1 00:00:06,855 --> 00:00:10,695 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp 2 00:00:10,895 --> 00:00:11,695 Speaker 1: from News Talks. 3 00:00:11,735 --> 00:00:15,495 Speaker 2: A'd be red climb past. A very good morning to you, sir, A. 4 00:00:15,575 --> 00:00:18,135 Speaker 3: Very good morning to you, Peter doing rightly. What a 5 00:00:18,215 --> 00:00:19,535 Speaker 3: lovely birthday wished it? 6 00:00:19,855 --> 00:00:21,575 Speaker 2: Yeah, that's right, that's awesome. 7 00:00:22,055 --> 00:00:23,735 Speaker 3: That was lovely, and also thank you for that. It 8 00:00:23,815 --> 00:00:25,615 Speaker 3: was a great little chat with the minister. It was 9 00:00:25,655 --> 00:00:26,015 Speaker 3: good fun. 10 00:00:26,135 --> 00:00:26,935 Speaker 2: I really enjoyed it. 11 00:00:27,215 --> 00:00:29,815 Speaker 3: Right, And third thing, we're back on air in Christia. 12 00:00:29,935 --> 00:00:32,575 Speaker 3: She stopped standing text it's ridiculous. I heard it all 13 00:00:32,615 --> 00:00:33,735 Speaker 3: the way to the studio. 14 00:00:34,135 --> 00:00:36,415 Speaker 2: We understand, not that it matters if you're in Queensland, 15 00:00:36,455 --> 00:00:38,335 Speaker 2: but apparently Queen stands off here and has been for 16 00:00:38,375 --> 00:00:40,135 Speaker 2: most of the morning. But I won't know that if 17 00:00:40,135 --> 00:00:43,415 Speaker 2: we're talking about it. So yeah, so Grimlin's Gremlins. 18 00:00:43,375 --> 00:00:49,135 Speaker 3: Gremlins everywhere there you go, right, yeah, just before we start, 19 00:00:49,375 --> 00:00:53,815 Speaker 3: it's exactly that was this morning. Wasn't it a twelve 20 00:00:53,895 --> 00:00:57,215 Speaker 3: forty eight or something to forty six anyway? But it's 21 00:00:57,255 --> 00:01:00,575 Speaker 3: also the time really to start thinking about planting. You know, 22 00:01:00,615 --> 00:01:02,455 Speaker 3: what are you going to plant in your vegetable gardens? 23 00:01:02,575 --> 00:01:04,655 Speaker 3: I just thought i'd make that little point and I 24 00:01:04,655 --> 00:01:07,375 Speaker 3: can see there's already some comments about Rubert. 25 00:01:07,375 --> 00:01:10,455 Speaker 4: That's good anyway, Yeah, there you are awesome. 26 00:01:10,495 --> 00:01:14,375 Speaker 2: So and also you know feeding thinking about. 27 00:01:14,655 --> 00:01:18,255 Speaker 3: Yes, absolutely, that's now is the time to start fertilizing. 28 00:01:18,295 --> 00:01:20,295 Speaker 3: So a general thing is what what I tend to 29 00:01:20,335 --> 00:01:22,495 Speaker 3: do is I use general fertilizers. 30 00:01:22,495 --> 00:01:24,815 Speaker 4: So it'side the nitrofosca blue. 31 00:01:24,615 --> 00:01:27,575 Speaker 3: YEP, which is a granular thing that rains in if 32 00:01:27,615 --> 00:01:32,815 Speaker 3: you like, slowly into the ground, and the liquid fertilizer 33 00:01:32,855 --> 00:01:36,335 Speaker 3: when our water is the weak and forget seafood soup 34 00:01:36,335 --> 00:01:40,415 Speaker 3: and seaweed tea. They have slightly different scales if you like, 35 00:01:40,455 --> 00:01:43,775 Speaker 3: of NPK, and that is a nice one to do it. 36 00:01:43,815 --> 00:01:46,015 Speaker 3: So while you are actually watering your plants, you do 37 00:01:46,055 --> 00:01:46,655 Speaker 3: a little bit of. 38 00:01:46,615 --> 00:01:48,415 Speaker 4: Feeding the eyes. Don't go over the top. 39 00:01:48,495 --> 00:01:50,575 Speaker 3: Don't make it too strong, because you see the plants 40 00:01:50,575 --> 00:01:52,175 Speaker 3: going like, oh no. 41 00:01:52,695 --> 00:01:55,295 Speaker 4: Too much, too much, Yeah, too much. There you go, brilliant. 42 00:01:55,375 --> 00:01:57,295 Speaker 2: Right, we're taking your calls. Oh eight, one hundred and 43 00:01:57,295 --> 00:01:59,415 Speaker 2: eighty ten eighty is the number. Hullo Roger. 