May 3, 2025 • 20 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for 4th May 2025, Ruud explains how to prune plants effectively, how to protect your plants from caterpillars and get good sleep without crickets, how to identify pests and unknown insects, and what to do about camelia leaves discolouring or falling.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks A.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
B righty, Oh, we're into the garden. Would climb pass?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Good morning, sir, Oh, good morning, Peter. Are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hey. Now, I don't mean to start on a somber note,
but today is Dolden hit Ankering.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Huh so yes, yeah, the fourth.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, fourth of May. So well, a bunch of duchies
will gather in the parnel Rose Gardens this afternoon. That's
where the memorial is, Dutch Memorial, So I'll go along
to that this.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Afternoon, remembering those that fought for in the war. Yeah,
that's my dad was really good at that.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
He was.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
He was writing actually he was eighteen when the war started,
right and managed to be in the in.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Theronto, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, boy, he was clever.
But there you go. Yeah, that sort of stuff is
there's some serious stories there.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Now, I've got some photographs of the village that my
mum was living and when during the war and saying,
you know, the Canadian tanks coming down the main street
and the liberation. It's remarkable photos and just outside of
the village memorial at Mars where four or five young
Canadian soldiers lost their lives right at the end of
the war.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So it's still a big gig in the Netlands. Is
that's huge?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I saw something the other day where, particularly in the
area where my family come from, there's like a walking
tour that you can do sort of following the liberation
stages as they went from village to village, which signs
like a really nice thing to do one time.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, it's good, it's it's yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, yeah nice eighty years as well.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Hey, I've got something else, just just very quickly. There's
a new book out that will be out on the
eight so this next week. It's called The Incredible Insects
of aud and it is it's both Simon Pollt and
fuel Servity of my mates. I was those two and
myself where the entomologists that's set up the the.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
What do you call it?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
The to Papa exhibition about or maybe eight years ago
about bugs, and it was absolutely wonderful working with him.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I've known them for a long time.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
But they wrote this book about the Incredible Insects of
Aldiroa and I think Jipapa's going to give me one
or two copies to give away next week or so.
It depends on when they arrive. But have a look
at it when you can. I'll I'll be happy to
give some away.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's going to be good, just on that much excitement
with the local ecological group that I know where someone
has discovered a habitat of native skicks in South England
that they didn't really think was still around.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
So yeah, I got a skink yesterday in Auckland as.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, or native or one of these I could.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I gave it to the I thought.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I thought it might have been one of those introduced
ones that they're rotter, actually, I think, but I couldn't
see because it was the weather wasn't that great all
the time. No there, the light wasn't that great, and
I had a thousand people around me.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Sos Okay, fair enough, right, let's get amongst it. If
you've got a question for Red, call us now on
eight hundred and eighty eight Alistair.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Hello, good morning, Chap. I have a one short question
for Rude.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah, but a very long answer. But this will become
a very long answer.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I'll bet you.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Do plants need more or extra water when they fly.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Not necessarily. No, it depends on what plants there are.
But if you have plants that are having a regular
watering session, then the flowering is not going to make
them need more. I reckon that absolutely not necessary now,
And you know what, Alistair here is a lovely did
you know most of our plants, especially house plants, but
(04:04):
also plants outside, if they die, it's usually the result
of over watering.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
They're right, so b really, you bought some great books
out over the years. I've read some of them.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, yeah, that's lovely. It's lovely.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I wish I had time to write some more, but
I haven't, but it's great to do that.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Hey, thanks for your call, mate.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Much appreciated. And Dane, good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Good morning. I have a question about the harlequin lady
birds or lady bugs. We've got them coming into the
house on the west side. But my husband went underneath
the house a couple of days ago and he said,
there's a lot. There's hundreds of hundreds and hundreds of them,
millions of them underneath the bathroom, on all the boards
(04:56):
under the house. They're not under the boards in the
bedrooms or anywhere else, but just under the bathroom and
a hibernating gig.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's probably an hibernating gig. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Did they come out of soil or they come out
of the tree or no.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
They come from everywhere they've been, and they think, oh,
nice house. Is the Diana's place. Yeah, that's Diana's place.
