1 00:00:06,815 --> 00:00:10,655 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp 2 00:00:10,895 --> 00:00:11,975 Speaker 1: from News Talks. 3 00:00:11,895 --> 00:00:13,735 Speaker 2: Be Well Read climb Pass. 4 00:00:13,775 --> 00:00:16,695 Speaker 3: Good morning, sir, A very good morning, Piedro. 5 00:00:17,095 --> 00:00:20,895 Speaker 2: Indeed, so I was excited the other day, just quietly 6 00:00:21,455 --> 00:00:26,015 Speaker 2: about a little post on the local ecological group going 7 00:00:26,535 --> 00:00:31,175 Speaker 2: there signs that are migrating into our area. 8 00:00:31,735 --> 00:00:36,295 Speaker 3: Migrating to your area into the city. I used to 9 00:00:36,335 --> 00:00:37,695 Speaker 3: have them in Meadowbank. 10 00:00:38,375 --> 00:00:41,735 Speaker 2: Awesome. So anyway, I gave you know, those two the 11 00:00:41,735 --> 00:00:45,015 Speaker 2: designs for the l boxes that you see, I've given 12 00:00:45,055 --> 00:00:48,015 Speaker 2: them away. So now I'm looking at the Wingspan because 13 00:00:48,055 --> 00:00:50,335 Speaker 2: Wingspan on their website have got a pdf you can 14 00:00:50,375 --> 00:00:52,455 Speaker 2: download it. And then so I'm going to have a 15 00:00:52,455 --> 00:00:53,215 Speaker 2: crack at one of those. 16 00:00:53,695 --> 00:00:55,455 Speaker 3: Yeah, good, Yeah, put. 17 00:00:55,415 --> 00:00:56,695 Speaker 2: Much in the tree. See what happens. 18 00:00:57,015 --> 00:00:59,575 Speaker 3: You'll be quite honest. They would take, for instance, I 19 00:00:59,735 --> 00:01:04,935 Speaker 3: was like to levels in a box, right, Okay, they 20 00:01:05,095 --> 00:01:07,015 Speaker 3: quite often like to go down where they lay their 21 00:01:07,015 --> 00:01:09,175 Speaker 3: eggs and they jump up and they go out the 22 00:01:09,255 --> 00:01:11,935 Speaker 3: tunnel going and they're out that sort of stuff. So 23 00:01:12,015 --> 00:01:14,735 Speaker 3: they probably find that most of these boxes will work 24 00:01:14,855 --> 00:01:19,775 Speaker 3: for these owls. The only problem is starlings, right that 25 00:01:19,975 --> 00:01:23,815 Speaker 3: go in and and they they are chicken little buggers. 26 00:01:24,495 --> 00:01:28,215 Speaker 3: But that's anyway. But no, have a go and the 27 00:01:28,215 --> 00:01:30,935 Speaker 3: more moreporks, the better it is. And I love that noise. 28 00:01:30,975 --> 00:01:33,895 Speaker 2: Hey, yeah, amazing, that's amazing. 29 00:01:34,615 --> 00:01:36,615 Speaker 3: Hey, before before we go on, I know we need 30 00:01:36,655 --> 00:01:38,375 Speaker 3: to go other thing. I just want I've got some 31 00:01:38,455 --> 00:01:42,535 Speaker 3: people asking again about the chatterm islands. So doing ninethe 32 00:01:42,695 --> 00:01:46,615 Speaker 3: till the sixteenth of December. Now here you go. The 33 00:01:46,615 --> 00:01:48,655 Speaker 3: best way to go about this. If you want to 34 00:01:48,655 --> 00:01:51,255 Speaker 3: go on board, you better be quick because it usually 35 00:01:51,255 --> 00:01:54,615 Speaker 3: goes quickly. The tour company is there is the name 36 00:01:54,655 --> 00:01:58,135 Speaker 3: who does it? The tour company dot co, dot and z. 37 00:01:58,575 --> 00:02:02,975 Speaker 3: The tour company is one word and basically everything is 38 00:02:03,015 --> 00:02:06,175 Speaker 3: there online, et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Just before 39 00:02:06,335 --> 00:02:09,695 Speaker 3: Christmas ninth till the sixteenth. I'm really looking forward. And 40 00:02:09,775 --> 00:02:12,935 Speaker 3: Julie apparently is going to come with me also. She 41 00:02:13,055 --> 00:02:17,295 Speaker 3: thinks it's one of her favorite islands. No, I'm not joking. 42 00:02:17,575 --> 00:02:20,975 Speaker 3: That's good for plants, man, it's brilliant, amazing, it's one. 43 00:02:20,855 --> 00:02:24,015 Speaker 2: Would be amazing, fantastic. So the tour company. 