May 31, 2025 • 19 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for 1st June 2025, Ruud discusses when to prune and replant your crops, preventing insects and dogs from your plants, and explains why certain fruits take longer to grow than others.
Get The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast every Sunday morning on iHeartRadio, or wherever you get your podcasts.
LISTEN ABOVE
See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.
Mark as Played
Transcript
Episode Transcript
Available transcripts are automatically generated. Complete accuracy is not guaranteed.
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 3 (00:13):
Re climb pass.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Good morning, Good morning, Peter, greetings, greasings. Is everything all
right where you are?
Speaker 5 (00:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, yeah, rocking along, rocking along.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Hey, I just before we go, I just want to
say something about Polka. Yeah we are. I saw that
article too, Yes, well think yeah. Well there's for those
people that don't know, PUKA is something that's been going
for sixty years or so, and it's the very first
thing that the Wildlife Service at the time, or DOC
if you like, looked after all our birds and things
(00:43):
like that and did all the breeding and stuff like that.
And they are in trouble now because I suppose, I
don't know if it's the government or whether it's DOC,
or whether it's a combination of everything, and they're basically
coming back on whatever they said they would do, and
basically they're running out of money. So what PUKA is
basically doing, I'd like to urge local people into y
(01:03):
rapid they have a look at the support their fund
of raising efforts. Basically, I think they got about seventeen
thousand bucks already in the first day and a half.
So that's pretty good, but we need a heck of
a lot more. And please locals in the y wrapper.
When I'm there, I always go there, you know, as
(01:23):
you know you go there too, and we all know
what this is about. We really need this unless you
just don't mind it going down to gurgler and that's
where it's going now. It's said, it is pretty said.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, I saw. I mean the article's only just appeared.
I think it was in the post and it's been reposted.
So yeah, without legent funding, they are looking they may have.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yeah, that's right, that's a shock. It is a shakra
and it is something this I know that we need
structural literacy. Yeah, yeah, sorry, can I take the mickey
and the government for a while. Yeah, we need nature
or it's called structural literacy, but what I think we
need as well is natural literacy or natural history. And
(02:10):
if we don't have that for our next generation of kids,
we will always be making more and more and more
money without having anything to do with the planet. Yeah,
and this is bloody important.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, let's keep reminding people about the tremendous work that
they do and it is worthy of support without a doubt.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Absolutely big, thank you, Right, no trouble at all.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Look, I really enjoyed the brief time that I had there,
and I think it's a tremendous resource. So it'd be very,
very sad to see something like that disappear. Right, Let's
get amongst it. George, greetings to you, sir, here are you?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Yeah? Good?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Thanks? George rude, Yeah, mate.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Skinks. I've noticed the last year or two have been
a fear proliferation of skinks where I had none for
booking years. Forty plus years ago, I bought a whole
bunch of them home and none order to survive drop
fails and bye and all this sort of thing. They
were being clearly up from an area around where I
was at the time, but you know, they just never happened,
(03:14):
and I thought we need to have them just on
the around the house, and that nothing happened. But last
couple of years I've then around my garage if it's
going to get the little buggers, you know, escape off
and back under things in a way and whatever he
seems something you've appeared. And I know them occasionally in
around the lawn and up around the garden and stuff.
(03:34):
I got it, you know, So these these little beast
these too appeared.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Are they good?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Are they bad? Or are they a problem?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
What do you get?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
What? What? What?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
What do you think? What do you think when they
suddenly come up being huge numbers?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
M hm, well something something is obviously not knocking them back.
I don't know whether it's good to have them or not.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
You know, what do you what do you think? What
do you think? My question was, what do you think?
Are they good or bed? When they come up like
idiots in so many numbers in the places in the
North Island. They are imports from Australia. They are buggers.
We need to get rid of them, and it's impossible.
They eat our native skinks. They eat all our native
(04:18):
plants or our native plants, our native insects and things
like that. And they used to call them rainbow skinks
because they've got a bit of a rainbow wee color
around the body. But they call them now the plague skink. Okay,
have a look, have a look on ever, look how
to identify them, and you will find to your surprise
or to your shock, especially around Auckland, even when I
(04:40):
was there about fifteen years ago, it was unbelievable to
see the numbers of them going up and up and
up and up.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
No good, I'm afraid, okay, And funnily enough, George, I mean,
if I'm mowing the lawns right along and edge where
there's a concrete retaining wall as well, which is nice
and warm, obviously, and as I'm going along there, it's just,
you know, like every time I'm owed the lawn now,
they'll be scattering out from the lawn as I go.
