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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf

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Speaker 1: Camp from News Talks at B. Whether you're painting the ceiling,

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Speaker 2: Your new b let's jump into the garden A litter

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Speaker 2: it climbed past. A good morning, sir, A very good

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Speaker 2: morning to you.

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Speaker 3: P Indeed, you've you've started the ball rolling, haven't you sorry?

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Speaker 3: Going back to a Northland system of having no insulation?

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Speaker 2: No, no, it's not all what I know.

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Speaker 3: I'm just ever you want.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank goodness.

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Speaker 3: I lived in a house in kai Koe which was

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Speaker 3: made from cowdy. It was beautiful, but it was all

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Speaker 3: single glades and had no insulation at all. And it

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Speaker 3: was actually okay because we slept in that house during

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Speaker 3: the day because we were doing keywwork at night.

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Speaker 2: That's right, here's a great house, but you can't stay

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Speaker 2: there overnight. It's only good for the day. It worked well, absolutely. Hey,

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Speaker 2: we've got a bunch of calls, let's rip into it. Oh,

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Speaker 2: eight hundred and eighty ten eighty, if you'd like to

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Speaker 2: talk to root ohen A very good morning.

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Speaker 4: Good morning. I was knowing that you're a silver culturist.

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Speaker 4: I thought you're just the man for this one.

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Speaker 5: Go on.

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Speaker 4: I've got well, we've got a couple actually, but a

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Speaker 4: photakowa growing on our property, which is about sixty seven

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Speaker 4: meters tall, and it's just above our where our driveway

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Speaker 4: is very very very close to our driver, within say

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Speaker 4: five meters of our driveway, and I'm wondering, I've forgot

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Speaker 4: to wander to tell you what my plan was, to

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Speaker 4: see if it stands up to for pruning it, and

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Speaker 4: ask you a question relating to its root spread, and

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Speaker 4: that was I was concerned that the roots spread would

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Speaker 4: eventually start breaking up the concrete because I know what

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Speaker 4: they're like down down further set up on a bank.

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Speaker 4: And I wondered, if I prune it, if that will

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Speaker 4: help to limit the questions of a prune it. Does

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Speaker 4: that help to limit the root spread?

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know if it limits the roots spread,

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Speaker 3: but if you do it on the side where the

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Speaker 3: where the concrete is, you might find that it will

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Speaker 3: make new roots, but they will be smaller, so you

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Speaker 3: might not have as much damage, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: And it will go if you say it's going. The

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Speaker 3: other side is going up a bank. You said, I

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Speaker 3: think that might be. That might be okay, it could

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Speaker 3: go if you like more there. How old did you

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Speaker 3: say the tree was?

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Speaker 4: I don't know. We've been here seventeen years and it

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Speaker 4: was well in place. Then wow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and yes they do. They are known for doing

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Speaker 3: quite a bit of damage to structures.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because I I's sort of on a contra basis.

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Speaker 4: Someone did some work for me in my absence for

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Speaker 4: of something else, and they're supposed to have provene this

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Speaker 4: And when I came back, you couldn't. It was like

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Speaker 4: I trimmed half a millimeter off and whiskers and so

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Speaker 4: I was a bit disappointed, but I and he was

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Speaker 4: sort of worried that he might kill a thing. But

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Speaker 4: my plan is because I haven't got a whole lot

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Speaker 4: sort of thing. And I got a pulse or I

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Speaker 4: was going to cut off a part of it, say

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Speaker 4: of like still taking goodness. And then the next year

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Speaker 4: I was going to then lop off the other, say

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Speaker 3: That's the way I would do it. I would do

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Speaker 3: it little bits at the time.

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Speaker 2: But I'm remarkably restrained right now.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know you are, because it's a really hard

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Speaker 2: So Oh, I've got a poodicoa sitting out on the

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Speaker 2: Two guys spent almost a day climbing the tree, thinning

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Speaker 2: years later, some of that new growth is established lower

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Speaker 2: probably not till next year. So you've got to be

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Speaker 2: is enough new growth to provide you know, it'll keep

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Speaker 2: the tree alive, right, So the worry about just going

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Speaker 2: inadvertently damage the tree. And that's why I got to

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Speaker 4: So it looks a bit like you're having a shave

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Speaker 4: and the fire alarm went off.

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Speaker 2: It looks a bit funny because I've got all these

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Speaker 2: long limbs with these tiny little tufts of on the

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Speaker 2: end right, But they're doing the work while the rest

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Speaker 2: of the tree gets a chance to re establish itself

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Speaker 2: with new growth lower down. Because what I wanted is

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Speaker 2: a more compact tree. I don't want to remove it,

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Speaker 2: but I need it to be a bit smaller. But

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Speaker 2: I'm taking a sort of a strategic approach to.