44 00:02:24,055 --> 00:02:26,055 Speaker 3: At that your company dot go dot. 45 00:02:25,855 --> 00:02:29,095 Speaker 2: And said, wonderful. Let's get amongst it, folks. If you've 46 00:02:29,095 --> 00:02:31,255 Speaker 2: got a question for rid call us now eight hundred 47 00:02:31,295 --> 00:02:33,175 Speaker 2: and eighty ten eighty is the number? 48 00:02:33,215 --> 00:02:38,135 Speaker 4: Hollo bub hi, Hey, I've got a Well, there's a 49 00:02:38,215 --> 00:02:41,295 Speaker 4: lemonary on a section where they're going to demolish their house. 50 00:02:41,335 --> 00:02:46,055 Speaker 4: It's probably window heights and it's got some not quite 51 00:02:46,135 --> 00:02:49,615 Speaker 4: right lemons. So I thought i'd pick those and try 52 00:02:49,815 --> 00:02:53,175 Speaker 4: and prune it so that if when the digger comes 53 00:02:53,255 --> 00:02:55,855 Speaker 4: in to demolish the section, I could get him to 54 00:02:56,535 --> 00:02:59,375 Speaker 4: dig the lemonry up and transplant it. What are my. 55 00:02:59,455 --> 00:03:04,335 Speaker 3: Chances pretty good this time of the year. Great? Absolutely, 56 00:03:04,775 --> 00:03:08,415 Speaker 3: And at that point, no, you don't really need to 57 00:03:08,415 --> 00:03:10,855 Speaker 3: prune it. If you can carry the weight of it 58 00:03:11,015 --> 00:03:13,335 Speaker 3: with the ball of clay at the bottom, you know 59 00:03:13,375 --> 00:03:17,575 Speaker 3: what I mean, you should be fine. And if it's 60 00:03:17,655 --> 00:03:20,495 Speaker 3: an honestly or have somebody that's really strong to help 61 00:03:20,575 --> 00:03:24,055 Speaker 3: you out, I reckon the more roots and so on 62 00:03:24,055 --> 00:03:27,335 Speaker 3: and support you keep on that particular plant, the better 63 00:03:27,415 --> 00:03:30,375 Speaker 3: your chances are for a very good translocation. 64 00:03:31,335 --> 00:03:31,535 Speaker 5: Yeah. 65 00:03:31,575 --> 00:03:35,135 Speaker 4: If I put it in a big old sack like 66 00:03:35,175 --> 00:03:38,415 Speaker 4: a wall pack, yep, that could probably hold it together 67 00:03:38,495 --> 00:03:40,375 Speaker 4: better because absolutely. 68 00:03:40,215 --> 00:03:42,375 Speaker 3: And do you drag it across yes. 69 00:03:42,455 --> 00:03:45,375 Speaker 4: But definitely get rid of all the fruit and don't 70 00:03:45,415 --> 00:03:45,855 Speaker 4: prune it. 71 00:03:46,335 --> 00:03:48,695 Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't get You can get rid of the 72 00:03:48,695 --> 00:03:51,695 Speaker 3: fruit if you want to. And you know what, you 73 00:03:51,735 --> 00:03:55,375 Speaker 3: know what, be surprised if you leave the fruit on 74 00:03:55,895 --> 00:03:59,895 Speaker 3: that that tree might actually be okay and you might 75 00:04:00,055 --> 00:04:01,895 Speaker 3: get ripe fruit rather than. 76 00:04:03,495 --> 00:04:05,175 Speaker 4: Thank you very much for your hope. 77 00:04:05,415 --> 00:04:08,735 Speaker 2: You are more than We'll take care and I'll tell 78 00:04:08,735 --> 00:04:10,855 Speaker 2: you what. Transplant the tree with a digger. That's the 79 00:04:10,855 --> 00:04:11,415 Speaker 2: way to do it. 80 00:04:11,935 --> 00:04:12,335 Speaker 3: That's good. 81 00:04:12,815 --> 00:04:12,975 Speaker 5: Yeah. 82 00:04:13,015 --> 00:04:16,775 Speaker 2: I mean typically if you're trendsplanning, you're limited to a 83 00:04:16,895 --> 00:04:20,775 Speaker 2: root ball that you can carry, right, So obviously, Hello, 84 00:04:21,535 --> 00:04:25,655 Speaker 2: that's awesome you, Jeff, A very good morning to you. 85 00:04:27,335 --> 00:04:32,855 Speaker 5: Hello, yeah, Jeff, Yeah, I've got some flex plan I 86 00:04:32,855 --> 00:04:36,615 Speaker 5: want to get rid of. Look, I've sprayed the ports 87 00:04:36,655 --> 00:04:38,535 Speaker 5: and then nothing's happened. What do I do? 88 00:04:39,135 --> 00:04:40,575 Speaker 3: How long ago did you spray it? 89 00:04:41,775 --> 00:04:42,855 Speaker 5: Oh? Six months? 90 00:04:43,175 --> 00:04:45,055 Speaker 3: Oh okay, what do you put on it? 91 00:04:46,695 --> 00:04:48,415 Speaker 5: I guess you'll guess your normal week hill or you 92 00:04:48,775 --> 00:04:49,335 Speaker 5: off the shelf? 