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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 Talk SEDB the.

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Speaker 2: Rd Climb past A. Very good morning to you, sir, Hello.

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Speaker 3: Rude, Hello, hello, Hello? Can you hear me?

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Speaker 2: I can? Can you hear me?

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Speaker 3: Good? That's good? Yeah, yeah, yeah. Jules and I were

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Speaker 3: just sitting having cup of tea in bed, and she says,

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Speaker 3: you have to talk to Pete about the building.

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Speaker 2: What built your building?

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Speaker 3: Don't Yeah, don't even go there. I'm so stressed. Never mind.

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Speaker 2: I think that's the thing. People do, underestimate the stress

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Speaker 2: of it all.

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Speaker 3: Oh, it's terrible. Yeah.

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Speaker 2: And I keep saying to people, you know, like typically

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Speaker 2: when the builder first arrives that the client is super excited,

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Speaker 2: happy to see them, you know, I can't wak for

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Speaker 2: them to rip into it and that. And then I

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Speaker 2: always say to people, look, by the end of it,

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Speaker 2: no matter how lovely your builder is, you will be

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Speaker 2: sick of the sight of their face at the end

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Speaker 2: of the renovation.

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Speaker 3: Right. Maybe, but I don't think so, because I've known

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Speaker 3: a lot of builders now are really cool people.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: I agree, it's just that building stressful, right, Yeah, I know,

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Speaker 2: by the just want them out of here.

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Speaker 3: But it's not that, Peter, it's that you know, you

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Speaker 3: and I I kind of we got a little bit

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Speaker 3: of Dutch in U say, if.

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Speaker 2: You pocket short arms.

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Speaker 3: I wasn't going to go there. I just say, because

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Speaker 3: I always get anyway, I always.

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Speaker 2: Get worry about I don't know what pains I'm wearing

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Speaker 2: that I can never reach the bottom.

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Speaker 3: I tell you what, mate, I we did a bit

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Speaker 3: of building in the old days and now again, and

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Speaker 3: everything is about ten times the price.

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Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, and.

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Speaker 3: I mean and it's not just I'm just taking the

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Speaker 3: mickey out of it, but it's unbelievable what's happening. So

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Speaker 3: you know, and then now so you've got all these

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Speaker 3: plans and our darling Daughters is a wonderful architect. But

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Speaker 3: the concept of a budget in the in the if

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Speaker 3: you like work of architects quite often and exist.

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Speaker 2: I'm pleased you've said it, and probably more tactful than

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Speaker 2: I would say it. But yeah, yes, I undred agree

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Speaker 2: with you. I know very few architects who, if you

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Speaker 2: go to them and say I've got five hundred thousand

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Speaker 2: dollars to spend, draw you something that you can actually

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Speaker 2: build for five hundred grand and then there's kind of

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Speaker 2: a look of gosh, I didn't think it was going

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Speaker 2: to be that expensive. And then you know, and the

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Speaker 2: problem with that, and in all seriousness, is that for

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Speaker 2: people who are on a fixed budget that's most of us, right, suddenly,

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Speaker 2: then you're going back for redesign, and then you're paying

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Speaker 2: the architect to redesign it again.

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Speaker 3: Exactly. So that's what we want to talk about with.

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Speaker 2: You, Okay, all right, yep, more than happy to do that. Absolutely.

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Speaker 3: Let's talk about gardenings, all right.

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Speaker 2: Let's do gardening fist. Let's talk tamarillos. They cost the

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Speaker 2: tamarillos these days outrageous than they used to be. You

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Speaker 2: were ford that, Hello, Alistair, get the.

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Speaker 5: Gorse out of your pocket. R expensive if you don't

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Speaker 5: do it today. Now the major problem here, I've got

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Speaker 5: that little tamorial bug. Is it called a seward? Pissed

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Speaker 5: on my tamills. I like a tamillo, but my ones

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Speaker 5: of the size of pulziggs. I think I'm going to

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Speaker 5: rip the mountain start again.

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Speaker 3: He's no one on bo is there a sillet? Is

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Speaker 3: that the guava? Is that the guava moth? Or a sialat?

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Speaker 3: What are you talking about?

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Speaker 5: Oh you know how it looks like it's been ravaged

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Speaker 5: and all the leaves go brown and start getting ripped,

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Speaker 5: and I think it's salad.

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Speaker 3: Could be yeah, Okay, I don't know. I look to

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Speaker 3: be quite honest, I am the hopelessest tamarilla grower in

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Speaker 3: New Zealand. I've tried it here in Canterbury and it's

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Speaker 3: it's it's You might as well we up into the wind,

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean?

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Speaker 5: Two cold down there. I'm in the Mighty Bay.

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Speaker 6: We're good up here.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you should be fine. So if it is salat,

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Speaker 3: what do you do against it? Well, you make sure

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Speaker 5: I tried name. That helped a little bit. But the

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Speaker 5: fruit that came out of it is really really small.

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Speaker 5: Yet a neighbor down the road has the size of

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Speaker 5: Ustra Diggs. Temorrows are beautiful, So I thought maybe I

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Speaker 5: said change my variety.

