February 15, 2025 • 20 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):
A'd be.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Gunning with summer at steel shaft where it's fall about
the accessories you on new Talks.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Would be and re climb past A very good morning, sir.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Hey, good morning Peter. You will yes, I'm good, thank you.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Of course I ran out of the house today and
forgot my wallet with my cat to get into the studio.
So I come from my wonderful house here in the
Port Hills.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Okay, I thought it doesn't quite sound like he's in
the studio, but anyway, it's brilliant, all right, Oh.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Fantastic those things, you know, these things happen.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
I've got a three and a half your old grand daughter. Yes,
she's totally disruptive.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Fantastic. Well, I have to say happy to see a
little bit of rain. Not much, honey, probably a couple
of millimeters in Auckland, but where it's all looking pretty
dry up here.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
You know, we're still we're still no rain. Really we're
drying out.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
No too again after all that time, it's been awful
this summer.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Well, I mean it's hard, isn't it, Because we go oh,
look at this beautiful blue sky. You know, I can
and that sort of thing. But yeah, the garden is dry.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Yeah, thanks, yes, yes, that's right. Have you ever been
to Castle Hill? No in Kanterary.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
No.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Oh, look, you've got to do a road He come
over here and we'll go there one day.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It's just unbelievable. It's one of those things that you do.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
I mean, because we've got some people staying with us,
you know, my granddaughter and mum and all that. It's
great and it's just and it was twenty seven degrees
because it was just gorgeous. But you're right, we need
to do some watering. And I think it is a
sketchy good tip if you are going to plant something else,
for instance, at the end of this summer, make sure
(01:57):
you really soak the soil before you plant it. So
if you soak it already, it keeps much better and
you don't have to literally wash it away with big
lots of water.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And I suppose now is the time where if you've
done the mulch, it's paying dividends, isn't.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
It absolutely because it keeps it in the ground instead
of you know, getting out into the sky.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You got it yeah right, it's on my list of
things to do as well. Margo, A very good morning
to you. Margo, morning morning.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Go for it.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I've seen a cup of pictures in I've got this
bad that appears each summer. It's I've tried everything on
pissed aside the oil one it goes away. It appears
each summer. This summer is just mutually killed the plants.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Okay, hang on, Mago, Mago, Well, Margo, hang on, hang on.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
You haven't.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
I can't see photos where I met the moment. So
that's number one.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Number two. What plant is affected?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
May the ice plants, okay, the ice plants, and another
erea on the other side. They have fine the size okay.
And it's got like a brown cone and it has
like a silky puffball out at the back of it.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
And does it move? Does it sit still? Usually very still? Yeah, Okay.
I have the feeling you're talking about it.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I think you're talking about a scale insect or something
like that that is that is not moving very well.
And the best thing to do with that is if
you do use, for instance, conqueror oil or you know
that sort of stuff, you'll have to do it again
every week, at least three or four weeks in a row,
because you might kill the parents, but the babies that
(04:00):
are at the moment in the egg states will still hatch,
and we'll be there in a week later.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Yeah, and then it goes away in the winter, the
flowers come out, and then it appears again. Doesn't live
in the ground at all.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
It could do.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I mean, I'm not in the grunted. It could be
underneath the old leaves from last year where it hibernates,
if you like, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Yeah, just it disappears. I ended up throwing weed killer
on the plants and got so in the weed. I'm
pulling the whole thing out restarting again. And I actually
found in a daisy, a big daisy that was in
a pot next to it, the little brown tones all
clinging to a dead stalk at the bottom. And I thought,
(04:45):
these dem things just hibernate and then they start producing again.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, yeah, that can be.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Look it's just a guess without seeing what it is,
but I can imagine it would be something like that.
So try something as simple as that, conquer oil or
nem oil. But do it in a few cute time,
you know, at least three times a week apart.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
How is that all?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yo? Hope that works out well? Hello, Gary, how are you.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Good morning?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
You're talking to me?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I am Gary.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Go for it.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
It's statory, will Gary.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Got half a dozen GUIDs, any one one of them.
The leaves are turning black. Now, I asked doctor Google
and he suggested lips, some salts.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I don't know. It depends entirely on why they're turning
black some salts.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
It's just a mineral, if you like. If they're turning black,
it could be all sorts of things. It could be
stuff that differ, instance, lacking like nitrogen, or it could
be something stupid like that, you know what I mean.
So it's the problem is we need to identify what
causes the blackening of those guardinias, and that is a
bit tricky.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Do you feel at all?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
What are you usage? Yes?