93 00:04:49,895 --> 00:04:52,495 Speaker 3: Okay, here you go. You might have to go to 94 00:04:52,615 --> 00:04:56,575 Speaker 3: people like like you know, stocking station agents, but the 95 00:04:56,615 --> 00:04:59,575 Speaker 3: best the best materials, did I know? And I've killed 96 00:04:59,615 --> 00:05:02,975 Speaker 3: quite a few flecks over the last year because we 97 00:05:03,055 --> 00:05:05,375 Speaker 3: build a garage on this plot where the flex was, 98 00:05:06,015 --> 00:05:09,415 Speaker 3: and I use triclop here and I can spell that 99 00:05:09,535 --> 00:05:12,455 Speaker 3: for you. Oh no, I can make it. I can 100 00:05:12,455 --> 00:05:18,455 Speaker 3: make it. The common name scrub cutter, scrub cutter, scrub cutter. 101 00:05:18,975 --> 00:05:21,615 Speaker 3: You can get it from New Farm. That's that's the 102 00:05:21,615 --> 00:05:25,455 Speaker 3: people that make it or Yates also have Hydrocottle killer, 103 00:05:25,495 --> 00:05:27,975 Speaker 3: which is made by the same material. But the scrub 104 00:05:28,055 --> 00:05:31,695 Speaker 3: cutter is the stuff that I use on gorge broom, 105 00:05:31,775 --> 00:05:39,015 Speaker 3: BlackBerry brushweed, hydrocottle wondering really trout to scantier and flex boy, 106 00:05:39,175 --> 00:05:41,775 Speaker 3: and it will go down to God. I've got huge 107 00:05:41,815 --> 00:05:45,095 Speaker 3: flex bushes that in the end, gay literally in three 108 00:05:45,455 --> 00:05:48,735 Speaker 3: months time, will give you upside down. 109 00:05:49,175 --> 00:05:54,055 Speaker 5: Look off, give up, awesome you very much? 110 00:05:54,575 --> 00:05:55,695 Speaker 3: Off you go, good way. 111 00:05:57,775 --> 00:06:01,335 Speaker 2: Quick? Tis for the tool company. That's t o U are, 112 00:06:01,535 --> 00:06:02,815 Speaker 2: Isn't it okay? 113 00:06:02,855 --> 00:06:03,215 Speaker 5: All right? 114 00:06:03,535 --> 00:06:07,175 Speaker 2: Someone was just wondering about the spelling for some reason, right, Julie, 115 00:06:07,175 --> 00:06:07,935 Speaker 2: Hello there. 116 00:06:08,655 --> 00:06:11,575 Speaker 6: Hi, I've got were not as much of a problem. 117 00:06:11,655 --> 00:06:17,455 Speaker 6: But these and Hornby and Christ and we have around. 118 00:06:17,655 --> 00:06:22,695 Speaker 3: There's another Julian Christ jun yep, yep, yep. I'm married 119 00:06:22,735 --> 00:06:25,975 Speaker 3: to one of them. Lovely to meet you. 120 00:06:26,695 --> 00:06:30,695 Speaker 6: Well, I'm not married to anyone. Well, that's not that 121 00:06:30,935 --> 00:06:35,695 Speaker 6: I know of anyway. 122 00:06:36,775 --> 00:06:41,295 Speaker 2: Gotcha a serious question. 123 00:06:43,935 --> 00:06:48,095 Speaker 6: Blackbirds that are around my place and the acting like 124 00:06:48,175 --> 00:06:52,095 Speaker 6: it's spring. The males are chasing the females all over 125 00:06:52,135 --> 00:06:56,135 Speaker 6: the place. I had two two blackbirds that nearly flew 126 00:06:56,255 --> 00:06:59,415 Speaker 6: right into me, and the indropped on the ground and 127 00:06:59,455 --> 00:07:02,855 Speaker 6: carried on fighting and scrapping. And it's just it's been 128 00:07:02,855 --> 00:07:04,935 Speaker 6: gone on for ages. I think it's spring and it's 129 00:07:04,975 --> 00:07:06,055 Speaker 6: the middle of bloom and winter. 130 00:07:07,495 --> 00:07:09,095 Speaker 3: Yeah, they might be. There might be a bit of 131 00:07:09,175 --> 00:07:12,055 Speaker 3: competition between some of these birds, you know that they 132 00:07:12,055 --> 00:07:14,575 Speaker 3: say this is actually my patch, now, bugger off, that 133 00:07:14,695 --> 00:07:17,375 Speaker 3: sort of stuff. And it could be. It could be males. 