1
00:00:06,855 --> 00:00:10,695
Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp

2
00:00:10,895 --> 00:00:12,015
Speaker 1: from News Talks B.

3
00:00:13,055 --> 00:00:16,735
Speaker 2: Your News Talks B and Red Climb past is with us.

4
00:00:17,055 --> 00:00:18,335
Speaker 2: Good morning, sir.

5
00:00:18,655 --> 00:00:21,295
Speaker 3: A very good morning to you, to you and to

6
00:00:21,335 --> 00:00:24,495
Speaker 3: you you did you? Did you enjoy the solstice yesterday?

7
00:00:25,015 --> 00:00:29,215
Speaker 2: Yes? Well, to be fair, I spent most of the

8
00:00:29,295 --> 00:00:32,215
Speaker 2: day just slightly grumpy with the weather forecast because the

9
00:00:32,255 --> 00:00:37,815
Speaker 2: forecast for Auckland was hail, you know, thunderstorms, potential hail, right,

10
00:00:37,855 --> 00:00:40,295
Speaker 2: So I was like that, that's quite ominous. I'm going

11
00:00:40,375 --> 00:00:41,575
Speaker 2: to change what I'm going to do.

12
00:00:42,255 --> 00:00:44,215
Speaker 3: Yeah, not a drop.

13
00:00:47,695 --> 00:00:49,375
Speaker 2: I know other parts of the country copped a bit,

14
00:00:49,455 --> 00:00:50,655
Speaker 2: but anyway.

15
00:00:50,895 --> 00:00:53,215
Speaker 3: That's why God invented the economists.

16
00:00:56,975 --> 00:00:59,735
Speaker 2: Back to my previous sort of attitude to it, which

17
00:00:59,775 --> 00:01:02,295
Speaker 2: is when it starts raining, then you can stop work.

18
00:01:02,335 --> 00:01:04,975
Speaker 2: But never ever stop work, because you're the forecast.

19
00:01:05,135 --> 00:01:06,655
Speaker 3: There's always something you can do anyway.

20
00:01:06,695 --> 00:01:09,015
Speaker 2: Yeah, oh, absolutely, absolutely.

21
00:01:08,975 --> 00:01:11,295
Speaker 3: Yeah, it's been it's been. It's been great though. Here

22
00:01:11,335 --> 00:01:13,895
Speaker 3: and Grasses, we've been actually quite lucky so far, Minjie.

23
00:01:13,895 --> 00:01:15,615
Speaker 3: We've had a couple of days of rain, which was

24
00:01:16,255 --> 00:01:19,095
Speaker 3: seriously needed, Yeah, seriously needed.

25
00:01:19,575 --> 00:01:23,135
Speaker 2: And I saw similar reports to farmers either in Canterbury

26
00:01:23,135 --> 00:01:25,255
Speaker 2: and on the East Cape as well. Going Actually, this

27
00:01:25,335 --> 00:01:29,215
Speaker 2: has been so welcome because it has been incredibly dry.

28
00:01:29,575 --> 00:01:31,815
Speaker 2: And I guess too, you know, I mean, you know,

29
00:01:31,895 --> 00:01:33,775
Speaker 2: I do a lot of work with Bailey water tanks

30
00:01:33,775 --> 00:01:36,015
Speaker 2: and I'm a big fan of having water tanks. But

31
00:01:36,415 --> 00:01:39,855
Speaker 2: at this time of year, particularly for the gardens, you know,

32
00:01:39,975 --> 00:01:42,255
Speaker 2: you feel pretty good if you go. Actually, I've been

33
00:01:42,295 --> 00:01:44,415
Speaker 2: able to collect one thousand and two thousand and three

34
00:01:44,415 --> 00:01:46,415
Speaker 2: thousand liters of water and that's what I'm going to

35
00:01:46,535 --> 00:01:48,855
Speaker 2: use on my garden over the over the dry summer.

36
00:01:49,495 --> 00:01:51,455
Speaker 3: Mm hmm. That's still one.

37
00:01:51,455 --> 00:01:54,735
Speaker 2: Exactly what I'm doing, You got it? Yeah, right he

38
00:01:54,775 --> 00:01:57,775
Speaker 2: oh and can I say one of the highlights of

39
00:01:57,815 --> 00:02:00,935
Speaker 2: this year it has been the whole L box thing,

40
00:02:01,015 --> 00:02:04,295
Speaker 2: right and look here's today. I get this email this

41
00:02:04,335 --> 00:02:06,855
Speaker 2: morning morning Peak Absolutely love lex thing the show Dead.

42
00:02:06,935 --> 00:02:09,015
Speaker 2: Was a carpenter, always had a vegy spot, learned so

43
00:02:09,095 --> 00:02:12,575
Speaker 2: much stuff growing up and your shows answered lots of questions. Also,

44
00:02:12,655 --> 00:02:14,775
Speaker 2: could you please send me a copy of your ol design?

45
00:02:15,455 --> 00:02:17,375
Speaker 2: Very keen to give that a go from Nicky. Now

46
00:02:17,695 --> 00:02:20,695
Speaker 2: it's not my l design, but you've sent them to me.

47
00:02:20,855 --> 00:02:24,295
Speaker 2: I forwarded them on to a number of people and

48
00:02:24,495 --> 00:02:27,615
Speaker 2: hopefully around the country we're seeing these little ol boxers

49
00:02:27,615 --> 00:02:28,815
Speaker 2: pop up all over the place.

50
00:02:29,215 --> 00:02:31,975
Speaker 3: Yep, that's right. So if if you're interested in this

51
00:02:32,095 --> 00:02:34,255
Speaker 3: sort of stuff and we talked about that, you know

52
00:02:34,375 --> 00:02:37,895
Speaker 3: you'll meet Nika looking forward to that. Yeah, I know.

