1 00:00:06,855 --> 00:00:10,735 Speaker 1: You're listening to The Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp 2 00:00:10,935 --> 00:00:15,415 Speaker 1: from News Talks ed B Gardening with Still Sharp, Massive 3 00:00:15,495 --> 00:00:21,255 Speaker 1: Field Days savings on still Tools now, Squeaky Door or 4 00:00:21,335 --> 00:00:25,095 Speaker 1: Squeaky Floor Get the right advice from Peter Wolfcamp The 5 00:00:25,215 --> 00:00:29,575 Speaker 1: Resident Builder with Late fourth Solar offering affordable solar solutions 6 00:00:29,735 --> 00:00:30,575 Speaker 1: News Talks ed B. 7 00:00:32,415 --> 00:00:34,855 Speaker 2: Right, Oh, that must be my turn, and more importantly, 8 00:00:35,015 --> 00:00:36,135 Speaker 2: Dred it's your turn. 9 00:00:36,655 --> 00:00:39,975 Speaker 3: Hello, good a, how are you? You're good, very good 10 00:00:40,095 --> 00:00:41,655 Speaker 3: and slightly. 11 00:00:42,015 --> 00:00:44,055 Speaker 2: You know, taking a Rosie view of the world after 12 00:00:44,055 --> 00:00:46,055 Speaker 2: having spent a couple of days at field Days because 13 00:00:46,095 --> 00:00:47,735 Speaker 2: they have such good people. 14 00:00:47,815 --> 00:00:50,375 Speaker 3: Evan been there for a while, but I wish I 15 00:00:50,415 --> 00:00:53,215 Speaker 3: always enjoy I've always find I have not enough time. 16 00:00:53,495 --> 00:00:56,935 Speaker 2: Yeah, I know, I know, And it's amazing. What's you 17 00:00:56,975 --> 00:01:00,015 Speaker 2: know like And like I said, I've only been going 18 00:01:00,055 --> 00:01:02,135 Speaker 2: the last on seven or eight years or something like that. 19 00:01:02,175 --> 00:01:05,495 Speaker 2: But you know, you're wandering along in these these drones 20 00:01:05,575 --> 00:01:08,495 Speaker 2: that you can use for spraying or you know, the 21 00:01:08,975 --> 00:01:12,095 Speaker 2: technology side of it is amazing. The equipment, of course, 22 00:01:12,175 --> 00:01:15,535 Speaker 2: is fascinating. And I just find that the people because 23 00:01:15,535 --> 00:01:19,735 Speaker 2: they're all doers, right, everyone's if everyone's engaged and I 24 00:01:19,855 --> 00:01:21,175 Speaker 2: love being around people like that. 25 00:01:21,535 --> 00:01:25,055 Speaker 3: Certainly is talk about drone spraying. You know, when we 26 00:01:25,095 --> 00:01:29,095 Speaker 3: do predator free New Zealand and for instance, we noticed that, 27 00:01:29,615 --> 00:01:32,335 Speaker 3: well not me, but you know the people that do it, 28 00:01:32,535 --> 00:01:35,975 Speaker 3: they knows that the helicopter has missed let's say ten meters. Yeah, sure, 29 00:01:36,055 --> 00:01:38,975 Speaker 3: and obviously they send a drone into to fix that. 30 00:01:38,975 --> 00:01:40,815 Speaker 3: That sort of stuff is really cool start. 31 00:01:41,095 --> 00:01:43,535 Speaker 2: But even some of that technology and the use of 32 00:01:43,655 --> 00:01:48,975 Speaker 2: AI to identify predators and pests and traps yep, you 33 00:01:49,015 --> 00:01:52,455 Speaker 2: know the I guess the old way of trapping was 34 00:01:52,455 --> 00:01:54,975 Speaker 2: that you had lots of people walking miles and miles 35 00:01:54,975 --> 00:01:57,135 Speaker 2: through the forest and that sort of thing. And now 36 00:01:57,575 --> 00:02:00,375 Speaker 2: some of the new traps will recognize what they've captured, 37 00:02:00,415 --> 00:02:02,935 Speaker 2: they'll release all of you know, it's just incredible. 38 00:02:03,495 --> 00:02:07,815 Speaker 3: You have to remember that I was in in Queenstown. 39 00:02:08,375 --> 00:02:10,735 Speaker 3: It is last week where we had a kiwi WHOI 40 00:02:11,095 --> 00:02:14,415 Speaker 3: so whoey about kiwi? Three days of talks about kiwi 41 00:02:14,655 --> 00:02:18,375 Speaker 3: and AI stuff is becoming more and more. It comes 42 00:02:18,415 --> 00:02:21,295 Speaker 3: more and more to the sixtally quite interesting. So these 43 00:02:21,375 --> 00:02:24,175 Speaker 3: traps now identify who's at the front of the trap 44 00:02:24,615 --> 00:02:26,335 Speaker 3: and then they are to say no, it's not it's 45 00:02:26,375 --> 00:02:28,215 Speaker 3: not it's not a pest, it's a kiwi or it's 46 00:02:28,215 --> 00:02:31,095 Speaker 3: a you know, something we like and they hold back, 47 00:02:31,175 --> 00:02:34,375 Speaker 3: they shut up. That's it. But the moment of comes 48 00:02:35,535 --> 00:02:37,255 Speaker 3: make my day. That's right. 49 00:02:37,375 --> 00:02:38,975 Speaker 2: Bring it on, sunshine. 