November 22, 2025 • 22 mins
On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for Sunday November 23 2025, Ruud shares what you should do for your garden as spring turns to summer, what to do about silverleaf, and how to tackle cloverleaf growing in your lawn.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from News Talk sedb.
Speaker 2 (00:16):
Red Climb past hardest working man in saving the planet
that I know. How's your week theme, mate?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I've just spent a week fifteen hour days filming a
documentary A little River in the Wrapper or ruin Maha.
That was good. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not the hardest working person,
but I just love doing it with schools and things.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, I bet it's good, bet awesome. Alrighty oh, yes,
this time of year. What prepping the garden? Right?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
So?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
You know, I mean, look, everything's in full bloom. There's
some podaca up here that have started to flower, others
that are about to the gardens coming to life. Is
it too late to start feeding or is there really
no things to be doing right now?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Do it? No?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah? Right now? Yeah, get yourself some some fertilizer, you know.
I use the seafood soup and seaweed tea, this stuff
from Wait and Forget and basically depending on what you need,
if you need a bit more for flowers or fruit,
but as seaweed tea, which contains more potash, the other
stuff is more for growth, you know. That's the sea yeah,
(01:24):
that's the one. The other thing that you can do
is start looking at first of all, I don't know
if you notice it's been dry a bit. Is it
the same in Auckland now.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
After the rain that we had at the beginning of
the week. No, actually it's it's we've had a decent
amount of rain. Certainly the lawns are reflecting that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, Now we're getting pretty dry in christ and even
in the southern part of the North Island. While a
rapper it was getting quite dry too, which is interesting.
So so I would suggest that you be a bit
careful with if you don't have enough water, that you
make sure that you keep it going because now the
plants are needing that in order to grow, and this
is the type for growth. Yeah. Absolutely awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Okay, so a little bit of feeding and a good
times if things are starting to dry out, good time
to do some mulch.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Absolutely. Oh yeah, well that's always the one that stops there,
the loss of your water, if you like, it's the one.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
A and there's really nothing you can do, yeah, because
the birds love it. And I did a whole lot
of work in the garden and a week ago and
I looked out yesterday and it's scattered all around the place.
The birds are in. They're looking for the insects, which
I guess is part of the health of a garden.
But not a lot you can really do about that.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Ah No, okay, Well I've got Julie and I've got
a little what do you call it, sugar water ah
thing that are bellbirds, you know, bellberts, and also too
we I can imagine, but also silver ice. They just
are impossible to get away from. They just keep going.
(03:04):
They feed their kids with it, they have their own
stuff and they're running. So it's really good for some
of the of the creatures that love the love right
sweet material to have a go now. Yeah, they are interested.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah right, we're taking your calls. The lines are open.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighties the number to call. Actually,
just just thinking about the birds I sent through. I
sent one of the l boxes that I made to
my sister, yeah, who put it up and sent me
a photograph saying the other day saying the starlings have
(03:38):
moved on, And I'm like, okay, well, anyway, she likes starling,
so it doesn't matter. But at least the l box
is being put to good use for some bird.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
That's right. And I've got at the moment in my
box in the garden also starlings, and I will hopefully
band the young ones that are there. And here comes
to thing. You might never never realize that the little
owl which is smaller than about half the size of
more pork, you know, yeah, the little that we have
in the South Island, that if it once that box back,
(04:08):
that starling will die. Oh so that starling is only
half the size of the owl, but they, oh will
get it. Make no mistake.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Owls are quite the predator, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Oh they are, yeah, yeah, And they have no sense
of humor when somebody takes their their house, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
If you've got a question for Ridd, you should call
us now. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty quick text
A question. Good morning to you both, A question for rud. Really,
several young pita sprawn trees. All the tiny new growth
leaves are curling. They're smothered with ants and a few
lady bugs. I'm reluctant to spray them due to the
high insect population, but I feel I might have to
(04:49):
resort to a spray. If so, what would you recommend.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I suggest you actually have a go with that. Yes,
and if they have got yes, absolutely. And what you
can do is you can use something as simple as
kneem oil and bits and pieces like that that will
literally get rid of all these ladies, of these these
little tiny creatures. Lady bird beetles, of course, are also
(05:16):
the eaters of those those small ones, so that's not
a big deal. But if you get if you get
a lot of these little so a fletz and meati
bugs and stick scale insects and things like that, get
rid of them if you can, if you have ladybirds
doing it. Still, you can use a little bit of
that knee oil and it might not harm the lady
(05:37):
bird beetles that much at all.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Ah Okay, so it will get rid of what you
want to get rid of, but not necessarily, you know, biketch.