53
00:02:38,055 --> 00:02:40,295
Speaker 3: I know that she was quite excited when I when

54
00:02:40,335 --> 00:02:44,575
Speaker 3: I called it. And so Wingspan in Rotorua for instance,

55
00:02:44,575 --> 00:02:46,895
Speaker 3: other people of course that look after falcons and yes,

56
00:02:47,295 --> 00:02:50,775
Speaker 3: but also owls, and they have on their website or

57
00:02:51,015 --> 00:02:53,095
Speaker 3: they I'm sure, I don't know if they've got it.

58
00:02:53,335 --> 00:02:54,695
Speaker 3: I don't know if they got it on the website.

59
00:02:55,175 --> 00:02:57,335
Speaker 2: Do I found that there is or there's a wingspan

60
00:02:57,495 --> 00:03:01,215
Speaker 2: design that's right for right for.

61
00:03:03,655 --> 00:03:08,335
Speaker 3: That one. Yeah, And but but I've just been this

62
00:03:08,415 --> 00:03:10,575
Speaker 3: is what I'm doing now. I've been working with a

63
00:03:10,615 --> 00:03:15,015
Speaker 3: little owl, which is a Dutch owl introduced here of course,

64
00:03:15,015 --> 00:03:18,135
Speaker 3: a German owl and the European l and it's much

65
00:03:18,175 --> 00:03:21,415
Speaker 3: smaller and we bended about fourteen of them a couple

66
00:03:21,415 --> 00:03:25,015
Speaker 3: of days ago, which was absolutely amazing. But these guys

67
00:03:25,055 --> 00:03:27,975
Speaker 3: have got a slightly different size box if you like.

68
00:03:28,215 --> 00:03:30,215
Speaker 3: So with a bit of luck today I might go

69
00:03:30,295 --> 00:03:33,735
Speaker 3: with my grandson and maybe one of the Frenchies who's

70
00:03:33,815 --> 00:03:35,655
Speaker 3: just come over yep to go and ever look to

71
00:03:35,655 --> 00:03:37,615
Speaker 3: see if we can find it. But this is exactly

72
00:03:37,615 --> 00:03:40,015
Speaker 3: what this is about. People are starting to get an

73
00:03:40,055 --> 00:03:42,855
Speaker 3: interest in these sort of things. And when you tell them,

74
00:03:42,895 --> 00:03:45,295
Speaker 3: for instance, that at night, in the middle of the night,

75
00:03:45,775 --> 00:03:49,255
Speaker 3: and you're fast asleep and suddenly behind literally the window

76
00:03:49,815 --> 00:03:52,775
Speaker 3: of where we live on the porthills, you hear will

77
00:03:53,055 --> 00:03:55,055
Speaker 3: in the middle of the night. Julie goes like, oh,

78
00:03:55,175 --> 00:03:58,495
Speaker 3: there's the owl again. And it's just lovely to know

79
00:03:58,575 --> 00:04:01,215
Speaker 3: that you're surrounded by these clever little kretits.

80
00:04:01,295 --> 00:04:05,095
Speaker 2: They're brilliant, and I guess, taking a step back, it

81
00:04:05,255 --> 00:04:09,815
Speaker 2: also must be you know, people that yourself have been

82
00:04:09,895 --> 00:04:11,655
Speaker 2: part of this, who have had that vision for a

83
00:04:11,655 --> 00:04:16,175
Speaker 2: long time, that it's actually bearing fruit. Right, all of

84
00:04:16,215 --> 00:04:19,535
Speaker 2: that hard work, all of that engagement, all of that activity,

85
00:04:19,535 --> 00:04:22,655
Speaker 2: all of that education for so long going actually we

86
00:04:22,775 --> 00:04:25,935
Speaker 2: think that if we can do something to restore habitats

87
00:04:25,975 --> 00:04:28,455
Speaker 2: and get rid of pests and that sort of thing,

88
00:04:28,455 --> 00:04:31,775
Speaker 2: that these birds and the wildlife and the native life

89
00:04:31,815 --> 00:04:34,535
Speaker 2: will restore itself. And now we're starting to see it.

90
00:04:34,935 --> 00:04:37,655
Speaker 2: Job's not over, but it's on the way.

91
00:04:39,415 --> 00:04:43,215
Speaker 3: You're right. So here's another a typical off spin off

92
00:04:43,295 --> 00:04:46,935
Speaker 3: of what we're talking about. I think it's tomorrow. I'm

93
00:04:46,975 --> 00:04:49,975
Speaker 3: taking two people from the Canterbury University to go and

94
00:04:50,095 --> 00:04:56,375
Speaker 3: collect some palettes that owls literally spew out after they've eaten.

95
00:04:56,575 --> 00:04:58,615
Speaker 3: They've got two stomachs, you know, and the last stomach

96
00:04:59,015 --> 00:05:01,975
Speaker 3: compresses it and instead of pulling everything out, they're actually

97
00:05:01,975 --> 00:05:04,935
Speaker 3: a bloop and you get these paletts, and those palettes

98
00:05:04,975 --> 00:05:09,695
Speaker 3: are a fabulous way to actually soak and then literally

99
00:05:09,735 --> 00:05:11,935
Speaker 3: take all the bits in those pellets that are there,

100
00:05:12,135 --> 00:05:16,015
Speaker 3: put them apart and identify what insects they ate, what

101
00:05:16,215 --> 00:05:19,855
Speaker 3: rice they ate, what birds they ate, what other things?

102
00:05:20,335 --> 00:05:25,455
Speaker 3: What carabbit beetles beautiful big shiny beetles they stand out.

103
00:05:25,895 --> 00:05:28,735
Speaker 3: So all that stuff becomes part of not only learning,

104
00:05:28,735 --> 00:05:31,975
Speaker 3: but it becomes of actually finding out what these owls

105
00:05:32,135 --> 00:05:35,455
Speaker 3: eat in ol Tierra. And we've really never had a

106
00:05:35,495 --> 00:05:38,175
Speaker 3: really good go with that until now. It's great to

107
00:05:38,215 --> 00:05:38,535
Speaker 3: do that.

