July 12, 2025 • 19 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for 13th July 2025, Ruud discusses why your plants may be struggling to grow this season, what keeps weeds growing, and how to prevent moss from your lawn...
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks B.
Speaker 2 (00:13):
Even I'm tempted, rud, I have to say in terms
of well, my chainsaw, which I bought secondhand about twenty
years ago, has got to be forty odd years old
one hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, No, honestly mine is quite old too. Yeah, quite,
there's still things just knowing I'll be quite honest. I'm
not joking.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We should share photographs because I reckon mind's older and
more better than yours.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, find out that's right. My builders chainsaw is much
older too, but I got mine when I was still
well in Auckland. Yeah, Jason and all that. Hey, how
are you? I'm good mate, day. I just want to
sort of doo little things for our audience. First of all,
we've got an exclusive screening of a David Attenborough's film
(01:02):
The Ocean that's happening in christ Church here at Columbos.
So it's actually in Hoist and Hoist End in christ Urs.
It's Combo Street, Litchfield and basically it's to get some
dosh together for the World Wildlife Fund, you know WF.
That's number one. I think that's going to be good.
It's on the thirty first off this month, and you
(01:25):
can get your tickets through hu many tics, hu many texts.
You know what. That's okay. Second thing is we have
a slight change to our trip in just to the
chetum Islains, not just only half a day, because apparently
the chat Airlines really think they need to have their
plane surface.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
It's always assuring.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So I like that. So just get a hold of
the tour company dot code oldenzet the tour company one
word dot cod olden set. We're going mid what is
it December? Aren't well? Yeah, that's about time always. Yeah,
it's fine, awesome, let's go.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Let's rip into it. Kay A, very very good morning
to you.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Good morning gentlemen, left bruders that I've got some some ground.
I've been planting coumras and pumpkins and other things in
for a few years. Why when I put the mustard
seed and it doesn't go very well where I've had
the cumeras.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Oh, or where you had the cumeras. Oh, there might
be so yeah, ah interesting that I don't it requires
I don't know, I know that mustard. Uh you know, well,
if it's grown there before you shouldn't have any problems
with it. You know, sufficient light, all that sort of stuff,
(02:49):
sufficient watering, you know that they like that. Uh nutrients, deficiencies,
what could it be anything like that? What did you
put on the on the COUMERA uh fertilize?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I just put a super fast fate pretty much.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh, only super phosphate, not a general fertilizer. No ah,
I think I think I would do that because super
phosphate is just for roots and root plants. So you're
talking about colmoro that's a root plant, of course, and
super phosphate would work well. But a general fertilizer, a
(03:29):
normal n P and K ratio would do really well
for your for your mustard plants.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Won't give me too much growth on the leaves.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Well, it might do, but what are you going to do?
Dig it in? No, you're going to eat it too hard.
I knew it. But now anyway, general fertilizer.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
That's don't just plant twenty No.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
No, no, I realized that you would do that, wouldn't you.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Brilliant?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Just general fertilizer. Off you go, you go it gain another.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I've got a plant that these lovely sunny days has
got about twelve mon butterflies flying around it, which I'm loving.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Still going good. Yeah, I've got mine. I'm still going
to actually at christ Church. And we think the last caterpillars,
the last caterpillars about a month ago were still we're
basically finishing their gig there.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah, it's lovely and I thoroughly enjoy them.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Okay, all this, okay, all the very best, Graham A
very good morning.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Yeah, good morning, guys. I've got a one question that's
bugging me. I've got a weed in my garden. It's
kind of like a nasturtian, but it's not. It's got
a little orange flower of a black center, and it
creeps along and it grows through everything, and it does.
(05:01):
I don't know what it is, and I don't know
how to get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, So it's growing also on plants that you don't
want to be killed.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Yes, Yes, that grows, It grows up, that grows down.
It just creeps through and it just breads.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
What I'm not I'm not. I can't. I'm not getting
a good picture in my head of what that could be.
