1 00:00:06,855 --> 00:00:10,455 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf 2 00:00:10,455 --> 00:00:18,295 Speaker 1: Camp from News Talk Sedbden with still shop free accessories 3 00:00:18,295 --> 00:00:19,735 Speaker 1: this winter at steel Shop. 4 00:00:20,775 --> 00:00:22,455 Speaker 2: Ah, that was brilliant, right rude. 5 00:00:22,535 --> 00:00:26,215 Speaker 3: Good morning sir, A very good morning to you, pierrero Indeed, 6 00:00:26,575 --> 00:00:27,815 Speaker 3: is it all going well? 7 00:00:27,895 --> 00:00:31,055 Speaker 2: To be fair, I had a mild panic attack during 8 00:00:31,055 --> 00:00:36,495 Speaker 2: the week because I was out, and then a maid 9 00:00:36,575 --> 00:00:38,655 Speaker 2: of mine who's into the football text and goes, oh, 10 00:00:38,695 --> 00:00:40,815 Speaker 2: we won't be seeing you, and I'm thinking, hang on, 11 00:00:40,895 --> 00:00:44,455 Speaker 2: hang on, hand, what do you mean Netherlands didn't qualify 12 00:00:44,495 --> 00:00:46,575 Speaker 2: for the last sixteen of euro But they did. But 13 00:00:46,655 --> 00:00:48,855 Speaker 2: in the meantime I was quite distracted for a short 14 00:00:48,855 --> 00:00:56,335 Speaker 2: period of time there. Anyway, he was with my emotions. 15 00:00:56,695 --> 00:00:59,575 Speaker 3: I think, oh, now, yeah, but that's easy, that's easy 16 00:00:59,615 --> 00:00:59,855 Speaker 3: with you. 17 00:01:00,575 --> 00:01:04,015 Speaker 2: God's anyway, you're all good. 18 00:01:04,455 --> 00:01:06,695 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's good. I reckon it's my dear loved 19 00:01:06,735 --> 00:01:09,215 Speaker 3: you because you easy to toy with emotions. 20 00:01:11,295 --> 00:01:15,335 Speaker 2: She'll be listening to right suitably embarrassed. Let's get over 21 00:01:15,415 --> 00:01:19,135 Speaker 2: the calls. So a very good morning, good morning. 22 00:01:19,255 --> 00:01:22,215 Speaker 4: I have three sacrament on my bench in a corner 23 00:01:22,215 --> 00:01:24,775 Speaker 4: where they get some sort of afternoon some on the 24 00:01:24,815 --> 00:01:31,335 Speaker 4: flowers anyway up between twenty and thirty flowers each. Can 25 00:01:31,375 --> 00:01:35,175 Speaker 4: I feed it? Put some seafruit tea in the water 26 00:01:35,295 --> 00:01:37,775 Speaker 4: that I stand them in when they droop. 27 00:01:38,415 --> 00:01:41,695 Speaker 3: Absolutely, and I would use exactly that because that's the 28 00:01:41,735 --> 00:01:48,495 Speaker 3: one that actually gets your flowers going. Seaweed tea. Seaweed tea, 29 00:01:48,815 --> 00:01:49,255 Speaker 3: that's the one. 30 00:01:49,335 --> 00:01:50,015 Speaker 4: Seewheed tea. 31 00:01:50,415 --> 00:01:55,175 Speaker 3: How much I make it really weak tea. You know 32 00:01:55,295 --> 00:01:58,255 Speaker 3: the color of a very weak tea when you when 33 00:01:58,255 --> 00:02:01,015 Speaker 3: you water them. That's all you need to do. Don't 34 00:02:01,055 --> 00:02:03,615 Speaker 3: go over the top. I went over the top a 35 00:02:03,655 --> 00:02:05,735 Speaker 3: little bit with something I can't remember what it was 36 00:02:05,775 --> 00:02:08,855 Speaker 3: at home, and that that was so strong that the 37 00:02:08,895 --> 00:02:13,975 Speaker 3: plant went like whoa, whoa, whoa, and I needed to 38 00:02:14,055 --> 00:02:17,255 Speaker 3: really nurture it back to health because it was really 39 00:02:17,295 --> 00:02:19,495 Speaker 3: a bit too much, so really weak. 40 00:02:19,575 --> 00:02:19,695 Speaker 5: TI. 41 00:02:20,055 --> 00:02:20,495 Speaker 3: There you go. 42 00:02:21,975 --> 00:02:26,015 Speaker 4: You got an amazing amount of flat When I finish flaring, Yeah, 43 00:02:27,375 --> 00:02:30,255 Speaker 4: do I feed them then or just leave them? 44 00:02:30,655 --> 00:02:34,215 Speaker 3: I wouldn't worry because when they stopped flowering, they usually 45 00:02:34,495 --> 00:02:37,375 Speaker 3: have got enough stuff in there in their system to 46 00:02:37,575 --> 00:02:39,775 Speaker 3: get the next lots of leaves going. You know, they 47 00:02:39,815 --> 00:02:41,535 Speaker 3: have to sort of take it easy for a while 48 00:02:41,575 --> 00:02:43,055 Speaker 3: and create some more leaves. 49 00:02:44,095 --> 00:02:45,215 Speaker 4: Yes, Yes, there you go. 50 00:02:45,295 --> 00:02:47,535 Speaker 3: Don't worry too much about that every now and then. 51 00:02:47,775 --> 00:02:50,935 Speaker 4: Thanks very much. Yeah, goodbye. 