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Then I give it to try and rectify the situation.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Well, without knowing what causes the situation, there's very little
I can do in terms of rectifying it. But tell me,
have you do you fertilize your gardenias at all?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Now I've only been in the twelve months.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I haven't a mark.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Well, what do we give it?
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Then you told me, and we'll do it.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Just do some general fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
You know there's all sorts of different general fertilizers on
the market. There's Nitroposca blue which is a really good,
long lasting fertilizer that every time you water the plants
it goes back into the root zone.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Nitroposca blue blue. Yeah, I know that product. You Okay, Yeah,
try that your Wi fight that works.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Have a crack airy. All the very best to you
and Ellen. Talk to me about blackberries.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
Morning, Gil blackberries. I planted a BlackBerry. It's gone holistic.
One BlackBerry plant covers the or the size of a
massive caravan. The question I got for your root is
this year is runners that produce fruit? Do I just
chop them away? And then the ones coming through whether
are they next year or to the ones that grew
(07:21):
this year with fruit? Will they grow fruit next year?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I think that they do send runners out and this
is the plant really trying to expand, which will be
good for next year. But now my question for you
Ellen is how large is your section?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
I put them in a good spot and I put
this plastic netting on the fence. And I've got to
tell you some of the runners are twenty meters long.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
And that's why I ask you.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, yeah, you know you're not worried about as best
to see it, but you're worried about being totally developed
by blackberries. Look to be quite honest, you can prune
them back. You can't put You can prune them back,
and you can even if you like, get them onto
a trellis get them upwards. Wich would be nice because
that means you don't really lose that much space. I
(08:10):
think that should work. But be rough. At the end
of the season. You know, once you've done your blackberries,
which should have been harvested by now, you can actually
print trim them down and they will make new shoots,
no problems.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
They've already done that and they're yeah, they're they're six
and eight meters long already.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah. That's well.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You it's your plant, your garden. You stop them from
going over the top. Okay, it's like little kids.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Well, let me get it right.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
The ones that have produced fruit this year, if I
trim them back, they will produce fruit next year.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
They might do or the new ones will.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Be Okay, Well, I'll give it to go.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Then it depends entirely how far you go and how
much you do.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
But you can really prove them back if you want to,
and I would suggest you do, because they'll they'll be
out of your they'll be up on your.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Roof for no time.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That's huge.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
I'll throw the frozen chicken.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Out's been listening to the show for a while, the
old Frozen Chick and funny. I've got to do my
plum tree. I'm probably a bit late, aren't I. I should
have done the plum tree as soon as it finished fruiting.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
But well, I've just done it.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
We just not princess dams and plums, and we basically
harvested them while we were pruning it. So I took
literally all the leaves, oh no, all the fruit left
on the on the branches, and just cut the branches off,
pasted us to July while I was standing on the
on the on the ladder, and she would then pile
(09:48):
them up and we will then take them. Instead of
on the ladder, we take them off off the branches
that we took off.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Much easier now talking about letter that's just by the by.
Do you have one of those orchard letters, you know,
with the much wider foot and then the long single
post out the front.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I have the split the what do you call it,
the A shaped leaders, but they are not that wide
on the bottom, and you've got to be very careful.
You're actually very steady of course with that. But yes
I do, and that's how I usually prune my trees.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You know what would be good for you to buy
one of those watched leaders?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I tell you what white ones?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, I got one. It's only a six stepper, but
it's got the nice wide feet at the bottom and
it's just steady, more stable.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah, steady, that's it. Yeah, I totally agree. But in
this case it's fine.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
In this case, I said, I just basically got the
whole branches off.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You just balance like an acrobat on the top stiff.
I can just imagine.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
It, mate, I am like an act.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Like an acrobat, rightyo, before he falls off his leader.
Will we'll take a short break and be back in
just a moment.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Meat it twice? Got once? But maybe call Pete first
walk the resident builder new storms on these talks, climb
pass with us a quite texture at a technical one.
Someone sticks through. Good morning, my grafted citrus trees have
large spikes on the branches. I have been told this
(11:19):
is something to do with them being grafted. Is this
true and if so, what can I do to get
rid of them?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
From Scott It's absolutely true, because if you graft citrus
on on the grafting species that it really makes good
roots and makes the citrus grows really quickly. Then sometimes
the graft will take over and that has got spikes. Man,
you go backwards when your lawnmower. With your lawnmow, you
(11:47):
you'll feel it in your bump. It's unbelievably sharp. So
that needs you need to take all these laterals off,
but leave the actual graft still working on the real
citrus at the top and you can find exactly the
spot where the graft was or is where the two
different things put together into one plant. That is basically true.
