1 00:00:06,815 --> 00:00:10,695 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp 2 00:00:10,895 --> 00:00:11,695 Speaker 1: from News Talks. 3 00:00:11,695 --> 00:00:11,975 Speaker 2: A'd be. 4 00:00:13,615 --> 00:00:14,375 Speaker 3: Re climb pass. 5 00:00:14,415 --> 00:00:18,575 Speaker 4: Good morning, Good morning, Peter, greetings, greasings. Is everything all 6 00:00:18,655 --> 00:00:19,255 Speaker 4: right where you are? 7 00:00:19,375 --> 00:00:19,535 Speaker 5: Yeah? 8 00:00:19,615 --> 00:00:21,375 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, rocking along, rocking along. 9 00:00:21,615 --> 00:00:23,775 Speaker 4: Hey, I just before we go, I just want to 10 00:00:23,815 --> 00:00:27,295 Speaker 4: say something about Polka. Yeah we are. I saw that 11 00:00:27,535 --> 00:00:32,015 Speaker 4: article too, Yes, well think yeah. Well there's for those 12 00:00:32,055 --> 00:00:34,335 Speaker 4: people that don't know, PUKA is something that's been going 13 00:00:34,375 --> 00:00:37,135 Speaker 4: for sixty years or so, and it's the very first 14 00:00:37,215 --> 00:00:39,815 Speaker 4: thing that the Wildlife Service at the time, or DOC 15 00:00:39,895 --> 00:00:42,935 Speaker 4: if you like, looked after all our birds and things 16 00:00:43,055 --> 00:00:45,135 Speaker 4: like that and did all the breeding and stuff like that. 17 00:00:45,935 --> 00:00:48,895 Speaker 4: And they are in trouble now because I suppose, I 18 00:00:48,935 --> 00:00:50,775 Speaker 4: don't know if it's the government or whether it's DOC, 19 00:00:50,895 --> 00:00:54,095 Speaker 4: or whether it's a combination of everything, and they're basically 20 00:00:55,215 --> 00:00:57,535 Speaker 4: coming back on whatever they said they would do, and 21 00:00:57,815 --> 00:01:00,935 Speaker 4: basically they're running out of money. So what PUKA is 22 00:01:00,975 --> 00:01:03,615 Speaker 4: basically doing, I'd like to urge local people into y 23 00:01:03,735 --> 00:01:06,615 Speaker 4: rapid they have a look at the support their fund 24 00:01:06,735 --> 00:01:11,535 Speaker 4: of raising efforts. Basically, I think they got about seventeen 25 00:01:11,735 --> 00:01:14,255 Speaker 4: thousand bucks already in the first day and a half. 26 00:01:14,775 --> 00:01:17,175 Speaker 4: So that's pretty good, but we need a heck of 27 00:01:17,255 --> 00:01:21,055 Speaker 4: a lot more. And please locals in the y wrapper. 28 00:01:21,935 --> 00:01:23,855 Speaker 4: When I'm there, I always go there, you know, as 29 00:01:23,895 --> 00:01:25,815 Speaker 4: you know you go there too, and we all know 30 00:01:25,975 --> 00:01:29,855 Speaker 4: what this is about. We really need this unless you 31 00:01:30,055 --> 00:01:32,135 Speaker 4: just don't mind it going down to gurgler and that's 32 00:01:32,135 --> 00:01:36,175 Speaker 4: where it's going now. It's said, it is pretty said. 33 00:01:36,335 --> 00:01:39,975 Speaker 3: Yeah, I saw. I mean the article's only just appeared. 34 00:01:40,015 --> 00:01:42,735 Speaker 3: I think it was in the post and it's been reposted. 35 00:01:42,855 --> 00:01:47,935 Speaker 3: So yeah, without legent funding, they are looking they may have. 36 00:01:48,455 --> 00:01:51,655 Speaker 4: Yeah, that's right, that's a shock. It is a shakra 37 00:01:51,775 --> 00:01:54,455 Speaker 4: and it is something this I know that we need 38 00:01:54,575 --> 00:01:59,895 Speaker 4: structural literacy. Yeah, yeah, sorry, can I take the mickey 39 00:01:59,935 --> 00:02:02,895 Speaker 4: and the government for a while. Yeah, we need nature 40 00:02:03,535 --> 00:02:06,375 Speaker 4: or it's called structural literacy, but what I think we 41 00:02:06,495 --> 00:02:10,655 Speaker 4: need as well is natural literacy or natural history. And 42 00:02:10,775 --> 00:02:13,415 Speaker 4: if we don't have that for our next generation of kids, 43 00:02:13,935 --> 00:02:15,935 Speaker 4: we will always be making more and more and more 44 00:02:16,055 --> 00:02:18,815 Speaker 4: money without having anything to do with the planet. Yeah, 45 00:02:19,295 --> 00:02:20,855 Speaker 4: and this is bloody important. 