(05:10):
And that's something that I wouldn't have seen that much
ten years ago. So this is obviously an introduced species
that is now coming to dominate the habitat. Is there
a control?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
There is no control.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I was gonna say. I mean again, the hard thing
is like I kind of like them, but I realized
that I shouldn't ye, so if the cat brings them in,
I shouldn't be unhappy.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
No, this is the only you have to train the
cat just to do that. Here we go, Because there was.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Me the other day and a guy comes up to
me in the street and goes, I've got a bone
to pick with you, and I'm like, what do I
do this time?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
No?
Speaker 7 (05:55):
This is my daughter.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
She was most upset with her.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
The other day.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
The cats?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
The cats?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
He asked me if I like them?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
And yeah, yeah, Well, I mean I'm just trying to look.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's going to trigger her again, but yeah, I'm.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Trying to be I'm trying to have a bit of
a gentle laugh about it as well. But on the
other hand, if you go to for instance, why Heckey Island,
there no now, for instance, to keep your dog on
the lead. Yes, because we've got Kiwi and they're really
proud to be able to tell them that, you know,
very gentle. But that's the way the same with kids.
Just be careful with them.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Knowledge. Right now, let's talk to Jeff.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
Greetings, Yes, good morning, Good morning Pete. En route, how
are you?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Hello? Good, We're good, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I'll go for it. Good.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Moving from Skinks to Lemon Trees. I live by the
airport and christ Church and we have a wonderful mayor
lemon Tree. But we want to know when is the
this time. I believe it's coming up, but I want
to get the timing right so those the bags don't
get into it. What's what's my best plan of a tech?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Oh you mean for pruning, Yes, for pruning anything, from
March onwards right through to about July. And the reason
is that if you make pruning cuts, you basically bleed
a little bit of stuff out of the plant, and
then when these lemon tree borers are flying, which is
(07:26):
from say September October to about March, they will lay
their eggs on those pruning cuts. So as long as
you understand that particular aspect of it, you don't prune
just before the time when these beetles are flying. So
now is a good time, and probably probably earlier as well. April,
(07:46):
you know, would be good from April onwards. And the
cool thing is you have to be also careful of
course with lemon trees because they will flower and fruit
in winter, so the more you prune, the fewer, yeah,
et cetera. But you got the timing a.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
Right, Okay, yep, yep, No, I just needed to know
the timing so that, yeah, very prolific lemon tree. And yeah,
just wants to get that right so it keeps being prolific.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. And a bit of fertilized as soon
as you get into September.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
Right, and it's just fertilizer, isn't it. Last week?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Oh, you're good.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, good man, thanks for listening. Take care. If all
the very quick text are grapefruit tree grand from seed
five years ago, two meters tall. No fruit will it?
If a fruit this is from Iris in the far.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
North, yes it will fruit, but probably only fifteen twenty
years later.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And the reason is that all our grapefruits and a
lot of fruit like that is actually grafted on a
rootstock that makes it fruit and grow much quicker, namely
after a year or two. And that is why we
graft them. If you just used seeds, same with avocados,
it is like a normal tree in the four it's
(09:06):
actually long time before they mature, but if you graft them,
you make them go really fast and earlier.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Awesome, right on that bombshell, that pearl of knowledge. That's
why you're here, buddy. We're going to take a break
back in a mow your news talk said be if
you would like to give us a call to talk
all things guarding. The lines are open. Eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty is the number. Hello, Robin, Hello Robin, No,
(09:36):
maybe not, we'll try. Liz.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Hey there, Liz, good morning, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Would hello Liz, I have.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
I love hippi astrums. I have a lot of bulbs,
about one hundred bolds. But what happened was I had
them out in the open and I did really well.