(12:10):
So yes, I would always take those sharp things off.
They're pain and a bum anyway, and they don't give
you any fruit at all.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Ah Okay, that's interesting. Actually, just on c trus, someone
else's tick through. We've got an older grapefruit tree where
there's still fruit, but number of the branches are dying. Off,
and they some of them have holes in them. Most
of the fruit is near the top. We'd like to
lower trim the tree. When and how is the best
way to do this? This is Steve from.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
So I was just you very good because you're given
me exactly where the thing lives. And the reason is
that in the northern parts of New Zealands you've got
lemon tree borer and that hollows branches, causing sometimes quite nasty,
nasty problems with the trees.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
So number one, don't prune.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
The tree when lemon tree borer is around right now
in summer, they love you making cuts because in the
cuts they lay their eggs for next year. Don't prune
until at least April March, if that's when you can
do that. So that's number one. Number two is make
sure that you can take the branches that have the
(13:20):
holes on it off or use a guitar string. Stick
it in there because that's where the grubs of the
lemonry borer live. Stick it in there and you literally
spear them on there. It's honestly, that's the way to
do it without making more holes.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
If you did have to do some pruning now and
you use like a pruning paste to seal the cut.
Would that prevent the borer.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Of no concern?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
It wouldn't really those things the moment you make it cut,
the lemonry borers no cut. Oh wow, I'm going to
start my eggs here boom, and my babies will make
a tunnel from here to Africa.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Boom. Just like that.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
So even literally if you cut and paste.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah no, they don't care. Wow, they lay their eggs
on it.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Eggs are not if you like the dirt by or
from coming out by that little bit of paste.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Honestly, they won't.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
How interesting. Alright, Hi, let's get back to the calls.
A couple of minutes left.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
Hello Donna, Yeah, hi've got I've moved into a rental
and there's twenty two feet Joe of trees. Go yeah,
And I want to know how do I look after them?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Basically, I expect they will all be, you know, reasonably
sizable by now and making fruit. And I hope they're
all different species because if you've got different varieties, you
get better pollination.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Really, at the moment you let them be until.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
They have literally fruited, you harvest the fruits in April,
say March April. And what you do then is you
can do unbelievable things with joa. You can literally get
a hedge trimmer and trim them back quite viciously, and
that will leave them okay for next year. They will
get new flowers in Christmas time and new fruit in autumn.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
Okay. So I don't need to give them any fertilizer
or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Oh, yes, no fertilizer. It's the food. Hang on, I
didn't say anything about no fertilizer. Yes, no, they need
they need fruit fertilizer like citrus fertilizer and things like that.
They would love that, yes, absolutely, yeah, And.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
When do you put that on?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
When you do that, you can do that in spring.
You can either do it right now to make the
fruit that I'm forming right now to be sweeter and larger.
So you can do it now. Hand fulter the square
meter on the root zone. And that's so technical. A
handful on the square meter for the root zone off
those trees when you need water them.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
Yeah, okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I got it.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
You can do it allsted on it. You take care
and tim a very good morning. Hey Tom, Hello Tim.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Good after morning tea Tamga.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Now, boy, okay, I rang you a couple of weeks ago,
but I was a bit late garden. I mean got
for quite a while, not an expert, but I had
pretty good garden. Then I decided I'd use the wood
chip on top of my garden. I didn't realize it
took out a lot of nitrogen, and that was good.
Grew well for a few years. This was good, made
a bit of humous, but I had a good sword anyway.
(16:27):
And then this year I always grow tomatoes, normally grow
about twelve state tomatoes to keep up for the rest
of the year. This time I went down. I thought,
now just too six. I bought six tomato plants, planted
them in a different garden. I rode out the garden.
They got to about two and a half feet tour
and all of a sudden, they all fell over and
(16:47):
correct themselves. It's not very good. So I went back
to the company where I've balked them from, showed them
the pictures. They said, I will replace them, but this
was getting right to the end of the season. So
they gave me plants that were quite extensive. They just
slapped them out. They had no worry about two and
a half feet tour put them in the garden and
they started that look good, And then three weeks later
(17:09):
they all cacked it too. So I pulled them out
of the ground, through them a way, take the soil over.
