September 6, 2025 • 22 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for day month 2025, Ruud discusses what to look for when buying an avocado tree, how to look after your tamarillos , and why ants have started infesting people's houses.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Said, you're awfully dressed up, and I said, well, actually,
I've got a speaking engagement. I've got to talk at
a Father's Day breakfast after this. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
God, really I do. That's nice.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
That's nice, It'll be awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'll be going to the solf it's just for Father's
Day at the at the end of this month, on
the twenty eighth, I might be in the studio with you.
How's that? Oh fantasticas if everything is going well. It's
their Peter Blake Trust for two weeks usually in.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Auckland and this is school whole days, isn't it? This
literacy and so on?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, that's that's Actually I'm looking forward to that this
year because it's we're totally booked out for quite a
long time now. It's good. So we're taking thirty teachers
for a week into a really nice hotel and and
then take them to all sorts of wonderful places like
Stardom but also outside Nui and things like that. Beautiful
(01:08):
and and boy, the stuff we see this stuff, it's
lovely to see eyes go open. Last time we found
a sleeping kiwi and that was that was for me,
that was brilliant. It was one of those days when
everything rained and it was awful and things like that,
and and and I thought, oh gosh, it's going to
(01:29):
be a disaster. And in the end we found this
kiwi and nobody talked about the rain anymore. That was it.
That was such a good point.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And so I see the other day, I think they've
reintroduced to Atara Torri Martgui.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Tardy has had to for a long time, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's that's fantastic. Yeah yeah. And and kiwi as well,
a little spote and things that I remember. I remember going.
I remember flying in a chopper with those with those
kiwi when I came off the radio because there was
no time for me to drive there, so they just
picked me up.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
How brilliant, brilliant. And you know, because sometimes I think
when we look at nature and the environment, it's easy
to get a bit downheartened. But like I saw the
other day, like the little local ecological restoration group that
I've had some association with, they're doing like an open
day at the nursery, giving away seedlings. And I've noticed
(02:25):
this across the country and councils are supporting this as well,
that as these groups grow and their capacity to produce
new seedlings, new native plants, they're also being really generous,
just going, hey, folks, if you need them, come and
get them. You know, we're open today, Come and grab them,
and then take those and go and plant them and
restore your own native habitat. So there's some really exciting
things happening.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Absolutely, and that's the one, isn't it. That's exactly what
you should be doing.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Anyway, say something quite.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Different and it's a bit more towards your thing. I've
been We've put a new garage in at home and
took a long time and all this sort of stuff.
But around there we put, you know, we put if
you like, regret and the stone around there for their
entrance off the garage. I came across this little company
in christ which is called Gracetone Screening and crushing. What
(03:13):
do you normally pay for a cubic meter of let's say,
you know, fourteen mil stuff that you can use on
your It's unbelievable. There were so cheap these people. There
was just unbelievable. I couldn't believe you could get a
ton of that stuff for thirty thirty five bucks.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
That's actually pretty sharp price. Look, a lot of it
depends on things like how far they have to travel
from the quarry, and that's an issue for Auckland. For example,
when I first started building, right, the first house we
did was in Saint John's and when we needed some scoria,
you hocked the trailer on. You drove down Lane AV
into the quarry at Mount Wellington and they loaded up
(03:53):
the trailer and you drove out. Right Now that quarry's gone,
that's housing three queens has gone. Now, if you're looking
at quarried material, talking about Drury or Rama, rama, no,
because there's no quarries in Auckland. People don't like quarries
next to their backfits, no, I can imagine. So hence
the cost goes up.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But yeah, that'll that'll be a large part. The other
really cool thing is that obviously we're now reasonably engaged
with being able to recycle concrete waste, so you know,
rather than that going into hard pill, it'll go get
crushed and recycled as phil.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, that makes total sense. Yeah, yeah, the guy, the
guy of Graystowe. He told me also about something that
he was looking at in the Rakaia River and things
like that, and mucking around there with literally creating new
habitats at the same time. So it's it's almost like
a quarry of a river, if you like, made it
made back into a wonderful place for creatures to live
(04:52):
and birds to live and plants to live. And I
love that when I see this. By the way, did you,
by the way, did you see this this week's dock advertisements?
You know, it's the conservation week if you like. Right,
So the idea was that we are not just with
(05:15):
what do you call it, five point three million New zealanders,
We are basically with something like six hundred and ninety
five billion residents in New Zealand, right, and twenty eight
thousand species of those are endemic and only live in using.