108
00:05:39,015 --> 00:05:44,055
Speaker 2: Yeah, fantastic radio. Can I actually, can I just tidy

109
00:05:44,135 --> 00:05:46,095
Speaker 2: up a text from the building thing because we've been

110
00:05:46,135 --> 00:05:49,895
Speaker 2: talking about products and ideas. If people are looking for

111
00:05:49,935 --> 00:05:54,055
Speaker 2: the ruler that I mentioned, the actual website is the

112
00:05:54,175 --> 00:05:57,655
Speaker 2: good dot Nz, so you'll find it there. Now another

113
00:05:57,695 --> 00:06:00,615
Speaker 2: text has coming. What's the best way to treat on on,

114
00:06:00,975 --> 00:06:03,375
Speaker 2: which is tree needtle. They're in christ Church.

115
00:06:03,215 --> 00:06:07,455
Speaker 3: As well treat it. I would leave it because the

116
00:06:08,255 --> 00:06:11,055
Speaker 3: is a fabulous host plant for some of those butterflies

117
00:06:11,095 --> 00:06:14,975
Speaker 3: like monarchs, you see, they lay their eggs on it.

118
00:06:15,295 --> 00:06:17,815
Speaker 3: But if you have kids, for instance, and the kids

119
00:06:17,935 --> 00:06:21,335
Speaker 3: are not that good at avoiding, or you've got a

120
00:06:21,375 --> 00:06:24,055
Speaker 3: hell of a lot on your section somewhere, then the

121
00:06:24,095 --> 00:06:28,375
Speaker 3: best way is to use it literally in a wheat killer.

122
00:06:28,655 --> 00:06:30,855
Speaker 3: And you can use any of the wheat killers you like,

123
00:06:30,895 --> 00:06:33,815
Speaker 3: you know, from woody w weed killer to to glyphysate

124
00:06:34,015 --> 00:06:37,935
Speaker 3: or to whatever and that that that'll knock it all right.

125
00:06:38,495 --> 00:06:41,215
Speaker 2: Excellent, Right, let's get amongst the calls. Diana, very good

126
00:06:41,215 --> 00:06:41,815
Speaker 2: morning to you.

127
00:06:42,655 --> 00:06:47,495
Speaker 4: Good morning. I have a question about ox salas. I

128
00:06:47,535 --> 00:06:49,215
Speaker 4: have a lot of ox salus in my bagy guard,

129
00:06:49,255 --> 00:06:51,015
Speaker 4: and it just keeps coming up. I dig it out.

130
00:06:51,775 --> 00:06:54,135
Speaker 4: Is there still a product you can get called ron Star.

131
00:06:55,015 --> 00:06:57,495
Speaker 3: Yes, there used to be, and I'm not sure if

132
00:06:57,535 --> 00:07:00,015
Speaker 3: it's still there, but you've got it. If you can

133
00:07:00,055 --> 00:07:03,255
Speaker 3: find that, that would be pretty good. There's also a

134
00:07:03,295 --> 00:07:10,175
Speaker 3: material called death to oxalis, which is I I've never

135
00:07:10,215 --> 00:07:12,535
Speaker 3: really so I can't tell you whether it works or not,

136
00:07:12,695 --> 00:07:15,775
Speaker 3: because what I do in my tunnel, especially in my

137
00:07:15,775 --> 00:07:19,775
Speaker 3: tunnel house, I dig it up very carefully and take

138
00:07:20,015 --> 00:07:22,935
Speaker 3: and make sure that I get these little seed pods,

139
00:07:23,095 --> 00:07:25,655
Speaker 3: those little pods that you get at the bottom, and

140
00:07:25,735 --> 00:07:28,935
Speaker 3: get rid of those and literally pull them out very gently.

141
00:07:29,215 --> 00:07:32,015
Speaker 3: I don't mind about the green leaves as long as

142
00:07:32,095 --> 00:07:34,775
Speaker 3: I get those little things at the bottom, which are

143
00:07:34,815 --> 00:07:41,015
Speaker 3: the I don't know what they call nodules, I don't know. Yeah,

144
00:07:41,055 --> 00:07:43,255
Speaker 3: But the point is that if you do it before

145
00:07:43,335 --> 00:07:46,175
Speaker 3: it becomes a big patch which.

146
00:07:46,015 --> 00:07:49,655
Speaker 4: Usually falls per place, I think it is a bit late.

147
00:07:49,695 --> 00:07:53,655
Speaker 3: It's at it, yeah, because you always drop one which

148
00:07:53,695 --> 00:07:55,335
Speaker 3: will become the bugger for next year.

149
00:07:55,535 --> 00:07:59,455
Speaker 4: You know these hundreds and hundreds, and I just I thought,

150
00:07:59,455 --> 00:08:01,575
Speaker 4: I wondered if it was safe to put a poison

151
00:08:01,615 --> 00:08:04,135
Speaker 4: into the beachy garden before you know if it's going

152
00:08:04,175 --> 00:08:05,695
Speaker 4: to stay in the soil or not.

153
00:08:06,455 --> 00:08:08,215
Speaker 3: Well, no, but if you can dig it out it

154
00:08:08,295 --> 00:08:10,695
Speaker 3: would be that is probably your best bet. And I've

155
00:08:10,735 --> 00:08:14,175
Speaker 3: been quite successful with digging it out, to be quite honest.

156
00:08:14,455 --> 00:08:16,735
Speaker 3: There's another thing. If you do use things like lip

157
00:08:16,855 --> 00:08:19,775
Speaker 3: or said, you have to use a sticker, And a

158
00:08:19,815 --> 00:08:23,055
Speaker 3: sticker is something that adhere is to spray to those

159
00:08:23,135 --> 00:08:27,495
Speaker 3: lovely green leaves that you get at the top, because

160
00:08:27,495 --> 00:08:31,055
Speaker 3: those leaves are actually waterproof almost and a sticker would

161
00:08:31,095 --> 00:08:34,135
Speaker 3: stick the glyphs said or whatever you use on the

162
00:08:34,255 --> 00:08:37,975
Speaker 3: leaf and take the best site right down into the

163
00:08:40,455 --> 00:08:42,695
Speaker 3: lovely have a go success with that.

