July 26, 2025 • 24 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for 27h July 2025, Ruud explains what type of manure to use on native trees, how to cope with tree debris in your garden, and what to do about struggling Camellias.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident build Up podcast with Peter
Wolfcamp from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
A day, Rude Climb passed a very good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Good morning, Peter. Great. I had a similar sort of
discussion with some friends of mine on the Taupo who've
got a Grade eight house, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And they were Grade eight.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Eight eight, not nine or ten, but eight.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Home star racer homes.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yes, you got that, that's all. And they get their
heat from eight because they were living in the right
spot in Tapa and they're getting this lovely heat hot
water from way down about fifty meters way down, and
that basically makes ohl house. Oh god, what a lucky bugget.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That is awesome. I've got a text here. I know
we're not talking building with you, but someone sticks through. Yeah,
but we're not going to live forever, you know, so
we're talking about building better homes. And I guess that's
that's such a obviously short sighted view, and it probably
influences how people think about the environment as well. Look,
it's you know, it's okay. Now, I don't really care
(02:30):
what happens to the next lot, so let's not worry
about getting rid of pests or planting natives, or reducing
our impact on the environment. What a blood horrible way
of thinking about.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It all works together, I know that. And that's the
way we build as well, you know. I mean I
live in a shit yelled house, but it's wonderful, so
I do as good a guard as I can get.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You know, what is it with the ties? At the
moment they are chattering away and chattering away and the
range of sort of the vocabulary is quite extensive, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It is unbelievable what they can do with their vocal gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It's crazy fabulous working outside this week and they're obviously
in the trees around me and the neighbors, and it's
it's just this constant chatter at the moment. It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
They're marking their territory, right, that's number one, and that's
that's Actually it's not just the two weeks. The song
thrushes have been singing for a couple of weeks, right,
and they start literally mid winter doing that, and it's
it's and they gorgeous sound. Actually I know it from
from from Europe very well, of course, from the Netherlands,
(03:40):
but here it's the same species beautiful. So that's a
good one. But there's something else that I thought was
quite early, and that was with the same people that
are just described from Tupa. We were actually looking for
some places to it and they're looking for a house
somewhere around here anyway, whatever they're going to build something
that was held the question. But above us when we
(04:01):
were on the board hills, there were four Harrys screaming
at each other and dive bombing at each other. Now
that is early for harry is to become if you're
like really, if you're like looking after their territory and
having chats. God, and it was high up it's beautiful. Now,
(04:22):
this is a good time. It's a good time at
the moment to listen to these things because they're working
at it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And I have to say it's it's been like an
absolute delight. Like I've spent pretty much the whole week
outside working and it's just been this constant sort of
chatter and conversation in the background that I've I don't
understand it, but that sounds like they're having a good time.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
They do, and they're telling everybody this is my spot.
Bugger off. So with the Edmond Belbert is right. It
grabs sugar water. Yes, oh just gorgeous. Oh it's fantastic,
it is. It's great.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Right, let's get amongst it. If you'd like to talk
to give us a call. Oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number to call. Hello, June I,
I've just got.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
A query that to tree. I hit on the based
garden boxes around Eagy of the Tias and met wide
and Meta high with the totally trees plander than them.
They've been for about four years and off and on
our put manuals and things. They have grasses grown between.
But I want to give them a new and they're
looking a bit I suppose sleepy now. But also because
I've been in there four years. Is it something I
(05:26):
can give them to give an extra boost? Should it
be a liquid fertilizer or a green fertilizer? And being
a New Zealand nat of them, but we've just putt
just innothing on them.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, no, it's not well, you can do anything if
you like. But to be quite honest, if you're talking
about so where are you uning in New Zealand in Auckland?
In Auckland, Okay? So every now and then you get
these dry spells. Right, And I'm not saying right now
because we all have quite a bit of rain. But
the point is that you have to think about for
(05:56):
the future. From now on, actually from maybe three weeks
from now on, I would start giving those native trees
some seafood soup, which is a liquid fertilizer from wet
and forget and if you mix that so it seafood soup.