Let's say, yeah, be gentle.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
The nice thing with neem oil is that the smaller
species of insects, that sepsucking creatures, if you like, they
are really done by that, but not the larger beetles,
So don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Interesting, right, Let's take some calls. Oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty is the number. Good morning, Yes.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Good morning, Sorry guys about last week hearing aids cut
in anyway, Look, look rod silver leaf. I'm pretty sure
it is silver leaf that I've got on my Portuguese laurels.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
It could be.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, Well, the leaves have got that silvery gray color.
They're very light, a lot lighter than the standard you know,
the green, nice lush green looking, and it's stunting their growth.
Of course, when I trim the back, which was usually
about now because they've gone man and I shaped them
like topree bushes, that they just start getting die back.
In fact, they've got a little bit of die back
(06:43):
at the moment, and I've used that prune tech, but
you know, you need something that's a bit finer to
cover everything when you're trimming off with a hedge cutter,
if you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yea, Yeah, silver leaf is a real pain in the
butt because some plants and some trees are not really
happy with that, and they will They can be actually
been nicked off, that's it, you know, that can go
like that. I find it really hard to work with
silver leaf, to be quite honest, because I am not
(07:12):
one hundred percent sure. What works the best I've since
I left Auckland, I haven't headed anymore, which is quite good.
I'm not saying it's it's Auckland's fault, but this is
the point. Yeah, yeah, gosh, you golly, what do you use?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Well, yeah, I don't know because I've been trying to
keep control of it with with copper. But yeah, well here,
you know, copper can fix a lot of things. But
as you said, I think when you talked about it
a couple of weeks ago, that it kills off new growth,
which it does, which is almost like do I do
that and put up with it? Because I'm going to
(07:52):
trim it back anyway?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
But tell me again, but what was well? Which plant
was it on? What sort of plant was it on?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's a Portuguese laurel?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, oh yeah, that's right, Portuguese lot. I wouldn't be
too worried with with copper.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Yeah, okay, Well, I've just got to keep going with
I've got the pictures and the laurels, unfortunately, and.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I would I would do it. I would do it
just according to normal recommendations. I think it's quite often
the what do you call it the leaf the trees
that that create fruits and things like that that could
be hassled by the Yeah, yeah no, not silverlie, but
(08:37):
but by the copper. The copper is the one that
actually trouble. So this case, have a go with it,
but gentle, don't go over the top. Yes, and do
a lot of Yeah, absolutely you got.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It all the very musty appreciate it. But now, rud
christ my sister, not my sister, somebody else's sister has
a whisteria which grows quite proliferically but never flowers. What
is she doing wrong?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Oh mysterious? Should they flower? Gosh, you can't stop it.
Fertilizer with some potash Okay, yeah, that's the one. That's
what I would use. That's exactly what stimulates flowering and
fruiting and things like that. Yeah, so an extra bit
of potage. As I said that, when't forget thing you
(09:29):
know that contains a lot of potash will be really
good at it. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Another quick one just before the break, uh the rod
in the wire rapper. My lawn has gone ballistic with clover. Yes,
I've seen it, so it's super hot in the wire rapper. Yeah,
what can they do about it? Close.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I wouldn't be too worried about it.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Just be enjoying the clover.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Enjoy the clover. Yeah, and keep on bowing it. That's
the way to go. I wouldn't be too honestly, I
wouldn't be worried about that.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Excellent. Right, we're gonna take a break. We'll come back
talk to Jennifer straight after the break. Right over, it's
with us. We're talking all things gardening. Do you want
to answer the one about the thrips on the Portuguese Laura?
So is it could it be trips rather than.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, it could be some trips actually make it look
a little bit silver. But that's a different gig though,
right the Portuguese. Yeah, it's it's unless And if you
see the thrips, that's quite that's quite obvious, you know,
because they actually cause all this damage on the individual
cells and that turns a little bit silver. But if
you've got a silver leaf, it's actually quite interesting. A
(10:45):
silver leaf is basically caused by a fungus, totally different thing.
So I think you would see the thrips.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Right, rather than a fungal thing, which is might.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Be It could be it could it could be, but
you you know, if you if you see your glasses
and I'm cleaned, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You might miss it. Jennifer, A very good morning to you. Hello, Jennifer, Hello, Jennifer. Hello.
She may not be there anymore. Robin Greasings, greetings, Hi.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Club broote on bressacas. I put some broccoli in and
they were growing about eighteen inches high. They looked really healthy,
and then there was one started to crumble up in
the sun. I gave it water, kept doing that would
come right come down, and I thought, oh, I wonder
what's going on. So I pulled it out, and it's
got club roots. So I pulled the whole lot of
them out, and I'd already planted more around them, so
I took them out and put them in a different spot.