134 00:07:17,455 --> 00:07:19,735 Speaker 3: You have to remember that the males are the black ones, 135 00:07:19,855 --> 00:07:24,815 Speaker 3: really dark females. Females are dark brown, and that's something 136 00:07:24,815 --> 00:07:27,655 Speaker 3: that you can tell the difference. But if you've got 137 00:07:27,655 --> 00:07:31,095 Speaker 3: a juvenile male that could still be brownish, you know 138 00:07:31,135 --> 00:07:33,535 Speaker 3: what I mean, A young male for the first year 139 00:07:34,215 --> 00:07:36,375 Speaker 3: and he thinks he knows everything. You know what those 140 00:07:36,415 --> 00:07:42,055 Speaker 3: boys are like sometimes, Yeah, what do you want me 141 00:07:42,095 --> 00:07:42,375 Speaker 3: to do? 142 00:07:44,295 --> 00:07:47,855 Speaker 6: Just tell me. You've probably told me the answer, and 143 00:07:47,935 --> 00:07:50,775 Speaker 6: all the years and all the years I've lived, I've 144 00:07:50,855 --> 00:07:53,615 Speaker 6: never seen birds. Blackbirds act like that. 145 00:07:54,735 --> 00:07:57,135 Speaker 3: Yeah, they do, they do. They can go quite early 146 00:07:57,175 --> 00:07:59,055 Speaker 3: if they really feel it's time for them to get 147 00:07:59,095 --> 00:08:01,655 Speaker 3: into the game. We are a bit early at the moment, 148 00:08:02,055 --> 00:08:06,015 Speaker 3: but you will get blackbirds sometimes breeding in August, so 149 00:08:06,055 --> 00:08:10,495 Speaker 3: that's not that far away. Yeah, thank you, you're more 150 00:08:10,575 --> 00:08:11,895 Speaker 3: and welcome, Julie, which. 151 00:08:13,255 --> 00:08:15,175 Speaker 2: Kind of ties into the comment that I that I 152 00:08:15,215 --> 00:08:17,855 Speaker 2: saw around you know from wingspan, saying, hey, now is 153 00:08:17,895 --> 00:08:20,495 Speaker 2: the time that birds are starting to think about nesting 154 00:08:20,575 --> 00:08:23,415 Speaker 2: and so on and breeding. So if you're going to 155 00:08:23,495 --> 00:08:26,415 Speaker 2: do something to help that, I build a bird box, 156 00:08:26,815 --> 00:08:27,655 Speaker 2: now's the time to do it. 157 00:08:28,215 --> 00:08:31,095 Speaker 3: But you've got you're absolutely right. And the boxes are 158 00:08:31,135 --> 00:08:34,975 Speaker 3: also used for roosting in any time when they're not yet, 159 00:08:35,175 --> 00:08:38,495 Speaker 3: so that's a nice If it's rubbish weather, that's where 160 00:08:38,495 --> 00:08:38,815 Speaker 3: you go. 161 00:08:39,495 --> 00:08:41,415 Speaker 2: Hence the little pig on the outside so they can 162 00:08:41,455 --> 00:08:42,975 Speaker 2: sit there and look around. 163 00:08:43,375 --> 00:08:44,575 Speaker 3: Yes, exactly, all right. 164 00:08:45,335 --> 00:08:47,775 Speaker 2: See now I'm kidding the impassion that I now have 165 00:08:47,855 --> 00:08:52,775 Speaker 2: to make alterations right to the existing design because you, 166 00:08:52,895 --> 00:08:55,855 Speaker 2: like you think, they like to hop up and down. Sorry, 167 00:08:55,855 --> 00:08:58,135 Speaker 2: I had to add like a mezzanine floor inside the 168 00:08:58,135 --> 00:08:58,735 Speaker 2: bird box. 169 00:08:59,095 --> 00:09:03,735 Speaker 3: They do like that, yes, especially especially those owls. Yeah, yeah, no, 170 00:09:03,815 --> 00:09:04,655 Speaker 3: I think it's great. 171 00:09:05,615 --> 00:09:09,695 Speaker 2: I keep going, I'm gonna need a building consent. We 172 00:09:09,855 --> 00:09:11,975 Speaker 2: don't please don't take that early context. 173 00:09:12,255 --> 00:09:18,855 Speaker 7: Hello, Mary high peek one peshould get oranges. I think 174 00:09:18,895 --> 00:09:22,175 Speaker 7: I'm perhaps the neighbors. He's got a beautiful orange tree. 175 00:09:22,255 --> 00:09:27,015 Speaker 7: But the oranges all are all tiny. I've got four 176 00:09:27,535 --> 00:09:29,975 Speaker 7: ordinary sized ones, but the rest were all chiny, and 177 00:09:30,015 --> 00:09:34,535 Speaker 7: they're always right there. What can he add? What can 178 00:09:34,575 --> 00:09:38,375 Speaker 7: he do to produce them slightly big? We're in Tokorowa, 179 00:09:38,895 --> 00:09:40,455 Speaker 7: which is very cold, of course. 