You buy it and you can put it at the
end of a hose in it will mix itself and
you can spray everything you like with it. But I
(06:19):
think what I tend to do is I actually take
the liquid seafood soup out a little bit and put
that in a watering can and for the rest I
fill it with water. So I mix it so that
it looks like a weak tea, not black, not brown,
not you know, really dense, a weak tea. And what
(06:40):
you're doing is you're watering the plants, so it goes
down into the soil to exactly where the root nodules are.
But it also at the same time provides NP and
K in the right way for our native trees like teetoki.
Does that make sense is what I mean.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I'm hoping there about nearly suppose not quite too neat
as high. I'm hoping they have to replant them. I
just hope I can keep them ertilized and just in
those you know outdoor garden area, is it possible to
keep them more? In time? I will have to get
rid of them.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
No, you could, No, not necessarily, because you can actually
if you have got for instance, of pruna or a
second is you can actually well, there you go, it's
your tree. You can actually trim it to the way
you like it. You can make it as small and
as narrow and as high as you like. So I
wouldn't be too worried about that. And Titokey will work
(07:36):
that nicely, no problem at all. But in order to
get nice green leaves, I would get some of that
seafood soup.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
And how do you think I should do that?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
What?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Every six weeks? If a couple of months?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Ah, yes, every couple of months. Whenever you think about it,
Oh yes, another one every couple of months when, for instance,
you've gone through a dry spell as well, after a
dry spell or enduring a dry spell, you think other
plant really needs a bit of water, chuck a little
bit of the seafood soup with it, and you do
do things at the same time.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Okay, that would be lovely. Okay, and welcome.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Buliverary, take care and Diane, good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Now I have questions. We have a lot of aaron
lilies on our farm and we would like to know
what to spy them with. And also we have a
black taro and our and our waterway and we would
like to know how to spy that with.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
There's one thing you can use both on that I
know of. Well, actually, anything that is a weed. I've
actually rediscovered hitman, to be quite honest, and if I
smack hitmen on any weed, basically you'll find that it
dies within actually it goes black within a day, no
(08:52):
problem at all, probably in summertime even within three four hours.
So that's number one. But that you need to really
repeat that quite a bit of time, quite a few
times in order to actually kill the underground system as well.
If you want to do if you want to do
something like your your arum lilies and so on and
(09:12):
so forth. What I think is one of the best.
It's it's it might be a bit expensive, but it's
bloody god, and it will do a great job on
these sort of things. And it's called scrub cutter. One
word scrub cutter, okay. Is it like an that yeah,
or even stronger. It's made from it's made it's made
(09:34):
with a material called triclopeer triclo peer. It's it's strange
spelling tri i c l o p y r okay.
And what you do need with aaron lilies is because
you know how those leaves are quite water repellent. You
know what I mean with that? Yes, So you want
a sticker with that triclopeer, a penetrant something like that
(09:59):
pulse and that holds the triclopeer onto the actual leaf
surface and that will do a brilliant job.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Great, thank you, that's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Go well, success with that, and you can start doing
it from right from now. That's the nice thing.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Lovely, thank you, great, take care and Josie, good morning.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Yeah. Hi there, I've got a large khkatia with a
group of claviers round the bottom, and they just full
of debris from the kakatier. If I cut the clivia's
right down, how long would they take to come back?
To get all the debris out. They're just chock a fall.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I don't know if that's a great idea to get
the clavier's really pruned. Roughly. Have you tried a hose
to get it out of the clivier?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Oh no, because they're probably about ten meters wide.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Hell's bells and when you go in and it's just.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
It's probably about couple of high trailer debris in there.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah, over the years, because we've been here in about.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Do you think it actually does damage to the to the.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Still flails like anything, But I just sort of wonder
whether it's good for them.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I don't think it should be that much of a problem,
to be quite honest, because in nature, those things will
get that anyway because they are built that they catch
that debris a that the leaves and things like that,
and I think that in itself will be decaying with
all sorts of little insects that go in there, and
(11:45):
that will actually make a natural fertilizer that will with
every rain be splashed around the root zone of the clivier. Okay,
so first of all, I would take a little bit
of your concern away. Don't worry too much because they
can do that, and they quite often are under shade
of other trees, so they will all get that stuff
(12:07):
in there nooks and crannies. Yeah. Yeah. Otherwise, if you
don't like it, I would say, smeck some water in
it and blow it out, you know what I mean.