(11:39):
What do I do to get rid of the spores
or the fungi in the in the ground.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Soil borne disease? Right, that's what it is. It's a
soil born disease as they call it. It's something that
lives in the soil from memory. There's not much of
a chemical cure to when you have an established infection.
If you like, I.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Put brescas in there, last year, and I realized now
that you don't put them in the same place as
the year before, is it correct?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, that would be a good idea and also increase
your soil pH from memory. So above seven?
Speaker 7 (12:15):
How do I do that?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Seven point one?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
God?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
How do you do that?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I test that?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Well, there you go. You've got to have a tester
for that, and you can get those from from garden
centers easically.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Okay, just be in that one area that could be
for would be in.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
It could be the the spores of course, a fungal material.
And if they are in the soil and you keep
on planting the same ones there, you can get into trouble.
But if you can change that, you know, don't use assets,
but use alkal lines if you like to get that
pH higher. So that's that's one of the ways to
go about it.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Is there any natural products I can put in the ere?
I did plant loop and seed over the winter and
dug that in. Is there anything natural that I can use?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I don't know. Alkaline? What are you doing in terms
of alkaline?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I don't know. To be quite honest, I'm not that
good at chemistry.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Maybe missus Google can help me.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
You can help me, but that's the way to go.
You need your pH up over seven?
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Yeah, well over, okay, already, okay, thank you very much
all of this.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
How do you test for pH with a pH media thing?
You know what I mean? You can, you can do
it in all sorts of ways you can get I
think garden centers will have a pH machine that you
can get. It's not that expenses from memory.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Okay, yeah. Is it a little bit similar to the
old moisture meter thing, a prong that you put on
the ground that tells.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
You something like that. Yeah, I haven't used it for decades.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I have no problems with my pH at the moments,
and that's probably to do with with, as you said,
your mulch and all that sort of stuff. Sure should
be fine, brilliant, not always.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Now your favorite topic, Matt, talk to us about passion fruit.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Oh yes, please, I need up the oracle. Thank you,
the fruits, plump fruit.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I would.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
The passion fruit should be in now, of course you
can plant it right now. Ever, go and I've got
good news and I've got bad news. The bad news
is my troubles. Say that again.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Please give me the bad news fru please.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
The bad news is that the troubles are used to have.
If passion fruits are over, I've got them flowering. I've
got them flowering. That's the good news.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
That's beautiful. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
But the point is, yeah, the point is to feed
them on a reasonably regular basis with some material that
will allow the flowers to get there, and it will
allow the fruit to develop once the flowers have been fertilized,
if you like.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
So that's real good. Throw the apartment full sun or
or semi shaded shaded area.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I have them in about two thirds sons, so they
do get most of the light, but not the hottest
sun in in in the in the springtime and in summertime.
You know when the summer sun can be really blistering.
I decided that might not be a good idea. So
it's it's exactly in the morning sun and it is
(15:39):
still about midday, and then after that it's being slightly
uh covered by my tunnel house's next to it.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Are you going to.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Start with all of it and all much success with
your passion fruit?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
It worked?
Speaker 7 (15:59):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Good, and it's working for you obviously.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yes, Yes, I'm finally getting that stuff going and and
I'm not I can round with too much organic material
in the.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Soil just enough fantastic.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I always have been an organic materials person, and I've
realized that there's sometimes overdoing it and you sometimes need
mineral soil to actually mix it up with it properly,
which is yep, more than half should be mineral soil.
That's what I think.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Brilliant, Jennifer. We'll try again. Hello, Jennifer.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Hello here, you're.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Going very well, thank you.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
We've got one another listener. Board beans. We've got black
blight on it. We wonder why we christ ea chair
and all serves an out of city. Each plant that
was given it up pulled the net so I wouldn't
go to the others. We got away bit of a crop,
(16:54):
but not as good as other years we've heard.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Which beans were they, Jennifer, broad beans? Okay, yeah, yeah, okay,
natural decay, hay, fungal disease, chocolate spot. I think of
a whole lot of different things that it could be.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
You know, we did change the position that we normally
would have them then, and we wondered if it was
a lack of sunshine A bit could well be.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, it could well be Oh that is awful.
