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

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Speaker 1: from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: A'd be rude, climb past our man in the garden,

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 3: Good morning.

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Speaker 4: Anything new from from the Jack Tame Garden At the moment.

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Speaker 2: No things, So I just you know what I'm trying.

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Speaker 2: I'm waiting to see. At the moment, I think I

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Speaker 2: told you about this. I had a bit of a

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Speaker 2: disaster with some hedging that I put in last year.

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Speaker 2: And remember I didn't I didn't water it right in

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Speaker 2: the middle of summer because I thought it was all good,

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Speaker 2: and then it turned out that it wasn't all good,

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Speaker 2: Like the half of the hedge kind of died. And

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Speaker 2: I'm basically waiting to see if it's gonna survive. I

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Speaker 2: still don't know. It's my point, and I wondered if

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Speaker 2: some at some point soon I feel like it's alive.

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Speaker 2: But at some point soon, should I be expecting all

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Speaker 2: the leaves are gone? Should I should I be expecting

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Speaker 2: to see some buds and some new leaves?

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Speaker 3: Depends on if its name is Lazarus.

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Speaker 2: Okay, I can't remember if its name is Lazarus.

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Speaker 4: But I'm not sure.

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Speaker 2: If it's I'm not sure if it has lazarus call necessarily.

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Speaker 3: That's the point that. Oh, yeah, here's a good trick.

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Speaker 4: If you got a little I call it the sharp hanky,

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Speaker 4: but I've got a pocket knife from my pocket. And

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Speaker 4: if you give a little scrape over the back and

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Speaker 4: under the bark, you'll see green material. Yes, it is

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Speaker 4: still alive.

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Speaker 2: And if you don't.

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Speaker 4: If you don't, you'll have to go back to mister

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Speaker 4: and missus old Rings or Barmas or whoever and get

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Speaker 4: some more and try to get the same material if

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Speaker 4: you like the same species, the same variety.

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Speaker 2: Is it possible that like that the outer branches will

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Speaker 2: be gone, but the inner branches will be Okay, Yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 2: I think that might you.

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Speaker 4: Do with a cup, just a slight scratch and you

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Speaker 4: can see it and it's green.

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Speaker 3: You know, there's hope, man.

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Speaker 2: I'm just hoping.

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Speaker 4: Yeah.

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Speaker 2: Anyway, we're talking about one this morning that most people

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Speaker 2: have never even heard of.

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Speaker 3: Had you heard of Colombola?

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Speaker 2: No? No, But apparently I hadn't heard of watering my

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Speaker 2: my new bushes in the middle of summer either, So.

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Speaker 3: There you go. Well, Columbola. I actually springtails.

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Speaker 4: They are known as springtails, and they are, and I

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Speaker 4: just realized they actually because I've got heaps of the

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Speaker 4: Midi garden at the moment. They are absolutely unbelievably important

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Speaker 4: for our gardens because their job, literally their ecosystem service,

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Speaker 4: is to recycle dead material. That's what they do. We've

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Speaker 4: got six thousand species on the planet, but nobody knows

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Speaker 4: it could be forty thousand different Texa, God knows. That's

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Speaker 4: the point. Yeah, And Colombola comes from one. I like

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Speaker 4: that word Colombla cola first one, which is glue cola.

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Speaker 4: And an embolon is a peg or a piston, because

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Speaker 4: most of the glembla have got a little piston on

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Speaker 4: the underside of their body with which they can jump,

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Speaker 4: which is why they call springtails. But anyway, these things

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Speaker 4: you find literally in your garden, in the compost, under

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Speaker 4: the plants that are actually as you think, as you

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Speaker 4: might think are dying at the moment in your heads,

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Speaker 4: for instance, they are the ones that literally recycle everything

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Speaker 4: and put it back into NPK for the future. Now,

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Speaker 4: there are some seriously cooled species, and I've photographed them

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Speaker 4: and sent them on to Libby to put on the website.

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Speaker 4: There are some things that you find in your like.

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Speaker 4: I've got this lovely red rhubarb and this columbula working

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Speaker 4: on that. They're white, crazy crazy stuff. There are a

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Speaker 4: little columbola that I find with my granddaughter in Rangatawani Oakuni,

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Speaker 4: and she loves those little tiny things. They're quite nice.

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Speaker 4: They are about three or four millimeters in size, and

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Speaker 4: they've got these weird little things sticking out of their.

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Speaker 3: Skulls and all that, and their skins. They're everywhere.

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Speaker 4: But the best thing at this time of the year

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Speaker 4: for anybody wants to have a look. If it's rained,

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Speaker 4: have a look at puddles. There is a deep blue

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Speaker 4: species that rafts or a drifts on puddles and it

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Speaker 4: moves around. And I'm not talking about one or two.

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Speaker 4: I'm talking million. It's probably a square foot.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: That's extraordinary. Okay, thank you very much.

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Speaker 3: Beautiful.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's incredible. Hey, thank you so much, Rude, and

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Speaker 2: thank you for your reassuring words.

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Speaker 3: As always, you'll be fine.

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Speaker 2: I'm not sure my magnolias will Rude climb past in

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Speaker 2: the garden

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