If you don't like to look, Yeah, that wouldn't work.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
It's just too much of it.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Just too much of it, okay, yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Yeah? And also, can you tell me is there anything
to deter blackbirds?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
The two blackbirds? I should head you or hand you
over to my wife Julie. She is the biggest hater
of blackbirds. Josie. I hear this every day, especially when
I'm bending birds. It said, did you bend a blackbird?
(12:50):
In other words? Yes, there's a bit of science here, yeah, literally,
the actually what can I do? What do you do
with blackbird? There is a material that I got quite
a long time ag I've forgotten what it's called. You
spray that onto the meulch near the edges, and that
actually kind of marries the mulch together in large quantities
(13:14):
so that they can't take it out with their feet,
you know what I mean. They can't move it. It
sticks to the ground and I've forgotten what it's called.
I'm sorry some years ago.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Okay, great, thanks a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Rock and back take care all of this right, We
need to take a short break. We'll be back in
just a moment, U.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Suss h.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
And here in new skill be coming up eleven minutes
away from nine o'clock. Maygee, good morning, Good.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Morning, rune camellias. I have camellias in the garden and
they're doing fine. But I have to and plots and
they have gone yellow. What can I give them?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Well, if you if you get a yellowing of the
of the leaves, there is usually a fertilizer system or
uh you know, a fertilizer deficiency that doesn't work very
well for the plant. What are you fertilize it with?
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Now?
Speaker 8 (17:15):
They they affid once that I give to camellias and
as alius on it.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
But this is in a pot, right, yes? And is
it in the pot outside or inside outside?
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Outside?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Okay? In this in this case, I wouldn't go for
too much asset at all. Leave that where it is.
And I just mentioned before with somebody's seafood soup that
isn't and wet forget product that is if you make
that is a really if you like a low number,
(17:51):
a low if you're like number of week, yes, yeah,
week exactly, a really really weak tea type. Look, you'll
find that what you're doing there is you're giving it
a fertilizer. You're watering it at the same time when
it needs it, and you have the right NPK and
you really don't need to go over the top with
(18:11):
the fertilizer being too What is it called. It's called
sea food soup, seafood soup.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Seafood soup. It's not like seaweed.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
No seafood soup.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
Seafood soup. So that's good for acids that need acid.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yes, it's well, it's actually a neutral thing, but that's
not that important at this stage. If it's starting to yellow,
I think you need a bit of nitrogen in there,
and then nitrogen put together with the potash and the
and the and the phosphate will do just right in
small quantities. There you go.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
I can't give it its some salts, can I.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
No, I do that, do anything else, but not it.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
No, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Thank you very much for your call, Maggie.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You have a great day.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Hello, Doug, yay, Hello.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
Stuff, Hello, yeah, go on, yes, good morning after last week,
just a very quick one. When I was a kid
down in South Canterbury, we have no neighbor around the road,
old Charlie Gould, and he'd put a tin bucket under
on a hook underneath the outside light, with about fifty
miles of diesel in it, catch grown and moss, and
(19:29):
he would nearly fill that bucket and a knight.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yes I can. I've seen that happen too, Yeah, go on, yeah.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
And you'd say to me, there's another paddock of saved boy.
But I'm just saying there's an organic way. And then
for burning, when he was burning, you know, fireward scrap,
wouldn't that he just used the diesel moth mixture. Yes,
so just just and he's thought. It's always really amused me.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
So I'll let you go.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I love it. That's very good, good story, Thank you
so much. It's so old New Zealand. I love it.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Hanging a flammable liquid near and ignition sources tremendously great idea.
But this is so easy that I love that absolutely. Hey,
look it might be my poor grasp of the English language.
