1 00:00:06,815 --> 00:00:10,655 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp 2 00:00:10,855 --> 00:00:11,975 Speaker 1: from News Talk said, B. 3 00:00:12,655 --> 00:00:15,095 Speaker 2: You a new sort of zid B. It is a 4 00:00:15,295 --> 00:00:21,535 Speaker 2: thirty three climb. Past is dialing in as well. Good morning, Rod. 5 00:00:22,295 --> 00:00:24,375 Speaker 3: A very good morning you, Peter. How is it all 6 00:00:24,415 --> 00:00:25,775 Speaker 3: going with you at the moment? 7 00:00:25,775 --> 00:00:28,135 Speaker 2: All right, yeah, good, Thank you for asking, mate, really 8 00:00:28,175 --> 00:00:32,535 Speaker 2: appreciate it. And you're up north and we know what 9 00:00:32,855 --> 00:00:35,775 Speaker 2: the weather well, not just up north, but you're okay 10 00:00:35,815 --> 00:00:37,655 Speaker 2: as well, and where you're staying so okay. 11 00:00:38,655 --> 00:00:40,975 Speaker 3: Earlier when we when we drove up north, we're on 12 00:00:41,015 --> 00:00:43,415 Speaker 3: our way. We're on our way out again or south 13 00:00:43,575 --> 00:00:45,895 Speaker 3: if you like, to get back home at some stages tonight. 14 00:00:46,215 --> 00:00:49,535 Speaker 3: But when we when we came from west Auckland and 15 00:00:49,615 --> 00:00:54,695 Speaker 3: drove literally to Rule, why my goodness. I look, I've 16 00:00:54,695 --> 00:00:57,815 Speaker 3: done many driving in my life, but nothing like that. 17 00:00:57,935 --> 00:01:01,255 Speaker 3: On State Highway sixteen that was just amazing. And the 18 00:01:01,335 --> 00:01:05,135 Speaker 3: further east du came the worst. It was, of course, right, 19 00:01:05,375 --> 00:01:08,095 Speaker 3: we all we all felt that's where the big gigs 20 00:01:08,175 --> 00:01:10,375 Speaker 3: came from. And on the west it was actually okay, 21 00:01:11,215 --> 00:01:16,295 Speaker 3: my goodness, what a storm still going by the way. 22 00:01:16,415 --> 00:01:18,255 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know, we're not out of it. 23 00:01:18,335 --> 00:01:23,295 Speaker 3: Yet Yeah, yeah, that was amazing. That was terrible. So 24 00:01:23,415 --> 00:01:25,335 Speaker 3: we got there in the end, but we'll be going 25 00:01:25,335 --> 00:01:28,095 Speaker 3: back hopefully and hopefully not too many delays with airplance. 26 00:01:28,175 --> 00:01:31,335 Speaker 3: That would be good. Yeah. 27 00:01:32,135 --> 00:01:33,855 Speaker 2: Sorry, I just got a text from the made of 28 00:01:33,855 --> 00:01:36,255 Speaker 2: Mind to ask you a question, but then I realized 29 00:01:36,255 --> 00:01:39,335 Speaker 2: that I'll read it out because we all need a 30 00:01:39,335 --> 00:01:41,895 Speaker 2: little bit of laughter. So Tim and mate goes morning fella, 31 00:01:42,175 --> 00:01:44,495 Speaker 2: can you ask the gardener mate why Spurs are playing 32 00:01:44,535 --> 00:01:50,735 Speaker 2: like lemons? It's an joke from a football fan from 33 00:01:50,775 --> 00:01:53,295 Speaker 2: what he gives me a hard so there is no 34 00:01:53,415 --> 00:01:54,095 Speaker 2: answer to that. 35 00:01:55,095 --> 00:01:59,895 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, very good question. It's a difficult European way 36 00:01:59,895 --> 00:02:01,095 Speaker 3: of doing it. 37 00:02:02,415 --> 00:02:06,775 Speaker 2: Absolutely right. Let's get amongst it. If you've got a 38 00:02:06,855 --> 00:02:09,735 Speaker 2: question for Srud, you should call us now eight hundred 39 00:02:09,855 --> 00:02:14,415 Speaker 2: eighty and we'll get into the serious stuff now. Julie, 40 00:02:14,855 --> 00:02:15,855 Speaker 2: good morning. 41 00:02:16,215 --> 00:02:20,815 Speaker 4: Good morning, And I've got a question for Rud. Why 42 00:02:20,855 --> 00:02:23,735 Speaker 4: does he hate hedgehogs so much? 43 00:02:25,455 --> 00:02:27,695 Speaker 3: I don't hate them at all. They were native to 44 00:02:27,775 --> 00:02:32,015 Speaker 3: the country where I lived. They are absolutely brilliant creatures 45 00:02:32,535 --> 00:02:36,535 Speaker 3: and they are wonderful, wonderful to have in the area 46 00:02:37,055 --> 00:02:42,175 Speaker 3: where they actually deserve to live, not somewhere in a 47 00:02:42,215 --> 00:02:46,135 Speaker 3: country where everybody that is getting eaten by hedgehogs is 48 00:02:46,175 --> 00:02:52,095 Speaker 3: basically under serious threat of