But I got the nassy by and some of them.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Oh you got that fly?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Yes, I yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I lug them up and put them in fresh potting
miss and put them in my tunnel house. And they
did really well.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
And every bowl that I.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Potted up was very healthy. It had no little hole
in the bottom of the bowl. But I see that
maybe twenty percent of them have developed or got the
narcissi fly in them because I cut up. I cut
open the bowl and the poupe is sitting in there.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
So my question is when.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Does the narssy fly fly or or do I just
live in the ground.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
No, I think I from I to be quantos. I
haven't seen this for a long time. I used to
have them in our previous house. I think, look, I
have to look that up, and I think you can
look that up to what their life cycle is in
terms of flying. But what I can tell you is
it's quite cool. There is some material that might work
(11:10):
for you, and it's called Yates lawn grub or parhina material.
It's so it's a y lawn grub. It's something that
you use for Parina caterpillars in the soil and things
like that. It's called by fen Trend. That is the
active ingredient by fen Trend. You'll you'll remember that. I
(11:32):
think that might be your best way to actually get
an area neutralized or or basically sprayed around your hippiastrums.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Right, Okay, So these are all the ones I've got now,
because I'm thinking I want to keep as many as
I can. Does the bug is a bug in the ground? Yes,
what you're saying it is in the ground. I always
thought there's a nazisi flies back the bottom into the
stem of the flowery.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
And lay eggs.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Eggs.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
That's and that's what I understand is happening too. I
don't think they live in the ground and then say
oh lovely, no, their their mum will lady eggs basically
in the bulbs that they think are good for the
for the maggots.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
And do you would that be flying autumn?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
I don't know, I think so as I said, I
have a look, I have a looked on the internet.
I can't remember it's been a long time since I've
been mucking around with that one. It could well be,
and it's I think I've seen it usually in late
autumn and winter. That's right.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
It's most distressing because I did use fresh, absolute fresh
potting mix and pot it up because I thought, I'm
going to say, all these I'm going to put them
inside and I'll look after them inside. But I've had
the problems inside my tunnel house also, And yet every
bowlb I planted was really healthy. I washed, there was
(13:03):
no little holes for them for theo to have got in.
But I feel as though the only way that poope
got in there is from the soil.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
No, no, no, they laid the eggs are laid inside
the inside the plant. I'm quite sure.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Right, good luck with it. Thanks, thanks very much for calling,
and we've got Robin back.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
Hello there, Hello, Hi Hi Robin, Hi, Hi Rude. I
have an interesting problem. I have a raised vegetable garden
bed which is relatively empty at the moment. In the
last few months, it seems a roaming neighborhood dog has
been using it as it's toilet. It's constantly got poop
(13:45):
in it, and I go away for a few weeks
and I come back and there's heaps there. I haven't
managed to catch the culprit, but I'm just wondering. Someone's
told me that dog poop is toxic and therefore I
can't grow vegetables anymore in there. Obviously I've removed it all.
Is there any way that I can cleanse the soil?
And is it safe to grow vegetable in there? Once?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
The problem? To be quite honest, I'm not a doctor,
so I'm not one hundred percent sure what the risks
are there. But personally I wouldn't like that idea either,
you know what I mean. And you're you're in the
same way. Have you thought about putting in nothing around
so it can't get in?
Speaker 8 (14:23):
I have now, but I've got three beds, so it
possibly may just go to the next one.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Yes, it might too, and but but yeah, and you
don't know who the owner is of the thing either,
is it not yet?
Speaker 8 (14:34):
I've had a camera out there, but I haven't managed
to catch I.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Love a camera attached to a hose. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Was a good old trick we used for wit and forget.
I remember we had a camera. We had a camera
and we had an movement camera right that triggered the
water up the Jeckshi off the offender.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Yeah, oh, I'm hopeful I might catch it. But in
the meantime, you know, do I remove all the soil then.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
And no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that. What I
would do is probably put some composts on the top
so that everything will be composted very quickly, and then
you'll find that it's not that bad anymore after a
couple of weeks, once it's been you know, if you're
like compostable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
I wondered about planting lupens in there for because lupins
are cleansing, are.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
They or not?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I don't know, to be guys, there's a lot of
myths in this department.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Robert, right, you take care, thank you all this how
a gale Hi, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Roots.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
We had a big straw strawberry plant flowering and fruiting,
so I decided to move it. When we dug it up,
there was just a very dense mat. So the person
helping me pulled it all all the little that'saw from
planted them, and they've still got flowers and things on.
Should we cut that.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I what is your Where are you're growing? Is it
a warm place.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
Orgland?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
You're in Auckland, So you do get some frosts, won't you?