I love stuff like that. Do the maths and talk
(05:37):
to the kids and the teachers at schools and talk
about these sort of things. Well done, Doc, I think
that was a great week we just had. I just
thought i'd, you know, make that point.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And you know, the numbers are great, and the numbers
make you feel proud. Wow, Yes, that's kind of how
I see it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, so we're looking after a lot of different creatures.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, we've talked to a few people like Helen. Good
morning to you.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yes, good morning Helen, from my very point happy father
stage in to thank you. I just wanted to know
when is the correct time in Auckland to prune tamarillo trees.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I think that should have happened in winter, so you
could still have a go with that, right, okay, but
make it make it reasonably quick, I.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Would say, okay, before it warms up too much.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Do you have good Do you have good fruit coming
off your tree? Is it large enough to to live properly?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
There?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Is they got beautifully here? Yes, that's all lovely virgin soil,
and all the fruit trees.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Too, well nice, that's really lovely.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So I have many varieties of the tamarillo, you know,
the golden ones and the red ones and just.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Lessa yeah, good good, Now, this is a good time.
You can still do it, but but be reasonably smart
with it, because of course this thing starts to flower
soon and you need some you need some good good
wood for that.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yep, yep, I'll do it today.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You take care it quick. Tikest as well. So do
I need to fertilize a young avocado tree?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah? I wish this person would ring up, because of
course you fertilize a young ever garda tree. You fertilize
every plant if you like that you've got in your garden.
But I was wondering if there was another story behind that.
So the answer is yes, I would, and what I
would do from now on is do a little bit
(07:51):
of general fertilizer with a little bit of sulfate of
potash to make sure that they will start to flower
as soon as they can, and that means also having
fruit going right. Yes, good time to do it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I've got to get that round my place as well.
Now someone sticks through as well. Is it normal to
be infisted by ants at this time of year in
christ Church?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Good news and bad news. Good news is yes. The
bad news is they're not native right. In other words,
what I've noticed is we are getting more and more
introduced ants in christ Church, and they have an ability
to literally keep going despite the fact that it's quite
cold in christ Church in the wintertime. They keep going
(08:36):
and they will come into your house. That's right. Yeah,
many different species now, okay, and it's really it's unbelievable
how these things travel and getting to do southern places
now with I suppose climate disruption.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah wow, okay, well right, hey, grant a very good
morning to you at.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Top of the morning, gentlemen. A cross collination of fruit trees. Yeah,
I have two feo trees. One's the small fruit bit sweet.
One's the big fruit that's sweet. And they seem to
be they seem to be happy as my free the
feature of fruit are now big and sweet. Okay. My
problem is with my lemon tree. It's doing something with
(09:19):
my mandarin tree. Because now I've got easy peel lemons.
Does that happen?
Speaker 6 (09:26):
You know?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I don't maybe, but I hadn't heard about that. Yeah.
I like that. I like the way you describe it
easy peel lemons. Are you sure?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Yesterday? As a lemon tree, as a maya lemon, and
I have an easy peel menda in the sanumi one
whatever it's called.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Ah, you got a different variety there, okay, got you?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Yeah, all right, okay, Now the problem with the lemon
is the lemons. The lemon is fruits all of the
time because I am singing you bother it twice a year,
once in the autumn and once in the spring, because
I've heard you talk about that before, so I've done
it an autumn and s yeah yeah. But the freedom
inside the lemon is like really small and appeals off
(10:14):
and sigmas. That's why I'm thinking of doing something with
the menda entry at night time.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I don't I wouldn't think that that would be the case.
But what I would do if I were you, and
that is probably a good idea, is to have a
second mayor lemon, because mayor lemon has this stability, has
ability to go on for one year and the next
year going like nap, and then the next year. Oh yeah.
So if you want constant lemons, you know what I mean,
(10:41):
I usually say, get two or three, put them together.
In fact, plant them in the same hole if you like,
because by having three different lemons, if you like lemon
trees in one hole, you treat them like one. But
their genetic one off, one off year system will change.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Yeap. When I bought the when I bought the two
such trees, I bought them at the same time I
heard you. When I bought them because you're about three
years old. Yeah'd you say? Yeah, the lemonitary they do
everything perfect, everything's perfect. The sept for the lemon, it's
the fruit inside the lemon is actually quite small. But
(11:23):
I was thinking about planting another lemon tree beside it.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah, because because when I first bought them, you go
to go no, yeah, fish for them. Okay, when I
when I first brought them, I did cut the flowers
off the first lot of flowers that I saw as
soon as the start of flowing, because I heard you
say something that they need growth in the first year
or something like that. So I just topped all the
flowers off and I did that on both of them,
(11:48):
and the second year they fruited. Like wow, look at this, you.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Know, yeah, you got it. Yeah. You got to give
them time, and you've got to give build a cut
and if you like, build a body for those things
so they can actually then have fruit later on. Yeah.
