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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, b.

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Speaker 2: Red Climb past us in the house. Are in the studio.

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Speaker 3: Good morning Root, Good morning Peter. Yes, I'm in the

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Speaker 3: studio where it was rather we just like you had

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Speaker 3: all that stuff beautiful.

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Speaker 2: We had a christ Church caller earlier on and yes

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Speaker 2: he updated us is to the all the situation. Yeah

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Speaker 2: here as well, it was pretty miserable to be.

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Speaker 3: I think what we need to do here in CHRISTI

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Speaker 3: is just not ventilate so much, but actually drill hole

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Speaker 3: in holes in concrete so that the water goes away.

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Speaker 2: Oh tell you what, you know that that whole thing

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Speaker 2: around permeable surfaces and making cities more spongy. Yeah, absolutely,

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Speaker 2: we need to be doing.

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Speaker 3: That, Peter. At the moment, they are building so many

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Speaker 3: subdivisions in a place that I saw flood at during

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Speaker 3: the just after the earthquake because or River couldn't cope

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Speaker 3: with it. I reckon there will be serious troubles with

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Speaker 3: this growth. It is unbelievable. I have no absolutely no

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Speaker 3: what do you call it? The I have no idea

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Speaker 3: what's going to happen, but my goodness, water everywhere.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Yeah, absolutely right. Let's rip into it because we've

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Speaker 2: got a whole bunch of people want to chat about

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Speaker 2: the wonderful world of the garden and Mike, good morning

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Speaker 2: to you. Morning.

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Speaker 3: Hey Mike, what can we do with you? I'm like,

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Speaker 3: are you okay? You're not getting attacked? Are you?

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Speaker 4: No?

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Speaker 5: No? Not for a moment. I want to know about apricots,

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Speaker 5: rather the lack of them. Five trees here that blossom

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Speaker 5: fultimately every year and if we're lucky, we get one

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Speaker 5: apricot per tree.

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Speaker 3: Wow, that's not much. No, that's not much. Do you

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Speaker 3: you fertilize the trees? I'm sure a little?

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Speaker 5: Yeah, not a lot?

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Speaker 3: No, okay. But but this there is quite often the

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Speaker 3: queue here that in order to get a flower and

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Speaker 3: to get a fruit after the flower, the the k

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Speaker 3: of np K, which is the potash, is a really

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Speaker 3: important nutrient. So what I would do from now on?

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Speaker 3: And they're probably flowering now.

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Speaker 5: Are they just just coming in? The flower?

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Speaker 3: Same here? Yeah, mine started over the last week and

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Speaker 3: I sent Peter a photo of it. Yeah, you flower

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Speaker 3: and and and then suddenly we're getting this weather. But

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Speaker 3: never mind, the point. The point is that, yes, to

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Speaker 3: get it going to keep it going selfate of potash

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Speaker 3: or general NPK fertilizer with a handful of selfate of

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Speaker 3: potash added to it to raise that particular growth of

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Speaker 3: the fruit.

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Speaker 5: Okay, well, what surprises me, I guess is that we

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Speaker 5: have almond trees and they flower, or they've been flowering

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Speaker 5: about three weeks ago, and they they fruit, no problem

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Speaker 5: at all. Yeah, I wonder if it has something to do,

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Speaker 5: would trust or whatever.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it could be, it could be. But in this case,

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Speaker 3: it does pay, and it does pay to use a

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Speaker 3: bit of potash for those fruit trees. Absolutely, it goes

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Speaker 3: for a lot of different fruit trees for citrus as well.

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Speaker 3: And the nice thing, for instance, in citrus is that

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Speaker 3: if you use a litt or a little bit of

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Speaker 3: potash extra, that the fruit is a lot sweeter.

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Speaker 5: Okay, okay, well, I'll keep trying.

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Speaker 3: All this good.

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Speaker 2: Thank you. Now. Talking about fertilizer, I know we've talked

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Speaker 2: about it, and it's often me, No, you've got to wait.

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Speaker 2: You got to wait before you start applying it. So

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Speaker 2: the carro heade out the front of our place has

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Speaker 2: put on so much growth in the last two weeks.

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Speaker 2: It's quite phenomenal. It's awesome, it's beautiful. So obviously the

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Speaker 2: plants are emerging from their winter dormancy, dormancy and is

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Speaker 2: now if you see that sort of growth, does that

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Speaker 2: mean it's okay to add fidilizer or should we still wait?

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Speaker 1: Ye?

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Speaker 3: But no, no do hand full shells. Usually later on,

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Speaker 3: I always say wait till September. But in this case,

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Speaker 3: might be a couple of weeks early, which is exactly

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Speaker 3: what you were.

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Speaker 2: Okay, all right, but no harm, no, all right, all right, just.

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Speaker 3: Chicken in a waste.