46 00:02:20,935 --> 00:02:21,095 Speaker 2: Yeah. 47 00:02:21,255 --> 00:02:23,975 Speaker 3: Well, let's keep reminding people about the tremendous work that 48 00:02:24,055 --> 00:02:26,455 Speaker 3: they do and it is worthy of support without a doubt. 49 00:02:27,015 --> 00:02:29,175 Speaker 4: Absolutely big, thank you, Right, no trouble at all. 50 00:02:29,775 --> 00:02:31,975 Speaker 3: Look, I really enjoyed the brief time that I had there, 51 00:02:32,015 --> 00:02:35,095 Speaker 3: and I think it's a tremendous resource. So it'd be very, 52 00:02:35,255 --> 00:02:38,575 Speaker 3: very sad to see something like that disappear. Right, Let's 53 00:02:38,575 --> 00:02:44,095 Speaker 3: get amongst it. George, greetings to you, sir, here are you? 54 00:02:44,215 --> 00:02:44,575 Speaker 6: Yeah? Good? 55 00:02:44,615 --> 00:02:48,575 Speaker 4: Thanks? George rude, Yeah, mate. 56 00:02:50,855 --> 00:02:53,415 Speaker 2: Skinks. I've noticed the last year or two have been 57 00:02:53,415 --> 00:02:56,175 Speaker 2: a fear proliferation of skinks where I had none for 58 00:02:56,295 --> 00:03:00,295 Speaker 2: booking years. Forty plus years ago, I bought a whole 59 00:03:00,335 --> 00:03:03,175 Speaker 2: bunch of them home and none order to survive drop 60 00:03:03,255 --> 00:03:06,735 Speaker 2: fails and bye and all this sort of thing. They 61 00:03:06,775 --> 00:03:10,255 Speaker 2: were being clearly up from an area around where I 62 00:03:10,455 --> 00:03:13,895 Speaker 2: was at the time, but you know, they just never happened, 63 00:03:14,055 --> 00:03:15,695 Speaker 2: and I thought we need to have them just on 64 00:03:15,815 --> 00:03:18,935 Speaker 2: the around the house, and that nothing happened. But last 65 00:03:19,015 --> 00:03:22,055 Speaker 2: couple of years I've then around my garage if it's 66 00:03:22,055 --> 00:03:25,055 Speaker 2: going to get the little buggers, you know, escape off 67 00:03:25,095 --> 00:03:29,135 Speaker 2: and back under things in a way and whatever he 68 00:03:29,295 --> 00:03:31,735 Speaker 2: seems something you've appeared. And I know them occasionally in 69 00:03:31,815 --> 00:03:34,215 Speaker 2: around the lawn and up around the garden and stuff. 70 00:03:34,895 --> 00:03:37,375 Speaker 2: I got it, you know, So these these little beast 71 00:03:37,415 --> 00:03:38,215 Speaker 2: these too appeared. 72 00:03:38,375 --> 00:03:38,935 Speaker 7: Are they good? 73 00:03:39,135 --> 00:03:41,415 Speaker 2: Are they bad? Or are they a problem? 74 00:03:42,135 --> 00:03:42,735 Speaker 4: What do you get? 75 00:03:42,855 --> 00:03:43,415 Speaker 2: What? What? What? 76 00:03:43,735 --> 00:03:45,655 Speaker 4: What do you think? What do you think when they 77 00:03:45,735 --> 00:03:47,775 Speaker 4: suddenly come up being huge numbers? 78 00:03:48,535 --> 00:03:53,855 Speaker 2: M hm, well something something is obviously not knocking them back. 79 00:03:53,975 --> 00:03:55,655 Speaker 2: I don't know whether it's good to have them or not. 80 00:03:55,855 --> 00:03:58,695 Speaker 4: You know, what do you what do you think? What 81 00:03:58,775 --> 00:04:01,215 Speaker 4: do you think? My question was, what do you think? 82 00:04:01,295 --> 00:04:03,415 Speaker 4: Are they good or bed? When they come up like 83 00:04:03,615 --> 00:04:07,815 Speaker 4: idiots in so many numbers in the places in the 84 00:04:07,935 --> 00:04:12,415 Speaker 4: North Island. They are imports from Australia. They are buggers. 85 00:04:12,575 --> 00:04:14,895 Speaker 4: We need to get rid of them, and it's impossible. 86 00:04:15,415 --> 00:04:18,095 Speaker 4: They eat our native skinks. They eat all our native 87 00:04:18,135 --> 00:04:21,175 Speaker 4: plants or our native plants, our native insects and things 88 00:04:21,255 --> 00:04:24,055 Speaker 4: like that. And they used to call them rainbow skinks 89 00:04:24,175 --> 00:04:26,255 Speaker 4: because they've got a bit of a rainbow wee color 90 00:04:26,335 --> 00:04:32,455 Speaker 4: around the body. But they call them now the plague skink. Okay, 91 00:04:33,135 --> 00:04:34,855 Speaker 4: have a look, have a look on ever, look how 92 00:04:34,895 --> 00:04:37,735 Speaker 4: to identify them, and you will find to your surprise 93 00:04:37,855 --> 00:04:40,815 Speaker 4: or to your shock, especially around Auckland, even when I 94 00:04:40,935 --> 00:04:44,975 Speaker 4: was there about fifteen years ago, it was unbelievable to 95 00:04:45,055 --> 00:04:47,295 Speaker 4: see the numbers of them going up and up and 96 00:04:47,455 --> 00:04:47,855 Speaker 4: up and up. 97 00:04:48,335 --> 00:04:55,175 Speaker 3: No good, I'm afraid, okay, And funnily enough, George, I mean, 98 00:04:55,735 --> 00:04:58,855 Speaker 3: if I'm mowing the lawns right along and edge where 99 00:04:59,015 --> 00:05:01,855 Speaker 3: there's a concrete retaining wall as well, which is nice 100 00:05:01,895 --> 00:05:05,135 Speaker 3: and warm, obviously, and as I'm going along there, it's just, 101 00:05:05,615 --> 00:05:07,575 Speaker 3: you know, like every time I'm owed the lawn now, 102 00:05:07,655 --> 00:05:10,375 Speaker 3: they'll be scattering out from the lawn as I go. 103 00:05:10,615 --> 00:05:13,895 Speaker 3: And that's something that I wouldn't have seen that much 104 00:05:14,015 --> 00:05:18,175 Speaker 3: ten years ago. So this is obviously an introduced species 105 00:05:18,255 --> 00:05:24,855 Speaker 3: that is now coming to dominate the habitat. Is there 106 00:05:24,935 --> 00:05:25,495 Speaker 3: a control? 107 00:05:26,335 --> 00:05:27,375 Speaker 4: There is no control. 108 00:05:27,815 --> 00:05:32,535 Speaker 3: I was gonna say. I mean again, the hard thing 109 00:05:32,655 --> 00:05:35,175 Speaker 3: is like I kind of like them, but I realized 110 00:05:35,175 --> 00:05:38,055 Speaker 3: that I shouldn't ye, so if the cat brings them in, 111 00:05:38,055 --> 00:05:38,975 Speaker 3: I shouldn't be unhappy. 112 00:05:39,455 --> 00:05:42,655 Speaker 4: No, this is the only you have to train the 113 00:05:42,775 --> 00:05:46,455 Speaker 4: cat just to do that. Here we go, Because there was. 114 00:05:46,495 --> 00:05:48,615 Speaker 3: Me the other day and a guy comes up to 115 00:05:48,695 --> 00:05:51,175 Speaker 3: me in the street and goes, I've got a bone 116 00:05:51,215 --> 00:05:53,055 Speaker 3: to pick with you, and I'm like, what do I 117 00:05:53,175 --> 00:05:53,735 Speaker 3: do this time? 118 00:05:55,015 --> 00:05:55,055 Speaker 2: No? 119 00:05:55,295 --> 00:05:56,095 Speaker 7: This is my daughter. 120 00:05:56,375 --> 00:05:57,935 Speaker 3: She was most upset with her. 121 00:05:58,015 --> 00:05:58,615 Speaker 2: The other day. 122 00:05:59,975 --> 00:06:00,455 Speaker 8: What was it? 123 00:06:01,255 --> 00:06:01,735 Speaker 3: The cats? 124 00:06:02,375 --> 00:06:02,775 Speaker 4: The cats? 125 00:06:03,015 --> 00:06:04,095 Speaker 3: He asked me if I like them? 126 00:06:04,135 --> 00:06:08,175 Speaker 4: And yeah, yeah, Well, I mean I'm just trying to look. 127 00:06:08,335 --> 00:06:13,055 Speaker 3: It's going to trigger her again, but yeah, I'm. 128 00:06:12,935 --> 00:06:14,735 Speaker 4: Trying to be I'm trying to have a bit of 129 00:06:14,775 --> 00:06:17,015 Speaker 4: a gentle laugh about it as well. But on the 130 00:06:17,055 --> 00:06:19,935 Speaker 4: other hand, if you go to for instance, why Heckey Island, 131 00:06:20,455 --> 00:06:22,775 Speaker 4: there no now, for instance, to keep your dog on 132 00:06:22,855 --> 00:06:25,255 Speaker 4: the lead. Yes, because we've got Kiwi and they're really 133 00:06:25,335 --> 00:06:27,215 Speaker 4: proud to be able to tell them that, you know, 134 00:06:27,415 --> 00:06:29,695 Speaker 4: very gentle. But that's the way the same with kids. 135 00:06:29,855 --> 00:06:30,815 Speaker 4: Just be careful with them. 136 00:06:31,775 --> 00:06:35,535 Speaker 3: Knowledge. Right now, let's talk to Jeff. 137 00:06:35,695 --> 00:06:39,855 Speaker 9: Greetings, Yes, good morning, Good morning Pete. En route, how 138 00:06:39,935 --> 00:06:40,055 Speaker 9: are you? 139 00:06:40,215 --> 00:06:41,695 Speaker 4: Hello? Good, We're good, Jeff. 140 00:06:41,775 --> 00:06:43,135 Speaker 2: I'll go for it. Good. 141 00:06:43,775 --> 00:06:48,815 Speaker 9: Moving from Skinks to Lemon Trees. I live by the 142 00:06:48,935 --> 00:06:52,375 Speaker 9: airport and christ Church and we have a wonderful mayor 143 00:06:52,855 --> 00:06:56,495 Speaker 9: lemon Tree. But we want to know