180 00:09:42,375 --> 00:09:46,975 Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, Now tell me about those little oranges. Do 181 00:09:47,015 --> 00:09:49,615 Speaker 3: they actually when you cut them open, are they like 182 00:09:49,775 --> 00:09:52,855 Speaker 3: oranges in the middle or are they just are they 183 00:09:52,895 --> 00:09:55,815 Speaker 3: slightly different in shape and so on as well? 184 00:09:56,495 --> 00:09:59,695 Speaker 7: No, they're just that orange and that's beautiful. I've been 185 00:10:00,335 --> 00:10:02,135 Speaker 7: cutting them in half, you know. It's a sort of 186 00:10:02,175 --> 00:10:05,535 Speaker 7: a pain theft like I cut them like we used 187 00:10:05,575 --> 00:10:07,575 Speaker 7: to for nick Will. The little quarters, the. 188 00:10:08,775 --> 00:10:11,775 Speaker 3: Smaller tiny quarters. 189 00:10:11,095 --> 00:10:15,735 Speaker 7: Yeah yeah, tiny quarters. But the big ones there, but 190 00:10:15,895 --> 00:10:16,255 Speaker 7: they are. 191 00:10:16,815 --> 00:10:20,015 Speaker 3: Okay, excellent. Now this is oh that got that. There's 192 00:10:20,055 --> 00:10:22,735 Speaker 3: a second point here. You've raised, first of all, some 193 00:10:22,815 --> 00:10:26,215 Speaker 3: are small and they are sour. To me, that indicates 194 00:10:26,255 --> 00:10:30,375 Speaker 3: that fertilizing them with some sulfate of potash from say, 195 00:10:30,935 --> 00:10:36,295 Speaker 3: very early spring onwards, would totally sort that out. So 196 00:10:36,535 --> 00:10:39,855 Speaker 3: sulfate of potash is a material that you get as 197 00:10:39,855 --> 00:10:43,055 Speaker 3: a fertilizer. I assume that you fertilize the tree anyway. 198 00:10:44,255 --> 00:10:50,535 Speaker 7: I think he will he he fertilizes beautiful Louisa plum tree. 199 00:10:53,175 --> 00:10:59,975 Speaker 3: Louisa plus. Yeah. Okay, all right, okay, So what I 200 00:11:00,015 --> 00:11:03,495 Speaker 3: would suggest is general fertilizer, say three times a year, 201 00:11:03,815 --> 00:11:06,855 Speaker 3: and a handful of sulfate of potash on the root 202 00:11:06,935 --> 00:11:10,655 Speaker 3: zone as well. And that is and potash is the 203 00:11:10,775 --> 00:11:15,735 Speaker 3: K of NPK, the K part for carlium, and that 204 00:11:15,935 --> 00:11:20,215 Speaker 3: is something that makes a plants grow and trap and 205 00:11:20,255 --> 00:11:24,215 Speaker 3: shrubs and trees grow better flowers. That means they will 206 00:11:24,215 --> 00:11:28,135 Speaker 3: get better seeds or fruits and the and the nice 207 00:11:28,135 --> 00:11:30,575 Speaker 3: thing is too that those fruits will start a lot 208 00:11:30,935 --> 00:11:34,695 Speaker 3: sweeter as well. That is all part of the potash job, 209 00:11:34,855 --> 00:11:35,335 Speaker 3: if you like. 210 00:11:36,695 --> 00:11:38,255 Speaker 7: Okay, so there you go. 211 00:11:39,535 --> 00:11:42,615 Speaker 2: Yep, thank you very much for all the best. 212 00:11:43,095 --> 00:11:43,335 Speaker 5: Mary. 213 00:11:43,455 --> 00:11:45,255 Speaker 2: You take care, take care. We're going to take a 214 00:11:45,295 --> 00:11:48,095 Speaker 2: short break. We'll be back after the break you and 215 00:11:48,095 --> 00:11:50,335 Speaker 2: news talks. They be coming up eleve minutes away from 216 00:11:50,455 --> 00:11:52,975 Speaker 2: nine o'clock. The root is with us in Lynn very 217 00:11:53,015 --> 00:11:53,455 Speaker 2: good morning. 218 00:11:54,215 --> 00:11:56,335 Speaker 8: Oh, good morning, guys. How are you? 219 00:11:56,375 --> 00:11:57,455 Speaker 3: We're good? Thank you? Lynn? 220 00:11:58,615 --> 00:12:01,975 Speaker 8: Right. I've just got an observation rather than a than 221 00:12:02,015 --> 00:12:08,295 Speaker 8: a grizzle. Listening to the program, I hear if somebody 222 00:12:08,375 --> 00:12:12,055 Speaker 8: has a diseased but or a sick looking plant, that 223 00:12:12,135 --> 00:12:15,895 Speaker 8: they take it to a garden center. Or years ago, 224 00:12:16,415 --> 00:12:19,215 Speaker 8: I used to work in a garden center and our 225 00:12:19,255 --> 00:12:22,535 Speaker 8: hearts would go into our boots when we saw somebody 226 00:12:22,575 --> 00:12:27,375 Speaker 8: coming in with a diseased branch, and you sort of 227 00:12:27,375 --> 00:12:31,175 Speaker 8: looked around our garden center. There's thousands of dollars' worth 228 00:12:31,255 --> 00:12:36,215 Speaker 8: of stock, and coming through the gate is a diseased plant. 