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Speaker 2: That's why I spent two and a half hours in

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Speaker 2: bought for fifty bucks. But hey, two and a half

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Speaker 2: hours and it was free. I'm winning. I'm winning.

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Speaker 4: Cherry greetings, It's good morning. I grow my tomatoes in

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Speaker 4: our conservatory, and I had a bad dose of white play. Yeah,

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Speaker 4: because I was sprouted them a wee while ago, and

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Speaker 4: and I'm just wondering, is there something I can do

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Speaker 3: Well, the point is yes, that's I and I do

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Speaker 3: exactly the same thing. I use a material called grow ventive.

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Speaker 3: Grow ventive. You can make it up almost as you

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Speaker 3: hear it. That is not something you spray on plants

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Speaker 3: that are bearing fruit because it's not good for it.

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Speaker 3: But I reckon it would be, especially if your tunnel

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Speaker 3: house or your glass house has got a bit of

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Speaker 3: weeds and other things in there that you don't eat.

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Speaker 3: For instance, I would suggest you give that a hank now,

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Speaker 3: simply because you will reduce the amount of those of

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Speaker 3: those white fly that are hibernating. I know it's only

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Speaker 3: keep your numbers down. And then when they do come up,

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Speaker 3: you'll need to have something else, you know, to literally

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Speaker 3: keep them on the control. And that could be a

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Speaker 3: pyrethroid and something like oh what do you call that?

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Speaker 3: By rhythm for instance, which is something that especially in

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Speaker 3: a long time. It's not actually not terribly toxic to

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Speaker 3: people at all, but it will basically keep those creatures

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Speaker 3: under control, especially if you spray the underside of the leaves.

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Speaker 4: Uhh right, yep, No, it's a conservatory, so anything in

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Speaker 4: those outside for a short while too.

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Speaker 3: But you're not hang on, hang on. If you take

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Speaker 3: won't have treated the things that are in pots that

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Speaker 3: are not edible, right do you know what? Do you

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Speaker 4: So? Yeah, so they would still be hiding.

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Speaker 3: In the and the pots and the plants. Yes, those

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Speaker 3: plants need a treatment that adds well. And it could

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Speaker 3: be anything you know, Promelias, no, not Promellia's, but something

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Speaker 3: like that. So as long as it's not something that

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Speaker 3: often sit on the underside of leaves.

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Speaker 4: Okay, right, thank you very much all the very you.

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Speaker 2: Take care and a very good morning to you.

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Speaker 6: Yes, good morning guys. I have a problem with my

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Speaker 6: lemon tree. I live undern Dowie and every morning I

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Speaker 6: wake up and another lemon or two have they have

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Speaker 6: been peeled the skin?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Good eh, I love that for prepeeled lemons. That's hard.

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Speaker 3: Fine, it is, and they are you pay big money

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Speaker 3: for that because okay, bib I put out red traps. No, nothing,

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Speaker 3: not reds No, it's these ones possums.

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Speaker 6: Well, I don't know that there are possums in the area.

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Speaker 6: I've never seen them near me.

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Speaker 3: Do you often go out in the middle of the night.

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Speaker 6: Well I did last night.

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Speaker 3: To say it.

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Speaker 6: I thought I've got to catch these things.

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Speaker 3: I've seen them. It's really cool.

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Speaker 6: Well, I think it's cool.

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Speaker 3: Yes, it's great. It's really funny because because once, once

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Speaker 3: they sit in your tree and you suddenly turn up,

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Speaker 3: they get all all huffy puffy, and they go and

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Speaker 3: they've run away. But anyway, posta trap right there you go, So.

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Speaker 6: Where do I get?

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Speaker 3: Where do I get those gun centers whatever? Yeah, and

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Speaker 3: the bottom trap at the moment is a really good

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Speaker 3: thing to sort of bait with a little bit of

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Speaker 3: apple and and so on. Yeah, and all sorts of

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Speaker 3: other little bits and pieces. And just have a google,

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Speaker 3: have a google of how to catch a boss them.

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Speaker 3: It'll be lovely.

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Speaker 7: Thank you very much.

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Speaker 6: I shall look forward to it.

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Speaker 2: All the very best. You have a great take care.

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Speaker 2: We'll take a short break, we will chat with Kerry

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Speaker 2: and just to mo.

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Speaker 3: Just like that.

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Speaker 2: It was a lot of text and I made the

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Speaker 2: comment about spending time in the workshop to save fifty

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Speaker 2: eight bucks. Two and a half hours for fifty bucks.

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Speaker 2: I've got some jobs for you, Pete exactly.

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Speaker 3: But then again, it's nice doing things like that.

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Speaker 2: Look, I went out into the workshop and I was

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Speaker 2: going to do a whole lot of different jobs and

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Speaker 2: they all required moving in and out, and it was raining.

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Speaker 2: I I just can't shag. And then I found this

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Speaker 2: bit of scrap or off cut color steel. Oh that's right.