164
00:08:43,255 --> 00:08:48,495
Speaker 2: We'll give it a guy, take care a couple of

165
00:08:48,535 --> 00:08:53,215
Speaker 2: quick ticks through it. Someone has recently discovered huge leopard

166
00:08:53,455 --> 00:08:56,455
Speaker 2: slugs in the eventy garden, along with a few smaller

167
00:08:56,535 --> 00:09:01,055
Speaker 2: common garden slugs. Now, are they beneficial or not?

168
00:09:05,255 --> 00:09:08,175
Speaker 3: Are they're not? Nay? That's number one. That's my first

169
00:09:08,295 --> 00:09:11,255
Speaker 3: thing that I would say, rapet Snare they I think

170
00:09:11,255 --> 00:09:15,335
Speaker 3: they're from Europe? In America? No, Europe. I think Number

171
00:09:15,335 --> 00:09:19,335
Speaker 3: two is they are They quite often eat protein. So

172
00:09:20,415 --> 00:09:24,215
Speaker 3: for instance, they go to your cat feeding station and

173
00:09:24,295 --> 00:09:28,735
Speaker 3: they will literally slubber up the milk out of the

174
00:09:28,975 --> 00:09:32,135
Speaker 3: out of the out of the milk. Oh, you know

175
00:09:32,215 --> 00:09:34,775
Speaker 3: you're gonna hear that from miles away. They will also

176
00:09:34,855 --> 00:09:40,775
Speaker 3: go for dog and cat food, especially the softer stuff,

177
00:09:40,855 --> 00:09:43,575
Speaker 3: you know, but they'll eat any of that sort of stuff.

178
00:09:43,775 --> 00:09:46,735
Speaker 3: In your garden. They may do a little bit of damage,

179
00:09:46,775 --> 00:09:49,095
Speaker 3: but not as much as the other sloges and snails.

180
00:09:49,215 --> 00:09:52,775
Speaker 2: Okay, so there's no need to sort of the clear war.

181
00:09:53,335 --> 00:09:56,495
Speaker 3: No, No, not really, no, I don't think so. I

182
00:09:56,535 --> 00:09:59,175
Speaker 3: actually quite like them. They've got a fabulous pattern on

183
00:09:59,215 --> 00:10:01,175
Speaker 3: their back. They look beautiful.

184
00:10:01,175 --> 00:10:07,695
Speaker 2: Actually hate whatever spoonsy wheels rod someone else. Just speaking

185
00:10:07,735 --> 00:10:10,135
Speaker 2: of getting rid of things. Baby cockroaches coming out of

186
00:10:10,135 --> 00:10:11,655
Speaker 2: the heat pump at night, what.

187
00:10:11,895 --> 00:10:14,775
Speaker 3: Good eh, Yeah, that's really nice because if the heat

188
00:10:14,775 --> 00:10:17,935
Speaker 3: bump is giving you colder air, they try to get out,

189
00:10:17,975 --> 00:10:20,015
Speaker 3: and in the winter time, if it gets too warm,

190
00:10:20,055 --> 00:10:24,415
Speaker 3: they'll get out as well. I think if it's native cockroaches,

191
00:10:24,495 --> 00:10:27,175
Speaker 3: I would not honestly, I would not worry about it.

192
00:10:28,055 --> 00:10:31,255
Speaker 3: They would toss them back into the garden. And honestly,

193
00:10:31,335 --> 00:10:34,055
Speaker 3: it pays to have a look at some of the

194
00:10:34,175 --> 00:10:37,455
Speaker 3: entomological literature to find out what a native cockroach looks

195
00:10:37,495 --> 00:10:40,655
Speaker 3: like as opposed to the introduced ones. And once you

196
00:10:40,775 --> 00:10:44,575
Speaker 3: got that system going, you'll know that the native ones

197
00:10:44,615 --> 00:10:47,615
Speaker 3: are of no concern whatsoever. They are probably the best

198
00:10:47,615 --> 00:10:50,215
Speaker 3: ones to chuck back in your garden because all the

199
00:10:50,255 --> 00:10:53,735
Speaker 3: dead leaves they will recycle them all that sort of stuff.

200
00:10:53,735 --> 00:10:54,855
Speaker 3: That's what they do for a living.

201
00:10:55,135 --> 00:10:58,335
Speaker 2: Fabulous. Let's talk to Lynn. Good morning to you, Lynn,

202
00:10:59,375 --> 00:11:00,735
Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning.

203
00:11:02,055 --> 00:11:02,735
Speaker 5: How are you doing.

204
00:11:03,735 --> 00:11:06,815
Speaker 3: We're going well in I've got lovely strawberry he's growing

205
00:11:06,815 --> 00:11:07,575
Speaker 3: in my garden.

206
00:11:08,495 --> 00:11:09,375
Speaker 6: Well, good on you.

207
00:11:09,415 --> 00:11:12,735
Speaker 7: So have I sending out runners all the time. There's

208
00:11:12,775 --> 00:11:15,175
Speaker 7: hardly any flowers on them. They're just what to send

209
00:11:15,255 --> 00:11:19,975
Speaker 7: runners there? And I planted them in early April they

210
00:11:19,975 --> 00:11:25,135
Speaker 7: were new plant. I fertilized them early spring. You were

211
00:11:25,175 --> 00:11:29,855
Speaker 7: saying to do plenty of fruitinge And I fertilized them

212
00:11:29,855 --> 00:11:32,415
Speaker 7: once a month with some strawberry fertilizer. What can I

213
00:11:32,495 --> 00:11:35,775
Speaker 7: do next to make them get flowers?

214
00:11:36,095 --> 00:11:38,615
Speaker 3: I have no idea what variety is it? Lynn?

215
00:11:39,775 --> 00:11:43,175
Speaker 7: I don't know. Somebody gave me some plants.