I'd also planted litters. I like to say costs and
that some pieces are they They probably sixty percent of
those win on all the Espadia cucumbers. They didn't do well.
On the guineas didn't do well. So I don't know
what the hell was in the garden.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Okay, you said you just mentioned wood chips at the beginning?
Is your idea did you put?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Did you put a lot of wood chips into the
soil or on the soil? Now you planted these things.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
On the top, and that was just three years ago,
so now that's pretty well gone. I actually raked them
off and thought, now I'll go back to my old way. Okay,
So yeah, so I did that.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
You see, if you put a lot of organic material
in the form of wood chips on soil, you do
need to have some top soil on there as well,
otherwise it becomes too monocultural for them.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
It's there's not enough soil, there's a lot of compost,
and too much compost is not working either. As a
matter of fact, I had the same problem with one
part of my tunnel house with tomatoes as well.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
They just can't and I think I have.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
I have to made far too much chips and organic
material in my soil content, so I have to slow
them down a bit.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
And that is the weird thing.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
People put too much compost on the soil and that
sometimes really goes over the top and they don't make
it okay.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
The other thing is I've got a lot of sin metal.
It has been on and off oiver the years. But yes,
they just took off the all stingy needle, just decided
it was signed for you know, multiply and Tomb of
the World, and they did. What on earth encourages the
singing needles. I'm in the Eastborn area, so we're in
(18:55):
a bit of a subclimate. Year it gets pretty warm.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
It gets very warm.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
But also stinging netle is quite often something that is
that loves a lot of nitrogen.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
You'll find it often on.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
An area where where cows are sort of on the
edges of forests, you know, what I mean. So if
you've got too much nitrogen, that's what really would bring
the sting netle up as well. My sheep's pool, for
instance on the quarry here is really ripping, ripping them
up as well.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
It's great if they do well.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
So less nitrogen and more phosphate and poveresh.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
All right, So I've sort of sort of fallowed it,
awave it, and so I ripped it all out and
just turned it over. I do have a road. I've
got I've got raised gardens probably about or ten inches
off the ground, and I've put them into two meter
by two meter gardens. So there's four of those. I okay, everything.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Sounds sounds actually pretty good, doesn't it. But balance, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
The balance?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
That's what's your what's your terms gone? We've got ten seconds, buddy,
we're out of here.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
We better go. Goodbye.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Thank you, Thank you folks for joining us, and look
forward to being back with you nixt Sunday here at
News Talk ZB.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Have a great week to take care for more from
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be.
Speaker 1 (00:13):
Gunning with summer at steel shaft where it's fall about
the accessories you on new Talks.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Would be and re climb past A very good morning, sir.
Speaker 4 (00:22):
Hey, good morning Peter. You will yes, I'm good, thank you.
Speaker 5 (00:27):
Of course I ran out of the house today and
forgot my wallet with my cat to get into the studio.
So I come from my wonderful house here in the
Port Hills.
Speaker 3 (00:36):
Okay, I thought it doesn't quite sound like he's in
the studio, but anyway, it's brilliant, all right, Oh.
Speaker 4 (00:44):
Fantastic those things, you know, these things happen.
Speaker 5 (00:47):
I've got a three and a half your old grand daughter. Yes,
she's totally disruptive.
Speaker 4 (00:50):
I love it.
Speaker 3 (00:51):
Fantastic. Well, I have to say happy to see a
little bit of rain. Not much, honey, probably a couple
of millimeters in Auckland, but where it's all looking pretty
dry up here.
Speaker 4 (01:02):
You know, we're still we're still no rain. Really we're
drying out.
Speaker 5 (01:06):
No too again after all that time, it's been awful
this summer.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
Well, I mean it's hard, isn't it, Because we go oh,
look at this beautiful blue sky. You know, I can
and that sort of thing. But yeah, the garden is dry.
Speaker 5 (01:20):
Yeah, thanks, yes, yes, that's right. Have you ever been
to Castle Hill? No in Kanterary.
Speaker 2 (01:26):
No.
Speaker 5 (01:27):
Oh, look, you've got to do a road He come
over here and we'll go there one day.
Speaker 4 (01:30):
It's just unbelievable. It's one of those things that you do.
Speaker 5 (01:34):
I mean, because we've got some people staying with us,
you know, my granddaughter and mum and all that. It's
great and it's just and it was twenty seven degrees
because it was just gorgeous. But you're right, we need
to do some watering. And I think it is a
sketchy good tip if you are going to plant something else,
for instance, at the end of this summer, make sure
(01:57):
you really soak the soil before you plant it. So
if you soak it already, it keeps much better and
you don't have to literally wash it away with big
lots of water.
