1 00:00:06,855 --> 00:00:10,455 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf 2 00:00:10,455 --> 00:00:13,655 Speaker 1: Camp from News Talks ed B. Is this winter at 3 00:00:13,695 --> 00:00:20,255 Speaker 1: steel shop measured twice, got once, but maybe Colpete first. 4 00:00:20,375 --> 00:00:23,935 Speaker 1: Peter wolf Camp the Resident Builder with light four solar, 5 00:00:24,055 --> 00:00:26,975 Speaker 1: it's like the switch to solar today. News Talks ed B. 6 00:00:28,095 --> 00:00:29,975 Speaker 2: Your news talks at be Peg wolf Camp with you 7 00:00:30,015 --> 00:00:32,095 Speaker 2: and Red Climb passed a very good morning, sir. 8 00:00:32,575 --> 00:00:35,535 Speaker 3: Good morning the ruders here too. Isn't that a lovely 9 00:00:35,575 --> 00:00:35,975 Speaker 3: thing to. 10 00:00:35,935 --> 00:00:37,535 Speaker 2: Do is running where you are. 11 00:00:38,175 --> 00:00:40,975 Speaker 3: It's a gorgeous day. Actually it's it was very cold, 12 00:00:41,375 --> 00:00:45,175 Speaker 3: it's it's quite blue skyish and all that. But seeing 13 00:00:45,175 --> 00:00:47,255 Speaker 3: we're waiting for some I know, but we need some 14 00:00:47,255 --> 00:00:49,255 Speaker 3: more callers. So before that, I just want to tell 15 00:00:49,255 --> 00:00:51,575 Speaker 3: you a story that I thought it was really cool. 16 00:00:51,855 --> 00:00:54,055 Speaker 3: I've got I had some I have some really good 17 00:00:54,135 --> 00:00:56,535 Speaker 3: Dutch friends that I've known almost from the day I 18 00:00:56,575 --> 00:01:00,415 Speaker 3: came into New Zealand. And Dawn and she lives in 19 00:01:00,815 --> 00:01:03,255 Speaker 3: Taroto and in the Taroto region. She told me this 20 00:01:03,375 --> 00:01:07,015 Speaker 3: story that I've totally forgotten about. And she asked me 21 00:01:07,095 --> 00:01:10,575 Speaker 3: this question about bulbs, how to do bulbs and how 22 00:01:10,615 --> 00:01:13,255 Speaker 3: to you know, you have to call them down in 23 00:01:13,335 --> 00:01:16,415 Speaker 3: the to get a nice cold winter over winter dry 24 00:01:16,455 --> 00:01:18,575 Speaker 3: in the fridge. Okay, that sort of stuff. So I 25 00:01:18,655 --> 00:01:20,335 Speaker 3: just came from the Netherlands and I said, well, you 26 00:01:20,375 --> 00:01:23,935 Speaker 3: put them in the freezer there? Do you know the 27 00:01:23,975 --> 00:01:27,135 Speaker 3: fridge there? Do you know where this is going? 28 00:01:27,655 --> 00:01:27,735 Speaker 1: No? 29 00:01:27,815 --> 00:01:29,695 Speaker 2: I can imagine, Well, well you can imagine. 30 00:01:29,735 --> 00:01:31,535 Speaker 3: So the frieze there's a French word that's used in 31 00:01:31,615 --> 00:01:35,335 Speaker 3: Dutch for the fridge actually, but it's also about where 32 00:01:35,375 --> 00:01:38,455 Speaker 3: the freezer is, and this was where the she puts 33 00:01:38,455 --> 00:01:42,215 Speaker 3: them in the freezer and there they were mushy, and 34 00:01:42,335 --> 00:01:45,135 Speaker 3: she told me that after about fifty years of living 35 00:01:45,135 --> 00:01:47,255 Speaker 3: in New Sield. You know, I never told you this story. 36 00:01:47,455 --> 00:01:49,655 Speaker 3: That was a really stupid advice. 37 00:01:51,855 --> 00:01:54,775 Speaker 2: But could you put them in the fridge, not the freezer. 38 00:01:55,295 --> 00:01:56,975 Speaker 3: It's got to be the fridge. It's got to be 39 00:01:57,015 --> 00:02:00,575 Speaker 3: the fridge in a paper bag to to literally give 40 00:02:00,615 --> 00:02:03,895 Speaker 3: them this overwintering side. But don't put them in the freezer, 41 00:02:03,895 --> 00:02:06,575 Speaker 3: because I probably said freezer, thinking oh that's the work. 42 00:02:06,655 --> 00:02:07,535 Speaker 3: But it wasn't. 43 00:02:09,015 --> 00:02:12,815 Speaker 2: Classic learning English funny that you mentioned that, because my 44 00:02:12,855 --> 00:02:15,775 Speaker 2: sister was talking about planting bulbs the other day, and 45 00:02:16,695 --> 00:02:18,375 Speaker 2: you know the issue was that it just doesn't get 46 00:02:18,375 --> 00:02:20,975 Speaker 2: that cold in Auckland, and it certainly doesn't get that cold. 47 00:02:20,975 --> 00:02:25,615 Speaker 2: And Wayhiki, so you know where she's got this magnificent garden. 48 00:02:25,735 --> 00:02:28,935 Speaker 3: She sent such a good gardener. Lovely when it happened. 49 00:02:29,015 --> 00:02:32,535 Speaker 2: Yeah, but it was all about timing. We were talking. 50 00:02:32,615 --> 00:02:34,375 Speaker 2: We was seeing Mum the other day and it was like, 51 00:02:34,455 --> 00:02:36,015 Speaker 2: oh no, I got to wait right till the end 52 00:02:36,015 --> 00:02:38,655 Speaker 2: because I put them in Now they'll just go crazy. Yeah, 53 00:02:38,655 --> 00:02:39,295 Speaker 2: way to her. 54 00:02:39,895 --> 00:02:42,935 Speaker 3: Yeah, I love that. Those are the stories that you think, gosh, 55 00:02:43,175 --> 00:02:45,895 Speaker 3: those are the old days. Oh, by the way, and Tony, 56 00:02:45,975 --> 00:02:49,295 Speaker 3: her husband was a builder, and he I remember building 57 00:02:49,335 --> 00:02:51,095 Speaker 3: with him, building part of my house. This is in 58 00:02:51,135 --> 00:02:54,655 Speaker 3: the day before there were consents and all that. You know, 59 00:02:56,335 --> 00:02:57,295 Speaker 3: don't even go there. 