1 00:00:06,815 --> 00:00:10,655 Speaker 1: You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp 2 00:00:10,895 --> 00:00:24,735 Speaker 1: from News Talk said, bang a body. 3 00:00:28,735 --> 00:00:31,295 Speaker 2: I'm just sending that in the red because actually the 4 00:00:31,295 --> 00:00:34,295 Speaker 2: sky Rick Davies who's in there, passed away this week. 5 00:00:34,375 --> 00:00:37,015 Speaker 2: And I don't know about you, but I loved Supertrain 6 00:00:37,135 --> 00:00:37,695 Speaker 2: back in the day. 7 00:00:38,215 --> 00:00:40,455 Speaker 3: Yeah it was a good band. It's a great band. 8 00:00:40,495 --> 00:00:43,615 Speaker 3: How are you weak? Yeah we're good. I'm good. Thinking 9 00:00:43,735 --> 00:00:45,895 Speaker 3: we did have a lot better bands in our days, 10 00:00:45,935 --> 00:00:46,375 Speaker 3: didn't we. 11 00:00:46,615 --> 00:00:49,335 Speaker 2: I think so? And value for money too, most of 12 00:00:49,415 --> 00:00:51,735 Speaker 2: the songs like five and a half minutes long, Thank 13 00:00:51,775 --> 00:00:52,335 Speaker 2: you very much. 14 00:00:52,775 --> 00:00:56,775 Speaker 3: I know, I know, but yeah, that would I say 15 00:00:56,815 --> 00:00:59,295 Speaker 3: that because everybody has their own sort of area of 16 00:00:59,375 --> 00:01:01,975 Speaker 3: bands that they loved, Genesis and things like that, and 17 00:01:02,015 --> 00:01:04,615 Speaker 3: you go, like, my god, where are they? Well they're 18 00:01:04,615 --> 00:01:05,535 Speaker 3: half dead now. 19 00:01:06,615 --> 00:01:08,575 Speaker 2: Well it's when you see that, you know they've just 20 00:01:08,615 --> 00:01:12,775 Speaker 2: celebrated the radioth birthday, and you go, really, I know, 21 00:01:13,415 --> 00:01:17,495 Speaker 2: I know, Hey, let's get amongst it. If you've got 22 00:01:17,495 --> 00:01:20,215 Speaker 2: a question for it. Eight hundred and eighty ten eighty 23 00:01:20,375 --> 00:01:21,575 Speaker 2: is the number to call. 24 00:01:21,695 --> 00:01:23,855 Speaker 3: That's a good idea that numbers are with that nounber 25 00:01:23,935 --> 00:01:26,215 Speaker 3: has been around as as long as I've been on 26 00:01:26,375 --> 00:01:35,055 Speaker 3: radio nineteen eighty seven. Yeah, I tell you what I was. 27 00:01:35,295 --> 00:01:37,535 Speaker 2: I know you're coming up. When are you and Auckland? 28 00:01:37,655 --> 00:01:39,335 Speaker 2: Not next week in the weekend after. 29 00:01:39,135 --> 00:01:42,375 Speaker 3: The weekend after next year? This I am off. I'm 30 00:01:42,415 --> 00:01:46,135 Speaker 3: off to an island this afternoon. Gold Maude Island in 31 00:01:46,175 --> 00:01:49,055 Speaker 3: the Marlborough sounds one of those islands that is completely 32 00:01:49,455 --> 00:01:52,695 Speaker 3: predative free. Yes, and we're taking every day. We're taking 33 00:01:52,735 --> 00:01:56,415 Speaker 3: ten or so kids from from the local area for 34 00:01:56,495 --> 00:01:58,375 Speaker 3: a boat right there and stay the night and all 35 00:01:58,375 --> 00:02:01,055 Speaker 3: that sort of stuff. It's going to be brilliant. Wow. 36 00:02:01,215 --> 00:02:05,135 Speaker 2: Anyway, how awesome, How awesome. If you've got a question, 37 00:02:05,175 --> 00:02:08,055 Speaker 2: you can call us or texts through nine two ninety two. Janet, 38 00:02:08,095 --> 00:02:09,255 Speaker 2: A very good morning to you. 39 00:02:10,135 --> 00:02:11,255 Speaker 4: Good morning gentlemen. 40 00:02:12,215 --> 00:02:14,135 Speaker 3: Hello Jennet. Hi. 41 00:02:15,295 --> 00:02:20,655 Speaker 4: I'm living in white and Tabanaki and I have a 42 00:02:20,735 --> 00:02:26,775 Speaker 4: small orchid on our property and we have several tamorillo trees. 43 00:02:28,695 --> 00:02:31,575 Speaker 4: It's about three years old, but they're not actually very big. 44 00:02:31,695 --> 00:02:34,855 Speaker 4: They've sort of been knocked back a little bit. Anyway, 45 00:02:34,975 --> 00:02:38,615 Speaker 4: all the new shots at top of the plants have 46 00:02:38,735 --> 00:02:42,695 Speaker 4: been eaten. So a couple of nights ago, I took 47 00:02:42,855 --> 00:02:45,175 Speaker 4: myself out with a torch to have a look and 48 00:02:45,255 --> 00:02:47,695 Speaker 4: see what was eating the plants, as you're supposed to do, 49 00:02:48,735 --> 00:02:51,215 Speaker 4: and along with a flag in one of them, I 50 00:02:51,375 --> 00:02:58,255 Speaker 4: also found a weater. Weterns don't we don't bother me. 51 00:02:58,775 --> 00:03:00,135 Speaker 4: I like to keep them in the garden. 