44 00:02:00,535 --> 00:02:08,495 Speaker 5: Yeah, good morning. I'm contemplating building some plant box for 45 00:02:08,655 --> 00:02:11,855 Speaker 5: sale or gifts or something like that. I'm thinking of 46 00:02:11,935 --> 00:02:16,055 Speaker 5: making them out of fence pailings, and I was wondering 47 00:02:16,735 --> 00:02:21,615 Speaker 5: should they be lined before you put the medium into them? 48 00:02:22,815 --> 00:02:28,615 Speaker 3: I just heard about I'm talking about fence pailings. They 49 00:02:28,655 --> 00:02:30,735 Speaker 3: are very well tenalized, aren't they. 50 00:02:31,815 --> 00:02:33,735 Speaker 4: Yeah? They are yeah. 51 00:02:33,815 --> 00:02:36,095 Speaker 3: And if and if you've got palings or a post 52 00:02:36,135 --> 00:02:39,335 Speaker 3: that you use in marine environment, it's aged six, isn't it. 53 00:02:40,535 --> 00:02:44,375 Speaker 2: You know what I mean? I tell you what, Roger, 54 00:02:44,695 --> 00:02:47,815 Speaker 2: I built some planner boxes out of macrocarpa, right, so 55 00:02:47,855 --> 00:02:51,695 Speaker 2: it's untreated. But I typically if I'm doing a planter 56 00:02:51,735 --> 00:02:55,495 Speaker 2: box and timber, I will just line the inside with 57 00:02:55,535 --> 00:02:58,335 Speaker 2: some poly thing, right, and it just provides a bit 58 00:02:58,375 --> 00:03:00,615 Speaker 2: of a vapor or a bit of a moisture barrier. 59 00:03:01,495 --> 00:03:04,095 Speaker 2: I'm sure some moistures still get through, but it's really 60 00:03:04,135 --> 00:03:06,295 Speaker 2: easy to do. It's really fast and in terms of 61 00:03:06,575 --> 00:03:10,255 Speaker 2: a little bit of protection from the tennalizing products, it'll 62 00:03:10,255 --> 00:03:11,975 Speaker 2: probably do that. So a little bit of plastic around 63 00:03:11,975 --> 00:03:14,055 Speaker 2: the inside, staple it, and then if you want to 64 00:03:14,055 --> 00:03:16,455 Speaker 2: get really fancy, like I did, I put a little 65 00:03:16,495 --> 00:03:19,375 Speaker 2: baton over the top of the PVC or over the 66 00:03:19,375 --> 00:03:23,055 Speaker 2: top of the polothene, just so that I don't get 67 00:03:23,095 --> 00:03:24,935 Speaker 2: soil falling down in there. That's the easiest way to 68 00:03:24,975 --> 00:03:25,855 Speaker 2: seal it off the top. 69 00:03:26,135 --> 00:03:29,255 Speaker 3: Really, so that is that's what you call anal though, No, no. 70 00:03:29,095 --> 00:03:31,975 Speaker 2: No, no, no, that's such particulous attention to detail. 71 00:03:32,975 --> 00:03:37,255 Speaker 3: Just one silly yeah, but you are perfection as we 72 00:03:37,495 --> 00:03:39,615 Speaker 3: cub city stick. But you're right if you're not happy 73 00:03:39,615 --> 00:03:41,335 Speaker 3: with that, just and the other thing you can do 74 00:03:41,375 --> 00:03:43,295 Speaker 3: is your plant your plants a little bit away from 75 00:03:43,335 --> 00:03:46,135 Speaker 3: those edges, because it needs to in this case for 76 00:03:46,575 --> 00:03:49,575 Speaker 3: horizontally move and that is not the great way. 77 00:03:49,415 --> 00:03:52,295 Speaker 4: To go for the plants. But you're right. Safety first, 78 00:03:52,655 --> 00:03:54,135 Speaker 4: go on, should. 79 00:03:53,975 --> 00:03:58,415 Speaker 5: Should they have some sort of if you put a 80 00:03:58,455 --> 00:04:01,455 Speaker 5: barrier like that? And would they need drainage hole in 81 00:04:01,535 --> 00:04:02,055 Speaker 5: the bottom? 82 00:04:02,575 --> 00:04:04,095 Speaker 2: I don't put it on. I just put it on 83 00:04:04,135 --> 00:04:07,055 Speaker 2: the sides, right, leave the bottom open to the soil below, 84 00:04:07,615 --> 00:04:09,575 Speaker 2: but just just around the timber, that's all. 85 00:04:10,655 --> 00:04:11,455 Speaker 4: Yeah, there's no point. 86 00:04:11,695 --> 00:04:14,015 Speaker 3: There's no point of having a bottom in a in 87 00:04:14,055 --> 00:04:14,815 Speaker 3: a planter box. 88 00:04:16,775 --> 00:04:17,895 Speaker 4: Yeah exactly. 89 00:04:19,855 --> 00:04:24,135 Speaker 5: I was thinking in terms of having them for putting 90 00:04:24,215 --> 00:04:25,975 Speaker 5: around a patio or something like that. 91 00:04:27,295 --> 00:04:30,095 Speaker 3: No, no, it still needs to have a way out 92 00:04:30,135 --> 00:04:30,615 Speaker 3: for water. 93 00:04:31,695 --> 00:04:33,775 Speaker 5: Okay, so you would put a cap of drain and 94 00:04:33,895 --> 00:04:34,375 Speaker 5: tolls in? 95 00:04:35,055 --> 00:04:39,015 Speaker 4: Yes? Please? Yes, please, That is really important. 96 00:04:39,255 --> 00:04:41,135 Speaker 3: And the other thing too, did you want to you 97 00:04:41,175 --> 00:04:44,815 Speaker 3: want to have a lovely little marketing tool here? So 98 00:04:45,495 --> 00:04:48,255 Speaker 3: when I got a bit older, I found it easier 99 00:04:48,295 --> 00:04:51,495 Speaker 3: to have something like a raised planter box or plant 100 00:04:51,495 --> 00:04:53,655 Speaker 3: a bed if you like that. I did not need 101 00:04:53,695 --> 00:04:55,975 Speaker 3: to bend too much, so it was a bit higher. 