60 00:02:57,775 --> 00:03:00,295 Speaker 2: I love it. Right now, let's get amongst the calls. 61 00:03:00,655 --> 00:03:02,975 Speaker 2: Eight hundred and eighty ten eighties the number to call 62 00:03:03,095 --> 00:03:07,695 Speaker 2: Hello Allister, good ay, what. 63 00:03:07,535 --> 00:03:08,375 Speaker 3: Can we do for you? 64 00:03:08,455 --> 00:03:11,295 Speaker 4: Day here? Not a very good day here? It's raining 65 00:03:11,375 --> 00:03:12,255 Speaker 4: right Hell. 66 00:03:12,375 --> 00:03:15,255 Speaker 3: I can't help you with it. I'm afraid I've tried that, 67 00:03:15,455 --> 00:03:18,335 Speaker 3: but it never worked me neither. 68 00:03:18,535 --> 00:03:21,535 Speaker 4: You're right. Look, I want to talk to you about 69 00:03:21,575 --> 00:03:27,415 Speaker 4: strawberries and my strawberries. I've grown strawberries here for years 70 00:03:27,415 --> 00:03:31,495 Speaker 4: and years and years, and they've usually been terrific. Now, 71 00:03:31,575 --> 00:03:36,495 Speaker 4: the last season, we had terrific plants. They were very 72 00:03:36,535 --> 00:03:41,015 Speaker 4: healthy plants and bushy and everything, but very few strawberries. 73 00:03:42,055 --> 00:03:45,095 Speaker 4: And I'm wondering now what to do about that, because 74 00:03:45,095 --> 00:03:47,695 Speaker 4: I want to put some. I'm just about to dig 75 00:03:47,735 --> 00:03:48,135 Speaker 4: them up. 76 00:03:50,095 --> 00:03:52,055 Speaker 3: Why dig them or replant them or something? 77 00:03:52,495 --> 00:03:56,615 Speaker 4: Replant? Yeah, yeah, so I don't know. First of all, 78 00:03:57,175 --> 00:04:00,655 Speaker 4: the plants are there and they're still very bushy, but 79 00:04:00,655 --> 00:04:03,975 Speaker 4: they've got lots of runners. Can I use the runners 80 00:04:04,215 --> 00:04:05,295 Speaker 4: for the new season? 81 00:04:06,695 --> 00:04:12,135 Speaker 3: Alistair? I've used runners all my life. Last year, last 82 00:04:12,215 --> 00:04:15,775 Speaker 3: year was a crappy year in which I had virtually 83 00:04:15,895 --> 00:04:19,535 Speaker 3: no strawberries at all. I have I was going to 84 00:04:19,575 --> 00:04:23,535 Speaker 3: ask you the same question. Yeah, I don't know what 85 00:04:23,655 --> 00:04:26,655 Speaker 3: happened last year. Yeah, I don't know, but I'm having 86 00:04:26,655 --> 00:04:27,175 Speaker 3: another goal. 87 00:04:28,495 --> 00:04:31,295 Speaker 4: Yep, yeah, I'm having another goal. 88 00:04:32,495 --> 00:04:32,775 Speaker 1: Yeah. 89 00:04:32,775 --> 00:04:34,615 Speaker 3: I can hear we're talking over each other. Go on, 90 00:04:34,695 --> 00:04:35,215 Speaker 3: get on with it. 91 00:04:35,295 --> 00:04:39,735 Speaker 4: Yes, we had very few strawberries. There are beautiful strawberries, 92 00:04:39,775 --> 00:04:41,535 Speaker 4: but there are only a very few of them. 93 00:04:42,175 --> 00:04:44,935 Speaker 3: Funny that camarosa and all the things that I used 94 00:04:44,975 --> 00:04:47,775 Speaker 3: to used to have there's quite a few nice varieties 95 00:04:47,815 --> 00:04:52,775 Speaker 3: that I can grow here in Canterbury, and they were 96 00:04:52,815 --> 00:04:55,055 Speaker 3: they were a pain in the bum last year. There 97 00:04:55,095 --> 00:04:58,255 Speaker 3: was nothing happening. The birds would get the rest, et cetera, 98 00:04:58,295 --> 00:05:00,815 Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera. I do not know what it is. 99 00:05:01,015 --> 00:05:03,495 Speaker 3: I think what I'm going to do in the next 100 00:05:03,535 --> 00:05:05,455 Speaker 3: month or so is put a whole lot of new 101 00:05:05,495 --> 00:05:08,735 Speaker 3: top soil on and and start again if you like, 102 00:05:08,855 --> 00:05:12,695 Speaker 3: you know, but also keep those keep those runners going, 103 00:05:12,735 --> 00:05:15,255 Speaker 3: because that's what your new varieties are. But I'm going 104 00:05:15,255 --> 00:05:17,255 Speaker 3: to get some new anyway. Blow it. I'm going to 105 00:05:17,815 --> 00:05:23,615 Speaker 3: old drinks and get some Yeah, okay, yeah, you can 106 00:05:23,695 --> 00:05:25,175 Speaker 3: use those as far as I'm concerned. 107 00:05:26,175 --> 00:05:30,375 Speaker 4: Yeah, and maybe make a few new new plants and 108 00:05:30,455 --> 00:05:30,975 Speaker 4: with them. 109 00:05:31,335 --> 00:05:34,335 Speaker 3: Yes, do and also dig the stuff up for a change, 110 00:05:34,455 --> 00:05:38,135 Speaker 3: get some nice organic material in their compost da DA data, 111 00:05:38,295 --> 00:05:40,575 Speaker 3: and and see if next year is going to be 112 00:05:40,575 --> 00:05:42,655 Speaker 3: better this coming season. Yeah. 113 00:05:42,895 --> 00:05:45,855 Speaker 4: So I got a big pile of melch here, for example, 114 00:05:46,335 --> 00:05:48,295 Speaker 4: I dig that in with the compost. 