229 00:12:36,935 --> 00:12:41,015 Speaker 3: It's like it's like bio biosecurity, you know what I mean. 230 00:12:44,935 --> 00:12:48,495 Speaker 8: It's maybe it could be suggested that they put it 231 00:12:48,535 --> 00:12:54,695 Speaker 8: in a plastic bag or cover it somehow. All I'm 232 00:12:54,735 --> 00:12:58,255 Speaker 8: thinking of is the poor garden center owner. 233 00:12:59,975 --> 00:13:02,615 Speaker 3: Yeah, I see what you mean. You have to remember, though, 234 00:13:02,655 --> 00:13:05,935 Speaker 3: that's quite often garden centers no which plants are very 235 00:13:07,255 --> 00:13:11,255 Speaker 3: susceptible to things like that, and they give them sometimes 236 00:13:11,295 --> 00:13:16,855 Speaker 3: a preventative spray. All right, we didn't, didn't you. Okay, 237 00:13:16,895 --> 00:13:18,895 Speaker 3: there you go, no years ago. 238 00:13:19,295 --> 00:13:23,495 Speaker 8: And my next next little thing is Louisa plum. I 239 00:13:23,535 --> 00:13:27,535 Speaker 8: have a very old Louisa plum. Now I think they 240 00:13:27,615 --> 00:13:34,295 Speaker 8: outblow themselves. They totally outgrow themselves because it's old and 241 00:13:34,335 --> 00:13:38,775 Speaker 8: it no longer fruits as well as it did. But 242 00:13:38,975 --> 00:13:41,895 Speaker 8: one year, and this is no word of a lie, 243 00:13:42,055 --> 00:13:45,295 Speaker 8: one plum weighed two hundred and fifty grands. 244 00:13:46,335 --> 00:13:49,655 Speaker 3: They can't. Yeah, that is enormous. 245 00:13:50,855 --> 00:13:54,735 Speaker 8: It's the huge, just absolutely huge. They're a meal. 246 00:13:55,455 --> 00:13:58,015 Speaker 3: Wow. Have you still got that plum tree by the way, 247 00:13:58,095 --> 00:13:58,575 Speaker 3: or have you? 248 00:13:59,215 --> 00:14:01,695 Speaker 8: It doesn't fruit, so well, be lucky. If we get 249 00:14:01,775 --> 00:14:05,695 Speaker 8: probably about twelve plums a year, have you thought. 250 00:14:05,455 --> 00:14:07,655 Speaker 3: Of getting another one or getting two and put them 251 00:14:07,655 --> 00:14:09,735 Speaker 3: in the same hole and you've got a pollinator and 252 00:14:09,775 --> 00:14:11,655 Speaker 3: then not so pollinator. You know what I mean? 253 00:14:12,055 --> 00:14:14,575 Speaker 8: This is massive, This is massive. 254 00:14:16,455 --> 00:14:16,615 Speaker 4: Thing. 255 00:14:16,695 --> 00:14:19,855 Speaker 8: It is and I have said this to you before, 256 00:14:20,255 --> 00:14:22,735 Speaker 8: we haven't. It's not our oak tree, but the neighbor 257 00:14:22,775 --> 00:14:25,575 Speaker 8: has an oak tree sort of at the front, the 258 00:14:25,575 --> 00:14:28,775 Speaker 8: plums at the back. The oak tree is huge as 259 00:14:28,815 --> 00:14:32,815 Speaker 8: forty five to fifty years old. It doesn't fruit anymore. 260 00:14:32,855 --> 00:14:37,735 Speaker 8: Either very few acorns and it happened. 261 00:14:38,055 --> 00:14:41,055 Speaker 3: It can happen, Yeah, that can happen. Yeah, of course. 262 00:14:41,815 --> 00:14:43,975 Speaker 8: Yeah. So the plumb at the back, the acorn at 263 00:14:43,975 --> 00:14:46,815 Speaker 8: the front and no fruit. It just is so odd 264 00:14:46,895 --> 00:14:50,935 Speaker 8: and happened in the same year that they started getting 265 00:14:51,015 --> 00:14:52,255 Speaker 8: lighter with their fruit, and. 266 00:14:53,255 --> 00:14:56,415 Speaker 3: Could have been a meteorological thing. I don't know, you know, 267 00:14:56,455 --> 00:14:57,255 Speaker 3: it could be anything. 268 00:14:57,335 --> 00:15:01,055 Speaker 2: Really much appreciating, Lord, you have a great day, take 269 00:15:01,175 --> 00:15:04,935 Speaker 2: care of all this. And Philip, greetings. 270 00:15:06,415 --> 00:15:11,855 Speaker 9: Let's hell empty emptied out my fire from where saw 271 00:15:12,295 --> 00:15:15,815 Speaker 9: the ash at the moment? Yep, I've got three citrus trees. 