216
00:11:42,935 --> 00:11:46,975
Speaker 3: Okay, all right? Oh god, and then you've already had

217
00:11:47,015 --> 00:11:50,895
Speaker 3: them almost for a year nine months? Mm hmm, yeah,

218
00:11:50,895 --> 00:11:54,855
Speaker 3: goodness me. All right, get a little bag of sulfate

219
00:11:54,895 --> 00:11:56,695
Speaker 3: of potash.

220
00:11:56,775 --> 00:12:00,575
Speaker 7: Yeah, I did that. You suggested that for early.

221
00:12:00,335 --> 00:12:01,295
Speaker 6: Spring, and I did that.

222
00:12:01,495 --> 00:12:04,335
Speaker 7: And then after they had fertilized, So should I give

223
00:12:04,375 --> 00:12:05,255
Speaker 7: them some more potash?

224
00:12:05,655 --> 00:12:08,095
Speaker 3: Yeah? You do it a little bit Yeah, handful to

225
00:12:08,175 --> 00:12:12,735
Speaker 3: the meter, which is a nice measurement. A handful to

226
00:12:12,775 --> 00:12:15,415
Speaker 3: the square meter is usually okay, water is well in,

227
00:12:15,575 --> 00:12:17,815
Speaker 3: and you might find that the plant finally wakes up

228
00:12:17,815 --> 00:12:21,295
Speaker 3: and says, oh, is that what I'm supposed to do? Reproduction?

229
00:12:25,335 --> 00:12:27,255
Speaker 3: Have a go in, see you later.

230
00:12:27,495 --> 00:12:31,695
Speaker 2: All Still, and someone is so upset with their oxalis

231
00:12:31,775 --> 00:12:35,575
Speaker 2: plants they put down weed mat among the lettuce and tomato.

232
00:12:35,695 --> 00:12:40,015
Speaker 2: Planters even investigated uses for oxalis. Surely they can't he

233
00:12:40,135 --> 00:12:42,015
Speaker 2: is there a practical use for oxalas?

234
00:12:42,375 --> 00:12:43,055
Speaker 3: I don't think so.

235
00:12:44,295 --> 00:12:45,495
Speaker 2: Compost?

236
00:12:45,855 --> 00:12:47,935
Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly, that's what I would say.

237
00:12:48,855 --> 00:12:51,575
Speaker 2: But would I mean that seems successive, doesn't it? Putting

238
00:12:51,575 --> 00:12:53,255
Speaker 2: down weed mat among the lettuce.

239
00:12:53,015 --> 00:12:56,135
Speaker 3: And tomatoes, that's a lot weed matt is getting a

240
00:12:56,175 --> 00:12:59,215
Speaker 3: bit of a bad rape. You noticed that, you see

241
00:12:59,255 --> 00:13:02,375
Speaker 3: the nicknings for certain papers. Yes, not good.

242
00:13:02,655 --> 00:13:05,575
Speaker 2: I think the idea of laying you know, weed met

243
00:13:05,695 --> 00:13:09,695
Speaker 2: like a plaster type of one down or the fibrous type.

244
00:13:09,975 --> 00:13:14,095
Speaker 2: But there are weed suppression blankets which will like the

245
00:13:14,215 --> 00:13:18,335
Speaker 2: wool ones that I've seen around, which will decompose over time.

246
00:13:18,535 --> 00:13:22,215
Speaker 2: But it does act as a weed suppression in the meantime, yep.

247
00:13:22,335 --> 00:13:24,415
Speaker 3: And in the old days. Do you remember Peter when

248
00:13:24,495 --> 00:13:27,015
Speaker 3: we actually had a newspaper, New Zealand Herald.

249
00:13:27,135 --> 00:13:31,255
Speaker 2: Yes, yeah, much newspaper has gone into the garden over

250
00:13:31,295 --> 00:13:33,815
Speaker 2: the years. I can assure you it's brilliant. Right, we're

251
00:13:33,815 --> 00:13:35,375
Speaker 2: going to take short break. We'll be back with Laura

252
00:13:35,455 --> 00:13:44,095
Speaker 2: in just a moment. Radio your news talks. You'd be

253
00:13:44,255 --> 00:13:47,335
Speaker 2: should climb Puss with us and Lorna. A very good morning.

254
00:13:48,055 --> 00:13:52,775
Speaker 8: Good morning. I've got a problem with a lemonade tree.

255
00:13:54,575 --> 00:14:01,335
Speaker 8: It's been a good fruiter, but lately it's the fruit

256
00:14:01,455 --> 00:14:08,575
Speaker 8: are dropping off, or they're actually going off hanging on

257
00:14:08,655 --> 00:14:11,975
Speaker 8: the tree. They're getting that moldy stuff on them, and

258
00:14:12,095 --> 00:14:16,255
Speaker 8: I just wondered what would be doing that. I must

259
00:14:16,815 --> 00:14:19,215
Speaker 8: with a big wind we had some months ago, I

260
00:14:19,375 --> 00:14:21,935
Speaker 8: had to cut off a branch, but I did paint

261
00:14:22,015 --> 00:14:29,895
Speaker 8: it with garden paint or pruning paint. But the last

262
00:14:29,975 --> 00:14:34,095
Speaker 8: lot of lemonades that came off the tree, I noticed

263
00:14:34,135 --> 00:14:37,295
Speaker 8: there was a lot of little holes, and I'm thinking

264
00:14:37,375 --> 00:14:42,455
Speaker 8: the birds have actually been pecking them and the ants

265
00:14:42,535 --> 00:14:44,735
Speaker 8: have got into them. I opened one of them and

266
00:14:46,935 --> 00:14:51,375
Speaker 8: it had an ant or two in it. So I'm

267
00:14:51,455 --> 00:14:53,175
Speaker 8: not sure what I can do with a tree.

