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

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Speaker 1: from News Talk SEDB.

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Speaker 2: Radio RUD A very good morning, sir.

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Speaker 3: A very good morning to you, Piero. Is everything all

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Speaker 3: right with you? Yeah? Good, thanks buddy, And you're not

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Speaker 3: running the big raw?

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Speaker 2: No, no, I get the perfect excuse. I suppose theoretically

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Speaker 2: I used to do it. Actually I did it a

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Speaker 2: couple of times with him a dad back in the day,

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Speaker 2: way way way back.

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Speaker 3: Gosh, No, I've never done it because I was always

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Speaker 3: on air since nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 2: Well, I think I probably did it in about nineteen

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Speaker 2: eighty two or eighty three, probably, yeah, back when it

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Speaker 2: was actually ten k's and it started from in at

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Speaker 2: Victoria Park and you ran all the way. But anyway, yeah, yeah, yeah, no,

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Speaker 2: it's awesome. It's an awesome event.

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Speaker 3: Radio.

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Speaker 2: Should we get amongst it.

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Speaker 3: I'd see there's a couple of these green things on the.

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Speaker 2: Yeah yeah text too, So someone takes very look. Quarter

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Speaker 2: to eight was the first text for you morning peak.

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Speaker 2: When road comes, can you ask them where all the

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Speaker 2: two we have gone? We live just south of Taie

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Speaker 2: Happy and usually have about six or eight bouncing around.

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Speaker 2: But in the last few months. None, we feed them

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Speaker 2: and it's strange and we miss them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, that's quite weird, isn't it. The joke I can

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Speaker 3: do is, of course, if you're talking about tie Happy,

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Speaker 3: there is a street called Tooy Street, right, they might

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Speaker 3: be there now on it. To be quite honest, I

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Speaker 3: don't know, because sometimes these things go finding their foods elsewhere,

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Speaker 3: if there is another tree that's you know, whatever, sending

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Speaker 3: some food into the air, right whatever, and then they

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Speaker 3: buger off for a while and they know exactly when

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Speaker 3: it is too. That's very clever, actually, but I reckon.

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Speaker 3: Normally these things will come back. They will restore themselves.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, good to know. But they will go with the fooders,

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Speaker 2: I guess, oh.

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Speaker 3: All the time. Yeah, yeah, no doubt about it.

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Speaker 2: They're not loyal as such.

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Speaker 3: They don't. They don't wry about your food.

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Speaker 2: A very good morning to.

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Speaker 4: You, Hope, Yes, good morning, rude. I must want to

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Speaker 4: know about my friend Chipanny, which I've had for about

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Speaker 4: twenty years now. When I got it, I spent the

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Speaker 4: first ten years having at indoors until it got too big.

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Speaker 4: I've since put it outside and it did well for

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Speaker 4: a while, but the last two years it hasn't flowered.

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Speaker 4: Almost wondering the polridge is very healthy, but no flowers.

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Speaker 4: And I was just wondering what.

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Speaker 3: I could do fertilizer.

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Speaker 4: What yeares I have fertilized it such?

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Speaker 3: Yes, with what a phosphorus?

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Speaker 4: I think it was posphorus.

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Speaker 3: Okay, you're talking about the quay.

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Speaker 4: And it was something I brought from King Bahn.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah it is. It's it's interesting because

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Speaker 3: we have we live in christ Church and Julie has

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Speaker 3: her We've got a couple of frenchip barnies in a

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Speaker 3: glasshouse which works quite well. The only thing in the

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Speaker 3: hot glasshouse. You sometimes little mite's going in there and

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Speaker 3: stuffing around. But you've got yours outside. Where where are

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Speaker 3: you in Auckland?

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Speaker 4: Somewhere is in Auckland and I've got it to they sheltered.

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Speaker 4: It does get to six hours sunlight that it requires.

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Speaker 4: But and you know, I've looked nursed at like a baby.

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Speaker 4: But and this the last two years, the forage are

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Speaker 4: lovely in healthy, but there's no flowers, have you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah? So so what really what I was talking about

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Speaker 3: there was the NPK. The cay is for potash. Potash

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Speaker 3: is the stuff that makes the plant flower and then

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Speaker 3: set seeds if you like later on, I suppose, But

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Speaker 3: it's weird as it does that. So I would suggest

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Speaker 3: you get some fertilizer that contains a really decent amount

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Speaker 4: When do I give it to it?

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Speaker 3: What I would do it now, because they will be

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Speaker 3: probably starting to flower from now on, won't they.

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Speaker 4: Well no, not really. I think that it's getting colder now.

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Speaker 4: I'm not my it used to flower in the summertime.

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Speaker 4: It's never it's never grown cold tall, but it's wide,

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Speaker 4: and it's in a pot. But and I've repotted it

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Speaker 4: when it didn't flower and put a fresh soil in

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Speaker 4: a potting mix, but the no flowers.

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Speaker 3: So what I would do is get some sulfate of potash.

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Speaker 3: Sulfate of potash which is basically mostly potash and a

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Speaker 3: all that sort of stuff. And the reason I'm saying

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Speaker 3: warning the plant. Here's some food. Now, do something during

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Speaker 3: the winter, get yourself together, and in springtime, I'd like

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Speaker 3: to see some buds. Please may you do it again?

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Speaker 3: Then there you go on.

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Speaker 4: I thought for japanis they like to be in ostia conditions.

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Speaker 4: I mean you don't treat them with great love.

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Speaker 3: No, you don't have to do much, just a little bit.

