else last week. Last week we had somebody about
onion weat control. Yes, a very quick one. I found
(18:27):
something that was quite good. You can use a motrol
or key we care weed weapon for those things. And
the reason is that the onion wheed is of course
very resistant to most of the sprays, so you need
a sticker with it and surffactant as well, And a
motrol and key we care weed weapon are really good
(18:48):
for those things if you use a surffactant on it
as well.
Speaker 2 (18:53):
Right, people are asking about coddling moth as well. Spraying
for coddling moth on fruit trees. Too late, you can't
do it. Doesn't make any difference.
Speaker 4 (19:00):
No, too late, okay, you should do it literally after
they dropped their flowers, So when the flowers have flowered,
that's when you do it. And at this stage I've looked,
I've used my med x and Medex is a brilliant
material that I said.
Speaker 2 (19:16):
Yeah, okay, hey Diane, how are you on good things?
Speaker 3 (19:20):
Pete and high road high really simple. I'm in Dunedin.
How do I stop my pocket choy from bolting to seed?
What am I doing wrong?
Speaker 4 (19:30):
Oh it's a winter crop.
Speaker 3 (19:34):
Well, it's an all round crop here in Donedin, I
would sunk. Okay, no matter what time of it doesn't
matter what time of the year you grow. It literally
doesn't matter. I don't water during the sun. It gets fertilizer,
it gets a general fertilizer. It gets also blue stuff
as well because it's a leaf. So yeah, it's looked after.
Speaker 8 (19:54):
But it's yeah, I can see.
Speaker 3 (19:56):
I know the third got now is bolted to the sky. Again.
If I cut the seed heads off a naborious part, pask,
But what would that do?
Speaker 4 (20:05):
Then you can try that? But well, have a go
I don't I don't know what it is what because
you you just literally mentioned all the things I would
have said. So your your bloody good, that's for sure.
So you tell those plants watch it, you're good. Chalks
(20:26):
have have a go at, you know when they start bolting. Ever,
go as soon as see the first sign of bolting,
smack that top bit out and see if you can
get a change. Yes, all right, so that's.
Speaker 3 (20:38):
Where I met at the moment. I've noticed it yesterday,
so I'll go down today do that.
Speaker 4 (20:43):
I agree. I agree with your with your method of
of of battling.
Speaker 2 (20:48):
Good, brilliant. Thank you, Diane, all the very best to
you right now. Aphids just quickly. Some people are saying
this seems to be an abundance of aphids this year.
Speaker 4 (21:01):
There is actually I've noticed quite a few of them.
It's really cool. And what you do with afits is
very simple. If you have a fits on, for instance,
fruit trees and things like that, you could use knem oil.
Make sure you do it underside and top side. You know,
all sides. If you can and do it repeatedly, that
means another week or two ten days further up. The
(21:22):
reason is once these aphorts have got young or have eggs.
If they have eggs, some don't actually or most of
them don't, you'll find that you need to re spray
it because the young ones might have not basically been brilliant.
If you're like laid by the mother.
Speaker 2 (21:39):
Yeah, I'm with you. That's awesome. Well, I'm going back
to the theater today. You don't mind music though, No.
Speaker 4 (21:45):
I love music.
Speaker 2 (21:46):
Yeah, musical again this afternoon.
Speaker 4 (21:49):
I'll tell them you've got a good choice.
Speaker 2 (21:50):
Oh all right, you take care of foxby Company. It's
been an absolute pleasure on the first day of December.
That's scary. Yes, I am going to go back to
I'll tell a center today to watch Ellis a musical,
a wonder end musical today. This still second is available too.
I might catch you there at four o'clock. Have a
good week. Take care.
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