268
00:14:53,295 --> 00:14:57,335
Speaker 3: Now it seems laurna. It sounds like there's a lot

269
00:14:57,375 --> 00:14:59,375
Speaker 3: of different things going on. First of all, the falling

270
00:14:59,455 --> 00:15:03,295
Speaker 3: off of the fruit could be because of an imbalance

271
00:15:03,375 --> 00:15:09,015
Speaker 3: with your fertilizer, and it aforementioned sulfate of potash might

272
00:15:09,095 --> 00:15:11,815
Speaker 3: be the material to keep it hanging on the tree,

273
00:15:13,575 --> 00:15:13,975
Speaker 3: because I.

274
00:15:14,455 --> 00:15:17,495
Speaker 8: Do put potash around it.

275
00:15:17,615 --> 00:15:21,415
Speaker 3: Okay, well that's that is probably that's my first my

276
00:15:21,535 --> 00:15:27,495
Speaker 3: first reaction. But the second thing is when you have

277
00:15:28,735 --> 00:15:31,575
Speaker 3: mold on your You said mold on your.

278
00:15:31,455 --> 00:15:35,535
Speaker 8: Fruit, right, Well, it's you know, when when they're starting

279
00:15:35,575 --> 00:15:40,935
Speaker 8: to go off, they have this funny stuff that actually

280
00:15:40,975 --> 00:15:46,615
Speaker 8: goes blue eventually or just colored. It's sort of like

281
00:15:46,775 --> 00:15:51,535
Speaker 8: a you know, like when they go rotten, like having

282
00:15:51,615 --> 00:15:56,495
Speaker 8: that sort of stuff on lemonade hanging on the tree.

283
00:15:57,255 --> 00:16:00,495
Speaker 3: It's not sooty mold from from that is on top

284
00:16:00,535 --> 00:16:06,615
Speaker 3: of the pools of things like you know, step sucking insects. No, no, no, okay,

285
00:16:06,695 --> 00:16:11,695
Speaker 3: all right, well I don't I coun't without seeing that mold.

286
00:16:11,775 --> 00:16:16,135
Speaker 3: I don't know about that mold you're talking about, So

287
00:16:16,415 --> 00:16:19,735
Speaker 3: I'm not sure what is it mold? And you say

288
00:16:19,775 --> 00:16:22,455
Speaker 3: it's a bluish color. That's a bit well.

289
00:16:24,015 --> 00:16:27,815
Speaker 8: Not really. It's just like you know how when lemons

290
00:16:27,895 --> 00:16:30,335
Speaker 8: or lemonade go off, they sort of heather.

291
00:16:33,335 --> 00:16:34,935
Speaker 3: Are they rot? They start to rot?

292
00:16:35,775 --> 00:16:37,695
Speaker 8: Yeah? Yeah, well have you not?

293
00:16:38,175 --> 00:16:40,215
Speaker 3: Don't you need to pick them a bit earlier before

294
00:16:40,255 --> 00:16:40,775
Speaker 3: that happens.

295
00:16:40,815 --> 00:16:45,695
Speaker 8: Then, well, they only do it. You're only supposed to

296
00:16:45,815 --> 00:16:49,455
Speaker 8: pick them up when they've come right and round about

297
00:16:49,495 --> 00:16:54,215
Speaker 8: September October. But my one actually fruits throughout the year.

298
00:16:55,055 --> 00:16:58,175
Speaker 3: Cheapest creepers. That's amazing, Okay.

299
00:16:58,455 --> 00:17:00,935
Speaker 8: And I do I spray it with kneem oil?

300
00:17:02,055 --> 00:17:05,615
Speaker 3: Ah because you have ants there or because you've got

301
00:17:05,655 --> 00:17:06,255
Speaker 3: something else going.

302
00:17:08,975 --> 00:17:13,575
Speaker 8: No, somebody just said we'll try spraying it with nemur

303
00:17:13,775 --> 00:17:17,535
Speaker 8: or rather than just spraying it with the old soap

304
00:17:17,895 --> 00:17:21,815
Speaker 8: and soap SuDS and vinegar.

305
00:17:21,855 --> 00:17:22,895
Speaker 5: I think it is with it?

306
00:17:23,015 --> 00:17:26,055
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, you know. Okay, if you've got insect problems,

307
00:17:26,095 --> 00:17:27,695
Speaker 3: I would use some nem oil if I were you.

308
00:17:27,815 --> 00:17:30,415
Speaker 3: But if you don't have really insect problems, I wouldn't worry.

309
00:17:30,935 --> 00:17:32,575
Speaker 3: I'm a bit a bit I'll find it a bit

310
00:17:32,655 --> 00:17:39,015
Speaker 3: strange that that there are holes in it.

311
00:17:40,295 --> 00:17:44,455
Speaker 8: Well, they're just a little round holes about the size

312
00:17:45,375 --> 00:17:53,055
Speaker 8: oh oh, the top of a pen thing that you

313
00:17:53,175 --> 00:17:58,135
Speaker 8: push down and there can be two or three in

314
00:17:59,135 --> 00:18:01,975
Speaker 8: one lemon, and I'm just lemon, and I just think

315
00:18:02,015 --> 00:18:03,095
Speaker 8: it's maybe it's the bird.

316
00:18:04,295 --> 00:18:08,295
Speaker 3: It could be it could it could yeah, go on.

317
00:18:08,975 --> 00:18:14,735
Speaker 8: They actually I've seen them actually picking them, trying to

318
00:18:14,775 --> 00:18:16,535
Speaker 8: get the juice out of the ones that have actually

319
00:18:16,615 --> 00:18:18,975
Speaker 8: been on the ground that I haven't as yet picked up.

320
00:18:19,455 --> 00:18:21,935
Speaker 3: Okay, is that is that? Silver eyes and things like that.

321
00:18:25,055 --> 00:18:28,295
Speaker 8: Mainly spare blackbirds and yeah, oh okay.

322
00:18:28,095 --> 00:18:31,935
Speaker 3: All right, Oh gosh of golly, Okay, I was thinking

323
00:18:31,975 --> 00:18:34,935
Speaker 3: about something else. Do you have guava moth where you

324
00:18:35,015 --> 00:18:36,175
Speaker 3: are and Parmesan north.