52 00:03:00,255 --> 00:03:01,615 Speaker 5: My thought was that. 53 00:03:02,255 --> 00:03:04,775 Speaker 4: Wheaters were carnivores, but when I've actually had a look, 54 00:03:04,935 --> 00:03:09,815 Speaker 4: I see that that the it looks like they're actually 55 00:03:09,935 --> 00:03:14,695 Speaker 4: humor hoores. So I'm wondering if it's perhaps the waters 56 00:03:14,695 --> 00:03:17,695 Speaker 4: that are eating my alone, and how do I deal 57 00:03:17,735 --> 00:03:18,015 Speaker 4: with it? 58 00:03:18,615 --> 00:03:21,935 Speaker 3: Good A good question that I so tell me what 59 00:03:22,015 --> 00:03:26,175 Speaker 3: the actual look is of the damage. What does the 60 00:03:26,255 --> 00:03:27,695 Speaker 3: damage look like? What does it look like? 61 00:03:29,175 --> 00:03:34,415 Speaker 4: The mostly the little the new shots are all eaten 62 00:03:34,495 --> 00:03:38,295 Speaker 4: back from the eaves, from from the edge, and all 63 00:03:38,335 --> 00:03:40,695 Speaker 4: that I'm leaft with is the stalk. And when I 64 00:03:40,735 --> 00:03:42,895 Speaker 4: actually found the water, I didn't actually see it to 65 00:03:42,935 --> 00:03:45,255 Speaker 4: start with. And I read my hand up up the 66 00:03:45,295 --> 00:03:48,215 Speaker 4: little branch and read my hand over the water and we. 67 00:03:48,855 --> 00:03:52,775 Speaker 3: Oh hello, And this was and this was temarilla leaves. 68 00:03:53,735 --> 00:03:57,735 Speaker 4: Yes, yes, so they're just starting to produce flowers as well, 69 00:03:57,775 --> 00:04:00,735 Speaker 4: which is yeah, very I. 70 00:04:01,375 --> 00:04:04,015 Speaker 3: Have the feeling if you have the odd weather doing that. 71 00:04:04,175 --> 00:04:07,095 Speaker 3: I don't think they would be making that much of 72 00:04:07,255 --> 00:04:12,015 Speaker 3: a mess of your plant. I have to feelish you, 73 00:04:12,695 --> 00:04:13,055 Speaker 3: I think. 74 00:04:13,495 --> 00:04:15,855 Speaker 4: I think these slugs I found slug a slig and 75 00:04:15,935 --> 00:04:17,855 Speaker 4: one of the other ones, one of those those tidal 76 00:04:17,895 --> 00:04:22,135 Speaker 4: looking slugs yea, and stuff on it. But yeah, but 77 00:04:22,255 --> 00:04:25,495 Speaker 4: this one was in one plant on its own. 78 00:04:26,455 --> 00:04:28,015 Speaker 3: Just on one plant. Is that all? 79 00:04:29,335 --> 00:04:30,255 Speaker 4: That's what I found? 80 00:04:30,895 --> 00:04:33,375 Speaker 3: Okay, So it's not that there were other plants that 81 00:04:33,415 --> 00:04:36,375 Speaker 3: were affected as well as it's just that one. Okay, 82 00:04:36,375 --> 00:04:40,335 Speaker 3: it could be sorry, lots of yah. Yeah, but but 83 00:04:40,375 --> 00:04:42,695 Speaker 3: that means that there was only one plant that was 84 00:04:42,735 --> 00:04:47,735 Speaker 3: affected by this this wetter. Probably possibly there's there's. 85 00:04:47,575 --> 00:04:52,135 Speaker 4: A couple of there's a couple of Samoris that are 86 00:04:52,135 --> 00:04:55,095 Speaker 4: close together, and both of them have exactly the same image. 87 00:04:55,535 --> 00:04:58,375 Speaker 3: Yeah, I have the feeling I am not under percent 88 00:04:58,415 --> 00:05:01,415 Speaker 3: sure if wetter, the tree wetter we're talking about, I 89 00:05:01,455 --> 00:05:05,255 Speaker 3: hope is really liking to eat that much temarillo leaves. 