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I think we, you and I are basically the same system.
I've got some plants or some fruit going on the
strawberries that I don't think are going to do too
much from now on. And I was thinking the same
thing by putting new news what you might call it
new plants in or get their their runners if you like,
(16:35):
and put that in for next.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Year with it has a dense massing system. And we've
taken us awfully all right.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
First might be yes, good, well be you can have
usually can do a couple of years with the same
plants and then you'll have to swap them again or
change them into something else, or do a runner system. Yeah, okay,
more than welcome, good luck, take care then and dunk
Increasings to you.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Morning, Rude and take them just question it official opinion.
We're here the other day, Rude on Matin Tyler Show.
Regarding feral cats, it's made about teen to fourteen million
field cats in New Zealand. Yep, hell bed are they
and your opinion.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
They are extremely bad. They actually be quite honest, especially
when they get stuff or creatures that live on the soil,
you know, easy to get. When they breed on the soil,
they have babies on the you know, that's sort of
we're talking about birds, we're talking about lizards, We're talking
about a lot of different things. They have an enormous impact.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Yes, And just a couple of questions as well. When
do you especially classes at the start? Wonder the twenty
first or today?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
I knew you were going to do something like that.
Of course it's the twenty first, you know that.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, you didn't walk into it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Just one more question, Roude.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
We were always appeal on a holiday. Are you going
to be on tomorrow for an hour or something?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I think?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
So a great day. Hey, Rude, can I read you
this text?
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I was wondering if you know anything about kaka Now
I presume they're talking about birds, anything about anything from
about three to about seven can be seen spending some
bit of time in the neighborhood, typically just for sunrise.
Two of them landed on my deck railing on two mornings,
just a couple of feet away. Recently, one came within
two feet of me on the railing there in Western Wellington.
(18:41):
Although they are spectacular birds. Is there a hazard of
a Kia type mischief? I think, what a wonderful problem
to have.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
It's not and it's a nice thing. Is there not
a buggery?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Right?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I just think the emergence of something that was threatened
for so long and is now seen in suburban environments.
Fabulous story. Yeah, we go more to the Pokaha website.
If you can help them out, you should basically at
take care all of these at a rud clone past
with us. I'll be back with you and in fact
with through it next Sunday. Enjoy your King's Birthday Day.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp, listen
live to News talks'd B on Sunday mornings from six,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
A'd be.
Speaker 3 (00:13):
Re climb pass.
Speaker 4 (00:14):
Good morning, Good morning, Peter, greetings, greasings. Is everything all
right where you are?
Speaker 5 (00:19):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (00:19):
Yeah, yeah, rocking along, rocking along.
Speaker 4 (00:21):
Hey, I just before we go, I just want to
say something about Polka. Yeah we are. I saw that
article too, Yes, well think yeah. Well there's for those
people that don't know, PUKA is something that's been going
for sixty years or so, and it's the very first
thing that the Wildlife Service at the time, or DOC
if you like, looked after all our birds and things
(00:43):
like that and did all the breeding and stuff like that.
And they are in trouble now because I suppose, I
don't know if it's the government or whether it's DOC,
or whether it's a combination of everything, and they're basically
coming back on whatever they said they would do, and
basically they're running out of money. So what PUKA is
basically doing, I'd like to urge local people into y
(01:03):
rapid they have a look at the support their fund
of raising efforts. Basically, I think they got about seventeen
thousand bucks already in the first day and a half.
So that's pretty good, but we need a heck of
a lot more. And please locals in the y wrapper.
When I'm there, I always go there, you know, as
(01:23):
you know you go there too, and we all know
what this is about. We really need this unless you
just don't mind it going down to gurgler and that's
where it's going now. It's said, it is pretty said.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
Yeah, I saw. I mean the article's only just appeared.
I think it was in the post and it's been reposted.
So yeah, without legent funding, they are looking they may have.
Speaker 4 (01:48):
Yeah, that's right, that's a shock. It is a shakra
and it is something this I know that we need
structural literacy. Yeah, yeah, sorry, can I take the mickey
and the government for a while. Yeah, we need nature
or it's called structural literacy, but what I think we
need as well is natural literacy or natural history. And
(02:10):
if we don't have that for our next generation of kids,
we will always be making more and more and more
money without having anything to do with the planet. Yeah,
and this is bloody important.