115 00:05:48,975 --> 00:05:51,775 Speaker 3: What sort of melch is that, by the way, Oh, 116 00:05:51,855 --> 00:05:52,375 Speaker 3: it's just. 117 00:05:52,535 --> 00:05:59,975 Speaker 4: Old, old, old wood that's been ground up and it's 118 00:06:00,015 --> 00:06:01,575 Speaker 4: sitting just sitting there. 119 00:06:02,175 --> 00:06:05,015 Speaker 3: Are you sure you would use that. I would probably 120 00:06:05,135 --> 00:06:08,175 Speaker 3: use organic material like compost rather than the than the wood, 121 00:06:08,495 --> 00:06:12,175 Speaker 3: because when the cays it takes it takes quite a 122 00:06:12,175 --> 00:06:15,015 Speaker 3: bit of nitrogen out of the soil as well. Yeah, 123 00:06:15,095 --> 00:06:17,815 Speaker 3: I think so. Yeah, And that means that the soil 124 00:06:17,895 --> 00:06:21,535 Speaker 3: condition is not as fabulous for strawberries as, for instance, 125 00:06:21,615 --> 00:06:22,895 Speaker 3: a good organic material. 126 00:06:23,815 --> 00:06:26,815 Speaker 4: Sure, sure, sure. And what else would you use to 127 00:06:26,895 --> 00:06:29,295 Speaker 4: say of give them a bit of life? 128 00:06:29,895 --> 00:06:32,335 Speaker 3: It's very simple. What I tend to use is a 129 00:06:32,335 --> 00:06:35,815 Speaker 3: liquid fertilizer from wet and forget. It's called seafood soup 130 00:06:36,055 --> 00:06:39,095 Speaker 3: or seaweed tea. In this case, I mix them up. No, 131 00:06:39,175 --> 00:06:42,135 Speaker 3: I don't mixed up. I alternate them. One week I 132 00:06:42,175 --> 00:06:44,295 Speaker 3: do the seafood soup, the next week I do the 133 00:06:44,335 --> 00:06:46,095 Speaker 3: seaweed tea. 134 00:06:46,375 --> 00:06:49,215 Speaker 4: Okay, that's what I want, thank you very much. 135 00:06:49,655 --> 00:06:52,255 Speaker 3: And you know what I do. I use those both 136 00:06:52,295 --> 00:06:56,535 Speaker 3: those materials in a watering can and I do a 137 00:06:56,615 --> 00:06:59,215 Speaker 3: little bit of it in the ten liters watering can 138 00:06:59,335 --> 00:07:03,135 Speaker 3: so that it looks like really weak tea, not too strong, 139 00:07:03,695 --> 00:07:08,735 Speaker 3: like really you know that light brown wikia stopy stuff. Yeah, yeah, 140 00:07:08,735 --> 00:07:12,215 Speaker 3: that's what it's your look not too much eager, easy. 141 00:07:12,175 --> 00:07:19,175 Speaker 2: Okay, you have a great ta take care. Oh and 142 00:07:19,175 --> 00:07:20,655 Speaker 2: eighty ten and you've got a couple of spell lines 143 00:07:20,655 --> 00:07:22,015 Speaker 2: pin a good morning. 144 00:07:23,015 --> 00:07:26,615 Speaker 5: Good morning, good morning. I've been mean to ringing last 145 00:07:26,615 --> 00:07:29,495 Speaker 5: two weekends working on the beginning. But we've got some 146 00:07:29,575 --> 00:07:34,055 Speaker 5: popcorn scale and see it on our orange mix an 147 00:07:34,055 --> 00:07:35,855 Speaker 5: orange blosso, and we can't sin We get rid of 148 00:07:35,855 --> 00:07:40,015 Speaker 5: it spready with conger oil several times. But the leafy 149 00:07:40,895 --> 00:07:43,375 Speaker 5: part of the plant's really healthy, but the wooden part's 150 00:07:43,455 --> 00:07:44,015 Speaker 5: just covered in it. 151 00:07:47,335 --> 00:07:49,575 Speaker 3: Okay, so this is the this is this is in 152 00:07:49,655 --> 00:07:53,455 Speaker 3: the in This is not an edible plant, of course, yeah, 153 00:07:54,335 --> 00:07:56,775 Speaker 3: it's it's it's yeah, I know. So for that reason, 154 00:07:56,815 --> 00:07:59,095 Speaker 3: what I would choose is a material that's come out 155 00:07:59,135 --> 00:08:02,295 Speaker 3: a couple of years ago, and it's called grow ventive. 156 00:08:02,935 --> 00:08:07,015 Speaker 3: So g R O V E N T I ve 157 00:08:07,975 --> 00:08:14,495 Speaker 3: grow ventive. Okay, that is that's a pretty good material 158 00:08:14,535 --> 00:08:16,615 Speaker 3: for scale and sex and medi bugs and a fits 159 00:08:16,615 --> 00:08:17,415 Speaker 3: and things like that. 160 00:08:19,135 --> 00:08:22,135 Speaker 5: It's quite strange. A spread it several times with the conqueror, 161 00:08:22,255 --> 00:08:25,215 Speaker 5: but it just doesn't seem and the green of the 162 00:08:25,255 --> 00:08:27,615 Speaker 5: plant is still quite lash and green and lovely, but 163 00:08:27,655 --> 00:08:30,255 Speaker 5: the wooden pats just covered on and the popcorn scale. 