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Speaker 3: Uh maybe fertilizing regular fertilizering is important. But if you

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Speaker 3: use name, this is a really important thing. You will

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Speaker 3: have to spray every three, two or three weeks when

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Speaker 3: that thing is starting to come about in spring. So

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Speaker 3: it's not just one spray. And I'll tell you what

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Speaker 3: it is. I can you will get this immediately any

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Speaker 3: fruit that has got seal ats or scale in sex

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Speaker 3: or meali bugs or other sucking bugs. By the way, Allistrair,

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Speaker 3: if you say sucking bugs on the wireless, you better

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Speaker 3: keep your teeth in. But that's another story. If you

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Speaker 3: have creatures like that, they will go and basically get

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Speaker 3: eggs and then the young ones that do all the damage.

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Speaker 3: But here comes to thing. Once they have gone past

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Speaker 3: that point or you've killed them, the next generation and

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Speaker 3: will be very quick, you know, literally after the other one.

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Speaker 3: So that is the next spray three weeks later.

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Speaker 5: Okay, that's good.

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Speaker 3: It's not residual, right, contact only.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, okay, I can fix that sort of a question.

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Speaker 5: She's debating with me about the fertilizer for passion fruit.

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Speaker 5: I'm suggesting I go to my neighbor and pick up

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Speaker 5: some fertilizer from the ground from the kettle, which is

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Speaker 5: not keen on doing. But I'm pretty sure organic fertilizer

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Speaker 5: is the best for passion foo. Is that right?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely? You can use kettle stuff, but the kettle stuff

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Speaker 3: doesn't have a lot of potash, and you need to

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Speaker 3: add some potash as well. So what I then do

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Speaker 3: passion fruit do need according to the experts, which I'm not.

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Speaker 3: According to the experts, they need a bit of nitrogen

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Speaker 3: to grow leaves. But they also need a material that

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Speaker 3: sets the flowers and the fruits, and that is potash.

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Speaker 3: And so fate of potash is a small bag you

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Speaker 3: put that onto the root zone as well water well

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Speaker 3: will work. No worries I've got. I've been on the

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Speaker 3: quarry here and I've got lots of sheep shit. Same thing,

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Speaker 3: I need potash.

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Speaker 5: Okay, so we've got a choice of kettle or horse

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Speaker 3: Unless you are a professional weeder, don't use horsepool. Horse

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Speaker 3: Pool contains so much weed seeds it's unbelievable.

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Speaker 5: My neighbors said that his horses are very clean eaters.

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Speaker 5: There's no docks or thistles in a horse manure.

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Speaker 3: Well, then he must have no I can't believe why

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Speaker 3: he's like he's probably Dutch.

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Speaker 5: Actually could. Actually, it's interesting. Okay, I'll stick with the

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Speaker 5: potation and get these plants going. That's good tonight, Thank

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Speaker 5: you very much.

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Speaker 3: Good one, good question all Alistair.

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Speaker 2: You take care and Jill a very good morning to you.

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Speaker 7: Good morning, and I'm definitely can help me. I have

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Speaker 7: a conundrum I have in my dining room.

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Speaker 8: I have.

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Speaker 7: A bay window with two down lights over it, and

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Speaker 7: something or some emp seed or some creature is dumping

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Speaker 7: the waste down through the light settings and onto my

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Speaker 7: squab and I's just thundering of roof because help me.

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Speaker 6: Would it be en?

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Speaker 3: Yes, it is because.

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Speaker 7: I just use it like a gloom and toilets like.

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Speaker 3: I was just going to say, it is their toilet.

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Speaker 7: Oh great, down and look with camera and couldn't see

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Speaker 7: any And we don't have any ants walking out of

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Speaker 7: the down lights or anywhere else. But I see little

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Speaker 7: just very fine light, very fine saw dust.

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Speaker 3: Correct. Yeah, So this is what ends do they They

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Speaker 3: might not live in your house, or they might not

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Speaker 3: they live in your house, but in your roof zone

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Speaker 3: and what they do is they they feed on whatever

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Speaker 3: or whatever. And they literally have a rubbish tip in

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Speaker 3: your life in your light thing. Yeah, and that's where

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Speaker 3: they damp dump it.

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Speaker 7: Great, there's no risk of in fiction or anything.

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Speaker 3: No, no, not not God, No, I think it's I

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Speaker 3: actually sit under there. I would sit under there with

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Speaker 3: eating and what. And they also have fights with neighboring

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Speaker 3: neighboring groups of ants and then the corpses of what

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Speaker 3: the rubbish dump. You can see all that.

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Speaker 7: Well, and it looks it looks like sworder that mostly

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Speaker 7: like you know, well, it looks like very very very

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Speaker 7: fine sword. So cancer you need deed int or anythink

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Speaker 7: like there's no dark that's all anyway, Thank you for that.

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Speaker 7: I thought it master being. So maybe are need to

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Speaker 7: lay some in baked around the house.

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Speaker 3: Yep, that's a good idea, or or up there in

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Speaker 3: the ceiling space or if you can get if you

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Speaker 3: take the dif for instance, it is the downlight. Is

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Speaker 3: that one of those big bulbs things that you can

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Speaker 3: take out because then you can.