Speaker 2 (02:20):
Yeah.
Speaker 3 (02:21):
Well, let's keep reminding people about the tremendous work that
they do and it is worthy of support without a doubt.
Speaker 4 (02:27):
Absolutely big, thank you, Right, no trouble at all.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Look, I really enjoyed the brief time that I had there,
and I think it's a tremendous resource. So it'd be very,
very sad to see something like that disappear. Right, Let's
get amongst it. George, greetings to you, sir, here are you?
Speaker 6 (02:44):
Yeah? Good?
Speaker 4 (02:44):
Thanks? George rude, Yeah, mate.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
Skinks. I've noticed the last year or two have been
a fear proliferation of skinks where I had none for
booking years. Forty plus years ago, I bought a whole
bunch of them home and none order to survive drop
fails and bye and all this sort of thing. They
were being clearly up from an area around where I
was at the time, but you know, they just never happened,
(03:14):
and I thought we need to have them just on
the around the house, and that nothing happened. But last
couple of years I've then around my garage if it's
going to get the little buggers, you know, escape off
and back under things in a way and whatever he
seems something you've appeared. And I know them occasionally in
around the lawn and up around the garden and stuff.
(03:34):
I got it, you know, So these these little beast
these too appeared.
Speaker 7 (03:38):
Are they good?
Speaker 2 (03:39):
Are they bad? Or are they a problem?
Speaker 4 (03:42):
What do you get?
Speaker 2 (03:42):
What? What? What?
Speaker 4 (03:43):
What do you think? What do you think when they
suddenly come up being huge numbers?
Speaker 2 (03:48):
M hm, well something something is obviously not knocking them back.
I don't know whether it's good to have them or not.
Speaker 4 (03:55):
You know, what do you what do you think? What
do you think? My question was, what do you think?
Are they good or bed? When they come up like
idiots in so many numbers in the places in the
North Island. They are imports from Australia. They are buggers.
We need to get rid of them, and it's impossible.
They eat our native skinks. They eat all our native
(04:18):
plants or our native plants, our native insects and things
like that. And they used to call them rainbow skinks
because they've got a bit of a rainbow wee color
around the body. But they call them now the plague skink. Okay,
have a look, have a look on ever, look how
to identify them, and you will find to your surprise
or to your shock, especially around Auckland, even when I
(04:40):
was there about fifteen years ago, it was unbelievable to
see the numbers of them going up and up and
up and up.
Speaker 3 (04:48):
No good, I'm afraid, okay, And funnily enough, George, I mean,
if I'm mowing the lawns right along and edge where
there's a concrete retaining wall as well, which is nice
and warm, obviously, and as I'm going along there, it's just,
you know, like every time I'm owed the lawn now,
they'll be scattering out from the lawn as I go.
(05:10):
And that's something that I wouldn't have seen that much
ten years ago. So this is obviously an introduced species
that is now coming to dominate the habitat. Is there
a control?
Speaker 4 (05:26):
There is no control.
Speaker 3 (05:27):
I was gonna say. I mean again, the hard thing
is like I kind of like them, but I realized
that I shouldn't ye, so if the cat brings them in,
I shouldn't be unhappy.
Speaker 4 (05:39):
No, this is the only you have to train the
cat just to do that. Here we go, Because there was.
Speaker 3 (05:46):
Me the other day and a guy comes up to
me in the street and goes, I've got a bone
to pick with you, and I'm like, what do I
do this time?
Speaker 2 (05:55):
No?
Speaker 7 (05:55):
This is my daughter.
Speaker 3 (05:56):
She was most upset with her.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
The other day.
Speaker 8 (05:59):
What was it?
Speaker 3 (06:01):
The cats?
Speaker 4 (06:02):
The cats?
Speaker 3 (06:03):
He asked me if I like them?
Speaker 4 (06:04):
And yeah, yeah, Well, I mean I'm just trying to look.
Speaker 3 (06:08):
It's going to trigger her again, but yeah, I'm.
Speaker 4 (06:12):
Trying to be I'm trying to have a bit of
a gentle laugh about it as well. But on the
other hand, if you go to for instance, why Heckey Island,
there no now, for instance, to keep your dog on
the lead. Yes, because we've got Kiwi and they're really
proud to be able to tell them that, you know,
very gentle. But that's the way the same with kids.
Just be careful with them.