But I mentioned the website. It's super home dot code Ianz.
(20:26):
People have been all over the place, including one person
that's about home h I m e. So just super
home dot code that's super homes. Hey, Peter, talk to
us about potatoes.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Yeah, Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble in the
last month, month and a half with agrias spuds. Actually
is there an organization well, like you've got plumbing and
electrical Is there's something wrong with the seed potatoes, with
what they're producing with the spud, would you know or not?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Not that?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Not that I know, because I do not grow spuds,
to be quite honest. The only time we.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Grow spuds, well i'm talking about I'm talking the commercial growers.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
No, I have no idea. You know what I find
sometimes with Agria sometimes you are buying in quotation marks
and it's not Agria at all, and that literally rips
my night, you know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (21:23):
So, yeah, like I'm buying them from supermarkets or the
local outfit which are most of them. Like the bags
are marked, but I believe they aren't. Actually, I have.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Exactly the same feeling you and I know exactly what you.
I know exactly what you mean, and I think that
it's not a fair way to get rid of something
that looks like agria. But it's quite different, and you
do it when you want to make real good fish
and chips, you'll know that it's not an agria.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Yeah, because because the ones out now aren't as yellow
as what they used to be, no.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Lighter, much lighter in color. You can pick them out and.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Plan and plush your playing a premium, like if it's
the moonlight, you buy the moonlight. But if it's an
area you want an.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Exactly because that's exactly because I think my cooking expert
expertise is not great, but I don't. I do know
how to make great aggrea dishes. And oh boy do
I get grumpy if I get the wrong one here?
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, can't help you on that one.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
You take care and very quickly. Sally.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Hello, Sally, Yes are you awake?
Speaker 8 (22:47):
I put the phone down for a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah, I noticed on I want to know if I
can use.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Worm we to feed my water lily plant.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
What is worm weed?
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Worm weed?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
And oh when we oh got it? Sorry I misunderstood you.
Yes you can? Why not that is that is a
form of fertilizer you can use, of course you can.
It's the same with the mixture that comes out of
compost hips. You know, the liquid absolutely yes, Oh you
go for it into the pond, you know, well, not
(23:27):
too much. You don't have to drown everything in the pond.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
I haven't got a back at full.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
You have to make fine adjustments.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
You can do it.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You'd enjoy a bit of check mansion, wouldn't you.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
He passed away this week as well.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yes, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Hey, let's do it again next Sunday, Peter.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I'll be with you mate, all the way, and you
know that.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Take care.
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
A day, Rude Climb passed a very good morning, sir.
Speaker 3 (01:34):
Good morning, Peter. Great. I had a similar sort of
discussion with some friends of mine on the Taupo who've
got a Grade eight house, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2 (01:42):
And they were Grade eight.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Eight eight, not nine or ten, but eight.
Speaker 2 (01:47):
Home star racer homes.
Speaker 3 (01:49):
Yes, you got that, that's all. And they get their
heat from eight because they were living in the right
spot in Tapa and they're getting this lovely heat hot
water from way down about fifty meters way down, and
that basically makes ohl house. Oh god, what a lucky bugget.
Speaker 2 (02:08):
That is awesome. I've got a text here. I know
we're not talking building with you, but someone sticks through. Yeah,
but we're not going to live forever, you know, so
we're talking about building better homes. And I guess that's
that's such a obviously short sighted view, and it probably
influences how people think about the environment as well. Look,
it's you know, it's okay. Now, I don't really care
(02:30):
what happens to the next lot, so let's not worry
about getting rid of pests or planting natives, or reducing
our impact on the environment. What a blood horrible way
of thinking about.
Speaker 3 (02:41):
It all works together, I know that. And that's the
way we build as well, you know. I mean I
live in a shit yelled house, but it's wonderful, so
I do as good a guard as I can get.
Speaker 2 (02:54):
You know, what is it with the ties? At the
moment they are chattering away and chattering away and the
range of sort of the vocabulary is quite extensive, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
It is unbelievable what they can do with their vocal gorgeous.
