February 8, 2025 • 19 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks. A't be gardening with summer at steel
Shaft where it's fall about the.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Accessories yours A big good morning, rood.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
A very good morning to you doctor and Peter, and
to you. You did leave you a bit long. I
might I have to go bird bending, man, you better
hurry up.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Let's get a move on there. Let's not muck around.
If you're what are your bird bending today? Do you
have as you work with variety?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yes, all sorts, but we're doing a course in how birds,
how birds mold their wing feathers.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Ah, So there's all.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
These creatures have got different systems for us if we're
doing their mold. And for instance, I love that story
the silver eyed firs. They have are only in the
nest for ten maybe ten days eleven days, and then
they have to fly out, so they give themselves some
really crappy wings so that they can get out. And
then three two or three months after they fly they're
(01:06):
actually going to put proper wings on proper featherst so
you can actually tell the difference in quality and their
color and everything off those particulars. So you can tell
exactly how old they are, how good it was.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Then that was interesting too because when we were at Wingspan,
Inka was talking about the falcon the carrera that they
have there and she said, if you notice, he is
molting at the moment, So those feathers are deffront and
there will be a period of time where they don't
fly and hunt as much as they're waiting for the
new feathers to fully develop. So yeah, fascinating.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
So I asked one of the guys about this, and
I said, why would they only have some feathers for
maybe a couple of months And the answer was, we
don't know, but imagine because these things originally came from
areas with snakes, for sure, and if you are a
good prey for a snake, you want to get out.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Of the nest you can before you get done. And
I thought, it must is such a cool story and
you're just wants to hear it on new Storgs. That'd
be brilliant.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, it sounds like an exciting day. Let's talk to Lynn.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Good morning guys.
Speaker 7 (02:15):
A quick question.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
My daughter has beehives and they are being inungdated with ants.
So I went and spoke to the witness to kick
guys about their ants and their pants stuff. Is it
safe to you around the high House in the traps
only because they've got holds small enough for ants? Is
there any anything we should be aware of?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
To be quite honest answer, your pants has contained a
number of different materials, including fiperenial and fiparenial. I think
I'm quite convinced is not something you want to lose
near bees.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
That's all I wanted to hear. They told me it
was good because it was just a protein, but I
just wanted.
Speaker 8 (03:01):
To check first.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So I advice that the the the it's just the protein.
That is what's in debate to get those ends to
feed it. But what's in debate as well is a
material that actually will kill the queen, and that is fippritty,
you know what I mean. And so so you're killing
that the ends if you like monac, if you like
(03:26):
with an insecticide, and a bee is an insect, yes.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Yes, And even if we clear the ends out of
the beehives, the messages back of the hive where the
bee hides are, so it's I would.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Be careful with that. Yeah, absolutely, thank you for asking.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
We saved some beings.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yes, absolutely, that's important. Appreciate it. Thank you very much, Lynn,
you take care and Berry greetings.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Yes, good morning guys. I've got the top like feeder
for the tooies. I'm using the top flight nectar. But
I have a big problem with bumblebees, especially the smaller
babies crawling in there, drowning and can't get back out.
I don't suppose there's anywhere I can stop those bumble
(04:20):
bees getting in there, because I don't want them being
killed because they go and you can't get out.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
That's it.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
I want to continue. I want to continue feeding the tooes.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yes, I can imagine.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Is there so the the entrance for the too is
if you like mouth, you know, it's it's it's it's yeah.
Is that small or is it large enough for that
be to get that bumble bee to get in?
Speaker 7 (04:47):
It's small so the toys can get their beat through it.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah yeah, but also their tongs yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
But the smaller bumble bee squeeze parts like I get
was from there as well. I don't worry about the wasp,
but I I like seeing the bumble beets go in
the only the little juvenile bumble beets. The big ones
sit on top and poked there whatever they're doing down there,
(05:16):
trying to get they love the nectar. Yeah, but the
little ones can get in or quite harten. A bigger
bumble bee will get stuck in the hole where the
two he.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Puts us big down, yes, and can't get out.