52 00:02:51,375 --> 00:02:58,175 Speaker 2: See that's fantastic. Hey, now the quick takes. How do 53 00:02:58,255 --> 00:03:01,455 Speaker 2: we stop possums eating our lemons? Any tips? And then 54 00:03:01,495 --> 00:03:05,175 Speaker 2: another one tips on pruning pear trees. What can you 55 00:03:05,215 --> 00:03:06,175 Speaker 2: do to stop possums? 56 00:03:07,215 --> 00:03:10,095 Speaker 3: Okay, trap the cat, get a possum trap and get 57 00:03:10,095 --> 00:03:13,375 Speaker 3: a flipping tommy. If you flipping timmy they call it, 58 00:03:13,455 --> 00:03:15,575 Speaker 3: which is like the old fashioned possum trip that you 59 00:03:15,575 --> 00:03:18,015 Speaker 3: can hang up in a tree so it's safe for 60 00:03:18,015 --> 00:03:21,975 Speaker 3: for instance, your your dogs and things like that. And yeah, 61 00:03:22,135 --> 00:03:25,015 Speaker 3: you use you use shoot, what was it? I got it? 62 00:03:25,455 --> 00:03:25,935 Speaker 5: What was it? 63 00:03:26,415 --> 00:03:30,935 Speaker 3: Day? Then Vaneesh told me that he uses this white 64 00:03:30,935 --> 00:03:34,975 Speaker 3: stuff that smells really nice, some sugar and something else 65 00:03:35,015 --> 00:03:37,135 Speaker 3: and he puts it together in a big blaze of 66 00:03:37,295 --> 00:03:40,215 Speaker 3: white stuff. Oh, they love it. Cinnamon. There you go, 67 00:03:40,855 --> 00:03:44,215 Speaker 3: and they'll climb up and go and go and get it. Yep, yep, 68 00:03:44,335 --> 00:03:46,575 Speaker 3: little apple, little piece of apple. Where you go. 69 00:03:47,535 --> 00:03:52,095 Speaker 2: Wow, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant, brilliant. Right here, elistair, A very 70 00:03:52,135 --> 00:03:52,775 Speaker 2: good morning to. 71 00:03:52,735 --> 00:03:56,775 Speaker 6: You, morning leads. We're a little bit of a problem 72 00:03:56,815 --> 00:03:59,655 Speaker 6: with my lawn it's my pride and joy obviously behind 73 00:03:59,655 --> 00:04:03,335 Speaker 6: my wife. And I've got a few toadstools, our little 74 00:04:03,375 --> 00:04:05,815 Speaker 6: brown ones that have come up out of nowhere. I 75 00:04:05,895 --> 00:04:07,895 Speaker 6: put some line on last year, which I thought would 76 00:04:07,935 --> 00:04:11,375 Speaker 6: have maintained the pH But just looking at one there, 77 00:04:11,415 --> 00:04:13,215 Speaker 6: I'm sure you can see it through the phone, dark 78 00:04:13,255 --> 00:04:16,415 Speaker 6: brown that are size of a fifty cent piece. 79 00:04:17,055 --> 00:04:21,455 Speaker 3: A little cap, a little cap on the top. That's it. Yep, yeah, yeah, excellent. 80 00:04:21,815 --> 00:04:24,095 Speaker 3: And that to me is the fact that I don't 81 00:04:24,095 --> 00:04:25,735 Speaker 3: show you how old is your lawn. By the way, 82 00:04:26,015 --> 00:04:26,855 Speaker 3: when did you put it in? 83 00:04:27,135 --> 00:04:29,695 Speaker 6: Oh that two and a half three years ago? 84 00:04:30,255 --> 00:04:32,455 Speaker 3: Okay? And did you use a lot of composts in there? 85 00:04:34,175 --> 00:04:34,215 Speaker 7: No? 86 00:04:34,415 --> 00:04:37,895 Speaker 6: I used eggreasy, have a soil condition. I put that 87 00:04:37,975 --> 00:04:40,975 Speaker 6: on first, little pearls in your sprint around it could be. 88 00:04:41,335 --> 00:04:43,615 Speaker 3: You have to remember that these particular things in your 89 00:04:43,655 --> 00:04:46,135 Speaker 3: lawn are of no concern to your lawn at all, 90 00:04:46,175 --> 00:04:48,855 Speaker 3: because basically what it does is does the finishing touch 91 00:04:49,455 --> 00:04:54,015 Speaker 3: of decomposting, of composting, so there is material in your 92 00:04:54,095 --> 00:04:58,135 Speaker 3: soil there at some places where the compost has not 93 00:04:58,255 --> 00:05:02,015 Speaker 3: been composted properly yet, and those fungi come in through 94 00:05:02,175 --> 00:05:05,535 Speaker 3: spores that go in the air, and they say, land here, folks, 95 00:05:05,535 --> 00:05:08,815 Speaker 3: this is where we need. We are required to actually 96 00:05:08,895 --> 00:05:12,095 Speaker 3: get this soil in a perfect condition. I would not 97 00:05:12,615 --> 00:05:13,975 Speaker 3: worry about it at all. 98 00:05:15,255 --> 00:05:18,375 Speaker 6: Well, that's good. Now they're also causing the odd teen 99 00:05:18,455 --> 00:05:20,375 Speaker 6: cinimeter circle of sort of. 100 00:05:20,695 --> 00:05:24,135 Speaker 3: Eggs exactly I was, I thought. Now, I'm not going 101 00:05:24,215 --> 00:05:26,215 Speaker 3: to say that, but if you fly into christ Each 102 00:05:26,295 --> 00:05:29,055 Speaker 3: airport at this time of the year, you'll find circles 103 00:05:29,375 --> 00:05:32,135 Speaker 3: on the side of the runway everywhere you can see it. 104 00:05:32,135 --> 00:05:35,335 Speaker 3: It's brilliant in the grass. And that is exactly they 105 00:05:35,375 --> 00:05:39,095 Speaker 3: call them fairy rings, and that is exactly what that's about. 