when is the 144 00:06:56,615 --> 00:06:59,255 Speaker 9: this time. I believe it's coming up, but I want 145 00:06:59,295 --> 00:07:03,175 Speaker 9: to get the timing right so those the bags don't 146 00:07:03,215 --> 00:07:06,015 Speaker 9: get into it. What's what's my best plan of a tech? 147 00:07:06,615 --> 00:07:10,735 Speaker 4: Oh you mean for pruning, Yes, for pruning anything, from 148 00:07:11,375 --> 00:07:17,175 Speaker 4: March onwards right through to about July. And the reason 149 00:07:17,335 --> 00:07:21,215 Speaker 4: is that if you make pruning cuts, you basically bleed 150 00:07:21,295 --> 00:07:23,415 Speaker 4: a little bit of stuff out of the plant, and 151 00:07:23,535 --> 00:07:26,855 Speaker 4: then when these lemon tree borers are flying, which is 152 00:07:26,935 --> 00:07:30,895 Speaker 4: from say September October to about March, they will lay 153 00:07:30,975 --> 00:07:33,895 Speaker 4: their eggs on those pruning cuts. So as long as 154 00:07:33,935 --> 00:07:37,455 Speaker 4: you understand that particular aspect of it, you don't prune 155 00:07:38,215 --> 00:07:42,015 Speaker 4: just before the time when these beetles are flying. So 156 00:07:42,215 --> 00:07:46,735 Speaker 4: now is a good time, and probably probably earlier as well. April, 157 00:07:46,975 --> 00:07:49,975 Speaker 4: you know, would be good from April onwards. And the 158 00:07:50,095 --> 00:07:52,615 Speaker 4: cool thing is you have to be also careful of 159 00:07:52,695 --> 00:07:55,415 Speaker 4: course with lemon trees because they will flower and fruit 160 00:07:55,575 --> 00:07:59,295 Speaker 4: in winter, so the more you prune, the fewer, yeah, 161 00:07:59,415 --> 00:08:01,135 Speaker 4: et cetera. But you got the timing a. 162 00:08:02,575 --> 00:08:05,055 Speaker 9: Right, Okay, yep, yep, No, I just needed to know 163 00:08:05,175 --> 00:08:10,655 Speaker 9: the timing so that, yeah, very prolific lemon tree. And yeah, 164 00:08:10,935 --> 00:08:13,135 Speaker 9: just wants to get that right so it keeps being prolific. 165 00:08:13,295 --> 00:08:16,735 Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, exactly. And a bit of fertilized as soon 166 00:08:16,815 --> 00:08:18,935 Speaker 4: as you get into September. 167 00:08:20,135 --> 00:08:24,135 Speaker 9: Right, and it's just fertilizer, isn't it. Last week? 168 00:08:24,455 --> 00:08:25,135 Speaker 4: Oh, you're good. 169 00:08:25,575 --> 00:08:28,375 Speaker 3: Yeah, good man, thanks for listening. Take care. If all 170 00:08:28,415 --> 00:08:34,015 Speaker 3: the very quick text are grapefruit tree grand from seed 171 00:08:34,175 --> 00:08:37,815 Speaker 3: five years ago, two meters tall. No fruit will it? 172 00:08:37,935 --> 00:08:39,895 Speaker 3: If a fruit this is from Iris in the far. 173 00:08:39,935 --> 00:08:43,735 Speaker 4: North, yes it will fruit, but probably only fifteen twenty 174 00:08:43,815 --> 00:08:44,295 Speaker 4: years later. 175 00:08:44,615 --> 00:08:44,855 Speaker 9: Wow. 176 00:08:45,375 --> 00:08:47,975 Speaker 4: And the reason is that all our grapefruits and a 177 00:08:48,055 --> 00:08:52,975 Speaker 4: lot of fruit like that is actually grafted on a 178 00:08:53,175 --> 00:08:57,415 Speaker 4: rootstock that makes it fruit and grow much quicker, namely 179 00:08:57,455 --> 00:09:00,255 Speaker 4: after a year or two. And that is why we 180 00:09:00,415 --> 00:09:03,855 Speaker 4: graft them. If you just used seeds, same with avocados, 181 00:09:04,335 --> 00:09:06,695 Speaker 4: it is like a normal tree in the four it's 182 00:09:06,695 --> 00:09:10,415 Speaker 4: actually long time before they mature, but if you graft them, 183 00:09:10,575 --> 00:09:13,335 Speaker 4: you make them go really fast and earlier. 184 00:09:14,295 --> 00:09:20,095 Speaker 3: Awesome, right on that bombshell, that pearl of knowledge. That's 185 00:09:20,135 --> 00:09:22,455 Speaker 3: why you're here, buddy. We're going to take a break 186 00:09:22,495 --> 00:09:25,055 Speaker 3: back in a mow your news talk said be if 187 00:09:25,135 --> 00:09:27,375 Speaker 3: you would like to give us a call to talk 188 00:09:27,415 --> 00:09:29,615 Speaker 3: all things guarding. The lines are open. Eight hundred and 189 00:09:29,615 --> 00:09:36,295 Speaker 3: eighty ten eighty is the number. Hello, Robin, Hello Robin, No, 190 00:09:36,495 --> 00:09:37,535 Speaker 3: maybe not, we'll try. Liz. 191 00:09:39,535 --> 00:09:41,735 Speaker 6: Hey there, Liz, good morning, good morning, good morning. 