Now that's a good idea. But the ideas of having
different the same variety, like the maya in one one
finishes one year and the other one doesn't do that
(12:13):
very well, and they swap bases if you like. Yeah,
it's no. But you know, from now on, yeah, go on.
From from now on, what I would do is is
fertilized your lemon trees from now on. Absolutely have a
good go with them.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yeah, okay, Copas, thank you very much for.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Hey morning, welcome g very ground.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You have a great day. Take care of rightio. We
might take short break. We'll be back. Actually we've got
some spear lines, so if you have a question for it,
call us right now. Wait one hundred and eighty ten
eighty righty oh, now we're now, we're flat out. Let's
(12:59):
get into it. Temarillos Barbara, Hello.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Right, I'm the complete opposite of the lady that you
had on earlier. I'm in Papamoa Beach and we have
no luck with our tamarillos. We've put two in last summer,
put them tucked in nice and warm behind the starpoole
and over win truck's had frost cloth around them. We
(13:26):
trimmed them when they got to sort of that meta
meter ten height to encourage branching. But nothing's happening. And
my red tamarillo, just the whole stem has gone sort
of brownie black and looks like it's dying. And the
orange one no growth, no leaves, nothing, What are we
(13:48):
doing wrong?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Oh my god? You had them. You bought what do
you call it, tamillos that were sorry, avocado, no tammrillosalize
you for you did get some stuff that was already grafted.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
I don't know that they're from a reputable supplier.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
At the garacine. Okay, well, look, to be quite honest,
did you fertilize them. I'm sure you did, Barbara.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
We use sheep manure and chicken manure and comfrey.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
K okay, chicken manure and sheep manure. Is there anything
there to actually get them to flower because chicken menu
and cheap manure makes them give leaves?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Okay, no, well that's that's all.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
We're yours.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
But they haven't even got leaves.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Oh, cheapest creepers. I can't believe that they should be.
They should be okay where you are?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Yes? Yeah, And like we said, we bought these two
new ones and touched them behind the spark Paul thinking
nice and warm, sunny, the bullish shells. They don't get
any one.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Look I don't it's hard to see. And you say
they don't even have leaves at the moment. None.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
No, so they orange timbrilladhead one leaf over winter, which
got more miserable looking as it went and it dropped off.
So there's just nothing on this, and I maybe just
try a little bit of We did all our citrus
and fruit trees the other day with citrus and fruit fertilizers,
pot some of that on there as well.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Absolutely, absolutely, but also ask the people you bought it
from to see if they've got a really strange batch,
because I don't know what's going on with this. That
should not happen like that.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
No, awesome, thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Sorry, Barbara, I have I'm actually stunned because I thought
that they were quite easy to grow to Marilla's there
you are, boom, especially where you were.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Yes, we've got thirty five fruit trees. They's are the
only fruits that we cannot get even let alone, let
alone fruit.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Oh gosh, that's weird. Sorry, I can't help you with
that any.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
The no leaf thing is a bit of an issue.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Isn't it. Yeah, giveaway.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
The fantastic David.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Good morning, Good morning guys.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Hello David, what are you going to do with your avocados?
Speaker 7 (16:19):
We're driving to odorings right now to buy to buy
a reed and a bacon.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I see, okay, Yeah they're good.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
We're out of morac, alcohol and hastings.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
So it gets quite gets quite frosty, quite cold.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
He eats tips for planting.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yes, go to a higher elevation when the frost can
drip away down below. Believe it or not. In christ
Use where I live, my neighbor is growing fabulous avocados.
And we are one hundred and five meters above sea
level in the port Hills and it can freeze, but
not where we are. We're usually okay in terms of frost.
(17:07):
So the frost might be a bit of a trouble,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Yeah, Yeah, we've got covers on them as well.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, there you go. That's the way I would go. Yeah,
that's what I would do in the in your case,
it's interesting that so this is well known here on
the porthills that you can have these uh these plants
and doing quite well and so far south. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Now, so.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
Yeah, when planting, shall we put any fertilizer or.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Fertilizers on the absolutely from now on certainly to get
those trees going. And if you can't do them on
the north side, the north side of your section or
of your if you like garden, so that you get
a little bit of warmth, a little bit more warmth,
that's what you need.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Okay, all the best Now odorings are they only in
Chrst Church?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
No, they're not there in Hawk's Bay too. Yeah, I
know there.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I was just a little confused because I know you've
talked about going to odorings and it's yeah, it's a
neighborhood and I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Thinking family, I know quite well, Yeah they live here.
