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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks B.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, we climb passed. How are you, sir?

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Speaker 3: I'm good, by the way. When you're talking about relaxing, yes,

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Speaker 3: I think lawn mowing, new strawberry planting. Wait and forget

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Speaker 3: the tunnel house, which really needs a bit more clear stuff.

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Speaker 3: I've got to sew my tomato seeds, so I've got

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Speaker 3: the ringking seeds. So what have you got new? I've

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Speaker 3: got to go and mix new top soil and compost

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Speaker 3: from a tunnelhouse because now I know why it's going

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Speaker 3: a bit slow. So I think instead of making too

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Speaker 3: much compost, Actually I've just learned something.

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Speaker 2: What have you know everything already?

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Speaker 3: No, I don't linking know everything. I make crap mistakes everywhere,

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Speaker 3: as you well know. But I just realized that when

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Speaker 3: you've got a tunnel house, you can't just keep on

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Speaker 3: putting composts on. You need soil in there too. That

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Speaker 3: gives you the structure of the soil. And now I

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Speaker 3: know why everything was drying out so quickly because that

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Speaker 3: wasn't enough. So I'm going to eighty percent soil for

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Speaker 3: soil and twenty percent compost boom. That's me. So all

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Speaker 3: that sort of stuff is happening. And after apart from that,

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Speaker 3: I was in in.

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Speaker 2: The oh in Wingspan.

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Speaker 3: Our wingspan was wonderful. Good. That was just wonderful and

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Speaker 3: it was lovely to see you. To see Claudia there

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Speaker 3: and all the other which has a lot of people

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Speaker 3: I knew there was fabulous. And and oh you know what,

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Speaker 3: we got some new new grow new flyers there as well,

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Speaker 3: new what I called them falconers if you like. Yes, great,

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Speaker 3: and they've trained the falcons to go after this drone.

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Speaker 3: I still think it's one of the most it's one

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Speaker 3: of the most amazing things you can see at Wingspan,

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Speaker 3: the falcon hitting a drone out of the air by

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Speaker 3: surfing it down. I think it's the best way to

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Speaker 3: describe it. Yeah. Great.

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Speaker 2: Now can I ask just someone who might be listening,

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Speaker 2: do they have els at Wingspan as well?

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Speaker 3: Absolutely? They have more box knox is there, and they

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Speaker 3: have baran owls and the banal. As you may know, Peter,

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Speaker 3: we've talked about it is the latest New Zealand native

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Speaker 3: bird of prey. It got here by itself about two

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Speaker 3: thousand and eight. Flu to Kaititire a pair started breeding

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Speaker 3: in a hollow tree and basically we now estimate there

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Speaker 3: must be at least five hundred maybe eight hundred barin

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Speaker 3: owls in New Zealand, going all the way through Northland, Auckland,

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Speaker 3: Waiketto mostly but also further south. And we've even seen

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Speaker 3: one or two here in christ.

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Speaker 2: And according to a post that I saw, and I

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Speaker 2: was very excited about this one sitting in a tree

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Speaker 2: on Ponsone Road.

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Speaker 3: That's right, and that was what the thing was about

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Speaker 3: with the box. Yeah, and you know what barn owls

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Speaker 3: do too. This is something that if you're a bit screamership,

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Speaker 3: just avert your eyes. But imagine feeding a banal or

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Speaker 3: dead owl that bar now will completely swallow the whole

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Speaker 3: owl in ten.

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Speaker 2: Secs old now or a mice mouse they're not eating

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Speaker 2: their own, Yes, they're eating.

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Speaker 3: Mice and they leave it. They leave quite often the

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Speaker 3: tails speaking.

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Speaker 2: Oh fabulous. Right now, I've got your design for a

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Speaker 2: barn ol box and maybe I'm going to commit and

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Speaker 2: go this week I'll make one and then i'll put

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Speaker 2: up some pictures of it. Yes, I will do that

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Speaker 2: this week. Yeah, all that kind of stuff. So I'll

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Speaker 2: do it and people can find out because I have

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Speaker 2: had a number of questions about it. So I'll get

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Speaker 2: one done this week, I promise, and then on the

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Speaker 2: first day of September, which we all know is not

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Speaker 2: the first day of spring, I will We can talk

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Speaker 2: about it. There you go, right, let's rip into a

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Speaker 2: couple of callers. Catherine, good morning.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, guys. I've got a problem for a client

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Speaker 4: of mine. I'm a support worker, and one of my

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Speaker 4: clients said, what can I do about all the ants

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Speaker 4: coming into my kitchen?