It is awful because because broadbeans are pretty good and
they usually grow nice.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
We just thought we changed the position because there's the
same road. Take things around and yeah, it was the
first time here. We struck the blight lightness very and
you knew the pods themselves.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Could you could you go back to the original place
where you used to grow them and see if that
if that really that's probably what works.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Uh, yeah, well we're going to do that. We're not
going to plant them in that same spot. But I
just thought there might have been something in the air
and that looked hard to think.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
If it is a fungal disease, it's very simple, get
yourself some fungal fungicide. And it could be copper or
cop copper and and and something like that, you know
what I mean, which is reasonably safe to use.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
All the very best to you, Jennifer on that, and David,
good morning.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Hey there, hey, thanks, hey, quick question. Both of your
expertise will be useful. I think I've got starlings in
my nest in my roof. Yeah, oh so it's I've
got it like it's it's the ridge. And if you
looked on top of the roof plan view. It's it's
(18:46):
a pointed shape, so it's like forty five degrees back
each side from the point, so they're getting right underneath
the underneath a ridge being a real pain. When can
I remove the net? If there's a nest that is
that happening now? Should I remove it now and block
it up? Or the way it's finished there.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Would suggest you wait. Otherwise it becomes a bit smelly
after a while.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Okay, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
And and the thing is you can tell whether there
are young there when you hear them begging for food.
So if that's the case, if you of course, if
you can't close it off, but you'll you'll end up
with carcasses in there that that will still start to
become smelly. I saw exactly the same at the school
in the y wrapper yes yesterday before yesterday, and there
(19:33):
were starlings everywhere. It was just humble and you could
hear them, you know.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Yeah, that's okay, okay, that's the straw won't pose any
fire hazard.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
No, not necessarily.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
YEA. And a quick one for Peter, if you've got time,
very quick, Peter, I've got a I've got a block
wall that's been plastered and it's exposed to the sun.
But where the mortar lines are, it's like it's bleeding
through to the plasts and the.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Like a white material or effhorescence.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Not really, it's it's actually dark lines and it's almost
like almost blistering, like it's splitting yep, the plaster a
little bit and craving a bit of a ridge there.
I suppose what's the best way to sort of you
just don't paint over it. Do you have to plaster
it again or dig it out? Or you plaster and
paint over it with.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Something exposed, you know, scrape the paint off. You could
use some like crack repair powder so ce mix and
seeker both make them rub that into that, seal it
and then repaint it would probably be the best option.
All the best, take care righty oh now, rud I
am going to be traveling over the next couple of weeks,
(20:53):
so if it all goes well, then I will continue
to do the show. If you get a panicked phone
call from me, then I won't have been able to
connect for some reason, and we'll work it out. But
normal transition will resus sometime in January. But so for
the next couple of shows, it might sound a little
bit different and have a slightly different tone as I
(21:14):
dial in from different parts of the globe.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I know what you mean, Yeah, just yet, but yell out.
I'll get my phone from and we're all good.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
You know what the time is, We'll figure it out.
We'll figure it out. Heyred, thank you, look after yourself,
take care all the best, and folks, thanks very much
for your company this morning. Last couple of weeks been
a sort of slightly different show with the all Black
matches taking a bit of time. Next week we're back
to sort of normal transmission by the fact that I'll
be dialing in from overseas, so looking forward to that,
(21:42):
going to go and discover different parts of the world.
But we will continue to bring you the show from
wherever I happen to be in the world. So look
after yourself, enjoy your week, and look forward to chatting
with you again next Sunday. Here at news Talk zi'd
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Speaker 4 (21:57):
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Speaker 2 (00:16):
Red Climb past hardest working man in saving the planet
that I know. How's your week theme, mate?
Speaker 3 (00:24):
I've just spent a week fifteen hour days filming a
documentary A little River in the Wrapper or ruin Maha.
That was good. Yeah. Yeah, I'm not the hardest working person,
but I just love doing it with schools and things.
Speaker 2 (00:38):
Yeah, I bet it's good, bet awesome. Alrighty oh, yes,
this time of year. What prepping the garden? Right?
Speaker 4 (00:48):
So?
Speaker 2 (00:49):
You know, I mean, look, everything's in full bloom. There's
some podaca up here that have started to flower, others
that are about to the gardens coming to life. Is
it too late to start feeding or is there really
no things to be doing right now?
Speaker 5 (01:02):
Do it? No?
Speaker 3 (01:03):
Yeah? Right now? Yeah, get yourself some some fertilizer, you know.
I use the seafood soup and seaweed tea, this stuff
from Wait and Forget and basically depending on what you need,
if you need a bit more for flowers or fruit,
but as seaweed tea, which contains more potash, the other
stuff is more for growth, you know. That's the sea yeah,
(01:24):
that's the one. The other thing that you can do
is start looking at first of all, I don't know
if you notice it's been dry a bit. Is it
the same in Auckland now.
Speaker 2 (01:37):
After the rain that we had at the beginning of
the week. No, actually it's it's we've had a decent
amount of rain. Certainly the lawns are reflecting that. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (01:47):
Yeah, Now we're getting pretty dry in christ and even
in the southern part of the North Island. While a
rapper it was getting quite dry too, which is interesting.