They started all.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
This awesome huge With that, I can go to the break. Right,
we're back after the break your talks, bigger climb past
with us as always on a Sunday, Elizabeth.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Good morning, Oh, good morning. I have got two passion
fruit trees find whatever you call them, because they're climbing
up a brick fence. They've just gone crazy. The branches
just went around the corner and it's now the right
time to cut them back. And how far do I
cut them?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
One third?
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Only a third? Yeah, it's gonna leave a lot of branches.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That's right. But look, you can go even further if
you want to. But generally speaking at about one third
of the mines overall growth should be could be cut
to encourage, to encourage new shoots for the upcoming season.
And you know when you do that pruning, yes right now?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
When right?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Well?
Speaker 8 (19:21):
I had you see at the moment they're covered with
frost class and frost thing coming tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Where oh where are you in? Oh gosh. Look. The
big standing joke of client past on the radio is
that I have never been able to grow a passion
fruit in my life, and this year, don't I've got
about a meter and a half and it started about
last summer when I planted them.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Brilliant.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, I'm actually I'm really excited.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Restraint to you know, no sounds of chainsaws in the background,
no joke.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
We've had a lot of passion fruit off the please
find you know the season. But I do need to
come back because okay.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Look, go but we might get a bit of frost.
But if you can stop them getting frost, just give
them another week or two before you do the pruning.
I suggest you do that. If you can do that,
you'll be fine. I reckon and together you and me, babe,
we can do this.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
This is awesome. This is breaking news, folks. This is
this is like thirty years of having a cred honestly is.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
Full of rhymes and that never happened before either.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
No, but then again we had even had quite a
strange winter enough you noticed.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
The limited lime trees well and truly covered with frost
cluff too, been very first.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Claf This is what breaking uses.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
This is, This is just awesome.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I'm looking first lovely.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
To talk to you, Elizabeth. Have a great day, take
care and to you again. Happy fathers and happy is
it all pass day today as well?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Yes, oh, don't worry, I'll do everything with don't worry.
I'll tell you about my twelve year old grandson once.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And if you are coming up, maybe we're going to
breakfas stuff towards let's do that. Yeah, okay, let's do
that boy, right o. Folks, Hey, have a great day
and happy Father's Day and certainly remembering my dad today.
Take care.
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Speaker 2 (00:12):
Said, you're awfully dressed up, and I said, well, actually,
I've got a speaking engagement. I've got to talk at
a Father's Day breakfast after this. So there you go.
Speaker 3 (00:21):
God, really I do. That's nice.
Speaker 2 (00:24):
That's nice, It'll be awesome.
Speaker 3 (00:26):
I'll be going to the solf it's just for Father's
Day at the at the end of this month, on
the twenty eighth, I might be in the studio with you.
How's that? Oh fantasticas if everything is going well. It's
their Peter Blake Trust for two weeks usually in.
Speaker 2 (00:41):
Auckland and this is school whole days, isn't it? This
literacy and so on?
Speaker 3 (00:47):
Yeah, that's that's Actually I'm looking forward to that this
year because it's we're totally booked out for quite a
long time now. It's good. So we're taking thirty teachers
for a week into a really nice hotel and and
then take them to all sorts of wonderful places like
Stardom but also outside Nui and things like that. Beautiful
(01:08):
and and boy, the stuff we see this stuff, it's
lovely to see eyes go open. Last time we found
a sleeping kiwi and that was that was for me,
that was brilliant. It was one of those days when
everything rained and it was awful and things like that,
and and and I thought, oh gosh, it's going to
(01:29):
be a disaster. And in the end we found this
kiwi and nobody talked about the rain anymore. That was it.
That was such a good point.
Speaker 2 (01:36):
And so I see the other day, I think they've
reintroduced to Atara Torri Martgui.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Tardy has had to for a long time, okay, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah,
that's that's fantastic. Yeah yeah. And and kiwi as well,
a little spote and things that I remember. I remember going.
I remember flying in a chopper with those with those
kiwi when I came off the radio because there was
no time for me to drive there, so they just
picked me up.