Let's go there, guys. And then they have this wonderful
pheromone that actually that binds them together. So one goes
there and lays a trail. Lit's almost like a trail,
and that goes under your house. And then another one
(05:30):
comes it. Oh, I think George is there. Let's go there,
And in no time they all lay a trail. And
the more trail there is, the more smell there is
for attracting them. So they'll go away in spring.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Again.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Well, how can I kill them? Because they come inside
and they stink.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yes, I've noticed a stink. Remember I told you that
it's their trail. How can you kill them? Look, honestly,
to be quite and the highlch to be quite. If
you've identified them correctly as eloquence, then they are introduced
creatures that we really don't need to be quite honest,
it's not a good one to have around. I think
(06:05):
you can use an aerosol spray I have. I've quite
often talked about a long lasting aerosol spray that you
can buy at Safe Works. Safe Works ends with an X,
by the way, is a company. It's a safety company.
But they also have aerosols that we use in aircraft
to stop creatures coming into the country when we use
(06:25):
that on aircraft. Now you can buy those those particular
aerosols from safe Works and they will work brilliantly against
these these lady bird beetles.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Okay, what about powder? We've got some wasp powder and
the shed. Would that work?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You could try? Yeah, it might work, might work.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
But the best thing that lasts the longest is the
Safe Works residual aircraft spray.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
It's an aterwer Okay, thank you, I'll give that a try.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Have a go there.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Good all you take care, little best and Michelle, very
good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Good morning's me to speak to you. I've been a
Christian for rude. I've been pretty My mum's fetuo a
tree which got really out of control. It's one of
these supposed to be miniature, but it's a dwarf and
it's of the house above the roof, so it's not
very dwarf, but.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I don't think so. My dwarf Sean will stay. I'm
talking about thirty forty fifty high in the garden. I
think you might have had been sold something that is
not a dwarf on that. I don't believe that they
do that.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
It must have been anyway. The last three years have
been pruning it and shaped it, and every year it's
been more and more productive. And that's fine, but here
we've been inundated with fruit. But with regard to the pruning,
it's made the tree grow so many shoots, but they're
not water shoots where everyone every branch that's had these
(08:01):
new shoots grow. They got two, three, four twiggy branches,
but they've all been pretty up to But I just
don't know where to start pruning now. They said you
should prune like about a quarter each time, and that's
what I've been doing over the last three years, and
this is the fourth year I've pruned. But I just
don't know where to start. Have you got the advice?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yes, it's very easy, Michell, Michelle, it's very easy.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Fido. I used to grow fijoas as a hedge do
you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
So I made it let's say two meters tall and
a meter wide and a meter thick, if you like.
And I had a headstreamer, and I put my glasses
on and I went like and I did not care.
These videos are almost impossible, well to yes, almost pretty much.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, if I can't kill it, you're fine, exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
There you go. That's Peter. There you are.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Another question. They've got the pets. Some of the fidos
have got like a a pale brown rot spot on them,
and it seems to be most commonly around near the
shoulder of the fruit. But these are the ones I
find on the ground, and I don't know is it
a virus or a fungus? And is that airborne or
(09:23):
soil borne?
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Do any.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Fruit and get rid of them.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
What you can do, you know, what you get.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
What you can do very quickly is when these fruits
start to develop, you give them some funguside spray over
the top.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Boom.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Oh okay, yeah, it's likely to be.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
A fungus, I'd say, so, yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Okay, that's lovely.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Thank you very much and welcome go well all the
very bous Steve Michelle, you take care and a very
good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Matt.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
Good morning, gentlemen, it's a beautiful morning.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
How are you good?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
My friends?
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Awesome? Now you might have trouble shooted by the problem
already with your stake whips advice. But I've just moved
into west Auckland and I think it's the weather's driven
in them. And there's this this small.
Speaker 10 (10:12):
Mite up to about five mill which gets in the
house and it has this incredibly high piercing cricket like chirp.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Have you come across it.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Not with that description five mil.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
Well, it's not. It wouldn't be half a centimeter.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I don't reckon, good grief. And it makes that noise,
and it makes a.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Noise so invariably, Yes, it comes in and it just
sits in the corner of the room.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Or down at the bottom of the.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Trim and the carpet, and it makes this piercing cricket
like chirp. Oh my and my girlfriend's.