Speaker 2 (03:07):
It's crazy fabulous working outside this week and they're obviously
in the trees around me and the neighbors, and it's
it's just this constant chatter at the moment. It's fantastic.
Speaker 3 (03:19):
They're marking their territory, right, that's number one, and that's
that's Actually it's not just the two weeks. The song
thrushes have been singing for a couple of weeks, right,
and they start literally mid winter doing that, and it's
it's and they gorgeous sound. Actually I know it from
from from Europe very well, of course, from the Netherlands,
(03:40):
but here it's the same species beautiful. So that's a
good one. But there's something else that I thought was
quite early, and that was with the same people that
are just described from Tupa. We were actually looking for
some places to it and they're looking for a house
somewhere around here anyway, whatever they're going to build something
that was held the question. But above us when we
(04:01):
were on the board hills, there were four Harrys screaming
at each other and dive bombing at each other. Now
that is early for harry is to become if you're
like really, if you're like looking after their territory and
having chats. God, and it was high up it's beautiful. Now,
(04:22):
this is a good time. It's a good time at
the moment to listen to these things because they're working
at it.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
And I have to say it's it's been like an
absolute delight. Like I've spent pretty much the whole week
outside working and it's just been this constant sort of
chatter and conversation in the background that I've I don't
understand it, but that sounds like they're having a good time.
Speaker 3 (04:42):
They do, and they're telling everybody this is my spot.
Bugger off. So with the Edmond Belbert is right. It
grabs sugar water. Yes, oh just gorgeous. Oh it's fantastic,
it is. It's great.
Speaker 2 (04:55):
Right, let's get amongst it. If you'd like to talk
to give us a call. Oh eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number to call. Hello, June I,
I've just got.
Speaker 4 (05:04):
A query that to tree. I hit on the based
garden boxes around Eagy of the Tias and met wide
and Meta high with the totally trees plander than them.
They've been for about four years and off and on
our put manuals and things. They have grasses grown between.
But I want to give them a new and they're
looking a bit I suppose sleepy now. But also because
I've been in there four years. Is it something I
(05:26):
can give them to give an extra boost? Should it
be a liquid fertilizer or a green fertilizer? And being
a New Zealand nat of them, but we've just putt
just innothing on them.
Speaker 3 (05:36):
Yeah, no, it's not well, you can do anything if
you like. But to be quite honest, if you're talking
about so where are you uning in New Zealand in Auckland?
In Auckland, Okay? So every now and then you get
these dry spells. Right, And I'm not saying right now
because we all have quite a bit of rain. But
the point is that you have to think about for
(05:56):
the future. From now on, actually from maybe three weeks
from now on, I would start giving those native trees
some seafood soup, which is a liquid fertilizer from wet
and forget and if you mix that so it seafood soup.
You buy it and you can put it at the
end of a hose in it will mix itself and
you can spray everything you like with it. But I
(06:19):
think what I tend to do is I actually take
the liquid seafood soup out a little bit and put
that in a watering can and for the rest I
fill it with water. So I mix it so that
it looks like a weak tea, not black, not brown,
not you know, really dense, a weak tea. And what
(06:40):
you're doing is you're watering the plants, so it goes
down into the soil to exactly where the root nodules are.
But it also at the same time provides NP and
K in the right way for our native trees like teetoki.
Does that make sense is what I mean.
Speaker 4 (07:02):
I'm hoping there about nearly suppose not quite too neat
as high. I'm hoping they have to replant them. I
just hope I can keep them ertilized and just in
those you know outdoor garden area, is it possible to
keep them more? In time? I will have to get
rid of them.
Speaker 3 (07:16):
No, you could, No, not necessarily, because you can actually
if you have got for instance, of pruna or a
second is you can actually well, there you go, it's
your tree. You can actually trim it to the way
you like it. You can make it as small and
as narrow and as high as you like. So I
wouldn't be too worried about that. And Titokey will work
(07:36):
that nicely, no problem at all. But in order to
get nice green leaves, I would get some of that
seafood soup.