But if you want to do nobody hang on. But
if you want to control that thing in an area
where there are plans you do not want to miss
or you don't want to want to kill. You will
have to do a complete job with a good weeding
tool if you like.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Yes, yes about that, because I've got that. I've got
several hundred square meters of garden to do.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So you'll have to take as sickie.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Yes, I have to take a week.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Ah, I thought this might be a common weed, and
some of them may go, oh, I know what that is.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
No, I don't know, because no, I'm not that I'm
okay with weeds when I see them, but I really
need to see them because there's so many different species.
There are weeds. You wouldn't believe it. Why don't you go? Actually,
they have got a weed Yates Garden Doctor and the
Yates what do you call it? Problem Solvers things like that,
(06:25):
and the Yates Garden Guide. They usually have absolutely wonderful
bits about weeds, and so it's a matter of finding them. Also,
you might find them online if you go to and
to a weed website. There are lots of weed groups
actually that control them. So there you go.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
But more of a thorough search here.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Some of these texts and gone, how do I get
rid of liver water? It is everywhere.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Liver w Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I know,
I know, I know. Oh gosh, I would say, I
would say, try some what do you call that? Wed
and forget hit men.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh yeah, yep, have a go with that now, apparently
to identify Graham's mystery U plant black eyed Susie.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Oh gosh, it could be yes.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Oh, it doesn't sound good.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, it doesn't sound too good. No, no, no, that
might be tricky and you and especially if it's in
the other place, you can't really spray like anything or
desirable plants. And that is the problem, isn't it. You've
got to be really damn sure of what you've got.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Digital control, digital control, sharp and sharp hanky.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
My pocket dive if I call it the case, it's
my shape, hanky.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Hayden. Good morning to you. How are you?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Yeah, morning, guys.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
What can we do for you?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Moss on my law and it really peeves me off.
I've got quite a big lawn living cashmere now on
the lowest stretches of the hill. My mosk comes back
to greet me every winter, and I has it with
uh iron phosphate. I think it is. I've heard it
(08:25):
on t but it keeps damn while coming back.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, and that's probably to do with the pH of
your soil.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Right, so it's.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, smack a lot of lime on it for instance.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Okay, okay, especially in.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Well now it changed it. The mosque doesn't like to
go in a very alkaline sort of situation, you know
what I mean. The other side is also to if
you make it more assets, they don't come either. And
the third one is even better. If you have wet
and forget, you're wet and forget, and you put that
in half the strength and you spray that over the mosses,
(09:05):
you'll find that will go. But that's only a temporary thing.
You need to change the pH all right.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Tell me this time of the year, with cold and scuzzy,
is there a time to kill it off or do
I wait till spring?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I would do it now because you'll have to probably
do it again in spring, so that you keep your
pH in either a low or a higher level and
that will stop it from coming back. Thanky makes sense.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Very good?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Does indeed? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
You'll literally make that lawn not very happy for that.
Not a happy place for the MOSSU.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Right, okay, a very good appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I reckon you can do it. Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Inadvertently we seem to have started a who's got the
oldest chainsaw competition now of course, yeah, uh, fair enough
to nineteen seventy two. That's not bad, home, lan all
steal no plastic gives your arms a bit of a workout.
It's not supposed to give your arms a workout. That's
the whole point of having a power at all. He's
(10:15):
not swinging it like an axe. As it doesn't work.
I can't start it, but my goodness it still works
when I hit it hard enough.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I can imagine they'll be heavy though.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely right. We might take a
short break. If you've got a question for it, give
us a call. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is
the number you and yours you've been Margaret.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
Good morning, Oh, good morning here, yes, good morning. Yes,
I have a two year old black currant bush. It's
getting well of stabbished now, very very healthy. But my
question is pleased, do you need to put in this
black current little bush you know? Each year? Please?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
It depends a little bit about how large it is
and how big you want it to become. But basically
you're prona during this time of the year, as you
may know. But I would say if it depends exactly
on how large you wanted to go, and I would
get the older bits out, especially at this time of
(11:14):
the year, you know, the older branches if you like.