106 00:05:40,295 --> 00:05:42,695 Speaker 6: I've said though, but this is actually just bigger than 107 00:05:42,695 --> 00:05:45,535 Speaker 6: a cup. So it's actually that ten centimeters in diameter. 108 00:05:45,935 --> 00:05:49,655 Speaker 3: Yeah they can lawn, yeah, some and some are ten 109 00:05:49,695 --> 00:05:53,375 Speaker 3: meters diameter. And they probably have been going for something 110 00:05:53,455 --> 00:05:56,255 Speaker 3: like three or four years, five years, and they go 111 00:05:56,335 --> 00:05:58,415 Speaker 3: further out further out. Every year they go a bit 112 00:05:58,495 --> 00:06:01,015 Speaker 3: further out, So the cups will become plates, and the 113 00:06:01,055 --> 00:06:04,815 Speaker 3: plates will become a tire, and the tire will be 114 00:06:05,615 --> 00:06:06,255 Speaker 3: where you go. 115 00:06:08,615 --> 00:06:09,375 Speaker 6: Off, not stay. 116 00:06:10,135 --> 00:06:14,175 Speaker 3: Now, this is the point. This is to me, that 117 00:06:14,335 --> 00:06:16,695 Speaker 3: tells me that you've got a bloody good garden and 118 00:06:16,735 --> 00:06:20,495 Speaker 3: a good lawn, and that you are using the biodiversity 119 00:06:20,615 --> 00:06:24,375 Speaker 3: that runs this planet to actually make it into a 120 00:06:24,415 --> 00:06:27,375 Speaker 3: real good balance. So I wouldn't be too old. 121 00:06:28,255 --> 00:06:29,975 Speaker 6: My neighbors are on the out of town, I'll say, 122 00:06:30,015 --> 00:06:31,735 Speaker 6: what's that spotted bloody lawn you've got? 123 00:06:33,415 --> 00:06:35,415 Speaker 3: Tell them it goes under the house, It takes the 124 00:06:35,615 --> 00:06:38,175 Speaker 3: foundations out, it does all that, and they have to 125 00:06:38,255 --> 00:06:39,815 Speaker 3: ring Peter again where you go? 126 00:06:41,855 --> 00:06:46,135 Speaker 2: But OK, brilliant, all the very visti elsity, you take care. 127 00:06:47,535 --> 00:06:50,895 Speaker 2: Now there was a text as well. It probably was, 128 00:06:51,655 --> 00:06:55,855 Speaker 2: oh please ask rud if the wall mats for stopping 129 00:06:55,935 --> 00:06:59,135 Speaker 2: reducing weeds are effective or is there something better? 130 00:06:59,695 --> 00:07:01,975 Speaker 3: So there there are some good wall mats that, yeah, 131 00:07:02,135 --> 00:07:03,815 Speaker 3: use it. I get it. I've never used them, but 132 00:07:03,855 --> 00:07:07,095 Speaker 3: I've heard that pretty good. But again, you're you're putting 133 00:07:07,135 --> 00:07:10,575 Speaker 3: something in there that will decay, and you might get fucky. 134 00:07:11,735 --> 00:07:13,735 Speaker 2: But I mean in terms of, you know, if you're 135 00:07:13,775 --> 00:07:19,535 Speaker 2: thinking that whole thing around reduce, reuse, recycle, circular economy 136 00:07:19,575 --> 00:07:22,135 Speaker 2: and so on, if we're taking old wool that we 137 00:07:22,175 --> 00:07:24,655 Speaker 2: can't use for anything else, turning it into these mats 138 00:07:24,655 --> 00:07:27,295 Speaker 2: that you can put down as a weed suppressant, which 139 00:07:27,335 --> 00:07:29,135 Speaker 2: will then buy a degrade as well. 140 00:07:29,615 --> 00:07:35,455 Speaker 3: Absolutely, there is one thing I'm just shall I say 141 00:07:35,495 --> 00:07:39,175 Speaker 3: it or not the only thing, the only creature for 142 00:07:39,215 --> 00:07:43,095 Speaker 3: it's all the only insect that can actually decay or 143 00:07:43,455 --> 00:07:48,055 Speaker 3: take wool apart and recycle it. Two things. One is 144 00:07:48,255 --> 00:07:51,535 Speaker 3: the clothes moth, right, and the other one is the 145 00:07:51,695 --> 00:07:55,455 Speaker 3: carpet beetle. Now those are two of the creatures that 146 00:07:55,495 --> 00:07:57,055 Speaker 3: I'd at least liked in the. 147 00:07:57,255 --> 00:07:59,135 Speaker 2: Yeah, I was going to say the number of times 148 00:07:59,135 --> 00:08:00,775 Speaker 2: people have rung out to go I want to get 149 00:08:00,815 --> 00:08:02,135 Speaker 2: rid of those moths. So I want to get rid 150 00:08:02,135 --> 00:08:04,975 Speaker 2: of those carpet beetles. But the way you're creating an 151 00:08:05,055 --> 00:08:06,695 Speaker 2: environment for them outside of your. 152 00:08:06,575 --> 00:08:09,855 Speaker 3: House, absolutely absolutely. 