325
00:18:39,735 --> 00:18:41,215
Speaker 8: Not that I'm aware of. I wouldn't know what to

326
00:18:41,295 --> 00:18:41,575
Speaker 8: look for.

327
00:18:42,095 --> 00:18:44,935
Speaker 3: No, because the guava moth is spreading south, and have

328
00:18:45,055 --> 00:18:47,295
Speaker 3: the feeling that they might be. They also go for

329
00:18:47,495 --> 00:18:50,335
Speaker 3: certain citrus fruits, so it might that might be the

330
00:18:50,455 --> 00:18:54,215
Speaker 3: holes you see they these caterpillars. If it's that, for instance,

331
00:18:54,255 --> 00:18:56,695
Speaker 3: they would make holes in fruit and then when those

332
00:18:56,735 --> 00:18:58,575
Speaker 3: holes are there, the birds will come and say, oh

333
00:18:58,655 --> 00:19:01,775
Speaker 3: that's nice, and we'll have some more of that, you

334
00:19:01,855 --> 00:19:05,135
Speaker 3: know what I mean. And so I find it really

335
00:19:05,175 --> 00:19:07,935
Speaker 3: hard to diagnose this without knowing whether or not it's

336
00:19:08,015 --> 00:19:11,775
Speaker 3: guava mot if somebody could give us a text about

337
00:19:11,815 --> 00:19:14,015
Speaker 3: it would be good. Parmason North Guava mooth question.

338
00:19:13,975 --> 00:19:18,455
Speaker 2: Mike, alright, sorry, stay listening might be a solution. Coming.

339
00:19:18,575 --> 00:19:22,975
Speaker 2: Appreciate the call. And Ellen, oh this is controversial.

340
00:19:24,655 --> 00:19:26,015
Speaker 5: Good, good morning guys.

341
00:19:26,415 --> 00:19:27,895
Speaker 3: If I'm not going to put you on the spot,

342
00:19:28,615 --> 00:19:34,095
Speaker 3: yes you are, and it's fine. Hello, it's fine, it's fine,

343
00:19:34,215 --> 00:19:35,135
Speaker 3: This spot is fine.

344
00:19:35,215 --> 00:19:35,495
Speaker 1: Go on.

345
00:19:37,135 --> 00:19:37,975
Speaker 5: Right, very good.

346
00:19:38,935 --> 00:19:39,175
Speaker 3: Listen.

347
00:19:39,215 --> 00:19:40,975
Speaker 5: We spent a bit of time up there on McKenzie

348
00:19:41,015 --> 00:19:45,175
Speaker 5: Country and I've dealt with dark hedgehogs. They've got hedgehogs

349
00:19:45,255 --> 00:19:48,575
Speaker 5: up there now they are becoming a pest. And the

350
00:19:48,655 --> 00:19:52,135
Speaker 5: gardens round Cross Church and whatever behave you, there are hedgehogs.

351
00:19:52,175 --> 00:19:52,335
Speaker 8: Now.

352
00:19:52,415 --> 00:19:54,615
Speaker 5: I've just knocked one on the head because I think

353
00:19:54,655 --> 00:19:57,135
Speaker 5: they're a pist. Am I doing any good by knocking

354
00:19:57,175 --> 00:20:01,575
Speaker 5: a hedgehog on the head in Chrosst Church? Because I've

355
00:20:01,615 --> 00:20:02,935
Speaker 5: got a bit of flack out of it, because I

356
00:20:03,015 --> 00:20:04,255
Speaker 5: told one of my friends.

357
00:20:04,495 --> 00:20:06,895
Speaker 3: Yeah, well this is what we're going to get today

358
00:20:06,935 --> 00:20:09,895
Speaker 3: as well. I totally agree with you. I know that

359
00:20:10,055 --> 00:20:13,015
Speaker 3: they don't belong in New Zealand. They will kill an

360
00:20:13,295 --> 00:20:17,975
Speaker 3: enormous amount of really cool insects, including endangered species. They

361
00:20:17,975 --> 00:20:20,695
Speaker 3: will also quill all the babies and the eggs that

362
00:20:20,855 --> 00:20:23,695
Speaker 3: are from birds that nest on the ground, and in

363
00:20:23,775 --> 00:20:27,415
Speaker 3: the Mackenzie Country there are enormous amounts of those, as

364
00:20:27,455 --> 00:20:30,175
Speaker 3: you well know. I'm actually working in the McKenzie Country

365
00:20:30,215 --> 00:20:32,175
Speaker 3: on this sort of nonsense at the moment with some

366
00:20:32,295 --> 00:20:34,575
Speaker 3: of the school kids, and we are talking about these

367
00:20:34,655 --> 00:20:37,975
Speaker 3: things and they are not great creatures to have around.

368
00:20:38,015 --> 00:20:40,775
Speaker 3: So I totally agree with you do with very quickly,

369
00:20:40,975 --> 00:20:43,455
Speaker 3: smart big spade, smack gone.

370
00:20:45,055 --> 00:20:48,055
Speaker 5: Thank you so much. You've made my day. I feel

371
00:20:48,095 --> 00:20:48,815
Speaker 5: a lot better now.

372
00:20:51,415 --> 00:20:52,695
Speaker 3: Merry Christmas to you too.

373
00:20:53,775 --> 00:20:56,215
Speaker 2: All of this to you. Thank you for that. Ellen,

374
00:20:56,295 --> 00:20:58,415
Speaker 2: all the very best. And Roger, very good morning to you.

375
00:20:59,295 --> 00:21:03,055
Speaker 6: Good morning. I got two questions for you. I'm just

376
00:21:03,255 --> 00:21:07,895
Speaker 6: listening to you using a sticker the Christian. Do I

377
00:21:08,135 --> 00:21:11,095
Speaker 6: need to use it? When I use clover blood oil?

378
00:21:12,735 --> 00:21:14,295
Speaker 3: When you use clover? What oil?