Speaker 10 (10:57):
Looked on on the.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Sort of Facebook page and people have identified it and
they've gone, oh anything, They're everywhere, But it just seems
it's only in the.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Sort of red Okay, Now I need to know what
did people People in quotation marks say it was.
Speaker 10 (11:14):
Well, see, I thought it might have been some little
bug type cricket.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
But the word that was vieused with mike.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
No, it can't be a mite, not not really that
might that entomologists know. No, mikees are tiny things, not
even a millimeter in diameter. Okay, listen, listen, Matt. Honestly,
there is an app. Look, I'm not into twit book
and twatbook and all that sort of stuff, but there
is an app that actually does scientific work, not the
rubbish that you get from people that have no idea.
(11:43):
And it's called I Naturalist. One word, I Naturalist. Download it,
get to username and a password. You can do that easily,
cost nothing, and within a couple of minutes you can
start taking a good photo off that particular creature. Put
it on A Naturalist, as sharp and as close as
you can, and within ten seconds you will have an identity.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Awesome because you googled it.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yeah, you can google that and then see where it
came from and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
I was living remotely and she said, this thing is
waking me up. It's in the room.
Speaker 11 (12:20):
I could hear it, and I was lucky enough she
aes she recorded it, and then I was lucky enough
to be there and I heard this thing and I
actually just killed it.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Mad, you're the hero, just like I love it.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
No, I'm quite intrigued because I used to live in
west Ackland, and I'm not sure what you're talking about,
so it could be.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Something that's new. Well I naturally knows. Yeah, right, there
you go.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Great, it's awesome. That's awesome, all the very bissy. It's
obviously got amazing acoust sick performance. Then out of five millimeters,
which happens to be exactly the same as half a
centimeter that it creates a noise that you wake you up.
Oh look, I can laugh, but it's only because I
(13:20):
don't have them in my bedroom. So there you go. Yeah,
oh no, apparently they're in Mount Eden as well. A
really shrill whistle is coming in from the text.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh good, I'd love.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
To This is a mystery worth solving.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Let me know, guys, let me know.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah, absolutely, how we're going to take a short break.
If you've got a question for it, call us now
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty You and new Stork seedp.
We've got a couple of calls and Karen, good morning
to you.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
Good morning. I have a question for Rude. I have
a camellia hatch and half of it believes are going
like a pale pale green and looks like quite dusky.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
M yellowing, yellowing and greening there, greening goes like in
color is then what it is?
Speaker 12 (14:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Do you see that the.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Veins themselves are still green? The veins on the leaves,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Yeah, I have a leaf in front of me. It's
very very pale on the one side and the side. Yeah,
it kind of looks like it's got a mold or something.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah, there's a So there's a number of things. I think.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
First of all, the color is quite important because there
might be a deficiency of some material that it needs
to take in a nutrient if you like, it could
be it could be it could be nitrogen, but could
also be magnesium. So do you fertilize this plant every
now and then?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (14:54):
I use some camelia food.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
You know, Well, magnesium is not something that is always
in every fertilizer that you buy. I suggest you get
a little bit of trace elements.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
They call it.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Trace elements is the small amounts that plants sometimes need,
and if they don't get it, they can do strange
things like what you describe.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
And I have another question. I have a I call
it a red red robin hedge.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That the red robin. Yeah, I know the plant, yeah right.