153 00:08:09,295 --> 00:08:12,415 Speaker 2: No downside to that. We're going to take a short break. 154 00:08:12,415 --> 00:08:14,855 Speaker 2: We'll come back and talk to Bruce in just a moment. 155 00:08:17,895 --> 00:08:21,775 Speaker 1: Going with steel Shop free accessories this winter at steel Shop. 156 00:08:23,015 --> 00:08:29,175 Speaker 2: Right O, Tom, A very good morning to you. Hello Tom, Hello. 157 00:08:29,015 --> 00:08:33,775 Speaker 3: Tom, Good after morning tea. Tom. I think he's first. 158 00:08:33,615 --> 00:08:37,055 Speaker 2: Gone gone for a cup of tea. Talk to me 159 00:08:37,095 --> 00:08:38,215 Speaker 2: about your pond. 160 00:08:38,935 --> 00:08:41,575 Speaker 5: Oh yeah, yeah, I was talking to Rude. I think 161 00:08:41,615 --> 00:08:43,575 Speaker 5: it was the last week I say about this big 162 00:08:44,855 --> 00:08:46,895 Speaker 5: one ach well, probably about a two acre pond going 163 00:08:46,895 --> 00:08:48,175 Speaker 5: in the back of the property of working on the 164 00:08:48,175 --> 00:08:51,935 Speaker 5: one with a little bunker, and we planted Holland plant 165 00:08:51,975 --> 00:08:53,975 Speaker 5: heats and native plants and there's actually starting to look 166 00:08:54,015 --> 00:08:57,975 Speaker 5: really nice now. But what we've know this is what 167 00:08:58,015 --> 00:09:01,735 Speaker 5: are the little freshwater crayfish we have in New Zealand. 168 00:09:01,015 --> 00:09:05,895 Speaker 5: Cold there's because there's a stream that runs in the 169 00:09:05,935 --> 00:09:07,615 Speaker 5: pine and goes out of the pond down the other 170 00:09:07,615 --> 00:09:09,295 Speaker 5: in the property, and it seems there's quite a few 171 00:09:09,295 --> 00:09:11,055 Speaker 5: of those around. We're sitting down here in lunch one 172 00:09:11,135 --> 00:09:13,095 Speaker 5: day and one of the guys threw a bit of 173 00:09:13,175 --> 00:09:15,415 Speaker 5: ham into the pond, you and they sort of swarmed 174 00:09:15,455 --> 00:09:18,415 Speaker 5: after and ate it all. And we're thinking we should 175 00:09:18,415 --> 00:09:20,295 Speaker 5: we be doing it or not really for native things 176 00:09:20,295 --> 00:09:21,935 Speaker 5: like that. They seem to enjoy them, thinking well, well, 177 00:09:21,935 --> 00:09:25,335 Speaker 5: I probably probably shouldn't be feeding them, should be relying 178 00:09:25,375 --> 00:09:29,775 Speaker 5: on the native food, but they seem to enjoy it. 179 00:09:27,415 --> 00:09:32,615 Speaker 3: An that's right now, But every look, you could do 180 00:09:32,655 --> 00:09:35,175 Speaker 3: that as a you know, if you do it, let's 181 00:09:35,175 --> 00:09:37,415 Speaker 3: say once every two months, when you get some people 182 00:09:37,415 --> 00:09:40,055 Speaker 3: for Denners say coming everything with this, you know what 183 00:09:40,095 --> 00:09:42,895 Speaker 3: I mean? I think if they're there in that number, 184 00:09:43,215 --> 00:09:46,535 Speaker 3: they will get their prey anyway, They get their protein 185 00:09:46,615 --> 00:09:50,535 Speaker 3: anyway from other from other bits and pieces. But it 186 00:09:50,615 --> 00:09:51,135 Speaker 3: shows you. 187 00:09:51,815 --> 00:09:54,175 Speaker 5: We counted a bit we chump at about fifteen of 188 00:09:54,215 --> 00:09:54,895 Speaker 5: them at one time, and. 189 00:09:54,935 --> 00:09:57,975 Speaker 3: The lucky good on you. 190 00:09:58,295 --> 00:10:00,135 Speaker 5: It seems to be like a whole fabure in there, 191 00:10:00,175 --> 00:10:05,215 Speaker 5: and it's like, yeah, so they're just hiding. 192 00:10:04,895 --> 00:10:07,375 Speaker 8: On some of the native plants with planting we've planned 193 00:10:07,375 --> 00:10:09,335 Speaker 8: to them, so they actually hang over that. You'll side 194 00:10:09,335 --> 00:10:11,255 Speaker 8: there and they seem to be congregating under there. But 195 00:10:11,815 --> 00:10:13,215 Speaker 8: you go there and go, oh there, aren't you any 196 00:10:13,255 --> 00:10:14,815 Speaker 8: to throw a bit of a little bit of hem 197 00:10:14,935 --> 00:10:17,455 Speaker 8: like a small little finger sized piece in there? Next 198 00:10:17,495 --> 00:10:19,615 Speaker 8: minute they all can dart in the out there. 