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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 be.

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Speaker 2: Rude climb passes our man in the garden. He's with

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Speaker 2: a snaw, a cult rude.

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Speaker 3: Heik Cura Jack. Yeah, in the garden, all right, because

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Speaker 3: it's time to close things up, don't you think?

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Speaker 2: Wow, it's time to start protecting things a little bit,

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Speaker 2: isn't it. It's getting pretty nippy?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it is, it is. You're all right in Auckland,

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Speaker 3: though you can basically keep going.

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Speaker 4: I'm larger, right, yeah, yeah, but but I mean, having

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Speaker 4: having spent the bsiers of my life, my formative years

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Speaker 4: in the three, I know how frosty it can get

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Speaker 4: in christ Church.

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Speaker 3: Funny you sick. I would call it in the what

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Speaker 3: I call it a CHC. Yeah, that's an airline code.

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Speaker 3: You call it the old three. That's your telephone note.

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Speaker 3: You know that's good? All right? Yeah? So yeah, so

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Speaker 3: you know what? You know how that looked when the

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Speaker 3: port hills are selling to get cloudy and there's snow

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Speaker 3: coming down and some all that stuff. So basically I

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Speaker 3: just want to have a little chat about it. Growth

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Speaker 3: of plants basically stops. It is time of the year. Anyway,

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Speaker 3: and everybody hibernates. Insects and birds will go through all

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Speaker 3: sorts of hungry phases, you name it. But how about

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Speaker 3: your soil you Sometimes people don't really think about it,

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Speaker 3: but soil sometimes get frozen as well. And so I

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Speaker 3: want to start with compost first, the compost heap. If

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Speaker 3: you've got a compost heap and that freezes, basically all

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Speaker 3: the creepy crawlies that live in the compost heap are

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Speaker 3: also slowing down so much that there isn't a great

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Speaker 3: deal of compost being made. So I would always sa,

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Speaker 3: if you've got an open compost heap, put some type

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Speaker 3: pallen over the top, or an enormous smack of pea

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Speaker 3: straw right, really good and thick, and that basically keeps

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Speaker 3: the if you like the environment down below the down

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Speaker 3: unders keeps them going and keep making composts. That's that's important. Nice.

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Speaker 3: And another example, do you have citrus in your gun?

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Speaker 3: You have limes and lemons.

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Speaker 2: And yeah, the lemons like a grade actually moment.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, because they're fruiting eggs.

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Speaker 2: They certainly are. Yeah, and the fruiting mutch. I've got

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Speaker 2: a much more plentiful crop than this time last year,

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Speaker 2: which is.

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Speaker 3: Nice, which is quite logic because the lemon has a

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Speaker 3: year on year off quite often. So if you want

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Speaker 3: it more a year on year on, have three of these,

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Speaker 3: three of them next to each other, if you like,

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Speaker 3: and at least one will be doing you know what

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Speaker 3: I mean. But that's another story. So what I do

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Speaker 3: with the cynrusi is very simple. You do the whole

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Speaker 3: surface again, put organic matter in back all or compost again,

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Speaker 3: or that those chippered branches if you like. And basically

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Speaker 3: that means that these plants are fine. They're doing everything

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Speaker 3: they need to do without being hassled by the frost.

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Speaker 3: So that's important. There's another way to go, and I

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Speaker 3: think I might mention that frost cloth is really important,

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Speaker 3: but there's also a material called liquid frost cloth that

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Speaker 3: you spray on the plants that you don't want to

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Speaker 3: get frosted, and that is a it's a waxy material,

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Speaker 3: yes kind of stuff material, Yes totally, it's got Yeah,

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Speaker 3: it's got no no nasty chemicals in it. No, no,

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Speaker 3: that's it. And but it only goes to minus three.

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Speaker 3: So if you live somewhere in yeah, yeah, yeah, you'll

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Speaker 3: probably have to put some extra frost cross over the top.

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Speaker 3: But generally speaking you can do that in Auckland quite easily.

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Speaker 3: A bit to minus three, no problem at all. And

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Speaker 3: it's a it's a waxy material that literally covers your leaves.

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Speaker 3: Then yeah, and then the other thing, that's what we

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Speaker 3: do here is when we have orchids and you just

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Speaker 3: really don't want to give them that last touch, I

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Speaker 3: usually put them, especially if they're in a pot, under

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Speaker 3: an existing tree, like an eucalyptus, because that covers it

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Speaker 3: from frost as well.

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Speaker 2: Did you realize that, Yeah, right, that's good.

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Speaker 3: No, but there you are. So if you put it

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Speaker 3: under a tree or a shrub that can actually have

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Speaker 3: the leaves over the top of your sensitive little tree,

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Speaker 3: you can actually stop it from freezing there as well. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: there you go.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I used to. I used to do that terrible

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Speaker 4: make a terrible mistake because we lived on Hunsbury Hill, right,

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Speaker 4: so we were above Sea christ which is good different

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Speaker 4: than most of most of the city. And I think

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Speaker 4: we're about one hundred and thirty meters up or something,

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Speaker 4: you know.

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Speaker 2: And I used to.

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Speaker 4: Look out the window and go, oh, it looks like

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Speaker 4: a nice day, and I'd step outside and they go,

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Speaker 4: it's not too bad. And I'd start riding my bike

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Speaker 4: down the hill, and as I rode down the hill,

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Speaker 4: I could feel the temperature change. Right, So as you

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Speaker 4: as you, as you get further from the sun and

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Speaker 4: you get slightly close to the sea level, slightly closer

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Speaker 4: to the frost, it would just get colder and colder

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Speaker 4: and colder. And about halfway down the hill, I would think,

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Speaker 4: oh my god, I'm not sure if my hands are

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Speaker 4: going to be able to pull the brakes like I'm

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Speaker 4: so all of a sudden. So my advice for dealing

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Speaker 4: with the frost is always we gloves, yeah.

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Speaker 3: Or go and buy by someone on top of the

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Speaker 3: hill exactly you see me, Kennedy sports. Cold air is

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Speaker 3: heavier then warm air, and it goes downhill, which is

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Speaker 3: why you keep your warm air on the top.

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Speaker 2: Too, right beg you, rud. We'll put all the rhad's

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