50 00:02:39,055 --> 00:02:41,735 Speaker 3: Yeah, hey, And talking about that, this is just a 51 00:02:41,775 --> 00:02:44,255 Speaker 3: couple of little little things. First of all, we stayed 52 00:02:44,255 --> 00:02:48,175 Speaker 3: in a wonderful little place at Lakeland Christian Camp and 53 00:02:48,175 --> 00:02:50,615 Speaker 3: and there was this is the other thing about this. 54 00:02:50,695 --> 00:02:52,455 Speaker 3: So you go to a place like that and you're 55 00:02:52,455 --> 00:02:55,095 Speaker 3: there with one hundred and something people, and then there's 56 00:02:55,175 --> 00:02:58,415 Speaker 3: Rachel Paula who feed you everything that you can have. 57 00:02:58,495 --> 00:03:01,015 Speaker 3: It's just unbelievable. I just want to shout out to 58 00:03:01,095 --> 00:03:04,135 Speaker 3: these guys. That's wonderful. That is exactly the way it was. 59 00:03:04,375 --> 00:03:06,415 Speaker 3: And the other thing that I think a lot lot 60 00:03:06,415 --> 00:03:08,295 Speaker 3: of people that are not in the South Island will 61 00:03:08,335 --> 00:03:11,655 Speaker 3: forget is that we now have very soon on the 62 00:03:11,695 --> 00:03:19,135 Speaker 3: twenty first of June, that famous place, the Wanica Mountain 63 00:03:19,175 --> 00:03:21,935 Speaker 3: Film Festival is starting on the twenty first. For about 64 00:03:21,935 --> 00:03:25,055 Speaker 3: sixty nine bucks or so, you can actually get yourself 65 00:03:25,455 --> 00:03:27,975 Speaker 3: in a subscription for the whole month to watch all 66 00:03:27,975 --> 00:03:31,295 Speaker 3: these amazing films. If you see the trailer of the 67 00:03:31,295 --> 00:03:35,495 Speaker 3: film Festival, the Film Festival in Wanica. You will watch it. 68 00:03:35,575 --> 00:03:38,695 Speaker 3: I'll bet you you will. It is unbelievable. I just 69 00:03:38,735 --> 00:03:40,455 Speaker 3: thought i'd tell you fantastic. 70 00:03:41,615 --> 00:03:46,055 Speaker 2: Right, let's get amongst the calls, fullboard calls already and lislie. 71 00:03:46,295 --> 00:03:46,935 Speaker 2: Let's start with you. 72 00:03:48,335 --> 00:03:52,015 Speaker 4: Really, hello, Rode. I want to know if you can 73 00:03:52,095 --> 00:03:55,735 Speaker 4: help me. My passion fruit has gone feral. 74 00:03:56,975 --> 00:03:58,375 Speaker 5: It's gone everywhere. 75 00:03:59,495 --> 00:04:03,895 Speaker 4: And the fruit is there as well. So what can 76 00:04:03,935 --> 00:04:06,735 Speaker 4: I do? When should I prone and how I should 77 00:04:06,775 --> 00:04:07,335 Speaker 4: I prune it? 78 00:04:08,015 --> 00:04:10,735 Speaker 3: I would first of all, let those fruit ripen if 79 00:04:10,735 --> 00:04:14,255 Speaker 3: that's still happening, and then it would afterwards, Yeah, in 80 00:04:14,255 --> 00:04:16,495 Speaker 3: the winter time, you can prune it back. Don't go 81 00:04:16,575 --> 00:04:20,015 Speaker 3: over the top. But but but make it suit your sight, 82 00:04:20,375 --> 00:04:21,015 Speaker 3: you know what I mean? 83 00:04:21,815 --> 00:04:25,815 Speaker 4: Yes, okay, thank you? 84 00:04:25,815 --> 00:04:28,615 Speaker 3: No problem have you? Is it still ripening? You think? 85 00:04:29,895 --> 00:04:33,295 Speaker 4: Well, I'm not sure that it's just producing more fruit. 86 00:04:34,295 --> 00:04:39,615 Speaker 3: Where you were from where you're ringing, you don't have 87 00:04:39,655 --> 00:04:43,255 Speaker 3: any frost. So take it while it goes, keep going. 88 00:04:44,135 --> 00:04:46,935 Speaker 3: But you can then take off at the moment if 89 00:04:46,935 --> 00:04:49,695 Speaker 3: you want to start early, take off those particular fines 90 00:04:49,895 --> 00:04:52,095 Speaker 3: that haven't got fruit on. If you like, you can 91 00:04:52,335 --> 00:04:53,055 Speaker 3: prune those. 92 00:04:52,895 --> 00:04:57,895 Speaker 4: Back already and probably punch back the ends with that help. 93 00:04:58,935 --> 00:05:01,375 Speaker 3: Not necessarily, but you could try it. You might find 94 00:05:01,415 --> 00:05:03,415 Speaker 3: it starts to spread out a bit more, you know, 95 00:05:03,455 --> 00:05:07,535 Speaker 3: it starts to put new new branches off just beyond 96 00:05:07,575 --> 00:05:08,455 Speaker 3: the way you pounded. 97 00:05:10,375 --> 00:05:16,855 Speaker 4: That's six feet high and about about twelve feet wide 98 00:05:17,695 --> 00:05:19,095 Speaker 4: and lush all over. 99 00:05:19,655 --> 00:05:21,535 Speaker 3: And that's why I want you to prune it for 100 00:05:21,575 --> 00:05:25,255 Speaker 3: your own, if you like your own size and height 101 00:05:25,335 --> 00:05:27,135 Speaker 3: that you can reach comfortably. 102 00:05:27,975 --> 00:05:30,615 Speaker 4: I say, right, okay, I'll do that. 103 00:05:31,335 --> 00:05:34,495 Speaker 2: Okay, all very busy, take care, Leslie and Andrew a 104 00:05:34,615 --> 00:05:35,535 Speaker 2: very good morning to you. 105 00:05:36,695 --> 00:05:44,015 Speaker 5: Morning morning, rude. Oh on a dairy farm, and we've 106 00:05:44,055 --> 00:05:47,615 Speaker 5: got a lot of native planting that we're interested in doing. 107 00:05:47,655 --> 00:05:51,215 Speaker 5: We've already started. But what I was wanting to know 108 00:05:51,375 --> 00:05:54,775 Speaker 5: is a couple of things. How easy is it to 109 00:05:54,895 --> 00:05:57,815 Speaker 5: grow natus from cuttings? 