199 00:10:19,655 --> 00:10:24,615 Speaker 3: They are to be quite I think that is that. Yes, 200 00:10:24,735 --> 00:10:27,295 Speaker 3: I was just going to say, the best indicator for kids, 201 00:10:27,495 --> 00:10:29,895 Speaker 3: the best indicator for people that come to show you 202 00:10:29,935 --> 00:10:33,135 Speaker 3: that by diversity is actually working. And you know, if 203 00:10:33,175 --> 00:10:35,935 Speaker 3: you don't don't go over the top, you're you already 204 00:10:35,935 --> 00:10:38,575 Speaker 3: got the feeling you shouldn't do that. Don't go over 205 00:10:38,615 --> 00:10:40,655 Speaker 3: the top. But if you want to check how many 206 00:10:40,655 --> 00:10:43,175 Speaker 3: idents and then you can do this other thing, do it? 207 00:10:43,175 --> 00:10:46,215 Speaker 3: Maybe once every month, and then someday you realize that 208 00:10:46,255 --> 00:10:48,335 Speaker 3: in certain times of the year there might be fewer 209 00:10:48,415 --> 00:10:51,095 Speaker 3: colder than in other times of the year. And what 210 00:10:51,135 --> 00:10:54,215 Speaker 3: you're actually doing is a scientific observation. I think there's 211 00:10:54,215 --> 00:10:56,535 Speaker 3: nothing wrong with it, don't you know, Just a tiny 212 00:10:56,535 --> 00:10:59,615 Speaker 3: bit and you know they're there, they'll be there. Yeah. 213 00:10:59,695 --> 00:11:01,295 Speaker 5: Yeah, they're kind of like family pits. Now. 214 00:11:02,135 --> 00:11:05,535 Speaker 2: It's awesome, and maybe maybe a few eels in the 215 00:11:05,575 --> 00:11:08,055 Speaker 2: future as well. That would I went to actually, I 216 00:11:08,055 --> 00:11:09,935 Speaker 2: was doing a job at a place a couple of 217 00:11:09,935 --> 00:11:13,615 Speaker 2: months back, and again little streams running through the property there, 218 00:11:13,655 --> 00:11:15,975 Speaker 2: and there was one heel that had his favorite spot 219 00:11:16,015 --> 00:11:17,975 Speaker 2: up there and another one a little bit further down, 220 00:11:18,015 --> 00:11:20,575 Speaker 2: and they kind of drift around. They just hang around. 221 00:11:20,575 --> 00:11:22,975 Speaker 2: They know people look after them. 222 00:11:23,015 --> 00:11:25,055 Speaker 3: And I was I was staying with a friend in 223 00:11:25,135 --> 00:11:27,335 Speaker 3: there in Hamilton the other day. They had some in 224 00:11:27,375 --> 00:11:30,935 Speaker 3: their little little stream as well, and exactly the right places, 225 00:11:31,015 --> 00:11:33,335 Speaker 3: and they would migrate because if you go to the 226 00:11:33,375 --> 00:11:35,695 Speaker 3: next spot, then the other one, the old one would 227 00:11:35,695 --> 00:11:39,975 Speaker 3: come back. Say right, it was so cool. 228 00:11:40,375 --> 00:11:42,335 Speaker 2: Yeah, like you mandad didn't see them. They'd be straight 229 00:11:42,375 --> 00:11:51,495 Speaker 2: in the smoker, lovely right, Tom Greetings. 230 00:11:49,775 --> 00:11:52,935 Speaker 9: Good morning, sir, hey there, good morning, thank you. 231 00:11:52,975 --> 00:11:56,015 Speaker 3: Did you wake up? Tom? Did you wake up? You? 232 00:11:56,055 --> 00:11:56,255 Speaker 6: Could? 233 00:11:56,375 --> 00:11:59,455 Speaker 9: You could say that yes, No, I'm standing by another 234 00:11:59,615 --> 00:12:01,895 Speaker 9: radio and talking to it like thought, I heard your call. 235 00:12:02,175 --> 00:12:06,135 Speaker 9: But sorry, but a big quick about this rude. I'm 236 00:12:06,295 --> 00:12:08,775 Speaker 9: often concerned an old carp and I'm off to turn 237 00:12:08,855 --> 00:12:13,415 Speaker 9: about bora. And I looked recently in short bora all 238 00:12:13,455 --> 00:12:17,735 Speaker 9: through my old five little miss peat. But when does 239 00:12:17,815 --> 00:12:21,095 Speaker 9: bora into timber? We only know when it's coming out 240 00:12:21,135 --> 00:12:22,095 Speaker 9: the holes, aren't. 241 00:12:21,855 --> 00:12:25,215 Speaker 3: We Well, they come out of the holes in say November, 242 00:12:25,455 --> 00:12:28,295 Speaker 3: remember late October November, that's the time when you would, 243 00:12:28,335 --> 00:12:31,615 Speaker 3: if you like, spray your wood because when they come out, 244 00:12:31,735 --> 00:12:34,815 Speaker 3: they look for a mate, they do their dastly things, 245 00:12:34,855 --> 00:12:37,575 Speaker 3: and then they go and lay eggs on the timber again. 246 00:12:37,655 --> 00:12:41,655 Speaker 3: So that happens in in springtime. That's exactly the time 247 00:12:41,655 --> 00:12:45,295 Speaker 3: when it happens. So yeah. So the best way to 248 00:12:45,335 --> 00:12:49,455 Speaker 3: control borer depending on where it is, and especially of 249 00:12:49,855 --> 00:12:53,015 Speaker 3: woods on wood surfaces that are not in direct sunlight. 250 00:12:53,535 --> 00:12:57,975 Speaker 3: You can get your material from from a company that 251 00:12:58,175 --> 00:13:03,695 Speaker 3: makes a residual insecticide for aircraft, so we don't get 252 00:13:03,935 --> 00:13:06,055 Speaker 3: creepy crawlers in the country. That we don't want. And 253 00:13:06,135 --> 00:13:10,655 Speaker 3: the company that has that particular material is safe Works, 254 00:13:11,055 --> 00:13:13,855 Speaker 3: and Works is spelled with an X at the end. 255 00:13:14,015 --> 00:13:18,175 Speaker 3: Safe Works. You'll find them online. They're in Auckland, Wellington 256 00:13:18,215 --> 00:13:20,535 Speaker 3: and I think christ Church, but they'll probably send it 257 00:13:20,615 --> 00:13:22,135 Speaker 3: up to you as well. Get hold of them. 258 00:13:22,415 --> 00:13:24,975 Speaker 2: Hey, thanks very much for that. Tom had on that 259 00:13:25,095 --> 00:13:27,215 Speaker 2: because I, you know, store a bit of timber under 260 00:13:27,255 --> 00:13:29,375 Speaker 2: the house and they all these precious pieces of timber, 261 00:13:29,655 --> 00:13:31,055 Speaker 2: and I know there's a bit of boar in there. 262 00:13:31,135 --> 00:13:32,535 Speaker 2: So if I was to use some of the safe 263 00:13:32,535 --> 00:13:34,695 Speaker 2: Work stuff as a residual spray and just sort of 264 00:13:34,735 --> 00:13:36,695 Speaker 2: distribute it around, that would be effective. 265 00:13:37,215 --> 00:13:39,655 Speaker 3: Absolutely, And do it in particularly if you do it 266 00:13:39,735 --> 00:13:46,615 Speaker 3: later in the septemberate mid October, and that will last 267 00:13:46,695 --> 00:13:49,455 Speaker 3: you at least especially under the house. No sun last 268 00:13:49,535 --> 00:13:51,775 Speaker 3: year for three or four months. That's the whole season. 269 00:13:52,295 --> 00:13:59,495 Speaker 2: Perfect, all right, that's going in the diary. Bruce. Greetings, Bruce, Yeah, 270 00:13:59,895 --> 00:14:02,095 Speaker 2: claud Hey doing now. 271 00:14:02,135 --> 00:14:07,335 Speaker 10: Listen, I've got a Kaikuria lawn and it's I've got 272 00:14:07,415 --> 00:14:10,335 Speaker 10: the sparrows coming in by the dozens and dozens and 273 00:14:10,455 --> 00:14:13,895 Speaker 10: tearing it to pieces. Yeah, I think I've got rid 274 00:14:13,895 --> 00:14:17,615 Speaker 10: of that because I've brought four little black cats that 275 00:14:17,695 --> 00:14:20,375 Speaker 10: you buy online and you peg them into the lawn, 276 00:14:20,855 --> 00:14:24,335 Speaker 10: and it seems to keep the sparrows away. But now 277 00:14:24,375 --> 00:14:26,775 Speaker 10: the buddy finchers are coming in by the dozens and 278 00:14:26,855 --> 00:14:28,615 Speaker 10: dozens and feeding on the lawn. 279 00:14:31,015 --> 00:14:33,775 Speaker 3: Yep, I know. And if the first lot was it 280 00:14:33,935 --> 00:14:35,735 Speaker 3: silings or sparrows. 281 00:14:36,135 --> 00:14:39,175 Speaker 10: No, sparrows, dozens and dozens of them. 282 00:14:39,295 --> 00:14:40,495 Speaker 3: Yeah, well it might be. 283 00:14:40,535 --> 00:14:44,735 Speaker 10: They seem to stand on their head and dig right 284 00:14:44,775 --> 00:14:47,695 Speaker 10: down into it, and they actually tear the grass off. 285 00:14:48,175 --> 00:14:50,375 Speaker 10: So you end up with all your grass looking brown 286 00:14:50,415 --> 00:14:52,335 Speaker 10: because all the little bits that the torn off the 287 00:14:52,415 --> 00:14:53,975 Speaker 10: sun makes them go brow. 288 00:14:54,215 --> 00:14:56,295 Speaker 3: There you go. Yeah, But also there must be some 289 00:14:56,335 --> 00:14:59,215 Speaker 3: seeds there, and there must be something that they really enjoy. Now. 290 00:14:59,295 --> 00:15:01,775 Speaker 3: Finches and sparrows of