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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Saturday Morning with Jack Team podcast

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Speaker 1: from News Talks at me.

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Speaker 2: And joining me now route time past. How are you?

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Speaker 3: I am very good, Francesca, you too. I heard your

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Speaker 3: little story about the tennis. I thought it was great.

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Speaker 2: I don't mind the disruptor occasionally. Last time I spoke

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Speaker 2: to you, I mean speaking to you a little bit

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Speaker 2: over the summer road. You were on the West coast.

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Speaker 2: Did you have a lovely trip that the sunshine?

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Speaker 3: I did have it. I did have a lovely trip.

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Speaker 3: It was far warmer than it was in christ Jet

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Speaker 3: and with my French son in law we went biking

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Speaker 3: all over their mountains and things like that. That really

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Speaker 3: tested my ability to actually keep up with the young ones.

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Speaker 2: I'm sure it's no problem for you whatsoever. You know,

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Speaker 2: you mentioned the weather there. It has been really this

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Speaker 2: It has been challenging, hasn't It's at some times and

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Speaker 2: at some parts over the summer so far. But that's

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Speaker 2: there's some silver linings to.

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Speaker 3: This, there is. We talked about this, you know, for instance,

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Speaker 3: the Wellingtonians and the christ Church and have been really

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Speaker 3: moaning ever since the Actually we had a really nice spring.

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Speaker 3: It was hot and dry, and all that, and suddenly bang,

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Speaker 3: you're absolutely right. It has its advantages. And I actually

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Speaker 3: learned about these advantages due to the fact that we

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Speaker 3: had to go through it. Because when you have constant

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Speaker 3: rain or a regular rain, the water will soak into

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Speaker 3: the soil and goes to a depth of sometimes a

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Speaker 3: foot or two feet deep, and that is absolutely wonderful

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Speaker 3: if you want to plant plants. Now, I know you

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Speaker 3: do ornamentals, but you also do a bit of vegetables

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Speaker 3: and things like that. It says same with me. And

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Speaker 3: as soon as you've got a soil that is literally

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Speaker 3: hydrated with a lot of water, you are finding it

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Speaker 3: a lot easier to plant those plants and to keep

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Speaker 3: them going. And that's what happened to me. I had

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Speaker 3: a fabulous time so far.

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Speaker 2: What about you, Yeah, no, no, we're all come pretty good. Actually,

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Speaker 2: it's it's wonderful to see the garden thriving without having

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Speaker 2: to put too much human intervention in place. We've had

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Speaker 2: a beautiful whet though on Auckland, so I've had to

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Speaker 2: water my cucumbers because they love them, they love the moisture,

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Speaker 2: and they're just they're taking off. And I'm very proud

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Speaker 2: of them. But you're though. The other day I was

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Speaker 2: decided to change some pots around and I had to

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Speaker 2: empty them, and it was that soil and their roads

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Speaker 2: solid it's concrete.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah. And when you keep on having to water that,

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Speaker 3: you actually drain out a lot of nutrients and fertilizers

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Speaker 3: and things like that. But also things become letterally slapping away,

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Speaker 3: and that's really what you don't want. So I've had

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Speaker 3: a really good time with planting in that moist soil,

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Speaker 3: not over that moist, but good and moist. But then

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Speaker 3: to me, says tomatoes, no problem. They just kept on going.

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Speaker 3: They loved it in the tunnel house, they loved it outside.

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Speaker 3: But here comes to the other thing. With a regular

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Speaker 3: waterfall from the sky, there are other things that are problematic.

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Speaker 3: And I'll give you a little example. We got quite

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Speaker 3: a good lot of brown rot on our on our

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Speaker 3: fruit trees, and I'm talking about you know, peaches and

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Speaker 3: stuff like that, and you've got to be really careful

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Speaker 3: with that. So if you do have a lot of

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Speaker 3: water going before the next storm goes, what I would

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Speaker 3: do is chuck some copper sprays on those developing fruit.

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Speaker 3: That would stop those spores from that particular disease, the

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Speaker 3: rot in this case settling on your developing fruit, and

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Speaker 3: you will really save yourself a lot of hassel at

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Speaker 3: the end.

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Speaker 2: Do you have to repeat that?

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Speaker 3: Yes, okay, absolutely, And the reason is that these spores

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Speaker 3: basically live for maybe a couple of weeks or a week,

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Speaker 3: and then after that you get the next lot by

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Speaker 3: wind on the plants. And if your copper is based

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Speaker 3: basically deteriorated on the surface of your fruit, you'll need

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Speaker 3: to replace it with another quick copper spray. And the

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Speaker 3: cool thing about copper sprays is it's organic. It is

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Speaker 3: absolutely fabulous.

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Speaker 2: And if you haven't got the time to be preventive

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Speaker 2: about it, and the rod is already seated, what's the solution.

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Speaker 3: Then the thing is to get them as soon as

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Speaker 3: you can. If you see the rod starting, get them

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Speaker 3: as soon as you can and cut off the rod,

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Speaker 3: and you'll find that the non rotting part of the

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Speaker 3: fruit is actually edible. It doesn't taste terrible. I mean,

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Speaker 3: unless it's reasonably if you like grown to a place

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Speaker 3: of time that you get some nice sweet fruit in it.

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Speaker 3: You know, if it's too early forget it, take it off,

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Speaker 3: get rid of it. So you can do that. But

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Speaker 3: the other thing, of course, what you can do then

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Speaker 3: is you prevent not only the copper or fungicides, you know,

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Speaker 3: if you like. But if you do that for two

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Speaker 3: or three weeks in the brown rod will start to

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Speaker 3: moan about the brilliant weather that you're getting basically, and

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Speaker 3: it still doesn't result, and it still doesn't result in

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Speaker 3: rotten fruit. That's what this is about, gotcha. Yes, thank you,

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Speaker 3: rod Well.

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Speaker 2: It's been good not to have to have the neighbors

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Speaker 2: come over, hasn't it to water the garden?

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Speaker 3: Exactly? It worked by shelf, Thank you, Thank you. Rude.

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Speaker 2: Always had to catch up with you.

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