110 00:05:58,415 --> 00:06:04,935 Speaker 3: Quite easy? Some of them quite easy, I'll give you. Oh, 111 00:06:05,015 --> 00:06:10,455 Speaker 3: there's so many things, sporums, quite easy, lots of different things. 112 00:06:10,535 --> 00:06:13,055 Speaker 3: Whatever you want to do. Are you thinking of hedges 113 00:06:13,175 --> 00:06:16,375 Speaker 3: or just basically trees that are going to be becoming 114 00:06:16,895 --> 00:06:17,935 Speaker 3: trees or shrubs? 115 00:06:19,455 --> 00:06:24,815 Speaker 5: Everything. We've got probably three kilometers just of road frontage 116 00:06:24,895 --> 00:06:29,335 Speaker 5: on our boundary, and then a couple of wed areas, 117 00:06:30,695 --> 00:06:36,855 Speaker 5: some internal planting as well. It's various stages. But I'm 118 00:06:36,895 --> 00:06:40,535 Speaker 5: just wondering, is there any particular site or book or 119 00:06:40,535 --> 00:06:42,655 Speaker 5: anything that you can point me to that might help 120 00:06:42,735 --> 00:06:44,935 Speaker 5: me out and understanding this a bit bitter? 121 00:06:45,455 --> 00:06:48,855 Speaker 3: Absolutely, I think there is quite I am not sure 122 00:06:48,895 --> 00:06:50,775 Speaker 3: I've got it. For instance, a Yates garden guard here, 123 00:06:50,815 --> 00:06:53,615 Speaker 3: which I usually take with me to the studio, but 124 00:06:53,775 --> 00:06:56,455 Speaker 3: I know that i've at home. I've got quite a 125 00:06:56,495 --> 00:07:01,415 Speaker 3: few books on pruning and taking cuttings and all that 126 00:07:01,455 --> 00:07:03,535 Speaker 3: sort of stuff, but also how you can take cuttings 127 00:07:03,775 --> 00:07:06,695 Speaker 3: by for instance, layering we call it layering, such as 128 00:07:06,775 --> 00:07:11,055 Speaker 3: certain branches underground, but literally digging them into the ground, 129 00:07:11,095 --> 00:07:13,855 Speaker 3: put a brick on them, and basically those little twigs 130 00:07:13,895 --> 00:07:17,415 Speaker 3: will also form roots. You can then cut it off 131 00:07:17,415 --> 00:07:19,895 Speaker 3: after a year if they're all okay, and you use 132 00:07:19,975 --> 00:07:22,695 Speaker 3: that as a new plant. And to be quite honest, 133 00:07:22,735 --> 00:07:25,975 Speaker 3: if you're talking about three and a half kilometers of frontage, 134 00:07:26,455 --> 00:07:28,975 Speaker 3: you might want to save yourself some dish by doing 135 00:07:29,015 --> 00:07:31,975 Speaker 3: it yourself. And for that reason, I suggest get something 136 00:07:32,095 --> 00:07:37,375 Speaker 3: like a shade house that is usually very useful for seeds, 137 00:07:37,695 --> 00:07:39,295 Speaker 3: but also for cuttings. 138 00:07:40,615 --> 00:07:44,615 Speaker 2: Okay, can I jump in as well and just say 139 00:07:45,095 --> 00:07:48,375 Speaker 2: the other thing, Andrew is have a look around your community, 140 00:07:48,455 --> 00:07:54,295 Speaker 2: right and undoubtedly you'll find some ecological restoration groups that 141 00:07:54,335 --> 00:07:56,655 Speaker 2: have sprung up, because you know this better than I do, 142 00:07:56,695 --> 00:08:00,215 Speaker 2: for they're everywhere now, which is so awesome. And get 143 00:08:00,255 --> 00:08:03,255 Speaker 2: the advice and connect with them. And again I'm thinking 144 00:08:03,255 --> 00:08:06,695 Speaker 2: about restoring takodongahreki that work me where I am. You 145 00:08:06,735 --> 00:08:09,535 Speaker 2: know this community group that's now developed a nursery and 146 00:08:09,575 --> 00:08:13,415 Speaker 2: as propagating maybe as many as forty thousand seedlings a year. 147 00:08:13,615 --> 00:08:16,095 Speaker 2: So you know, if you connect with a local group 148 00:08:16,535 --> 00:08:19,415 Speaker 2: and then get some advice and some guidance from them, 149 00:08:19,495 --> 00:08:22,455 Speaker 2: or perhaps work collaboratively with them, you know, you don't 150 00:08:22,455 --> 00:08:24,015 Speaker 2: have to reinvent the wheel, do you. 151 00:08:24,175 --> 00:08:25,455 Speaker 3: No? 152 00:08:26,335 --> 00:08:29,775 Speaker 5: Sorry, one to look on a thing quickly. So the 153 00:08:29,855 --> 00:08:32,935 Speaker 5: pest protectors that you put on to protect plants when 154 00:08:32,935 --> 00:08:36,015 Speaker 5: they're young, how long would you leave them on for? 155 00:08:36,175 --> 00:08:40,015 Speaker 5: Because we do have pakiko and other birds on farm 156 00:08:40,495 --> 00:08:45,095 Speaker 5: that can be but a little frustrating if you take 157 00:08:45,135 --> 00:08:49,135 Speaker 5: them off or don't even put the protectors on initially. 