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Speaker 3: First of all, what you need to do. You've got

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Speaker 3: to stop feeding them, right, you know, when you spill

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Speaker 3: some spaghetti bolonnaise behind the stove, the ants will come

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Speaker 3: real quick. And they come and they make these little

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Speaker 3: trails and they literally get rid of all this junk

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Speaker 3: that is there. And it could be sweet stuff, it

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Speaker 3: could be protein stuff, it could be sources, it could

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Speaker 3: if you like bait for ants. Ants love either sweet

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Speaker 3: or protein baits, and they take that back to the nest.

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Speaker 3: They feed it to the queen, and in the bait

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Speaker 3: is a poison that will but literally knock out the

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Speaker 3: queen and all the others that are in that bait. Right,

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Speaker 3: So a good end bait will do it. I think

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Speaker 3: that there's a good end bait from wed and Forget

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Speaker 3: that works really well. There's all sorts of different baits.

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Speaker 3: Go and knock yourself out and try it. And here's

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Speaker 3: the most important thing to remember that it might not

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Speaker 3: be one colony of ents that goes into your house,

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Speaker 3: but different colonies, and they have different territories, so the

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Speaker 3: baits have to be distributed over various territories, say two

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Speaker 3: or three or four meters apart, and that is your

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Speaker 3: best tactic to get rid of them.

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Speaker 4: Great, I will tell her about that. I care you

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Speaker 4: guys are doing a wonderful job. Sake for your help.

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Speaker 2: Bye, lovely talk, you have a great day, and Joe

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Speaker 2: a very good morning to you.

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Speaker 5: Good morning, guys. I've got some bulbs that I purchased

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Speaker 5: from the supermarkets and I was wondering, can I because

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Speaker 5: can you do drive them out and put them in

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Speaker 5: the next year that type of thing you've.

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Speaker 3: Just have, you just bought them? Yeah? What what? What

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Speaker 3: that develops? Uh?

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Speaker 5: There is a Oh mom would grow me a flowery one.

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Speaker 3: Mobile growner grown at me. My mom would do exactly

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Speaker 3: the same thing, you silly bugger. Don't you know that's

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Speaker 3: a narcissus or that's a crocus or whatever.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, it's basically like some sort of onion, the bulb itself,

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Speaker 5: and then I've got a miniature for the cats of society.

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Speaker 3: But narcissus. That's a niccissus week, isn't it.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I wouldn't.

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Speaker 3: Look plant them. Plant them anyway, even if you've got

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Speaker 3: you will find that those bulbs are usually quite resilient

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Speaker 3: and they will actually go back into their normal, if

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Speaker 3: the wrong time. Now, so do not feel too awful

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Speaker 3: about that. Plant them now. If you're not one hundred

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Speaker 5: A really flower and they seem to Yeah, you buy them.

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Speaker 5: They're not gorgeous and valla, you know. So I'm like,

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Speaker 5: I'm sure I can revive or keep or maintain them

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Speaker 5: for maybe in a special little pot.

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Speaker 3: You think I were put them into soil.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, yeah, put.

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Speaker 3: Them in the soil. Do it now, and maybe only

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Speaker 3: as a half the you know the depth of the

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Speaker 3: bulb itself, if you like, you know what I mean. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: have a go, Thank you, good luck, you take care.

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Speaker 2: By then, I think you've you've you've made people a

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Speaker 2: bit concerned. So text message from Andy. Do barn owls

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Speaker 2: prey on more pork?

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Speaker 3: No they don't know, they don't.

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Speaker 2: Between the owl varieties.

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Speaker 3: No, it was no better at all because because what

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Speaker 3: barns eat is mice and rats and introduced finches things

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Speaker 3: like that. So that's what we found was their most

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Speaker 3: common bird that they would eat, you know, cheffinches and

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Speaker 3: things like that. Yeah, absolutely, sparrows. And that's that's okay,

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Speaker 3: that's actually, let's fine. They're going for the not so

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Speaker 3: native creatures.

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Speaker 2: Awesome, okay, Hey Paul, good morning to you. Hello, Paul,

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Speaker 2: it's a.

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Speaker 6: Good morning the general.

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Speaker 3: Good after morning people, Yeah.

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Speaker 6: Good afternoon. Good yeah, good morning. I had a little

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Speaker 6: byside pet. I knew your found. He's one of the

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Speaker 6: good guys.

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Speaker 2: Thank you, mate, that's much appreciate.

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Speaker 4: Yep.

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Speaker 6: I've got some rubat plants and they've got I've dug

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Speaker 6: a hole, put some sheep menu in the bottom of

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Speaker 6: sheep pelots in by fertilize them every now and then.

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Speaker 6: And I've got great green leaves but very short stems.

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Speaker 6: Oh yeah, the leaves are actually bigger than the stems,

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Speaker 6: and they're not brilliantly green.

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Speaker 3: What did you furtilize you with? If I may ask, Paul,

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Speaker 3: I used.

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Speaker 6: Some liquid seaweed fertilizers. Occasionally. I put some sheep cults

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Speaker 6: around them occasionally.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it should be fine. I can't believe that.