Speaker 2 (02:04):
How brilliant, brilliant. And you know, because sometimes I think
when we look at nature and the environment, it's easy
to get a bit downheartened. But like I saw the
other day, like the little local ecological restoration group that
I've had some association with, they're doing like an open
day at the nursery, giving away seedlings. And I've noticed
(02:25):
this across the country and councils are supporting this as well,
that as these groups grow and their capacity to produce
new seedlings, new native plants, they're also being really generous,
just going, hey, folks, if you need them, come and
get them. You know, we're open today, Come and grab them,
and then take those and go and plant them and
restore your own native habitat. So there's some really exciting
things happening.
Speaker 3 (02:45):
Absolutely, and that's the one, isn't it. That's exactly what
you should be doing.
Speaker 2 (02:49):
Anyway, say something quite.
Speaker 3 (02:50):
Different and it's a bit more towards your thing. I've
been We've put a new garage in at home and
took a long time and all this sort of stuff.
But around there we put, you know, we put if
you like, regret and the stone around there for their
entrance off the garage. I came across this little company
in christ which is called Gracetone Screening and crushing. What
(03:13):
do you normally pay for a cubic meter of let's say,
you know, fourteen mil stuff that you can use on
your It's unbelievable. There were so cheap these people. There
was just unbelievable. I couldn't believe you could get a
ton of that stuff for thirty thirty five bucks.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
That's actually pretty sharp price. Look, a lot of it
depends on things like how far they have to travel
from the quarry, and that's an issue for Auckland. For example,
when I first started building, right, the first house we
did was in Saint John's and when we needed some scoria,
you hocked the trailer on. You drove down Lane AV
into the quarry at Mount Wellington and they loaded up
(03:53):
the trailer and you drove out. Right Now that quarry's gone,
that's housing three queens has gone. Now, if you're looking
at quarried material, talking about Drury or Rama, rama, no,
because there's no quarries in Auckland. People don't like quarries
next to their backfits, no, I can imagine. So hence
the cost goes up.
Speaker 3 (04:14):
Wow.
Speaker 2 (04:15):
But yeah, that'll that'll be a large part. The other
really cool thing is that obviously we're now reasonably engaged
with being able to recycle concrete waste, so you know,
rather than that going into hard pill, it'll go get
crushed and recycled as phil.
Speaker 3 (04:30):
Yeah, that makes total sense. Yeah, yeah, the guy, the
guy of Graystowe. He told me also about something that
he was looking at in the Rakaia River and things
like that, and mucking around there with literally creating new
habitats at the same time. So it's it's almost like
a quarry of a river, if you like, made it
made back into a wonderful place for creatures to live
(04:52):
and birds to live and plants to live. And I
love that when I see this. By the way, did you,
by the way, did you see this this week's dock advertisements?
You know, it's the conservation week if you like. Right,
So the idea was that we are not just with
(05:15):
what do you call it, five point three million New zealanders,
We are basically with something like six hundred and ninety
five billion residents in New Zealand, right, and twenty eight
thousand species of those are endemic and only live in using.
I love stuff like that. Do the maths and talk
(05:37):
to the kids and the teachers at schools and talk
about these sort of things. Well done, Doc, I think
that was a great week we just had. I just
thought i'd, you know, make that point.
Speaker 2 (05:46):
And you know, the numbers are great, and the numbers
make you feel proud. Wow, Yes, that's kind of how
I see it.
Speaker 3 (05:52):
Yeah, so we're looking after a lot of different creatures.
Speaker 2 (05:55):
Yeah, we've talked to a few people like Helen. Good
morning to you.
Speaker 4 (06:00):
Yes, good morning Helen, from my very point happy father
stage in to thank you. I just wanted to know
when is the correct time in Auckland to prune tamarillo trees.
Speaker 3 (06:18):
I think that should have happened in winter, so you
could still have a go with that, right, okay, but
make it make it reasonably quick, I.
Speaker 4 (06:29):
Would say, okay, before it warms up too much.
Speaker 3 (06:33):
Do you have good Do you have good fruit coming
off your tree? Is it large enough to to live properly?
Speaker 5 (06:44):
There?
Speaker 3 (06:45):
You know what I mean?
Speaker 4 (06:46):
Is they got beautifully here? Yes, that's all lovely virgin soil,
and all the fruit trees.
Speaker 3 (06:53):
Too, well nice, that's really lovely.
Speaker 4 (06:57):
So I have many varieties of the tamarillo, you know,
the golden ones and the red ones and just.