It makes sense very much. Yeah, So it depends exactly
on how big you want them, because they will keep
on growing. If the new shoots come out, you've got
stuff for the next season, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Thanks very much, Thank you. Go well here, Hello.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
David, Yes, good morning guys. I've got a question here
for rude. Can you train ends?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Can you train ends?
Speaker 8 (11:49):
Yes, I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, yeah, I'd like you to tell me the story
because I'm already grinning and get on with it.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Right, Okay. So a few months ago I planted some
twister collie flayers. Yeah, and then I had a bit
of health them. I hadn't been near them for quite
some time, but I had them covered with some netting.
But however, the white butterfly got in there.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Yep.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
And when I did joe down and look at them,
there were no leaves on them whatsoever, but they were
covered in white butterfly larvae. So I pulled them all out,
went down to the driveway and shook them all out
in the driveway, and then asked the wife to come
(12:37):
and have a look at this, And she said, ain't
that a shame? What would happened? And I said yes?
But then out of some flowers, some little miniature els
from Arias came an army of ents and they started
(12:58):
taking these guys back. There was must have been forty
or fifty of those larvae there, and they were dragging
them into the bushes.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
So they caught those, They caught those particulars, got.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
Them off the drive.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Unbelievable goal.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
I've never said anything like it in my life before.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
How big were those ends?
Speaker 8 (13:22):
They're only just the little ordinary ant that comes into
the house when you've got for the food around, But
they were just heaps and eats of them, and.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
The caterpillars were still in a very small stage I suppose.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
No, they're quite big actually, an all over them, just
dragging them back.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
No, I've never heard of that. We need to breed
those ends, don't we?
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Absolutely, we need to train them.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I love it. No, I've never seen that, to be
quite honest.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
It's amazed. And then I realized later on, when they'd
all been they're gone, Yeah, that I should have photographed them.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yes, yes, so those ends are care being the caterpillars
away from their host plants.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
Well, yeah, that's what I want them to do. No,
I'd taken them all what was left of the the
actual plants and shook them on the drive.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
So yeah, they arrived and marched them off.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
Then here comes the government to come and take this
share of it. Okay, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
That you take care. A quick question just with response
to about the adding lime. Hey, guys, can you please
go of what you can do to raise the pH
level and the lawns to stop moss. I have been
adding iron sulfate, which kills it, but it comes back.
I heard you say that the lime. What else could
you do ideally to prevent it in the future.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Well, you either go either you make the soil more
asset or you make it more alkaline. So you go
one way or the other. Now, if you use lime,
for instance, on the reasonably red what not reasonably once
or twice a year, you'll probably find you get a
too alkaline for the moss to live in. I think
moss really, I think that the alkaline version used to
(15:16):
work well for me when I had troubles in meadow
Bank in England. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Absolutely, Okay, that's awesome, Carol, greetings to you.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
Hello. What I want to ask you, rude is I
have about a half a dozen barrels which are about
a meter.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
And a half high by meter. Wife.
Speaker 9 (15:37):
Now, I've got this brainwave for Christmas. I want to
buy some seed potatoes, so I'll have some nice potatoes
for Christmas Day. Sure now, but not only that. Then
I want to get some pumpkin seeds, oh my gosh,
and I want to put them in another barrel.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
And then here we go. I've got bocot clants areas.
Speaker 9 (15:59):
In tea, so that they all grow in barrels.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Honestly, I'm quite sure they will grow in bells and potatoes.
I mean, Julie does that every year for a school,
you know, a little competition and things like that. Not
a problem at all. Pumpkin would be going. The other
one was what cocoa.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Chokes? And really I'm looking.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Do you know what a choko is?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Do you like chokos?