Speaker 9 (05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Yeah, I got a gum spree them.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, I know, I know what you do. That's interesting
because I've got it. I've got a wonderful Oh god,
I've got so many stories.
Speaker 10 (05:39):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I've got a lovely bee container, bumblebee container in my
garage at the moment.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
That's going to Tacapo next week.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I'm going to be doing a talk there for the
Techabo community on the school's bee project, bumblebee project. And
I'm feeding those bees every every day with a couple
of droplets of nectar water or if you like, sugar water,
and also with some protein. And it's unbelievable how these
things know exactly where you put the stuff. It is crazy.
(06:09):
It's beautiful. So I can imagine that the bumblebees can
smell or can literally know where you put your wonderful
sweet sweet treats if you like and go in. I
have the feeling, to be quite, honest, I do not
know that that top flight thing, to be quite. I
was going to buy one actually this week, but I
don't know how if there's any way you can make
(06:31):
that opening smaller so it just uses it can just
have the beak of the two and the tongue of
the two WI in there and nothing else.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
It's pretty small now. If I made it any smaller,
the toes wouldn't be able to use it.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Okay, all right, bum okay, back to the drawing board.
I think about that now. Honestly, you know you think
this is a building show. It bloody well is building.
Speaker 10 (07:02):
See.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I've got to build a few more l boxes. But
that's another story.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Berry.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Thanks very much for your call. Let's take a short
break then we'll talk to John in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Squeaky door or squeaky floor, get the right advice from
readA Wolfgare the resident fielder on you talk.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You're a newsy'd be coming up to nine that John,
Good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (07:25):
Good morning glood. Somebody's gone here from Hamilton. If you've
got a solution to this year be able to make
millions of dollars. Now we live in Hamilton in the
residential area. We've been here for about nine years now.
We parted Personmin's Golden Queen's Golden Delicious Perny Smith. That's
(07:48):
a let's say, grafted tree, and you know what, who
gets all the boody fruit and the plums? The birds
they were in a commercial We let the person tree.
Speaker 10 (08:01):
But but but you know.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
In a commercial area they have guns going off and stuff.
You know, they're skin the birds the way. Yes, you
can't have that. You can't have that. They're an insularia.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So if you can as long as you shoot upwards
and you're not having a final approach area of an
airport nearby, you.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
Get limbs in the head. Yeah, I know, if I land.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Get over it all right. What's your question though, how
to get rid of the birds?
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (08:30):
Yeah, you stop them. I mean these pics aren't anywhere near.
Will you go and knit the persons? Which I can't
the point the promp trees and the gold greens and stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
They're so they're so large this yeah, I know what
you mean. Yeah, I've got the same with my berries
and things like that as well, which is why I
build a cage with netting over the top. I have
no building consent for that cage, but that's another story.
So everything. Yeah, but that's the point, isn't it. It's
really hard to do that. They will go for the
fruit because that's what they love.
Speaker 9 (09:01):
Well, they even go, they even go before the bloody
things are originally a sort of life. And yeah, I know, yeah,
I sort of thought of those chime things that you
have in the house that signal, but of course you've
got to have wind for those as well.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, and not neighbors that say, can you stop that
noise please?
Speaker 9 (09:20):
Oh no, I wouldn't have any problems for there, But
I know what you're meaning.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
It's really hard to do that with these things. I
think the netting is probably the best way to go.
I had some apricots that we netted, a really ancient
tree anywhere, long story there, but I'm not going to
go there. And we actually were quite successful with getting
quite good apricots this year by being consistent and the
moment you've got them harvest, to take the netting out
(09:48):
before it all gets entangled in new branches, and at
the same time you start pruning your apricot tree.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
That's the way to go.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
You know. We lived in wrong on the tower for
about six years. That was a wonderful place. But lady
she had a beautiful pear tree and she actually got
those those bags have on on bread, and see she
put one of those. She put the bag on each buddy,
on each beer.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I know, I know, I'm sorry, John, I can't go
any deeper than this in this case. We all got
that problem, and everybody comes up with different opinions. But
I would make I would make your tree smaller, pune
it down so you can put the net over the top,
and that might just work.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Any solutions better than no solution in this instance, I suspect. Okay,
hello there.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
Hello, good morning to you guys.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Hi hi hi hi.