So so I would suggest that you be a bit
careful with if you don't have enough water, that you
make sure that you keep it going because now the
plants are needing that in order to grow, and this
is the type for growth. Yeah. Absolutely awesome.
Speaker 2 (02:11):
Okay, so a little bit of feeding and a good
times if things are starting to dry out, good time
to do some mulch.
Speaker 3 (02:17):
Absolutely. Oh yeah, well that's always the one that stops there,
the loss of your water, if you like, it's the one.
Speaker 2 (02:24):
A and there's really nothing you can do, yeah, because
the birds love it. And I did a whole lot
of work in the garden and a week ago and
I looked out yesterday and it's scattered all around the place.
The birds are in. They're looking for the insects, which
I guess is part of the health of a garden.
But not a lot you can really do about that.
Speaker 3 (02:43):
Ah No, okay, Well I've got Julie and I've got
a little what do you call it, sugar water ah
thing that are bellbirds, you know, bellberts, and also too
we I can imagine, but also silver ice. They just
are impossible to get away from. They just keep going.
(03:04):
They feed their kids with it, they have their own
stuff and they're running. So it's really good for some
of the of the creatures that love the love right
sweet material to have a go now. Yeah, they are interested.
Speaker 2 (03:17):
Yeah right, we're taking your calls. The lines are open.
Oh eight hundred and eighty ten eighties the number to call. Actually,
just just thinking about the birds I sent through. I
sent one of the l boxes that I made to
my sister, yeah, who put it up and sent me
a photograph saying the other day saying the starlings have
(03:38):
moved on, And I'm like, okay, well, anyway, she likes starling,
so it doesn't matter. But at least the l box
is being put to good use for some bird.
Speaker 3 (03:47):
That's right. And I've got at the moment in my
box in the garden also starlings, and I will hopefully
band the young ones that are there. And here comes
to thing. You might never never realize that the little
owl which is smaller than about half the size of
more pork, you know, yeah, the little that we have
in the South Island, that if it once that box back,
(04:08):
that starling will die. Oh so that starling is only
half the size of the owl, but they, oh will
get it. Make no mistake.
Speaker 2 (04:18):
Owls are quite the predator, aren't they.
Speaker 3 (04:20):
Oh they are, yeah, yeah, And they have no sense
of humor when somebody takes their their house, you know
what I mean.
Speaker 2 (04:29):
If you've got a question for Ridd, you should call
us now. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty quick text
A question. Good morning to you both, A question for rud. Really,
several young pita sprawn trees. All the tiny new growth
leaves are curling. They're smothered with ants and a few
lady bugs. I'm reluctant to spray them due to the
high insect population, but I feel I might have to
(04:49):
resort to a spray. If so, what would you recommend.
Speaker 3 (04:55):
I suggest you actually have a go with that. Yes,
and if they have got yes, absolutely. And what you
can do is you can use something as simple as
kneem oil and bits and pieces like that that will
literally get rid of all these ladies, of these these
little tiny creatures. Lady bird beetles, of course, are also
(05:16):
the eaters of those those small ones, so that's not
a big deal. But if you get if you get
a lot of these little so a fletz and meati
bugs and stick scale insects and things like that, get
rid of them if you can, if you have ladybirds
doing it. Still, you can use a little bit of
that knee oil and it might not harm the lady
(05:37):
bird beetles that much at all.
Speaker 2 (05:39):
Ah Okay, so it will get rid of what you
want to get rid of, but not necessarily, you know, biketch.
Let's say, yeah, be gentle.
Speaker 3 (05:48):
The nice thing with neem oil is that the smaller
species of insects, that sepsucking creatures, if you like, they
are really done by that, but not the larger beetles,
So don't worry about it.
Speaker 2 (06:02):
Interesting, right, Let's take some calls. Oh, eight hundred and
eighty ten eighty is the number. Good morning, Yes.
Speaker 4 (06:08):
Good morning, Sorry guys about last week hearing aids cut
in anyway, Look, look rod silver leaf. I'm pretty sure
it is silver leaf that I've got on my Portuguese laurels.
Speaker 3 (06:22):
It could be.
Speaker 4 (06:22):
Yeah, Well, the leaves have got that silvery gray color.
They're very light, a lot lighter than the standard you know,
the green, nice lush green looking, and it's stunting their growth.
Of course, when I trim the back, which was usually
about now because they've gone man and I shaped them
like topree bushes, that they just start getting die back.