164 00:08:30,255 --> 00:08:32,015 Speaker 5: Don't seen that they're doing anything that. 165 00:08:32,615 --> 00:08:35,335 Speaker 3: Yeah, No, the grow VENTI grow ventive is a material 166 00:08:35,415 --> 00:08:38,055 Speaker 3: that is being taken up by the plant and goes 167 00:08:38,135 --> 00:08:43,015 Speaker 3: through the system upon which those particular scales feed. So 168 00:08:43,055 --> 00:08:45,495 Speaker 3: they feed on the flowam, the floam, which is part 169 00:08:45,535 --> 00:08:49,535 Speaker 3: of the system inside the leaves and inside the twigs, 170 00:08:50,335 --> 00:08:52,735 Speaker 3: and that will be then, if you like, poisoned by 171 00:08:52,735 --> 00:08:55,735 Speaker 3: the grow ventive. So they literally eat a material that 172 00:08:56,175 --> 00:08:59,455 Speaker 3: kills them. And it's it's systemic, as we call it. 173 00:08:59,455 --> 00:09:02,015 Speaker 3: It goes into the plant and it is a really 174 00:09:02,015 --> 00:09:06,015 Speaker 3: good material to stop it from being sucked upon by 175 00:09:06,055 --> 00:09:11,415 Speaker 3: these stepsucking creatures. You cannot use grow ventive on edible crops, 176 00:09:12,135 --> 00:09:14,215 Speaker 3: but you can do it on ornamental crops. 177 00:09:15,615 --> 00:09:17,175 Speaker 5: That's great, that's what I want to hear. 178 00:09:19,175 --> 00:09:22,415 Speaker 3: It'll work well, Yeah, it works fabulously. I've tried it 179 00:09:22,415 --> 00:09:25,335 Speaker 3: so many times. It's it's it's really really good and 180 00:09:25,375 --> 00:09:27,575 Speaker 3: really quick too. It goes within a couple of weeks. 181 00:09:27,855 --> 00:09:30,415 Speaker 3: And if you think that, you go on. 182 00:09:31,415 --> 00:09:32,975 Speaker 5: I was gonna say, my wife was at the station 183 00:09:33,015 --> 00:09:37,335 Speaker 5: and I pull out the whole bloody's hinge. 184 00:09:36,495 --> 00:09:39,855 Speaker 3: SI, no need to, no need to. You can save 185 00:09:39,935 --> 00:09:42,575 Speaker 3: it you'll be the hero of the day. 186 00:09:43,575 --> 00:09:44,455 Speaker 6: I'm ald the hero. 187 00:09:47,575 --> 00:09:53,175 Speaker 2: Beautiful, beautiful, probably be married for years. Alright, we will 188 00:09:53,215 --> 00:09:56,335 Speaker 2: take a short break. Actually, fist up tixt. Please give 189 00:09:56,375 --> 00:09:58,135 Speaker 2: advice on what to feed higherbiscus. 190 00:09:59,375 --> 00:10:02,215 Speaker 3: Ah, depends on how high it is. It could be 191 00:10:02,215 --> 00:10:06,655 Speaker 3: a low biscus. Now I'm joking. I at this stage, 192 00:10:06,695 --> 00:10:10,175 Speaker 3: I wouldn't feed anything yet. As such, the soil. You 193 00:10:10,215 --> 00:10:13,255 Speaker 3: can put stuff on the soil. I talked to Jack 194 00:10:13,295 --> 00:10:17,055 Speaker 3: about it yesterday with potash, with the ash from fires. 195 00:10:17,375 --> 00:10:19,455 Speaker 3: I put that on because I keep that actually in 196 00:10:19,495 --> 00:10:21,575 Speaker 3: the top layers of the soil, and it doesn't really 197 00:10:21,615 --> 00:10:24,655 Speaker 3: go away that quickly. Well yeah, within a couple of months. 198 00:10:24,695 --> 00:10:27,495 Speaker 3: But you know, by the time that the temperatures are 199 00:10:27,535 --> 00:10:30,415 Speaker 3: going up, that is when a plant starts to take 200 00:10:30,535 --> 00:10:33,535 Speaker 3: in the nutrients. So at the moment it's dormant. No 201 00:10:33,695 --> 00:10:35,655 Speaker 3: point in fertilizing until it's a. 202 00:10:35,575 --> 00:10:38,735 Speaker 2: Bit warmer, right, which will be when. 203 00:10:40,215 --> 00:10:43,335 Speaker 3: Depends on where you are exactly. Yeah, no, yeah, you 204 00:10:43,375 --> 00:10:45,695 Speaker 3: know what I mean. It's it's it's really safe for me. 205 00:10:45,775 --> 00:10:49,095 Speaker 3: It would be here late August, early September. 206 00:10:49,135 --> 00:10:53,495 Speaker 2: I started looking like August, well late augustus next month. 207 00:10:53,935 --> 00:10:56,535 Speaker 3: I know, but you know, don't waste your time and 208 00:10:56,575 --> 00:10:58,815 Speaker 3: your money by putting stuff in the ground that is 209 00:10:58,855 --> 00:11:01,935 Speaker 3: not being used by the plants, because they're very ungrateful, 210 00:11:01,975 --> 00:11:03,935 Speaker 3: little moral so don't take it, you know, and you 211 00:11:04,055 --> 00:11:04,615 Speaker 3: pay for it. 212 00:11:04,935 --> 00:11:09,815 Speaker 2: Sorry, one dutchment or another right forty two. We'll be 213 00:11:09,935 --> 00:11:11,055 Speaker 2: back after the break. 214 00:11:11,335 --> 00:11:13,575 Speaker 1: Doing upper house a sorting the guard and asked Pete 215 00:11:13,615 --> 00:11:16,655 Speaker 1: for a hand. The resident builder with Peter Wolfcamp and 216 00:11:16,855 --> 00:11:20,495 Speaker 1: light Force Solar get your solar saber peg now call 217 00:11:20,615 --> 00:11:23,175 Speaker 1: Oh eight hundred eighty ten eighty US talk z B. 218 00:11:24,095 --> 00:11:25,895 Speaker 2: Lines are open. If you've got a question for Ridd, 219 00:11:25,895 --> 00:11:27,575 Speaker 2: you'll need to be quick, but there are a couple 220 00:11:27,575 --> 00:11:30,655 Speaker 2: of spare lines right now. So eight hundred eighty ten 221 00:11:30,735 --> 00:11:33,735 Speaker 2: eighty or text if you wish. Nine to nine two 222 00:11:33,855 --> 00:11:38,735 Speaker 2: is EBZB for mobile phone. RUDD. Is now a good 223 00:11:38,775 --> 00:11:40,215 Speaker 2: time to be doing some planting. 