Speaker 3 (07:05):
Lessa yeah, good good, Now, this is a good time.
You can still do it, but but be reasonably smart
with it, because of course this thing starts to flower
soon and you need some you need some good good
wood for that.
Speaker 4 (07:18):
Yep, yep, I'll do it today.
Speaker 3 (07:21):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (07:24):
You take care it quick. Tikest as well. So do
I need to fertilize a young avocado tree?
Speaker 3 (07:30):
Yeah? I wish this person would ring up, because of
course you fertilize a young ever garda tree. You fertilize
every plant if you like that you've got in your garden.
But I was wondering if there was another story behind that.
So the answer is yes, I would, and what I
would do from now on is do a little bit
(07:51):
of general fertilizer with a little bit of sulfate of
potash to make sure that they will start to flower
as soon as they can, and that means also having
fruit going right. Yes, good time to do it.
Speaker 2 (08:05):
I've got to get that round my place as well.
Now someone sticks through as well. Is it normal to
be infisted by ants at this time of year in
christ Church?
Speaker 3 (08:14):
Good news and bad news. Good news is yes. The
bad news is they're not native right. In other words,
what I've noticed is we are getting more and more
introduced ants in christ Church, and they have an ability
to literally keep going despite the fact that it's quite
cold in christ Church in the wintertime. They keep going
(08:36):
and they will come into your house. That's right. Yeah,
many different species now, okay, and it's really it's unbelievable
how these things travel and getting to do southern places
now with I suppose climate disruption.
Speaker 2 (08:48):
Yeah wow, okay, well right, hey, grant a very good
morning to you at.
Speaker 5 (08:56):
Top of the morning, gentlemen. A cross collination of fruit trees. Yeah,
I have two feo trees. One's the small fruit bit sweet.
One's the big fruit that's sweet. And they seem to
be they seem to be happy as my free the
feature of fruit are now big and sweet. Okay. My
problem is with my lemon tree. It's doing something with
(09:19):
my mandarin tree. Because now I've got easy peel lemons.
Does that happen?
Speaker 6 (09:26):
You know?
Speaker 3 (09:26):
I don't maybe, but I hadn't heard about that. Yeah.
I like that. I like the way you describe it
easy peel lemons. Are you sure?
Speaker 5 (09:38):
Yesterday? As a lemon tree, as a maya lemon, and
I have an easy peel menda in the sanumi one
whatever it's called.
Speaker 3 (09:48):
Ah, you got a different variety there, okay, got you?
Speaker 5 (09:51):
Yeah, all right, okay, Now the problem with the lemon
is the lemons. The lemon is fruits all of the
time because I am singing you bother it twice a year,
once in the autumn and once in the spring, because
I've heard you talk about that before, so I've done
it an autumn and s yeah yeah. But the freedom
inside the lemon is like really small and appeals off
(10:14):
and sigmas. That's why I'm thinking of doing something with
the menda entry at night time.
Speaker 3 (10:18):
I don't I wouldn't think that that would be the case.
But what I would do if I were you, and
that is probably a good idea, is to have a
second mayor lemon, because mayor lemon has this stability, has
ability to go on for one year and the next
year going like nap, and then the next year. Oh yeah.
So if you want constant lemons, you know what I mean,
(10:41):
I usually say, get two or three, put them together.
In fact, plant them in the same hole if you like,
because by having three different lemons, if you like lemon
trees in one hole, you treat them like one. But
their genetic one off, one off year system will change.
Speaker 5 (11:02):
Yeap. When I bought the when I bought the two
such trees, I bought them at the same time I
heard you. When I bought them because you're about three
years old. Yeah'd you say? Yeah, the lemonitary they do
everything perfect, everything's perfect. The sept for the lemon, it's
the fruit inside the lemon is actually quite small. But
(11:23):
I was thinking about planting another lemon tree beside it.
Speaker 3 (11:26):
Yeah, I do.
Speaker 5 (11:27):
Yeah, because because when I first bought them, you go
to go no, yeah, fish for them. Okay, when I
when I first brought them, I did cut the flowers
off the first lot of flowers that I saw as
soon as the start of flowing, because I heard you
say something that they need growth in the first year
or something like that. So I just topped all the
flowers off and I did that on both of them,
(11:48):
and the second year they fruited. Like wow, look at this, you.
Speaker 3 (11:52):
Know, yeah, you got it. Yeah. You got to give
them time, and you've got to give build a cut
and if you like, build a body for those things
so they can actually then have fruit later on. Yeah.