Speaker 9 (15:30):
Red in the in the summer, all the leaves fell
off it, and some of the plants in the hedge
died and the leaves never came back.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Once they've fallen. That's it that.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah, yeah, And and the plant is still looking pretty deadish.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Well, it's a hedge. So two of the plants and
the hedge they've they've gone in the rest of it going.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Well, no, you might that might not, that might not
be that the tricky in the recent rain that you had,
did you think that the where the plants are where
the dead plants. I know that the soil was quite
wet or wetter than elsewhere.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
It could be because I have another hedge like the
other side of the field, that some of the plants
in that edge where it's really wet of die.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yeah it goes so yeah, yes, And that can sometimes
be just the enormous incredible rain we had here was
just fabulous. Same thing people will have trouble with their
with their plants at some stage. That's usually a root rot,
one of the root rot species of fungal species, and
there is very little you can do about it. What
(16:47):
you can't do is plant another red robin in the
same spot, because they will go within six months, a guarantee.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Okay, I'll just have a nice walkway through the hedge.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, or get something totally different. Yeah. Good, all the
very best you can.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Thank you very much for the call, Margaret, very good morning.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
Good morning. I'm reing from North Chicago, and in our
church we have clusterflies and a lot of other people
are having custoflies as well. Sometime back, I was in
Mike firteen and there was a traveler and she told
me about how the clusterflies had arrived in New Zealand
on a ship at Port Charmers and have made their
(17:32):
way around. She gave me the name of a prill
that you could put around the ground because they sort
of hatch out of the ground. But I can't remember,
and I know that the places don't seem to have
that particular breed anymore. But I'm just wondering what kind
of prill you would recommend to put around in the
(17:53):
spread around on the grass around the church.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
It's the if you're thinking about a prill that actually
reduces pests in lawns and let's say turf.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
You know, if you go to in green and all
that sort.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Of stuff, there are materials that have the following active
ingredient asiy print. I'm going to spell that for you
and then you can think about it.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Ace yeah, L E P L E p R y N.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Y N.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I am not saying that's going to work, but that
is something that works well in soils, okay.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah. Oh and by the way, the clusterfly.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
The clusterfly came into New Zealand via the north shore
of Auckland because I was the one who found them.
Speaker 12 (18:47):
Okay, so they obviously had another another entry point, didn't
they know.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
They started in the north and they just went south
in the end. And they love and they love to
live in cooler climates.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
They came from North America or North Europe. Yeah, okay,
they go.
Speaker 12 (19:05):
To very high places, very difficult to get down.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Oh yes, yes, good luck Margaret, and thank you very
much for you call. Have a great day, thank you.
And yes, I think well like all of us were, well, yeah,
Dutch here, it's at your Dutch reflection and for Europeans marks,
it's a significant day. Isn't eighty years since the Second
World War?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Exactly? It's a big time.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I'll tell you what. Having the memorial in the Rose
Gardens in Parnell is a lovely place to have the memorial.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
So yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You take care all the very best and thank you
very much for your company this morning. I am going
to be in Wellington on Saturday at the Better Home
and Living show that's on at the Sky Stadium in Wellington.
I'll be speaking at about twelve o'clock. If you're around,
say hi, look forward seeing it. I might see at
the show there. And if you have a good week
(19:59):
this week. Yeah, I'm off to the Dutch memorial at
two o'clock today in the Parnell Rose Gardens. Take care,
have a great week.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I'm crazy like I'm the only
Speaker 1 (20:11):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
B righty, Oh, we're into the garden. Would climb pass?
Speaker 3 (00:15):
Good morning, sir, Oh, good morning, Peter. Are you good?
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Yeah, I'm good.
Speaker 3 (00:19):
I'm good.
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Hey. Now, I don't mean to start on a somber note,
but today is Dolden hit Ankering.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Huh so yes, yeah, the fourth.
Speaker 2 (00:29):
Yeah, fourth of May. So well, a bunch of duchies
will gather in the parnel Rose Gardens this afternoon. That's
where the memorial is, Dutch Memorial, So I'll go along
to that this.
Speaker 4 (00:39):
Afternoon, remembering those that fought for in the war. Yeah,
that's my dad was really good at that.
Speaker 3 (00:45):
He was.
Speaker 4 (00:45):
He was writing actually he was eighteen when the war started,
right and managed to be in the in.
Speaker 3 (00:50):
Theronto, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah, boy, he was clever.
But there you go. Yeah, that sort of stuff is
there's some serious stories there.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Now, I've got some photographs of the village that my
mum was living and when during the war and saying,
you know, the Canadian tanks coming down the main street
and the liberation. It's remarkable photos and just outside of
the village memorial at Mars where four or five young
Canadian soldiers lost their lives right at the end of
the war.
Speaker 3 (01:18):
So it's still a big gig in the Netlands. Is
that's huge?
Speaker 4 (01:22):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (01:22):
I saw something the other day where, particularly in the
area where my family come from, there's like a walking
tour that you can do sort of following the liberation
stages as they went from village to village, which signs
like a really nice thing to do one time.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah, it's good, it's it's yeah, it's.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Yeah, yeah nice eighty years as well.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
Hey, I've got something else, just just very quickly. There's
a new book out that will be out on the
eight so this next week. It's called The Incredible Insects
of aud and it is it's both Simon Pollt and
fuel Servity of my mates. I was those two and
myself where the entomologists that's set up the the.