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Speaker 2: I was going to make that witch's cap. And then okay,

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Speaker 2: well that's a little bit. You know, you've got to

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Speaker 2: think about it and you got to draw it up.

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Speaker 2: You can make a little template. No, And so I

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Speaker 2: did it, and I'm bloody stoked to be fair exactly.

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Speaker 3: Hey, something totally different before we go on next week,

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Speaker 3: I'm going to be in roder and then TAPO basically

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Speaker 3: at the school. So that's all. That's all good, and

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Speaker 3: that's I'm so looking forward to it. It's going to

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Speaker 3: be great. But on the way back on Friday, I'm

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Speaker 3: coming back to Rhoderua and I'm going to go to

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Speaker 3: Wingspan that they'll flight. So I just want to tell

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Speaker 3: people if they've got any questions for Peter or for me,

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Speaker 3: come to Wingspan right absolutely and book yourself. Actually, the

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Speaker 3: Wingspan people don't know it, so don't tell them. Rock coming.

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Speaker 3: I'm rocking up. Come over to Wingspan this Friday and

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Speaker 3: I'll be there. It'll be fun because my flight is

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Speaker 3: not till three o'clock or something.

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Speaker 2: So from downtown rod to Wingspan is what how long

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Speaker 2: is the drive? Not long?

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Speaker 3: Quarter of an hour?

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Speaker 5: Perfect?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Bassy to find.

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Speaker 3: Wingspan ends it at gmail dot com. There you are.

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Speaker 2: Perfect, all right. There you go and rock up and

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Speaker 2: have a chat to Carrie. Good morning to you.

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Speaker 8: Good morning.

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Speaker 2: Go for it.

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Speaker 8: Like I had two lemon trees. One is quite big

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Speaker 8: and it's in the ground. Never had many lemons on

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Speaker 8: it at all, So I bought another one and I've

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Speaker 8: put it in one of those large clusts that containments at.

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Speaker 7: The front door.

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Speaker 8: And it gets the sun all day, but it's got

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Speaker 8: leaf curls coiled right up it. I mean it gets rain.

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Speaker 8: And I've already been there and then not so much

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Speaker 8: in the winter. But yeah, so the cool the leaves

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Speaker 8: are cooled right up.

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Speaker 3: And have you had any fruit on it yet?

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Speaker 8: The big one. I'm feeding banana skins and egg shells

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Speaker 3: No, that's another urban bit. I should we should have

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Speaker 2: All the very best. Can we talk about myths in

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Speaker 3: Yes, if you put a polar electricity thing on it

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Speaker 2: Just the copper wire in and of itself, as attractive

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Speaker 3: No, no, no, you really need you need a battery

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Speaker 7: Hello Jam Hello, only communications person for the Eastern Bays

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Speaker 7: Songbird Project and one of the things we do is

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Speaker 3: That's lovely. So if Pepper's listening, so tell me. So,

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Speaker 3: how do they get hold of you?

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Speaker 7: And we have the possum guy. If she just emails possums,

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Speaker 3: In z excellent, Thank you so much, Edwards.

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Speaker 7: Yes, and he will help her or else look on

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Speaker 7: because we have free trap handle which they borrow them.

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Speaker 7: They don't have to buy them, they borrow them and

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Speaker 3: Great.

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Speaker 7: So I'm sorry she hasn't know that it's our great

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Speaker 3: So anyway, thank you, that's wonderful. What is that? What

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Speaker 7: A little bit of apple inside the track something like that. Anyway, No,

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Speaker 2: That's brilliant, brilliant, And that website again songbird dot org

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Speaker 3: Isn't that great?

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Speaker 3: Isn't that? Isn't that what preda free is all about?

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Speaker 2: There you go, and looking at the two e's and

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Speaker 3: There you go, you got it, exactly fantastic.

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Speaker 2: Grant greetings, hey Grant Hire you.

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Speaker 9: I just have some teatoki treats that have probably been

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Speaker 3: you very much, weight and welcome success with that. Have

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Speaker 2: from you ret conifer trees brown and leaves disappearing, getting petchy.

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Speaker 3: too much water. See, all these things are exactly those symptoms,

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Speaker 3: Get an arborist in.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, sooner rather than later. Yeah, awesome, Always a pleasure.

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Speaker 2: You have a great week and enjoy wingspan. That'll be

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Speaker 2: awesome on Friday.

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Speaker 3: Well, yeah, and I enjoyed our pos. It'd be great

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Speaker 3: going back to the old team. Oh they're doing so.

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Speaker 2: Great, nice, it's just wonderful, fantastic. Take care, say talk soon,

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Speaker 2: take care. Thank you very much for your company this morning.

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Speaker 2: It is always a pleasure. And it's a bit wet

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Speaker 2: with you again next Sunday. My thanks to Hope, my

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