90 00:05:05,295 --> 00:05:08,015 Speaker 3: It will eat some of the leaf. Absolutely, there's no 91 00:05:08,055 --> 00:05:11,575 Speaker 3: doubt about it. But to be quite honest, I sometimes 92 00:05:11,575 --> 00:05:14,815 Speaker 3: find it hard to explain to teachers and kids. You 93 00:05:14,815 --> 00:05:17,415 Speaker 3: see these little holes here in the leaves. Now, that 94 00:05:17,535 --> 00:05:20,615 Speaker 3: is That is classic wetter damage, especially if it's on 95 00:05:20,695 --> 00:05:25,135 Speaker 3: the edges of the leaves and and not in the middle, 96 00:05:25,255 --> 00:05:29,015 Speaker 3: if you like, of the leaf. If you have whole 97 00:05:29,135 --> 00:05:33,295 Speaker 3: leaves disappear, there are things like possums who do that. 98 00:05:34,535 --> 00:05:36,615 Speaker 4: I haven't seen any possiles we we love at all. 99 00:05:36,775 --> 00:05:40,655 Speaker 3: No, No, well, I know, and I think there will 100 00:05:40,695 --> 00:05:43,215 Speaker 3: be possums all over the place there. It's not so 101 00:05:43,295 --> 00:05:46,655 Speaker 3: much that you see them, it's what you hear at night. 102 00:05:46,735 --> 00:05:51,975 Speaker 3: Have you ever heard of possum raw at you? This 103 00:05:52,055 --> 00:05:58,775 Speaker 3: is what it sounds like. Hang on, just listen. No, 104 00:05:59,015 --> 00:06:03,935 Speaker 3: definitely not that is and yeah, that is typical wetter. 105 00:06:04,655 --> 00:06:06,815 Speaker 3: They would they would do that sort of damage. So 106 00:06:08,215 --> 00:06:10,175 Speaker 3: I don't know. I'm not one hundred percent sure that 107 00:06:10,215 --> 00:06:12,975 Speaker 3: it's the tree weather, to be quite honest, it could 108 00:06:12,975 --> 00:06:15,015 Speaker 3: be Katie did yeah, go on. 109 00:06:15,695 --> 00:06:18,135 Speaker 4: I definitely was a tree water. 110 00:06:17,935 --> 00:06:24,295 Speaker 3: That was on the day. I don't doubt they. Yeah, 111 00:06:24,295 --> 00:06:26,135 Speaker 3: that's not the point. But I'd like to see what 112 00:06:26,175 --> 00:06:29,335 Speaker 3: it looks like in terms of the damage that they 113 00:06:29,375 --> 00:06:32,335 Speaker 3: do to the leaves. Our whole leaves gone or just 114 00:06:32,415 --> 00:06:34,095 Speaker 3: little holes in them on the sides. 115 00:06:34,415 --> 00:06:37,735 Speaker 4: I know that these are only little spirit smallly, but 116 00:06:37,855 --> 00:06:38,935 Speaker 4: they are all gone. 117 00:06:41,255 --> 00:06:42,975 Speaker 3: I have the feeling of somebody else. 118 00:06:43,695 --> 00:06:48,975 Speaker 4: Oh okay, oh, well is the only wire of discouraging waiters. 119 00:06:50,935 --> 00:06:54,535 Speaker 3: I wouldn't discourage them. I honestly don't think they will 120 00:06:54,575 --> 00:06:56,455 Speaker 3: do a lot of damage. What I would do if 121 00:06:56,455 --> 00:06:58,775 Speaker 3: I were you go out at night with a torch 122 00:06:58,895 --> 00:07:04,975 Speaker 3: and then a very observant ten year old when it's dark, 123 00:07:05,655 --> 00:07:08,975 Speaker 3: and see if there's anybody else that eats those things. 124 00:07:09,575 --> 00:07:12,575 Speaker 3: It could be a lot of different things. And honestly, look, 125 00:07:12,615 --> 00:07:15,535 Speaker 3: I've lived in Auckland with wetter all over the place, 126 00:07:15,575 --> 00:07:17,095 Speaker 3: and I know what they do, and I know what 127 00:07:17,135 --> 00:07:20,055 Speaker 3: the damage looks like, and I don't think it's going 128 00:07:20,095 --> 00:07:21,775 Speaker 3: to be that dramatic normally. 129 00:07:22,775 --> 00:07:28,095 Speaker 4: Okay, well, I will seeing you a photo and you 130 00:07:28,135 --> 00:07:29,215 Speaker 4: can have a look as well. 131 00:07:30,135 --> 00:07:30,575 Speaker 3: Go for it. 132 00:07:30,695 --> 00:07:33,495 Speaker 2: That would be awesome. Janet always like photos of witters 133 00:07:33,535 --> 00:07:36,255 Speaker 2: to be fair. Hate mail, rud Is it true that 134 00:07:36,295 --> 00:07:39,495 Speaker 2: there's like new species of water that have been discovered. 135 00:07:40,015 --> 00:07:42,575 Speaker 3: There will always be new species that are discovered. And 136 00:07:42,655 --> 00:07:46,335 Speaker 3: I just really read in the paper, not that girl, 137 00:07:46,655 --> 00:07:50,615 Speaker 3: that there are two new species. I think it's what 138 00:07:50,735 --> 00:07:54,495 Speaker 3: you call them, ground wetter. They found somewhere in the SOUTHID. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 139 00:07:54,495 --> 00:07:58,055 Speaker 3: absolutely not surprised. Actually, okay, we know we know bugger 140 00:07:58,175 --> 00:08:02,655 Speaker 3: or what quite honest? Yeah, exactly, exactly. 141 00:08:02,615 --> 00:08:08,375 Speaker 2: Fair Uh oh now quick text, is name oil organic 142 00:08:08,655 --> 00:08:11,255 Speaker 2: or does it have some toxicity? 143 00:08:11,295 --> 00:08:15,495 Speaker 3: It will have some toxicity, but it is totally organic. Oh, 144 00:08:15,535 --> 00:08:19,135 Speaker 3: because the definition of organic means it is made in nature, 145 00:08:19,175 --> 00:08:22,535 Speaker 3: by nature, through nature. That's it. But there are also 146 00:08:22,615 --> 00:08:25,295 Speaker 3: things that you can't eat in nature, So there are 147 00:08:25,375 --> 00:08:27,415 Speaker 3: things you've got to be careful with. But to be 148 00:08:27,495 --> 00:08:30,975 Speaker 3: quite honest, kneem oil used to be used, for instance, 149 00:08:31,015 --> 00:08:36,295 Speaker 3: in the Indian if you like, works in the olden 150 00:08:36,375 --> 00:08:42,375 Speaker 3: days to brush their teeth with it, right, okay, because. 151 00:08:42,295 --> 00:08:45,455 Speaker 2: It is that attitude that if it's natural, it's somehow benevolent. 152 00:08:45,575 --> 00:08:47,655 Speaker 2: But nature is not benevolent. 153 00:08:47,695 --> 00:08:52,495 Speaker 3: Not necessarily nore. Nature works with interesting chemicals and they 154 00:08:52,495 --> 00:08:55,295 Speaker 3: are not always the nice ones to use for us 155 00:08:55,455 --> 00:08:57,855 Speaker 3: or to swallow, you know. Just always be a bit 156 00:08:57,895 --> 00:08:58,535 Speaker 3: careful with that. 157 00:08:58,975 --> 00:09:01,055 Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely right. We might take a quick break then 158 00:09:01,055 --> 00:09:03,575 Speaker 2: we'll come back with Shirley as with us. If you 159 00:09:03,575 --> 00:09:06,015 Speaker 2: would like to call eight hundred and eighty ten eighty 160 00:09:06,055 --> 00:09:08,095 Speaker 2: will have time just to get you in before the 161 00:09:08,095 --> 00:09:10,775 Speaker 2: news top of the Arra again at nine o'clock back you. 162 00:09:10,855 --> 00:09:11,335 Speaker 4: And his talks. 163 00:09:11,335 --> 00:09:13,735 Speaker 2: They'd be Shirley, A very good morning to you. 164 00:09:14,335 --> 00:09:21,615 Speaker 5: Oh good morning, Rude. I'm just concerned about all these weeds, 165 00:09:21,855 --> 00:09:26,615 Speaker 5: worst weeds and growing while we're on council properties and 166 00:09:26,695 --> 00:09:29,895 Speaker 5: in people's gardens. That's just being left to grow. Woolle 167 00:09:29,895 --> 00:09:32,455 Speaker 5: and I change one of the worst. It seems to 168 00:09:32,495 --> 00:09:35,455 Speaker 5: be spreading everywhere, and also the moth plant, but not 169 00:09:35,575 --> 00:09:38,455 Speaker 5: a lot of that, the big creeper. And I'm just 170 00:09:38,455 --> 00:09:41,375 Speaker 5: sort of wondering, why on earth are we not getting 171 00:09:41,455 --> 00:09:44,255 Speaker 5: more publicity about these things, and perhaps in the herald 172 00:09:44,375 --> 00:09:46,295 Speaker 5: or on the radio or something to try and get 173 00:09:46,335 --> 00:09:49,535 Speaker 5: people to eliminate them. 174 00:09:50,335 --> 00:09:53,455 Speaker 3: I had I remember the olden days when when I 175 00:09:53,455 --> 00:09:56,535 Speaker 3: think Maggie Barry was the Minister for Conservation at the time, 176 00:09:56,935 --> 00:10:02,815 Speaker 3: and she started the Dirty Dozen. You know what I 177 00:10:02,855 --> 00:10:06,135 Speaker 3: mean of weeds, the most important weeds in New z 178 00:10:07,015 --> 00:10:09,335 Speaker 3: It's that sort of stuff that might need a bit 179 00:10:09,375 --> 00:10:12,255 Speaker 3: of a re recapture. 180 00:10:11,615 --> 00:10:13,815 Speaker 5: If you like, how do you get it started? Though? 