192 00:09:41,775 --> 00:09:45,375 Speaker 4: Would hello Liz, I have. 193 00:09:45,815 --> 00:09:49,415 Speaker 5: I love hippi astrums. I have a lot of bulbs, 194 00:09:49,655 --> 00:09:53,615 Speaker 5: about one hundred bolds. But what happened was I had 195 00:09:53,655 --> 00:09:57,055 Speaker 5: them out in the open and I did really well. 196 00:09:57,295 --> 00:10:02,215 Speaker 5: But I got the nassy by and some of them. 197 00:10:03,175 --> 00:10:04,255 Speaker 4: Oh you got that fly? 198 00:10:04,815 --> 00:10:07,175 Speaker 6: Yes, I yeah. 199 00:10:07,495 --> 00:10:10,135 Speaker 5: I lug them up and put them in fresh potting 200 00:10:10,215 --> 00:10:12,855 Speaker 5: miss and put them in my tunnel house. And they 201 00:10:12,935 --> 00:10:13,775 Speaker 5: did really well. 202 00:10:14,295 --> 00:10:15,375 Speaker 7: And every bowl that I. 203 00:10:15,455 --> 00:10:19,135 Speaker 5: Potted up was very healthy. It had no little hole 204 00:10:19,255 --> 00:10:22,375 Speaker 5: in the bottom of the bowl. But I see that 205 00:10:22,775 --> 00:10:26,615 Speaker 5: maybe twenty percent of them have developed or got the 206 00:10:26,735 --> 00:10:30,535 Speaker 5: narcissi fly in them because I cut up. I cut 207 00:10:30,655 --> 00:10:34,135 Speaker 5: open the bowl and the poupe is sitting in there. 208 00:10:34,895 --> 00:10:35,095 Speaker 8: Yeah. 209 00:10:35,655 --> 00:10:37,575 Speaker 6: So my question is when. 210 00:10:37,495 --> 00:10:43,895 Speaker 5: Does the narssy fly fly or or do I just 211 00:10:44,175 --> 00:10:45,455 Speaker 5: live in the ground. 212 00:10:46,615 --> 00:10:49,735 Speaker 4: No, I think I from I to be quantos. I 213 00:10:49,775 --> 00:10:52,455 Speaker 4: haven't seen this for a long time. I used to 214 00:10:52,535 --> 00:10:57,495 Speaker 4: have them in our previous house. I think, look, I 215 00:10:58,655 --> 00:11:00,255 Speaker 4: have to look that up, and I think you can 216 00:11:00,335 --> 00:11:02,295 Speaker 4: look that up to what their life cycle is in 217 00:11:02,415 --> 00:11:06,175 Speaker 4: terms of flying. But what I can tell you is 218 00:11:06,295 --> 00:11:10,615 Speaker 4: it's quite cool. There is some material that might work 219 00:11:10,735 --> 00:11:16,215 Speaker 4: for you, and it's called Yates lawn grub or parhina material. 220 00:11:17,175 --> 00:11:20,015 Speaker 4: It's so it's a y lawn grub. It's something that 221 00:11:20,135 --> 00:11:23,815 Speaker 4: you use for Parina caterpillars in the soil and things 222 00:11:23,895 --> 00:11:26,615 Speaker 4: like that. It's called by fen Trend. That is the 223 00:11:27,215 --> 00:11:32,015 Speaker 4: active ingredient by fen Trend. You'll you'll remember that. I 224 00:11:32,175 --> 00:11:35,015 Speaker 4: think that might be your best way to actually get 225 00:11:35,255 --> 00:11:41,015 Speaker 4: an area neutralized or or basically sprayed around your hippiastrums. 226 00:11:42,495 --> 00:11:45,815 Speaker 5: Right, Okay, So these are all the ones I've got now, 227 00:11:45,935 --> 00:11:49,255 Speaker 5: because I'm thinking I want to keep as many as 228 00:11:49,295 --> 00:11:54,895 Speaker 5: I can. Does the bug is a bug in the ground? Yes, 229 00:11:54,935 --> 00:11:56,935 Speaker 5: what you're saying it is in the ground. I always 230 00:11:56,975 --> 00:12:00,255 Speaker 5: thought there's a nazisi flies back the bottom into the 231 00:12:00,375 --> 00:12:03,295 Speaker 5: stem of the flowery. 232 00:12:02,575 --> 00:12:03,575 Speaker 4: And lay eggs. 233 00:12:05,135 --> 00:12:05,415 Speaker 8: Eggs. 234 00:12:07,495 --> 00:12:09,975 Speaker 4: That's and that's what I understand is happening too. I 235 00:12:10,055 --> 00:12:12,135 Speaker 4: don't think they live in the ground and then say 236 00:12:12,175 --> 00:12:15,775 Speaker 4: oh lovely, no, their their mum will lady eggs basically 237 00:12:15,935 --> 00:12:18,175 Speaker 4: in the bulbs that they think are good for the 238 00:12:18,415 --> 00:12:19,295 Speaker 4: for the maggots. 