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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: At Brodo Rot Climb Pass.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, sir, A very good morning to you, pierrero.

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Speaker 3: Are you all good?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, very well, thank you. Now right, we've got a

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Speaker 2: whole border of calls. But artillery fungus, shotgun fungus.

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Speaker 3: Tell me it's a it is actually a fungus that

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Speaker 3: lives that originates from mulch in the garden if you like. So,

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Speaker 3: if you've got a lot of mulch there, there's a

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Speaker 3: fungus if you like, that wants to spread its spores

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Speaker 3: literally by shooting it into the quite a long way,

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Speaker 3: usually to something with a light colored surface that it

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Speaker 3: has deliberately, yes, because that's probably the best way for

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Speaker 3: the fungal spores to actually germinate. Okay, so so it

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Speaker 3: knows where your carri is back. Wow, I love it.

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Speaker 3: I've gone I cart be for too. And and so

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Speaker 3: that's basically how it works. So it's it's it's in

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Speaker 3: a fungus that occurs in New Zealand. And it hasn't

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Speaker 3: it hasn't a wonderful name. Actually, it's sphere O bolus stellatis,

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Speaker 3: which means it's it's aiming at things, you know, like

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Speaker 3: literally like an artillery. What can you do? Well? The

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Speaker 3: first thing is, if you have this stuff in your

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Speaker 3: in your mulch, try using pine mulch. I understand that

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Speaker 3: pine mulch is not that good for that particular fungus.

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Speaker 3: That's number one. Number two, try wet and forget. It's

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Speaker 3: really hard to get rid of. By the way, Try

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Speaker 3: wet and forget. You never know if that's going to

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Speaker 3: work that out. Otherwise you use some nice warm look

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Speaker 3: warm water or warm water maybe oh what can you

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Speaker 3: put into it? Oh gosh, maybe some soap and things

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Speaker 3: like that. And but it's it's pretty hard to get

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Speaker 3: out of there actually, to be quite honest, it's really hard.

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Speaker 2: That was what you know. The original question was around

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Speaker 2: sort of the durability, right, the persistence of this growth,

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Speaker 2: and that in some cases someone had had it on

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Speaker 2: weatherboards and then trying to get it off with the boards.

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Speaker 2: Now the other comment just very quickly, I don't want

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Speaker 2: to take too much of your time, but it was

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Speaker 2: about a caller said it's moths that were leaving like

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Speaker 2: a shell casing on the exterior of the weatherboard that

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Speaker 2: was also incredibly difficult to get off.

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Speaker 3: Oh, don't think so. I know. I know they can

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Speaker 3: lay their eggs on surfaces like that, and they but

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Speaker 3: especially once they hatch, they will be kay. I've also

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Speaker 3: heard of spiderwebs and I called them websites. Now kids

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Speaker 3: love that I call them anyway, those websites. But the

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Speaker 3: moths egg cases as well. Yes, you need to be

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Speaker 3: very careful, you know. With paint, you've got to you

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Speaker 3: can't scrape it too much because you can damage you

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Speaker 3: know what I mean. But it's stuff like that. It'll

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Speaker 3: come off, and so will that the artillery fungus, but

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Speaker 3: it can take quite a.

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Speaker 2: Long time, right, and a lot of elbow grease.

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Speaker 3: But I think it's so cool of nature of these things.

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Speaker 2: Yes, it's so exciting. Well I don't want it, but

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Speaker 2: the fact that it was out there is awesome. Right,

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Speaker 2: let's rip into a few calls. Errol A very good morning.

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Speaker 4: Good morning to you, rude. I've got a problem with

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Speaker 4: the plum tree. It's about three years old. Last year

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Speaker 4: we only got one plum off it. I've sprayed it

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Speaker 4: during winter with two lots of copper, and now we've

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Speaker 4: got plums on there. But some of them look like

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Speaker 4: they've got a puncher. They've gone flat.

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Speaker 3: Ah, yes, I know what you mean. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Oh that is bladder plum, and I think you should

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Speaker 3: have had some if you like, some fungal material on there. Yes,

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Speaker 3: actually blader plum. If you want to google it, you

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Speaker 3: can do that yourself. And it's it's I think you

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Speaker 3: need some fungicide before there's those plums are starting to ripen,

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Speaker 3: and I think some of that could from memory. It

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Speaker 3: might have something to do with spraying it in autumn

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Speaker 3: time as well. I'll have to look that up to

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Speaker 3: be quite honest, Errol, I haven't seen it for a while,

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Speaker 3: and it's famous on certain plum species. The fact that

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Speaker 3: you have few plums could something could be something to

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Speaker 3: do with the fact that you might need a pollinator.

