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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: A'd be.

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Speaker 1: Gunning with summer at steel shaft where it's fall about

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Speaker 1: the accessories you on new Talks.

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Speaker 3: Would be and re climb past A very good morning, sir.

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Speaker 4: Hey, good morning Peter. You will yes, I'm good, thank you.

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Speaker 5: Of course I ran out of the house today and

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Speaker 5: forgot my wallet with my cat to get into the studio.

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Speaker 5: So I come from my wonderful house here in the

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Speaker 5: Port Hills.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I thought it doesn't quite sound like he's in

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Speaker 3: the studio, but anyway, it's brilliant, all right, Oh.

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Speaker 4: Fantastic those things, you know, these things happen.

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Speaker 5: I've got a three and a half your old grand daughter. Yes,

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Speaker 5: she's totally disruptive.

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Speaker 4: I love it.

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Speaker 3: Fantastic. Well, I have to say happy to see a

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Speaker 3: little bit of rain. Not much, honey, probably a couple

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Speaker 3: of millimeters in Auckland, but where it's all looking pretty

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Speaker 3: dry up here.

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Speaker 4: You know, we're still we're still no rain. Really we're

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Speaker 4: drying out.

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Speaker 5: No too again after all that time, it's been awful

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Speaker 5: this summer.

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Speaker 3: Well, I mean it's hard, isn't it, Because we go oh,

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Speaker 3: look at this beautiful blue sky. You know, I can

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Speaker 3: and that sort of thing. But yeah, the garden is dry.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thanks, yes, yes, that's right. Have you ever been

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Speaker 5: to Castle Hill? No in Kanterary.

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Speaker 2: No.

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Speaker 5: Oh, look, you've got to do a road He come

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Speaker 5: over here and we'll go there one day.

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Speaker 4: It's just unbelievable. It's one of those things that you do.

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Speaker 5: I mean, because we've got some people staying with us,

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Speaker 5: you know, my granddaughter and mum and all that. It's

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Speaker 5: great and it's just and it was twenty seven degrees

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Speaker 5: because it was just gorgeous. But you're right, we need

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Speaker 5: to do some watering. And I think it is a

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Speaker 5: sketchy good tip if you are going to plant something else,

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Speaker 5: for instance, at the end of this summer, make sure

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Speaker 5: you really soak the soil before you plant it. So

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Speaker 5: if you soak it already, it keeps much better and

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Speaker 5: you don't have to literally wash it away with big

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Speaker 5: lots of water.

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Speaker 3: And I suppose now is the time where if you've

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Speaker 3: done the mulch, it's paying dividends, isn't.

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Speaker 5: It absolutely because it keeps it in the ground instead

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Speaker 5: of you know, getting out into the sky.

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Speaker 3: You got it yeah right, it's on my list of

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Speaker 3: things to do as well. Margo, A very good morning

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Speaker 3: to you. Margo, morning morning.

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Speaker 2: Go for it.

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Speaker 6: I've seen a cup of pictures in I've got this

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Speaker 6: bad that appears each summer. It's I've tried everything on

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Speaker 6: pissed aside the oil one it goes away. It appears

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Speaker 6: each summer. This summer is just mutually killed the plants.

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Speaker 5: Okay, hang on, Mago, Mago, Well, Margo, hang on, hang on.

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Speaker 4: You haven't.

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Speaker 5: I can't see photos where I met the moment. So

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Speaker 5: that's number one.

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Speaker 4: Number two. What plant is affected?

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Speaker 6: May the ice plants, okay, the ice plants, and another

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Speaker 6: erea on the other side. They have fine the size okay.

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Speaker 6: And it's got like a brown cone and it has

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Speaker 6: like a silky puffball out at the back of it.

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Speaker 4: And does it move? Does it sit still? Usually very still? Yeah, Okay.

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Speaker 4: I have the feeling you're talking about it.

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Speaker 5: I think you're talking about a scale insect or something

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Speaker 5: like that that is that is not moving very well.

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Speaker 5: And the best thing to do with that is if

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Speaker 5: you do use, for instance, conqueror oil or you know

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Speaker 5: that sort of stuff, you'll have to do it again

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Speaker 5: every week, at least three or four weeks in a row,

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Speaker 5: because you might kill the parents, but the babies that

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Speaker 5: are at the moment in the egg states will still hatch,

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Speaker 5: and we'll be there in a week later.