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Speaker 3: It, and you always do I totally agree.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, good luck with that. And interestingly enough, the

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Speaker 2: they rescued a dog from a tree. It was on

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Speaker 2: the newstg ZB website. So the dog apparently was chasing

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Speaker 2: a possum. The possum shot up the tree. The dog,

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Speaker 2: been a good idea. So I think five brigate had

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Speaker 2: he climbed the tree, roped himself in and climbed it

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Speaker 3: Oh that's funny, it's sound cool.

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Speaker 2: It's on the ZBI website. It's great, right yo, Eppie,

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Speaker 2: good morning to you.

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Speaker 6: Oh, good morning route. I've got a very old orange

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Speaker 6: tree that has developed a sort of a black pary

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Speaker 6: fall off. Is there anything that I can do?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? I think so. Tell me first of all, is

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Speaker 6: Yes? It is?

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Speaker 3: Okay, and okay, and where where you're in? Palmisan North?

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Speaker 3: That's right, aren't you get right? Okay? Right here we go.

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Speaker 3: This is sooty mold. I think that is caused. That's

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Speaker 3: actually a fungus that grows on the excrement of sap

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Speaker 3: sucking bugs. So if you have, for instance, scale insects

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Speaker 3: call those white things a whitefly that lives on citrus,

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Speaker 3: They pup honeyed you and onto the leaves, and on

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Speaker 3: the leaves grows that black suti mold. So it's not

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Speaker 3: a souty mold. That is your problem. That is basically

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Speaker 3: the end result. But you need to control these insects

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Speaker 3: that are putting that that sweet stuff onto the leaves below,

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Speaker 3: and the best way to do that is by spraying

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Speaker 3: something that stops them from developing. But you'll need to

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Speaker 3: to do them as much as you can. Best thing

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Speaker 3: you're not polluting your fruit and you can still eat

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Speaker 3: your fruit. It's quite safe to use, but you'll have

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Speaker 3: to do that on the underside of the leaves if

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Speaker 3: you can at least three times, at least three weeks apart,

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Speaker 3: for say a month apart, so three times a month

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Speaker 3: apite gnem oil and as much cover as you can get,

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Speaker 3: and that will kill those particular stepsucking bugs. That means

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Speaker 3: reduction of that honeyedew going down on the leaves below,

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Speaker 3: and that means there's nothing for the black suiting mold

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Speaker 6: Oh, I see good. Thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: Indeed you're more than welcome.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 7: Bye.

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Speaker 3: Success with that, Bye bye your news talk c B.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much. Hippy hey quick text as well?

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Speaker 2: Or now sugar water for birds because I was listening

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Speaker 2: So can you tell me the correct proportion of plain

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Speaker 2: white sugar to tapwater to make sugar water for the birds?

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Speaker 2: This is what you're proposed for feeding a yeah.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Ine. So you don't use things

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Speaker 3: like honey water because that actually that's legally prohibited because

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Speaker 3: that could spread diseases to bees as well. It's a difference.

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Speaker 3: So we use sugar water. I think it's one cup

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Speaker 3: of sugar to about four cups of water one in four,

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Speaker 3: one in five. That's about the limit you use for

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Speaker 3: for those nectar feeding birds.

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Speaker 2: And do it with the little the bottle upside down

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Speaker 2: into a little tray and as they drink.

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Speaker 3: That is that is the Yeah, there's lots of different

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Speaker 3: ways of doing it, indeed, and when they drink it

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Speaker 3: from the bottom, of course, it goes yeah, and it

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Speaker 3: feels back up again. Yeah you go to Okay, that's it.

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Speaker 2: Right right, I'll put that on my list along with

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Speaker 2: the owls have been found North Pork Reserve where owls owls?

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Speaker 2: Northborough Reserve. It's getting closer and closer. Place, where's this

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Speaker 2: more pork?

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Speaker 3: Actually? Oh okay? Cool?

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Speaker 2: So Northborough Reserve is kind of between tech Burner and

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Speaker 2: Belmont on the what I can't wait? I can't wait.

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Speaker 2: I will tell you when they arrive and Devenport without

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Speaker 2: a doubt, right, stupid. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 7: Good morning? Is the lad there? Yeah?

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Speaker 3: Yes, sometimes usually on a Sunday morning.

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Speaker 2: I'll go and find them on a Sunday morning.

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Speaker 3: Okay, go on, get on with it.

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Speaker 7: I live court handed to you actually over and hornby. Yeah,

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Speaker 7: when you get side now looking at a honey Babe

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Speaker 7: peach tree, Yeah, and it's still it still has all

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Speaker 7: its leaves on. The next to it is a honey

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Speaker 7: Babe nectary and tree. It hasn't got a leaf on it.

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Speaker 7: On the other side, so ap, we've got three and

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Speaker 7: that hasn't got a leaf on it. But this actually

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Speaker 7: looks like it's growing new leaves from the end of

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Speaker 7: the stalks. But it's all in full leaf and it's

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Speaker 7: all green. There's a fruit bound leaves on it and

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Speaker 7: we can't look out why it hasn't lost them.