102 00:04:56,535 --> 00:04:58,975 Speaker 3: And that means that you can actually do your weeding 103 00:04:59,095 --> 00:05:02,175 Speaker 3: so much easier with all your tools because you don't 104 00:05:02,215 --> 00:05:04,535 Speaker 3: really have to go down as far. So make them 105 00:05:04,975 --> 00:05:06,855 Speaker 3: for some people. For the older people, always good to 106 00:05:06,855 --> 00:05:07,975 Speaker 3: have higher up. 107 00:05:08,255 --> 00:05:09,735 Speaker 2: Yeah, you know what I mean, makes a lot of sense. 108 00:05:09,815 --> 00:05:12,295 Speaker 2: Good luck with that little project. Roger and Wendy, A 109 00:05:12,455 --> 00:05:13,335 Speaker 2: very good morning. 110 00:05:13,095 --> 00:05:17,055 Speaker 6: To you, and it's good morning to you gentlemen. Now, 111 00:05:17,295 --> 00:05:20,935 Speaker 6: rud My Rubert plant. What do I do to feed it? 112 00:05:21,175 --> 00:05:25,735 Speaker 6: To encourage good six stalks as it is, the piddly 113 00:05:25,815 --> 00:05:27,895 Speaker 6: little thin stalks. 114 00:05:28,895 --> 00:05:30,655 Speaker 4: Did you fertilize them at all? 115 00:05:30,775 --> 00:05:32,495 Speaker 3: Wendy, No, not at all. 116 00:05:32,735 --> 00:05:34,135 Speaker 6: Just talk to them occasionally. 117 00:05:35,735 --> 00:05:37,615 Speaker 3: And that's what I'm going to feed you for the 118 00:05:37,655 --> 00:05:39,655 Speaker 3: rest of your life. When you wake up, I'm just 119 00:05:39,695 --> 00:05:41,215 Speaker 3: going to talk to you saying no, you're know then 120 00:05:41,255 --> 00:05:50,615 Speaker 3: evan't breakfast. I'm going to talk. No, sorry, sorry, no, 121 00:05:50,735 --> 00:05:51,775 Speaker 3: it's all right, dally. 122 00:05:52,095 --> 00:05:53,695 Speaker 4: And no fertilizer please. 123 00:05:53,815 --> 00:05:56,255 Speaker 3: And to be quite honest, I find it easy because 124 00:05:56,295 --> 00:05:58,215 Speaker 3: I live next to doors we'll quarry where there's lots 125 00:05:58,215 --> 00:06:01,575 Speaker 3: of sheep pool, and that's what I put off them, 126 00:06:02,255 --> 00:06:05,855 Speaker 3: as well as as well as any other organic fertilizer 127 00:06:05,895 --> 00:06:08,175 Speaker 3: that I can get, you know, anything that will work 128 00:06:09,055 --> 00:06:09,535 Speaker 3: sheep and. 129 00:06:09,575 --> 00:06:12,335 Speaker 4: Chicken pool, not to not too chicken pool. 130 00:06:12,335 --> 00:06:14,015 Speaker 3: You've got to be a bit careful with because it 131 00:06:14,015 --> 00:06:18,495 Speaker 3: can be quite heavy if you like, very dense, so 132 00:06:18,535 --> 00:06:21,055 Speaker 3: you you you, if you're like mix it into the 133 00:06:21,095 --> 00:06:26,535 Speaker 3: soil on the top. But it honestly, Rubert loves wonderful 134 00:06:26,895 --> 00:06:29,055 Speaker 3: and regular fertilizer of that. 135 00:06:29,095 --> 00:06:31,855 Speaker 6: Sort of right right, Well, we've got padicts of it here, 136 00:06:31,935 --> 00:06:34,695 Speaker 6: so I know what to do. 137 00:06:34,095 --> 00:06:39,295 Speaker 3: You're more to welcome, Thank you, Bye bye. 138 00:06:39,775 --> 00:06:42,135 Speaker 2: All the rubis toy Windy you take care, and Angela 139 00:06:42,215 --> 00:06:43,415 Speaker 2: a very good morning to you. 140 00:06:44,175 --> 00:06:46,295 Speaker 7: Yeah, good morning, Hi. 141 00:06:47,015 --> 00:06:47,135 Speaker 1: Hi. 142 00:06:47,775 --> 00:06:53,615 Speaker 7: I have a problem with my coumera plants. They're not 143 00:06:53,655 --> 00:06:56,015 Speaker 7: in at the moment, of course, but the last two 144 00:06:56,095 --> 00:07:00,935 Speaker 7: seasons I've had them full of holes and I'm wondering 145 00:07:00,975 --> 00:07:04,575 Speaker 7: if it could be grass scrub or whatever. They're round 146 00:07:04,615 --> 00:07:08,175 Speaker 7: holes right through the whole them, a lot of them. 147 00:07:08,295 --> 00:07:12,575 Speaker 3: So are they in the in the root department or 148 00:07:12,615 --> 00:07:13,815 Speaker 3: above the ground. 