Speaker 3 (02:09):
And I suppose now is the time where if you've
done the mulch, it's paying dividends, isn't.
Speaker 5 (02:15):
It absolutely because it keeps it in the ground instead
of you know, getting out into the sky.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
You got it yeah right, it's on my list of
things to do as well. Margo, A very good morning
to you. Margo, morning morning.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
Go for it.
Speaker 6 (02:32):
I've seen a cup of pictures in I've got this
bad that appears each summer. It's I've tried everything on
pissed aside the oil one it goes away. It appears
each summer. This summer is just mutually killed the plants.
Speaker 5 (02:56):
Okay, hang on, Mago, Mago, Well, Margo, hang on, hang on.
Speaker 4 (03:00):
You haven't.
Speaker 5 (03:01):
I can't see photos where I met the moment. So
that's number one.
Speaker 4 (03:04):
Number two. What plant is affected?
Speaker 6 (03:08):
May the ice plants, okay, the ice plants, and another
erea on the other side. They have fine the size okay.
And it's got like a brown cone and it has
like a silky puffball out at the back of it.
Speaker 4 (03:29):
And does it move? Does it sit still? Usually very still? Yeah, Okay.
I have the feeling you're talking about it.
Speaker 5 (03:38):
I think you're talking about a scale insect or something
like that that is that is not moving very well.
And the best thing to do with that is if
you do use, for instance, conqueror oil or you know
that sort of stuff, you'll have to do it again
every week, at least three or four weeks in a row,
because you might kill the parents, but the babies that
(04:00):
are at the moment in the egg states will still hatch,
and we'll be there in a week later.
Speaker 6 (04:07):
Yeah, and then it goes away in the winter, the
flowers come out, and then it appears again. Doesn't live
in the ground at all.
Speaker 4 (04:16):
It could do.
Speaker 5 (04:17):
I mean, I'm not in the grunted. It could be
underneath the old leaves from last year where it hibernates,
if you like, you know what I mean.
Speaker 6 (04:24):
Yeah, just it disappears. I ended up throwing weed killer
on the plants and got so in the weed. I'm
pulling the whole thing out restarting again. And I actually
found in a daisy, a big daisy that was in
a pot next to it, the little brown tones all
clinging to a dead stalk at the bottom. And I thought,
(04:45):
these dem things just hibernate and then they start producing again.
Speaker 4 (04:51):
Yeah, yeah, that can be.
Speaker 5 (04:53):
Look it's just a guess without seeing what it is,
but I can imagine it would be something like that.
So try something as simple as that, conquer oil or
nem oil. But do it in a few cute time,
you know, at least three times a week apart.
Speaker 4 (05:09):
How is that all?
Speaker 3 (05:11):
Yo? Hope that works out well? Hello, Gary, how are you.
Speaker 4 (05:16):
Good morning?
Speaker 6 (05:17):
You're talking to me?
Speaker 3 (05:17):
I am Gary.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
Go for it.
Speaker 4 (05:19):
It's statory, will Gary.
Speaker 6 (05:22):
Got half a dozen GUIDs, any one one of them.
The leaves are turning black. Now, I asked doctor Google
and he suggested lips, some salts.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Is that correct?
Speaker 4 (05:34):
I don't know. It depends entirely on why they're turning
black some salts.
Speaker 5 (05:40):
It's just a mineral, if you like. If they're turning black,
it could be all sorts of things. It could be
stuff that differ, instance, lacking like nitrogen, or it could
be something stupid like that, you know what I mean.
So it's the problem is we need to identify what
causes the blackening of those guardinias, and that is a
bit tricky.
Speaker 4 (06:01):
Do you feel at all?
Speaker 2 (06:04):
What are you usage? Yes?
Speaker 6 (06:05):
Then I give it to try and rectify the situation.
Speaker 5 (06:08):
Well, without knowing what causes the situation, there's very little
I can do in terms of rectifying it. But tell me,
have you do you fertilize your gardenias at all?
Speaker 6 (06:18):
Now I've only been in the twelve months.
Speaker 4 (06:21):
I haven't a mark.
Speaker 7 (06:25):
Well, what do we give it?
Speaker 6 (06:26):
Then you told me, and we'll do it.