158 00:08:49,215 --> 00:08:50,815 Speaker 5: So I was just wondering how long you'd leave them on. 159 00:08:51,375 --> 00:08:53,455 Speaker 3: Well, the problem is that I haven't. I haven't got 160 00:08:53,455 --> 00:08:55,655 Speaker 3: a good because we don't, thank god, haven't got many 161 00:08:55,695 --> 00:08:58,095 Speaker 3: pook kickers where I have been and where I'm now, 162 00:08:58,215 --> 00:09:01,135 Speaker 3: So I'm not that good at this. But protectors are 163 00:09:01,175 --> 00:09:03,815 Speaker 3: always good for the first year or two sometimes because 164 00:09:03,815 --> 00:09:08,255 Speaker 3: it also stops weeds over growing your new plants. That's 165 00:09:08,335 --> 00:09:10,895 Speaker 3: quite an important thing. But you know what if I have, 166 00:09:11,055 --> 00:09:13,975 Speaker 3: if I were really cheeky, I would say, especially if 167 00:09:13,975 --> 00:09:17,495 Speaker 3: you're near christ Hes, go to Burnside Primary and ask 168 00:09:17,535 --> 00:09:20,495 Speaker 3: the years the kids who are eight, nine, ten years 169 00:09:20,495 --> 00:09:26,335 Speaker 3: because they actually build gardens to reintroduce a rather amazing 170 00:09:26,415 --> 00:09:28,895 Speaker 3: butterfly back into the city of grass Us and they 171 00:09:28,975 --> 00:09:31,095 Speaker 3: now to say cutting, So now to do the seeds. 172 00:09:31,975 --> 00:09:32,815 Speaker 3: They know it all. 173 00:09:32,935 --> 00:09:34,815 Speaker 2: That's what I'm saying. You know, connect with your local 174 00:09:35,055 --> 00:09:38,695 Speaker 2: ecological groups and you know just so much information and 175 00:09:38,775 --> 00:09:42,215 Speaker 2: so much goodwill as well. Great one, Andrew, this, thanks 176 00:09:42,215 --> 00:09:44,495 Speaker 2: appreciate it and love the back that you're about to do. 177 00:09:44,535 --> 00:09:47,215 Speaker 2: I think that's super exciting. We should take a break 178 00:09:47,215 --> 00:09:48,895 Speaker 2: and then we'll talk to Bruce and then we'll be 179 00:09:48,975 --> 00:09:52,655 Speaker 2: back in just a moment. 180 00:09:51,895 --> 00:09:54,575 Speaker 1: Helping you get those DIY projects done. 181 00:09:54,735 --> 00:09:54,935 Speaker 4: Right. 182 00:09:55,135 --> 00:09:58,855 Speaker 1: The resident builder with Peter Wolfcap and light Force Solar 183 00:09:59,015 --> 00:10:01,775 Speaker 1: now offering a free battery upgrade, teas and seas applying 184 00:10:01,895 --> 00:10:02,495 Speaker 1: news talks. 185 00:10:02,495 --> 00:10:05,055 Speaker 2: It be your news talks, It been Bruce. Good morning 186 00:10:05,055 --> 00:10:05,695 Speaker 2: to you, sir. 187 00:10:06,415 --> 00:10:10,295 Speaker 6: This good morning. I've got a problem with strawberries. 188 00:10:11,135 --> 00:10:12,775 Speaker 3: What's the problem? 189 00:10:12,855 --> 00:10:18,335 Speaker 6: Wonderful plants, great runners, but no throat. All I produce 190 00:10:18,695 --> 00:10:21,855 Speaker 6: is some rubbers after runner after runner. 191 00:10:22,135 --> 00:10:24,775 Speaker 3: Which is good because there was a real scarcity of 192 00:10:24,895 --> 00:10:25,895 Speaker 3: plants last year. 193 00:10:25,975 --> 00:10:30,975 Speaker 6: Remember that's right. And I've now got probably fifty plants. 194 00:10:31,335 --> 00:10:34,575 Speaker 3: That's fine, that's okay, But here we go from here on. 195 00:10:34,615 --> 00:10:36,615 Speaker 3: What do you use as fertilized bruise. 196 00:10:37,335 --> 00:10:42,295 Speaker 6: Well, the normal strawberry fertilizer. And I've I've got a 197 00:10:42,295 --> 00:10:45,895 Speaker 6: few extra plants on the glasshouse, and I've got so 198 00:10:46,415 --> 00:10:47,495 Speaker 6: potash on them. 199 00:10:47,775 --> 00:10:50,455 Speaker 3: Yes you don't, you don't. That's quite often the way 200 00:10:50,455 --> 00:10:51,935 Speaker 3: to go. But you have to remember that this time 201 00:10:51,935 --> 00:10:53,895 Speaker 3: of the year, of course, there's not much flowering going 202 00:10:53,935 --> 00:10:57,535 Speaker 3: on in nothing, no, no, no, But it does pay 203 00:10:57,575 --> 00:11:01,175 Speaker 3: to give them from from early spring, really early spring, 204 00:11:01,255 --> 00:11:05,695 Speaker 3: let's say August September, a little bit of that potash 205 00:11:05,775 --> 00:11:10,415 Speaker 3: to just mind them. Hello, wake up, time to flower. Yeah, 206 00:11:10,455 --> 00:11:12,215 Speaker 3: and that is probably the way to go. Have you 207 00:11:12,255 --> 00:11:13,295 Speaker 3: done that last year too? 208 00:11:13,935 --> 00:11:14,175 Speaker 7: Well? 209 00:11:14,215 --> 00:11:17,015 Speaker 6: I thought I did last year, but all my producers 210 00:11:17,095 --> 00:11:23,295 Speaker 6: run on still. I just thet or keep persevering, yeah. 211 00:11:23,175 --> 00:11:25,535 Speaker 3: Keep persevering. But that potashe should do it, that's self 212 00:11:25,575 --> 00:11:28,375 Speaker 3: made of potash. If you water that into the soil, 213 00:11:28,855 --> 00:11:30,775 Speaker 3: you know, of course, the soil's got to be nice 214 00:11:30,775 --> 00:11:33,615 Speaker 3: and well drained and full of organic material. As you know, 215 00:11:34,215 --> 00:11:36,615 Speaker 3: you do that too, I'm sure, yeah, yeah, I'm sure. 216 00:11:36,975 --> 00:11:39,335 Speaker 3: Well then it's the potage that should really wake those 217 00:11:39,335 --> 00:11:41,215 Speaker 3: plants up. I would persevere with it. 218 00:11:41,935 --> 00:11:43,175 Speaker 6: Okay, Well, thanks for that. 219 00:11:44,455 --> 00:11:45,575 Speaker 3: Good luck Bruce Bybee. 