239 00:12:19,455 --> 00:12:24,015 Speaker 5: And do you would that be flying autumn? 240 00:12:26,015 --> 00:12:29,055 Speaker 4: I don't know, I think so as I said, I 241 00:12:29,335 --> 00:12:30,855 Speaker 4: have a look, I have a looked on the internet. 242 00:12:30,935 --> 00:12:33,735 Speaker 4: I can't remember it's been a long time since I've 243 00:12:33,775 --> 00:12:36,215 Speaker 4: been mucking around with that one. It could well be, 244 00:12:36,415 --> 00:12:38,655 Speaker 4: and it's I think I've seen it usually in late 245 00:12:38,735 --> 00:12:40,095 Speaker 4: autumn and winter. That's right. 246 00:12:41,135 --> 00:12:46,615 Speaker 5: It's most distressing because I did use fresh, absolute fresh 247 00:12:46,695 --> 00:12:49,695 Speaker 5: potting mix and pot it up because I thought, I'm 248 00:12:49,695 --> 00:12:51,695 Speaker 5: going to say, all these I'm going to put them 249 00:12:51,735 --> 00:12:54,655 Speaker 5: inside and I'll look after them inside. But I've had 250 00:12:54,695 --> 00:12:59,335 Speaker 5: the problems inside my tunnel house also, And yet every 251 00:12:59,455 --> 00:13:03,655 Speaker 5: bowlb I planted was really healthy. I washed, there was 252 00:13:03,815 --> 00:13:07,215 Speaker 5: no little holes for them for theo to have got in. 253 00:13:08,335 --> 00:13:10,575 Speaker 5: But I feel as though the only way that poope 254 00:13:10,975 --> 00:13:13,055 Speaker 5: got in there is from the soil. 255 00:13:14,455 --> 00:13:16,935 Speaker 4: No, no, no, they laid the eggs are laid inside 256 00:13:17,015 --> 00:13:19,535 Speaker 4: the inside the plant. I'm quite sure. 257 00:13:19,975 --> 00:13:23,655 Speaker 3: Right, good luck with it. Thanks, thanks very much for calling, 258 00:13:23,775 --> 00:13:24,895 Speaker 3: and we've got Robin back. 259 00:13:24,935 --> 00:13:31,455 Speaker 8: Hello there, Hello, Hi Hi Robin, Hi, Hi Rude. I 260 00:13:31,575 --> 00:13:35,255 Speaker 8: have an interesting problem. I have a raised vegetable garden 261 00:13:35,295 --> 00:13:37,695 Speaker 8: bed which is relatively empty at the moment. In the 262 00:13:37,775 --> 00:13:41,655 Speaker 8: last few months, it seems a roaming neighborhood dog has 263 00:13:41,735 --> 00:13:45,895 Speaker 8: been using it as it's toilet. It's constantly got poop 264 00:13:45,975 --> 00:13:47,935 Speaker 8: in it, and I go away for a few weeks 265 00:13:47,975 --> 00:13:50,535 Speaker 8: and I come back and there's heaps there. I haven't 266 00:13:50,575 --> 00:13:53,815 Speaker 8: managed to catch the culprit, but I'm just wondering. Someone's 267 00:13:53,855 --> 00:13:56,295 Speaker 8: told me that dog poop is toxic and therefore I 268 00:13:56,415 --> 00:14:00,575 Speaker 8: can't grow vegetables anymore in there. Obviously I've removed it all. 269 00:14:01,335 --> 00:14:03,975 Speaker 8: Is there any way that I can cleanse the soil? 270 00:14:04,095 --> 00:14:07,375 Speaker 8: And is it safe to grow vegetable in there? Once? 271 00:14:08,295 --> 00:14:10,775 Speaker 4: The problem? To be quite honest, I'm not a doctor, 272 00:14:10,775 --> 00:14:12,895 Speaker 4: so I'm not one hundred percent sure what the risks 273 00:14:13,015 --> 00:14:16,135 Speaker 4: are there. But personally I wouldn't like that idea either, 274 00:14:16,535 --> 00:14:18,295 Speaker 4: you know what I mean. And you're you're in the 275 00:14:18,375 --> 00:14:20,975 Speaker 4: same way. Have you thought about putting in nothing around 276 00:14:21,015 --> 00:14:21,735 Speaker 4: so it can't get in? 277 00:14:23,015 --> 00:14:25,615 Speaker 8: I have now, but I've got three beds, so it 278 00:14:25,815 --> 00:14:27,935 Speaker 8: possibly may just go to the next one. 279 00:14:28,935 --> 00:14:31,735 Speaker 4: Yes, it might too, and but but yeah, and you 280 00:14:31,815 --> 00:14:33,655 Speaker 4: don't know who the owner is of the thing either, 281 00:14:33,815 --> 00:14:34,535 Speaker 4: is it not yet? 282 00:14:34,815 --> 00:14:36,935 Speaker 8: I've had a camera out there, but I haven't managed 283 00:14:36,975 --> 00:14:38,855 Speaker 8: to catch I. 284 00:14:39,055 --> 00:14:46,455 Speaker 3: Love a camera attached to a hose. Yeah, oh yeah, yeah, that. 285 00:14:46,535 --> 00:14:48,615 Speaker 4: Was a good old trick we used for wit and forget. 