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Speaker 6: Yeah, and then it goes away in the winter, the

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Speaker 6: flowers come out, and then it appears again. Doesn't live

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Speaker 4: It could do.

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Speaker 5: I mean, I'm not in the grunted. It could be

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Speaker 6: Yeah, just it disappears. I ended up throwing weed killer

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Speaker 6: on the plants and got so in the weed. I'm

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Speaker 6: pulling the whole thing out restarting again. And I actually

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Speaker 6: found in a daisy, a big daisy that was in

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Speaker 6: clinging to a dead stalk at the bottom. And I thought,

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Speaker 6: these dem things just hibernate and then they start producing again.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, that can be.

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Speaker 5: Look it's just a guess without seeing what it is,

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Speaker 5: but I can imagine it would be something like that.

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Speaker 5: So try something as simple as that, conquer oil or

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Speaker 5: nem oil. But do it in a few cute time,

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Speaker 5: you know, at least three times a week apart.

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Speaker 4: How is that all?

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Speaker 3: Yo? Hope that works out well? Hello, Gary, how are you.

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Speaker 4: Good morning?

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Speaker 6: You're talking to me?

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Speaker 3: I am Gary.

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Speaker 2: Go for it.

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Speaker 4: It's statory, will Gary.

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Speaker 6: Got half a dozen GUIDs, any one one of them.

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Speaker 6: The leaves are turning black. Now, I asked doctor Google

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Speaker 6: and he suggested lips, some salts.

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Speaker 2: Is that correct?

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Speaker 4: I don't know. It depends entirely on why they're turning

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Speaker 4: black some salts.

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Speaker 5: It's just a mineral, if you like. If they're turning black,

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Speaker 5: it could be all sorts of things. It could be

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Speaker 5: stuff that differ, instance, lacking like nitrogen, or it could

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Speaker 5: be something stupid like that, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 5: So it's the problem is we need to identify what

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Speaker 5: causes the blackening of those guardinias, and that is a

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Speaker 4: Do you feel at all?

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Speaker 2: What are you usage? Yes?

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Speaker 6: Then I give it to try and rectify the situation.

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Speaker 5: Well, without knowing what causes the situation, there's very little

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Speaker 5: I can do in terms of rectifying it. But tell me,

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Speaker 5: have you do you fertilize your gardenias at all?

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Speaker 6: Now I've only been in the twelve months.

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Speaker 4: I haven't a mark.

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Speaker 7: Well, what do we give it?

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Speaker 6: Then you told me, and we'll do it.

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Speaker 4: Just do some general fertilizer.

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Speaker 3: Okay.

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Speaker 5: You know there's all sorts of different general fertilizers on

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Speaker 5: the market. There's Nitroposca blue which is a really good,

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Speaker 5: long lasting fertilizer that every time you water the plants

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Speaker 5: it goes back into the root zone.

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Speaker 4: Nitroposca blue blue. Yeah, I know that product. You Okay, Yeah,

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Speaker 4: try that your Wi fight that works.

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Speaker 3: Have a crack airy. All the very best to you

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Speaker 3: and Ellen. Talk to me about blackberries.

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Speaker 7: Morning, Gil blackberries. I planted a BlackBerry. It's gone holistic.

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Speaker 7: One BlackBerry plant covers the or the size of a

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Speaker 7: massive caravan. The question I got for your root is

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Speaker 7: this year is runners that produce fruit? Do I just

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Speaker 7: chop them away? And then the ones coming through whether

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Speaker 7: this year with fruit? Will they grow fruit next year?

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Speaker 5: I think that they do send runners out and this

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Speaker 5: is the plant really trying to expand, which will be

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Speaker 5: good for next year. But now my question for you

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Speaker 5: Ellen is how large is your section?

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Speaker 7: I put them in a good spot and I put

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Speaker 7: this plastic netting on the fence. And I've got to

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Speaker 7: tell you some of the runners are twenty meters long.