220 00:11:45,855 --> 00:11:47,735 Speaker 2: Thanks all the best of Bruce, you take care, and 221 00:11:47,815 --> 00:11:49,215 Speaker 2: Diane a very good morning. 222 00:11:50,135 --> 00:11:53,495 Speaker 8: Good morning, wrote, I've got a bit of a challenge, 223 00:11:53,535 --> 00:11:55,695 Speaker 8: and you helped me once before with my gloggy soil, 224 00:11:55,695 --> 00:11:57,695 Speaker 8: and it's about three or four years ago. But now 225 00:11:57,695 --> 00:12:02,815 Speaker 8: I have a garden full of breastacas and spinach and 226 00:12:03,015 --> 00:12:05,495 Speaker 8: silver beet at for different stages and all sorts of 227 00:12:05,535 --> 00:12:10,455 Speaker 8: varieties of take my leaks, however, have green soil? What 228 00:12:10,535 --> 00:12:14,375 Speaker 8: have I done? Everything tilled apartform around my leaks. 229 00:12:15,135 --> 00:12:17,855 Speaker 3: Oh so, so the leaks are still in. What you 230 00:12:17,895 --> 00:12:21,735 Speaker 3: mean you haven't You haven't literally this is the new 231 00:12:21,775 --> 00:12:25,095 Speaker 3: winter garden, okay. And what's wrong with the leaks. 232 00:12:25,655 --> 00:12:28,255 Speaker 8: Well, the soil around the leaks has gone green. 233 00:12:29,615 --> 00:12:35,495 Speaker 3: Soil has gone green? What with wheat or what? 234 00:12:38,615 --> 00:12:43,935 Speaker 8: Am I started it with with a put the normal 235 00:12:43,975 --> 00:12:47,215 Speaker 8: sheep poos and and then chicken pools, and then I 236 00:12:47,415 --> 00:12:50,175 Speaker 8: put the leaks in after that, so normal trenching and 237 00:12:50,215 --> 00:12:50,975 Speaker 8: then put the leaks in. 238 00:12:51,495 --> 00:12:53,175 Speaker 3: That is the way I would do it for leaks, 239 00:12:53,215 --> 00:12:58,015 Speaker 3: because leaks are very nitrogen hungry things, aren't they? And 240 00:12:58,695 --> 00:13:00,615 Speaker 3: but they are not growing very well. Is that what 241 00:13:00,655 --> 00:13:01,135 Speaker 3: you're saying? 242 00:13:01,255 --> 00:13:04,575 Speaker 8: No, they're not growing. But the soil, the soil has 243 00:13:05,335 --> 00:13:08,055 Speaker 8: has got a green tin so the rist is fine 244 00:13:08,175 --> 00:13:10,615 Speaker 8: told and everything that the soil around the lakes has 245 00:13:10,655 --> 00:13:11,375 Speaker 8: gone green. 246 00:13:11,935 --> 00:13:15,135 Speaker 3: I would I've never seen it like described like that, 247 00:13:15,295 --> 00:13:17,335 Speaker 3: or never seen it like the way you described it. 248 00:13:17,415 --> 00:13:18,975 Speaker 3: Let's put it that way. I'm not sure what that 249 00:13:19,055 --> 00:13:22,615 Speaker 3: green tinge means. And it might be that it wants 250 00:13:22,655 --> 00:13:26,775 Speaker 3: some uh phosphates for for the for the roots of 251 00:13:26,815 --> 00:13:28,855 Speaker 3: the plants to grow with, you know what I mean. 252 00:13:29,375 --> 00:13:32,575 Speaker 3: So you can't just you can't just have an animal 253 00:13:32,655 --> 00:13:36,095 Speaker 3: manure I suppose on on plants like that, you sometimes 254 00:13:36,175 --> 00:13:37,975 Speaker 3: do have to give them a little bit of general 255 00:13:38,015 --> 00:13:41,695 Speaker 3: fertilizer with the normal balance of N, P and K. 256 00:13:42,095 --> 00:13:44,175 Speaker 3: But in this case, especially the P you don't need 257 00:13:44,175 --> 00:13:46,095 Speaker 3: the K you don't want it the flower, but the 258 00:13:46,135 --> 00:13:47,975 Speaker 3: phosphate is the one that might be lacking. 259 00:13:48,815 --> 00:13:51,135 Speaker 8: Okay, I'll give that a try. Thank you very much 260 00:13:51,175 --> 00:13:51,615 Speaker 8: for your help. 261 00:13:54,295 --> 00:13:58,135 Speaker 2: Thank you, Diane, take care and Jerry, hey there, oh. 262 00:13:58,055 --> 00:14:01,695 Speaker 7: Good morning. I'd like to speaks rude about blackberries. Please 263 00:14:02,255 --> 00:14:02,855 Speaker 7: go for it. 264 00:14:02,975 --> 00:14:05,415 Speaker 3: Tell me what's the problem we've are. 265 00:14:05,655 --> 00:14:08,575 Speaker 7: We have some butckberry vines. We get a lot of 266 00:14:08,615 --> 00:14:11,935 Speaker 7: blackberries off them, but we find that the fruit is 267 00:14:12,015 --> 00:14:16,335 Speaker 7: not as sweet as the local nature blackberries. What can 268 00:14:16,375 --> 00:14:18,895 Speaker 7: I add to the soil to improve that sweetness? 