In fact, they've got a little bit of die back
(06:43):
at the moment, and I've used that prune tech, but
you know, you need something that's a bit finer to
cover everything when you're trimming off with a hedge cutter,
if you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (06:52):
Yea, Yeah, silver leaf is a real pain in the
butt because some plants and some trees are not really
happy with that, and they will They can be actually
been nicked off, that's it, you know, that can go
like that. I find it really hard to work with
silver leaf, to be quite honest, because I am not
(07:12):
one hundred percent sure. What works the best I've since
I left Auckland, I haven't headed anymore, which is quite good.
I'm not saying it's it's Auckland's fault, but this is
the point. Yeah, yeah, gosh, you golly, what do you use?
Speaker 2 (07:30):
I don't know.
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Well, yeah, I don't know because I've been trying to
keep control of it with with copper. But yeah, well here,
you know, copper can fix a lot of things. But
as you said, I think when you talked about it
a couple of weeks ago, that it kills off new growth,
which it does, which is almost like do I do
that and put up with it? Because I'm going to
(07:52):
trim it back anyway?
Speaker 3 (07:53):
But tell me again, but what was well? Which plant
was it on? What sort of plant was it on?
Speaker 4 (07:58):
It's a Portuguese laurel?
Speaker 3 (07:59):
Yeah, oh yeah, that's right, Portuguese lot. I wouldn't be
too worried with with copper.
Speaker 4 (08:08):
Yeah, okay, Well, I've just got to keep going with
I've got the pictures and the laurels, unfortunately, and.
Speaker 3 (08:15):
I would I would do it. I would do it
just according to normal recommendations. I think it's quite often
the what do you call it the leaf the trees
that that create fruits and things like that that could
be hassled by the Yeah, yeah no, not silverlie, but
(08:37):
but by the copper. The copper is the one that
actually trouble. So this case, have a go with it,
but gentle, don't go over the top. Yes, and do
a lot of Yeah, absolutely you got.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
It all the very musty appreciate it. But now, rud
christ my sister, not my sister, somebody else's sister has
a whisteria which grows quite proliferically but never flowers. What
is she doing wrong?
Speaker 3 (09:08):
Oh mysterious? Should they flower? Gosh, you can't stop it.
Fertilizer with some potash Okay, yeah, that's the one. That's
what I would use. That's exactly what stimulates flowering and
fruiting and things like that. Yeah, so an extra bit
of potage. As I said that, when't forget thing you
(09:29):
know that contains a lot of potash will be really
good at it. Absolutely.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Another quick one just before the break, uh the rod
in the wire rapper. My lawn has gone ballistic with clover. Yes,
I've seen it, so it's super hot in the wire rapper. Yeah,
what can they do about it? Close.
Speaker 3 (09:52):
I wouldn't be too worried about it.
Speaker 2 (09:54):
Just be enjoying the clover.
Speaker 3 (09:56):
Enjoy the clover. Yeah, and keep on bowing it. That's
the way to go. I wouldn't be too honestly, I
wouldn't be worried about that.
Speaker 2 (10:04):
Excellent. Right, we're gonna take a break. We'll come back
talk to Jennifer straight after the break. Right over, it's
with us. We're talking all things gardening. Do you want
to answer the one about the thrips on the Portuguese Laura?
So is it could it be trips rather than.
Speaker 3 (10:23):
Yeah, it could be some trips actually make it look
a little bit silver. But that's a different gig though,
right the Portuguese. Yeah, it's it's unless And if you
see the thrips, that's quite that's quite obvious, you know,
because they actually cause all this damage on the individual
cells and that turns a little bit silver. But if
you've got a silver leaf, it's actually quite interesting. A
(10:45):
silver leaf is basically caused by a fungus, totally different thing.
So I think you would see the thrips.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
Right, rather than a fungal thing, which is might.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Be It could be it could it could be, but
you you know, if you if you see your glasses
and I'm cleaned, yeah.
Speaker 2 (11:02):
You might miss it. Jennifer, A very good morning to you. Hello, Jennifer, Hello, Jennifer. Hello.
She may not be there anymore. Robin Greasings, greetings, Hi.
Speaker 6 (11:17):
Club broote on bressacas. I put some broccoli in and
they were growing about eighteen inches high. They looked really healthy,
and then there was one started to crumble up in
the sun. I gave it water, kept doing that would
come right come down, and I thought, oh, I wonder
what's going on. So I pulled it out, and it's
got club roots. So I pulled the whole lot of
them out, and I'd already planted more around them, so
I took them out and put them in a different spot.
(11:39):
What do I do to get rid of the spores
or the fungi in the in the ground.
Speaker 3 (11:44):
Soil borne disease? Right, that's what it is. It's a
soil born disease as they call it. It's something that
lives in the soil from memory. There's not much of
a chemical cure to when you have an established infection.
If you like, I.
Speaker 6 (12:03):
Put brescas in there, last year, and I realized now
that you don't put them in the same place as
the year before, is it correct?