Speaker 11 (10:44):
I'm wondering about red onions. I've never grown them before,
and I've got beautiful red onions, and do I pull
them out of the garden or what do I do
with them?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
What do you mean? What do you do with them?
Speaker 11 (10:56):
Do you store them? Do you have to drive them?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You can, you can store them. You can.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You can store red onions. And you know what, the
thing that really hacks me off the most about red
onions is that it's really hard to get red onions
with the skin on.
Speaker 11 (11:14):
Yes, there's got skin on.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
They leave their bloody skin on because God invented that
skin for the protection of those onions. And what do
they do, these marketers? They make them all bright and
red without skin, lasting lots less and you know, so
they look good? Are you buying onions for the looks?
For eating them?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Anyway?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Leave the skin on and put them in a nice
dry area with no moisture, et cetera, et cetera, in
the dark, as cool as you can.
Speaker 11 (11:52):
And do you cut the tops off the.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Top of you mean that little floppy no, leave it
or the top the top of the plant itself, Yes,
yes you can. You know how you normally get an
onion in the in the supermarket with the skin on.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
That's how you store them. Yeah, that's how you start them.
Speaker 11 (12:12):
I've just planted some more. Will it be too late
for them to grow?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I don't know. I don't know, I don't know, I
don't I forgot about the timing. I've given up on
those things.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Yeah, that was pleasing, good question, though, love it gay
all this?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
In fact, I was looking for a little red onion
yesterday but there wasn't one in the fridge.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Shot.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, it's just I was doing wraps and they a
little bit of red onion in the.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Exact But this is the point, isn't it strange how
they do that nice looks and it's and this and
this is other thing, the words they get in these supermarkets.
We have red potatoes, we've got dirty potatoes, we've got
white potatoes, we've got yellow but.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
There is not a name of any variety. It's this
nonsense of dirty.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
But can you I mentionine selling dirty potatoes.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Meaning they're not being clean anyway, They're going.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Never mind.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Hey, Richard, good morning to you.
Speaker 12 (13:24):
Oh, good morning, Hey, Hi, good morning, rud. I have
a question about my ruther beans. And some of them
are dying. They just go yellow and turn up their toes. Now,
others adjacent to fine. And I'm wondering whether it's a virus,
(13:44):
bad seed, or transplant shock because I raise them from seed.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Yeah, any idea, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I've never kind of headed like that's strictly so well,
so so well and eloquently sort of presented. Some die
and the others are I don't is it lake of water?
Is it the lack of calcium.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
No, no, I'm not sure about fertility.
Speaker 13 (14:14):
But I've just planted half a dozen in a row,
and I brought in soil from another section, so the
soil is good, and five of them are great and prolific,
and one's dying, and I'm thinking, well, it's just gone
the same way as the others that area of the
guard And I grew beans, runner beans for twenty plus
(14:35):
years fine, and then suddenly one year they all died,
and I thought, oh, well it's spent, so I moved elsewhere.
But oddly one or two plants will die and then
the others will follow suit.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
I'm just wondering if it's a virus or whether dodgy seed.
I don't know. These are scarlet runners.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
They're an old Yeah, I know, scarlet runners, Yeah, I know.
Have you Are you aware that I mentioned the skelcium before?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
From memory?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I went and I used, I actually should be growing
them again, and we haven't got time at the moment anyway,
too late anyway, But most beans prefer some lime in
the soil, and that is that that is maybe why
you got.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Some negative effects of that piece of soil that you
had before.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
You know, what I mean, just yes, yes, got a yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
It has a little bit.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
But this is this is the normal lime, not not
not not what do you call it?
Speaker 9 (15:34):
Lime?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Normal line? I'm calling, but you know, talking about normal lime.
