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Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf

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Speaker 1: Camp from News Talks.

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Speaker 2: Right oh, Red climb Pass, Good morning sir.

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Speaker 3: Good morning, Peter. All good. Are you warm enough in Auckland?

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Speaker 2: We got nothing to complain about to be a little

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Speaker 2: bit chilly and you're part of the.

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Speaker 3: World, Yeah, a little bit, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: I'm wearing necker Is again.

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Speaker 2: And you know part of it is, hey, it is June. Right, Yes,

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Speaker 2: it is not happened last year and it won't happen

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Speaker 2: again next year.

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Speaker 3: But hey, it's funny, isn't it, because we're not even

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Speaker 3: at the.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, but beautiful, I mean gorgeous pictures, kids out

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Speaker 2: tumbling in the snow and that sort of thing. It's

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Speaker 2: absolutely gorgeous.

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Speaker 3: I was just saying to Julie, we should go to

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Speaker 3: techa the roads.

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Speaker 2: Like obviously, you know, for South Island gardens, they've got

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Speaker 2: to be well, I was going to say design, But

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Speaker 2: they develop in a different manner to cope with us,

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Speaker 2: don't they. If you've suddenly got your precious roses under

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Speaker 2: three foot of snow, that's quite different to gardening in Auckland,

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Speaker 2: where they ain't gonna happen.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, and you can. You can prune all you like

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Speaker 3: at the moment in Auckland. We can do it here too.

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Speaker 3: This is the good time to do it. Yeah, I know,

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Speaker 3: it's it's actually of no concern. Most plants can stand that, right.

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Speaker 3: If you've got plants that that count stand the cold,

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Speaker 3: you've got to do something like frost protection. Liquid frost protection,

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Speaker 3: for instance, is an liquid well there's a material you

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Speaker 3: can spray onto leaves and it sets like a like

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Speaker 3: a literally like a protecting like a well, I don't

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Speaker 3: know what actually contains, but it stops the It actually

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Speaker 3: really high heightens the the resistance to frost on the leaves.

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Speaker 3: It's quite nice there.

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Speaker 2: That's very nifty.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, it's very clever. Thing.

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Speaker 2: Probably some whiskey in there somewhere right.

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Speaker 3: Before, and just just one little thing just to actually

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Speaker 3: take the mickey out of you. This Friday, This Friday

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Speaker 3: the thirteenth, I'll be at Wingspan.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, I thought you were going to say you

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Speaker 2: were going to be at field days and in which

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Speaker 2: case we could catch up and had lush.

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Speaker 3: But that would have been good. But I'm just a

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Speaker 3: bit too far north or too far south from that. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: But anyway, but it's and it's I'm going to be

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Speaker 3: at Wingspan anyway on Friday utter. We've done the hue

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Speaker 3: for Kiwi ki we get together the days before that

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Speaker 3: in rot So but what I would say is if

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Speaker 3: you want to come a bit earlier for flying, I

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Speaker 3: will have a bit of time to talk to people

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Speaker 3: if they're interested in and mostly when we ro through

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Speaker 3: I find it's good they have a chat and there's

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Speaker 3: some live talk back there at Wingspread.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, brilliant, brilliant. Oh that'll be awesome. That'll be awesome.

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Speaker 2: We've still got the cute photos of the more pork

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Speaker 2: and yeah, just the rua is gorgeous, fantastic.

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Speaker 3: I might see Knox again, Yeah, I bet you.

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Speaker 2: Will, all right mate, that'll that'll be awesome. I'll think

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Speaker 2: of that while I'm well. Perfect day field days forecast is.

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Speaker 3: Just the first few days, that's right.

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Speaker 2: Yes, absolute rubbish, which is typical for that this this

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Speaker 2: time of year.

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Speaker 3: And it always Friday.

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Speaker 2: Thursday, Friday Saturday. Yeah I'm there Friday Saturday. So anyway,

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Speaker 2: it will be great fun looking forward to it, right, Oh,

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Speaker 2: let's get amongst it. Matt A very good morning to you.

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Speaker 4: Oh, good morning. I have a question for for.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, call me rude. That's that's that works. Well,

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Speaker 3: I've always been rude.

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Speaker 4: Oh thank you rude. Any advice for planting a mandarine tree? Yeah,

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Speaker 4: even though the US stay in Corra, but I full

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Speaker 4: step away from Cape Ringer and the wathers call at

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Speaker 4: the moment fifteen high and lower five we should plant

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Speaker 4: a mandarin tree.

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Speaker 3: And no, no, no, no, always try to give them

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Speaker 3: it quite a bit of sun. It would love a sunny.