149 00:07:15,095 --> 00:07:18,095 Speaker 7: And the root and and when I take them up, 150 00:07:18,095 --> 00:07:20,135 Speaker 7: there's no insects in them at all. 151 00:07:22,055 --> 00:07:24,655 Speaker 3: No, no, no, no no, because they'll probably have been 152 00:07:24,695 --> 00:07:27,815 Speaker 3: there and they get out again. That's typically, yeah, typically 153 00:07:27,895 --> 00:07:31,575 Speaker 3: the way they do. Okay, uh to be where are 154 00:07:31,575 --> 00:07:33,455 Speaker 3: you in the north of Northland? 155 00:07:33,495 --> 00:07:36,775 Speaker 7: Somewhere well north of Auckland. 156 00:07:37,055 --> 00:07:39,055 Speaker 3: Yeah, north of Aukland, that's what I mean. Okay, it's 157 00:07:39,055 --> 00:07:41,455 Speaker 3: sort of always a good place to grow these things. Yes, 158 00:07:41,495 --> 00:07:43,975 Speaker 3: there could be all sorts of creeches that they've underground, 159 00:07:43,975 --> 00:07:47,295 Speaker 3: from what you call the grass grubs to all the 160 00:07:47,535 --> 00:07:52,175 Speaker 3: the the other beetles that actually have larvae that live 161 00:07:52,335 --> 00:07:55,735 Speaker 3: in the soil, and when they find something that tastes good, 162 00:07:56,175 --> 00:07:58,215 Speaker 3: they will have a go and make all these holes 163 00:07:58,255 --> 00:08:00,815 Speaker 3: in the problem now is what are we. 164 00:08:00,855 --> 00:08:01,375 Speaker 4: Going to do. 165 00:08:01,575 --> 00:08:04,935 Speaker 3: There is a material that you can get against grass 166 00:08:04,975 --> 00:08:11,055 Speaker 3: grub that you can get from keiwek Care. So if 167 00:08:11,055 --> 00:08:14,015 Speaker 3: you go to your local department or your local garden 168 00:08:14,095 --> 00:08:16,095 Speaker 3: center and say have you got the key we care 169 00:08:16,175 --> 00:08:20,015 Speaker 3: grass grub material. And I think there's also something that 170 00:08:20,375 --> 00:08:23,695 Speaker 3: Yates makes and I've forgotten the name of the active ingredients, 171 00:08:23,775 --> 00:08:26,815 Speaker 3: but there is material now that works recently well to 172 00:08:26,895 --> 00:08:30,735 Speaker 3: stop those grass grub coming too close to your roots 173 00:08:30,735 --> 00:08:32,535 Speaker 3: and starting to bite into it. 174 00:08:33,495 --> 00:08:37,455 Speaker 7: Okay, well, I've I have done a little bit of reading, 175 00:08:37,655 --> 00:08:41,135 Speaker 7: and it was suggested that you put very a potato 176 00:08:42,695 --> 00:08:45,175 Speaker 7: with a marker and then dig it up a few 177 00:08:45,215 --> 00:08:47,895 Speaker 7: weeks later to see if there's anything on us. That's 178 00:08:50,415 --> 00:08:55,415 Speaker 7: my potatoes haven't been affected anyway. 179 00:08:56,015 --> 00:08:58,655 Speaker 3: It is always the same when when you tried that 180 00:08:58,735 --> 00:09:00,855 Speaker 3: little trick and it doesn't work, but at least you 181 00:09:00,935 --> 00:09:04,215 Speaker 3: tried it. What I will do every now and then 182 00:09:04,335 --> 00:09:05,815 Speaker 3: is do that what they call, you know, a little 183 00:09:05,855 --> 00:09:11,575 Speaker 3: bit of digging around the actual route as it is 184 00:09:11,815 --> 00:09:14,695 Speaker 3: being developed. If you like to have a look to 185 00:09:14,695 --> 00:09:17,615 Speaker 3: see if you can see anything there. Have you got 186 00:09:17,655 --> 00:09:19,015 Speaker 3: many plants? 187 00:09:20,095 --> 00:09:23,735 Speaker 7: It was a full bed of timra last year that 188 00:09:23,855 --> 00:09:27,055 Speaker 7: was destroyed by holes. Yeah. 189 00:09:27,095 --> 00:09:30,775 Speaker 3: No, honestly, try the key weekre material. I'd heard good 190 00:09:30,815 --> 00:09:34,135 Speaker 3: things about it. I'm not growing coming out on the porthills, 191 00:09:34,175 --> 00:09:37,775 Speaker 3: but and I'm not growing potatoes either, for the simple 192 00:09:37,855 --> 00:09:41,935 Speaker 3: reason that I don't want to stuff up my tomatoes, 193 00:09:41,975 --> 00:09:44,695 Speaker 3: which is quite a different story again, because tomatoes and 194 00:09:44,735 --> 00:09:47,055 Speaker 3: potatoes share the same trouble. So that's why I don't 195 00:09:47,095 --> 00:09:50,935 Speaker 3: grow potatoes. I'd rather be tomatoes. But that's the way 196 00:09:50,975 --> 00:09:53,575 Speaker 3: to go. See if you can get that insecticides. 