Speaker 8 (16:32):
You?
Speaker 9 (16:33):
Ah, come on, choco and white saws and onions.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I am not a joke, o fin No. Sorry is
to grow them?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I don't know why. I don't think anyone ever ate them.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
They're also going the solf. No, priestly, I'm thinking of
the barrel filling it. What's some grass clippings and everything,
and then just putting a bag of soil on top
of that? What is your bear? Would you sell that
with soil the bells?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You would put organic organ a good if you like?
Do you call that mix on it? Garden mix on it?
Speaker 7 (17:09):
You know?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But you have to remember it has to have some
general soil as well. So what I call is is
real soil rather than organic material. They need to be
mixed up in that barrel. Does that make sense?
Speaker 9 (17:23):
You didn't know that? But what do you think of
the idea of at the bottom putting some stuff that
will like lawn clippings and everything.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
No, no, no, I wouldn't put no bug it the
long clippings. No way. Make sure that you hang on
and also think about that your barrel at the bottom
needs to have holes to get rid of water. When
it rains too much, you know what I mean? Yeah, no, no,
you don't need long clipping. No, and they smell and
they be oh no yuck.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
No.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
One more thing. How many potatoes would you put in
that barrel?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
One or two or maybe three depends on the diameter
of that barrel. But a meter white, well you can
have four. Then each corner, in every corner of your
round barrel, you can put one in each corner.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Thank you so much, lovely to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Love it Carol.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Oh yeah, I know, I know. That was great.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
That was great.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Thank you always a pleasure. Yeah, let's sit next week
and hey, when's that movie? Is this week?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Movie thirty first of what is it July?
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Okay, so people get busy. Put on the diary now
and it'll be raising for.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
W w f EX World Wildlife Fund, Worldlife Fun for Later,
whatever it's called. Something like that.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Have a great day, Send me a photo chainsaw and
I'll flick you on a mile mile beauty. Hey will
soon see he has got the roughest, oldest chainsaw, cantankerous,
old beast that it is, but hey still works. BRIDI folks,
sounds like me. Contankerous, old but still working right. I'll
be back again mix Monday. Have a great week. Take
care for.
Speaker 1 (19:08):
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Speaker 2 (00:13):
Even I'm tempted, rud, I have to say in terms
of well, my chainsaw, which I bought secondhand about twenty
years ago, has got to be forty odd years old
one hundred bucks.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
Yeah, No, honestly mine is quite old too. Yeah, quite,
there's still things just knowing I'll be quite honest. I'm
not joking.
Speaker 2 (00:34):
We should share photographs because I reckon mind's older and
more better than yours.
Speaker 3 (00:39):
Yeah, find out that's right. My builders chainsaw is much
older too, but I got mine when I was still
well in Auckland. Yeah, Jason and all that. Hey, how
are you? I'm good mate, day. I just want to
sort of doo little things for our audience. First of all,
we've got an exclusive screening of a David Attenborough's film
(01:02):
The Ocean that's happening in christ Church here at Columbos.
So it's actually in Hoist and Hoist End in christ Urs.
It's Combo Street, Litchfield and basically it's to get some
dosh together for the World Wildlife Fund, you know WF.
That's number one. I think that's going to be good.
It's on the thirty first off this month, and you
(01:25):
can get your tickets through hu many tics, hu many texts.
You know what. That's okay. Second thing is we have
a slight change to our trip in just to the
chetum Islains, not just only half a day, because apparently
the chat Airlines really think they need to have their
plane surface.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
It's always assuring.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
So I like that. So just get a hold of
the tour company dot code oldenzet the tour company one
word dot cod olden set. We're going mid what is
it December? Aren't well? Yeah, that's about time always. Yeah,
it's fine, awesome, let's go.
Speaker 2 (02:06):
Let's rip into it. Kay A, very very good morning
to you.