Speaker 3 (02:04):
What do you call it?
Speaker 4 (02:06):
The to Papa exhibition about or maybe eight years ago
about bugs, and it was absolutely wonderful working with him.
Speaker 3 (02:13):
I've known them for a long time.
Speaker 4 (02:15):
But they wrote this book about the Incredible Insects of
Aldiroa and I think Jipapa's going to give me one
or two copies to give away next week or so.
It depends on when they arrive. But have a look
at it when you can. I'll I'll be happy to
give some away.
Speaker 2 (02:30):
It's going to be good, just on that much excitement
with the local ecological group that I know where someone
has discovered a habitat of native skicks in South England
that they didn't really think was still around.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
So yeah, I got a skink yesterday in Auckland as.
Speaker 2 (02:51):
Well, or native or one of these I could.
Speaker 3 (02:54):
I gave it to the I thought.
Speaker 4 (02:56):
I thought it might have been one of those introduced
ones that they're rotter, actually, I think, but I couldn't
see because it was the weather wasn't that great all
the time. No there, the light wasn't that great, and
I had a thousand people around me.
Speaker 2 (03:09):
Sos Okay, fair enough, right, let's get amongst it. If
you've got a question for Red, call us now on
eight hundred and eighty eight Alistair.
Speaker 5 (03:20):
Hello, good morning, Chap. I have a one short question
for Rude.
Speaker 4 (03:27):
Yeah, but a very long answer. But this will become
a very long answer.
Speaker 3 (03:34):
I'll bet you.
Speaker 5 (03:37):
Do plants need more or extra water when they fly.
Speaker 4 (03:44):
Not necessarily. No, it depends on what plants there are.
But if you have plants that are having a regular
watering session, then the flowering is not going to make
them need more. I reckon that absolutely not necessary now,
And you know what, Alistair here is a lovely did
you know most of our plants, especially house plants, but
(04:04):
also plants outside, if they die, it's usually the result
of over watering.
Speaker 5 (04:11):
They're right, so b really, you bought some great books
out over the years. I've read some of them.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
Yeah, yeah, that's lovely. It's lovely.
Speaker 4 (04:24):
I wish I had time to write some more, but
I haven't, but it's great to do that.
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Hey, thanks for your call, mate.
Speaker 2 (04:31):
Much appreciated. And Dane, good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (04:34):
Good morning. I have a question about the harlequin lady
birds or lady bugs. We've got them coming into the
house on the west side. But my husband went underneath
the house a couple of days ago and he said,
there's a lot. There's hundreds of hundreds and hundreds of them,
millions of them underneath the bathroom, on all the boards
(04:56):
under the house. They're not under the boards in the
bedrooms or anywhere else, but just under the bathroom and
a hibernating gig.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
That's probably an hibernating gig. Yeah.
Speaker 6 (05:06):
Did they come out of soil or they come out
of the tree or no.
Speaker 4 (05:10):
They come from everywhere they've been, and they think, oh,
nice house. Is the Diana's place. Yeah, that's Diana's place.
Let's go there, guys. And then they have this wonderful
pheromone that actually that binds them together. So one goes
there and lays a trail. Lit's almost like a trail,
and that goes under your house. And then another one
(05:30):
comes it. Oh, I think George is there. Let's go there,
And in no time they all lay a trail. And
the more trail there is, the more smell there is
for attracting them. So they'll go away in spring.
Speaker 3 (05:40):
Again.
Speaker 6 (05:41):
Well, how can I kill them? Because they come inside
and they stink.
Speaker 4 (05:45):
Yes, I've noticed a stink. Remember I told you that
it's their trail. How can you kill them? Look, honestly,
to be quite and the highlch to be quite. If
you've identified them correctly as eloquence, then they are introduced
creatures that we really don't need to be quite honest,
it's not a good one to have around. I think
(06:05):
you can use an aerosol spray I have. I've quite
often talked about a long lasting aerosol spray that you
can buy at Safe Works. Safe Works ends with an X,
by the way, is a company. It's a safety company.
But they also have aerosols that we use in aircraft
to stop creatures coming into the country when we use
(06:25):
that on aircraft. Now you can buy those those particular
aerosols from safe Works and they will work brilliantly against
these these lady bird beetles.