197 00:09:53,695 --> 00:09:53,895 Speaker 4: Yep. 198 00:09:54,895 --> 00:09:57,695 Speaker 2: Yes, all the very best to Angela. You take care, right, 199 00:09:57,735 --> 00:09:59,655 Speaker 2: We're gonna take a short break and we'll be back 200 00:09:59,655 --> 00:10:02,135 Speaker 2: with Pat in just a moment. If there was an 201 00:10:02,175 --> 00:10:05,535 Speaker 2: award for the best text, I suspect this one might 202 00:10:05,695 --> 00:10:10,575 Speaker 2: do it text. Why do cockroaches turn themselves upside down 203 00:10:10,655 --> 00:10:14,735 Speaker 2: before dying? Please tell me? 204 00:10:16,575 --> 00:10:19,535 Speaker 4: I have actually never thought about that. That is such 205 00:10:19,575 --> 00:10:20,095 Speaker 4: a good. 206 00:10:20,015 --> 00:10:24,975 Speaker 3: Question, and it's true that it often happens, Yes, yeah, 207 00:10:25,015 --> 00:10:26,775 Speaker 3: And I think it's something to do with the fact 208 00:10:26,815 --> 00:10:30,415 Speaker 3: that when they actually die, their legs curl up and 209 00:10:30,535 --> 00:10:32,495 Speaker 3: they don't. And can you imagine if you've got to 210 00:10:32,575 --> 00:10:35,935 Speaker 3: curled up six legs underneath your body, it's not as 211 00:10:35,935 --> 00:10:39,335 Speaker 3: stable as a flat back. So it might be an 212 00:10:39,375 --> 00:10:42,015 Speaker 3: idea that they basically die like that, but the moment 213 00:10:42,095 --> 00:10:45,375 Speaker 3: you've got a bit of wind or whatever going and 214 00:10:45,415 --> 00:10:47,575 Speaker 3: they lie in a much more stable position. 215 00:10:47,895 --> 00:10:49,855 Speaker 4: That is just as physics of it. I think. 216 00:10:51,735 --> 00:10:53,695 Speaker 2: I just feel that we could spend a lot of 217 00:10:53,735 --> 00:10:55,375 Speaker 2: time researching the say. 218 00:10:57,095 --> 00:11:00,415 Speaker 4: We could, Peter, that's right, what a great question. 219 00:11:00,455 --> 00:11:03,655 Speaker 2: Well, actually you could, because I've got owl boxers to build. 220 00:11:03,655 --> 00:11:05,815 Speaker 2: When I arrived at the studio this morning turned on 221 00:11:05,855 --> 00:11:10,135 Speaker 2: my email, there would have been I don't know, seven, eight, 222 00:11:10,215 --> 00:11:12,775 Speaker 2: maybe ten emails. Hey, can you send me some plans 223 00:11:12,775 --> 00:11:14,655 Speaker 2: for the L boxer? So I will work on that, 224 00:11:14,775 --> 00:11:16,495 Speaker 2: and I don't know if I'm going to get time 225 00:11:16,735 --> 00:11:18,735 Speaker 2: this week to do it, but I'll try and get 226 00:11:18,775 --> 00:11:20,575 Speaker 2: the big L box out of the way as well. 227 00:11:21,055 --> 00:11:23,055 Speaker 4: You put them on your tweed book. 228 00:11:23,255 --> 00:11:25,935 Speaker 2: I will do that exactly that people have enjoyed that 229 00:11:26,135 --> 00:11:28,375 Speaker 2: and the models that I used. I'll send you a 230 00:11:28,375 --> 00:11:31,735 Speaker 2: copy of the video, righto, Pat, Hello. 231 00:11:33,255 --> 00:11:35,095 Speaker 8: Good good morning, Rude. 232 00:11:36,615 --> 00:11:37,695 Speaker 7: Just over a year. 233 00:11:37,535 --> 00:11:41,415 Speaker 8: Ago we planned it a yen then lemon tree in 234 00:11:41,495 --> 00:11:45,375 Speaker 8: a big plastic tub. And it's slowly dying. Is it 235 00:11:45,455 --> 00:11:47,015 Speaker 8: because it's in a plastic tub? 236 00:11:47,975 --> 00:11:52,695 Speaker 3: Necessarily? Not necessarily? But has it got enough drainage at 237 00:11:52,695 --> 00:11:53,135 Speaker 3: the bottom? 238 00:11:54,055 --> 00:11:58,455 Speaker 8: Yes, yes it has, And it's even sitting up on 239 00:11:58,495 --> 00:12:02,775 Speaker 8: a little stand so that water can go through it. 240 00:12:03,255 --> 00:12:03,455 Speaker 4: Yeah. 241 00:12:03,535 --> 00:12:06,295 Speaker 8: I think we might. And I don't think it looks 242 00:12:06,375 --> 00:12:09,255 Speaker 8: it's not a very it's an ugly tree. It's just 243 00:12:13,415 --> 00:12:16,895 Speaker 8: I think, get a proper lemonary. 244 00:12:17,575 --> 00:12:18,495 Speaker 4: To be quite honest. 245 00:12:18,655 --> 00:12:21,015 Speaker 3: Yeah, and then where are you where you're ringing from? 246 00:12:21,055 --> 00:12:22,215 Speaker 4: Pet? Which area? 247 00:12:22,535 --> 00:12:23,575 Speaker 8: Crush crushed? 