Speaker 4 (02:11):
Good morning gentlemen, left bruders that I've got some some ground.
I've been planting coumras and pumpkins and other things in
for a few years. Why when I put the mustard
seed and it doesn't go very well where I've had
the cumeras.
Speaker 3 (02:29):
Oh, or where you had the cumeras. Oh, there might
be so yeah, ah interesting that I don't it requires
I don't know, I know that mustard. Uh you know, well,
if it's grown there before you shouldn't have any problems
with it. You know, sufficient light, all that sort of stuff,
(02:49):
sufficient watering, you know that they like that. Uh nutrients, deficiencies,
what could it be anything like that? What did you
put on the on the COUMERA uh fertilize?
Speaker 4 (03:01):
I just put a super fast fate pretty much.
Speaker 3 (03:06):
Oh, only super phosphate, not a general fertilizer. No ah,
I think I think I would do that because super
phosphate is just for roots and root plants. So you're
talking about colmoro that's a root plant, of course, and
super phosphate would work well. But a general fertilizer, a
(03:29):
normal n P and K ratio would do really well
for your for your mustard plants.
Speaker 4 (03:36):
Won't give me too much growth on the leaves.
Speaker 3 (03:39):
Well, it might do, but what are you going to do?
Dig it in? No, you're going to eat it too hard.
I knew it. But now anyway, general fertilizer.
Speaker 4 (03:53):
That's don't just plant twenty No.
Speaker 3 (03:57):
No, no, I realized that you would do that, wouldn't you.
Speaker 5 (03:59):
Brilliant?
Speaker 3 (04:01):
Just general fertilizer. Off you go, you go it gain another.
Speaker 4 (04:06):
I've got a plant that these lovely sunny days has
got about twelve mon butterflies flying around it, which I'm loving.
Speaker 3 (04:15):
Still going good. Yeah, I've got mine. I'm still going
to actually at christ Church. And we think the last caterpillars,
the last caterpillars about a month ago were still we're
basically finishing their gig there.
Speaker 4 (04:31):
Yeah, it's lovely and I thoroughly enjoy them.
Speaker 2 (04:33):
Okay, all this, okay, all the very best, Graham A
very good morning.
Speaker 6 (04:39):
Yeah, good morning, guys. I've got a one question that's
bugging me. I've got a weed in my garden. It's
kind of like a nasturtian, but it's not. It's got
a little orange flower of a black center, and it
creeps along and it grows through everything, and it does.
(05:01):
I don't know what it is, and I don't know
how to get rid of it.
Speaker 3 (05:04):
Okay, So it's growing also on plants that you don't
want to be killed.
Speaker 6 (05:10):
Yes, Yes, that grows, It grows up, that grows down.
It just creeps through and it just breads.
Speaker 3 (05:19):
What I'm not I'm not. I can't. I'm not getting
a good picture in my head of what that could be.
But if you want to do nobody hang on. But
if you want to control that thing in an area
where there are plans you do not want to miss
or you don't want to want to kill. You will
have to do a complete job with a good weeding
tool if you like.
Speaker 6 (05:40):
Yes, yes about that, because I've got that. I've got
several hundred square meters of garden to do.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
So you'll have to take as sickie.
Speaker 6 (05:54):
Yes, I have to take a week.
Speaker 3 (05:57):
Yeah, that's what I mean.
Speaker 6 (05:59):
Ah, I thought this might be a common weed, and
some of them may go, oh, I know what that is.
Speaker 3 (06:04):
No, I don't know, because no, I'm not that I'm
okay with weeds when I see them, but I really
need to see them because there's so many different species.
There are weeds. You wouldn't believe it. Why don't you go? Actually,
they have got a weed Yates Garden Doctor and the
Yates what do you call it? Problem Solvers things like that,
(06:25):
and the Yates Garden Guide. They usually have absolutely wonderful
bits about weeds, and so it's a matter of finding them. Also,
you might find them online if you go to and
to a weed website. There are lots of weed groups
actually that control them. So there you go.