being made extinct. That's what 49 00:02:52,135 --> 00:02:55,015 Speaker 3: I think of hedgehogs. I don't think they believe here 50 00:02:55,055 --> 00:02:58,615 Speaker 3: that they should be living here. They would be for instance, 51 00:02:58,655 --> 00:03:02,575 Speaker 3: give you an example they have. They do all sorts 52 00:03:02,575 --> 00:03:05,855 Speaker 3: of things with our native birds. For instance, they eat 53 00:03:06,495 --> 00:03:08,335 Speaker 3: with the and I've seen it in the forest. They 54 00:03:08,415 --> 00:03:11,335 Speaker 3: eat the eggs of all our native birds that are 55 00:03:11,335 --> 00:03:16,295 Speaker 3: on the ground. They're disease vectors. They also spread diseases. 56 00:03:16,615 --> 00:03:20,175 Speaker 3: They're competing with kiwi, for instance, for the food that 57 00:03:20,335 --> 00:03:23,295 Speaker 3: Kiwi need to eat. You know, you can now just 58 00:03:23,535 --> 00:03:26,135 Speaker 3: ask yourself the question, what would you prefer a hedgehog 59 00:03:26,295 --> 00:03:29,535 Speaker 3: or a kiwi? And you know that's that's sorry. That's 60 00:03:29,575 --> 00:03:30,695 Speaker 3: the way I think about it. 61 00:03:32,055 --> 00:03:35,655 Speaker 4: Yeah, because I've got two that visit my garden every 62 00:03:35,775 --> 00:03:40,335 Speaker 4: night and I put cat through that for them and 63 00:03:40,415 --> 00:03:43,415 Speaker 4: they come and they know when I if I get 64 00:03:43,415 --> 00:03:46,575 Speaker 4: the dish plastic dish, and I straggle along the concrete, 65 00:03:46,855 --> 00:03:48,655 Speaker 4: I go in the side, I get the torch, I 66 00:03:48,695 --> 00:03:51,215 Speaker 4: look out the window with the torch and these two 67 00:03:51,255 --> 00:03:54,255 Speaker 4: little huge hogs. It's stuffing themselves with food. 68 00:03:55,495 --> 00:03:57,615 Speaker 3: Yeah, I can imagine they will. They will. You know 69 00:03:57,695 --> 00:04:01,415 Speaker 3: what I've seen that was something that as an entomologist 70 00:04:01,495 --> 00:04:04,815 Speaker 3: I was really upset about. I saw one eating a 71 00:04:04,895 --> 00:04:09,615 Speaker 3: couple of wetter that was it, some simple stuff like that, 72 00:04:10,015 --> 00:04:13,975 Speaker 3: and sales skinks. They'll have a go with they. I 73 00:04:14,055 --> 00:04:17,295 Speaker 3: know they eat banded dodtrels. The babies on the nest 74 00:04:18,095 --> 00:04:22,255 Speaker 3: where the dodtrells you grow up if you like. And 75 00:04:22,295 --> 00:04:24,815 Speaker 3: then I go, oh, my gosh, I wish they went back. 76 00:04:24,895 --> 00:04:27,575 Speaker 3: They came, they went back to the Netherlands or somewhere 77 00:04:27,615 --> 00:04:29,735 Speaker 3: like that. Yeah, that's exactly. 78 00:04:29,335 --> 00:04:34,015 Speaker 2: Where I mean. It does. Praise Thank you for that, Julie. 79 00:04:34,095 --> 00:04:36,975 Speaker 2: I mean, it is a fascinating question, isn't it, in 80 00:04:37,015 --> 00:04:39,295 Speaker 2: the sense that because the image that I had in 81 00:04:39,335 --> 00:04:40,895 Speaker 2: my head. I saw a picture the other day of 82 00:04:41,215 --> 00:04:43,175 Speaker 2: some people who said, oh, look, I heard something in 83 00:04:43,215 --> 00:04:46,215 Speaker 2: the laundry overnight went out and found that a kiwi 84 00:04:46,455 --> 00:04:49,415 Speaker 2: had wandered in and was snuffling around looking for food 85 00:04:49,495 --> 00:04:52,055 Speaker 2: in their house. And I guess what you're saying is 86 00:04:52,615 --> 00:04:55,015 Speaker 2: we can have hedgehogs and we think they're cute, but 87 00:04:55,095 --> 00:04:58,615 Speaker 2: if they're eating eggs and preventing the native wildlife from 88 00:04:58,815 --> 00:05:02,015 Speaker 2: restoring itself. Then I think it would be much better 89 00:05:02,055 --> 00:05:05,135 Speaker 2: if we had kiwi walking in eating in our gardens 90 00:05:05,175 --> 00:05:05,895 Speaker 2: than hedgehogs. 