Speaker 4 (06:28):
Just do some general fertilizer.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (06:33):
You know there's all sorts of different general fertilizers on
the market. There's Nitroposca blue which is a really good,
long lasting fertilizer that every time you water the plants
it goes back into the root zone.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
Nitroposca blue blue. Yeah, I know that product. You Okay, Yeah,
try that your Wi fight that works.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Have a crack airy. All the very best to you
and Ellen. Talk to me about blackberries.
Speaker 7 (06:59):
Morning, Gil blackberries. I planted a BlackBerry. It's gone holistic.
One BlackBerry plant covers the or the size of a
massive caravan. The question I got for your root is
this year is runners that produce fruit? Do I just
chop them away? And then the ones coming through whether
are they next year or to the ones that grew
(07:21):
this year with fruit? Will they grow fruit next year?
Speaker 5 (07:25):
I think that they do send runners out and this
is the plant really trying to expand, which will be
good for next year. But now my question for you
Ellen is how large is your section?
Speaker 7 (07:38):
I put them in a good spot and I put
this plastic netting on the fence. And I've got to
tell you some of the runners are twenty meters long.
Speaker 4 (07:46):
And that's why I ask you.
Speaker 5 (07:48):
Yeah, yeah, you know you're not worried about as best
to see it, but you're worried about being totally developed
by blackberries. Look to be quite honest, you can prune
them back. You can't put You can prune them back,
and you can even if you like, get them onto
a trellis get them upwards. Wich would be nice because
that means you don't really lose that much space. I
(08:10):
think that should work. But be rough. At the end
of the season. You know, once you've done your blackberries,
which should have been harvested by now, you can actually
print trim them down and they will make new shoots,
no problems.
Speaker 7 (08:25):
They've already done that and they're yeah, they're they're six
and eight meters long already.
Speaker 4 (08:31):
Yeah. That's well.
Speaker 5 (08:32):
You it's your plant, your garden. You stop them from
going over the top. Okay, it's like little kids.
Speaker 2 (08:41):
Well, let me get it right.
Speaker 7 (08:43):
The ones that have produced fruit this year, if I
trim them back, they will produce fruit next year.
Speaker 4 (08:49):
They might do or the new ones will.
Speaker 7 (08:51):
Be Okay, Well, I'll give it to go.
Speaker 4 (08:53):
Then it depends entirely how far you go and how
much you do.
Speaker 5 (08:58):
But you can really prove them back if you want to,
and I would suggest you do, because they'll they'll be
out of your they'll be up on your.
Speaker 4 (09:06):
Roof for no time.
Speaker 2 (09:08):
That's huge.
Speaker 7 (09:09):
I'll throw the frozen chicken.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Out's been listening to the show for a while, the
old Frozen Chick and funny. I've got to do my
plum tree. I'm probably a bit late, aren't I. I should
have done the plum tree as soon as it finished fruiting.
Speaker 4 (09:24):
But well, I've just done it.
Speaker 5 (09:27):
We just not princess dams and plums, and we basically
harvested them while we were pruning it. So I took
literally all the leaves, oh no, all the fruit left
on the on the branches, and just cut the branches off,
pasted us to July while I was standing on the
on the on the ladder, and she would then pile
(09:48):
them up and we will then take them. Instead of
on the ladder, we take them off off the branches
that we took off.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Much easier now talking about letter that's just by the by.
Do you have one of those orchard letters, you know,
with the much wider foot and then the long single
post out the front.
Speaker 5 (10:08):
I have the split the what do you call it,
the A shaped leaders, but they are not that wide
on the bottom, and you've got to be very careful.
You're actually very steady of course with that. But yes
I do, and that's how I usually prune my trees.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
You know what would be good for you to buy
one of those watched leaders?
Speaker 4 (10:28):
I tell you what white ones?
Speaker 3 (10:30):
Yeah, I got one. It's only a six stepper, but
it's got the nice wide feet at the bottom and
it's just steady, more stable.
Speaker 4 (10:36):
Yeah, steady, that's it. Yeah, I totally agree. But in
this case it's fine.
Speaker 5 (10:41):
In this case, I said, I just basically got the
whole branches off.
Speaker 3 (10:44):
You just balance like an acrobat on the top stiff.
I can just imagine.
Speaker 4 (10:47):
It, mate, I am like an act.
Speaker 3 (10:51):
Like an acrobat, rightyo, before he falls off his leader.
Will we'll take a short break and be back in
just a moment.
Speaker 1 (10:58):
Meat it twice? Got once? But maybe call Pete first
walk the resident builder new storms on these talks, climb
pass with us a quite texture at a technical one.