224 00:11:42,335 --> 00:11:44,615 Speaker 3: Yes, if you have a Tunguel house for instance, where I. 225 00:11:44,535 --> 00:11:47,655 Speaker 2: Am now, I'm thinking about like proper outdoor planting trees. 226 00:11:47,735 --> 00:11:50,455 Speaker 3: Yes it is. It's excellent. This is the time to plant. 227 00:11:50,495 --> 00:11:54,775 Speaker 3: This is why all these organizations that restore New Zealand 228 00:11:55,135 --> 00:11:57,895 Speaker 3: are basically having their Saturday's gone. We had one line 229 00:11:58,135 --> 00:12:01,495 Speaker 3: in Horswalk Quarry like yesterday. And of course Nigel told 230 00:12:01,535 --> 00:12:04,175 Speaker 3: me that I wasn't there. He was right because I forgot. 231 00:12:06,295 --> 00:12:09,695 Speaker 3: Oh gosh, you golly, now those are exactly and there 232 00:12:09,695 --> 00:12:11,695 Speaker 3: were about seventy or eighty people. I think, and this 233 00:12:11,855 --> 00:12:14,655 Speaker 3: is really cool stuff because that's what it's. This is 234 00:12:14,655 --> 00:12:17,855 Speaker 3: what your environment is. Next time you come in Christ Peter, 235 00:12:18,215 --> 00:12:20,415 Speaker 3: I'll show you what happened over the last twenty five 236 00:12:20,495 --> 00:12:23,815 Speaker 3: years in that particular quarry, because that is now becoming 237 00:12:23,895 --> 00:12:28,135 Speaker 3: a real cool bird paradise. There's lizards, they all sort 238 00:12:28,135 --> 00:12:31,015 Speaker 3: of amazing bugs and things like that. It is really 239 00:12:31,135 --> 00:12:33,975 Speaker 3: really good and it's all done by the people of 240 00:12:34,015 --> 00:12:36,535 Speaker 3: Hallswell if you like. Off west southwest. 241 00:12:37,815 --> 00:12:41,015 Speaker 2: How much has changed because I was down there Shivers 242 00:12:41,415 --> 00:12:44,535 Speaker 2: six seven years ago actually filming a little piece in 243 00:12:44,575 --> 00:12:47,375 Speaker 2: the quarry there. We just needed somewhere to sit and 244 00:12:47,735 --> 00:12:49,975 Speaker 2: have a chat with the people that we were filming with, 245 00:12:50,055 --> 00:12:53,175 Speaker 2: and I remember sort of seeing the emergence of all 246 00:12:53,215 --> 00:12:57,735 Speaker 2: of this restoration, this ecological restoration and sort of interesting. See, 247 00:12:57,975 --> 00:13:00,695 Speaker 2: and you're absolutely right. If you go around the country 248 00:13:00,695 --> 00:13:04,775 Speaker 2: these days, I think that there is there are just 249 00:13:04,895 --> 00:13:08,695 Speaker 2: literally thousands of people out working in their community doing 250 00:13:08,735 --> 00:13:11,095 Speaker 2: planting at the moment, it is so massive. 251 00:13:11,135 --> 00:13:13,655 Speaker 3: It's great, and I would like to say thank you 252 00:13:13,695 --> 00:13:17,215 Speaker 3: New Zealanders because it's done by all of us. So 253 00:13:17,255 --> 00:13:19,975 Speaker 3: we're bending birds. We do bird bending in the quarry 254 00:13:19,975 --> 00:13:22,335 Speaker 3: for instance, and we train other people, dock people and 255 00:13:22,375 --> 00:13:24,535 Speaker 3: comes from people how to do that with nuts and 256 00:13:24,695 --> 00:13:28,095 Speaker 3: how to put the things around their rings, around their 257 00:13:28,135 --> 00:13:30,775 Speaker 3: legs and all that. And we are now starting to 258 00:13:30,775 --> 00:13:33,455 Speaker 3: find more and more and more birds there and it 259 00:13:33,575 --> 00:13:35,655 Speaker 3: is absolutely stunning yet great. 260 00:13:36,695 --> 00:13:39,255 Speaker 2: I just I'm curious about you using the ash from 261 00:13:39,295 --> 00:13:41,575 Speaker 2: the wood burner or from the fire. So what do 262 00:13:41,655 --> 00:13:44,695 Speaker 2: you do? You try and sort of thin it out? 263 00:13:44,775 --> 00:13:45,495 Speaker 3: Do you? 264 00:13:45,575 --> 00:13:48,375 Speaker 2: Obviously you keep it and let it You're not putting 265 00:13:48,375 --> 00:13:51,855 Speaker 2: it on warm obviously it's outside. It cools down, is there? 266 00:13:52,095 --> 00:13:54,455 Speaker 2: Like do you let it kind of semi compost before 267 00:13:54,495 --> 00:13:55,535 Speaker 2: you apply it or do you. 268 00:13:55,495 --> 00:13:57,495 Speaker 3: Just you can do that if you've got a compost 269 00:13:57,495 --> 00:13:59,135 Speaker 3: bend that is still that a is still going. But 270 00:13:59,255 --> 00:14:02,215 Speaker 3: you you remember, it's pretty cool, but you have to 271 00:14:02,295 --> 00:14:04,895 Speaker 3: really make it thin. Don't put it in a huge 272 00:14:04,975 --> 00:14:08,335 Speaker 3: layer on the rise because the sprint cement. Yeah, so 273 00:14:08,535 --> 00:14:10,815 Speaker 3: I do it. I do it on the windy day. 274 00:14:11,175 --> 00:14:14,375 Speaker 2: Yeah, brilliant, and your neighbors get some of the benefit 275 00:14:14,455 --> 00:14:15,615 Speaker 2: as well as well. 276 00:14:15,655 --> 00:14:17,575 Speaker 3: And also and only do it of course, on the 277 00:14:17,575 --> 00:14:22,455 Speaker 3: plants that need that use the coote alium for flowers 278 00:14:22,455 --> 00:14:25,815 Speaker 3: and fruit, So the flowers and fruiting plants, and that 279 00:14:25,935 --> 00:14:28,095 Speaker 3: you know, even although they might not use it now, 280 00:14:28,215 --> 00:14:30,735 Speaker 3: it will be used, as you said, at the end 281 00:14:30,775 --> 00:14:31,415 Speaker 3: of next month. 