Speaker 3 (12:10):
Yeah, that would be a good idea and also increase
your soil pH from memory. So above seven?
Speaker 7 (12:15):
How do I do that?
Speaker 3 (12:16):
Seven point one?
Speaker 4 (12:17):
God?
Speaker 3 (12:17):
How do you do that?
Speaker 6 (12:20):
I test that?
Speaker 3 (12:22):
Well, there you go. You've got to have a tester
for that, and you can get those from from garden
centers easically.
Speaker 6 (12:29):
Okay, just be in that one area that could be
for would be in.
Speaker 3 (12:37):
It could be the the spores of course, a fungal material.
And if they are in the soil and you keep
on planting the same ones there, you can get into trouble.
But if you can change that, you know, don't use assets,
but use alkal lines if you like to get that
pH higher. So that's that's one of the ways to
go about it.
Speaker 4 (12:56):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (12:57):
Is there any natural products I can put in the ere?
I did plant loop and seed over the winter and
dug that in. Is there anything natural that I can use?
Speaker 3 (13:08):
I don't know. Alkaline? What are you doing in terms
of alkaline?
Speaker 4 (13:11):
No?
Speaker 3 (13:11):
I don't know. To be quite honest, I'm not that
good at chemistry.
Speaker 6 (13:16):
Maybe missus Google can help me.
Speaker 3 (13:19):
You can help me, but that's the way to go.
You need your pH up over seven?
Speaker 6 (13:22):
Yeah, well over, okay, already, okay, thank you very much
all of this.
Speaker 3 (13:28):
How do you test for pH with a pH media thing?
You know what I mean? You can, you can do
it in all sorts of ways you can get I
think garden centers will have a pH machine that you
can get. It's not that expenses from memory.
Speaker 2 (13:44):
Okay, yeah. Is it a little bit similar to the
old moisture meter thing, a prong that you put on
the ground that tells.
Speaker 3 (13:50):
You something like that. Yeah, I haven't used it for decades.
Speaker 7 (13:54):
Right.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I have no problems with my pH at the moments,
and that's probably to do with with, as you said,
your mulch and all that sort of stuff. Sure should
be fine, brilliant, not always.
Speaker 2 (14:06):
Now your favorite topic, Matt, talk to us about passion fruit.
Speaker 7 (14:10):
Oh yes, please, I need up the oracle. Thank you,
the fruits, plump fruit.
Speaker 4 (14:22):
I would.
Speaker 3 (14:24):
The passion fruit should be in now, of course you
can plant it right now. Ever, go and I've got
good news and I've got bad news. The bad news
is my troubles. Say that again.
Speaker 7 (14:38):
Please give me the bad news fru please.
Speaker 3 (14:41):
The bad news is that the troubles are used to have.
If passion fruits are over, I've got them flowering. I've
got them flowering. That's the good news.
Speaker 7 (14:52):
That's beautiful. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (14:54):
But the point is, yeah, the point is to feed
them on a reasonably regular basis with some material that
will allow the flowers to get there, and it will
allow the fruit to develop once the flowers have been fertilized,
if you like.
Speaker 7 (15:12):
So that's real good. Throw the apartment full sun or
or semi shaded shaded area.
Speaker 3 (15:19):
I have them in about two thirds sons, so they
do get most of the light, but not the hottest
sun in in in the in the springtime and in summertime.
You know when the summer sun can be really blistering.
I decided that might not be a good idea. So
it's it's exactly in the morning sun and it is
(15:39):
still about midday, and then after that it's being slightly
uh covered by my tunnel house's next to it.
Speaker 5 (15:48):
Are you going to.
Speaker 2 (15:49):
Start with all of it and all much success with
your passion fruit?
Speaker 3 (15:58):
It worked?
Speaker 7 (15:59):
Ye?
Speaker 2 (15:59):
Good, and it's working for you obviously.
Speaker 3 (16:02):
Yes, Yes, I'm finally getting that stuff going and and
I'm not I can round with too much organic material
in the.
Speaker 2 (16:08):
Soil just enough fantastic.
Speaker 3 (16:12):
I always have been an organic materials person, and I've
realized that there's sometimes overdoing it and you sometimes need
mineral soil to actually mix it up with it properly,
which is yep, more than half should be mineral soil.
That's what I think.
Speaker 2 (16:27):
Brilliant, Jennifer. We'll try again. Hello, Jennifer.
Speaker 8 (16:31):
Hello here, you're.
Speaker 5 (16:32):
Going very well, thank you.