181 00:10:14,335 --> 00:10:18,415 Speaker 5: Need someone like you to phone the radio or one 182 00:10:18,495 --> 00:10:19,655 Speaker 5: tob or something like that. 183 00:10:19,735 --> 00:10:23,295 Speaker 2: And can I just jump in because I got a 184 00:10:23,295 --> 00:10:26,495 Speaker 2: little bit of optimism for you Shirley. There are actually 185 00:10:26,735 --> 00:10:29,015 Speaker 2: a couple of groups out there already doing stuff, in 186 00:10:29,095 --> 00:10:34,655 Speaker 2: particular Stamp. I love these guys. Society totally against moth plant, right, 187 00:10:35,255 --> 00:10:38,735 Speaker 2: they are really really active. They've got like maps where 188 00:10:38,735 --> 00:10:42,855 Speaker 2: they indicate where they've targeted an area. You can send 189 00:10:42,855 --> 00:10:46,135 Speaker 2: them a notification that goes, hey, look I've discovered some 190 00:10:47,095 --> 00:10:49,135 Speaker 2: and in some cases they'll go and talk to the 191 00:10:49,215 --> 00:10:51,215 Speaker 2: person who owns the property. They're not just going to 192 00:10:51,255 --> 00:10:55,775 Speaker 2: barge in, unlike me. And so it is out there, 193 00:10:56,135 --> 00:10:57,935 Speaker 2: you know, I mean, I know there's always more to do, 194 00:10:58,015 --> 00:11:00,615 Speaker 2: but there is a tremendous amount and you know this 195 00:11:00,735 --> 00:11:03,455 Speaker 2: root there's so much work being done by such so 196 00:11:03,615 --> 00:11:08,935 Speaker 2: many people in the community to work on public spaces, 197 00:11:09,135 --> 00:11:13,695 Speaker 2: restoring nature and that sort of thing. So I'm optimistic, right, 198 00:11:14,335 --> 00:11:15,815 Speaker 2: especially on offshore islands. 199 00:11:16,175 --> 00:11:19,975 Speaker 3: If you're looking around Auckland as well, you know TDtv, Martongue, 200 00:11:20,015 --> 00:11:23,455 Speaker 3: in all the sort of places, people are working in 201 00:11:23,495 --> 00:11:27,175 Speaker 3: all sorts of groups, whether it's birds work or blunt 202 00:11:27,215 --> 00:11:31,015 Speaker 3: people or whatever. Yep, it's happening. You're absolutely right. It 203 00:11:31,055 --> 00:11:34,455 Speaker 3: would be nice to have a bit more attention to 204 00:11:34,575 --> 00:11:35,495 Speaker 3: this especially. 205 00:11:36,175 --> 00:11:39,655 Speaker 5: Yeah, for sure, happening to realize. 206 00:11:39,375 --> 00:11:42,455 Speaker 2: Some time, Weedbusters dot org dot and Z. There you go, 207 00:11:42,575 --> 00:11:45,015 Speaker 2: they're out there, shirly all right, lovely to talk. 208 00:11:45,655 --> 00:11:48,655 Speaker 5: Just one of very quick thing. I hope you don't 209 00:11:48,655 --> 00:11:52,015 Speaker 5: mind me mentioning this, but the Paprika Garden Club are 210 00:11:52,015 --> 00:11:55,535 Speaker 5: having your annual shows is coming Tuesday the sixteenth in 211 00:11:55,615 --> 00:11:59,655 Speaker 5: the Wellington Park in the radio hall and public are 212 00:11:59,855 --> 00:12:03,375 Speaker 5: welcome in the afternoon. We've got plants from Zeeland here, 213 00:12:03,415 --> 00:12:06,295 Speaker 5: We've got orchids, we've got rebels. We've got three afternoons. 214 00:12:06,455 --> 00:12:07,135 Speaker 5: You so please. 215 00:12:08,855 --> 00:12:11,175 Speaker 3: And that's been going for a long time too, isn't. 216 00:12:10,935 --> 00:12:13,095 Speaker 5: It many years? 217 00:12:13,415 --> 00:12:15,455 Speaker 3: Thank you for that. Lovely to talk. 218 00:12:15,495 --> 00:12:16,415 Speaker 2: She really enjoy that. 219 00:12:16,815 --> 00:12:17,255 Speaker 3: Take care. 220 00:12:17,855 --> 00:12:22,175 Speaker 2: Thomas, good morning, good morning, very well. 221 00:12:23,295 --> 00:12:24,695 Speaker 1: Yeah, Thomas here from Blenham. 222 00:12:28,735 --> 00:12:31,815 Speaker 3: Yeah, that's what I'm going to end up tonight. Yeah. 223 00:12:31,815 --> 00:12:38,335 Speaker 6: What I'm just going to ask about. 