91 00:05:06,735 --> 00:05:09,815 Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly, and that you know that that whole debate, 92 00:05:09,895 --> 00:05:13,095 Speaker 3: by the way, Peter is also about about cats and 93 00:05:13,135 --> 00:05:16,095 Speaker 3: things like that. You know, the old story of the 94 00:05:16,175 --> 00:05:19,255 Speaker 3: cat cat guy, you know, uh, and it's it's still 95 00:05:19,335 --> 00:05:22,095 Speaker 3: like that. I think we can have cats as long 96 00:05:22,215 --> 00:05:25,615 Speaker 3: as we actually keep them in a way that was 97 00:05:25,775 --> 00:05:30,975 Speaker 3: compatible with us having nocturnal creatures running around the area 98 00:05:31,015 --> 00:05:33,815 Speaker 3: where we live, you know. And it's again kiwi and 99 00:05:33,815 --> 00:05:36,895 Speaker 3: it's all the rare stuff. And I think we should have, 100 00:05:37,255 --> 00:05:39,335 Speaker 3: you know, as long as we know how to look 101 00:05:39,375 --> 00:05:43,295 Speaker 3: after those those cats to be inside at home at night, 102 00:05:43,415 --> 00:05:46,175 Speaker 3: et cetera, et cetera, et cetera. Where we go. Yeah, 103 00:05:46,375 --> 00:05:47,575 Speaker 3: and I don't hate it all. 104 00:05:47,695 --> 00:05:53,255 Speaker 2: I realized, And yeah, it's just yeah, it's it's well, 105 00:05:53,375 --> 00:05:55,295 Speaker 2: is it a balance thing. It's just there's a there's 106 00:05:55,295 --> 00:06:01,415 Speaker 2: a place, and maybe this isn't their place exactly. Let's die. 107 00:06:01,575 --> 00:06:05,535 Speaker 2: Good morning, good morning, How are we very well? 108 00:06:05,615 --> 00:06:05,975 Speaker 3: We are? 109 00:06:06,015 --> 00:06:06,535 Speaker 5: Good guy. 110 00:06:07,975 --> 00:06:13,335 Speaker 6: I really hate hedgehogs, but I ended up in the 111 00:06:13,335 --> 00:06:17,495 Speaker 6: hospital from one that's why. Yeah, So I ended up 112 00:06:17,535 --> 00:06:22,135 Speaker 6: in Middlemore Hospital for quite a while. We were playing 113 00:06:22,375 --> 00:06:25,135 Speaker 6: silly buggers at the batch, playing hide and seek with 114 00:06:25,175 --> 00:06:29,015 Speaker 6: the kids and stuff, and I took a shortcut and 115 00:06:29,055 --> 00:06:31,295 Speaker 6: tried to jump off the veranda and make a run 116 00:06:31,375 --> 00:06:34,135 Speaker 6: for the trees to hide, and I landed on top 117 00:06:34,175 --> 00:06:39,735 Speaker 6: of an adult hedgehog and I ended up with his 118 00:06:39,975 --> 00:06:45,175 Speaker 6: spikes quite badly in my foot, my right foot. We 119 00:06:45,215 --> 00:06:48,055 Speaker 6: pulled them out and we disinfected my foot. 120 00:06:48,095 --> 00:06:48,575 Speaker 7: Blah blah. 121 00:06:48,615 --> 00:06:50,215 Speaker 6: I put some classes on. We didn't want to make 122 00:06:50,215 --> 00:06:51,815 Speaker 6: two big a deal in front of the kids, so 123 00:06:51,935 --> 00:06:55,775 Speaker 6: that was fine. But I actually got a air infection 124 00:06:55,935 --> 00:06:59,415 Speaker 6: in it. Ended up in hospital, had to have surgery, 125 00:06:59,495 --> 00:07:02,015 Speaker 6: had to have a drain inserted into my big toe, 126 00:07:02,535 --> 00:07:06,175 Speaker 6: and then they freaked them completely out. Came back and said, actually, 127 00:07:06,375 --> 00:07:08,975 Speaker 6: affection is so bad we may look at amputating a 128 00:07:09,055 --> 00:07:11,335 Speaker 6: big toe. And I was like, oh, come on, you 129 00:07:11,375 --> 00:07:14,215 Speaker 6: cannot get your big toe amputato because of the hedgehog. 130 00:07:14,815 --> 00:07:19,535 Speaker 6: Imagine acc they won't believe you. But yeah, I ended 131 00:07:19,615 --> 00:07:24,055 Speaker 6: up being really really sick. It got into my got 132 00:07:24,055 --> 00:07:27,575 Speaker 6: into the wound and I had ringworm. I now very 133 00:07:27,615 --> 00:07:29,575 Speaker 6: susceptible to ringworm evidently. 134 00:07:29,975 --> 00:07:31,935 Speaker 3: Oh yes, yes, that's. 135 00:07:31,775 --> 00:07:37,815 Speaker 6: Right, ringworm. There was the it went to the blood. 136 00:07:37,815 --> 00:07:40,815 Speaker 6: I had the veins, you know, highlighted up my knee. 137 00:07:40,895 --> 00:07:43,215 Speaker 6: It got all the way up to my knee cap. 138 00:07:43,295 --> 00:07:46,655 Speaker 6: My whole leg, my cuff swelled up as big as 139 00:07:46,695 --> 00:07:52,335 Speaker 6: my thigh, which was not complimentary, but yeah no, And 140 00:07:52,375 --> 00:07:55,055 Speaker 6: I had a drain in there and I ended up 141 00:07:55,055 --> 00:07:56,615 Speaker 6: being put in a moan boat. And I was in 142 00:07:56,655 --> 00:07:59,015 Speaker 6: a moon boat for a month before. And now my 143 00:07:59,215 --> 00:08:01,495 Speaker 6: big toe doesn't quite work properly, but it's got a 144 00:08:01,615 --> 00:08:03,215 Speaker 6: very impressive scar on it. 145 00:08:04,255 --> 00:08:07,455 Speaker 3: Oh my god, you know what you've just managed to do. Die, 146 00:08:08,135 --> 00:08:10,975 Speaker 3: You have managed to take our ratings down by about 147 00:08:12,295 --> 00:08:14,255 Speaker 3: people sitting in their chair going back. 148 00:08:16,935 --> 00:08:20,135 Speaker 6: I don't believe how sick I got from on that 149 00:08:20,255 --> 00:08:21,095 Speaker 6: hedgehop light. 