248 00:12:23,615 --> 00:12:24,815 Speaker 4: Your crush it? Yeah? 249 00:12:24,895 --> 00:12:29,375 Speaker 3: Okay, you know, the the regular you know, if you 250 00:12:29,535 --> 00:12:34,415 Speaker 3: like the regular lemon tree that you can get, you know, 251 00:12:34,895 --> 00:12:38,575 Speaker 3: it's probably best, the best one for the Christiach area, 252 00:12:38,695 --> 00:12:41,055 Speaker 3: for cold and all that sort of stuff. So that's 253 00:12:41,135 --> 00:12:45,215 Speaker 3: number one. Number two, I believe that it's probably best 254 00:12:45,255 --> 00:12:48,655 Speaker 3: to have lemon trees not in pots, but in the soil. 255 00:12:49,255 --> 00:12:52,815 Speaker 3: Having said that, we've got one in the pot. It's 256 00:12:52,935 --> 00:12:55,455 Speaker 3: not doing too well. We talk chills, and I've just 257 00:12:55,535 --> 00:12:57,655 Speaker 3: talked about it exactly the same thing. Even on the 258 00:12:57,655 --> 00:13:00,295 Speaker 3: portals we don't get much frost or any frost at all. 259 00:13:00,975 --> 00:13:04,055 Speaker 3: But it's they just they really want their roots spread 260 00:13:04,055 --> 00:13:04,895 Speaker 3: out in the soil. 261 00:13:05,815 --> 00:13:06,175 Speaker 4: I think. 262 00:13:06,495 --> 00:13:10,495 Speaker 8: Okay, okay, now, and can I just have a little boast. 263 00:13:11,495 --> 00:13:14,575 Speaker 8: I spoke to you last year we had planted a 264 00:13:14,615 --> 00:13:19,455 Speaker 8: passion fruit vain and here we go, and this was 265 00:13:19,495 --> 00:13:22,335 Speaker 8: in crisis, and we got seventy seven passion fruit off 266 00:13:22,335 --> 00:13:27,135 Speaker 8: it last summer. Of course you did, yes, yes, yes, 267 00:13:27,295 --> 00:13:29,775 Speaker 8: And I mean you see you couldn't grow one up 268 00:13:30,015 --> 00:13:32,135 Speaker 8: ken of these bush, but we have grown one on 269 00:13:32,255 --> 00:13:36,935 Speaker 8: ricketons and it's against a brick wall, bricks carage, and 270 00:13:36,975 --> 00:13:40,175 Speaker 8: it's it's just doing so well. It doesn't get it 271 00:13:40,295 --> 00:13:43,655 Speaker 8: doesn't get frosted. And you know, we had seventy seven peirs. 272 00:13:43,735 --> 00:13:47,615 Speaker 8: I counted in each time onself, sheep. 273 00:13:46,975 --> 00:13:48,975 Speaker 3: Pet, you know what I'm going to do this afternoon? 274 00:13:50,255 --> 00:13:56,695 Speaker 3: Plant another two passion fruits. Good good, And I'm not 275 00:13:56,855 --> 00:13:59,055 Speaker 3: I'm gonna I'm not gonna let go because I hear 276 00:13:59,175 --> 00:14:01,935 Speaker 3: all of you gardeners saying this is this, is this, 277 00:14:01,935 --> 00:14:03,615 Speaker 3: this is that, and now you're telling me this, and 278 00:14:03,655 --> 00:14:06,095 Speaker 3: I go like, why is it that I've never been 279 00:14:06,095 --> 00:14:08,815 Speaker 3: able to do that since I left Meadow Bank in 280 00:14:08,895 --> 00:14:10,495 Speaker 3: Auckland all these years ago. 281 00:14:10,575 --> 00:14:11,655 Speaker 4: It's unbelievable. 282 00:14:12,615 --> 00:14:17,735 Speaker 8: Well, it's just thriving. Do I prune it at all? 283 00:14:17,895 --> 00:14:18,615 Speaker 8: I just let it go. 284 00:14:21,575 --> 00:14:27,375 Speaker 4: I wouldn't prune it until after it's uh fruited. Does 285 00:14:27,415 --> 00:14:29,255 Speaker 4: that make sense? Yes? 286 00:14:29,415 --> 00:14:31,255 Speaker 8: Well, I hope to get a handle off of this year. 287 00:14:31,775 --> 00:14:34,215 Speaker 3: Yeah, all right, Pet, I'm going to be I'm going 288 00:14:34,295 --> 00:14:36,655 Speaker 3: to ever go with you and one day we will 289 00:14:36,695 --> 00:14:37,655 Speaker 3: get together and. 290 00:14:38,095 --> 00:14:41,695 Speaker 2: It'll be fantastic, right, lovely talk to you, Pet, thank 291 00:14:41,735 --> 00:14:44,735 Speaker 2: you very much, and Owen a very good morning to you. 292 00:14:45,175 --> 00:14:47,375 Speaker 9: All right, good morning to you. And by the way, 293 00:14:47,655 --> 00:14:53,855 Speaker 9: I've got the answer to the reason why cockroach. Yeah, 294 00:14:54,415 --> 00:14:57,855 Speaker 9: it's basically it's intuition. They sense the lights are going 295 00:14:57,895 --> 00:15:01,175 Speaker 9: out and they're trying to see why. 296 00:15:02,975 --> 00:15:05,815 Speaker 2: All right, lovely, brilliant, Right, what's the question on? 297 00:15:06,375 --> 00:15:08,135 