Someone sticks through. Good morning, my grafted citrus trees have
large spikes on the branches. I have been told this
(11:19):
is something to do with them being grafted. Is this
true and if so, what can I do to get
rid of them?
Speaker 5 (11:24):
From Scott It's absolutely true, because if you graft citrus
on on the grafting species that it really makes good
roots and makes the citrus grows really quickly. Then sometimes
the graft will take over and that has got spikes. Man,
you go backwards when your lawnmower. With your lawnmow, you
(11:47):
you'll feel it in your bump. It's unbelievably sharp. So
that needs you need to take all these laterals off,
but leave the actual graft still working on the real
citrus at the top and you can find exactly the
spot where the graft was or is where the two
different things put together into one plant. That is basically true.
(12:10):
So yes, I would always take those sharp things off.
They're pain and a bum anyway, and they don't give
you any fruit at all.
Speaker 3 (12:18):
Ah Okay, that's interesting. Actually, just on c trus, someone
else's tick through. We've got an older grapefruit tree where
there's still fruit, but number of the branches are dying. Off,
and they some of them have holes in them. Most
of the fruit is near the top. We'd like to
lower trim the tree. When and how is the best
way to do this? This is Steve from.
Speaker 4 (12:39):
Okay.
Speaker 5 (12:39):
So I was just you very good because you're given
me exactly where the thing lives. And the reason is
that in the northern parts of New Zealands you've got
lemon tree borer and that hollows branches, causing sometimes quite nasty,
nasty problems with the trees.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
So number one, don't prune.
Speaker 5 (12:59):
The tree when lemon tree borer is around right now
in summer, they love you making cuts because in the
cuts they lay their eggs for next year. Don't prune
until at least April March, if that's when you can
do that. So that's number one. Number two is make
sure that you can take the branches that have the
(13:20):
holes on it off or use a guitar string. Stick
it in there because that's where the grubs of the
lemonry borer live. Stick it in there and you literally
spear them on there. It's honestly, that's the way to
do it without making more holes.
Speaker 3 (13:37):
If you did have to do some pruning now and
you use like a pruning paste to seal the cut.
Would that prevent the borer.
Speaker 4 (13:44):
Of no concern?
Speaker 5 (13:45):
It wouldn't really those things the moment you make it cut,
the lemonry borers no cut. Oh wow, I'm going to
start my eggs here boom, and my babies will make
a tunnel from here to Africa.
Speaker 4 (13:57):
Boom. Just like that.
Speaker 3 (13:59):
So even literally if you cut and paste.
Speaker 4 (14:02):
Yeah no, they don't care. Wow, they lay their eggs
on it.
Speaker 5 (14:06):
Eggs are not if you like the dirt by or
from coming out by that little bit of paste.
Speaker 4 (14:11):
Honestly, they won't.
Speaker 3 (14:13):
How interesting. Alright, Hi, let's get back to the calls.
A couple of minutes left.
Speaker 8 (14:17):
Hello Donna, Yeah, hi've got I've moved into a rental
and there's twenty two feet Joe of trees. Go yeah,
And I want to know how do I look after them?
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (14:32):
Basically, I expect they will all be, you know, reasonably
sizable by now and making fruit. And I hope they're
all different species because if you've got different varieties, you
get better pollination.
Speaker 4 (14:43):
Really, at the moment you let them be until.
Speaker 5 (14:45):
They have literally fruited, you harvest the fruits in April,
say March April. And what you do then is you
can do unbelievable things with joa. You can literally get
a hedge trimmer and trim them back quite viciously, and
that will leave them okay for next year. They will
get new flowers in Christmas time and new fruit in autumn.
Speaker 8 (15:11):
Okay. So I don't need to give them any fertilizer
or anything like that.
Speaker 5 (15:14):
Oh, yes, no fertilizer. It's the food. Hang on, I
didn't say anything about no fertilizer. Yes, no, they need
they need fruit fertilizer like citrus fertilizer and things like that.
They would love that, yes, absolutely, yeah, And.
Speaker 8 (15:27):
When do you put that on?
Speaker 5 (15:28):
When you do that, you can do that in spring.
You can either do it right now to make the
fruit that I'm forming right now to be sweeter and larger.
So you can do it now. Hand fulter the square
meter on the root zone. And that's so technical. A
handful on the square meter for the root zone off
those trees when you need water them.
Speaker 8 (15:48):
Yeah, okay, thank you very much.
Speaker 4 (15:51):
I got it.