Now that's a good idea. But the ideas of having
different the same variety, like the maya in one one
finishes one year and the other one doesn't do that
(12:13):
very well, and they swap bases if you like. Yeah,
it's no. But you know, from now on, yeah, go on.
From from now on, what I would do is is
fertilized your lemon trees from now on. Absolutely have a
good go with them.
Speaker 5 (12:29):
Yeah, okay, Copas, thank you very much for.
Speaker 3 (12:32):
Hey morning, welcome g very ground.
Speaker 2 (12:36):
You have a great day. Take care of rightio. We
might take short break. We'll be back. Actually we've got
some spear lines, so if you have a question for it,
call us right now. Wait one hundred and eighty ten
eighty righty oh, now we're now, we're flat out. Let's
(12:59):
get into it. Temarillos Barbara, Hello.
Speaker 5 (13:03):
Good morning.
Speaker 6 (13:04):
Right, I'm the complete opposite of the lady that you
had on earlier. I'm in Papamoa Beach and we have
no luck with our tamarillos. We've put two in last summer,
put them tucked in nice and warm behind the starpoole
and over win truck's had frost cloth around them. We
(13:26):
trimmed them when they got to sort of that meta
meter ten height to encourage branching. But nothing's happening. And
my red tamarillo, just the whole stem has gone sort
of brownie black and looks like it's dying. And the
orange one no growth, no leaves, nothing, What are we
(13:48):
doing wrong?
Speaker 3 (13:49):
Oh my god? You had them. You bought what do
you call it, tamillos that were sorry, avocado, no tammrillosalize
you for you did get some stuff that was already grafted.
Speaker 6 (14:04):
I don't know that they're from a reputable supplier.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
At the garacine. Okay, well, look, to be quite honest,
did you fertilize them. I'm sure you did, Barbara.
Speaker 5 (14:15):
Absolutely.
Speaker 6 (14:16):
We use sheep manure and chicken manure and comfrey.
Speaker 3 (14:19):
K okay, chicken manure and sheep manure. Is there anything
there to actually get them to flower because chicken menu
and cheap manure makes them give leaves?
Speaker 6 (14:33):
Okay, no, well that's that's all.
Speaker 5 (14:35):
We're yours.
Speaker 6 (14:35):
But they haven't even got leaves.
Speaker 3 (14:38):
Oh, cheapest creepers. I can't believe that they should be.
They should be okay where you are?
Speaker 6 (14:45):
Yes? Yeah, And like we said, we bought these two
new ones and touched them behind the spark Paul thinking
nice and warm, sunny, the bullish shells. They don't get
any one.
Speaker 3 (14:58):
Look I don't it's hard to see. And you say
they don't even have leaves at the moment. None.
Speaker 6 (15:05):
No, so they orange timbrilladhead one leaf over winter, which
got more miserable looking as it went and it dropped off.
So there's just nothing on this, and I maybe just
try a little bit of We did all our citrus
and fruit trees the other day with citrus and fruit fertilizers,
pot some of that on there as well.
Speaker 3 (15:25):
Absolutely, absolutely, but also ask the people you bought it
from to see if they've got a really strange batch,
because I don't know what's going on with this. That
should not happen like that.
Speaker 6 (15:35):
No, awesome, thank you.
Speaker 3 (15:37):
Sorry, Barbara, I have I'm actually stunned because I thought
that they were quite easy to grow to Marilla's there
you are, boom, especially where you were.
Speaker 6 (15:46):
Yes, we've got thirty five fruit trees. They's are the
only fruits that we cannot get even let alone, let
alone fruit.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Oh gosh, that's weird. Sorry, I can't help you with
that any.
Speaker 2 (16:00):
The no leaf thing is a bit of an issue.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Isn't it. Yeah, giveaway.
Speaker 2 (16:06):
The fantastic David.
Speaker 7 (16:09):
Good morning, Good morning guys.
Speaker 3 (16:13):
Hello David, what are you going to do with your avocados?
Speaker 7 (16:19):
We're driving to odorings right now to buy to buy
a reed and a bacon.
Speaker 3 (16:28):
I see, okay, Yeah they're good.
Speaker 7 (16:31):
We're out of morac, alcohol and hastings.
Speaker 3 (16:34):
Yeah.
Speaker 7 (16:35):
So it gets quite gets quite frosty, quite cold.
Speaker 3 (16:38):
Yeah, so.
Speaker 7 (16:41):
He eats tips for planting.