Speaker 6 (06:46):
But more of a thorough search here.
Speaker 2 (06:51):
Some of these texts and gone, how do I get
rid of liver water? It is everywhere.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Liver w Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, I know, I know,
I know, I know. Oh gosh, I would say, I
would say, try some what do you call that? Wed
and forget hit men.
Speaker 2 (07:13):
Oh yeah, yep, have a go with that now, apparently
to identify Graham's mystery U plant black eyed Susie.
Speaker 3 (07:23):
Oh gosh, it could be yes.
Speaker 2 (07:26):
Oh, it doesn't sound good.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
Yeah, it doesn't sound too good. No, no, no, that
might be tricky and you and especially if it's in
the other place, you can't really spray like anything or
desirable plants. And that is the problem, isn't it. You've
got to be really damn sure of what you've got.
Speaker 2 (07:42):
Digital control, digital control, sharp and sharp hanky.
Speaker 3 (07:50):
My pocket dive if I call it the case, it's
my shape, hanky.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Hayden. Good morning to you. How are you?
Speaker 5 (08:01):
Yeah, morning, guys.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
What can we do for you?
Speaker 5 (08:04):
Moss on my law and it really peeves me off.
I've got quite a big lawn living cashmere now on
the lowest stretches of the hill. My mosk comes back
to greet me every winter, and I has it with
uh iron phosphate. I think it is. I've heard it
(08:25):
on t but it keeps damn while coming back.
Speaker 3 (08:29):
Yeah, and that's probably to do with the pH of
your soil.
Speaker 5 (08:33):
Right, so it's.
Speaker 3 (08:36):
Yeah, smack a lot of lime on it for instance.
Speaker 5 (08:39):
Okay, okay, especially in.
Speaker 3 (08:42):
Well now it changed it. The mosque doesn't like to
go in a very alkaline sort of situation, you know
what I mean. The other side is also to if
you make it more assets, they don't come either. And
the third one is even better. If you have wet
and forget, you're wet and forget, and you put that
in half the strength and you spray that over the mosses,
(09:05):
you'll find that will go. But that's only a temporary thing.
You need to change the pH all right.
Speaker 5 (09:12):
Tell me this time of the year, with cold and scuzzy,
is there a time to kill it off or do
I wait till spring?
Speaker 1 (09:20):
No?
Speaker 3 (09:20):
I would do it now because you'll have to probably
do it again in spring, so that you keep your
pH in either a low or a higher level and
that will stop it from coming back. Thanky makes sense.
Speaker 6 (09:36):
Very good?
Speaker 5 (09:37):
Does indeed? Thank you?
Speaker 3 (09:39):
You'll literally make that lawn not very happy for that.
Not a happy place for the MOSSU.
Speaker 5 (09:45):
Right, okay, a very good appreciate it.
Speaker 3 (09:50):
I reckon you can do it. Bye bye.
Speaker 2 (09:53):
Inadvertently we seem to have started a who's got the
oldest chainsaw competition now of course, yeah, uh, fair enough
to nineteen seventy two. That's not bad, home, lan all
steal no plastic gives your arms a bit of a workout.
It's not supposed to give your arms a workout. That's
the whole point of having a power at all. He's
(10:15):
not swinging it like an axe. As it doesn't work.
I can't start it, but my goodness it still works
when I hit it hard enough.
Speaker 3 (10:21):
I can imagine they'll be heavy though.
Speaker 2 (10:22):
Oh yeah, yeah, yeah, absolutely right. We might take a
short break. If you've got a question for it, give
us a call. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty is
the number you and yours you've been Margaret.
Speaker 7 (10:32):
Good morning, Oh, good morning here, yes, good morning. Yes,
I have a two year old black currant bush. It's
getting well of stabbished now, very very healthy. But my
question is pleased, do you need to put in this
black current little bush you know? Each year? Please?