Speaker 9: All right? Oh, that's right, A bit of a question 298 00:15:10,015 --> 00:15:14,095 Speaker 9: calling for a friend. Yes, really, fig tree. My neighbor's 299 00:15:14,095 --> 00:15:18,095 Speaker 9: got a fig tree which he'd planted I don't know's 300 00:15:18,135 --> 00:15:20,335 Speaker 9: a matter of a few months ago, I guess, and 301 00:15:21,015 --> 00:15:25,535 Speaker 9: it's going I know the previous year or two beforehand, 302 00:15:25,895 --> 00:15:30,215 Speaker 9: he'd put and plotted a whole lot of well good 303 00:15:30,335 --> 00:15:33,135 Speaker 9: bags bags soil to try and prepare it. And you 304 00:15:33,295 --> 00:15:36,255 Speaker 9: put a really big hole and put fertilizer. I'm not 305 00:15:36,295 --> 00:15:39,935 Speaker 9: sure what type in there, but sort of come a 306 00:15:40,015 --> 00:15:42,735 Speaker 9: sort of a year or more later, he's put another 307 00:15:42,775 --> 00:15:46,855 Speaker 9: one in there. But it's very leazy, yellowy and brown 308 00:15:46,975 --> 00:15:49,855 Speaker 9: around the edge and don't look healthy. But new growth 309 00:15:49,935 --> 00:15:53,055 Speaker 9: leaves are coming through and look below, you know, small 310 00:15:53,095 --> 00:15:56,055 Speaker 9: leaves are looking okay, but I know it's one of 311 00:15:56,095 --> 00:15:58,135 Speaker 9: those How long is a piece of string questions when 312 00:15:58,135 --> 00:16:00,735 Speaker 9: I haven't given you much info. But I just wonder 313 00:16:01,055 --> 00:16:05,175 Speaker 9: in this situation of being on a sloping section which 314 00:16:05,215 --> 00:16:08,135 Speaker 9: should be fairly good drainage, but I will ask them 315 00:16:08,135 --> 00:16:12,455 Speaker 9: about digging a digging a wholey at the bottom, and 316 00:16:12,575 --> 00:16:15,495 Speaker 9: you know, because of the overall clay soils, digging a 317 00:16:15,575 --> 00:16:18,295 Speaker 9: drainage channel at the bottom, anything else you could do 318 00:16:18,375 --> 00:16:21,775 Speaker 9: for a fig in Lindfield, Auckland, Lindfield. 319 00:16:21,815 --> 00:16:23,615 Speaker 4: There you go. So that's seriously clay. 320 00:16:23,695 --> 00:16:25,895 Speaker 3: I know. Lindfield is where the Ministry of Anger and 321 00:16:25,895 --> 00:16:28,255 Speaker 3: fish Edge was where I used to work for decades 322 00:16:29,495 --> 00:16:30,415 Speaker 3: on Boundary Road. 323 00:16:30,735 --> 00:16:31,815 Speaker 4: So yeah, I know the clay. 324 00:16:32,015 --> 00:16:34,015 Speaker 3: I know the clay because I lived in tity Rangi 325 00:16:34,055 --> 00:16:35,135 Speaker 3: and that sort of stuff as well. 326 00:16:35,255 --> 00:16:36,375 Speaker 4: So here's the point. 327 00:16:36,695 --> 00:16:40,335 Speaker 3: Yes, well drained soils and at the same time give 328 00:16:40,375 --> 00:16:43,815 Speaker 3: them a reasonably regular watering. I know that usually in 329 00:16:43,815 --> 00:16:45,575 Speaker 3: Auckland you don't need to do that because it will 330 00:16:45,695 --> 00:16:48,615 Speaker 3: rain quite regularly. You know, little bits and pieces at 331 00:16:48,655 --> 00:16:51,175 Speaker 3: the time, sometimes lots of bits and pieces, but a 332 00:16:51,295 --> 00:16:52,335 Speaker 3: lack of water is. 333 00:16:52,295 --> 00:16:53,495 Speaker 4: Quite often. 334 00:16:54,775 --> 00:16:58,175 Speaker 3: You get curling leaves and you get a discolouration at 335 00:16:58,175 --> 00:17:01,415 Speaker 3: the same time. That's number one. The second one is 336 00:17:01,615 --> 00:17:05,455 Speaker 3: regular fertilizer. That means that if you do have a good, 337 00:17:05,615 --> 00:17:09,455 Speaker 3: well drained fig root, I would then put some like 338 00:17:09,615 --> 00:17:12,575 Speaker 3: a liquid fertilizer in the water that you give the 339 00:17:12,615 --> 00:17:14,295 Speaker 3: plant as it grows. 340 00:17:14,895 --> 00:17:16,615 Speaker 9: Yes, yeah, so. 341 00:17:17,655 --> 00:17:19,935 Speaker 3: That means that your watering system will also be a 342 00:17:19,935 --> 00:17:25,215 Speaker 3: slight fertilizing system, and that is quite often the way 343 00:17:25,255 --> 00:17:27,815 Speaker 3: to treat that particular I know the coloration. I've seen 344 00:17:27,815 --> 00:17:28,175 Speaker 3: it happen. 345 00:17:28,335 --> 00:17:31,535 Speaker 9: Yeah, And what kind of liquid fertilizer you suggesting? 