286 00:14:48,655 --> 00:14:50,815 Speaker 4: I remember we had a camera. We had a camera 287 00:14:50,975 --> 00:14:54,575 Speaker 4: and we had an movement camera right that triggered the 288 00:14:54,855 --> 00:14:58,735 Speaker 4: water up the Jeckshi off the offender. 289 00:15:00,295 --> 00:15:02,695 Speaker 8: Yeah, oh, I'm hopeful I might catch it. But in 290 00:15:02,775 --> 00:15:05,775 Speaker 8: the meantime, you know, do I remove all the soil then. 291 00:15:05,815 --> 00:15:08,295 Speaker 4: And no, I wouldn't. I wouldn't do that. What I 292 00:15:08,335 --> 00:15:10,575 Speaker 4: would do is probably put some composts on the top 293 00:15:10,655 --> 00:15:14,495 Speaker 4: so that everything will be composted very quickly, and then 294 00:15:14,575 --> 00:15:16,935 Speaker 4: you'll find that it's not that bad anymore after a 295 00:15:16,975 --> 00:15:19,855 Speaker 4: couple of weeks, once it's been you know, if you're 296 00:15:19,895 --> 00:15:22,095 Speaker 4: like compostable. Yeah, yeah, yeah, okay. 297 00:15:22,175 --> 00:15:25,455 Speaker 8: I wondered about planting lupens in there for because lupins 298 00:15:25,455 --> 00:15:26,815 Speaker 8: are cleansing, are. 299 00:15:26,695 --> 00:15:27,175 Speaker 5: They or not? 300 00:15:28,095 --> 00:15:30,055 Speaker 4: I don't know, to be guys, there's a lot of 301 00:15:30,135 --> 00:15:31,215 Speaker 4: myths in this department. 302 00:15:31,375 --> 00:15:37,095 Speaker 3: Robert, right, you take care, thank you all this how 303 00:15:37,135 --> 00:15:40,175 Speaker 3: a gale Hi, Good morning. 304 00:15:40,295 --> 00:15:40,575 Speaker 2: Roots. 305 00:15:40,895 --> 00:15:45,175 Speaker 6: We had a big straw strawberry plant flowering and fruiting, 306 00:15:45,575 --> 00:15:48,255 Speaker 6: so I decided to move it. When we dug it up, 307 00:15:48,535 --> 00:15:52,295 Speaker 6: there was just a very dense mat. So the person 308 00:15:52,415 --> 00:15:55,055 Speaker 6: helping me pulled it all all the little that'saw from 309 00:15:55,175 --> 00:15:58,015 Speaker 6: planted them, and they've still got flowers and things on. 310 00:15:58,295 --> 00:15:59,095 Speaker 6: Should we cut that. 311 00:16:01,015 --> 00:16:04,055 Speaker 4: I what is your Where are you're growing? Is it 312 00:16:04,135 --> 00:16:05,055 Speaker 4: a warm place. 313 00:16:06,455 --> 00:16:06,735 Speaker 9: Orgland? 314 00:16:07,495 --> 00:16:12,655 Speaker 4: You're in Auckland, So you do get some frosts, won't you? 315 00:16:14,415 --> 00:16:14,615 Speaker 7: Yeah? 316 00:16:14,935 --> 00:16:17,575 Speaker 4: I think we, you and I are basically the same system. 317 00:16:17,615 --> 00:16:21,015 Speaker 4: I've got some plants or some fruit going on the 318 00:16:21,055 --> 00:16:23,855 Speaker 4: strawberries that I don't think are going to do too 319 00:16:23,935 --> 00:16:26,135 Speaker 4: much from now on. And I was thinking the same 320 00:16:26,255 --> 00:16:29,775 Speaker 4: thing by putting new news what you might call it 321 00:16:31,255 --> 00:16:35,175 Speaker 4: new plants in or get their their runners if you like, 322 00:16:35,335 --> 00:16:36,495 Speaker 4: and put that in for next. 323 00:16:36,615 --> 00:16:41,175 Speaker 6: Year with it has a dense massing system. And we've 324 00:16:41,255 --> 00:16:42,935 Speaker 6: taken us awfully all right. 325 00:16:42,935 --> 00:16:46,455 Speaker 4: First might be yes, good, well be you can have 326 00:16:46,655 --> 00:16:48,655 Speaker 4: usually can do a couple of years with the same 327 00:16:48,695 --> 00:16:50,735 Speaker 4: plants and then you'll have to swap them again or 328 00:16:50,895 --> 00:16:55,975 Speaker 4: change them into something else, or do a runner system. Yeah, okay, 329 00:16:56,775 --> 00:17:01,255 Speaker 4: more than welcome, good luck, take care then and dunk 330 00:17:01,335 --> 00:17:02,135 Speaker 4: Increasings to you. 331 00:17:03,535 --> 00:17:07,135 Speaker 7: Morning, Rude and take them just question it official opinion. 