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Speaker 3: Does that makes sense? Yeah, yeah, So have have another

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Speaker 3: have another plum tree nearby that will that will so

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Speaker 3: you get to cross pollination and that gives you a

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Speaker 4: Fruit this year. There are there are quite a few

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Speaker 4: other plums there, but there there are the flat ones

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there later Okay, in that case it might not

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Speaker 3: be that proper, But bladder bloom certainly is. And it's

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Speaker 3: it's a it's a lovely it's a strange look, isn't it?

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Speaker 4: Yes? Yeah? Will it go away or will it just continue?

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Speaker 4: Or is it doing any damage to the tree?

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Speaker 3: Or let me have a look in the head break

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Speaker 3: to see what I can do with leader plum for you,

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Speaker 3: and I'll let you know as soon as I find out.

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Speaker 3: I'd just quickly google that.

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Speaker 4: Okay, thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: No worries.

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Speaker 2: Take one quick call from UK good morning to UK Good.

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Speaker 5: Morning, gentlemen. I have a bee or kind of problem.

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Speaker 5: I've got bumblebees coming into my nice flairy gun. But

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Speaker 5: now I've noticed they come have come to the little

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Speaker 5: vent in the Omoru stone at the base where there's

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Speaker 5: like a little ooth wire and the gap, and they're

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Speaker 5: just coming in and out beautifully.

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Speaker 6: You know.

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Speaker 5: I ad all the bees, but should I be doing

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Speaker 5: something about it or can we just enjoy them?

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Speaker 3: Last week I've been working at the school in Tacpo

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Speaker 3: where we are going to put bee bumblebee nest boxes

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Speaker 3: up and also the right plants to get bumblebees back

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Speaker 3: into Takapo. And there's four species in New Zealand and

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Speaker 3: they want to do something about a really rare species that,

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Speaker 3: by the way, is no extinct in the UK. But bumblebees.

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Speaker 3: The nests themselves in your wall usually are of no

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Speaker 3: concern to your house or to the bees or anything else,

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Speaker 3: and it might be just a wonderful place for them

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Speaker 3: to live and pollinate your all your plants in the garden.

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Speaker 3: I don't think they are of any concern for you whatsoever.

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Speaker 5: Oh, thank you very much. We'll enjoy them. Thank you, great.

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Speaker 3: You, Bye bye, take care. Just a quick note before

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Speaker 3: you take an head break. Clark Cultivator have still got

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Speaker 3: this little thing on that says if you if you

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Speaker 3: want to Clark Cultivator. Whenin seven days of saying of

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Speaker 3: getting hold of them on their website, Clark Cultivator dot

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Speaker 3: coder and said, you tell them you've heard this and

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Speaker 3: you can get a reduced price on a Clark Cultivator

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Speaker 3: And that actually might come in really handy as a

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Speaker 3: Christmas present, just saying.

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Speaker 2: That's right, suddenly we're all thinking about that. You can

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Speaker 2: find them online. Just look for Clark Cultivator. It'll it'll

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Speaker 2: come up. No trouble at all. Right, we'll take a break.

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Speaker 2: We'll talk to Diane in just a moment.

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Speaker 3: Yes, answer blood plum go yeah, oh, here we go, well,

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Speaker 3: blood of plum, very simple, Yes you do. I remember

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Speaker 3: there was a connection with that, that particular leaf curl

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Speaker 3: that plum sometimes have, and that means you spray them

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Speaker 3: in late autumn all the leaves are falling off at

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Speaker 3: the time when your plumb leaves are falling off. Double

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Speaker 3: dose of copper, that's what you use. Double dose of

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Speaker 3: copper at late autumn when the tree goes domed. And

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Speaker 3: then during the winter you can have a couple of

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Speaker 3: copper or copper and sulfur things like yates, nature's wake

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Speaker 3: funger pray to actually stop that that plum disease developing

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Speaker 3: in early spring when the plants start to flower. How's

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Speaker 3: that copper spray? Copper spray, Yeah, eager it's prevented from happening. Easy.

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Speaker 2: Someone's asking me the text message about weed killers to

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Speaker 2: spray directly onto the leaves of agapanthus and ladder ferns

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Speaker 2: growing from rock wall through the fence can't get to

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Speaker 2: the roots and all don't want to kill what's the

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Speaker 2: next part of the text question, I don't want to

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Speaker 2: kill any plants nearby?