269 00:14:19,335 --> 00:14:23,095 Speaker 3: Potash? I know that for a fact it goes for 270 00:14:23,175 --> 00:14:25,735 Speaker 3: a lot of different plants like this, especially the berry plants. 271 00:14:25,935 --> 00:14:28,415 Speaker 3: If you give them a little bit of selfate of potash, 272 00:14:28,495 --> 00:14:31,095 Speaker 3: they not only set more fruit and are more willing 273 00:14:31,135 --> 00:14:33,695 Speaker 3: to put more fruit, but the fruits also become sweeter. 274 00:14:34,095 --> 00:14:37,175 Speaker 3: The same with the with the citrus as well. By 275 00:14:37,215 --> 00:14:40,375 Speaker 3: the way, oh great, yeah, So get yourself a little 276 00:14:40,375 --> 00:14:45,215 Speaker 3: big selfate of potash already. Yeah, and you use it 277 00:14:45,255 --> 00:14:47,135 Speaker 3: with and you use it as an add on to 278 00:14:47,295 --> 00:14:50,695 Speaker 3: the normal general fertilizer like United Fosco Blue or whatever 279 00:14:50,735 --> 00:14:51,975 Speaker 3: you use, and. 280 00:14:51,895 --> 00:14:56,495 Speaker 7: You'll find it occasionally throughout the year or night. 281 00:14:56,575 --> 00:15:00,695 Speaker 3: When you remember there, you are just a bit thank you. 282 00:15:00,735 --> 00:15:04,295 Speaker 7: And on another line, you will know Peter Swarezport with 283 00:15:04,455 --> 00:15:08,455 Speaker 7: the Doctrine College. Yeah, what a great what a great band. 284 00:15:09,015 --> 00:15:11,335 Speaker 3: Yeah, I know the twinkle has been You don't worry, 285 00:15:12,575 --> 00:15:13,975 Speaker 3: do you know? I'm a jes pianist. 286 00:15:16,175 --> 00:15:18,415 Speaker 7: I did. That's one reason why I mentioned it, because 287 00:15:18,455 --> 00:15:19,535 Speaker 7: I know you're into chack. 288 00:15:23,535 --> 00:15:26,295 Speaker 2: All this theory. Take care and Jason, a very good 289 00:15:26,295 --> 00:15:27,055 Speaker 2: morning to you. 290 00:15:27,975 --> 00:15:34,935 Speaker 3: Oh hello, hello Jason. Where are you, my dear? Thank you? 291 00:15:35,775 --> 00:15:36,015 Speaker 7: Listen. 292 00:15:36,175 --> 00:15:38,455 Speaker 9: I went to the walk to Point Ship, which is 293 00:15:38,495 --> 00:15:40,455 Speaker 9: an Auckland western springs. 294 00:15:40,055 --> 00:15:40,575 Speaker 4: At the zoo. 295 00:15:41,255 --> 00:15:46,015 Speaker 9: Yeh, and it was raining and I stripped back two 296 00:15:46,055 --> 00:15:48,615 Speaker 9: trees a bark and I couldn't see one water. 297 00:15:49,855 --> 00:15:51,415 Speaker 3: Oh where did where? 298 00:15:51,415 --> 00:15:51,575 Speaker 10: Did? 299 00:15:51,655 --> 00:15:53,895 Speaker 3: Where? Did you look for them? 300 00:15:54,335 --> 00:15:56,415 Speaker 9: Just in the It was raining at the time, so 301 00:15:56,455 --> 00:15:59,815 Speaker 9: I was under under a shelter of the trees. I 302 00:15:59,815 --> 00:16:03,415 Speaker 9: thought I put some bark and under some scrubs under 303 00:16:03,415 --> 00:16:07,095 Speaker 9: the least leaves and stuff. And I didn't see one 304 00:16:07,135 --> 00:16:08,735 Speaker 9: metal one. Didn't you find them? 305 00:16:09,335 --> 00:16:11,895 Speaker 3: Well, if you if you go in that area. I 306 00:16:12,055 --> 00:16:15,175 Speaker 3: used to find them hidden in the back of large 307 00:16:15,295 --> 00:16:20,175 Speaker 3: pine trees, for instance, pine trees. Okay, well, no, they 308 00:16:20,215 --> 00:16:21,895 Speaker 3: don't eat pine trees. But what I mean is, do 309 00:16:21,895 --> 00:16:24,255 Speaker 3: you know how pine tree bark has got these wonderful 310 00:16:24,375 --> 00:16:25,055 Speaker 3: grooves in it? 311 00:16:26,455 --> 00:16:26,655 Speaker 9: Yeah? 312 00:16:27,095 --> 00:16:30,735 Speaker 3: Not not okay, Well there you go. It's stuff like that. 313 00:16:31,175 --> 00:16:33,295 Speaker 3: That's one place where you'd find them. The second place 314 00:16:33,335 --> 00:16:36,535 Speaker 3: you could find them is especially when it's dark. Of course, 315 00:16:36,775 --> 00:16:38,975 Speaker 3: when they come out is when they come out of 316 00:16:39,175 --> 00:16:43,415 Speaker 3: old holes made by poor e moth caterpillars. And you 317 00:16:43,495 --> 00:16:45,855 Speaker 3: can find those not only in poor but also in 318 00:16:46,455 --> 00:16:48,855 Speaker 3: the wetter in trees like that. And you'll find them 319 00:16:48,895 --> 00:16:52,415 Speaker 3: coming out of those holes in Auckland, especially at night. 320 00:16:54,055 --> 00:16:55,775 Speaker 9: What what what do these worms walk? 321 00:16:57,335 --> 00:17:02,455 Speaker 3: What do these worms look like? What do you mean? Oh? 322 00:17:02,535 --> 00:17:03,775 Speaker 3: What those holes look like? 323 00:17:04,975 --> 00:17:05,375 Speaker 2: The holes? 