Speaker 3 (06:31):
Knowledge. Right now, let's talk to Jeff.
Speaker 9 (06:35):
Greetings, Yes, good morning, Good morning Pete. En route, how
are you?
Speaker 4 (06:40):
Hello? Good, We're good, Jeff.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
I'll go for it. Good.
Speaker 9 (06:43):
Moving from Skinks to Lemon Trees. I live by the
airport and christ Church and we have a wonderful mayor
lemon Tree. But we want to know when is the
this time. I believe it's coming up, but I want
to get the timing right so those the bags don't
get into it. What's what's my best plan of a tech?
Speaker 4 (07:06):
Oh you mean for pruning, Yes, for pruning anything, from
March onwards right through to about July. And the reason
is that if you make pruning cuts, you basically bleed
a little bit of stuff out of the plant, and
then when these lemon tree borers are flying, which is
(07:26):
from say September October to about March, they will lay
their eggs on those pruning cuts. So as long as
you understand that particular aspect of it, you don't prune
just before the time when these beetles are flying. So
now is a good time, and probably probably earlier as well. April,
(07:46):
you know, would be good from April onwards. And the
cool thing is you have to be also careful of
course with lemon trees because they will flower and fruit
in winter, so the more you prune, the fewer, yeah,
et cetera. But you got the timing a.
Speaker 9 (08:02):
Right, Okay, yep, yep, No, I just needed to know
the timing so that, yeah, very prolific lemon tree. And yeah,
just wants to get that right so it keeps being prolific.
Speaker 4 (08:13):
Yeah, yeah, exactly. And a bit of fertilized as soon
as you get into September.
Speaker 9 (08:20):
Right, and it's just fertilizer, isn't it. Last week?
Speaker 4 (08:24):
Oh, you're good.
Speaker 3 (08:25):
Yeah, good man, thanks for listening. Take care. If all
the very quick text are grapefruit tree grand from seed
five years ago, two meters tall. No fruit will it?
If a fruit this is from Iris in the far.
Speaker 4 (08:39):
North, yes it will fruit, but probably only fifteen twenty
years later.
Speaker 9 (08:44):
Wow.
Speaker 4 (08:45):
And the reason is that all our grapefruits and a
lot of fruit like that is actually grafted on a
rootstock that makes it fruit and grow much quicker, namely
after a year or two. And that is why we
graft them. If you just used seeds, same with avocados,
it is like a normal tree in the four it's
(09:06):
actually long time before they mature, but if you graft them,
you make them go really fast and earlier.
Speaker 3 (09:14):
Awesome, right on that bombshell, that pearl of knowledge. That's
why you're here, buddy. We're going to take a break
back in a mow your news talk said be if
you would like to give us a call to talk
all things guarding. The lines are open. Eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty is the number. Hello, Robin, Hello Robin, No,
(09:36):
maybe not, we'll try. Liz.
Speaker 6 (09:39):
Hey there, Liz, good morning, good morning, good morning.
Speaker 4 (09:41):
Would hello Liz, I have.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
I love hippi astrums. I have a lot of bulbs,
about one hundred bolds. But what happened was I had
them out in the open and I did really well.
But I got the nassy by and some of them.
Speaker 4 (10:03):
Oh you got that fly?
Speaker 6 (10:04):
Yes, I yeah.
Speaker 5 (10:07):
I lug them up and put them in fresh potting
miss and put them in my tunnel house. And they
did really well.
Speaker 7 (10:14):
And every bowl that I.
Speaker 5 (10:15):
Potted up was very healthy. It had no little hole
in the bottom of the bowl. But I see that
maybe twenty percent of them have developed or got the
narcissi fly in them because I cut up. I cut
open the bowl and the poupe is sitting in there.
Speaker 8 (10:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:35):
So my question is when.
Speaker 5 (10:37):
Does the narssy fly fly or or do I just
live in the ground.
Speaker 4 (10:46):
No, I think I from I to be quantos. I
haven't seen this for a long time. I used to
have them in our previous house. I think, look, I
have to look that up, and I think you can
look that up to what their life cycle is in
terms of flying. But what I can tell you is
it's quite cool. There is some material that might work
(11:10):
for you, and it's called Yates lawn grub or parhina material.