Speaker 4 (07:43):
And how do you think I should do that?
Speaker 1 (07:45):
What?
Speaker 4 (07:45):
Every six weeks? If a couple of months?
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Ah, yes, every couple of months. Whenever you think about it,
Oh yes, another one every couple of months when, for instance,
you've gone through a dry spell as well, after a
dry spell or enduring a dry spell, you think other
plant really needs a bit of water, chuck a little
bit of the seafood soup with it, and you do
do things at the same time.
Speaker 4 (08:07):
Okay, that would be lovely. Okay, and welcome.
Speaker 2 (08:12):
Buliverary, take care and Diane, good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (08:17):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (08:18):
Now I have questions. We have a lot of aaron
lilies on our farm and we would like to know
what to spy them with. And also we have a
black taro and our and our waterway and we would
like to know how to spy that with.
Speaker 3 (08:32):
There's one thing you can use both on that I
know of. Well, actually, anything that is a weed. I've
actually rediscovered hitman, to be quite honest, and if I
smack hitmen on any weed, basically you'll find that it
dies within actually it goes black within a day, no
(08:52):
problem at all, probably in summertime even within three four hours.
So that's number one. But that you need to really
repeat that quite a bit of time, quite a few
times in order to actually kill the underground system as well.
If you want to do if you want to do
something like your your arum lilies and so on and
(09:12):
so forth. What I think is one of the best.
It's it's it might be a bit expensive, but it's
bloody god, and it will do a great job on
these sort of things. And it's called scrub cutter. One
word scrub cutter, okay. Is it like an that yeah,
or even stronger. It's made from it's made it's made
(09:34):
with a material called triclopeer triclo peer. It's it's strange
spelling tri i c l o p y r okay.
And what you do need with aaron lilies is because
you know how those leaves are quite water repellent. You
know what I mean with that? Yes, So you want
a sticker with that triclopeer, a penetrant something like that
(09:59):
pulse and that holds the triclopeer onto the actual leaf
surface and that will do a brilliant job.
Speaker 6 (10:07):
Great, thank you, that's wonderful.
Speaker 3 (10:10):
Go well, success with that, and you can start doing
it from right from now. That's the nice thing.
Speaker 2 (10:15):
Lovely, thank you, great, take care and Josie, good morning.
Speaker 5 (10:21):
Yeah. Hi there, I've got a large khkatia with a
group of claviers round the bottom, and they just full
of debris from the kakatier. If I cut the clivia's
right down, how long would they take to come back?
To get all the debris out. They're just chock a fall.
Speaker 3 (10:40):
I don't know if that's a great idea to get
the clavier's really pruned. Roughly. Have you tried a hose
to get it out of the clivier?
Speaker 5 (10:54):
Oh no, because they're probably about ten meters wide.
Speaker 3 (10:58):
Hell's bells and when you go in and it's just.
Speaker 5 (11:03):
It's probably about couple of high trailer debris in there.
Speaker 7 (11:08):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (11:08):
Yeah, over the years, because we've been here in about.
Speaker 3 (11:12):
Do you think it actually does damage to the to the.
Speaker 5 (11:18):
Still flails like anything, But I just sort of wonder
whether it's good for them.
Speaker 3 (11:24):
I don't think it should be that much of a problem,
to be quite honest, because in nature, those things will
get that anyway because they are built that they catch
that debris a that the leaves and things like that,
and I think that in itself will be decaying with
all sorts of little insects that go in there, and
(11:45):
that will actually make a natural fertilizer that will with
every rain be splashed around the root zone of the clivier. Okay,
so first of all, I would take a little bit
of your concern away. Don't worry too much because they
can do that, and they quite often are under shade
of other trees, so they will all get that stuff
(12:07):
in there nooks and crannies. Yeah. Yeah. Otherwise, if you
don't like it, I would say, smeck some water in
it and blow it out, you know what I mean.
If you don't like to look, Yeah, that wouldn't work.
Speaker 5 (12:20):
It's just too much of it.
