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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.

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Speaker 2: That'd be rude. Climb passes our man in the garden.

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Speaker 2: Good morning, nam to hoo. Happy new Year.

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Speaker 3: Yes, sanks to you. I've missed you, Jack. Luckily you

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Speaker 3: send Levy around for a few gigs.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, of course, of course she's you know, she's honestly,

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Speaker 2: what is it knows to the millstone? She is working

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Speaker 2: right throughout summer's Yeah, sorry, what it knows to the

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Speaker 2: millstone knows to the grindstone millstone? Yeah all three, yeah, yeah, yeah, exactly, exactly.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Tell me about your kukubits.

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Speaker 2: Well that look they are somewhat oddly shaped. It's the

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Speaker 2: first time after I've grown cucumbers, but I and I

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Speaker 2: had read bad things that I actually homegrown cucumbers never

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Speaker 2: never taste as good as that as the store bought ones.

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Speaker 2: I have an incredibly embarrassing admission that I honestly thought

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Speaker 2: twice about even telling you when it came to my cucumbers,

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Speaker 2: because I'm never grown a cucumber before. I didn't realize

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Speaker 2: that they had the little spiny bumps on.

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Speaker 3: They can do some varieties do I never.

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Speaker 2: Never appreciated it, never knew it, and I was growing it,

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Speaker 2: I was like, why is it? Why is it prickly?

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Speaker 2: Why is my cucumber prickly? And I yeah, it took

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Speaker 2: growing at myself as a thirty almost thirty nine year

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Speaker 2: old man to finally actually appreciate that one of the

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Speaker 2: vegetables I would have eaten more in my life quite

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Speaker 2: often has little spines on it. So there you go.

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Speaker 3: That's right. And not only that, if you didn't then

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Speaker 3: basically peel them you get the most amazing innus. So

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Speaker 3: that's that's that's the good side of it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, yeah, soup is going very well. Tomato cherry

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Speaker 2: tomatoes absolutely crushing it. Like my tomatoes for the first

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Speaker 2: time ever taste better than the ones from the from

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Speaker 2: the supermarket, and even my strawberries though I reckon this year.

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Speaker 2: So feeling very pure in myself.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. I actually had to get myself a new tunnel

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Speaker 3: house in the world, did you because we had Yeah. Well,

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Speaker 3: mine was eight meters long and was about fifty years old.

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Speaker 3: It just fell apart in one of the one of

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Speaker 3: the big big winds. We had a couple of couples,

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Speaker 3: you know, in springtime, so that's so that was one

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Speaker 3: of the things. But I was just wondering, have you

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Speaker 3: got from your flowering cucumbers do you have Do you

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Speaker 3: have lots of bees around there? Year? We do? We do.

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Speaker 2: I see, I've needed them off, so but I've left

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Speaker 2: some gaps for the bees to get in there.

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Speaker 3: But that's important because a lot of people have been

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Speaker 3: complaining about the fact that they didn't get any fruit

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Speaker 3: at all. Right, And that was basically because I always say,

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Speaker 3: you've got to have some really good stuff around flowering plants,

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Speaker 3: around your your your your your plants in order to

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Speaker 3: get all the pollinators coming because the plant thinks there's

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Speaker 3: there's no there's not enough, there's not enough food for them.

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Speaker 3: So it does that anyway. Yeah, long story, right.

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Speaker 2: We've got too minutes, just over two minutes. So we're

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Speaker 2: gonna do mossies now, Yeah you can.

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Speaker 3: I can easily tell you. We all know what mozzies

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Speaker 3: are like and all that sort of. Yeah, exactly, And

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Speaker 3: I love moss Is that really cool? Especially especially I

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Speaker 3: might as well go through this straight away, especially the

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Speaker 3: native species that is the salt pool mosquito. That's the

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Speaker 3: only species in the world that lives in salt water.

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Speaker 3: And it's here in Outerroa Northlands Goat Island marine reserved

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Speaker 3: by a plenty kaikoura. They're even down here where we live,

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Speaker 3: and and they come during the day and you don't

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Speaker 3: have They don't make a terrible great light of noise,

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Speaker 3: but when they bite you you'll feel all about. It's amazing,

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Speaker 3: really cool though. But you know, here you go. The

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Speaker 3: girls need a bit of protein to produce eggs. That

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Speaker 3: is really what a female mosquito does. And to do

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Speaker 3: that it needs blood. So mammalian blood like us is

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Speaker 3: what they need. And here comes the thing. I believe

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Speaker 3: that mosquitos are actually a really great part of our

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Speaker 3: environmental makeup, if you like, you know the regulars that

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Speaker 3: live in the water, they go up and down, you know,

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Speaker 3: the regulars ay they eat bacterial soup in the water

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Speaker 3: in your ponds, they clean the water. And the males

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Speaker 3: are the best pollinators of our native flowers in the neighborhood.

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Speaker 3: Ah really yeah, yeah, there you go, yeah, do you go?

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Speaker 3: And finally they are the best food for white baits

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Speaker 3: are quite againsects and food chains that follow. But also

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Speaker 3: the mosquitoes are food for native birds like fantails, dragonflies,

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Speaker 3: jumping spiders, the whole cohort of useful predators. And all

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Speaker 3: we need to do is give them one droplet of

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Speaker 3: our blood and that'll feel the whole ecosystem.

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Speaker 2: See, of course you're a fan of mosquitoes. Can we

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Speaker 2: be a fan of mosquitoes and all that they do

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Speaker 2: for the rest of the food chain, but just hate

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Speaker 2: them when it comes to them biting us? Can we

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Speaker 2: just can we have a mosquito that doesn't need to

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Speaker 2: bite us road? Isn't that easy?

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Speaker 3: That's right?

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Speaker 2: And lose the standing water I suppose, Thank you, sir,

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Speaker 2: We'll catch again this wake road climb passed in the

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Speaker 2: garden for us.

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