Speaker 10 (15:37):
Yeah, just tabnate, good.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Boy, You're better than me.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I've lost it because I'm thinking about birds now anyway,
But you got it. But I think that that's a
good idea to get some off that lime and the
soil and see if that works next year.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
Yeah, I'll see what the pH is. I mean that
that's an education, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Yeah, I would say so. Yeah, p high.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
I think last time I kissed it was okay, but
a while ago.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
If it's yeah, have a goo. That's quite often the
cage with these these beans. He's on the beans.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I appreciate the call, Richard, thank you very much, and
don a very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Yeah, good morning going, gentlemen. My question blued. I've got
liberties cucumber that I grow in a raised garden pool
and every year just to kind of give it a boost.
And my liberteese ceucumper, I grow them up a pole
and they die one at a time. Ah, And I
(16:43):
noticed I'm the third one that died. They take a bit.
They go from a really nice plant to dead in
about four days.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Wow, that's no good.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
And just then when I was pulling it out, it
looks it goes into the ground. It looked kind of eaten.
So pulled it apart and there's very small, very fall
white lighte crawling around small larvae.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, in the in the soil. Are they walking around
in the soil on top of the soil.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
They run they run the root or run the steam.
They're eaten into it And that's what's But my question
is what is it? And what do I do to
get rid of it?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Okay, I see what you mean. Can you describe that
little grub that you're talking about? Is it? Is it
a worm like thing? Is it white? What color? How
big is it?
Speaker 8 (17:45):
It's a white color, but it's it's so small that
it'd be lucky if that it'd be a million and
a half long half. And it's you know, there's there's
lots of them, and they look like they're just eating
the steam or eating the steam either where it comes
out of the ground.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Have you cucumber? Have you cucumbers roots been over watered
at some stage?
Speaker 9 (18:11):
Well?
Speaker 8 (18:12):
I put five minutes of water on at four o'clock
in the morning every day, and that goes on.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
My whole garden.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Okay, Sometimes these little things are the ones that if
you like the the flies around the coffin, you know
what I mean. If the plant dies, then these little
creatures could be all sorts of bits and pieces, but
they're quite often at soil level will actually start to
recycle the stuff that's dying. And that that means that
(18:42):
it's quite often the case when it's been overwatered.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Did you a little did you know?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Did you know that most New Zealand plants, especially house plants,
but also plants internal houses and glasshouses and things like that,
and gardens die from over watering. It's an interesting statistic.
Cover it somewhere, so that could well be it.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
All the very busy on good luck with it. Speaking
of water, there's showers on the forecast for Auckland, and
I have to say I'm not unhappy about that. It's
pretty dry at the moment. Yeah, yeah, we need some
two weeks absolutely right. Enjoy your bending a great get
you eight, take care all the best folks, have a
great week, and we will see you again next Sunday
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from News Talks. A't be gardening with summer at steel
Shaft where it's fall about the.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Accessories yours A big good morning, rood.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
A very good morning to you doctor and Peter, and
to you. You did leave you a bit long. I
might I have to go bird bending, man, you better
hurry up.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Let's get a move on there. Let's not muck around.
If you're what are your bird bending today? Do you
have as you work with variety?
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Yes, all sorts, but we're doing a course in how birds,
how birds mold their wing feathers.
Speaker 4 (00:43):
Ah, So there's all.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
These creatures have got different systems for us if we're
doing their mold. And for instance, I love that story
the silver eyed firs. They have are only in the
nest for ten maybe ten days eleven days, and then
they have to fly out, so they give themselves some
really crappy wings so that they can get out. And
then three two or three months after they fly they're
(01:06):
actually going to put proper wings on proper featherst so
you can actually tell the difference in quality and their
color and everything off those particulars. So you can tell
exactly how old they are, how good it was.
Speaker 2 (01:18):
Then that was interesting too because when we were at Wingspan,
Inka was talking about the falcon the carrera that they
have there and she said, if you notice, he is
molting at the moment, So those feathers are deffront and
there will be a period of time where they don't
fly and hunt as much as they're waiting for the
new feathers to fully develop. So yeah, fascinating.
Speaker 5 (01:40):
So I asked one of the guys about this, and
I said, why would they only have some feathers for
maybe a couple of months And the answer was, we
don't know, but imagine because these things originally came from
areas with snakes, for sure, and if you are a
good prey for a snake, you want to get out.
Speaker 4 (01:59):
Of the nest you can before you get done. And
I thought, it must is such a cool story and
you're just wants to hear it on new Storgs. That'd
be brilliant.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
Well, it sounds like an exciting day. Let's talk to Lynn.
Speaker 6 (02:13):
Good morning guys.
Speaker 7 (02:15):
A quick question.
Speaker 6 (02:16):
My daughter has beehives and they are being inungdated with ants.
So I went and spoke to the witness to kick
guys about their ants and their pants stuff. Is it
safe to you around the high House in the traps
only because they've got holds small enough for ants? Is
there any anything we should be aware of?
Speaker 3 (02:41):
To be quite honest answer, your pants has contained a
number of different materials, including fiperenial and fiparenial. I think
I'm quite convinced is not something you want to lose
near bees.
Speaker 6 (02:56):
That's all I wanted to hear. They told me it
was good because it was just a protein, but I
just wanted.
Speaker 8 (03:01):
To check first.
Speaker 3 (03:02):
So I advice that the the the it's just the protein.
That is what's in debate to get those ends to
feed it. But what's in debate as well is a
material that actually will kill the queen, and that is fippritty,
you know what I mean. And so so you're killing
that the ends if you like monac, if you like
(03:26):
with an insecticide, and a bee is an insect, yes.
Speaker 6 (03:32):
Yes, And even if we clear the ends out of
the beehives, the messages back of the hive where the
bee hides are, so it's I would.
Speaker 3 (03:42):
Be careful with that. Yeah, absolutely, thank you for asking.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
We saved some beings.
Speaker 2 (03:48):
Yes, absolutely, that's important. Appreciate it. Thank you very much, Lynn,
you take care and Berry greetings.
Speaker 7 (03:58):
Yes, good morning guys. I've got the top like feeder
for the tooies. I'm using the top flight nectar. But
I have a big problem with bumblebees, especially the smaller
babies crawling in there, drowning and can't get back out.
I don't suppose there's anywhere I can stop those bumble
(04:20):
bees getting in there, because I don't want them being
killed because they go and you can't get out.
Speaker 4 (04:26):
That's it.
Speaker 7 (04:26):
I want to continue. I want to continue feeding the tooes.
Speaker 4 (04:32):
Yes, I can imagine.
Speaker 3 (04:33):
Is there so the the entrance for the too is
if you like mouth, you know, it's it's it's it's yeah.
Is that small or is it large enough for that
be to get that bumble bee to get in?
Speaker 7 (04:47):
It's small so the toys can get their beat through it.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah yeah, but also their tongs yeah yeah yeah.
Speaker 7 (04:55):
But the smaller bumble bee squeeze parts like I get
was from there as well. I don't worry about the wasp,
but I I like seeing the bumble beets go in
the only the little juvenile bumble beets. The big ones
sit on top and poked there whatever they're doing down there,
(05:16):
trying to get they love the nectar. Yeah, but the
little ones can get in or quite harten. A bigger
bumble bee will get stuck in the hole where the
two he.
Speaker 4 (05:26):
Puts us big down, yes, and can't get out.
Speaker 9 (05:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (05:32):
Yeah, I got a gum spree them.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, I know, I know what you do. That's interesting
because I've got it. I've got a wonderful Oh god,
I've got so many stories.
Speaker 10 (05:39):
Now.
Speaker 3 (05:39):
I've got a lovely bee container, bumblebee container in my
garage at the moment.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
That's going to Tacapo next week.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
I'm going to be doing a talk there for the
Techabo community on the school's bee project, bumblebee project. And
I'm feeding those bees every every day with a couple
of droplets of nectar water or if you like, sugar water,
and also with some protein. And it's unbelievable how these
things know exactly where you put the stuff. It is crazy.
(06:09):
It's beautiful. So I can imagine that the bumblebees can
smell or can literally know where you put your wonderful
sweet sweet treats if you like and go in. I
have the feeling, to be quite, honest, I do not
know that that top flight thing, to be quite. I
was going to buy one actually this week, but I
don't know how if there's any way you can make
(06:31):
that opening smaller so it just uses it can just
have the beak of the two and the tongue of
the two WI in there and nothing else.
Speaker 7 (06:40):
It's pretty small now. If I made it any smaller,
the toes wouldn't be able to use it.
Speaker 3 (06:48):
Okay, all right, bum okay, back to the drawing board.
I think about that now. Honestly, you know you think
this is a building show. It bloody well is building.
Speaker 10 (07:02):
See.
Speaker 2 (07:02):
I've got to build a few more l boxes. But
that's another story.
Speaker 4 (07:04):
Berry.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
Thanks very much for your call. Let's take a short
break then we'll talk to John in just a moment.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
Squeaky door or squeaky floor, get the right advice from
readA Wolfgare the resident fielder on you talk.
Speaker 2 (07:19):
You're a newsy'd be coming up to nine that John,
Good morning to you.
Speaker 9 (07:25):
Good morning glood. Somebody's gone here from Hamilton. If you've
got a solution to this year be able to make
millions of dollars. Now we live in Hamilton in the
residential area. We've been here for about nine years now.
We parted Personmin's Golden Queen's Golden Delicious Perny Smith. That's
(07:48):
a let's say, grafted tree, and you know what, who
gets all the boody fruit and the plums? The birds
they were in a commercial We let the person tree.
Speaker 10 (08:01):
But but but you know.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
In a commercial area they have guns going off and stuff.
You know, they're skin the birds the way. Yes, you
can't have that. You can't have that. They're an insularia.
Speaker 3 (08:11):
So if you can as long as you shoot upwards
and you're not having a final approach area of an
airport nearby, you.
Speaker 9 (08:19):
Get limbs in the head. Yeah, I know, if I land.
Speaker 4 (08:23):
Get over it all right. What's your question though, how
to get rid of the birds?
Speaker 7 (08:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (08:30):
Yeah, you stop them. I mean these pics aren't anywhere near.
Will you go and knit the persons? Which I can't
the point the promp trees and the gold greens and stuff.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
They're so they're so large this yeah, I know what
you mean. Yeah, I've got the same with my berries
and things like that as well, which is why I
build a cage with netting over the top. I have
no building consent for that cage, but that's another story.
So everything. Yeah, but that's the point, isn't it. It's
really hard to do that. They will go for the
fruit because that's what they love.
Speaker 9 (09:01):
Well, they even go, they even go before the bloody
things are originally a sort of life. And yeah, I know, yeah,
I sort of thought of those chime things that you
have in the house that signal, but of course you've
got to have wind for those as well.
Speaker 3 (09:15):
Yeah, and not neighbors that say, can you stop that
noise please?
Speaker 9 (09:20):
Oh no, I wouldn't have any problems for there, But
I know what you're meaning.
Speaker 3 (09:25):
It's really hard to do that with these things. I
think the netting is probably the best way to go.
I had some apricots that we netted, a really ancient
tree anywhere, long story there, but I'm not going to
go there. And we actually were quite successful with getting
quite good apricots this year by being consistent and the
moment you've got them harvest, to take the netting out
(09:48):
before it all gets entangled in new branches, and at
the same time you start pruning your apricot tree.
Speaker 4 (09:54):
That's the way to go.
Speaker 9 (09:56):
You know. We lived in wrong on the tower for
about six years. That was a wonderful place. But lady
she had a beautiful pear tree and she actually got
those those bags have on on bread, and see she
put one of those. She put the bag on each buddy,
on each beer.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I know, I know, I'm sorry, John, I can't go
any deeper than this in this case. We all got
that problem, and everybody comes up with different opinions. But
I would make I would make your tree smaller, pune
it down so you can put the net over the top,
and that might just work.
Speaker 2 (10:34):
Any solutions better than no solution in this instance, I suspect. Okay,
hello there.
Speaker 11 (10:40):
Hello, good morning to you guys.
Speaker 4 (10:42):
Hi hi hi hi.
Speaker 11 (10:44):
I'm wondering about red onions. I've never grown them before,
and I've got beautiful red onions, and do I pull
them out of the garden or what do I do
with them?
Speaker 4 (10:54):
What do you mean? What do you do with them?
Speaker 11 (10:56):
Do you store them? Do you have to drive them?
Speaker 2 (10:59):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (11:00):
You can, you can store them. You can.
Speaker 3 (11:01):
You can store red onions. And you know what, the
thing that really hacks me off the most about red
onions is that it's really hard to get red onions
with the skin on.
Speaker 11 (11:14):
Yes, there's got skin on.
Speaker 3 (11:16):
They leave their bloody skin on because God invented that
skin for the protection of those onions. And what do
they do, these marketers? They make them all bright and
red without skin, lasting lots less and you know, so
they look good? Are you buying onions for the looks?
For eating them?
Speaker 5 (11:37):
Anyway?
Speaker 3 (11:40):
Leave the skin on and put them in a nice
dry area with no moisture, et cetera, et cetera, in
the dark, as cool as you can.
Speaker 11 (11:52):
And do you cut the tops off the.
Speaker 3 (11:55):
Top of you mean that little floppy no, leave it
or the top the top of the plant itself, Yes,
yes you can. You know how you normally get an
onion in the in the supermarket with the skin on.
Speaker 4 (12:08):
That's how you store them. Yeah, that's how you start them.
Speaker 11 (12:12):
I've just planted some more. Will it be too late
for them to grow?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
I don't know. I don't know.
Speaker 3 (12:19):
I don't know. I don't know, I don't know, I
don't I forgot about the timing. I've given up on
those things.
Speaker 4 (12:25):
Yeah, that was pleasing, good question, though, love it gay
all this?
Speaker 2 (12:33):
In fact, I was looking for a little red onion
yesterday but there wasn't one in the fridge.
Speaker 4 (12:37):
Shot.
Speaker 2 (12:40):
Yeah, it's just I was doing wraps and they a
little bit of red onion in the.
Speaker 3 (12:44):
Exact But this is the point, isn't it strange how
they do that nice looks and it's and this and
this is other thing, the words they get in these supermarkets.
We have red potatoes, we've got dirty potatoes, we've got
white potatoes, we've got yellow but.
Speaker 4 (13:04):
There is not a name of any variety. It's this
nonsense of dirty.
Speaker 5 (13:10):
But can you I mentionine selling dirty potatoes.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Meaning they're not being clean anyway, They're going.
Speaker 4 (13:20):
Never mind.
Speaker 2 (13:21):
Hey, Richard, good morning to you.
Speaker 12 (13:24):
Oh, good morning, Hey, Hi, good morning, rud. I have
a question about my ruther beans. And some of them
are dying. They just go yellow and turn up their toes. Now,
others adjacent to fine. And I'm wondering whether it's a virus,
(13:44):
bad seed, or transplant shock because I raise them from seed.
Speaker 8 (13:49):
Yeah, any idea, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (13:52):
I've never kind of headed like that's strictly so well,
so so well and eloquently sort of presented. Some die
and the others are I don't is it lake of water?
Is it the lack of calcium.
Speaker 10 (14:09):
No, no, I'm not sure about fertility.
Speaker 13 (14:14):
But I've just planted half a dozen in a row,
and I brought in soil from another section, so the
soil is good, and five of them are great and prolific,
and one's dying, and I'm thinking, well, it's just gone
the same way as the others that area of the
guard And I grew beans, runner beans for twenty plus
(14:35):
years fine, and then suddenly one year they all died,
and I thought, oh, well it's spent, so I moved elsewhere.
But oddly one or two plants will die and then
the others will follow suit.
Speaker 10 (14:49):
I'm just wondering if it's a virus or whether dodgy seed.
I don't know. These are scarlet runners.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
They're an old Yeah, I know, scarlet runners, Yeah, I know.
Have you Are you aware that I mentioned the skelcium before?
Speaker 4 (15:03):
From memory?
Speaker 3 (15:03):
I went and I used, I actually should be growing
them again, and we haven't got time at the moment anyway,
too late anyway, But most beans prefer some lime in
the soil, and that is that that is maybe why
you got.
Speaker 4 (15:17):
Some negative effects of that piece of soil that you
had before.
Speaker 7 (15:20):
You know, what I mean, just yes, yes, got a yeah.
Speaker 4 (15:28):
It has a little bit.
Speaker 3 (15:29):
But this is this is the normal lime, not not
not not what do you call it?
Speaker 9 (15:34):
Lime?
Speaker 4 (15:34):
Normal line? I'm calling, but you know, talking about normal lime.
Speaker 10 (15:37):
Yeah, just tabnate, good.
Speaker 4 (15:41):
Boy, You're better than me.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
I've lost it because I'm thinking about birds now anyway,
But you got it. But I think that that's a
good idea to get some off that lime and the
soil and see if that works next year.
Speaker 10 (15:52):
Yeah, I'll see what the pH is. I mean that
that's an education, isn't it.
Speaker 4 (15:57):
Yeah, I would say so. Yeah, p high.
Speaker 10 (16:01):
I think last time I kissed it was okay, but
a while ago.
Speaker 3 (16:07):
If it's yeah, have a goo. That's quite often the
cage with these these beans. He's on the beans.
Speaker 2 (16:13):
I appreciate the call, Richard, thank you very much, and
don a very good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (16:18):
Yeah, good morning going, gentlemen. My question blued. I've got
liberties cucumber that I grow in a raised garden pool
and every year just to kind of give it a boost.
And my liberteese ceucumper, I grow them up a pole
and they die one at a time. Ah, And I
(16:43):
noticed I'm the third one that died. They take a bit.
They go from a really nice plant to dead in
about four days.
Speaker 4 (16:52):
Wow, that's no good.
Speaker 8 (16:55):
And just then when I was pulling it out, it
looks it goes into the ground. It looked kind of eaten.
So pulled it apart and there's very small, very fall
white lighte crawling around small larvae.
Speaker 4 (17:16):
Yeah, in the in the soil. Are they walking around
in the soil on top of the soil.
Speaker 8 (17:22):
They run they run the root or run the steam.
They're eaten into it And that's what's But my question
is what is it? And what do I do to
get rid of it?
Speaker 4 (17:33):
Okay, I see what you mean. Can you describe that
little grub that you're talking about? Is it? Is it
a worm like thing? Is it white? What color? How
big is it?
Speaker 8 (17:45):
It's a white color, but it's it's so small that
it'd be lucky if that it'd be a million and
a half long half. And it's you know, there's there's
lots of them, and they look like they're just eating
the steam or eating the steam either where it comes
out of the ground.
Speaker 4 (18:05):
Have you cucumber? Have you cucumbers roots been over watered
at some stage?
Speaker 9 (18:11):
Well?
Speaker 8 (18:12):
I put five minutes of water on at four o'clock
in the morning every day, and that goes on.
Speaker 9 (18:19):
My whole garden.
Speaker 3 (18:21):
Okay, Sometimes these little things are the ones that if
you like the the flies around the coffin, you know
what I mean. If the plant dies, then these little
creatures could be all sorts of bits and pieces, but
they're quite often at soil level will actually start to
recycle the stuff that's dying. And that that means that
(18:42):
it's quite often the case when it's been overwatered.
Speaker 4 (18:45):
Did you a little did you know?
Speaker 3 (18:47):
Did you know that most New Zealand plants, especially house plants,
but also plants internal houses and glasshouses and things like that,
and gardens die from over watering. It's an interesting statistic.
Cover it somewhere, so that could well be it.
Speaker 2 (19:02):
All the very busy on good luck with it. Speaking
of water, there's showers on the forecast for Auckland, and
I have to say I'm not unhappy about that. It's
pretty dry at the moment. Yeah, yeah, we need some
two weeks absolutely right. Enjoy your bending a great get
you eight, take care all the best folks, have a
great week, and we will see you again next Sunday
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