272 00:15:15,855 --> 00:15:17,335 Speaker 9: We'll I put it around now or just leave it 273 00:15:17,335 --> 00:15:17,815 Speaker 9: till spring. 274 00:15:18,255 --> 00:15:22,015 Speaker 3: No, dude, now, no, good now? Yeah do it? No, 275 00:15:22,175 --> 00:15:23,215 Speaker 3: I said, no, do it? 276 00:15:23,255 --> 00:15:25,495 Speaker 5: No, don't you spring? 277 00:15:25,575 --> 00:15:28,015 Speaker 3: Yeah, you can do it now, little bits at the time, 278 00:15:28,935 --> 00:15:31,495 Speaker 3: thin over the ground, not too much because it becomes 279 00:15:31,535 --> 00:15:33,775 Speaker 3: it cooks on you know, it becomes like hard and 280 00:15:33,815 --> 00:15:36,335 Speaker 3: stuff hard, you know what I mean. But this is 281 00:15:36,455 --> 00:15:39,775 Speaker 3: pot ash we talked about earlier. This is the natural 282 00:15:39,895 --> 00:15:42,775 Speaker 3: version of poty. Yes, I do the same thing, and 283 00:15:42,895 --> 00:15:46,815 Speaker 3: I do Julius Louisa plum all that sort of stuff, 284 00:15:47,095 --> 00:15:49,575 Speaker 3: and that potation slowly as soon as it rains will 285 00:15:49,575 --> 00:15:51,575 Speaker 3: go back into the root zone and it'll be there 286 00:15:51,575 --> 00:15:53,495 Speaker 3: for a couple of months, and by the time you 287 00:15:53,575 --> 00:15:57,375 Speaker 3: really need it, which is in spring, it is there boom. 288 00:15:58,095 --> 00:15:58,895 Speaker 2: And it sounds like. 289 00:15:58,895 --> 00:16:01,055 Speaker 9: As soon as it rains, we've got enough as it is. 290 00:16:02,255 --> 00:16:05,015 Speaker 3: Don't don't you start me for crying out that. 291 00:16:06,135 --> 00:16:09,015 Speaker 2: It sounds like the application is a sprinkling. It's not 292 00:16:09,055 --> 00:16:11,615 Speaker 2: like you're trawling it on and making a footpath around 293 00:16:11,895 --> 00:16:12,895 Speaker 2: the base of the tree. 294 00:16:13,175 --> 00:16:17,455 Speaker 3: No, it's not three inch thick. No, you need a 295 00:16:17,455 --> 00:16:19,895 Speaker 3: building consents for three h thick. Yeah. 296 00:16:20,335 --> 00:16:23,175 Speaker 2: Absolutely, Hey, thanks for all the best. Are we getting 297 00:16:23,215 --> 00:16:25,975 Speaker 2: some lovely texts around, you know, just from people who 298 00:16:25,975 --> 00:16:28,735 Speaker 2: are saying, look, here's one. I had a ruru flight 299 00:16:28,895 --> 00:16:31,015 Speaker 2: close to me at dust two nights ago while I 300 00:16:31,055 --> 00:16:33,855 Speaker 2: was at trail running around the back of Lindfield in 301 00:16:33,895 --> 00:16:37,495 Speaker 2: Auckland out were stockland way around Lindfield. The numbers seem 302 00:16:37,575 --> 00:16:42,615 Speaker 2: to be gradually increasing these last couple of years. That's exciting, 303 00:16:42,655 --> 00:16:43,415 Speaker 2: isn't it. 304 00:16:43,415 --> 00:16:45,415 Speaker 3: It is exciting. And what I'm doing now is I'm 305 00:16:45,415 --> 00:16:49,295 Speaker 3: getting the pallets that they eat right after dinner and 306 00:16:49,335 --> 00:16:51,775 Speaker 3: we then with kids, put them wet, make them wet 307 00:16:51,815 --> 00:16:56,895 Speaker 3: and start to find all the contents like bones of mice, 308 00:16:57,655 --> 00:16:59,695 Speaker 3: and then you put those bones together and you can 309 00:16:59,775 --> 00:17:01,895 Speaker 3: recreate amosis skeleton. 310 00:17:02,255 --> 00:17:10,335 Speaker 2: Right would a r eat a mouse? Oh yeah, like 311 00:17:10,455 --> 00:17:12,335 Speaker 2: chop it up or just gobble it down? 312 00:17:12,415 --> 00:17:14,575 Speaker 3: Hold, they know it's it. They don't chop it up, 313 00:17:14,615 --> 00:17:17,135 Speaker 3: They swallow it a hole and then they have to 314 00:17:17,135 --> 00:17:20,375 Speaker 3: get rid of those bones by going And there's a pair, right. 