Speaker 3 (15:52):
You can do it allsted on it. You take care
and tim a very good morning. Hey Tom, Hello Tim.
Speaker 4 (16:02):
Good after morning tea Tamga.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
Now, boy, okay, I rang you a couple of weeks ago,
but I was a bit late garden. I mean got
for quite a while, not an expert, but I had
pretty good garden. Then I decided I'd use the wood
chip on top of my garden. I didn't realize it
took out a lot of nitrogen, and that was good.
Grew well for a few years. This was good, made
a bit of humous, but I had a good sword anyway.
(16:27):
And then this year I always grow tomatoes, normally grow
about twelve state tomatoes to keep up for the rest
of the year. This time I went down. I thought,
now just too six. I bought six tomato plants, planted
them in a different garden. I rode out the garden.
They got to about two and a half feet tour
and all of a sudden, they all fell over and
(16:47):
correct themselves. It's not very good. So I went back
to the company where I've balked them from, showed them
the pictures. They said, I will replace them, but this
was getting right to the end of the season. So
they gave me plants that were quite extensive. They just
slapped them out. They had no worry about two and
a half feet tour put them in the garden and
they started that look good, And then three weeks later
(17:09):
they all cacked it too. So I pulled them out
of the ground, through them a way, take the soil over.
I'd also planted litters. I like to say costs and
that some pieces are they They probably sixty percent of
those win on all the Espadia cucumbers. They didn't do well.
On the guineas didn't do well. So I don't know
what the hell was in the garden.
Speaker 4 (17:28):
Okay, you said you just mentioned wood chips at the beginning?
Is your idea did you put?
Speaker 5 (17:33):
Did you put a lot of wood chips into the
soil or on the soil? Now you planted these things.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
On the top, and that was just three years ago,
so now that's pretty well gone. I actually raked them
off and thought, now I'll go back to my old way. Okay,
So yeah, so I did that.
Speaker 4 (17:50):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:51):
You see, if you put a lot of organic material
in the form of wood chips on soil, you do
need to have some top soil on there as well,
otherwise it becomes too monocultural for them.
Speaker 4 (18:00):
Do you know what I mean?
Speaker 5 (18:01):
It's there's not enough soil, there's a lot of compost,
and too much compost is not working either. As a
matter of fact, I had the same problem with one
part of my tunnel house with tomatoes as well.
Speaker 4 (18:13):
They just can't and I think I have.
Speaker 5 (18:16):
I have to made far too much chips and organic
material in my soil content, so I have to slow
them down a bit.
Speaker 4 (18:25):
And that is the weird thing.
Speaker 5 (18:26):
People put too much compost on the soil and that
sometimes really goes over the top and they don't make
it okay.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
The other thing is I've got a lot of sin metal.
It has been on and off oiver the years. But yes,
they just took off the all stingy needle, just decided
it was signed for you know, multiply and Tomb of
the World, and they did. What on earth encourages the
singing needles. I'm in the Eastborn area, so we're in
(18:55):
a bit of a subclimate. Year it gets pretty warm.
Speaker 4 (18:59):
It gets very warm.
Speaker 5 (19:00):
But also stinging netle is quite often something that is
that loves a lot of nitrogen.
Speaker 4 (19:05):
You'll find it often on.
Speaker 5 (19:07):
An area where where cows are sort of on the
edges of forests, you know, what I mean. So if
you've got too much nitrogen, that's what really would bring
the sting netle up as well. My sheep's pool, for
instance on the quarry here is really ripping, ripping them
up as well.
Speaker 4 (19:23):
It's great if they do well.
Speaker 5 (19:26):
So less nitrogen and more phosphate and poveresh.
Speaker 2 (19:32):
All right, So I've sort of sort of fallowed it,
awave it, and so I ripped it all out and
just turned it over. I do have a road. I've
got I've got raised gardens probably about or ten inches
off the ground, and I've put them into two meter
by two meter gardens. So there's four of those. I okay, everything.
Speaker 3 (19:53):
Sounds sounds actually pretty good, doesn't it. But balance, isn't it?
Speaker 4 (19:57):
The balance?
Speaker 3 (19:58):
That's what's your what's your terms gone? We've got ten seconds, buddy,
we're out of here.
Speaker 4 (20:05):
We better go. Goodbye.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
Thank you, Thank you folks for joining us, and look
forward to being back with you nixt Sunday here at
News Talk ZB.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Have a great week to take care for more from
the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp. Listen live to News
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