324 00:17:05,455 --> 00:17:09,415 Speaker 3: Yeah, the holes look like somebody has chewed a little 325 00:17:09,415 --> 00:17:13,295 Speaker 3: bit on the bark in a diamond shaped pattern. There's 326 00:17:13,335 --> 00:17:15,575 Speaker 3: a hole in the middle that goes into the tree 327 00:17:15,695 --> 00:17:18,055 Speaker 3: and down in the shape of a seven. And that 328 00:17:18,255 --> 00:17:21,135 Speaker 3: is a second hand dwelling for a tree, Weather, and 329 00:17:21,255 --> 00:17:24,175 Speaker 3: you'll find them even in the Chinese privet trees. They 330 00:17:24,255 --> 00:17:27,255 Speaker 3: seem to love Chinese privet trees. So those holes are 331 00:17:27,295 --> 00:17:30,735 Speaker 3: made by caterpillars over about five year time spend, and 332 00:17:30,815 --> 00:17:33,575 Speaker 3: when they have emerged as big moths and flown away 333 00:17:33,575 --> 00:17:35,375 Speaker 3: and did their mating and all that sort of stuff, 334 00:17:35,695 --> 00:17:38,815 Speaker 3: the holes remain and weather go like, this is my 335 00:17:39,095 --> 00:17:43,255 Speaker 3: house and they take it over really well, never go. 336 00:17:45,335 --> 00:17:46,215 Speaker 9: You do they bite? 337 00:17:47,455 --> 00:17:50,015 Speaker 3: Yeah, they do, especially if you pick them up. But 338 00:17:50,135 --> 00:17:52,495 Speaker 3: if you let them walk on you. When you let 339 00:17:52,575 --> 00:17:56,415 Speaker 3: them walk on you and you touch the antenna so 340 00:17:56,575 --> 00:17:58,535 Speaker 3: they know what you smell like and they get used 341 00:17:58,535 --> 00:18:01,295 Speaker 3: to you. You can have a weather literally as a pet. 342 00:18:01,375 --> 00:18:03,215 Speaker 3: And most of the kids that have worked with me 343 00:18:03,655 --> 00:18:08,295 Speaker 3: will know exactly. My girlfriend Dorothy, she's a female weather. 344 00:18:08,655 --> 00:18:12,295 Speaker 3: She goes to all the schools and and she walks 345 00:18:12,335 --> 00:18:15,495 Speaker 3: over kids. She does everything. But initially if you first 346 00:18:15,735 --> 00:18:18,775 Speaker 3: mishandle them, Yep, they can bite and it can hurt. 347 00:18:20,775 --> 00:18:24,575 Speaker 9: Well, I see them and I think, well they must 348 00:18:24,935 --> 00:18:26,295 Speaker 9: arg you, but they don't. 349 00:18:26,375 --> 00:18:28,335 Speaker 3: Well they can they can. 350 00:18:28,535 --> 00:18:29,735 Speaker 9: Okay, thank you. 351 00:18:31,215 --> 00:18:34,255 Speaker 2: Jason, you have a great day, and Ian a very 352 00:18:34,295 --> 00:18:34,975 Speaker 2: good morning to you. 353 00:18:36,415 --> 00:18:41,495 Speaker 10: Good morning to you. I'm looking to take cuttings off 354 00:18:41,655 --> 00:18:44,815 Speaker 10: Lily Pilly and grow it, and I'm watching to see 355 00:18:44,855 --> 00:18:47,615 Speaker 10: what sort of length I should be cutting them out, 356 00:18:47,975 --> 00:18:52,615 Speaker 10: and then what sort of media I should put it into. 357 00:18:53,255 --> 00:18:58,615 Speaker 10: Tried putting it into a promised text, but it didn't 358 00:18:58,655 --> 00:18:59,775 Speaker 10: seem to take very well. 359 00:19:00,375 --> 00:19:02,975 Speaker 3: Okay are you? And the reason you said promise is 360 00:19:03,015 --> 00:19:04,815 Speaker 3: because you need you know that you need to take 361 00:19:04,855 --> 00:19:10,095 Speaker 3: cuttings in reasonably well drained materials. Right, yeah, okay, what 362 00:19:10,255 --> 00:19:12,135 Speaker 3: I do with Look, first of all, why would you 363 00:19:12,255 --> 00:19:14,215 Speaker 3: use Lily Pilly? By the way, can I ask? I'm 364 00:19:14,295 --> 00:19:18,855 Speaker 3: quite quite curious about that for hedge For a hedge. Okay, 365 00:19:19,975 --> 00:19:24,055 Speaker 3: may I warning warning, Lily Pilly will get sillots, They 366 00:19:24,095 --> 00:19:27,295 Speaker 3: will get honeyjew on them, they get sooty mold on them. 367 00:19:27,615 --> 00:19:31,615 Speaker 3: Lily Pilly are also the plants that can transmit myrtle rust. 368 00:19:33,935 --> 00:19:37,255 Speaker 3: So as a hedge, I think Lily Pilly should from 369 00:19:37,335 --> 00:19:41,255 Speaker 3: now on Bee Band as an Australian interloper or South America. 370 00:19:41,295 --> 00:19:44,175 Speaker 3: IM never is sure where they're from Australian or South 371 00:19:44,175 --> 00:19:48,095 Speaker 3: American interloper. That is actually causing usually more questions to 372 00:19:48,255 --> 00:19:54,655 Speaker 3: this talkback radio show than any other plants. So if 373 00:19:54,695 --> 00:19:57,775 Speaker 3: you if you're a nice hatch, get yourself a native one, 374 00:19:58,135 --> 00:20:00,935 Speaker 3: a karakia or a bit of sporum or something like that. 375 00:20:01,815 --> 00:20:03,775 Speaker 3: Where where where do you? Where are you ringing from in? 376 00:20:03,935 --> 00:20:08,615 Speaker 3: Where do you live? Is that near Auckland? 