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Speaker 3: Oh? Yeah, that's aiming. You can't you can't have a

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Speaker 3: wheat killer that there's a there's very few wheat killers.

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Speaker 3: That for us is to only do grass and nothing else,

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean. But you're going to be

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Speaker 3: that's aiming. But a pretty good weed killer is something

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Speaker 3: like metsol furroon, which is associated known as associate, which

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Speaker 3: you can get from or you know all these these

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Speaker 3: what do you call it? Culture? So usually that so

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Speaker 3: associate and eradicate a raven's down material. That is a

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Speaker 3: pretty good week killer for stuff like that.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, And we hit with the NEEDLERB for the New

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Speaker 2: Yates zero, which is life say free. And I'm always curious,

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Speaker 2: so I went out and bought some used it and

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Speaker 2: it works, so I shouldn't be surprised.

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Speaker 3: But she's pretty quick, isn't it. That's great. It's pretty

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Speaker 3: fast the way it works.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, seem to get right through the roots, right, Diane.

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Speaker 2: Let's talk about Bora.

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Speaker 7: Oh, good morning, I want to I've got bora in

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Speaker 7: my Mexican elders. I've got them in my backyard on

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Speaker 7: three sides, and I pleached them and they really look lovely.

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Speaker 7: But they've got Bora and I just I've tried. I've

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Speaker 7: got the yates. Is it yates? No more borer? I think?

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Speaker 7: I know, it's key, we care, I think. And there's

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Speaker 7: so many little holes everywhere, and some of the branches

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Speaker 3: Now.

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Speaker 7: I want to save these because I inherited these trees.

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Speaker 7: It's about fort thirty of them, and I pleached them.

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Speaker 7: And they stop me looking at lots and lots of

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Speaker 7: roots in front of my backyard. What can I do?

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Speaker 7: I mean, I can't see myself getting, you know, dealing

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Speaker 7: with all those little holes and cutting back every dead branch.

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Speaker 7: Well I can cut down back every dead branch, that's

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Speaker 7: not a problem. But I need to save them because

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Speaker 7: I need to save my my view.

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Speaker 3: You know, yeah, I know, I know what you're saying.

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Speaker 3: So these are the tiny borer holes that go in

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Speaker 3: the Mexican elder, right, it's ellness, yeah's correct, yeah, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 3: goodness me. That is a hard thing to do because

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Speaker 3: you basically there is very little you can do apart

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Speaker 3: from spraying at the right time when these when these

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Speaker 3: beetles are actually laying their eggs on the tree and

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Speaker 3: probably in the old holes of the tree as well.

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Speaker 3: That is really hard to get into. Can I I

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Speaker 3: need to really look at this, to be quite honest

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Speaker 3: and Diane, because I have to really find out if

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Speaker 3: there's anything specific that you can use for this particular case,

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Speaker 3: and what the timing of that particular borer is and

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Speaker 3: what the borer actually is. So there's a lot of

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Speaker 3: homework for me to do. If you give your name

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Speaker 3: and phone number to the producer, I'll call you back

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Speaker 3: when I finished that particular exercise. That might take a

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Speaker 3: couple of hours at home this afternoon. So that's me done.

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Speaker 3: Is that all right? Do you mind? Diane?

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Speaker 2: Oh shivers, Sorry, I'll keep forgetting my mic Diane will

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Speaker 2: just pop you back to Lilia producer and she'll grab

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Speaker 2: your number and Robin a very good morning to you.

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Speaker 6: Oh, good morning, Pete, Good morning, Rude. It's Robin.

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Speaker 8: I'm calling from Hawswell in christ Jooch and Rude. We

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Speaker 8: have a pick a picker bood feeder.

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Speaker 3: I know and I know the pecker picker you feel

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Speaker 3: you go on?

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Speaker 6: Yes, we also have another arrangement there where we've got

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Speaker 6: And I just wonder do you have any thoughts on?

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Speaker 3: Yes, I do. What would you like to attract? Is

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Speaker 8: Yes, so I think we've seen a few silverized I

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Speaker 8: would love to attract TOUI because I'm from the Hawk's

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Speaker 6: I've got a small kofi.