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Speaker 6: All the plants are brilliant.

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Speaker 3: Okay, tell me in the sun. Are they in shady

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Speaker 6: Half and half one sort of gets once impact on

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Speaker 6: gether that sort of Uh. One one gets in the

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Speaker 6: at and some the other one gets through the most

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Speaker 6: of the day and the other one. One of them

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Speaker 6: actually went to seed the other day. And it's a gander. Yes, Bob,

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Speaker 6: will that come back?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there will be. I'm sure it will be. That's

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Speaker 3: that that has been flowering, of course some time ago,

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Speaker 3: and now the seeds are coming up. There's are quite

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Speaker 3: quite lovely flowers, aren't they. But tell me the flower

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Speaker 6: Surely then didn't get that tip because my wife said

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Speaker 6: I was going to see you chopped it off?

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, fair enough? What the heck? Yeah? Yeah?

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Speaker 6: What what would I put them in a like a

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Speaker 6: tube and I hope they should have grown long to

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Speaker 3: No, I wouldn't do that, No, I wouldn't. Just what

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Speaker 3: I would do is get get some I would get

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Speaker 3: some general fertilizer like nitroposca blue, nitro fosca blue. Get

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Speaker 3: a little bit of that and a little bit of

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Speaker 3: what do you call that trace elements. Those are two

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Speaker 3: things you can get at shops. The trace elements will

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Speaker 3: might be because you have to do a soil test

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Speaker 3: to find out what it needs for it or what

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Speaker 3: it lacks, you know what I mean. But without doing that,

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Speaker 3: you could buy some simply general fertilizer. And as I said,

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Speaker 3: nitro Fosca blue is good, which basically goes after every

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Speaker 3: rain it soaks back into the soil. Into the root

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Speaker 3: zone and the trace elements will probably balance you if

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Speaker 3: you miss some trace elements like copper or zinc or

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Speaker 3: things like that, and then you might find that the

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Speaker 3: plant will grow taller, taller. Stems might not doing that

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Speaker 3: sometimes and if I gave it trace elements, they go oh, yep,

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Speaker 3: sorry they did it. Boom and they go larger.

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Speaker 6: They do Okay, thank you, jentleman. I'll try that more.

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Speaker 2: Welcome to just before the break root. Quick question Anthony

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Speaker 2: engineer here can you ask for it? What's the best

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Speaker 2: tool to cut or trim flax? I have some seriously

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Speaker 3: How that very easy? There is in most guns centers

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Speaker 2: Now, Yeah, I think it'll come to me as well.

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Speaker 3: Have you got Have you got the name of that

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Speaker 2: But it's got teeth on it. It's not just a

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Speaker 3: No, it's got very fine teeth and a sharp ass.

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Speaker 2: Brilliant, right, Donna, A very good morning.

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Speaker 7: To you, Good morning pea, good morning route. I live

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Speaker 3: I'm sorry to hear that.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, our look of it beautiful with a beautiful with

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Speaker 3: Tell me where is the pot inside? Outside?

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Speaker 7: It's a big pot. It's probably a pot so out

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Speaker 7: I've got a I've got a knick drink tree that's

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's what I was just going to say.

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Speaker 7: Just coming into blossom, just coming into the blossom. Now

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Speaker 3: actually if you if you use some fungus fighter for instance,

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Speaker 7: You, No, I haven't ready disease. And that they're just

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Speaker 3: Okay, here's a sweet tip sulfate of pots.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, a little bit of there were.

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Speaker 3: Well just once uh after flowering if you like, okay, yeah,

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Speaker 7: Okay. And then the last quick thing. I put a

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Speaker 7: They all like it, or they don't.

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Speaker 3: Know, they all don't like it. What you need to

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Speaker 7: A whole lot of hanging bascus on my dar, right, beans,

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Speaker 7: they got nothing? You don't ready to put them nice

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Speaker 3: Yes you can, but only minute amounts. Please put it

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Speaker 2: Oh, I love them. I know that you mock me

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Speaker 3: I'm not mocking anything. But what I would do is

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Speaker 2: That's all right, don't go too far, brilliant, that's donner. Yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: I like it. But you've got to get the balance

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's the point.

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Speaker 2: The other day it was no more grass clippings because

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Speaker 3: And that is because the ratio of nitrogen, your mushy stuff,

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Speaker 3: Absolutely awesome? Why not? All right? You could start from

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Speaker 2: So I'm really wanting to look after the plum tree.

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Speaker 2: What could I put around the plum tree?

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Speaker 3: General fertilizer with a little bit of potsh extra all right,

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Speaker 2: great time of year. It's nice, it really is. Right,

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Speaker 2: let's talk on the first day of September, which is

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Speaker 2: let's do that for a change, all right, let's do that.

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Speaker 2: Take care of all the best of your work. Thanks you, hey,

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