Speaker 6 (06:36):
Okay, what about powder? We've got some wasp powder and
the shed. Would that work?
Speaker 3 (06:41):
You could try? Yeah, it might work, might work.
Speaker 4 (06:45):
But the best thing that lasts the longest is the
Safe Works residual aircraft spray.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
It's an aterwer Okay, thank you, I'll give that a try.
Speaker 3 (06:54):
Have a go there.
Speaker 2 (06:55):
Good all you take care, little best and Michelle, very
good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (07:02):
Good morning's me to speak to you. I've been a
Christian for rude. I've been pretty My mum's fetuo a
tree which got really out of control. It's one of
these supposed to be miniature, but it's a dwarf and
it's of the house above the roof, so it's not
very dwarf, but.
Speaker 4 (07:24):
I don't think so. My dwarf Sean will stay. I'm
talking about thirty forty fifty high in the garden. I
think you might have had been sold something that is
not a dwarf on that. I don't believe that they
do that.
Speaker 7 (07:37):
It must have been anyway. The last three years have
been pruning it and shaped it, and every year it's
been more and more productive. And that's fine, but here
we've been inundated with fruit. But with regard to the pruning,
it's made the tree grow so many shoots, but they're
not water shoots where everyone every branch that's had these
(08:01):
new shoots grow. They got two, three, four twiggy branches,
but they've all been pretty up to But I just
don't know where to start pruning now. They said you
should prune like about a quarter each time, and that's
what I've been doing over the last three years, and
this is the fourth year I've pruned. But I just
don't know where to start. Have you got the advice?
Speaker 4 (08:22):
Yes, it's very easy, Michell, Michelle, it's very easy.
Speaker 3 (08:27):
Fido. I used to grow fijoas as a hedge do
you know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (08:34):
So I made it let's say two meters tall and
a meter wide and a meter thick, if you like.
And I had a headstreamer, and I put my glasses
on and I went like and I did not care.
These videos are almost impossible, well to yes, almost pretty much.
Speaker 2 (08:53):
Yeah, if I can't kill it, you're fine, exactly.
Speaker 3 (08:56):
There you go. That's Peter. There you are.
Speaker 7 (09:00):
Another question. They've got the pets. Some of the fidos
have got like a a pale brown rot spot on them,
and it seems to be most commonly around near the
shoulder of the fruit. But these are the ones I
find on the ground, and I don't know is it
a virus or a fungus? And is that airborne or
(09:23):
soil borne?
Speaker 5 (09:24):
Do any.
Speaker 7 (09:28):
Fruit and get rid of them.
Speaker 3 (09:29):
What you can do, you know, what you get.
Speaker 4 (09:32):
What you can do very quickly is when these fruits
start to develop, you give them some funguside spray over
the top.
Speaker 3 (09:38):
Boom.
Speaker 7 (09:39):
Oh okay, yeah, it's likely to be.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
A fungus, I'd say, so, yeah.
Speaker 7 (09:45):
Okay, that's lovely.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
Thank you very much and welcome go well all the
very bous Steve Michelle, you take care and a very
good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (09:53):
Matt.
Speaker 8 (09:55):
Good morning, gentlemen, it's a beautiful morning.
Speaker 9 (09:57):
How are you good?
Speaker 3 (09:58):
My friends?
Speaker 8 (10:00):
Awesome? Now you might have trouble shooted by the problem
already with your stake whips advice. But I've just moved
into west Auckland and I think it's the weather's driven
in them. And there's this this small.
Speaker 10 (10:12):
Mite up to about five mill which gets in the
house and it has this incredibly high piercing cricket like chirp.
Speaker 8 (10:23):
Have you come across it.
Speaker 3 (10:27):
Not with that description five mil.
Speaker 8 (10:31):
Well, it's not. It wouldn't be half a centimeter.
Speaker 3 (10:34):
I don't reckon, good grief. And it makes that noise,
and it makes a.
Speaker 8 (10:38):
Noise so invariably, Yes, it comes in and it just
sits in the corner of the room.
Speaker 10 (10:45):
Or down at the bottom of the.
Speaker 8 (10:48):
Trim and the carpet, and it makes this piercing cricket
like chirp. Oh my and my girlfriend's.
