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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Tame podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at be.

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Speaker 2: A Man in the Garden is rude? Climing passed? Rude?

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Speaker 2: I started the show this morning by explaining that I've

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Speaker 2: just been jiggling my strawberries because the strawberries are my

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Speaker 2: place are looking excellent right now. But I've been going

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Speaker 2: out each morning just as I leave the house, and

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Speaker 2: you know, just repositioning them so that they don't get

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Speaker 2: too much contact with the ground or anything. I've got

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Speaker 2: straw underneath them, but just in case there's any moisture

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Speaker 2: or anything like that. So I've been looking for a

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Speaker 2: new term because I think jiggling strawberries doesn't quite work.

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Speaker 2: So Vicky, you sent me a note. She said it

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Speaker 2: could be strawberry jostling, which I quite like. Joscelyn, yeah,

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Speaker 2: or just turning your strawberries. Do we say? Is there

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Speaker 2: an official term in the gardening world, Not that I.

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Speaker 3: Know of, but you've got it right. What I would

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Speaker 3: say is I would put it on too on dry

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Speaker 3: what do you call it, grass clippings or something like that,

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Speaker 3: so to not have to me in contact with a

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Speaker 3: moist soil.

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Speaker 2: No, So I've got I've got pea straw underneath it.

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Speaker 2: I've put straw yes, yes, but it's still I just

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Speaker 2: am kind of paranoid about it. So I still go

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Speaker 2: out there and just you know, just turn the never

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Speaker 2: so slightly, you know.

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Speaker 3: Well, then your word would be peace strawing.

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Speaker 2: Yes, maybe peace strawing, peace drawing my strawberries, yeah, peas strawberry.

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Speaker 2: I don't know. Anyway, it is nice to see them.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure how they are your places yet, but

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Speaker 2: we've had such hot weather in Auckland over the last

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks that I think they're just just the

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Speaker 2: first strawberries of the season, just coming through.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, be careful though, don't get too hot, you know

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Speaker 3: what I mean, if you can handle that. But also

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Speaker 3: the point is that you need to have them literally

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Speaker 3: in a drier condition then yeah, so the peace strawing

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Speaker 3: is not a bad idea.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very good. Anyway, you're focusing on feeding plants the

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Speaker 2: right stuff at this time of year, because.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, first of all, I don't like the word

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Speaker 3: feeding because you don't feed your plants. I mean, gosh,

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Speaker 3: who goes out into the forest and feeds the trees?

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Speaker 3: You know? Yeah, that's the whole point. So the point.

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Speaker 3: But then again I get a lot of people on

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Speaker 3: talk back too that are complaining that there's not enough

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Speaker 3: fruits on the trees and all that, and how many

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Speaker 3: breakfasts do you have every springtime? And and it's exactly

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Speaker 3: like that. So so let's let's get into that. The

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Speaker 3: plants a feed themselves. That's what they do through photosynthesis,

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Speaker 3: as we all know, that's theme. But what they do

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Speaker 3: is they pick up all the elements that the soil has.

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Speaker 3: So yes, sometimes you need to put some NPK into

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Speaker 3: the soil, depending on what you're growing, of course, And

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Speaker 3: and basically what you're doing is you make sure that

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Speaker 3: there is enough of this stuff that the roots can

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Speaker 3: pick up. That's what it's about. That's the guts. So

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Speaker 3: there's three types of fertilizers that I could talk about.

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Speaker 3: You know, generally speaking, we talk about general fertilizer, which

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Speaker 3: is NPK and more or less the same sort of

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Speaker 3: matter of numbers NPK seven three, six or twelve, four thirteen, whatever,

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Speaker 3: But it's always to do with a nice balance. But

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Speaker 3: if you talk about n P and K, the n

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Speaker 3: is for making grass or green, you know, green material.

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Speaker 3: The PA is for the root zone and health of

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Speaker 3: the plant, and the K is for potash, which is

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Speaker 3: basically for your flowers and your fruit. So all these

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Speaker 3: three different things need a slightly different NPK ratio. I've

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Speaker 3: written it down on Libby's email thing. You can find

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Speaker 3: it in there. Potatoes has more K, so more in

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Speaker 3: the middle, tomatoes mirror at the end. It's a rose. Fertilizers,

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Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff, and this is how you

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Speaker 3: go on. But what I tend to do is I

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Speaker 3: go for general fertilizer. Quite often. I use seaweed or

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Speaker 3: sea footstoop some that when forgod stuff, but I use

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Speaker 3: it in a really light manner when I water the

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Speaker 3: plants in the tunnel house. And then what you do

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Speaker 3: is you add a little bit of pottash. If you

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Speaker 3: want fruit, you add a little bit of K. If

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Speaker 3: you want roots, and you a little bit of and

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Speaker 3: if you want green material. You know, yeah, that is

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Speaker 3: It's a very simple technique.

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Speaker 2: It is.

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Speaker 3: And ye that helps you out.

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Speaker 1: Yeah that sounds.

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Speaker 2: That sounds great. So I've been using a lot of

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Speaker 2: a lot of seaweed at home.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, not a lot.

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Speaker 2: You know, you've got to be pretty potent. That stuff,

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Speaker 2: but you.

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Speaker 3: Know, absolutely it is.

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Speaker 2: Don't go for the top, I know, but it's it

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Speaker 2: is tempting to. I still have that. I still a

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Speaker 2: kind of like a child, you know, I'm like more

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Speaker 2: and more, but yeah, yeah no, but I think it's

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Speaker 2: already made quite a big difference at our place. So

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Speaker 2: thank you very much for that, rude. We'll make sure

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Speaker 2: all of your tips are up on the news stories

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Speaker 2: you'd be website and you can access those very shortly.

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