course have a similar sort of 291 00:15:02,135 --> 00:15:05,135 Speaker 3: food preference, you know, which is usually the seeds and 292 00:15:06,735 --> 00:15:09,815 Speaker 3: new parts of plants, new buds and so on and 293 00:15:09,815 --> 00:15:13,175 Speaker 3: so forth. And basically that's what that's about. And to 294 00:15:13,215 --> 00:15:15,655 Speaker 3: be quite honest, does it really make a lot of 295 00:15:15,735 --> 00:15:18,135 Speaker 3: damage or are you just a bit peeved off about 296 00:15:18,175 --> 00:15:20,095 Speaker 3: the fact that they can stand on their head and 297 00:15:20,095 --> 00:15:20,655 Speaker 3: dig deep. 298 00:15:21,735 --> 00:15:21,975 Speaker 9: No? 299 00:15:21,975 --> 00:15:25,135 Speaker 10: No, if they spoil the lawn, the lawn should be 300 00:15:25,215 --> 00:15:27,815 Speaker 10: a beautiful green lawn, but it's not brown. 301 00:15:27,895 --> 00:15:31,255 Speaker 3: No, the lawn should be the lawn should be actually 302 00:15:31,975 --> 00:15:35,815 Speaker 3: a complete How do you call that thing with native 303 00:15:35,855 --> 00:15:39,215 Speaker 3: wildflowers that you never have to mow maybe once three 304 00:15:39,295 --> 00:15:41,695 Speaker 3: times a year. Can you imagine having a lawn of 305 00:15:41,735 --> 00:15:44,695 Speaker 3: wildflowers that goes up to your knees almost and you 306 00:15:44,815 --> 00:15:47,375 Speaker 3: only mow it two or three times a year and 307 00:15:47,415 --> 00:15:50,055 Speaker 3: you get flowers as well. I think that's what I 308 00:15:50,135 --> 00:15:50,895 Speaker 3: call a lawn. 309 00:15:53,455 --> 00:15:56,695 Speaker 10: No, no, no, Because we live by the beach, we're 310 00:15:56,735 --> 00:15:58,815 Speaker 10: only a couple of hundred yards away from the sea. 311 00:15:59,575 --> 00:16:02,735 Speaker 3: Well there you are. What do you think Lord Almighty 312 00:16:02,815 --> 00:16:04,375 Speaker 3: used to make in the form of a lawn? 313 00:16:06,295 --> 00:16:06,735 Speaker 10: I don't know. 314 00:16:07,415 --> 00:16:09,735 Speaker 3: Well, there you go go. Never look go never look 315 00:16:09,735 --> 00:16:13,015 Speaker 3: on native native fields and you'll get You'll get all 316 00:16:13,055 --> 00:16:15,175 Speaker 3: sorts of flowers. Now, I'm just saying that's the way this. 317 00:16:15,335 --> 00:16:17,575 Speaker 3: But what do you do about it? I don't think 318 00:16:17,615 --> 00:16:19,735 Speaker 3: you can do much about it, to be quite honest, 319 00:16:19,775 --> 00:16:22,735 Speaker 3: about getting these creatures to go for the food that 320 00:16:22,775 --> 00:16:25,575 Speaker 3: they really enjoy in your lawn. And Kai Kuu is 321 00:16:25,615 --> 00:16:29,655 Speaker 3: actually quite a strange lawn because it came from from Africa. 322 00:16:30,695 --> 00:16:33,495 Speaker 3: K Yeah, but it's. 323 00:16:33,375 --> 00:16:34,015 Speaker 9: Good for beach. 324 00:16:34,175 --> 00:16:35,735 Speaker 10: It's good for lawns by the beach. 325 00:16:36,095 --> 00:16:39,255 Speaker 3: I totally agree, Yes it does. But you mow yourself, silly. 326 00:16:41,215 --> 00:16:43,615 Speaker 10: No, No, I just mow the lawn once a week, 327 00:16:43,695 --> 00:16:45,255 Speaker 10: like I normally know any other lawn. 328 00:16:45,615 --> 00:16:49,175 Speaker 3: Yeah, ye're fair enough, but forget it. Forget it, and 329 00:16:49,215 --> 00:16:51,215 Speaker 3: it'll go right through the borders, won't it. 330 00:16:52,575 --> 00:16:54,735 Speaker 10: So there's nothing I can put on there now that'll 331 00:16:54,775 --> 00:16:55,735 Speaker 10: get rid of the finches. 332 00:16:56,295 --> 00:16:58,655 Speaker 3: No, no, you can't. You can catch them with a 333 00:16:58,655 --> 00:17:04,375 Speaker 3: big net and a cannon a cannon net, you know. No, 334 00:17:04,775 --> 00:17:06,575 Speaker 3: I'm not going to go there. Don't worry now. I'm 335 00:17:06,575 --> 00:17:07,375 Speaker 3: just thinking it might. 336 00:17:07,295 --> 00:17:08,895 Speaker 2: Just be a case of everyone's got to eat. 337 00:17:11,415 --> 00:17:11,735 Speaker 6: Jiminy. 338 00:17:11,735 --> 00:17:13,615 Speaker 2: You're up toil over Denmark by the way. 339 00:17:15,135 --> 00:17:18,935 Speaker 3: Yeah, I wish, I wish the thunder was going on. 340 00:17:25,695 --> 00:17:29,535 Speaker 2: I can't even hit the buttons anymore. Oh, David, greetings 341 00:17:29,535 --> 00:17:29,935 Speaker 2: to you. 342 00:17:30,855 --> 00:17:36,695 Speaker 7: Good morning, Rude. I'm fine, thank you. I have a 343 00:17:36,775 --> 00:17:40,175 Speaker 7: problem with a more park apricot tree. 344 00:17:40,375 --> 00:17:43,095 Speaker 3: Oh more pack my favorite variety. 