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Speaker 4: Spot, so sun.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, they can. They can handle that, no problem

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Speaker 3: at all. And the second thing I'd like you to

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Speaker 3: do is to make sure so you're way up north.

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Speaker 4: Don't you, Yeah, right on the funnels.

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Speaker 3: What is your soil like?

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Speaker 4: Oh? Uh, can't touch and gay not most brilliant. So

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Speaker 4: I need to add something into the soil before I

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Speaker 3: Well, I don't know. Is it very clay? U?

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Speaker 4: Kind of our fifty city clay in natchell A top

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Speaker 3: So I like the natural top soil number one number

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Speaker 3: two when it rains really hard, which I know can

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Speaker 3: Do you get a lot of soaking wet soil? Does

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Speaker 3: it stay, you know, really inundated for a long time.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it can it unts because it will is be

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Speaker 4: pretty nafty at the moment.

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Speaker 3: Yep, I realized that. But what I want you to

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Speaker 3: do then, if you can, is raise the area where

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Speaker 3: you want to plant your mandarin. In other words, give

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Speaker 3: it a slightly heightened maybe only four inches, you know

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Speaker 3: what I mean, just with with a hammer and nailed

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Speaker 3: duck tak duk duck. Make it a raised bed, a

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Speaker 3: raised bed, and you'll find that you will have less

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Speaker 3: problems with too much moisture around the roots, which can

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Speaker 3: cause fhioftra, which is a root rot which will kill

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Speaker 3: your tree. It's very susceptible to that. So raise it

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Speaker 3: up so you don't get too inundated. How is that?

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Speaker 5: Uh?

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Speaker 4: This could don't have to worry about any bugs or

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Speaker 4: insects socker taking through septing mandarin tree.

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Speaker 3: There aren't that any at the moment that will attack them.

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Speaker 3: There might be a bit of guavamov could do it

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Speaker 3: because they go to some citrus plants as well, but

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Speaker 3: you might you might be okay with that.

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Speaker 4: Actually, Oh, thank you so much for your voice. Wholly appreciated.

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Speaker 3: Take you good good gold mets here soon bye bye.

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Speaker 2: All of this you met, thank you for that. And Marian,

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Speaker 2: Hello there.

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Speaker 6: Hello, how are you hi?

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Speaker 3: Marion.

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Speaker 6: I've got a lemon tree and I know it's older

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Speaker 6: than twenty five years because we've built on the section

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Speaker 6: and it's been there probably about ten or fifteen years.

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Speaker 6: And it's now I think it's a maya.

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Speaker 3: I'm not sure, yea.

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Speaker 6: And now it's sort of. It's got a whole lot

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Speaker 6: think it might be dying.

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Speaker 3: Why did you think it might Why do you think

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Speaker 3: it's dying? Is it because it's not it doesn't look

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Speaker 3: good or the plant gives you two small fruit? Or

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Speaker 3: what is it?

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Speaker 4: Well?

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Speaker 6: The year before okay, think huge fruit. Ah and and

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Speaker 6: quite puffy. You know when you broke the knife on this, well,

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Speaker 6: it was quite puffy.

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Speaker 3: Okay. Another question is do you do you did you

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Speaker 3: have a really long period This is the same as

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Speaker 3: what I asked Matt, A long period of inundation of roots.

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Speaker 6: What do you mean inundation?

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Speaker 3: Well, if you if it's if it rains quite badly,

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Speaker 3: does it all hang around the root zone of your

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Speaker 3: lemon market? Your maya lemon.

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Speaker 6: I don't think so.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, that's not much you've been fertilizing it

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Speaker 6: Basis, No, no, no, dive.

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Speaker 3: Okay, I think it's how many breakfasts do you have

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Speaker 3: on average each week? At least there you go. No, no,

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Speaker 3: But honestly, quite often, if you if you don't always

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Speaker 3: be reasonably simple with your with your feeding tricks, do it.

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Speaker 3: Do it at least in the beginning of you know,

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Speaker 3: when stuff starts to grow in in springtime. Do it

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Speaker 3: again in late late late spring, and do it again

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Speaker 3: in early summer or midsummer, say, and just a little bit,

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Speaker 3: you know, handful to the square meter good citrus fertilizer.

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Speaker 3: You might find that that will give it much better fruit.

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Speaker 6: At one stage it got flying over on the wind

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Speaker 6: and we had to pop up on the branches. It's

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Speaker 6: only a small tree, the.

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Speaker 3: Small tree after twenty five years.

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Speaker 6: Yes, quite well.

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Speaker 3: I reckon fertilizing would be a good idea your case.