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Speaker 3: That is weird. Tell me how old is that tree, Stuart?

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Speaker 7: This tree would be I've had a head. We'd be

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Speaker 7: living here about five years, and I've had it a

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Speaker 7: couple of years before that. And it's done this to us,

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Speaker 7: all of us since I've just about had it. But

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Speaker 7: it's it's in full leaf, it's green. As people come

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Speaker 7: around and says all that's green and ready, you know

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Speaker 7: what's going on? My slow will have a bloody clothes

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Speaker 3: this is one of life's mysteries. And isn't it the

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Speaker 3: It happens, which is wonderful. In life.

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Speaker 2: Sometimes it's lovely. Absolutely Now controversy route forst and bird

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Speaker 2: So half a cup of sugar four cups of water? True,

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Speaker 5: Good morning, rude, Rude. Still on the same topic about

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Speaker 5: How you train the birds to actually use it?

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Speaker 3: Ah, I know exactly what you mean, because we have

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Speaker 3: It's not a big deal. And and silverized might be

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Speaker 5: But the only birds that are out at the moment

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Speaker 3: They will they well, why don't you put why don't

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Speaker 5: Not spencer? Yeah, okay, or.

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Speaker 3: Even better, here's here's here's a really good tip. That's

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Speaker 5: Okay, really great, thanks for.

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Speaker 3: That, good one.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, that's great. And the pecker pecker bird feeder, it's

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Speaker 2: How cool. Right, we should take a break now we're

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Speaker 1: Squeaky door or squeaky floor. Get the right advice from

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Speaker 1: Peter Wolfcare, the resident builder with light fource, solar, save

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Speaker 1: on solar and earn airpoints dollars used talks.

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Speaker 2: It'd be right now that I've added something else to

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Speaker 3: What I thought was really cool Peter that because you know,

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Speaker 3: you know, I'm bird bearing and all that, and we

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Speaker 3: You might have heard that yesterday on Jack that I

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Speaker 3: Nine hundred and seventy two was my outcome.

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Speaker 2: That's fabulous.

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Speaker 3: That's greatulous.

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Speaker 2: I read the whole pist three thing is actually working, eh, it.

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Speaker 3: Certainly, yes, it actually is. It was Taho Mackenzie I

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Speaker 3: And there's all sorts of lovely stuff you can do

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Speaker 2: It's great, brilliant Tissa A very good morning.

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Speaker 8: Good morning, Muder.

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Speaker 7: Look.

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Speaker 8: I listened to your show every Sunday without foul. It's amazing.

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Speaker 8: And I picked up so many tips because I've got

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Speaker 8: a lovely garden. But I need your help on this one.

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Speaker 8: I have two jazz I have about eight of them

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Speaker 8: They've been growing there for about four years now. I

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Speaker 8: Now I've noticed that they're all on the edges right

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Speaker 8: I just break it. I did break it a weed

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Speaker 8: not dead. It's just the front part of them are

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Speaker 8: But the thing is that they're all open, the whole

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Speaker 8: I do beg your part of tuja th h u

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Speaker 3: So this it would be, oh gosh, no, I can't

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Speaker 3: That's what I would do.

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Speaker 8: It just amazes me that the other four are perfectly

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Speaker 3: Yeah, typical, well, as long as what you see is

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Speaker 8: Actually, you're a shocker.

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Speaker 3: You know what I should, what I would do if

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Speaker 8: They're green, I've seen that. I've done that.

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Speaker 3: Oh they are green.

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Speaker 3: I have no idea why. No, I have no idea

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Speaker 3: is there standing water there?

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Speaker 5: No?

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Speaker 3: There you go don't. I don't think it's water logged then,

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Speaker 5: To be quite.

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Speaker 8: Trimming the I never what happens to try it out.

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Speaker 3: Otherwise, just plant something else in its in its position.

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Speaker 2: Sorry, sorry about that all the very quickly from your

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Speaker 2: graham thirty seconds Horsepool? Can you use it? And we're

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Speaker 2: we're where would you use it?

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Speaker 9: I've made it's kind of horse and it's very generous.

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Speaker 9: I've put it at a two hundred leter drum with a

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Speaker 3: I think if you are really keen on weeding, I

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Speaker 3: I mean that they are well known for giving quite

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Speaker 3: tone it down. You know what I mean? Okay, go

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Speaker 3: for accomplished circle. Yeah there you go right.

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Speaker 9: This is thirty seconds you got.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, Graham, well done, Saint to the point. That's awesome.

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Speaker 2: That's awesome. That's great. Hey mate, have a is it

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Speaker 2: warming up in your part of town?

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Speaker 3: It was twenty degrees some believe it was beautiful. Abe.

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Speaker 2: I'll do the lawns again, right yo, We'll do it

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Speaker 2: all again next Sunday. Oh you take care all of this.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back. I will be back. Have a great week, folks,

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Speaker 2: and look forward to seeing you next Sunday morning. Here

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