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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 climb passes our men in the garden at

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Speaker 2: the time every Saturday morning, high rude.

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Speaker 3: Hello Jack? Are you aware it's going to be chaos

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Speaker 3: gardening next week?

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Speaker 2: What does that mean? That mean every week of house

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Speaker 2: gardening at our place road? You've seen our place.

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Speaker 3: I knew you, I knew you. They have something to

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Speaker 3: say about that.

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Speaker 4: No, y Yates do this every year.

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Speaker 3: They've got gardening week and this this this year it's

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Speaker 3: chaos gardening. The wild trend taking route. You know what

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Speaker 3: that means if you don't throw your lawn and you

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Speaker 3: just you know. But that's that is exactly where it

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Speaker 3: came from.

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Speaker 2: You know, they tried to do it down the road

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Speaker 2: from us. They had a park down the road where

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Speaker 2: they tried to do it, and they're trying to rewild

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Speaker 2: all of the thing. And then there was a bit

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Speaker 2: of an incident because there was a there was a

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Speaker 2: miscommunication with the council and so a well meaning contractor

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Speaker 2: came along. Having let this grass grow for like I

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Speaker 2: don't know a year or something. It was really long.

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Speaker 2: But this well meaning contractor came along, fired up as

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Speaker 2: his moa and swiftly.

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Speaker 4: Took to the previously wilding area and mowed it down

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Speaker 4: to size. Yeah, it was a bit of a bit

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Speaker 4: of a local The local Facebook pages were going wild

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Speaker 4: over it.

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Speaker 2: So there you go.

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Speaker 3: Well, I'm going to tell I'm going to tell you

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Speaker 3: to look out for these guys, but these thinks anyway.

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Speaker 2: There So passion vine hopits. These have been the bane

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Speaker 2: of my life. They've been a major problem in the

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Speaker 2: life place, and I think they are one of the

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Speaker 2: central reasons that I haven't yet managed to make passion

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Speaker 2: fruit work at my place. Could also do where I've

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Speaker 2: been growing. I've been going into a place that gives

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Speaker 2: it a fair amount of sun. Not all day sun.

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Speaker 2: I know he's supposed to have all day sun, but

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Speaker 2: I gets a fair amount of sun and hot sun.

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Speaker 2: It gets middle of the day sun. And yet I've

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Speaker 2: now had three passion fruit plants that have died, and

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Speaker 2: I blame the vine hoppers. Yeah, you know, they can

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Speaker 2: be quite little at the beast of times.

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Speaker 3: You know your passion You know that because we've talked

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Speaker 3: about this before, I've done I've tried this now for

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Speaker 3: the last fifteen years. Jack and I have the very

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Speaker 3: first plump actually surviving and going. So I'm not going

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Speaker 3: to I'm not going to say too much at this stage.

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Speaker 3: You'll hear later on, I suppose. But it's finally working

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Speaker 3: for me. Yeah, thank you, I mean honestly, you and me, baby,

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Speaker 3: you know we got to do this. Well.

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Speaker 2: You've got more stickability here than I do. I just

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Speaker 2: I got so because I was literally going out there

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Speaker 2: every day with the eight year old, because you can

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Speaker 2: see the passion for it grow so quickly. Usually that

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Speaker 2: I would go out there every day and we would

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Speaker 2: plot its progress, and then you just got a bit decreasing,

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Speaker 2: being like, oh no, here come the vine hoppers. On

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Speaker 2: here it is, it's gone again. Where's my sister and Nelson?

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Speaker 2: I mean she they sort of accidentally grow passion fruit,

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Speaker 2: you know, like the passion for it grows, and the

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Speaker 2: cracks and the and the driveway and then it's groaning

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Speaker 2: with fruit. I just think this isn't fair.

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Speaker 3: Yep, that's it. Yeah, and the passion vine hopper. Now,

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Speaker 3: but you're absolutely right. We're talking about a couple of

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Speaker 3: things that are quite important now because the passion vine

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Speaker 3: opera is the big one, especially in the north, although

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Speaker 3: I just I found out that my neighbors up the

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Speaker 3: road have got them now here. This lenking thing is

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Speaker 3: going south as much as it likes at the moment.

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Speaker 3: It's another one anyway, very quickly for those who are listening.

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Speaker 3: It's all on the website anyway, where there's quite a

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Speaker 3: bit of info. But now's the time to look for

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Speaker 3: those little nymphs of those passion vine oppers which are

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Speaker 3: coming out of their eggs now. And if you've got

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Speaker 3: a little bit of good safe works material if you like,

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Speaker 3: or sprays, spray them on a wind still day now

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Speaker 3: in the morning and you will actually get them. This

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Speaker 3: is important. And the second one is slugs and snails

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Speaker 3: are coming up. Weed control will expose them to predators,

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Speaker 3: the thrushes. So that's one of the ways to go. Oh,

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Speaker 3: you have baked pellets in a pozzle, all described and

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Speaker 3: you see the photos again on the website. And that's

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Speaker 3: the second one. But here's another one. Co rabbit beetles,

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Speaker 3: big beetles that we have in New Zealand. They eat

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Speaker 3: slugs and small snails, so I always leave them going.

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Speaker 3: That's what they need to do. It's cool, Yeah, they

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Speaker 3: do their native once and they eat those things.

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Speaker 2: That's right.

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Speaker 3: And and then of course the other alternative is, of

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Speaker 3: course with the the snails, is that you do realize

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Speaker 3: you can eat those because this is the French esca

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Speaker 3: go that we have in New Zealand.

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Speaker 2: You realize that species of snail is exactly the same,

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Speaker 2: is it?

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Speaker 3: Yes, we imported that from Europe and they and the

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Speaker 3: French imported us from northern from.

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Speaker 2: What was it we imported snails?

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Speaker 3: No we didn't. That was by excellent You came here

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Speaker 3: with the hear that everybody that had pots with plants

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Speaker 3: and went to New Zealand in eighteen hundreds took those snails.

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Speaker 2: Written a bit bit of a missed it just to

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Speaker 2: deliberately introduced them.

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Speaker 3: Sure, yeah, there was no Ministry of Anger and fresh

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Speaker 3: heads in there, so there was no quarantine. And the

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Speaker 3: third thing I've gone on the list is for you

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Speaker 3: is mites. Mites. Two spotted spider mites are really becoming

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Speaker 3: a pain in the bump. From now on the very

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Speaker 3: fine silk webbing. You'll find him from now on, mineral

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Speaker 3: oil's fatty acid and nan oil. And it's again all

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Speaker 3: on your wonderful website thanks to.

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Speaker 2: Libby, Thank you, sir, really appreciate it would climb past

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Speaker 2: in the garden for us this morning.

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