332 00:17:08,055 --> 00:17:11,535 Speaker 7: We're here the other day, Rude on Matin Tyler Show. 333 00:17:12,495 --> 00:17:16,695 Speaker 7: Regarding feral cats, it's made about teen to fourteen million 334 00:17:16,815 --> 00:17:19,975 Speaker 7: field cats in New Zealand. Yep, hell bed are they 335 00:17:21,095 --> 00:17:22,175 Speaker 7: and your opinion. 336 00:17:22,375 --> 00:17:25,375 Speaker 4: They are extremely bad. They actually be quite honest, especially 337 00:17:25,415 --> 00:17:28,135 Speaker 4: when they get stuff or creatures that live on the soil, 338 00:17:28,215 --> 00:17:31,175 Speaker 4: you know, easy to get. When they breed on the soil, 339 00:17:31,215 --> 00:17:32,655 Speaker 4: they have babies on the you know, that's sort of 340 00:17:32,775 --> 00:17:36,815 Speaker 4: we're talking about birds, we're talking about lizards, We're talking 341 00:17:36,815 --> 00:17:39,935 Speaker 4: about a lot of different things. They have an enormous impact. 342 00:17:40,055 --> 00:17:44,935 Speaker 7: Yes, And just a couple of questions as well. When 343 00:17:45,015 --> 00:17:49,175 Speaker 7: do you especially classes at the start? Wonder the twenty 344 00:17:49,255 --> 00:17:50,335 Speaker 7: first or today? 345 00:17:51,695 --> 00:17:53,495 Speaker 4: I knew you were going to do something like that. 346 00:17:53,975 --> 00:17:55,935 Speaker 4: Of course it's the twenty first, you know that. 347 00:17:56,215 --> 00:18:00,815 Speaker 2: Yeah, you didn't walk into it. 348 00:18:00,935 --> 00:18:01,535 Speaker 1: That's awesome. 349 00:18:02,495 --> 00:18:03,975 Speaker 5: Just one more question, Roude. 350 00:18:05,295 --> 00:18:07,615 Speaker 7: We were always appeal on a holiday. Are you going 351 00:18:07,695 --> 00:18:09,335 Speaker 7: to be on tomorrow for an hour or something? 352 00:18:10,335 --> 00:18:10,695 Speaker 1: You know what? 353 00:18:11,135 --> 00:18:11,455 Speaker 4: I think? 354 00:18:11,575 --> 00:18:20,455 Speaker 3: So a great day. Hey, Rude, can I read you 355 00:18:20,575 --> 00:18:21,055 Speaker 3: this text? 356 00:18:21,135 --> 00:18:21,295 Speaker 8: Hey? 357 00:18:21,415 --> 00:18:23,935 Speaker 3: I was wondering if you know anything about kaka Now 358 00:18:23,975 --> 00:18:27,415 Speaker 3: I presume they're talking about birds, anything about anything from 359 00:18:27,455 --> 00:18:29,695 Speaker 3: about three to about seven can be seen spending some 360 00:18:29,815 --> 00:18:32,455 Speaker 3: bit of time in the neighborhood, typically just for sunrise. 361 00:18:32,855 --> 00:18:35,695 Speaker 3: Two of them landed on my deck railing on two mornings, 362 00:18:35,775 --> 00:18:38,495 Speaker 3: just a couple of feet away. Recently, one came within 363 00:18:38,615 --> 00:18:41,335 Speaker 3: two feet of me on the railing there in Western Wellington. 364 00:18:41,735 --> 00:18:44,615 Speaker 3: Although they are spectacular birds. Is there a hazard of 365 00:18:44,655 --> 00:18:49,095 Speaker 3: a Kia type mischief? I think, what a wonderful problem 366 00:18:49,215 --> 00:18:49,415 Speaker 3: to have. 367 00:18:50,095 --> 00:18:52,615 Speaker 4: It's not and it's a nice thing. Is there not 368 00:18:52,855 --> 00:18:54,535 Speaker 4: a buggery? 369 00:18:55,775 --> 00:18:55,935 Speaker 2: Right? 370 00:18:57,735 --> 00:19:00,935 Speaker 3: I just think the emergence of something that was threatened 371 00:19:00,975 --> 00:19:04,175 Speaker 3: for so long and is now seen in suburban environments. 372 00:19:05,095 --> 00:19:08,855 Speaker 3: Fabulous story. Yeah, we go more to the Pokaha website. 373 00:19:08,895 --> 00:19:12,535 Speaker 3: If you can help them out, you should basically at 374 00:19:12,695 --> 00:19:15,215 Speaker 3: take care all of these at a rud clone past 375 00:19:15,295 --> 00:19:17,055 Speaker 3: with us. I'll be back with you and in fact 376 00:19:17,095 --> 00:19:20,575 Speaker 3: with through it next Sunday. Enjoy your King's Birthday Day. 377 00:19:21,455 --> 00:19:24,335 Speaker 1: For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp, listen 378 00:19:24,495 --> 00:19:27,215 Speaker 1: live to News talks'd B on Sunday mornings from six, 379 00:19:27,575 --> 00:19:29,615 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.