282 00:14:31,455 --> 00:14:34,295 Speaker 2: There you go, brilliant Tom A very good morning to you. 283 00:14:35,415 --> 00:14:40,015 Speaker 6: Good morning, Peat and and others the route. I've got 284 00:14:40,015 --> 00:14:42,855 Speaker 6: something on your line right now. To my surprise, the 285 00:14:42,895 --> 00:14:45,815 Speaker 6: last couple of weeks, as I look on my back 286 00:14:45,855 --> 00:14:49,655 Speaker 6: door in this house which i'm by myself except for 287 00:14:49,775 --> 00:14:55,175 Speaker 6: my departed wife's for cats, there's about fifty bees stationary 288 00:14:55,455 --> 00:15:01,735 Speaker 6: on the glass and some on the ledge. 289 00:14:59,775 --> 00:15:02,215 Speaker 3: Of your glasshouse, of your glasshouse. 290 00:15:03,615 --> 00:15:07,295 Speaker 6: No, this is my my residence, which I built sixty 291 00:15:07,335 --> 00:15:10,815 Speaker 6: four years ago. Right, okay, back door, let's go out. 292 00:15:10,855 --> 00:15:12,335 Speaker 6: It's a four light glass door. 293 00:15:12,415 --> 00:15:16,135 Speaker 3: See sure. So where are you ringing from? What part 294 00:15:16,175 --> 00:15:18,895 Speaker 3: of New Zealtists is the north? Yeah? 295 00:15:18,975 --> 00:15:20,135 Speaker 6: Yes, don on my road. 296 00:15:21,295 --> 00:15:24,375 Speaker 3: There you go. Okay, you have to remember that the 297 00:15:24,455 --> 00:15:27,015 Speaker 3: time is coming that bees are starting to swarm. That 298 00:15:27,175 --> 00:15:30,615 Speaker 3: is number one but you're only mentioning let's say sixty 299 00:15:30,735 --> 00:15:33,375 Speaker 3: or so bees, so it might not be yet a 300 00:15:33,415 --> 00:15:35,615 Speaker 3: big swarm. It might be a small swarm. But the 301 00:15:35,655 --> 00:15:37,695 Speaker 3: point is that at the moment, my bees, or the 302 00:15:37,695 --> 00:15:40,815 Speaker 3: bees of my neighbor here in christ Church are still 303 00:15:41,135 --> 00:15:45,015 Speaker 3: flying around. So for some reason they think it's warm 304 00:15:45,095 --> 00:15:47,735 Speaker 3: enough on a good day like today looks a good 305 00:15:47,775 --> 00:15:50,335 Speaker 3: day actually with a bit of sun. Later on you'll 306 00:15:50,375 --> 00:15:53,495 Speaker 3: find the bees are still moving. That's number one. But 307 00:15:53,815 --> 00:15:56,895 Speaker 3: the second thing is that usually a swarm doesn't happen 308 00:15:56,975 --> 00:16:01,375 Speaker 3: until late October, early September onwards, if you like, so, 309 00:16:01,415 --> 00:16:02,975 Speaker 3: maybe this might be an earlier group. 310 00:16:06,135 --> 00:16:07,215 Speaker 6: Are you going to do with them? 311 00:16:08,215 --> 00:16:09,935 Speaker 3: Well? Are they on the outside of your house? 312 00:16:11,615 --> 00:16:13,575 Speaker 6: No? The inside? 313 00:16:14,455 --> 00:16:16,535 Speaker 3: Oh really? Oh? 314 00:16:16,615 --> 00:16:19,815 Speaker 6: I have a big glass front in which there is 315 00:16:19,855 --> 00:16:22,935 Speaker 6: a broken piece at the top, and my wife when 316 00:16:23,015 --> 00:16:25,575 Speaker 6: she was here, would spend ten minutes getting an odd 317 00:16:25,575 --> 00:16:28,255 Speaker 6: bee out that got lost. But these ones have been 318 00:16:28,295 --> 00:16:30,375 Speaker 6: here for two weeks. I thought there were fires for 319 00:16:30,455 --> 00:16:33,215 Speaker 6: a start. They if you touch them, they will, they 320 00:16:33,295 --> 00:16:34,455 Speaker 6: can move. They're alive. 321 00:16:35,015 --> 00:16:37,855 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, right in this case, get yourself. You need 322 00:16:37,935 --> 00:16:40,495 Speaker 3: to go to your local area, ask your local people 323 00:16:40,495 --> 00:16:43,295 Speaker 3: that know about these things. Who is a beekeeper in 324 00:16:43,335 --> 00:16:46,855 Speaker 3: your area, and they may want to get some of 325 00:16:46,895 --> 00:16:49,735 Speaker 3: those for a new I feel like a new breed 326 00:16:49,775 --> 00:16:50,535 Speaker 3: that they're looking at. 327 00:16:52,135 --> 00:16:55,255 Speaker 6: Oh right, okay, do you know what I mean? I do. 328 00:16:55,375 --> 00:16:58,535 Speaker 6: I've got the answer to that prime Okay, But I 329 00:16:58,575 --> 00:17:01,255 Speaker 6: didn't get rid of the cockroaches by the time you 330 00:17:01,335 --> 00:17:04,415 Speaker 6: told me to use soapworks. They're all through the house. 