224 00:12:39,735 --> 00:12:42,695 Speaker 1: Some scales that we have in a lemonary that I 225 00:12:42,815 --> 00:12:44,055 Speaker 1: put some mineral oil. 226 00:12:44,615 --> 00:12:48,495 Speaker 6: I fully cover them, but they're still there. I can 227 00:12:48,615 --> 00:12:49,375 Speaker 6: get rid of them. 228 00:12:49,655 --> 00:12:52,415 Speaker 3: Yeah, the scales themselves take a long time to fall off, 229 00:12:52,455 --> 00:12:55,695 Speaker 3: but if the creature under the scale is is basically 230 00:12:55,735 --> 00:12:59,335 Speaker 3: suffocated by your mineral oil, you've done a good job. 231 00:12:59,615 --> 00:13:02,295 Speaker 3: You can also do this with nim oil and things 232 00:13:02,375 --> 00:13:05,375 Speaker 3: like that, and you'll find that those sort of things 233 00:13:05,415 --> 00:13:08,655 Speaker 3: tend to work reasonably well. How old is your lemontream 234 00:13:08,695 --> 00:13:09,055 Speaker 3: if I. 235 00:13:09,015 --> 00:13:12,975 Speaker 6: May ask, I would be fifteen years old the least. 236 00:13:13,495 --> 00:13:15,215 Speaker 3: And they give you lots of good fruit in the 237 00:13:15,255 --> 00:13:20,455 Speaker 3: wintertime plenty. Okay, are there any fruit at the moment 238 00:13:20,495 --> 00:13:21,575 Speaker 3: that you're still harvesting? 239 00:13:22,815 --> 00:13:24,575 Speaker 6: Yes, there are fruit in the tree. 240 00:13:24,895 --> 00:13:27,055 Speaker 3: Okay, and they're going to be ripe within the next 241 00:13:27,135 --> 00:13:28,095 Speaker 3: few weeks, aren't they. 242 00:13:29,175 --> 00:13:31,575 Speaker 6: Yeah, they are ready to go now they're actually flowers 243 00:13:31,615 --> 00:13:32,015 Speaker 6: coming in. 244 00:13:33,255 --> 00:13:35,775 Speaker 3: That doesn't matter. But I'm just wondering now because there's 245 00:13:35,815 --> 00:13:38,455 Speaker 3: another material you can use, and it's called grow ventive, 246 00:13:38,815 --> 00:13:41,375 Speaker 3: but not when you're going to be eating the plants. 247 00:13:41,375 --> 00:13:44,615 Speaker 3: There's too much of an withholding period for that, so 248 00:13:44,655 --> 00:13:46,415 Speaker 3: I wouldn't do that. But what you've done with your 249 00:13:46,455 --> 00:13:49,615 Speaker 3: mineral oil sounds just great. Same with kneem oil. 250 00:13:49,935 --> 00:13:53,815 Speaker 2: Easy, Ah, Thomas, thank you very much. 251 00:13:54,215 --> 00:13:54,815 Speaker 4: Hey, so rude. 252 00:13:54,815 --> 00:13:58,415 Speaker 2: You're and Blenham tonight. Yeah, I'm in Nelson next week, 253 00:13:58,575 --> 00:14:00,895 Speaker 2: just as it happens. Well, I mean, yeah, we're a 254 00:14:00,895 --> 00:14:01,855 Speaker 2: week apart, but hey. 255 00:14:01,735 --> 00:14:05,175 Speaker 3: Get not quite because I'll be there for a whole weekend. 256 00:14:05,215 --> 00:14:07,415 Speaker 3: Oh no, I'll come back on THIRSD Day, so make 257 00:14:07,495 --> 00:14:08,735 Speaker 3: you I might not make. 258 00:14:08,655 --> 00:14:13,415 Speaker 2: You, not sorry. I'm looking forward to Nelson actually ye Saturday. 259 00:14:13,455 --> 00:14:15,215 Speaker 2: So hey, look, if you're down at the Home and 260 00:14:15,215 --> 00:14:18,815 Speaker 2: Garden show in Nelson on Saturday, make sure you come 261 00:14:18,815 --> 00:14:21,335 Speaker 2: and say hello Ellen, talk to me about possums. 262 00:14:22,335 --> 00:14:25,575 Speaker 6: Oh hello, grued the great impersonation of a possum there. 263 00:14:26,415 --> 00:14:27,055 Speaker 3: Did you like that? 264 00:14:28,175 --> 00:14:28,415 Speaker 4: Yeah? 265 00:14:28,455 --> 00:14:30,415 Speaker 6: I heard, I heard one. I heard one for the 266 00:14:30,415 --> 00:14:33,135 Speaker 6: first time the other night when I was out trying 267 00:14:33,135 --> 00:14:36,975 Speaker 6: to find what's going on outside. And it's really scary 268 00:14:37,015 --> 00:14:40,375 Speaker 6: when you hear that. You can't see where it is exactly. 269 00:14:39,655 --> 00:14:46,855 Speaker 6: But I even recorded its time of echoes of the Yeah, 270 00:14:47,775 --> 00:14:51,495 Speaker 6: go on, we've got a possum neighbor. When I am, 271 00:14:52,335 --> 00:14:54,975 Speaker 6: we were, but we're softies. We don't we don't want 272 00:14:55,015 --> 00:15:00,855 Speaker 6: to kill it. But but I want to give you 273 00:15:00,895 --> 00:15:02,215 Speaker 6: a blessing that we can please. 274 00:15:02,655 --> 00:15:06,495 Speaker 3: Yes you can, yes, no, honestly a pain in the 275 00:15:06,535 --> 00:15:09,575 Speaker 3: bumb almost do you know? Now? Hang on, what's the number? 