Speaker 3 (10:53):
It depends a little bit about how large it is
and how big you want it to become. But basically
you're prona during this time of the year, as you
may know. But I would say if it depends exactly
on how large you wanted to go, and I would
get the older bits out, especially at this time of
(11:14):
the year, you know, the older branches if you like.
It makes sense very much. Yeah, So it depends exactly
on how big you want them, because they will keep
on growing. If the new shoots come out, you've got
stuff for the next season, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (11:31):
Thanks very much, Thank you. Go well here, Hello.
Speaker 8 (11:35):
David, Yes, good morning guys. I've got a question here
for rude. Can you train ends?
Speaker 3 (11:46):
Can you train ends?
Speaker 8 (11:49):
Yes, I'll tell you.
Speaker 3 (11:51):
Yeah, yeah, I'd like you to tell me the story
because I'm already grinning and get on with it.
Speaker 8 (11:55):
Right, Okay. So a few months ago I planted some
twister collie flayers. Yeah, and then I had a bit
of health them. I hadn't been near them for quite
some time, but I had them covered with some netting.
But however, the white butterfly got in there.
Speaker 6 (12:15):
Yep.
Speaker 8 (12:15):
And when I did joe down and look at them,
there were no leaves on them whatsoever, but they were
covered in white butterfly larvae. So I pulled them all out,
went down to the driveway and shook them all out
in the driveway, and then asked the wife to come
(12:37):
and have a look at this, And she said, ain't
that a shame? What would happened? And I said yes?
But then out of some flowers, some little miniature els
from Arias came an army of ents and they started
(12:58):
taking these guys back. There was must have been forty
or fifty of those larvae there, and they were dragging
them into the bushes.
Speaker 3 (13:08):
So they caught those, They caught those particulars, got.
Speaker 8 (13:12):
Them off the drive.
Speaker 3 (13:13):
Unbelievable goal.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
I've never said anything like it in my life before.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
How big were those ends?
Speaker 8 (13:22):
They're only just the little ordinary ant that comes into
the house when you've got for the food around, But
they were just heaps and eats of them, and.
Speaker 3 (13:29):
The caterpillars were still in a very small stage I suppose.
Speaker 8 (13:33):
No, they're quite big actually, an all over them, just
dragging them back.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
No, I've never heard of that. We need to breed
those ends, don't we?
Speaker 8 (13:43):
Absolutely, we need to train them.
Speaker 3 (13:47):
I love it. No, I've never seen that, to be
quite honest.
Speaker 8 (13:52):
It's amazed. And then I realized later on, when they'd
all been they're gone, Yeah, that I should have photographed them.
Speaker 3 (14:01):
Yes, yes, so those ends are care being the caterpillars
away from their host plants.
Speaker 8 (14:10):
Well, yeah, that's what I want them to do. No,
I'd taken them all what was left of the the
actual plants and shook them on the drive.
Speaker 2 (14:18):
So yeah, they arrived and marched them off.
Speaker 3 (14:23):
Yeah, brilliant.
Speaker 8 (14:25):
Then here comes the government to come and take this
share of it. Okay, brilliant.
Speaker 2 (14:34):
That you take care. A quick question just with response
to about the adding lime. Hey, guys, can you please
go of what you can do to raise the pH
level and the lawns to stop moss. I have been
adding iron sulfate, which kills it, but it comes back.
I heard you say that the lime. What else could
you do ideally to prevent it in the future.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
Well, you either go either you make the soil more
asset or you make it more alkaline. So you go
one way or the other. Now, if you use lime,
for instance, on the reasonably red what not reasonably once
or twice a year, you'll probably find you get a
too alkaline for the moss to live in. I think
moss really, I think that the alkaline version used to
(15:16):
work well for me when I had troubles in meadow
Bank in England. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (15:21):
Absolutely, Okay, that's awesome, Carol, greetings to you.