It's so it's a y lawn grub. It's something that
you use for Parina caterpillars in the soil and things
like that. It's called by fen Trend. That is the
active ingredient by fen Trend. You'll you'll remember that. I
(11:32):
think that might be your best way to actually get
an area neutralized or or basically sprayed around your hippiastrums.
Speaker 5 (11:42):
Right, Okay, So these are all the ones I've got now,
because I'm thinking I want to keep as many as
I can. Does the bug is a bug in the ground? Yes,
what you're saying it is in the ground. I always
thought there's a nazisi flies back the bottom into the
stem of the flowery.
Speaker 4 (12:02):
And lay eggs.
Speaker 8 (12:05):
Eggs.
Speaker 4 (12:07):
That's and that's what I understand is happening too. I
don't think they live in the ground and then say
oh lovely, no, their their mum will lady eggs basically
in the bulbs that they think are good for the
for the maggots.
Speaker 5 (12:19):
And do you would that be flying autumn?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
I don't know, I think so as I said, I
have a look, I have a looked on the internet.
I can't remember it's been a long time since I've
been mucking around with that one. It could well be,
and it's I think I've seen it usually in late
autumn and winter. That's right.
Speaker 5 (12:41):
It's most distressing because I did use fresh, absolute fresh
potting mix and pot it up because I thought, I'm
going to say, all these I'm going to put them
inside and I'll look after them inside. But I've had
the problems inside my tunnel house also, And yet every
bowlb I planted was really healthy. I washed, there was
(13:03):
no little holes for them for theo to have got in.
But I feel as though the only way that poope
got in there is from the soil.
Speaker 4 (13:14):
No, no, no, they laid the eggs are laid inside
the inside the plant. I'm quite sure.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
Right, good luck with it. Thanks, thanks very much for calling,
and we've got Robin back.
Speaker 8 (13:24):
Hello there, Hello, Hi Hi Robin, Hi, Hi Rude. I
have an interesting problem. I have a raised vegetable garden
bed which is relatively empty at the moment. In the
last few months, it seems a roaming neighborhood dog has
been using it as it's toilet. It's constantly got poop
(13:45):
in it, and I go away for a few weeks
and I come back and there's heaps there. I haven't
managed to catch the culprit, but I'm just wondering. Someone's
told me that dog poop is toxic and therefore I
can't grow vegetables anymore in there. Obviously I've removed it all.
Is there any way that I can cleanse the soil?
And is it safe to grow vegetable in there? Once?
Speaker 4 (14:08):
The problem? To be quite honest, I'm not a doctor,
so I'm not one hundred percent sure what the risks
are there. But personally I wouldn't like that idea either,
you know what I mean. And you're you're in the
same way. Have you thought about putting in nothing around
so it can't get in?
Speaker 8 (14:23):
I have now, but I've got three beds, so it
possibly may just go to the next one.
Speaker 4 (14:28):
Yes, it might too, and but but yeah, and you
don't know who the owner is of the thing either,
is it not yet?
Speaker 8 (14:34):
I've had a camera out there, but I haven't managed
to catch I.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
Love a camera attached to a hose. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that.
Speaker 4 (14:46):
Was a good old trick we used for wit and forget.
I remember we had a camera. We had a camera
and we had an movement camera right that triggered the
water up the Jeckshi off the offender.
Speaker 8 (15:00):
Yeah, oh, I'm hopeful I might catch it. But in
the meantime, you know, do I remove all the soil then.
Speaker 4 (15:05):
And no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that. What I
would do is probably put some composts on the top
so that everything will be composted very quickly, and then
you'll find that it's not that bad anymore after a
couple of weeks, once it's been you know, if you're
like compostable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 8 (15:22):
I wondered about planting lupens in there for because lupins
are cleansing, are.
Speaker 5 (15:26):
They or not?
Speaker 4 (15:28):
I don't know, to be guys, there's a lot of
myths in this department.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Robert, right, you take care, thank you all this how
a gale Hi, Good morning.
Speaker 2 (15:40):
Roots.
Speaker 6 (15:40):
We had a big straw strawberry plant flowering and fruiting,
so I decided to move it. When we dug it up,
there was just a very dense mat. So the person
helping me pulled it all all the little that'saw from
planted them, and they've still got flowers and things on.
Should we cut that.
Speaker 4 (16:01):
I what is your Where are you're growing? Is it
a warm place.