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Speaker 4: And that's why I ask you.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, you know you're not worried about as best

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Speaker 5: to see it, but you're worried about being totally developed

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Speaker 5: by blackberries. Look to be quite honest, you can prune

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Speaker 5: them back. You can't put You can prune them back,

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Speaker 5: and you can even if you like, get them onto

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Speaker 5: a trellis get them upwards. Wich would be nice because

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Speaker 5: that means you don't really lose that much space. I

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Speaker 5: think that should work. But be rough. At the end

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Speaker 5: of the season. You know, once you've done your blackberries,

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Speaker 5: which should have been harvested by now, you can actually

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Speaker 5: print trim them down and they will make new shoots,

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Speaker 5: no problems.

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Speaker 7: They've already done that and they're yeah, they're they're six

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Speaker 7: and eight meters long already.

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Speaker 4: Yeah. That's well.

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Speaker 5: You it's your plant, your garden. You stop them from

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Speaker 5: going over the top. Okay, it's like little kids.

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Speaker 2: Well, let me get it right.

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Speaker 7: The ones that have produced fruit this year, if I

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Speaker 7: trim them back, they will produce fruit next year.

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Speaker 4: They might do or the new ones will.

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Speaker 7: Be Okay, Well, I'll give it to go.

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Speaker 4: Then it depends entirely how far you go and how

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Speaker 4: much you do.

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Speaker 5: But you can really prove them back if you want to,

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Speaker 5: and I would suggest you do, because they'll they'll be

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Speaker 4: Roof for no time.

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Speaker 2: That's huge.

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Speaker 7: I'll throw the frozen chicken.

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Speaker 3: Out's been listening to the show for a while, the

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Speaker 3: old Frozen Chick and funny. I've got to do my

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Speaker 3: plum tree. I'm probably a bit late, aren't I. I should

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Speaker 3: have done the plum tree as soon as it finished fruiting.

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Speaker 4: But well, I've just done it.

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Speaker 5: We just not princess dams and plums, and we basically

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Speaker 5: harvested them while we were pruning it. So I took

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Speaker 5: literally all the leaves, oh no, all the fruit left

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Speaker 5: on the on the branches, and just cut the branches off,

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Speaker 5: pasted us to July while I was standing on the

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Speaker 5: on the on the ladder, and she would then pile

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Speaker 5: that we took off.

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Speaker 3: Much easier now talking about letter that's just by the by.

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Speaker 3: Do you have one of those orchard letters, you know,

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Speaker 3: with the much wider foot and then the long single

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Speaker 5: I have the split the what do you call it,

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Speaker 5: the A shaped leaders, but they are not that wide

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Speaker 5: on the bottom, and you've got to be very careful.

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Speaker 5: You're actually very steady of course with that. But yes

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Speaker 5: I do, and that's how I usually prune my trees.

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Speaker 3: You know what would be good for you to buy

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Speaker 3: one of those watched leaders?

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Speaker 4: I tell you what white ones?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I got one. It's only a six stepper, but

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Speaker 3: it's got the nice wide feet at the bottom and

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Speaker 3: it's just steady, more stable.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, steady, that's it. Yeah, I totally agree. But in

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Speaker 4: this case it's fine.

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Speaker 5: In this case, I said, I just basically got the

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Speaker 3: You just balance like an acrobat on the top stiff.

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Speaker 3: I can just imagine.

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Speaker 4: It, mate, I am like an act.

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Speaker 3: Like an acrobat, rightyo, before he falls off his leader.

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Speaker 3: Will we'll take a short break and be back in

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Speaker 3: just a moment.

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Speaker 1: Someone sticks through. Good morning, my grafted citrus trees have

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Speaker 5: From Scott It's absolutely true, because if you graft citrus

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Speaker 5: the graft will take over and that has got spikes. Man,

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Speaker 5: you go backwards when your lawnmower. With your lawnmow, you

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Speaker 5: you'll feel it in your bump. It's unbelievably sharp. So

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Speaker 5: that needs you need to take all these laterals off,

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Speaker 5: but leave the actual graft still working on the real

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Speaker 5: So yes, I would always take those sharp things off.

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Speaker 5: They're pain and a bum anyway, and they don't give

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Speaker 3: Ah Okay, that's interesting. Actually, just on c trus, someone

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Speaker 3: else's tick through. We've got an older grapefruit tree where

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Speaker 3: there's still fruit, but number of the branches are dying. Off,

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Speaker 3: and they some of them have holes in them. Most

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Speaker 4: Okay.