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Speaker 7: Person can an electro from so you can pull the.

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Speaker 3: Two things you can do. You can use some some

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Speaker 3: sprays that you can get from safe Works, which is

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Speaker 3: a good residual material, especially if it's in the ceiling

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Speaker 3: where there's no sunlight. That will last you for at

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Speaker 3: least five or six months. Nobody comes near where its

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Speaker 3: prey was. No and nobody, Oh, put a bait in there.

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Speaker 3: You are, Thank you, Joel, Safe work with the next

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Speaker 3: there you go.

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Speaker 2: Take care all of this. We'll have a break then

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Speaker 2: we'll come back with a couple of texts. We've got

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Speaker 2: a spear line for you as well. So eight hundred

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Speaker 2: and eighty ten eighty is the number to.

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Speaker 1: Core garding with steel sharp.

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Speaker 2: Just a quick text for it, because I find this

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Speaker 2: one fascinating. We have a few sheep that we shear.

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Speaker 2: The wool is worth nothing. Would it be okay as

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Speaker 2: a fertilizer mault around citrus?

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Speaker 3: I saw that absolutely I would do. Wow, and especially

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Speaker 3: as it will break down not very fast by the way, right,

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Speaker 3: Keratin or wool is a really slow material that that

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Speaker 3: breaks down very slowly. But yes, it covers and it

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Speaker 3: covers your soil nicely for the winter too. It's good fun.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, excellent, because isn't there also an organization that's

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Speaker 2: taking like old carpet, mulching it and turning it into

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Speaker 2: matting that you can use as a weed suppressant because

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Speaker 2: it's yeah, it's natural. That's fantastic by all accounts. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: very cool idea, Selena, Very good morning to you.

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Speaker 8: Oh, good morning. I was just listening to that lady

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Speaker 8: about ants in her lights, which when I lived overseas,

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Speaker 8: they used this clove oil and they put it in

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Speaker 3: Oh that's a nice thing to say, thank you. I'd

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Speaker 9: I'm sure that the new zealing out. Yeah, but cloth

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Speaker 9: smell like clove oil. And it might not be good

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Speaker 10: Hello, just talk to route from it. We've got two

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Speaker 3: They look quite unsightly, do they, now? Yes, Oh, okay,

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Speaker 10: Okay, I don't really like the right in the middle

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Speaker 2: It was quite the answer she was after, Jeff, let's

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Speaker 3: Jeff, Hello, he's not going to talk birds. He's going

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Speaker 3: to talk about Fortinia. Red Robin, I reckon, go on.

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Speaker 6: I got two lines on them up in the back boundary,

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Speaker 6: don't know whether they're dead or alive. They're showing, they're showing,

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Speaker 6: I mean, I'm doing it once a week and it's

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Speaker 3: Red robins have got a couple of different I've heard

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Speaker 6: No, they're about It's quite interesting. They're about three or

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know what you're saying. Okay, yeah, no, I'm

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Speaker 3: sorry that if they if they were together, I would say,

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Speaker 3: oh my god, get a sample done on the roots

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Speaker 3: that it's not root rot or phytoftra or something like that,

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Speaker 3: if they're still alive, keep going with not with fertilizer now,

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Speaker 6: Or let's keep on going.

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Speaker 3: And it's hard to you know without seeing them. To

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Speaker 3: Without seeing them, it's really hard to diagnose this.

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Speaker 2: That's right, that's right, much appreciated, Thank you very much.

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Speaker 2: We'll take short break back with Jack in just a moment.

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Speaker 2: We'll need to be quick. Jack greasings to you.

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Speaker 4: Yes, good morning, Hey Jack rude is he's.

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Speaker 3: Get on with it.

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Speaker 4: Egger panthers. How do we kill them?

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Speaker 3: Oh my gosh, all right. The best thing to do

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Speaker 3: Yeah. See this is why.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, go on, tried weed killers, but none of them

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Speaker 3: weed killer sticker, it is affectant that sticks it to

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Speaker 3: those shiny leaves. That's exectly what that's about.

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Speaker 4: Got that, yes, because try.

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Speaker 2: The way they know and I mean if you're taking

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Speaker 2: that'll take it off at ground level and then just

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Speaker 3: Yeah, well that's that. But it's a lot of a

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Speaker 3: lot of stuff to do. Why not use the leaves

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Speaker 3: to torpedo it back to the roots. That's the whole

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Speaker 2: Works works, it works.

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Speaker 3: He is a very quick quick thing about ants in

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Speaker 3: light switches. Yes, sometimes in the old days, I used

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Speaker 2: All right, well we'll talk during the week. Ye all right,

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Speaker 2: let's do take care and thank you very much folks

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Speaker 2: for your company. If you happen to be field days bound,

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Speaker 2: come and say hello. I'll be down there Thursday Friday,

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Speaker 2: So Bailey's Apex and Ryobi I'll be hanging out there,

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Speaker 2: Catch you then and see you back here on Sunday Morning.

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Speaker 2: Take Care.

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