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Speaker 8: Growing, but it's only tiny so far.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Can I tell you? Can I tell you that

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Speaker 3: in Hallswell we have hardly any two weee at all,

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Speaker 4: Wow.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And the reason is they're not established here. You

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Speaker 3: you will find TOOI I'll tell you that for free

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Speaker 3: it's going to take a while, So you'll have to

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Speaker 3: do with all your other nectar feeders, which is as

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Speaker 8: Pecker pecket feeder and maybe one day we'll get some

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Speaker 3: Might just get them over the top of the hill

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Speaker 2: Thank you so much, a long newly planted ecological corridor.

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Speaker 3: Perhaps you've perhaps you could well do it. How do

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Speaker 3: you know all these things?

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Speaker 2: Because I've been listening to you and you've been a

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Speaker 2: wonderful inspiration, I have to say, for many years. I'll

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Speaker 2: tell you what. Actually, there's a lot. There's a Facebook page,

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Speaker 2: and I know you don't have much time for Facebook

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Speaker 2: I'm talking about this, but there is one particular contributor

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Speaker 2: come home with more live food. So Ruu's hunt quite

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Speaker 3: But we banned those little little babies. Just just gorgeous,

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Speaker 2: Me a photo right, yes, well please do tom Hello there.

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Speaker 9: Good morning, Rude Pete and others. With a quick question. Please,

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Speaker 9: I've got a white plum tree which has a huge one. Now,

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Speaker 9: I've been very old, had millions of plums. If you

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Speaker 3: So you're telling me that you don't get plums right now, No.

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Speaker 9: I get thousands of flower It's a large tree growing

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Speaker 9: from the bos. I haven't looked after much. Thousands of

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Speaker 9: or two plums, and they were delicious red ones earlier.

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Speaker 3: Okay, well, plum trees do need a pollinator, to be

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Speaker 9: Yeah, I know that. I'll be fun.

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Speaker 3: So if you've got, for instanceant European plum, you need

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Speaker 3: a European pollinator. If you've got a Japanese plum, you

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Speaker 3: need a Japanese pollinator. So those sort of things need

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Speaker 3: to be planted literally almost next to each other, but

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Speaker 3: from each other. And have you got any pollinator like that? Well?

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Speaker 9: I had one tree that I don't remember planet fifty

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Speaker 9: and have problems. E was a rad one. But but

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Speaker 9: for a decade or two this had beautiful red early prums.

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Speaker 3: Maybe your neighbor or did you have another country that

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Speaker 9: That that could be it? I guess, okay, well, what's

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Speaker 9: my what have I got in this Japanese plum very

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Speaker 9: early rate here? Well, and you might have been awaiki

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Speaker 9: you left.

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Speaker 3: To talk to them, and if they say dog got

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Speaker 3: you marimas, it's a Japanese plum.

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Speaker 9: Ah, well, I don't know. That's sort of intom.

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Speaker 3: Stuff, don't you know what I mean? You need to

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Speaker 3: identify what you've got. That's really what I'm saying.

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Speaker 9: Yeah, sure, I'll thank you.

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Speaker 3: That's if if it's a European one, you stick with

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Speaker 3: European pollinators, and that the Japanese, you do Japanese pollinator.

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Speaker 3: That's generally the golden rule.

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Speaker 2: Tell me, because I'm never afraid of answering them asking

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Speaker 2: a dumb question, what's the difference between a European pollinator

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Speaker 3: Well, there there are Japanese plant plum varieties and European

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Speaker 3: plum varieties. That's why I call them Japanese and Europeans,

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Speaker 3: and they have they are slightly they're actually quite quite

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Speaker 3: pollinators needed to match them up. Okayally what I'm saying, yeah, brilliant.

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Speaker 2: Thank you very much, Tom, all the very best to you, righty, oh,

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Speaker 2: thank you mate. Well, now next week we are starting earlier.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I get it that. I heard that. Awesome, And

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Speaker 3: I'm going to be in Tiro at the They Bestival

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Speaker 3: and the Art Trail as well, and the art trail

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Speaker 3: that's going to be great.

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Speaker 2: And I am on my way to the Saint Leo's School,

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Speaker 2: Fear School, Fear It'll be It'll be awesome. Actually, the

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Speaker 2: White Elephants looking great, the box are there, the clothing's there,

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Speaker 2: the food is fantastic. I'm into it right. Busy day ahead.

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Speaker 2: Hopefully I'll see you at the fair. Take care of

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Speaker 2: it all the very best and folks, thanks for your company.

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Speaker 2: Looking forward to being back with you again next Sunday.

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