276 00:15:09,815 --> 00:15:11,735 Speaker 3: Do you? Oh gosh, what is it? 277 00:15:12,935 --> 00:15:13,095 Speaker 1: No? 278 00:15:13,095 --> 00:15:17,095 Speaker 3: No, no, The amount of leaves they eat every year 279 00:15:17,295 --> 00:15:24,375 Speaker 3: is something the same weight as the sky tower. Yeah. Oh, 280 00:15:25,055 --> 00:15:30,015 Speaker 3: don't start thinking possums are cute for God's sake. Now, honestly, 281 00:15:30,375 --> 00:15:33,495 Speaker 3: they do a serious amount of damage to our plants 282 00:15:33,695 --> 00:15:36,735 Speaker 3: and of course and also to some of the birds by. 283 00:15:36,655 --> 00:15:42,495 Speaker 6: The way, Yeah, long tea, what do you want to do? 284 00:15:44,135 --> 00:15:46,375 Speaker 6: No that? So, so we've got the possum, I've seen 285 00:15:46,415 --> 00:15:48,495 Speaker 6: the droppings, and we're going to work out a strategy 286 00:15:48,575 --> 00:15:51,495 Speaker 6: to get a little bit. But we hear this noise 287 00:15:51,535 --> 00:15:54,655 Speaker 6: at night and it's like four taps on something wooden 288 00:15:54,975 --> 00:16:00,455 Speaker 6: and I'm just gonna tap on my table like this, Yeah, 289 00:16:00,535 --> 00:16:03,095 Speaker 6: And it's just once off the nets. It doesn't kind 290 00:16:03,135 --> 00:16:05,855 Speaker 6: of repeat the repreating repeat. Would that be the possum 291 00:16:05,975 --> 00:16:06,295 Speaker 6: doing something? 292 00:16:07,135 --> 00:16:09,895 Speaker 3: I don't think. So is it inside or is it outside? 293 00:16:10,255 --> 00:16:12,935 Speaker 6: It must be outside. There's got a lot of decking outside, 294 00:16:13,935 --> 00:16:16,655 Speaker 6: weather board, It's a lot of surface area that would 295 00:16:16,775 --> 00:16:17,815 Speaker 6: make that kind of noise. 296 00:16:19,575 --> 00:16:21,775 Speaker 3: There are if you go out night with the torch, 297 00:16:22,135 --> 00:16:24,055 Speaker 3: which is the sort of stuff I do, you quite 298 00:16:24,095 --> 00:16:27,735 Speaker 3: often find things making noises. And it could be possible, 299 00:16:27,775 --> 00:16:30,815 Speaker 3: but but I doubt that they do it that regularly, 300 00:16:30,975 --> 00:16:35,495 Speaker 3: to be quite honest. You know, that regular ticking, what 301 00:16:35,535 --> 00:16:35,975 Speaker 3: could it be? 302 00:16:38,175 --> 00:16:40,215 Speaker 6: But they will just do it once, you know, like 303 00:16:41,255 --> 00:16:43,895 Speaker 6: varies between three o'clock to four o'clock in the morning. 304 00:16:44,455 --> 00:16:45,895 Speaker 6: I don't know if it wakes us up or where 305 00:16:45,935 --> 00:16:47,015 Speaker 6: we're awake when we hear it. 306 00:16:47,055 --> 00:16:50,975 Speaker 3: But I tell you there's also there's also a creature 307 00:16:51,015 --> 00:16:53,735 Speaker 3: that is inside, but it doesn't it is it's and 308 00:16:53,815 --> 00:16:57,855 Speaker 3: it is unbelievably small, and it makes an audible tapping noise. 309 00:16:58,375 --> 00:17:01,295 Speaker 3: And that is that is something else that I remember 310 00:17:01,335 --> 00:17:04,335 Speaker 3: asking Julie says, who's that ticking? He said, well, that's 311 00:17:04,935 --> 00:17:06,855 Speaker 3: that's what do you call it? The book like a 312 00:17:06,895 --> 00:17:10,215 Speaker 3: book louse. It's only not even a millimeter in size, 313 00:17:10,535 --> 00:17:12,975 Speaker 3: and it ticks at this time of the yes, and 314 00:17:13,015 --> 00:17:14,775 Speaker 3: it ticks at this time of the year to find 315 00:17:14,775 --> 00:17:17,255 Speaker 3: itself a mate. And it does that same sort of 316 00:17:17,255 --> 00:17:24,015 Speaker 3: thing of this. Yeah, but very very low in volume, 317 00:17:24,295 --> 00:17:26,975 Speaker 3: but you can hear it. But I nearly got a 318 00:17:26,975 --> 00:17:28,815 Speaker 3: fight with Julia on my heads because she thought I 319 00:17:28,855 --> 00:17:30,815 Speaker 3: was taking the mickey. But it's true. It is not 320 00:17:30,895 --> 00:17:33,255 Speaker 3: even a millimeter in size, and it can actually make 321 00:17:33,295 --> 00:17:34,695 Speaker 3: a noise that is audible. 