Speaker 8 (16:34):
We've got one another listener. Board beans. We've got black
blight on it. We wonder why we christ ea chair
and all serves an out of city. Each plant that
was given it up pulled the net so I wouldn't
go to the others. We got away bit of a crop,
(16:54):
but not as good as other years we've heard.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
Which beans were they, Jennifer, broad beans? Okay, yeah, yeah, okay,
natural decay, hay, fungal disease, chocolate spot. I think of
a whole lot of different things that it could be.
Speaker 8 (17:12):
You know, we did change the position that we normally
would have them then, and we wondered if it was
a lack of sunshine A bit could well be.
Speaker 3 (17:22):
Yeah, yeah, it could well be Oh that is awful.
It is awful because because broadbeans are pretty good and
they usually grow nice.
Speaker 8 (17:36):
We just thought we changed the position because there's the
same road. Take things around and yeah, it was the
first time here. We struck the blight lightness very and
you knew the pods themselves.
Speaker 3 (17:53):
Could you could you go back to the original place
where you used to grow them and see if that
if that really that's probably what works.
Speaker 8 (18:00):
Uh, yeah, well we're going to do that. We're not
going to plant them in that same spot. But I
just thought there might have been something in the air
and that looked hard to think.
Speaker 3 (18:09):
If it is a fungal disease, it's very simple, get
yourself some fungal fungicide. And it could be copper or
cop copper and and and something like that, you know
what I mean, which is reasonably safe to use.
Speaker 2 (18:21):
All the very best to you, Jennifer on that, and David,
good morning.
Speaker 5 (18:25):
Hey there, hey, thanks, hey, quick question. Both of your
expertise will be useful. I think I've got starlings in
my nest in my roof. Yeah, oh so it's I've
got it like it's it's the ridge. And if you
looked on top of the roof plan view. It's it's
(18:46):
a pointed shape, so it's like forty five degrees back
each side from the point, so they're getting right underneath
the underneath a ridge being a real pain. When can
I remove the net? If there's a nest that is
that happening now? Should I remove it now and block
it up? Or the way it's finished there.
Speaker 3 (19:06):
Would suggest you wait. Otherwise it becomes a bit smelly
after a while.
Speaker 5 (19:10):
Okay, yeah, you know what I mean.
Speaker 3 (19:12):
And and the thing is you can tell whether there
are young there when you hear them begging for food.
So if that's the case, if you of course, if
you can't close it off, but you'll you'll end up
with carcasses in there that that will still start to
become smelly. I saw exactly the same at the school
in the y wrapper yes yesterday before yesterday, and there
(19:33):
were starlings everywhere. It was just humble and you could
hear them, you know.
Speaker 5 (19:39):
Yeah, that's okay, okay, that's the straw won't pose any
fire hazard.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
No, not necessarily.
Speaker 5 (19:50):
YEA. And a quick one for Peter, if you've got time,
very quick, Peter, I've got a I've got a block
wall that's been plastered and it's exposed to the sun.
But where the mortar lines are, it's like it's bleeding
through to the plasts and the.
Speaker 2 (20:06):
Like a white material or effhorescence.
Speaker 5 (20:11):
Not really, it's it's actually dark lines and it's almost
like almost blistering, like it's splitting yep, the plaster a
little bit and craving a bit of a ridge there.
I suppose what's the best way to sort of you
just don't paint over it. Do you have to plaster
it again or dig it out? Or you plaster and
paint over it with.
Speaker 2 (20:31):
Something exposed, you know, scrape the paint off. You could
use some like crack repair powder so ce mix and
seeker both make them rub that into that, seal it
and then repaint it would probably be the best option.
All the best, take care righty oh now, rud I
am going to be traveling over the next couple of weeks,
(20:53):
so if it all goes well, then I will continue
to do the show. If you get a panicked phone
call from me, then I won't have been able to
connect for some reason, and we'll work it out. But
normal transition will resus sometime in January. But so for
the next couple of shows, it might sound a little
bit different and have a slightly different tone as I
(21:14):
dial in from different parts of the globe.
Speaker 3 (21:16):
I know what you mean, Yeah, just yet, but yell out.
I'll get my phone from and we're all good.
Speaker 2 (21:21):
You know what the time is, We'll figure it out.
We'll figure it out. Heyred, thank you, look after yourself,
take care all the best, and folks, thanks very much
for your company this morning. Last couple of weeks been
a sort of slightly different show with the all Black
matches taking a bit of time. Next week we're back
to sort of normal transmission by the fact that I'll
be dialing in from overseas, so looking forward to that,
(21:42):
going to go and discover different parts of the world.
But we will continue to bring you the show from
wherever I happen to be in the world. So look
after yourself, enjoy your week, and look forward to chatting
with you again next Sunday. Here at news Talk zi'd
B take.
Speaker 4 (21:57):
Care Live.
Speaker 1 (22:15):
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