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Speaker 5: So I was just you very good because you're given

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Speaker 4: So number one, don't prune.

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Speaker 5: The tree when lemon tree borer is around right now

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Speaker 5: do that. So that's number one. Number two is make

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Speaker 5: it in there because that's where the grubs of the

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Speaker 5: spear them on there. It's honestly, that's the way to

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Speaker 3: If you did have to do some pruning now and

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Speaker 3: you use like a pruning paste to seal the cut.

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Speaker 3: Would that prevent the borer.

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Speaker 4: Of no concern?

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Speaker 5: It wouldn't really those things the moment you make it cut,

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Speaker 5: the lemonry borers no cut. Oh wow, I'm going to

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Speaker 5: start my eggs here boom, and my babies will make

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Speaker 4: Boom. Just like that.

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Speaker 3: So even literally if you cut and paste.

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Speaker 4: Yeah no, they don't care. Wow, they lay their eggs

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Speaker 5: Eggs are not if you like the dirt by or

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Speaker 4: Honestly, they won't.

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Speaker 8: Hello Donna, Yeah, hi've got I've moved into a rental

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Speaker 4: Oh?

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Speaker 5: Basically, I expect they will all be, you know, reasonably

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Speaker 4: Really, at the moment you let them be until.

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Speaker 5: They have literally fruited, you harvest the fruits in April,

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Speaker 5: that will leave them okay for next year. They will

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Speaker 8: Okay. So I don't need to give them any fertilizer

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Speaker 5: Oh, yes, no fertilizer. It's the food. Hang on, I

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Speaker 5: didn't say anything about no fertilizer. Yes, no, they need

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Speaker 5: They would love that, yes, absolutely, yeah, And.

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Speaker 8: When do you put that on?

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Speaker 5: When you do that, you can do that in spring.

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Speaker 5: You can either do it right now to make the

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Speaker 5: So you can do it now. Hand fulter the square

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Speaker 4: I got it.

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Speaker 3: You can do it allsted on it. You take care

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Speaker 3: and tim a very good morning. Hey Tom, Hello Tim.

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Speaker 4: Good after morning tea Tamga.

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Speaker 2: Now, boy, okay, I rang you a couple of weeks ago,

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Speaker 2: I'd also planted litters. I like to say costs and

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Speaker 2: those win on all the Espadia cucumbers. They didn't do well.

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Speaker 4: Okay, you said you just mentioned wood chips at the beginning?

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Speaker 5: Did you put a lot of wood chips into the

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Speaker 2: On the top, and that was just three years ago,

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Speaker 2: so now that's pretty well gone. I actually raked them

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Speaker 5: You see, if you put a lot of organic material

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Speaker 4: Do you know what I mean?

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Speaker 5: It's there's not enough soil, there's a lot of compost,

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Speaker 4: They just can't and I think I have.

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Speaker 5: I have to made far too much chips and organic

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Speaker 4: And that is the weird thing.

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Speaker 5: People put too much compost on the soil and that

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Speaker 2: The other thing is I've got a lot of sin metal.

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Speaker 2: It has been on and off oiver the years. But yes,

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Speaker 2: they just took off the all stingy needle, just decided

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Speaker 4: It gets very warm.

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Speaker 5: But also stinging netle is quite often something that is

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Speaker 4: You'll find it often on.

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Speaker 5: you've got too much nitrogen, that's what really would bring

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Speaker 5: instance on the quarry here is really ripping, ripping them

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Speaker 4: It's great if they do well.

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Speaker 5: So less nitrogen and more phosphate and poveresh.

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Speaker 2: All right, So I've sort of sort of fallowed it,

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Speaker 2: just turned it over. I do have a road. I've

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Speaker 2: got I've got raised gardens probably about or ten inches

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Speaker 3: Sounds sounds actually pretty good, doesn't it. But balance, isn't it?

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Speaker 4: The balance?

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Speaker 3: That's what's your what's your terms gone? We've got ten seconds, buddy,

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Speaker 3: we're out of here.

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Speaker 4: We better go. Goodbye.

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