150 00:08:21,815 --> 00:08:22,815 Speaker 5: And he survived. 151 00:08:22,895 --> 00:08:29,175 Speaker 6: He bloody ran off. Like everyone will say, oh she 152 00:08:29,295 --> 00:08:34,855 Speaker 6: squashed the hiptop. I did not squash the hdog. And 153 00:08:35,015 --> 00:08:37,895 Speaker 6: I'm amazed at how fast those buggers can run when 154 00:08:37,935 --> 00:08:39,095 Speaker 6: they know they're in trouble. 155 00:08:40,375 --> 00:08:44,255 Speaker 2: And that one was on I feel I need to 156 00:08:44,255 --> 00:08:46,815 Speaker 2: get back on track. But that's a fabulous story, and 157 00:08:46,895 --> 00:08:49,655 Speaker 2: I'm pleased you well, and I'm pleased you've still got 158 00:08:49,655 --> 00:08:55,495 Speaker 2: your big toe. Ye, look after yourself, die, take care 159 00:08:56,935 --> 00:08:59,415 Speaker 2: and lovely few minutes. I have to say I've spent 160 00:08:59,975 --> 00:09:01,895 Speaker 2: quite a bit of time at Little More Hospital over 161 00:09:01,935 --> 00:09:04,895 Speaker 2: the last two weeks. I'll be hitting back there shortly. 162 00:09:05,535 --> 00:09:08,015 Speaker 2: Can I say to the nurses and the team there, 163 00:09:08,615 --> 00:09:13,495 Speaker 2: what extraordinary care? Just anyone that's ever gives them a 164 00:09:13,495 --> 00:09:16,055 Speaker 2: hard time, I feel it is just so unjustified. It's 165 00:09:16,095 --> 00:09:16,735 Speaker 2: been amazing. 166 00:09:17,775 --> 00:09:21,655 Speaker 3: I totally agree with you, and I totally I love that, Peter. 167 00:09:21,815 --> 00:09:24,375 Speaker 3: That's the way, That's the way it is, this program, 168 00:09:24,415 --> 00:09:28,015 Speaker 3: this is probably one of the most amazing follow up 169 00:09:28,175 --> 00:09:31,295 Speaker 3: things that I've ever heard. So I love this today 170 00:09:30,735 --> 00:09:34,175 Speaker 3: and it's all of us. But it's about respect, isn't it? 171 00:09:34,415 --> 00:09:41,055 Speaker 2: Absolutely all right, Susan, tell us about your mandain tree. 172 00:09:42,335 --> 00:09:49,175 Speaker 7: Yes, question, that is surprise. Yeah, my mandarin tree is 173 00:09:50,055 --> 00:09:52,775 Speaker 7: hasn't fruited this year. I had no blossom one it whatsoever. 174 00:09:53,895 --> 00:09:57,895 Speaker 7: It's healthy, we feed it, but the leads are a 175 00:09:57,895 --> 00:10:00,695 Speaker 7: little bit bumpy and a little bit curly, but not much. 176 00:10:01,695 --> 00:10:03,775 Speaker 7: And I've got a lemon tree that's around the corner 177 00:10:03,815 --> 00:10:06,015 Speaker 7: that seems to have not as much blossom. This year. 178 00:10:06,095 --> 00:10:11,735 Speaker 7: I so just wondering, well it yeah, oh wow. 179 00:10:11,895 --> 00:10:15,095 Speaker 3: So there's two citrus trees that are of different origin. 180 00:10:15,175 --> 00:10:17,895 Speaker 3: I suppose that have these problems of not having enough 181 00:10:18,935 --> 00:10:23,655 Speaker 3: not having enough oomph to grow their their fruit with. Okay, Ken, 182 00:10:23,935 --> 00:10:25,735 Speaker 3: First of all, my first question to you is what 183 00:10:25,895 --> 00:10:27,695 Speaker 3: is the stuff that you call feed? What do you 184 00:10:27,735 --> 00:10:33,415 Speaker 3: feed your mandarin tree cychrus fader? Okay? And when do 185 00:10:33,495 --> 00:10:33,855 Speaker 3: you do that? 186 00:10:35,655 --> 00:10:39,135 Speaker 7: We probably do it maybe, but no three or four 187 00:10:39,175 --> 00:10:39,815 Speaker 7: times a year. 188 00:10:41,015 --> 00:10:46,535 Speaker 3: Oh wow, that's quite something on this on the root zone. Yes, okay, 189 00:10:47,015 --> 00:10:50,375 Speaker 3: all right, that's number one. And it's not too wet, 190 00:10:50,495 --> 00:10:53,095 Speaker 3: not too dry the soil is it okay? In origin 191 00:10:53,255 --> 00:10:54,895 Speaker 3: and what it sounds and feels like. 192 00:10:55,775 --> 00:10:58,375 Speaker 7: Yeah, it's it's been the same for it has been 193 00:10:58,415 --> 00:11:00,295 Speaker 7: when it's spread to the other years. So yeah, it's 194 00:11:00,335 --> 00:11:00,935 Speaker 7: been fine. 195 00:11:01,055 --> 00:11:04,015 Speaker 3: Yeah, not being over the top this year. Not too 196 00:11:04,095 --> 00:11:08,015 Speaker 3: much wet. No, okay, good, that's number one. 197 00:11:08,015 --> 00:11:08,455 Speaker 6: All right. 198 00:11:08,855 --> 00:11:11,255 Speaker 3: The thing that I can suggest you do, and it's 199 00:11:11,375 --> 00:11:14,295 Speaker 3: just an extra little bit of material you can put 200 00:11:14,335 --> 00:11:19,695 Speaker 3: around the root zone is a sulfate of potash, solfate 201 00:11:20,135 --> 00:11:23,095 Speaker 3: of potashe that is a material that is the key 202 00:11:23,335 --> 00:11:27,815 Speaker 3: of the NPK ratios that you see in the gardening industry. 203 00:11:28,295 --> 00:11:31,055 Speaker 3: The k is the potash, and potash is a material 204 00:11:31,135 --> 00:11:34,775 Speaker 3: that actually encourages the tree or the shrub or the 205 00:11:34,775 --> 00:11:38,135 Speaker 3: plant or whatever it is, to make more flowers and 206 00:11:38,295 --> 00:11:41,495 Speaker 3: more fruit or seeds. In other words, it's about a 207 00:11:41,535 --> 00:11:44,695 Speaker 3: reproduction of the plant. That's really what it is. Of course, 208 00:11:45,215 --> 00:11:48,615 Speaker 3: so the potash is the one that actually encourages a 209 00:11:48,815 --> 00:11:53,335 Speaker 3: much better growth of things like seeds and fruits and 210 00:11:53,375 --> 00:11:55,935 Speaker 3: things like that. Have a go with that. Don't go 211 00:11:55,975 --> 00:11:58,775 Speaker 3: over the top. Just a couple of times, do it. Now, 212 00:11:59,175 --> 00:12:01,975 Speaker 3: do it again in autumn, and do it again in springtime, 213 00:12:02,015 --> 00:12:04,335 Speaker 3: and you will find that it will have enough potage. 214 00:12:05,135 --> 00:12:08,775 Speaker 3: And think for it of that naughty tree of saying, oh, 215 00:12:08,815 --> 00:12:10,535 Speaker 3: I'd better do something about. 216 00:12:10,215 --> 00:12:17,575 Speaker 7: This, okay, to my lease, do you know what? You 217 00:12:17,575 --> 00:12:19,935 Speaker 7: don't think? I might have a mite and the leaf 218 00:12:20,095 --> 00:12:20,975 Speaker 7: looks a little bit too. 219 00:12:21,255 --> 00:12:26,415 Speaker 3: Yes, yes, I'm not worried about that might. Okay, I 220 00:12:26,415 --> 00:12:28,855 Speaker 3: am really not that worried about that might. That might 221 00:12:28,935 --> 00:12:31,655 Speaker 3: is okay, and it's it's not going to cause too 222 00:12:31,735 --> 00:12:33,615 Speaker 3: much troubles at all. In fact, it will be in 223 00:12:33,735 --> 00:12:37,535 Speaker 3: and out depending on the tire that the temperature et cetera, 224 00:12:37,575 --> 00:12:40,295 Speaker 3: et cetera. I'm more interested in how your plant is 225 00:12:40,295 --> 00:12:43,815 Speaker 3: going to react with some potash, because that'll give it 226 00:12:44,015 --> 00:12:45,455 Speaker 3: the ability to reproduce. 227 00:12:47,015 --> 00:12:49,095 Speaker 7: Okay, thank you so much, indeed. 228 00:12:49,295 --> 00:12:52,295 Speaker 2: All the very thanks for your call. I've got a 229 00:12:52,335 --> 00:12:54,175 Speaker 2: text that I will send you a photo of I 230 00:12:54,335 --> 00:12:56,295 Speaker 2: can't read it out on here, but you will love this. 231 00:12:57,095 --> 00:12:59,695 Speaker 2: And someone else I jumped. I jumped over the fence 232 00:13:00,095 --> 00:13:02,335 Speaker 2: and bear feed as a kid landed on a hedgehole. 233 00:13:02,775 --> 00:13:05,935 Speaker 2: Friend spent hours digging out the spine. I too, am 234 00:13:05,975 --> 00:13:10,655 Speaker 2: not a fan. Right, Yeah, we'll take a break. We'll 235 00:13:10,695 --> 00:13:13,775 Speaker 2: be back at a mow. You your theoks is like 236 00:13:13,935 --> 00:13:17,735 Speaker 2: fourteen nine and Jason A very good morning to you. 237 00:13:19,055 --> 00:13:19,815 Speaker 5: Good morning, Pete. 238 00:13:20,335 --> 00:13:24,615 Speaker 7: I've got two questions for root, one being about weather and. 239 00:13:24,535 --> 00:13:28,535 Speaker 5: Two being about ruberb. The first one is rubub. 240 00:13:29,615 --> 00:13:32,455 Speaker 3: Can I start ruberb from a cutting as such? 241 00:13:33,095 --> 00:13:34,735 Speaker 5: Or do I have to buy it because I don't 242 00:13:34,775 --> 00:13:36,895 Speaker 5: have much money. 243 00:13:37,135 --> 00:13:39,575 Speaker 3: No, I don't think you can do it very well 244 00:13:39,575 --> 00:13:42,855 Speaker 3: with cuttings that I think it would be better for 245 00:13:42,895 --> 00:13:44,735 Speaker 3: you to get it from seeds and things like that. 246 00:13:45,255 --> 00:13:47,935 Speaker 3: Go that way, or get it just or get yeah, 247 00:13:48,455 --> 00:13:51,295 Speaker 3: or get some plants from the local nursery and you 248 00:13:51,415 --> 00:13:53,895 Speaker 3: only need one or two. It's honestly, it's not that 249 00:13:54,375 --> 00:13:57,655 Speaker 3: terribly expensive to wave one or two of those plants 250 00:13:57,655 --> 00:14:01,815 Speaker 3: and they'll go boom. Yeah, honestly, chaves you a lot 251 00:14:01,815 --> 00:14:02,855 Speaker 3: of vessels. 252 00:14:03,855 --> 00:14:04,095 Speaker 5: Kids. 253 00:14:05,695 --> 00:14:07,775 Speaker 7: I end up once before and you told me to 254 00:14:07,855 --> 00:14:11,015 Speaker 7: grow into the holes and I'll come out and they'll 255 00:14:11,015 --> 00:14:11,455 Speaker 7: come out. 256 00:14:11,535 --> 00:14:13,015 Speaker 5: But it's not working. 257 00:14:13,135 --> 00:14:15,935 Speaker 7: And I've just moved for Royal Oake and I want. 258 00:14:15,775 --> 00:14:16,815 Speaker 5: To go to one tree hill. 259 00:14:17,735 --> 00:14:19,135 Speaker 7: How can I'll find them there? 260 00:14:20,735 --> 00:14:24,575 Speaker 3: Well, it's not so much that. Yeah, it is your 261 00:14:24,615 --> 00:14:27,015 Speaker 3: way of finding them up up there. But the point is, 262 00:14:27,055 --> 00:14:29,135 Speaker 3: of course they live in little holes in trees if 263 00:14:29,175 --> 00:14:31,495 Speaker 3: you like, and it could be all for eating off 264 00:14:31,535 --> 00:14:34,135 Speaker 3: holes and that sort of stuff, and it's just a 265 00:14:34,135 --> 00:14:36,375 Speaker 3: matter of looking. What I would do is go out 266 00:14:36,375 --> 00:14:38,815 Speaker 3: at night with the head torch and see what it's 267 00:14:38,935 --> 00:14:41,615 Speaker 3: moving around the tree with holes. If there are holes 268 00:14:41,615 --> 00:14:43,975 Speaker 3: on a tree, and you might be finding them. This 269 00:14:44,095 --> 00:14:45,855 Speaker 3: is what I used to find in Auckland when I 270 00:14:45,895 --> 00:14:48,655 Speaker 3: lived in Meadow Bank. I had dozens of them in 271 00:14:48,735 --> 00:14:51,215 Speaker 3: the trees around my house and I would go out 272 00:14:51,255 --> 00:14:53,015 Speaker 3: at night to just have fun and see what they 273 00:14:53,015 --> 00:14:53,455 Speaker 3: were doing. 274 00:14:54,375 --> 00:14:57,015 Speaker 7: Awesome and your wife's got a pet one, is there? 275 00:14:57,055 --> 00:14:57,255 Speaker 5: Right? 276 00:14:59,135 --> 00:15:01,295 Speaker 3: Well, I've got a couple that I have in captivity, 277 00:15:01,335 --> 00:15:04,255 Speaker 3: so I take them to schools and when I give talks, 278 00:15:04,255 --> 00:15:07,015 Speaker 3: for instance, but I use them with kids teachers so 279 00:15:07,415 --> 00:15:10,415 Speaker 3: they can actually then build their own little homes for 280 00:15:10,655 --> 00:15:13,215 Speaker 3: wetter So they have them around their own school and 281 00:15:13,255 --> 00:15:15,415 Speaker 3: they become wetter observers, you know what I mean. 282 00:15:16,255 --> 00:15:19,095 Speaker 5: I love them, But I think you told me your 283 00:15:19,135 --> 00:15:21,015 Speaker 5: wife had a pet one is that? Is that right? 284 00:15:22,335 --> 00:15:24,735 Speaker 2: You even brought one into the studio. It was awesome, 285 00:15:25,415 --> 00:15:28,215 Speaker 2: one of your waters. Yeah, that's ribulous. 286 00:15:28,975 --> 00:15:31,095 Speaker 3: Yeah, And my wife having one as a pet is 287 00:15:31,335 --> 00:15:33,575 Speaker 3: a myth. I hope she's not going to smack me 288 00:15:33,615 --> 00:15:35,855 Speaker 3: around the ears when she is on the radio. 289 00:15:37,295 --> 00:15:39,535 Speaker 2: They're all yours? Are they? 290 00:15:39,655 --> 00:15:39,975 Speaker 6: Actually? 291 00:15:40,015 --> 00:15:42,615 Speaker 2: A couple of quick texts. Why do my roses keep 292 00:15:42,615 --> 00:15:45,735 Speaker 2: getting lime scale all year? Is it soil condition? 293 00:15:46,775 --> 00:15:46,935 Speaker 5: Yeah? 294 00:15:46,935 --> 00:15:49,655 Speaker 3: It could be. It could be exactly that. It might 295 00:15:49,695 --> 00:15:52,895 Speaker 3: be not the right to pH if you like. And 296 00:15:52,935 --> 00:15:55,615 Speaker 3: it might be also it could be too much water, 297 00:15:55,735 --> 00:15:57,615 Speaker 3: not enough water. It could be all that sort of 298 00:15:57,655 --> 00:15:59,535 Speaker 3: stuff as well. It's hard to tell. 299 00:15:59,775 --> 00:16:03,975 Speaker 2: Okay, let's see this one quickly because I find it 300 00:16:04,015 --> 00:16:06,495 Speaker 2: fascinating hey, rude, I live in Hastings. I spring filled 301 00:16:06,575 --> 00:16:10,255 Speaker 2: some assorted seed mix in the garden. One flower in particular, 302 00:16:10,375 --> 00:16:13,935 Speaker 2: untracted and unusual bee or wasp by search. It's a 303 00:16:14,055 --> 00:16:19,775 Speaker 2: wool karda bee O my favorite. Oh okay, listen up. 304 00:16:20,055 --> 00:16:22,895 Speaker 2: I pulled out all of the attractant plants and fly 305 00:16:23,055 --> 00:16:25,695 Speaker 2: sprayed and squashed the others as I was chasing the 306 00:16:25,695 --> 00:16:28,095 Speaker 2: bees away. I'd be interested in what you know about 307 00:16:28,095 --> 00:16:31,135 Speaker 2: this aggressive little beggar. Thank you for Rachel. 308 00:16:31,855 --> 00:16:37,855 Speaker 8: You guys, it's a top gun flyer. It is unbelievable, 309 00:16:38,655 --> 00:16:42,095 Speaker 8: and it is always trying to get the normal bees 310 00:16:42,135 --> 00:16:43,815 Speaker 8: and other preachers that I needed. 311 00:16:44,135 --> 00:16:47,695 Speaker 3: Yeah, they compete for nectar and this is such a 312 00:16:47,815 --> 00:16:50,855 Speaker 3: little bugger. I totally agree with it. But I sit 313 00:16:50,975 --> 00:16:54,735 Speaker 3: there watching and I'm going like kimming there go boy 314 00:16:55,175 --> 00:17:00,375 Speaker 3: admired and does all this. It's brilliant. Yeah, no, look 315 00:17:00,415 --> 00:17:00,655 Speaker 3: at it. 316 00:17:00,655 --> 00:17:04,215 Speaker 2: It's good, brilliant, that's brilliant. I love the response alistair 317 00:17:04,255 --> 00:17:04,815 Speaker 2: good morning. 318 00:17:06,415 --> 00:17:11,335 Speaker 5: Right after mayer lemonary ten or twelve years old. It 319 00:17:11,335 --> 00:17:14,135 Speaker 5: produces fruit on gin and tonics regularly, which is good. 320 00:17:14,615 --> 00:17:18,615 Speaker 5: But we're dropping quite a few small lemons that are 321 00:17:18,615 --> 00:17:22,455 Speaker 5: sort of I suppose less than one centimeter in diameter. Yeah, 322 00:17:22,615 --> 00:17:24,935 Speaker 5: is it normal or does it nothing wrong? 323 00:17:25,855 --> 00:17:29,375 Speaker 3: It's normally in the fact that it quite often happened 324 00:17:29,415 --> 00:17:33,855 Speaker 3: in various conditions. Excessive shedding like that, especially when they're 325 00:17:33,935 --> 00:17:37,535 Speaker 3: very small, is usually done because of stress. Imagine the 326 00:17:37,535 --> 00:17:42,015 Speaker 3: weather we've had, dry, hot water, water logged, you know 327 00:17:42,055 --> 00:17:45,255 Speaker 3: what I mean. Nutrient deficiency, so in other words, not 328 00:17:45,375 --> 00:17:52,135 Speaker 3: enough fertilizers, extreme temperature changes. That makes a lemontary go like, nah, 329 00:17:52,375 --> 00:17:54,695 Speaker 3: not doing it this year? Blow that not going to 330 00:17:54,815 --> 00:17:57,735 Speaker 3: keep up with it. So it's that material. So it 331 00:17:57,815 --> 00:18:00,215 Speaker 3: is natural thinning. You've got to be very careful with 332 00:18:00,255 --> 00:18:04,295 Speaker 3: what you're doing. Give it a regular amount of water, 333 00:18:04,495 --> 00:18:07,975 Speaker 3: a regular amount of fertilizer, spring and summer, and you 334 00:18:08,095 --> 00:18:10,335 Speaker 3: protect them, especially from wind, because if you've got a 335 00:18:10,335 --> 00:18:12,735 Speaker 3: lot of wind, like we've got right now, the tree 336 00:18:12,775 --> 00:18:14,175 Speaker 3: goes like, nah, not me. 337 00:18:17,015 --> 00:18:18,655 Speaker 5: Those conditioners in the last few weeks. 