Speaker 9 (15:26):
Hello. What I want to ask you, rude is I
have about a half a dozen barrels which are about
a meter.
Speaker 5 (15:35):
And a half high by meter. Wife.
Speaker 9 (15:37):
Now, I've got this brainwave for Christmas. I want to
buy some seed potatoes, so I'll have some nice potatoes
for Christmas Day. Sure now, but not only that. Then
I want to get some pumpkin seeds, oh my gosh,
and I want to put them in another barrel.
Speaker 5 (15:55):
And then here we go. I've got bocot clants areas.
Speaker 9 (15:59):
In tea, so that they all grow in barrels.
Speaker 3 (16:06):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 5 (16:08):
I don't know.
Speaker 3 (16:09):
Honestly, I'm quite sure they will grow in bells and potatoes.
I mean, Julie does that every year for a school,
you know, a little competition and things like that. Not
a problem at all. Pumpkin would be going. The other
one was what cocoa.
Speaker 6 (16:25):
Chokes? And really I'm looking.
Speaker 9 (16:29):
Do you know what a choko is?
Speaker 3 (16:30):
Do you like chokos?
Speaker 8 (16:32):
You?
Speaker 9 (16:33):
Ah, come on, choco and white saws and onions.
Speaker 3 (16:39):
I am not a joke, o fin No. Sorry is
to grow them?
Speaker 2 (16:43):
I don't know why. I don't think anyone ever ate them.
Speaker 9 (16:47):
They're also going the solf. No, priestly, I'm thinking of
the barrel filling it. What's some grass clippings and everything,
and then just putting a bag of soil on top
of that? What is your bear? Would you sell that
with soil the bells?
Speaker 3 (17:02):
You would put organic organ a good if you like?
Do you call that mix on it? Garden mix on it?
Speaker 7 (17:09):
You know?
Speaker 3 (17:10):
But you have to remember it has to have some
general soil as well. So what I call is is
real soil rather than organic material. They need to be
mixed up in that barrel. Does that make sense?
Speaker 9 (17:23):
You didn't know that? But what do you think of
the idea of at the bottom putting some stuff that
will like lawn clippings and everything.
Speaker 3 (17:31):
No, no, no, I wouldn't put no bug it the
long clippings. No way. Make sure that you hang on
and also think about that your barrel at the bottom
needs to have holes to get rid of water. When
it rains too much, you know what I mean? Yeah, no, no,
you don't need long clipping. No, and they smell and
they be oh no yuck.
Speaker 8 (17:53):
No.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
One more thing. How many potatoes would you put in
that barrel?
Speaker 3 (18:00):
One or two or maybe three depends on the diameter
of that barrel. But a meter white, well you can
have four. Then each corner, in every corner of your
round barrel, you can put one in each corner.
Speaker 9 (18:15):
I know that.
Speaker 2 (18:17):
Thank you so much, lovely to talk to you.
Speaker 6 (18:20):
Love it Carol.
Speaker 3 (18:23):
Oh yeah, I know, I know. That was great.
Speaker 8 (18:26):
That was great.
Speaker 2 (18:28):
Thank you always a pleasure. Yeah, let's sit next week
and hey, when's that movie? Is this week?
Speaker 3 (18:33):
Movie thirty first of what is it July?
Speaker 7 (18:37):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (18:37):
Okay, so people get busy. Put on the diary now
and it'll be raising for.
Speaker 3 (18:42):
W w f EX World Wildlife Fund, Worldlife Fun for Later,
whatever it's called. Something like that.
Speaker 2 (18:48):
Have a great day, Send me a photo chainsaw and
I'll flick you on a mile mile beauty. Hey will
soon see he has got the roughest, oldest chainsaw, cantankerous,
old beast that it is, but hey still works. BRIDI folks,
sounds like me. Contankerous, old but still working right. I'll
be back again mix Monday. Have a great week. Take
care for.
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