345 00:17:44,255 --> 00:17:48,895 Speaker 7: Yeah, not mine. It's ten years old, it's going into 346 00:17:49,215 --> 00:17:52,935 Speaker 7: tenth season and it's had more birthdays than apricots. 347 00:17:53,575 --> 00:17:56,295 Speaker 3: Oh, good on you. So you did fertilize it, I 348 00:17:56,375 --> 00:17:57,415 Speaker 3: suppose regularly. 349 00:17:58,215 --> 00:18:01,895 Speaker 7: Well, I started out fertilizing it seemed to make no difference, 350 00:18:01,975 --> 00:18:05,095 Speaker 7: so I gave up on there. It's been gulched. I've 351 00:18:05,615 --> 00:18:09,735 Speaker 7: pruned it carefully. I've just sprayed it with copper and oil. 352 00:18:10,575 --> 00:18:15,375 Speaker 7: Tree is very healthy, very sound. It's on a gentle 353 00:18:15,695 --> 00:18:21,535 Speaker 7: north facing slope, so it's well drained, and last spring 354 00:18:22,015 --> 00:18:23,815 Speaker 7: was no blossom at all. 355 00:18:24,535 --> 00:18:26,495 Speaker 3: That's right. So what I want to talk to you 356 00:18:26,535 --> 00:18:29,095 Speaker 3: about is what I just said before. What did you 357 00:18:29,175 --> 00:18:32,535 Speaker 3: feed it? How many breakfasts do you have every week? 358 00:18:35,055 --> 00:18:37,175 Speaker 7: No, I haven't feed it for a week, for one 359 00:18:37,295 --> 00:18:38,295 Speaker 7: or two for a while. 360 00:18:38,815 --> 00:18:40,735 Speaker 3: No, that's right. But what would you What did you 361 00:18:40,855 --> 00:18:42,135 Speaker 3: use to fertilize it with? 362 00:18:43,455 --> 00:18:50,055 Speaker 7: I had some general fertilizer, and what's another one, the 363 00:18:50,255 --> 00:18:51,095 Speaker 7: one for fruzing. 364 00:18:52,375 --> 00:18:55,455 Speaker 3: What's it called tomato or roast fertilizer whatever? 365 00:18:55,655 --> 00:19:01,415 Speaker 7: No, no, no, no, no, I don't know is that 366 00:19:01,455 --> 00:19:02,055 Speaker 7: the one? Is it? 367 00:19:02,815 --> 00:19:03,015 Speaker 6: Well? 368 00:19:03,055 --> 00:19:05,575 Speaker 3: I would use stuff that you use for creatures or 369 00:19:05,615 --> 00:19:09,415 Speaker 3: plants that need flower and fruit, like roses and tomatoes 370 00:19:09,495 --> 00:19:11,975 Speaker 3: and all these things, because that means that there's more 371 00:19:12,055 --> 00:19:15,455 Speaker 3: potash in the mix. And the potash is the material 372 00:19:15,495 --> 00:19:19,215 Speaker 3: that actually makes them flour and makes the flowers set 373 00:19:19,335 --> 00:19:21,935 Speaker 3: seeds and fruits, and that is how you get your fruit. 374 00:19:23,095 --> 00:19:25,415 Speaker 3: And that's all to do with potash in the fertilizer. 375 00:19:25,935 --> 00:19:26,375 Speaker 3: There you go. 376 00:19:26,815 --> 00:19:29,015 Speaker 7: Is this the right time of year to give it 377 00:19:29,095 --> 00:19:29,935 Speaker 7: the potash? 378 00:19:30,095 --> 00:19:32,695 Speaker 3: No, not until spring. You'll have to do the spring. 379 00:19:32,735 --> 00:19:35,015 Speaker 3: There At the moment, nothing is working, so nothing will 380 00:19:35,015 --> 00:19:38,055 Speaker 3: be feeding off that stuff at all. I'm sorry, David, 381 00:19:38,055 --> 00:19:40,375 Speaker 3: if you have to wait a little potash fertilizer, so 382 00:19:40,455 --> 00:19:44,495 Speaker 3: high potash fertilizer, ask your local garden center for high 383 00:19:44,775 --> 00:19:46,295 Speaker 3: potash fertilizer. 384 00:19:46,375 --> 00:19:48,375 Speaker 2: I'm going to write that down too, because it feels 385 00:19:48,415 --> 00:19:51,015 Speaker 2: like the time to sort of start fertilizing is not fun. 386 00:19:51,415 --> 00:19:56,255 Speaker 3: You No, no, not until a right, yeah, don't remind 387 00:19:56,255 --> 00:19:56,575 Speaker 3: me then. 388 00:19:57,215 --> 00:19:58,175 Speaker 2: In fact, let's talk. 389 00:19:59,775 --> 00:20:00,095 Speaker 3: Next week. 390 00:20:00,135 --> 00:20:08,215 Speaker 1: By For more for the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp, 391 00:20:08,375 --> 00:20:11,495 Speaker 1: listen live to Newstalk zeb on Sunday mornings from six, 392 00:20:11,855 --> 00:20:13,895 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.