377 00:20:10,375 --> 00:20:11,535 Speaker 10: No, it's out of. 378 00:20:13,095 --> 00:20:15,695 Speaker 3: Oh there, Okay, see if you can go to a 379 00:20:15,775 --> 00:20:19,095 Speaker 3: local Oh, the Hamilton Botannic gardens would problems. Probably have 380 00:20:19,215 --> 00:20:21,015 Speaker 3: really good examples of what you can plant in your 381 00:20:21,095 --> 00:20:23,935 Speaker 3: area and find a really nice native thing that you 382 00:20:24,015 --> 00:20:26,455 Speaker 3: can use as a hedge. And to me, quite honest, 383 00:20:26,735 --> 00:20:30,895 Speaker 3: the cuttings go. Here's my recipe, half botting mix, half 384 00:20:31,255 --> 00:20:34,535 Speaker 3: fine pumas, and probably it's the lack of the botting 385 00:20:34,655 --> 00:20:36,815 Speaker 3: miss mix that caused it to dry out too quick. 386 00:20:37,135 --> 00:20:38,855 Speaker 3: Your your cuttings, you know what I mean? And that's 387 00:20:38,895 --> 00:20:39,615 Speaker 3: why they failed. 388 00:20:41,015 --> 00:20:45,135 Speaker 9: Okay, ex No, you know everything you can. 389 00:20:45,095 --> 00:20:47,975 Speaker 2: Do it probably not where Ian thought the conversation was 390 00:20:47,975 --> 00:20:49,735 Speaker 2: going to go. But as soon as he said Lily Pili, 391 00:20:49,775 --> 00:20:51,735 Speaker 2: I'm going to I was like, Hey, I'm wondering how 392 00:20:51,775 --> 00:20:55,015 Speaker 2: long it's going to take for the hammer drops any ges? Yeah, 393 00:20:55,655 --> 00:20:56,495 Speaker 2: not a great plant. 394 00:20:56,895 --> 00:20:58,335 Speaker 3: I might as well be honest about that. 395 00:20:58,415 --> 00:21:01,135 Speaker 2: Absolutely it is yeah, yeah, no, I mean anyone I 396 00:21:01,215 --> 00:21:05,455 Speaker 2: know who's put in Lilypoli hedges it just to night pain, yeah, 397 00:21:05,535 --> 00:21:08,335 Speaker 2: and contributing to you know, the spread of metal rust, 398 00:21:08,375 --> 00:21:10,575 Speaker 2: which is not a great thing. So yeah, you're right, 399 00:21:10,695 --> 00:21:13,615 Speaker 2: let's let's get rid of the damn thing. There you go, right, 400 00:21:13,975 --> 00:21:17,095 Speaker 2: A very quick final call from you, Roger, how are you? Sir? 401 00:21:17,735 --> 00:21:18,455 Speaker 3: Oh coo moya? 402 00:21:18,735 --> 00:21:22,055 Speaker 7: One hundreds lives in our. 403 00:21:22,215 --> 00:21:25,735 Speaker 3: Isn't Sorry sorry I could didn't get that. Sorry. 404 00:21:25,775 --> 00:21:30,415 Speaker 7: One unrange a new and fun guarne, and one blows 405 00:21:30,455 --> 00:21:33,655 Speaker 7: believe and one loss leaves yet Oh. 406 00:21:34,495 --> 00:21:38,495 Speaker 3: That could be because it's a different genetic genetic genetic 407 00:21:38,615 --> 00:21:42,455 Speaker 3: species if you like. And also you're fertilized them both, 408 00:21:42,535 --> 00:21:46,055 Speaker 3: have you. Yeah, well then they should be going all right, 409 00:21:46,135 --> 00:21:48,295 Speaker 3: don't worry, it's just a matter of time. They might 410 00:21:48,375 --> 00:21:49,375 Speaker 3: be a couple of weeks late. 411 00:21:49,495 --> 00:21:49,855 Speaker 9: There you are. 412 00:21:50,455 --> 00:21:53,735 Speaker 2: Thank you don't always have to freak out a that's. 413 00:21:53,615 --> 00:21:54,495 Speaker 3: Right, certainly not. 414 00:21:55,495 --> 00:22:00,575 Speaker 2: Stay calm and yours too. In fact, it's do it 415 00:22:00,615 --> 00:22:02,295 Speaker 2: again next week to take care of mat all of this. 416 00:22:03,815 --> 00:22:03,975 Speaker 4: Now. 417 00:22:04,135 --> 00:22:06,095 Speaker 2: Last week, a couple of weeks ago on the show, 418 00:22:06,375 --> 00:22:08,575 Speaker 2: a little giveaway from my mates at Roobe, which was 419 00:22:08,655 --> 00:22:11,535 Speaker 2: great and Cheryl was the winner of that, and as 420 00:22:11,615 --> 00:22:14,775 Speaker 2: it happens, she lived not too far from where I 421 00:22:14,815 --> 00:22:16,335 Speaker 2: had to run some errand so I dropped in to 422 00:22:16,375 --> 00:22:20,135 Speaker 2: see her last Sunday, which was delightful and a very 423 00:22:20,255 --> 00:22:24,375 Speaker 2: worthy recipient of that prize pack from Raobi, so that 424 00:22:24,575 --> 00:22:25,375 Speaker 2: was a big pleasure. 425 00:22:25,455 --> 00:22:26,055 Speaker 3: That was lovely. 426 00:22:26,175 --> 00:22:28,055 Speaker 2: Actually last week Cheryl having a bit of a chat 427 00:22:28,135 --> 00:22:32,535 Speaker 2: with you, and actually turns out today's my nephew next birthday, 428 00:22:32,615 --> 00:22:34,655 Speaker 2: so I'm going to embarrass him by saying happy birthday 429 00:22:34,655 --> 00:22:35,175 Speaker 2: and lots of love. 430 00:22:35,255 --> 00:22:35,455 Speaker 4: Mate. 431 00:22:36,455 --> 00:22:38,695 Speaker 2: Right, let's go and do this all again next Sunday. 432 00:22:38,775 --> 00:22:42,415 Speaker 2: Have a great week and we will see you, Oh Joseph. 433 00:22:42,495 --> 00:22:46,055 Speaker 2: Technical Dreamcoat on at the Arta Center starts on Friday, 434 00:22:46,095 --> 00:22:48,175 Speaker 2: Friday Saturday Sunday. 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