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Just too much of it, okay, yeah?
Speaker 5 (12:24):
Yeah? And also, can you tell me is there anything
to deter blackbirds?
Speaker 3 (12:30):
The two blackbirds? I should head you or hand you
over to my wife Julie. She is the biggest hater
of blackbirds. Josie. I hear this every day, especially when
I'm bending birds. It said, did you bend a blackbird?
(12:50):
In other words? Yes, there's a bit of science here, yeah, literally,
the actually what can I do? What do you do
with blackbird? There is a material that I got quite
a long time ag I've forgotten what it's called. You
spray that onto the meulch near the edges, and that
actually kind of marries the mulch together in large quantities
(13:14):
so that they can't take it out with their feet,
you know what I mean. They can't move it. It
sticks to the ground and I've forgotten what it's called.
I'm sorry some years ago.
Speaker 5 (13:25):
Okay, great, thanks a lot.
Speaker 2 (13:28):
Rock and back take care all of this right, We
need to take a short break. We'll be back in
just a moment, U.
Speaker 7 (15:07):
Suss h.
Speaker 2 (16:43):
And here in new skill be coming up eleven minutes
away from nine o'clock. Maygee, good morning, Good.
Speaker 8 (16:48):
Morning, rune camellias. I have camellias in the garden and
they're doing fine. But I have to and plots and
they have gone yellow. What can I give them?
Speaker 3 (16:59):
Well, if you if you get a yellowing of the
of the leaves, there is usually a fertilizer system or
uh you know, a fertilizer deficiency that doesn't work very
well for the plant. What are you fertilize it with?
Speaker 7 (17:13):
Now?
Speaker 8 (17:15):
They they affid once that I give to camellias and
as alius on it.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
But this is in a pot, right, yes? And is
it in the pot outside or inside outside?
Speaker 8 (17:29):
Outside?
Speaker 3 (17:30):
Okay? In this in this case, I wouldn't go for
too much asset at all. Leave that where it is.
And I just mentioned before with somebody's seafood soup that
isn't and wet forget product that is if you make
that is a really if you like a low number,
(17:51):
a low if you're like number of week, yes, yeah,
week exactly, a really really weak tea type. Look, you'll
find that what you're doing there is you're giving it
a fertilizer. You're watering it at the same time when
it needs it, and you have the right NPK and
you really don't need to go over the top with
(18:11):
the fertilizer being too What is it called. It's called
sea food soup, seafood soup.
Speaker 8 (18:21):
Seafood soup. It's not like seaweed.
Speaker 3 (18:24):
No seafood soup.
Speaker 8 (18:27):
Seafood soup. So that's good for acids that need acid.
Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yes, it's well, it's actually a neutral thing, but that's
not that important at this stage. If it's starting to yellow,
I think you need a bit of nitrogen in there,
and then nitrogen put together with the potash and the
and the and the phosphate will do just right in
small quantities. There you go.
Speaker 8 (18:50):
I can't give it its some salts, can I.
Speaker 3 (18:53):
I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 8 (18:54):
No, I do that, do anything else, but not it.
Speaker 3 (18:57):
No, I wouldn't do that.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
Thank you very much for your call, Maggie.
Speaker 3 (19:00):
You have a great day.
Speaker 2 (19:01):
Hello, Doug, yay, Hello.
Speaker 9 (19:06):
Stuff, Hello, yeah, go on, yes, good morning after last week,
just a very quick one. When I was a kid
down in South Canterbury, we have no neighbor around the road,
old Charlie Gould, and he'd put a tin bucket under
on a hook underneath the outside light, with about fifty
miles of diesel in it, catch grown and moss, and
(19:29):
he would nearly fill that bucket and a knight.
Speaker 3 (19:32):
Yes I can. I've seen that happen too, Yeah, go on, yeah.
Speaker 9 (19:37):
And you'd say to me, there's another paddock of saved boy.
But I'm just saying there's an organic way. And then
for burning, when he was burning, you know, fireward scrap,
wouldn't that he just used the diesel moth mixture. Yes,
so just just and he's thought. It's always really amused me.