Speaker 9 (16:06):
Orgland?
Speaker 4 (16:07):
You're in Auckland, So you do get some frosts, won't you?
Speaker 7 (16:14):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (16:14):
I think we, you and I are basically the same system.
I've got some plants or some fruit going on the
strawberries that I don't think are going to do too
much from now on. And I was thinking the same
thing by putting new news what you might call it
new plants in or get their their runners if you like,
(16:35):
and put that in for next.
Speaker 6 (16:36):
Year with it has a dense massing system. And we've
taken us awfully all right.
Speaker 4 (16:42):
First might be yes, good, well be you can have
usually can do a couple of years with the same
plants and then you'll have to swap them again or
change them into something else, or do a runner system. Yeah, okay,
more than welcome, good luck, take care then and dunk
Increasings to you.
Speaker 7 (17:03):
Morning, Rude and take them just question it official opinion.
We're here the other day, Rude on Matin Tyler Show.
Regarding feral cats, it's made about teen to fourteen million
field cats in New Zealand. Yep, hell bed are they
and your opinion.
Speaker 4 (17:22):
They are extremely bad. They actually be quite honest, especially
when they get stuff or creatures that live on the soil,
you know, easy to get. When they breed on the soil,
they have babies on the you know, that's sort of
we're talking about birds, we're talking about lizards, We're talking
about a lot of different things. They have an enormous impact.
Speaker 7 (17:40):
Yes, And just a couple of questions as well. When
do you especially classes at the start? Wonder the twenty
first or today?
Speaker 4 (17:51):
I knew you were going to do something like that.
Of course it's the twenty first, you know that.
Speaker 2 (17:56):
Yeah, you didn't walk into it.
Speaker 1 (18:00):
That's awesome.
Speaker 5 (18:02):
Just one more question, Roude.
Speaker 7 (18:05):
We were always appeal on a holiday. Are you going
to be on tomorrow for an hour or something?
Speaker 1 (18:10):
You know what?
Speaker 4 (18:11):
I think?
Speaker 3 (18:11):
So a great day. Hey, Rude, can I read you
this text?
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Hey?
Speaker 3 (18:21):
I was wondering if you know anything about kaka Now
I presume they're talking about birds, anything about anything from
about three to about seven can be seen spending some
bit of time in the neighborhood, typically just for sunrise.
Two of them landed on my deck railing on two mornings,
just a couple of feet away. Recently, one came within
two feet of me on the railing there in Western Wellington.
(18:41):
Although they are spectacular birds. Is there a hazard of
a Kia type mischief? I think, what a wonderful problem
to have.
Speaker 4 (18:50):
It's not and it's a nice thing. Is there not
a buggery?
Speaker 2 (18:55):
Right?
Speaker 3 (18:57):
I just think the emergence of something that was threatened
for so long and is now seen in suburban environments.
Fabulous story. Yeah, we go more to the Pokaha website.
If you can help them out, you should basically at
take care all of these at a rud clone past
with us. I'll be back with you and in fact
with through it next Sunday. Enjoy your King's Birthday Day.
Speaker 1 (19:21):
For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp, listen
live to News talks'd B on Sunday mornings from six,
or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.
Popular Podcasts
True Crime Tonight
If you eat, sleep, and breathe true crime, TRUE CRIME TONIGHT is serving up your nightly fix. Five nights a week, KT STUDIOS & iHEART RADIO invite listeners to pull up a seat for an unfiltered look at the biggest cases making headlines, celebrity scandals, and the trials everyone is watching. With a mix of expert analysis, hot takes, and listener call-ins, TRUE CRIME TONIGHT goes beyond the headlines to uncover the twists, turns, and unanswered questions that keep us all obsessed—because, at TRUE CRIME TONIGHT, there’s a seat for everyone. Whether breaking down crime scene forensics, scrutinizing serial killers, or debating the most binge-worthy true crime docs, True Crime Tonight is the fresh, fast-paced, and slightly addictive home for true crime lovers.
Dateline NBC
Current and classic episodes, featuring compelling true-crime mysteries, powerful documentaries and in-depth investigations. Follow now to get the latest episodes of Dateline NBC completely free, or subscribe to Dateline Premium for ad-free listening and exclusive bonus content: DatelinePremium.com
24/7 News: The Latest
The latest news in 4 minutes updated every hour, every day.