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Speaker 6: And if it does die, can I put another lemon

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Speaker 3: Or well, first of all, for a very small fee,

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Speaker 3: I will come and do the last rites. And but no,

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Speaker 3: it depends on what what causes. Can I have just

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Speaker 3: one other question, do you have at the moment of

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Speaker 3: vegy a very rapid loss of leaves?

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Speaker 6: There's no leads for that's at all. No, that's what

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Speaker 3: It looks like a dying oll. In that case, you

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Speaker 3: might have already had some some fight off dray if

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Speaker 3: you like, on the in the soil, that that particular

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Speaker 3: that particular fungal disease, if you like, if it does

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Speaker 3: die and it doesn't come to life, which is now

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Speaker 3: I'm feeling a bit more worried about it. No, don't plant,

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Speaker 3: and no, don't plant another lemon in the same place.

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Speaker 3: Put it either higher up in a dry spot away

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, I think the no leaves might be the

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Speaker 2: that was the giveaway. But they might give it away,

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Speaker 2: I think so, Marian, sorry to hear about that. Good luck.

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Speaker 2: We'll take a short break. We'll talk to Linda in

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Speaker 2: just a moment.

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Speaker 3: Yep, you're there.

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Speaker 2: No sticky button.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that happens, isn't it.

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Speaker 2: I was going to say I could spray some CRC

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Speaker 2: in there, but I don't think that's advisable.

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Speaker 3: Sprain liquids around, I know, how how tender these blinking studios,

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Speaker 3: are you?

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Speaker 2: I've deliberately now leave my coffee cup a long way

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Speaker 2: away from all of the sensitive. But yes, anyway, right,

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Speaker 2: too much of a good thing. Hey, someone's just taxed

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Speaker 2: through rudd. I heard on a BBC radio program on

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Speaker 2: Saturday that having compost garden can give you a deadly

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Speaker 2: fungused disease. Any comment.

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Speaker 3: Look, that depends on what is in the compost, I suppose,

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Speaker 3: and also depend what kind of funk are you talking about.

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Speaker 3: I think if you just literally create compost, you can

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Speaker 3: still use that stuff. I reckon in most cases very

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Speaker 3: safely in yours, honestly.

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Speaker 2: I mean there's always those warnings about opening bags of

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Speaker 2: potting mix, for example. Yes, so, yeah, just be a

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Speaker 2: bit sensible. I guess about doing that.

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Speaker 3: It's like you inhale. You you go and do a

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Speaker 3: deep breath. No, I wouldn't do.

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Speaker 2: That over the top of the oven page. Yeah, exactly right.

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Speaker 2: Let's get into it. Linda, Hello there, Oh.

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Speaker 7: Good morning. Yes, I would like to ask is it

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Speaker 7: too late to transplant a seven year old rhododendron and

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Speaker 7: should not have passed the garden?

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Speaker 3: Linda, this is the best time of the year to

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Speaker 3: do it.

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Speaker 7: Oh great, thank you so much.

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Speaker 2: Good luck with that. And the key generally is try

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Speaker 3: No, no, get a really strong person that can do that.

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Speaker 2: It be a decent root by now. Kerrie, hello there,

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Speaker 6: And every year, every spring time.

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Speaker 2: Okay, becuse's go easy all of this, mate, have a

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Speaker 8: Morning, gentlemen. I see yeah, I didn't want to interrupt it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know what you mean. What do you what

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Speaker 5: Good morning, thank you for taking my call.

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Speaker 3: No. Another the problem was what can I do for you.

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Speaker 5: So I have a big problem. I got to know

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Speaker 5: to me on our bank. So most of those trees,

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Speaker 5: Oh, the council didn't answer back. We called it the

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Speaker 3: Oh my goodness, you are well involved. You are well

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Speaker 2: Now, yeah, I tell you what, Maybe your quickest solution

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Speaker 3: As soon as thank you for all of them.

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Speaker 2: There will be about six or seven of them.

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Speaker 3: I think your call was absolutely wonderful, and I feel

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Speaker 5: Yeah, I got to know that yesterday a lunchtime.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, that's not great.

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Speaker 5: I've already yeah, I already tried to get in touch

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Speaker 2: Please let us know how you get on too, because

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Speaker 3: Typically communication is so important.

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Speaker 2: Oh man, is it? What issue? Will you know your rapayers? Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Rightio mate, Hey, enjoy wingspan. I will think of you

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, I'm all nearly there.

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Speaker 2: Take care all of this. Thank you for your company, folks.

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Speaker 2: Enjoy your day. If you happen to be wandering around

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Speaker 2: All the best, Take.

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