379
00:21:15,175 --> 00:21:16,215
Speaker 6: Cloth? Bood oil?

380
00:21:17,175 --> 00:21:19,255
Speaker 3: Oh no, I don't know. Why what do you use

381
00:21:19,295 --> 00:21:20,175
Speaker 3: that for? At the moment?

382
00:21:22,095 --> 00:21:25,895
Speaker 6: The cloth buddle swaying on my plants to keep the

383
00:21:25,975 --> 00:21:29,975
Speaker 6: APUs away and dogs and catskay to use it?

384
00:21:30,055 --> 00:21:30,735
Speaker 3: I don't think so.

385
00:21:31,255 --> 00:21:34,535
Speaker 2: Not on the oil, I think no right now?

386
00:21:34,575 --> 00:21:37,935
Speaker 6: The second Christian is I've got some lovely garlic. I

387
00:21:38,135 --> 00:21:42,135
Speaker 6: had some lovely garlic and not the weather. They're starting

388
00:21:42,215 --> 00:21:42,655
Speaker 6: to rot.

389
00:21:43,255 --> 00:21:47,015
Speaker 3: Yeah, that's that happens sometimes. I think the idea with

390
00:21:47,135 --> 00:21:50,095
Speaker 3: garlic is and I've gone quite good at this year.

391
00:21:50,535 --> 00:21:52,775
Speaker 3: It's the plant it a lot earlier than people say.

392
00:21:53,175 --> 00:21:56,215
Speaker 3: The nonsense off shortest day, longest day is nonsense. We

393
00:21:56,415 --> 00:22:00,375
Speaker 3: just had the longest day yesterday, and I think it

394
00:22:00,455 --> 00:22:02,775
Speaker 3: would be much better to plant and say in April,

395
00:22:02,855 --> 00:22:05,535
Speaker 3: when the soil is still warm, get the thing going

396
00:22:05,895 --> 00:22:08,615
Speaker 3: and put it in a place where the rust can't

397
00:22:08,695 --> 00:22:11,295
Speaker 3: get at it. And I've found that my tunnel house

398
00:22:11,695 --> 00:22:12,655
Speaker 3: is pretty good for that.

399
00:22:13,455 --> 00:22:17,055
Speaker 6: Yes, well, this garlect was starting to get mature, is

400
00:22:17,095 --> 00:22:19,815
Speaker 6: starting to go, you know the tips. And last week

401
00:22:19,935 --> 00:22:22,815
Speaker 6: it was strong that steams are thick because of all

402
00:22:22,895 --> 00:22:25,535
Speaker 6: the rain the way they're just bending down and sounding

403
00:22:25,615 --> 00:22:27,615
Speaker 6: to rot. And I pulled some out and they were

404
00:22:27,655 --> 00:22:28,415
Speaker 6: starting to rot.

405
00:22:29,015 --> 00:22:31,695
Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that can happen if it's still wet. So

406
00:22:32,495 --> 00:22:35,375
Speaker 3: this the rain that we just had is not very good.

407
00:22:35,415 --> 00:22:37,335
Speaker 3: If you still got garlic in the in the ground,

408
00:22:37,895 --> 00:22:40,695
Speaker 3: don't over water it when it's say a couple of

409
00:22:40,815 --> 00:22:44,775
Speaker 3: months from ripening. Yes, I totally agree.

410
00:22:44,455 --> 00:22:44,735
Speaker 8: To do it.

411
00:22:45,455 --> 00:22:48,175
Speaker 6: Last year I got some londer garlic. This year it's

412
00:22:49,095 --> 00:22:51,895
Speaker 6: really disappointed, but I hope I still get some to

413
00:22:52,015 --> 00:22:54,735
Speaker 6: keep it because it's old garlic, and I say it

414
00:22:54,775 --> 00:22:57,735
Speaker 6: from twenty years ago. It's the real original stuff they

415
00:22:57,855 --> 00:23:01,855
Speaker 6: used to grow. And I think in Nelson, oh, really nice,

416
00:23:02,135 --> 00:23:05,255
Speaker 6: really strong stuff. Do you know these days?

417
00:23:05,415 --> 00:23:05,895
Speaker 8: Is not good?

418
00:23:06,495 --> 00:23:08,895
Speaker 3: No, you know what, Robin, I totally agree. Because I've

419
00:23:08,895 --> 00:23:11,135
Speaker 3: been growing garlic he in cantery for as long as

420
00:23:11,175 --> 00:23:14,335
Speaker 3: I've been here. It's going really well. Rusters come in

421
00:23:14,895 --> 00:23:18,935
Speaker 3: big problems and indeed some weak rootstock as I call it,

422
00:23:19,095 --> 00:23:21,575
Speaker 3: or you know what I mean, garlic to plant, you

423
00:23:21,655 --> 00:23:26,055
Speaker 3: know what I mean. And it's not that great, is it? No, No,

424
00:23:26,295 --> 00:23:28,815
Speaker 3: I must admit that's right. Yeah, I've got troubles too.

425
00:23:29,135 --> 00:23:30,975
Speaker 3: In the old days. If you're in christ As, you

426
00:23:31,095 --> 00:23:36,215
Speaker 3: go to the market in the in the city center,

427
00:23:36,295 --> 00:23:40,455
Speaker 3: you know where they sometimes, Yeah, they sometimes had wonderful

428
00:23:40,495 --> 00:23:42,655
Speaker 3: clothes there that you could buy for the next the

429
00:23:42,735 --> 00:23:45,535
Speaker 3: next season. But do it early as you can. April

430
00:23:45,655 --> 00:23:47,175
Speaker 3: is a good time, all right.

431
00:23:48,095 --> 00:23:54,895
Speaker 2: Thank you for yours to you rogers, take

432
00:23:54,975 --> 00:23:59,495
Speaker 1: Care for more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp,

433
00:23:59,695 --> 00:24:02,335
Speaker 1: listen live to news talks that'd be on Sunday mornings

434
00:24:02,375 --> 00:24:05,215
Speaker 1: from six, or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio