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

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Speaker 1: Camp from News Talks a B helping you get those

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Speaker 1: DIY projects done right. The Resident Builder with Peter wolf

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Speaker 1: Camp and light Force Solar ay list for power in

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Speaker 1: twenty twenty five.

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Speaker 2: News Talks It Be, Your News Talks It Be. And

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Speaker 2: for the first time in twenty twenty five that are

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Speaker 2: had climb passed a very good morning and welcome.

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Speaker 3: And a happy new year to you, Toobe.

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Speaker 2: And to you and to how did you do Oliballa?

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, I didn't know. I didn't do this.

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Speaker 3: We had we had too many French people in over

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Speaker 3: the trice, so we had croissants and things like that.

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Speaker 2: Do they preserable such a proletarian?

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Speaker 3: No no, no, no, highly highly great to see the things,

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Speaker 3: that's great.

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Speaker 2: No worries, wonderful and the other thing too much.

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Speaker 3: Yes, same to you, mate. And isn't it interesting at

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Speaker 3: this time of the year when you are having all

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Speaker 3: these things you want to do anything. Oh so yesterday

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Speaker 3: I decided we're going to be band in Kingfishes this

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Speaker 3: morning at nine o'clock. And I thought nine o'clock, that's impossible.

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Speaker 3: I'm just off air. So everything had to be changed,

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean, it's stupid like that. So

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Speaker 3: that's one of the other that's one of the things

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Speaker 3: that that's happening to me in in in the holidays.

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Speaker 3: I have no idea of time.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I sort of mooching around. He start going, I

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Speaker 2: have to go to work tomorrow or not. I can't

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Speaker 2: kind of what day it is, but exactly.

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Speaker 3: And so I'm also I'm also doing what do you

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Speaker 3: call it chopping firewood? You know, not the chip the spl.

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Speaker 2: Split splitters, yeah, split Do you hire a splitter? Well, no,

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Speaker 3: I've got a good friend. Yeah yeah, And and he

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Speaker 3: and I do gardening together. But also these sort of things.

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Speaker 3: So I got to splitter up and that's what I'm using.

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Speaker 2: It's great, it's awesome, it's they're good. Yeah, good, Yeah,

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Speaker 2: just sell me pay attention because you know, fingers and

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Speaker 2: and splitters don't go well together.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't do fingers. I sit on a big

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Speaker 3: log next to it. And if you know how sometimes

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Speaker 3: the split that goes like you know that there's going

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Speaker 3: to be bad, you just you walk away a little

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Speaker 3: bit and yep, there it goes fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Right, let's get into the garden is here will take

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Speaker 2: your calls. Terry, good morning.

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Speaker 5: Good morning, and happy New Year to you gentlemen.

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Speaker 3: Thank you, same to you, mate.

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Speaker 5: I need the name of the spray that you have

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Speaker 5: talked about for carpet moth.

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Speaker 3: Oh yes, where are you? Are you in CHRISTI somewhere Wellington? Wellington? Okay? Well,

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Speaker 3: if you've got, for instance, a carpet beetle, as well

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Speaker 3: as as clothes moths, which are the things that have

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Speaker 3: been introduced into New Zealand a long time ago, although

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Speaker 3: they never mind. The best thing to use is a

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Speaker 3: material that is organized by Safe Works. If you're in Wellington,

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Speaker 3: you've got a shop of safe safe Works I think

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Speaker 3: in Benrose, sorry in in Toni betweeny but there's a

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Speaker 3: new new way of saying it. Yeah and safe Works

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Speaker 3: ends with an X. You'll find they're there and they

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Speaker 3: have material that you that they spray in aircraft to

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Speaker 3: stop mosquitoes and other pests getting into the country, a

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Speaker 3: little bit like the trouble we're having at the moment

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Speaker 3: with the fruit fly. So they have they have a

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Speaker 3: material that is a they call it a pre spray.

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Speaker 3: It contains promethrine, It lasts an awfully long time, and

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Speaker 3: anything that comes in touch with that particular thing on

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Speaker 5: But do you know the name of it.

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Speaker 3: It's it's yes, it's a it's an aircraft spray from

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Speaker 3: Kellington Haven. But if you go to safe Works, they

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Speaker 3: know what you're looking for. It is the residual the

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Speaker 3: residual aircraft spray aerosol ken, right.

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Speaker 5: And you can spray. There's any time of the year

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Speaker 3: Indeed, in this case it's probably a good idea to

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Speaker 3: right now. Yeah. Bora by the way, works well too

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Speaker 3: for Bora. That's right.

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Speaker 5: So what's the best time for spraying at third on

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Speaker 3: Bora is usually end of October early November, right, So

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Speaker 3: you're a bit late with that.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, yeah right, Thank you very very much.

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Speaker 3: More than welcome and success with it, my friend. It's

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Speaker 3: gorgeous stuff. We've used it for the last forty years,

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Speaker 3: thirty years. I remember being part of the crowd that

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Speaker 2: Yeah, thanks very much for that, Terry. Actually just talking

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Speaker 2: popa tooy toy, So what you know, typically what happens there,

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Speaker 2: they've discovered a fruit fly from overseas that we obviously

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Speaker 3: What the story? Well, the story is that we, of

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Speaker 3: course we when I used to work with the Ministry

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Speaker 3: we would get a very quick positive if something came

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Speaker 3: know immediately as soon as possible. That checked every week

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Speaker 3: or two week week we could do maybe And in

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Speaker 3: this case that means we know the species, we know

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Speaker 3: not if you like, transporting fruits from A to b

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Speaker 3: near by, spreading the whole thing. And that's the state

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Speaker 2: Right And is this obsome trapping constant.

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Speaker 3: Absolutely, it has been going for the last twenty thirty

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Speaker 3: it's a process. But if you're early you can have

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Speaker 3: to stop this. This is the point. It's that timing

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Speaker 2: Bang okay, fast, no, thanks for that, and good morning

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Speaker 2: to you.

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Speaker 4: Good morning too, Happy new year to.

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Speaker 6: Route and you, Peter, thank you.

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Speaker 4: I am hi. I've got that plant that has a

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Speaker 4: very large green, shiny leaf with the flowers that go

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Speaker 4: the one I'm talking about, No, has those very large green,

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Speaker 4: very shiny leaves, and I know people've talked to you

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Speaker 3: I'm one of their people that actually need a picture

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Speaker 3: there's so many different species of plants. I know what

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Speaker 4: I just don't know the name the name of it,

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Speaker 4: But it has a tuba sort of route that goes

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Speaker 4: talked the other day to somebody about saying that the

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Speaker 4: that I was trying to take it out yesterday and

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Speaker 4: because I think the only way to do it is

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Speaker 4: to dig it out. And at seventy four, I'm not

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Speaker 4: really strong enough to dig it all out. But it's

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Speaker 4: just want to get rid of it because it's sort

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Speaker 4: keep it down there. You are to get rid of it.

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Speaker 3: And here's here's just a suggestion, and this is just

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Speaker 3: something that is really handy for the future anyway. Also,

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Speaker 3: if you would ask your people at the garden centers

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Speaker 3: for advice on these things. If you've got I assume

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Speaker 3: you've got a smartphone, yes, down, download an app on

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Speaker 3: your smartphone called I Natura List, I Naturalist natural right, yes, yep,

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Speaker 3: and it costs you nothing and you get your username

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Speaker 3: in a password. Basically, what you do is you take

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Speaker 3: get of particular features of it. You send it to

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Speaker 3: I Naturalists, and within ten seconds you will have the

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Speaker 3: top two or three names of that plant that it

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Speaker 3: could be. Some are just adamant saying it's that one.

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Speaker 3: We know it's that one. So you then get you

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Speaker 3: actually get the right name. And once you've got that,

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Speaker 3: you like, you can actually find out exactly what to do.

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Speaker 3: And I would be able to give you far more advanced.

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Speaker 4: About that.

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Speaker 2: I've got it on my phone. You just have to

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Speaker 2: keep remembering what the password is. That's the hardest part.

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Speaker 2: The rest is easy, and the rest is easy. Your

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Speaker 2: news talks, he'd be we're talking all things gardening and

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Speaker 2: the wonderful world of bugs. Now I'm conflicted, quickly. You

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Speaker 2: know how we talked about hedgehogs last week? Oh god, yeah,

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Speaker 2: And they must have been listening, because I'm standing on

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Speaker 2: night sky and all I can hear is snuffle, rumble, snuffle.

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Speaker 2: talk to Joseph, come back out for trotting around fossicking

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Speaker 2: around in the garden. And I remember our conversation and

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Speaker 2: I repeated it to Joseph and looked at me and said,

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Speaker 2: what are you going to do? And I'm like, I

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Speaker 2: just can't. I just can't, but I should shouldn't I

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Speaker 2: but I just.

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Speaker 3: Paid, Oh mate, one way, Oh all right, I'm sorry,

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Speaker 3: but I.

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Speaker 2: Know, I know, I know, yeah, I know. I appreciate

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Speaker 2: the honesty. Oh do they compost?

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Speaker 3: Well, yes they do, they do.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good to know. Right on that happy night. We'll

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Speaker 2: take a short break back in a moment.

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Speaker 1: Measure twice, cut once, but maybe call Pead first feeder,

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Speaker 1: wolf Camp the resident builder with light four solar save

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Speaker 1: power in twenty twenty five and earn airpoints dollars us talk.

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Speaker 3: It hey Pete, yes, sir, and you know this plant

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Speaker 3: and was talking yeah, yeah, yeah on the text. We've

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Speaker 3: got the three of ye backdraw bear front, We've got

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Speaker 3: all these different things. It's amazing gunner around which actually

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Speaker 3: Acapan is different flags. This is the point when you

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Speaker 3: have no visual clue you it becomes exactly what's in

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Speaker 3: your brain, and you're not always right, but it's I

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Speaker 3: always want to thank people for saying thank you for

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Speaker 3: there going like great.

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Speaker 2: I know exactly what it is. I tried to figure

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Speaker 2: it out last week and I didn't break my spade.

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Speaker 2: You Gayleen, A very good morning to you.

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Speaker 7: Good morning road, a happy new year. And to you Peter,

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Speaker 7: thank you. Okay, I have a question about potting mix Festival.

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Speaker 7: Since I've moved to Norfland, I've had to buy purchased

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Speaker 7: When I used to mix my own potting Max recipe,

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Speaker 3: But when you mixed it, when you mixed it, what

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, mineral soil with potting mix together works usually

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Speaker 2: I hope that helps scaling. All the very best to

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Speaker 6: Morning clost year to you.

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Speaker 3: Same to you, Brent. What we're doing. Shape of beetles, Oh,

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Speaker 6: No, they're pain.

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Speaker 3: Are they eating your leaves?

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Speaker 6: So every November for the past past three years we

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Speaker 3: Yeah. And and is this are you in the rural

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Speaker 3: But there are at that time of the beetles. And

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Speaker 3: the point is, yes, these things will go into your lawn.

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Speaker 3: get some material from Kiwi Caare, which is for beetles

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Speaker 3: the the Kiwi Care products. I think it's called grass grub,

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Speaker 3: blah blah blah blah, Kiwi Care. There you go.

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Speaker 6: That's called Is there a particular time of the year

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Speaker 3: I would do it the moment you see the first

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Speaker 6: Yeah, okay, awesome, Yeah great.

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Speaker 2: All the very busy bring take care. Oh eight one

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Speaker 8: Good morning. I was wondering, I've got a white flies

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Speaker 3: White flies, right, they're like tiny.

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Speaker 8: Little white flies in there, thousands.

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Speaker 3: And are they sitting on the leaves of the plants.

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Speaker 3: And the moment you touch the plants, they fly away

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Speaker 3: and then they settle again. Okay, what are you having

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I got that. That's the reason. See, if

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Speaker 3: use a material called grow ventive. Grow ventive, but not

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Speaker 3: You've got every as much as you can, Yeah, as

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Speaker 3: You know what I mean.

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Speaker 4: Oh, that's so said.

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Speaker 3: Okay, No, it's it's true. Look, there are a pain

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Speaker 2: All right, Jane, take care quick take someonetriggued about beautiful peaches,

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Speaker 2: but when you open them, they're full of earwigs. How

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Speaker 3: then basically the earwigs go in there because they like

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, intriguing triggering. I'm looking at this text too

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Speaker 3: It's except they eat all the birds that have eggs

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Speaker 2: I couldn't eat them. Oh it's terrible Virginia creeper. This

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Speaker 3: Yeah, but that's a creek.

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Speaker 2: On now, what I did see appearing again is these

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Speaker 3: Yeah? Right, they do, yes, right now, And they will

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Speaker 3: they trap off the tongue, the tongue of the butterfly,

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Speaker 3: blinking plants and what do you call it? A flower? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: I think among all of the weeds there are just

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Speaker 2: rid of the bloody thing. Collecked up the pods before

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Speaker 2: they burst and spread thousands of seeds. So that's a

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Speaker 3: You do that, I will do ash fish, maybe one owl?

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Speaker 2: See there? Yeah, all right, you have a great day,

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Speaker 2: Take care. Wonderful great to ever read back for twenty

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Speaker 2: twenty five. Thank you, we stumbled away through the first show.

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Speaker 2: We'll be back next Sunday. Have a great day.

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