346 00:17:32,215 --> 00:17:34,255 Speaker 3: I tend to use the wet and forget one the 347 00:17:34,415 --> 00:17:37,295 Speaker 3: seafoot soup and seaweed tea. In this case, what I 348 00:17:37,335 --> 00:17:39,735 Speaker 3: would do if I were you, I would use seaweed 349 00:17:39,775 --> 00:17:42,495 Speaker 3: tea because it has a little bit more potash and 350 00:17:42,575 --> 00:17:48,855 Speaker 3: that allows flowers and fruiting to take place on the tree. 351 00:17:48,855 --> 00:17:51,135 Speaker 2: I'm going to just try and quickly sneak and berry 352 00:17:51,295 --> 00:17:53,815 Speaker 2: about owls. Gone, mate, I've got you question. You got 353 00:17:53,815 --> 00:17:54,375 Speaker 2: one minute? 354 00:17:55,295 --> 00:17:58,655 Speaker 10: Oh yeah? Do they come back to the same nest? 355 00:18:00,695 --> 00:18:01,215 Speaker 9: This year? 356 00:18:01,295 --> 00:18:05,175 Speaker 10: I put up three boxes and two of them got lists, 357 00:18:05,215 --> 00:18:09,975 Speaker 10: and them were the feathers in the in the base 358 00:18:10,015 --> 00:18:13,135 Speaker 10: of the nest that indicated it wasn't help. And one 359 00:18:13,175 --> 00:18:14,975 Speaker 10: also had a dead miner hanging out of it? 360 00:18:15,495 --> 00:18:19,175 Speaker 3: Yes, which area is this bury by the way, quickly 361 00:18:20,215 --> 00:18:24,135 Speaker 3: and the hills above? Okay, all right, yes, if it's 362 00:18:24,175 --> 00:18:27,575 Speaker 3: if it's a little owlsdale, come back unless we ban them. 363 00:18:27,775 --> 00:18:29,895 Speaker 3: Then the mother says, no, bugget that I'm going to 364 00:18:29,935 --> 00:18:32,055 Speaker 3: another one. And so then we turn up in that 365 00:18:32,295 --> 00:18:34,855 Speaker 3: nest the next year. So yes, they do. They do 366 00:18:35,015 --> 00:18:36,575 Speaker 3: tend to go to the same place. 367 00:18:37,895 --> 00:18:38,895 Speaker 10: Excellent, thank you. 368 00:18:38,975 --> 00:18:41,535 Speaker 2: And should you clean out the nest? That was one 369 00:18:41,575 --> 00:18:44,975 Speaker 2: of various questions as well, not that much, a. 370 00:18:44,935 --> 00:18:47,055 Speaker 3: Little bit, but leave some of the material in there, 371 00:18:47,175 --> 00:18:49,415 Speaker 3: and the dead birds leave them there too, because that 372 00:18:49,495 --> 00:18:51,975 Speaker 3: trains the young to hunt flies. 373 00:18:52,215 --> 00:18:53,255 Speaker 4: Isn't that a clever trick? 374 00:18:54,575 --> 00:18:57,015 Speaker 10: He did you mention that a couple of a month 375 00:18:57,135 --> 00:18:59,655 Speaker 10: or so ago? And and there was about a month 376 00:18:59,695 --> 00:19:01,535 Speaker 10: after I'd taken the bird out of the hole. 377 00:19:02,055 --> 00:19:04,975 Speaker 3: Oh, bugget, doesn't matter, it'll come back. 378 00:19:05,535 --> 00:19:07,655 Speaker 2: That sounds awesome though, that if you've if you've put 379 00:19:07,695 --> 00:19:10,775 Speaker 2: up some bird box or some ol barns our boxes, 380 00:19:10,815 --> 00:19:12,295 Speaker 2: and they're coming, that's awesome. 381 00:19:12,735 --> 00:19:13,215 Speaker 4: That's good. 382 00:19:13,295 --> 00:19:16,175 Speaker 9: Yeah, I just got the website. 383 00:19:16,495 --> 00:19:21,375 Speaker 2: Brilliant, brilliant. I might going out as I do my research, right, 384 00:19:21,775 --> 00:19:24,735 Speaker 2: thank you drid. It is a pleasure and we'll do 385 00:19:24,775 --> 00:19:26,895 Speaker 2: it next week, which I think is daylight saving it. 386 00:19:27,255 --> 00:19:30,375 Speaker 2: Yeah roughly, all right, let's do it then anyway, Happy Equinox, 387 00:19:30,575 --> 00:19:33,135 Speaker 2: all right mate, take care all the best. Thank you 388 00:19:33,175 --> 00:19:36,655 Speaker 2: folks for your company. It's been absolute Britisure and had 389 00:19:36,695 --> 00:19:40,135 Speaker 2: the delight of having that long conversation with the Minister 390 00:19:40,295 --> 00:19:43,415 Speaker 2: for Building and Construction Chris Pink. If you want to 391 00:19:43,455 --> 00:19:45,815 Speaker 2: listen to that again. It will be available later on 392 00:19:45,855 --> 00:19:48,855 Speaker 2: today as a podcast here at News Talk c'd B 393 00:19:49,255 --> 00:19:53,255 Speaker 2: have a great week. 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