Speaker 10 (19:57):
So I'll let you go.
Speaker 3 (19:58):
I love it. That's very good, good story, Thank you
so much. It's so old New Zealand. I love it.
Speaker 2 (20:05):
Hanging a flammable liquid near and ignition sources tremendously great idea.
But this is so easy that I love that absolutely. Hey,
look it might be my poor grasp of the English language.
But I mentioned the website. It's super home dot code Ianz.
(20:26):
People have been all over the place, including one person
that's about home h I m e. So just super
home dot code that's super homes. Hey, Peter, talk to
us about potatoes.
Speaker 10 (20:38):
Yeah, Hi, I'm having a bit of trouble in the
last month, month and a half with agrias spuds. Actually
is there an organization well, like you've got plumbing and
electrical Is there's something wrong with the seed potatoes, with
what they're producing with the spud, would you know or not?
Speaker 4 (20:58):
Not that?
Speaker 3 (20:59):
Not that I know, because I do not grow spuds,
to be quite honest. The only time we.
Speaker 10 (21:04):
Grow spuds, well i'm talking about I'm talking the commercial growers.
Speaker 3 (21:08):
No, I have no idea. You know what I find
sometimes with Agria sometimes you are buying in quotation marks
and it's not Agria at all, and that literally rips
my night, you know what I mean?
Speaker 10 (21:23):
So, yeah, like I'm buying them from supermarkets or the
local outfit which are most of them. Like the bags
are marked, but I believe they aren't. Actually, I have.
Speaker 3 (21:37):
Exactly the same feeling you and I know exactly what you.
I know exactly what you mean, and I think that
it's not a fair way to get rid of something
that looks like agria. But it's quite different, and you
do it when you want to make real good fish
and chips, you'll know that it's not an agria.
Speaker 10 (21:53):
Yeah, because because the ones out now aren't as yellow
as what they used to be, no.
Speaker 3 (22:01):
Lighter, much lighter in color. You can pick them out and.
Speaker 10 (22:07):
Plan and plush your playing a premium, like if it's
the moonlight, you buy the moonlight. But if it's an
area you want an.
Speaker 3 (22:15):
Exactly because that's exactly because I think my cooking expert
expertise is not great, but I don't. I do know
how to make great aggrea dishes. And oh boy do
I get grumpy if I get the wrong one here?
Speaker 7 (22:30):
Yeah?
Speaker 3 (22:30):
Yeah, yeah, sorry, can't help you on that one.
Speaker 2 (22:35):
You take care and very quickly. Sally.
Speaker 3 (22:39):
Hello, Sally, Yes are you awake?
Speaker 8 (22:47):
I put the phone down for a minute.
Speaker 3 (22:49):
Yeah, I noticed on I want to know if I
can use.
Speaker 6 (22:57):
Worm we to feed my water lily plant.
Speaker 3 (23:01):
What is worm weed?
Speaker 6 (23:04):
Worm weed?
Speaker 3 (23:05):
And oh when we oh got it? Sorry I misunderstood you.
Yes you can? Why not that is that is a
form of fertilizer you can use, of course you can.
It's the same with the mixture that comes out of
compost hips. You know, the liquid absolutely yes, Oh you
go for it into the pond, you know, well, not
(23:27):
too much. You don't have to drown everything in the pond.
Speaker 4 (23:31):
I'm not going to do it.
Speaker 10 (23:33):
I haven't got a back at full.
Speaker 2 (23:37):
You have to make fine adjustments.
Speaker 3 (23:41):
You can do it.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
You'd enjoy a bit of check mansion, wouldn't you.
Speaker 3 (23:45):
Yeah, why not?
Speaker 2 (23:47):
He passed away this week as well.
Speaker 3 (23:49):
Yes, beautiful.
Speaker 2 (23:51):
Hey, let's do it again next Sunday, Peter.
Speaker 3 (23:53):
I'll be with you mate, all the way, and you
know that.
Speaker 2 (23:55):
Take care.
Speaker 1 (24:22):
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