Speaker 10 (10:57):
Looked on on the.
Speaker 8 (10:59):
Sort of Facebook page and people have identified it and
they've gone, oh anything, They're everywhere, But it just seems
it's only in the.
Speaker 4 (11:05):
Sort of red Okay, Now I need to know what
did people People in quotation marks say it was.
Speaker 10 (11:14):
Well, see, I thought it might have been some little
bug type cricket.
Speaker 8 (11:18):
But the word that was vieused with mike.
Speaker 4 (11:22):
No, it can't be a mite, not not really that
might that entomologists know. No, mikees are tiny things, not
even a millimeter in diameter. Okay, listen, listen, Matt. Honestly,
there is an app. Look, I'm not into twit book
and twatbook and all that sort of stuff, but there
is an app that actually does scientific work, not the
rubbish that you get from people that have no idea.
(11:43):
And it's called I Naturalist. One word, I Naturalist. Download it,
get to username and a password. You can do that easily,
cost nothing, and within a couple of minutes you can
start taking a good photo off that particular creature. Put
it on A Naturalist, as sharp and as close as
you can, and within ten seconds you will have an identity.
Speaker 8 (12:09):
Awesome because you googled it.
Speaker 4 (12:12):
Yeah, you can google that and then see where it
came from and all that sort of stuff.
Speaker 8 (12:17):
I was living remotely and she said, this thing is
waking me up. It's in the room.
Speaker 11 (12:20):
I could hear it, and I was lucky enough she
aes she recorded it, and then I was lucky enough
to be there and I heard this thing and I
actually just killed it.
Speaker 3 (12:38):
Mad, you're the hero, just like I love it.
Speaker 4 (12:45):
No, I'm quite intrigued because I used to live in
west Ackland, and I'm not sure what you're talking about,
so it could be.
Speaker 3 (12:50):
Something that's new. Well I naturally knows. Yeah, right, there
you go.
Speaker 2 (12:58):
Great, it's awesome. That's awesome, all the very bissy. It's
obviously got amazing acoust sick performance. Then out of five millimeters,
which happens to be exactly the same as half a
centimeter that it creates a noise that you wake you up.
Oh look, I can laugh, but it's only because I
(13:20):
don't have them in my bedroom. So there you go. Yeah,
oh no, apparently they're in Mount Eden as well. A
really shrill whistle is coming in from the text.
Speaker 3 (13:30):
Oh good, I'd love.
Speaker 2 (13:31):
To This is a mystery worth solving.
Speaker 3 (13:33):
Let me know, guys, let me know.
Speaker 2 (13:34):
Yeah, absolutely, how we're going to take a short break.
If you've got a question for it, call us now
eight hundred and eighty ten eighty You and new Stork seedp.
We've got a couple of calls and Karen, good morning
to you.
Speaker 9 (13:45):
Good morning. I have a question for Rude. I have
a camellia hatch and half of it believes are going
like a pale pale green and looks like quite dusky.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
M yellowing, yellowing and greening there, greening goes like in
color is then what it is?
Speaker 12 (14:08):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (14:09):
Do you see that the.
Speaker 4 (14:10):
Veins themselves are still green? The veins on the leaves,
you know what I mean?
Speaker 9 (14:17):
Yeah, I have a leaf in front of me. It's
very very pale on the one side and the side. Yeah,
it kind of looks like it's got a mold or something.
Speaker 3 (14:30):
Yeah, there's a So there's a number of things. I think.
Speaker 4 (14:34):
First of all, the color is quite important because there
might be a deficiency of some material that it needs
to take in a nutrient if you like, it could
be it could be it could be nitrogen, but could
also be magnesium. So do you fertilize this plant every
now and then?
Speaker 5 (14:54):
Yeah?
Speaker 9 (14:54):
I use some camelia food.
Speaker 4 (14:58):
You know, Well, magnesium is not something that is always
in every fertilizer that you buy. I suggest you get
a little bit of trace elements.
Speaker 3 (15:10):
They call it.
Speaker 4 (15:12):
Trace elements is the small amounts that plants sometimes need,
and if they don't get it, they can do strange
things like what you describe.
Speaker 9 (15:21):
And I have another question. I have a I call
it a red red robin hedge.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
That the red robin. Yeah, I know the plant, yeah right.