Speaker 3 (16:45):
Yes, go to a higher elevation when the frost can
drip away down below. Believe it or not. In christ
Use where I live, my neighbor is growing fabulous avocados.
And we are one hundred and five meters above sea
level in the port Hills and it can freeze, but
not where we are. We're usually okay in terms of frost.
(17:07):
So the frost might be a bit of a trouble,
you know what I mean.
Speaker 7 (17:11):
Yeah, Yeah, we've got covers on them as well.
Speaker 3 (17:15):
Yeah, there you go. That's the way I would go. Yeah,
that's what I would do in the in your case,
it's interesting that so this is well known here on
the porthills that you can have these uh these plants
and doing quite well and so far south. Yeah.
Speaker 5 (17:32):
Now, so.
Speaker 7 (17:34):
Yeah, when planting, shall we put any fertilizer or.
Speaker 3 (17:40):
Fertilizers on the absolutely from now on certainly to get
those trees going. And if you can't do them on
the north side, the north side of your section or
of your if you like garden, so that you get
a little bit of warmth, a little bit more warmth,
that's what you need.
Speaker 2 (17:57):
Okay, all the best Now odorings are they only in
Chrst Church?
Speaker 3 (18:03):
No, they're not there in Hawk's Bay too. Yeah, I
know there.
Speaker 2 (18:08):
I was just a little confused because I know you've
talked about going to odorings and it's yeah, it's a
neighborhood and I'm.
Speaker 3 (18:13):
Thinking family, I know quite well, Yeah they live here.
They started all.
Speaker 2 (18:18):
This awesome huge With that, I can go to the break. Right,
we're back after the break your talks, bigger climb past
with us as always on a Sunday, Elizabeth.
Speaker 8 (18:29):
Good morning, Oh, good morning. I have got two passion
fruit trees find whatever you call them, because they're climbing
up a brick fence. They've just gone crazy. The branches
just went around the corner and it's now the right
time to cut them back. And how far do I
cut them?
Speaker 3 (18:50):
One third?
Speaker 8 (18:54):
Only a third? Yeah, it's gonna leave a lot of branches.
Speaker 3 (18:58):
That's right. But look, you can go even further if
you want to. But generally speaking at about one third
of the mines overall growth should be could be cut
to encourage, to encourage new shoots for the upcoming season.
And you know when you do that pruning, yes right now?
Speaker 1 (19:19):
When right?
Speaker 5 (19:20):
Well?
Speaker 8 (19:21):
I had you see at the moment they're covered with
frost class and frost thing coming tonight.
Speaker 3 (19:28):
Where oh where are you in? Oh gosh. Look. The
big standing joke of client past on the radio is
that I have never been able to grow a passion
fruit in my life, and this year, don't I've got
about a meter and a half and it started about
last summer when I planted them.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
Brilliant.
Speaker 3 (19:51):
Yeah, I'm actually I'm really excited.
Speaker 2 (19:55):
Restraint to you know, no sounds of chainsaws in the background,
no joke.
Speaker 8 (20:03):
We've had a lot of passion fruit off the please
find you know the season. But I do need to
come back because okay.
Speaker 3 (20:12):
Look, go but we might get a bit of frost.
But if you can stop them getting frost, just give
them another week or two before you do the pruning.
I suggest you do that. If you can do that,
you'll be fine. I reckon and together you and me, babe,
we can do this.
Speaker 2 (20:28):
This is awesome. This is breaking news, folks. This is
this is like thirty years of having a cred honestly is.
Speaker 8 (20:38):
Full of rhymes and that never happened before either.
Speaker 3 (20:42):
No, but then again we had even had quite a
strange winter enough you noticed.
Speaker 8 (20:50):
The limited lime trees well and truly covered with frost
cluff too, been very first.
Speaker 3 (20:56):
Claf This is what breaking uses.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
This is, This is just awesome.
Speaker 3 (21:04):
I'm looking first lovely.
Speaker 2 (21:06):
To talk to you, Elizabeth. Have a great day, take
care and to you again. Happy fathers and happy is
it all pass day today as well?
Speaker 3 (21:14):
Yes, oh, don't worry, I'll do everything with don't worry.
I'll tell you about my twelve year old grandson once.
Speaker 5 (21:22):
Look forward to it.
Speaker 2 (21:23):
And if you are coming up, maybe we're going to
breakfas stuff towards let's do that. Yeah, okay, let's do
that boy, right o. Folks, Hey, have a great day
and happy Father's Day and certainly remembering my dad today.
Take care.
Speaker 1 (21:57):
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