315 00:17:20,815 --> 00:17:23,535 Speaker 2: How fabulous. And here's another one. Someone on the kupp 316 00:17:23,535 --> 00:17:26,975 Speaker 2: Ofy Coast in a rural or more pork sit on 317 00:17:27,015 --> 00:17:28,935 Speaker 2: the top of the lamp post waiting for the gum 318 00:17:29,015 --> 00:17:31,815 Speaker 2: emperor moth that was attracted by the light. There are 319 00:17:31,815 --> 00:17:34,255 Speaker 2: some gum trees nearby. We always knew when it was 320 00:17:34,255 --> 00:17:38,255 Speaker 2: successful because of the delighted shriek and because there's little 321 00:17:38,255 --> 00:17:42,295 Speaker 2: present that left on our car roof pike below exactly 322 00:17:43,095 --> 00:17:43,895 Speaker 2: a lightful low. 323 00:17:44,015 --> 00:17:47,775 Speaker 3: And they also get these wonderful large moths that you 324 00:17:47,855 --> 00:17:53,015 Speaker 3: get right. I used to toss them up to the r 325 00:17:53,335 --> 00:17:54,975 Speaker 3: and lang on where I used to live, and they 326 00:17:55,015 --> 00:17:57,775 Speaker 3: would catch the poor and eat it right in front 327 00:17:57,815 --> 00:17:59,655 Speaker 3: of me, and then the wings go down. You're like 328 00:18:02,535 --> 00:18:03,255 Speaker 3: just amazing. 329 00:18:03,935 --> 00:18:08,095 Speaker 2: And so people you know making boxes right, for them 330 00:18:08,615 --> 00:18:13,495 Speaker 2: that actually helps the process, or it's not distracting from 331 00:18:13,535 --> 00:18:15,375 Speaker 2: them doing what they would do naturally and find a 332 00:18:15,415 --> 00:18:17,935 Speaker 2: safe splace in a tree or something like that. But 333 00:18:18,215 --> 00:18:20,335 Speaker 2: do we intervene too much? Is there a conn? 334 00:18:20,935 --> 00:18:23,255 Speaker 3: Really? What you read in the city, you don't have 335 00:18:23,295 --> 00:18:26,615 Speaker 3: too many old yeah, you know, with holes in the 336 00:18:26,735 --> 00:18:29,535 Speaker 3: old trees with holes in them. You actually create a 337 00:18:29,655 --> 00:18:33,895 Speaker 3: nice shelter in the shade box. And you know you've 338 00:18:33,895 --> 00:18:36,575 Speaker 3: got to be lucky. But when it works, boy, you'll 339 00:18:36,615 --> 00:18:37,455 Speaker 3: have so much fun. 340 00:18:39,135 --> 00:18:42,255 Speaker 2: Right, I'll add that to the list. I know yours 341 00:18:43,255 --> 00:18:45,295 Speaker 2: it is pretty big, but I think this is a 342 00:18:45,335 --> 00:18:48,375 Speaker 2: worthy project for a couple of days in the workshop, 343 00:18:48,375 --> 00:18:48,615 Speaker 2: I think. 344 00:18:49,095 --> 00:18:50,975 Speaker 3: And if you go to Wingspan, as you know, you 345 00:18:51,055 --> 00:18:53,455 Speaker 3: get from the same stories, you get exactly to see 346 00:18:53,455 --> 00:18:54,135 Speaker 3: how it works. 347 00:18:54,335 --> 00:18:55,935 Speaker 2: And if you want to know how to make an 348 00:18:56,055 --> 00:18:58,855 Speaker 2: l box Wingspan, go to the website, download the pdf. 349 00:18:58,895 --> 00:19:00,975 Speaker 2: It's got all the details there. It gives you a 350 00:19:01,015 --> 00:19:03,495 Speaker 2: cutting list so you know exactly what you need to cut. 351 00:19:03,655 --> 00:19:05,055 Speaker 2: It's pretty straightforward. 352 00:19:06,535 --> 00:19:07,815 Speaker 3: Mate, have a guest day. 353 00:19:07,935 --> 00:19:10,535 Speaker 2: We'll catch you in July. All of this take care 354 00:19:10,655 --> 00:19:13,495 Speaker 2: so you Ritio folks. Thanks very much for your comments 355 00:19:13,535 --> 00:19:16,615 Speaker 2: and your conversation, a little more research from my part 356 00:19:16,655 --> 00:19:18,975 Speaker 2: about this whole healthy homes thing and the apartments and 357 00:19:19,015 --> 00:19:21,455 Speaker 2: the heating thing. I think we'll talk about that next 358 00:19:21,495 --> 00:19:23,815 Speaker 2: week on the show. Have a great week, Take care 359 00:19:24,095 --> 00:19:29,615 Speaker 2: all the very best. 360 00:19:39,975 --> 00:19:42,935 Speaker 1: For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp, listen 361 00:19:43,015 --> 00:19:45,735 Speaker 1: live to news talks'd be on Sunday mornings from six, 362 00:19:46,135 --> 00:19:48,175 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.