322 00:17:34,815 --> 00:17:37,935 Speaker 6: Yeah, so it's not the possum, man. 323 00:17:38,375 --> 00:17:40,575 Speaker 3: I don't think so. The possum is a bit more rough. 324 00:17:41,695 --> 00:17:44,575 Speaker 6: Yeah, I thought it might be smashing snails on the deck. 325 00:17:45,855 --> 00:17:49,295 Speaker 2: Oh good, Oh, you see that all the time. A 326 00:17:49,415 --> 00:17:51,335 Speaker 2: number of times you go outside and what the hell 327 00:17:51,415 --> 00:17:52,295 Speaker 2: is that banging sound? 328 00:17:52,335 --> 00:17:56,775 Speaker 3: And it's not me, that's what's No, No, it's not, 329 00:17:56,855 --> 00:17:59,255 Speaker 3: it's it's the It's not the blackbirds. Its the other one, 330 00:17:59,295 --> 00:18:03,535 Speaker 3: the thrush song thrush they use they use rocks. Yeah, 331 00:18:03,575 --> 00:18:06,855 Speaker 3: they use rock as an anvil to crackt to correct 332 00:18:06,895 --> 00:18:07,495 Speaker 3: the snails with. 333 00:18:08,415 --> 00:18:11,735 Speaker 2: That's great, it's fantastic. I enjoy your day, Ellen, all 334 00:18:11,775 --> 00:18:14,415 Speaker 2: the very best to you. You take care now. We've 335 00:18:14,415 --> 00:18:16,735 Speaker 2: got a minute and about fifty million texts to get through. 336 00:18:16,815 --> 00:18:19,375 Speaker 2: So when can verea be pruned? 337 00:18:20,055 --> 00:18:23,055 Speaker 3: Usually just after flowering, that's when you do it, and 338 00:18:24,895 --> 00:18:27,015 Speaker 3: basically sharpsicates and awhere you go. 339 00:18:27,815 --> 00:18:32,255 Speaker 2: Don't go too far, okay, be gentle Lemon tree curling 340 00:18:32,415 --> 00:18:33,855 Speaker 2: and tiny bugs under the leaves. 341 00:18:34,215 --> 00:18:36,695 Speaker 3: Oh gosh, there we go again. So we're talking about 342 00:18:36,735 --> 00:18:38,375 Speaker 3: all sorts of things that live on the underside of 343 00:18:38,375 --> 00:18:41,895 Speaker 3: the leaves. Again. Mineral oil or nim oil are probably 344 00:18:41,935 --> 00:18:44,775 Speaker 3: your best things to use at this stage. And from 345 00:18:44,775 --> 00:18:46,335 Speaker 3: the underside, remember. 346 00:18:46,255 --> 00:18:50,575 Speaker 2: Right, fruit trees five years old, no fruiting ding ding ding. 347 00:18:50,695 --> 00:18:53,935 Speaker 3: Yeah, soft fate off potash rang ding ding ding. 348 00:18:55,095 --> 00:18:57,335 Speaker 2: Yes, all right, we'll have to come up with an 349 00:18:57,335 --> 00:19:00,815 Speaker 2: electric chainsaw sound too, because everyone's moving to that. Can 350 00:19:00,855 --> 00:19:03,655 Speaker 2: I do something to prohibit coddling moth and my royal 351 00:19:03,735 --> 00:19:05,295 Speaker 2: Garla apple tree. 352 00:19:07,175 --> 00:19:11,495 Speaker 3: Three M A D E x three. It is a 353 00:19:11,535 --> 00:19:15,415 Speaker 3: material that you spray on the new flowers that after 354 00:19:15,455 --> 00:19:17,855 Speaker 3: the flowers have just finished flowering off the apple tree, 355 00:19:18,175 --> 00:19:20,215 Speaker 3: if you give it a whack as good as you 356 00:19:20,255 --> 00:19:23,095 Speaker 3: can do it again six five weeks later. 357 00:19:23,735 --> 00:19:25,455 Speaker 2: Bulous. That's herbulous. 358 00:19:25,535 --> 00:19:26,175 Speaker 3: I think we've done. 359 00:19:26,215 --> 00:19:28,815 Speaker 2: Thank you as always, it's a pleasure. We'll catch up 360 00:19:28,855 --> 00:19:31,015 Speaker 2: with you next Sunday. Take care of all of this 361 00:19:31,495 --> 00:19:34,215 Speaker 2: by then, and again my thanks to Chris pink Minister 362 00:19:34,335 --> 00:19:36,175 Speaker 2: for joining us in the studio. Look forward to your 363 00:19:36,175 --> 00:19:38,335 Speaker 2: company again next Sunday. Take care of a great week. 364 00:19:38,735 --> 00:19:41,695 Speaker 1: For more from the Resident Builder with Peter Wolfcamp, listen 365 00:19:41,775 --> 00:19:44,535 Speaker 1: live to news talks the'd be on Sunday mornings from six, 366 00:19:44,895 --> 00:19:46,935 Speaker 1: or follow the podcast on iHeartRadio.