331 00:17:04,815 --> 00:17:07,615 Speaker 6: Because by myself, Yeah, that can happen. 332 00:17:07,695 --> 00:17:10,495 Speaker 3: But you have to remember, many cockroaches aren't really not 333 00:17:10,575 --> 00:17:14,335 Speaker 3: that troublesome. The native ones basically come inside because it's 334 00:17:14,335 --> 00:17:17,415 Speaker 3: too cold outside, and they will move outside again to 335 00:17:17,535 --> 00:17:19,855 Speaker 3: clean up all the stuff in your garden. You know, 336 00:17:19,935 --> 00:17:23,055 Speaker 3: they're recyclists, so that's what they do. But in the 337 00:17:23,095 --> 00:17:25,095 Speaker 3: winter time they think, oh, this is a nice place 338 00:17:25,135 --> 00:17:27,535 Speaker 3: that Tom's got. I think I might move in. By 339 00:17:27,535 --> 00:17:29,415 Speaker 3: the way he built that house over the top of 340 00:17:29,415 --> 00:17:31,415 Speaker 3: our habitat, we might move in. 341 00:17:35,695 --> 00:17:38,815 Speaker 6: Well, when I first came here, I never saw any Well, 342 00:17:38,935 --> 00:17:41,735 Speaker 6: occasionally there was when they delivered the Herald, there was 343 00:17:41,735 --> 00:17:43,415 Speaker 6: a few big ones in the bag of that. 344 00:17:44,095 --> 00:17:48,055 Speaker 3: Yeah, the herald. The Herald spreads cockroaches all over the place. 345 00:17:48,055 --> 00:17:52,015 Speaker 3: You've known that all your life, haven't you. 346 00:17:52,055 --> 00:17:55,415 Speaker 6: No, not me. All our others have talked about not cockroaches. 347 00:17:55,535 --> 00:18:05,015 Speaker 2: No, okay, that's sorry, Tom, Different things, all the best. 348 00:18:06,495 --> 00:18:09,735 Speaker 2: Slightly confused by the snake's teats, Hey, roud, please advise 349 00:18:09,815 --> 00:18:13,975 Speaker 2: on how to get bitter flowering from two baros tubros. 350 00:18:14,055 --> 00:18:14,935 Speaker 3: Yeah, cube ros. 351 00:18:15,935 --> 00:18:18,095 Speaker 2: Put them on the fridge, not in the freezer. We 352 00:18:18,175 --> 00:18:20,175 Speaker 2: know that, but yeah, no, in the fridge. Yeah you 353 00:18:20,215 --> 00:18:20,735 Speaker 2: could do that. 354 00:18:20,775 --> 00:18:22,055 Speaker 3: But on the other end, what you can do is, 355 00:18:22,415 --> 00:18:25,415 Speaker 3: if they've been there and the plants are in good condition, 356 00:18:26,055 --> 00:18:29,535 Speaker 3: use some of that potash sulfate of potash, or if 357 00:18:29,575 --> 00:18:31,775 Speaker 3: you like, a little layer of the stuff from the garden, 358 00:18:32,015 --> 00:18:35,855 Speaker 3: from your from your fireplace, to put that potash into 359 00:18:35,895 --> 00:18:38,575 Speaker 3: the root zone. And it is the potash that makes 360 00:18:38,575 --> 00:18:39,775 Speaker 3: the tube brosis flour. 361 00:18:41,295 --> 00:18:41,535 Speaker 2: Right. 362 00:18:42,375 --> 00:18:45,495 Speaker 3: That's that follows on nicely from what we talked about before. 363 00:18:45,775 --> 00:18:48,575 Speaker 3: Not everybody's got a fireplace anymore, of course, So you 364 00:18:48,615 --> 00:18:53,175 Speaker 3: can now buy little granules called sulfate off potash, which 365 00:18:53,215 --> 00:18:56,175 Speaker 3: is the same sort of material and that literally makes 366 00:18:56,255 --> 00:19:01,655 Speaker 3: the plant increase its flowering and fruiting capacity. If you like, 367 00:19:02,135 --> 00:19:03,815 Speaker 3: you can use them for all those different things. 368 00:19:03,935 --> 00:19:07,135 Speaker 2: Awesome, Thank you very much. That's awesome. Cheryl, A very 369 00:19:07,135 --> 00:19:07,935 Speaker 2: good morning to you. 370 00:19:09,095 --> 00:19:12,495 Speaker 7: Good morning. I'd just like to ask Rudy question. 371 00:19:12,695 --> 00:19:14,135 Speaker 3: Please go for it. 372 00:19:16,295 --> 00:19:18,895 Speaker 7: I have see all hoyas in my soun room, one 373 00:19:18,935 --> 00:19:22,615 Speaker 7: of them being forty years old. Other ones are just 374 00:19:22,735 --> 00:19:27,655 Speaker 7: collected now. They all flare beautiously. However, because of the 375 00:19:27,695 --> 00:19:32,815 Speaker 7: sun roam. The son of Mia and I do have 376 00:19:33,415 --> 00:19:36,775 Speaker 7: a shade cloth. But over leaves are going through pale. 377 00:19:36,855 --> 00:19:40,855 Speaker 7: What can I give them to bring the leaves back 378 00:19:40,895 --> 00:19:41,815 Speaker 7: to grainygins? 379 00:19:42,255 --> 00:19:45,495 Speaker 3: A little bit of fertilizer, liquid fertilizer when you water them. 380 00:19:45,535 --> 00:19:47,895 Speaker 3: You don't you don't water your hoyas too often. If 381 00:19:47,935 --> 00:19:50,215 Speaker 3: you've done it forty years. I don't need to tell 382 00:19:50,215 --> 00:19:52,135 Speaker 3: you how to grow hoyas. 383 00:19:52,535 --> 00:19:55,575 Speaker 7: Oh well, the forty year one the eighteens belonged to 384 00:19:55,615 --> 00:19:57,735 Speaker 7: my mother. But I am old enough to have had 385 00:19:57,735 --> 00:19:58,775 Speaker 7: it for forty years. 