338 00:18:19,895 --> 00:18:23,815 Speaker 3: Yeah, exactly exactly, you got it? Yeah, go on, you. 339 00:18:23,895 --> 00:18:26,895 Speaker 5: Didn't like that. It's pretty sick as well. So these 340 00:18:26,935 --> 00:18:29,095 Speaker 5: are prone. How hard can I prone it and win? 341 00:18:31,335 --> 00:18:35,455 Speaker 3: Basically you prune it after you have harvested them. They're 342 00:18:35,495 --> 00:18:38,215 Speaker 3: they're usually good in the winter town for harvest, don't they. 343 00:18:38,375 --> 00:18:41,215 Speaker 3: But honestly, if you want to do it because you're 344 00:18:41,255 --> 00:18:44,615 Speaker 3: losing some fruit anyway, do it now and open the 345 00:18:44,695 --> 00:18:48,055 Speaker 3: crown of the shrub or the tree so that there's 346 00:18:48,095 --> 00:18:51,455 Speaker 3: a little bit more air coming through, et cetera, et cetera. 347 00:18:51,575 --> 00:18:53,535 Speaker 3: You know what I mean. Do it a little bit now, 348 00:18:53,815 --> 00:18:56,135 Speaker 3: and then most of it later on in autumn and 349 00:18:56,535 --> 00:18:58,415 Speaker 3: autumn and winter if you like, after winter. 350 00:18:58,535 --> 00:19:00,175 Speaker 5: Yeah, brilliant. 351 00:19:01,655 --> 00:19:02,295 Speaker 2: Take care. 352 00:19:04,215 --> 00:19:08,375 Speaker 3: Very quickly. I've got another thing I'm talking about. Cedar. 353 00:19:08,455 --> 00:19:09,455 Speaker 3: Do you remember cedar? 354 00:19:09,575 --> 00:19:12,695 Speaker 2: I do? Oh, yes, yes, yeah. 355 00:19:12,575 --> 00:19:15,575 Speaker 3: Yeah, I knew you. I'm not saying you forgot. I 356 00:19:15,615 --> 00:19:22,375 Speaker 3: know you're Cedar is a natural insect repellent oil. It 357 00:19:22,575 --> 00:19:26,815 Speaker 3: just moths, It does carpets, and it does mosquitoes. That 358 00:19:27,055 --> 00:19:30,535 Speaker 3: is the question you got, Yester the last week from 359 00:19:30,615 --> 00:19:33,975 Speaker 3: somebody that that senter this text in and there it was. 360 00:19:34,055 --> 00:19:36,335 Speaker 3: I was absolutely flebberga. I did not realize how good 361 00:19:36,375 --> 00:19:37,095 Speaker 3: it was. There. 362 00:19:37,135 --> 00:19:41,295 Speaker 2: You are awesome, because you know, over the last however 363 00:19:41,295 --> 00:19:44,375 Speaker 2: many years, often you know, if I've got the right 364 00:19:44,415 --> 00:19:46,975 Speaker 2: client or I'm doing something for myself. When it comes 365 00:19:47,015 --> 00:19:50,895 Speaker 2: time to doing shelving in like a linen cupboard or 366 00:19:50,935 --> 00:19:54,615 Speaker 2: something like that. I've done it for clients a couple 367 00:19:54,655 --> 00:19:57,895 Speaker 2: of times where maybe I'll take some cedar off cuts 368 00:19:57,935 --> 00:20:00,375 Speaker 2: and I'll rip them down to make the slattered shelves 369 00:20:00,735 --> 00:20:04,175 Speaker 2: in an old fashioned linen cupboard. Because my understanding is 370 00:20:04,215 --> 00:20:07,575 Speaker 2: the cedar helped prevent and fear station from moths and 371 00:20:07,615 --> 00:20:10,055 Speaker 2: so on. And I guess I never dug into it. 372 00:20:10,095 --> 00:20:12,535 Speaker 2: I just heard that that's how it worked. But now 373 00:20:12,575 --> 00:20:15,775 Speaker 2: that there is, you've done the research, and I just 374 00:20:15,815 --> 00:20:18,895 Speaker 2: think that's such a lovely way of doing something really 375 00:20:18,935 --> 00:20:23,135 Speaker 2: simple that has a really beneficial outcome and it's completely natural. 376 00:20:24,055 --> 00:20:24,655 Speaker 2: How amazing. 377 00:20:24,695 --> 00:20:27,895 Speaker 3: And here's something for you, your friend, that does all 378 00:20:27,895 --> 00:20:31,935 Speaker 3: the painting. There's an oil called seed Draw one word 379 00:20:32,055 --> 00:20:36,735 Speaker 3: seedar at ceedro o l seed draw and that does 380 00:20:36,815 --> 00:20:39,215 Speaker 3: exactly what you are talking about perfect. 381 00:20:39,255 --> 00:20:40,935 Speaker 2: We're going to run lovely to talk to you, Rud. 382 00:20:41,015 --> 00:20:42,095 Speaker 2: Thanks for your company, folks. 383 00:20:42,175 --> 00:20:44,975 Speaker 1: See you next Sunday For more from the Resident Builder 384 00:20:45,055 --> 00:20:47,815 Speaker 1: with Peter Wolfcamp. Listen live to news talks that'd be 385 00:20:47,895 --> 00:20:51,695 Speaker 1: on Sunday mornings from Sex or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.