Speaker 9 (15:30):
Red in the in the summer, all the leaves fell
off it, and some of the plants in the hedge
died and the leaves never came back.
Speaker 3 (15:42):
Once they've fallen. That's it that.
Speaker 4 (15:46):
Yeah, yeah, And and the plant is still looking pretty deadish.
Speaker 9 (15:52):
Well, it's a hedge. So two of the plants and
the hedge they've they've gone in the rest of it going.
Speaker 4 (16:00):
Well, no, you might that might not, that might not
be that the tricky in the recent rain that you had,
did you think that the where the plants are where
the dead plants. I know that the soil was quite
wet or wetter than elsewhere.
Speaker 9 (16:18):
It could be because I have another hedge like the
other side of the field, that some of the plants
in that edge where it's really wet of die.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
Yeah it goes so yeah, yes, And that can sometimes
be just the enormous incredible rain we had here was
just fabulous. Same thing people will have trouble with their
with their plants at some stage. That's usually a root rot,
one of the root rot species of fungal species, and
there is very little you can do about it. What
(16:47):
you can't do is plant another red robin in the
same spot, because they will go within six months, a guarantee.
Speaker 9 (16:56):
Okay, I'll just have a nice walkway through the hedge.
Speaker 3 (17:01):
Yeah, or get something totally different. Yeah. Good, all the
very best you can.
Speaker 2 (17:07):
Thank you very much for the call, Margaret, very good morning.
Speaker 12 (17:12):
Good morning. I'm reing from North Chicago, and in our
church we have clusterflies and a lot of other people
are having custoflies as well. Sometime back, I was in
Mike firteen and there was a traveler and she told
me about how the clusterflies had arrived in New Zealand
on a ship at Port Charmers and have made their
(17:32):
way around. She gave me the name of a prill
that you could put around the ground because they sort
of hatch out of the ground. But I can't remember,
and I know that the places don't seem to have
that particular breed anymore. But I'm just wondering what kind
of prill you would recommend to put around in the
(17:53):
spread around on the grass around the church.
Speaker 4 (17:56):
It's the if you're thinking about a prill that actually
reduces pests in lawns and let's say turf.
Speaker 3 (18:05):
You know, if you go to in green and all
that sort.
Speaker 4 (18:07):
Of stuff, there are materials that have the following active
ingredient asiy print. I'm going to spell that for you
and then you can think about it.
Speaker 3 (18:19):
Ace yeah, L E P L E p R y N.
Speaker 5 (18:30):
Y N.
Speaker 4 (18:31):
I am not saying that's going to work, but that
is something that works well in soils, okay.
Speaker 3 (18:37):
Yeah. Oh and by the way, the clusterfly.
Speaker 4 (18:39):
The clusterfly came into New Zealand via the north shore
of Auckland because I was the one who found them.
Speaker 12 (18:47):
Okay, so they obviously had another another entry point, didn't
they know.
Speaker 4 (18:52):
They started in the north and they just went south
in the end. And they love and they love to
live in cooler climates.
Speaker 7 (18:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (18:59):
They came from North America or North Europe. Yeah, okay,
they go.
Speaker 12 (19:05):
To very high places, very difficult to get down.
Speaker 2 (19:08):
Oh yes, yes, good luck Margaret, and thank you very
much for you call. Have a great day, thank you.
And yes, I think well like all of us were, well, yeah,
Dutch here, it's at your Dutch reflection and for Europeans marks,
it's a significant day. Isn't eighty years since the Second
World War?
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Exactly? It's a big time.
Speaker 2 (19:30):
I'll tell you what. Having the memorial in the Rose
Gardens in Parnell is a lovely place to have the memorial.
Speaker 3 (19:36):
So yeah, and.
Speaker 2 (19:39):
You take care all the very best and thank you
very much for your company this morning. I am going
to be in Wellington on Saturday at the Better Home
and Living show that's on at the Sky Stadium in Wellington.
I'll be speaking at about twelve o'clock. If you're around,
say hi, look forward seeing it. I might see at
the show there. And if you have a good week
(19:59):
this week. Yeah, I'm off to the Dutch memorial at
two o'clock today in the Parnell Rose Gardens. Take care,
have a great week.
Speaker 3 (20:06):
I'm crazy like I'm the only
Speaker 1 (20:11):
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