386 00:19:58,815 --> 00:20:02,575 Speaker 3: But yeah, but you know you don't overwater them, generally speaking. 387 00:20:02,935 --> 00:20:05,295 Speaker 3: But from now on, what I would do if you, 388 00:20:05,415 --> 00:20:08,175 Speaker 3: if I were you and big are inside, I would 389 00:20:08,175 --> 00:20:10,735 Speaker 3: give them a bit of liquid fertilizer. Just a little 390 00:20:10,735 --> 00:20:14,095 Speaker 3: bit of the liquid fertilizer in the watering can that 391 00:20:14,175 --> 00:20:17,175 Speaker 3: you water your hoyas with, and that will that will 392 00:20:17,175 --> 00:20:19,015 Speaker 3: sort out the yellowing of your leaves. 393 00:20:19,055 --> 00:20:22,495 Speaker 7: I'm sure, is it because they oh, you know, the 394 00:20:22,615 --> 00:20:27,015 Speaker 7: old one has fifty players, you know, every time at 395 00:20:27,015 --> 00:20:32,375 Speaker 7: players and some I've just pulls up mistee and several players. 396 00:20:32,415 --> 00:20:33,535 Speaker 7: It's a really good twice. 397 00:20:34,095 --> 00:20:36,975 Speaker 3: It is a good And you know what. I used 398 00:20:36,975 --> 00:20:38,775 Speaker 3: to have a hoya in the Netherlands when I was 399 00:20:38,815 --> 00:20:42,415 Speaker 3: a student that would go right around my room. That 400 00:20:42,495 --> 00:20:47,575 Speaker 3: hoya would be about one two, three, four times five 401 00:20:48,135 --> 00:20:53,735 Speaker 3: twenty meters long tendrils and yeah, and I literally trained 402 00:20:53,775 --> 00:20:57,255 Speaker 3: it right around the ceiling of my of my of 403 00:20:57,375 --> 00:21:01,175 Speaker 3: my room where I was staying, absolutely gorgeous flowering every year. 404 00:21:02,135 --> 00:21:04,655 Speaker 3: At the moment, my hoyas are in a slightly too 405 00:21:04,735 --> 00:21:07,535 Speaker 3: dark condition, and Julie was all ready saying, we need 406 00:21:07,575 --> 00:21:09,695 Speaker 3: to do something about that, so we're going to put 407 00:21:09,695 --> 00:21:11,295 Speaker 3: it in a slightly lighter place. 408 00:21:11,335 --> 00:21:15,295 Speaker 7: I would say, yeah, okay, well, thank you very much today. 409 00:21:15,535 --> 00:21:18,615 Speaker 3: Vice. It's great, Cheryl, You're doing a great job. I 410 00:21:18,695 --> 00:21:21,215 Speaker 3: love the who And there's so many different varieties of them. 411 00:21:21,215 --> 00:21:22,415 Speaker 3: Have you seen that? Oh? 412 00:21:23,055 --> 00:21:25,735 Speaker 7: I know, I know, I wish I could get some 413 00:21:25,855 --> 00:21:29,415 Speaker 7: of the different talented ones, but they're quite hard or 414 00:21:29,495 --> 00:21:30,415 Speaker 7: quite winter. 415 00:21:30,975 --> 00:21:33,695 Speaker 3: Yes, I know my days. It was you could get 416 00:21:33,695 --> 00:21:37,375 Speaker 3: them from anybody. As students in the Netherlands, we changed them. 417 00:21:37,375 --> 00:21:39,375 Speaker 3: Of course, there's not nothing. It was very simple. 418 00:21:39,935 --> 00:21:43,215 Speaker 7: Yeah right, good, thanks very much. 419 00:21:43,335 --> 00:21:47,175 Speaker 3: Bye, Hey morning, welcome, bye bye all Cheryl cool that 420 00:21:47,175 --> 00:21:47,935 Speaker 3: it's so good. 421 00:21:49,495 --> 00:21:51,775 Speaker 2: Well you enjoy a good day because up here it's 422 00:21:51,855 --> 00:21:53,295 Speaker 2: just a little bit on the damp side. 423 00:21:53,375 --> 00:21:55,935 Speaker 3: I get it. And that's why I molded lawn yesterday 424 00:21:55,935 --> 00:21:58,695 Speaker 3: because I've not been able to do it since February. 425 00:21:58,855 --> 00:21:59,255 Speaker 3: Thank you? 426 00:21:59,415 --> 00:22:00,135 Speaker 2: Are you kidding? 427 00:22:00,575 --> 00:22:00,775 Speaker 6: No? 428 00:22:00,975 --> 00:22:04,935 Speaker 3: Seriously, yes, true it Wow, finally dry yesterday. 429 00:22:05,215 --> 00:22:08,335 Speaker 2: Crikey, you know you know drink I'd be doing hours 430 00:22:08,335 --> 00:22:09,215 Speaker 2: on Thursday. 431 00:22:09,615 --> 00:22:11,335 Speaker 3: You go there. Oh hey, can't you be down. 432 00:22:11,375 --> 00:22:14,255 Speaker 2: It's not Next Sunday, take care all the best, Bye bye, 433 00:22:15,255 --> 00:22:18,135 Speaker 2: Thank you folks for your company. Love the text mission. 434 00:22:18,175 --> 00:22:20,695 Speaker 2: I'm actually going to add up all of the answers 435 00:22:20,855 --> 00:22:22,855 Speaker 2: and try and get an actual answer, and then next 436 00:22:22,855 --> 00:22:24,855 Speaker 2: week we'll do more polls. Let's do it again next Sunday. 437 00:22:24,855 --> 00:22:25,575 Speaker 2: Have a great week. 438 00:22:25,695 --> 00:22:33,095 Speaker 5: Take care. 439 00:22:31,455 --> 00:22:34,415 Speaker 1: For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp. Listen 440 00:22:34,495 --> 00:22:37,295 Speaker 1: live to news talks'd B on Sunday Mornings from Sex 441 00:22:37,615 --> 00:22:39,615 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.