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Speaker 3: But what you're doing when you give them a little

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Speaker 3: bit of potash, you basically waken them up. And if

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Speaker 3: you do that again in springtime, it might say, oh, yeah,

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Speaker 3: I remember this, I can do this, and they probably

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Speaker 3: have a much better way of putting the flowers up

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Speaker 4: Oh, thank you very much that I know you don't

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Speaker 4: water them. You have to wait until they're completely dry

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Speaker 4: to water them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, don't go over the exactly, don't go over the

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Speaker 3: top with them. But yes, but this case, the little

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Speaker 3: bit of potash will do quite often wake them up.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you so much for that.

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Speaker 2: More than welcome to take care of Hope.

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Speaker 3: And by the way, that was interesting to have a

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Speaker 3: Hope call it our show give them hope. Yes, yes, exactly,

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Speaker 3: and the producers they was Hope.

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Speaker 2: Not friends say, just for what it's worth, one of

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Speaker 3: I think, Yes, it's good, isn't it coolous? We've got

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Speaker 3: one that does a different color flower as well, So

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Speaker 3: we got two in the in the glass. It's sexually

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Speaker 3: quite lovely and yes yesterday, yesterday. Actually that's it. For

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Speaker 3: people that have them in the in tunnel houses and

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Speaker 3: stuff like that. These things can sometimes have a problem

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Speaker 3: with mites on the leaves, and that can cause serious

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Speaker 3: do is I spray them with something like a kneem oil,

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Speaker 3: and I do that quite regularly, top and bottom of

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Speaker 3: say a week or so apart, you'll find that you

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Speaker 3: can control them. I just thought i'd mentioned that too.

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Speaker 2: Right, Oh, Jill, Good morning to you.

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Speaker 5: Good morning guys. I'm ringing from Hastings, and I don't

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Speaker 5: think territorial in I've got inks anytime I have anything

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Speaker 5: I could have that ant recipe that you gave out

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Speaker 5: a couple of weeks ago.

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Speaker 3: Route Okay, this is an ant recipe that I got

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Speaker 3: when I was working for the Ministry of Agriculture in

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Speaker 3: nineteen eighty three there.

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Speaker 5: And when you gave it out last time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, okay, so the thing we use in those days,

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Speaker 3: and I'm not one hundred percent sure what of these

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Speaker 3: particular materials are still available, to be quite honest, but

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Speaker 3: what I got, what I make is a bait that

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Speaker 3: has a low toxicity for humans. If you like six

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Speaker 3: hundred milli liters of water, six hundred mills, three hundred

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Speaker 3: grams of sugar, sixty grams of honey, any honey, any

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Speaker 3: nice sweet bait for sweet loving ants, which is most

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Speaker 3: of the ants that they do that. I also have

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Speaker 3: a similar sort of version for ants that like protein,

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Speaker 3: so they don't eat sweet stuff, but they do the

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Speaker 3: same sort of stuff. So what you get is you

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Speaker 3: peanut butter, fifty milli liters of cooking oil makes it

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Speaker 3: nice slippery, sixty grams of borax, and sixty grams of

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Speaker 3: boric acid b O r ic boric acid.

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Speaker 5: We don't get the boric acid from uh.

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Speaker 3: Probably I have ever ever ever asked of one of

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Speaker 3: your chemists, if you like, you never know where you

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Speaker 3: it's still available like that. Otherwise you use just the borax.

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Speaker 5: You mix it sixty again.

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Speaker 3: Sixty grams of boric acid. Yeah, you've got to mix

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Speaker 3: it all well together till the boric and the boric

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Speaker 5: Okay, thank you very much. Now that that's all just

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Speaker 5: the inside. Can you use any of it for outside

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Speaker 5: as well?

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Speaker 3: Yes you can, Yes you can. But you put it

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Speaker 3: in various little pottles so that you create a a

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Speaker 3: got a different territory, and that's why you have various

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Speaker 3: pottles lying around or in your house or next to

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Speaker 5: I have to do that every couple of weeks months.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, you probably will. Yeah, you got it.

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Speaker 2: Good luck with that. I know a little bit of

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Speaker 2: home chemistry. It sounds fantastic, Margaret, A very good morning.

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Speaker 6: Hello. I've got a passion fruit vine that's finished fruiting,

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Speaker 6: and i'd like to know whether I can trim it

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Speaker 6: it it Now.

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Speaker 3: Yes, I think you can, and I'm quite sure that

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Speaker 3: that could be done. But you do it after you've

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Speaker 3: harvested the fruit, of course. Yeah, yes, now, fine, fine,

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Speaker 3: it's good.

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Speaker 6: But it's got heavy, you know, and it's you know,

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Speaker 6: growing out towards the sun, and it needs it looks heavy,

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Speaker 6: needs to be trimmed. But I just wonder whether you

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Speaker 6: can't do that.

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Speaker 3: Yes, you can trim it, yeah, yeah, not not go

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Speaker 3: don't go over the top, but you know what I mean,

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Speaker 3: a little bit at the time you go. Yeah, absolutely, Just.

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Speaker 6: What sort of plants can I put on my bugy garden? What?

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Speaker 3: Right now?

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Speaker 6: Also?

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Speaker 3: Wait, also no, I wouldn't I wouldn't wait because well

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Speaker 3: where are you ringing from?

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Speaker 6: Silverdale?

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Speaker 3: Silverdale? Know you you still got quite a bit of

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Speaker 3: stuff you can do. You can do all sorts of

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Speaker 3: beans and peas and things like that, no problem at all, Okay. Yeah.

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Speaker 3: In fact, I'm going to be writing a little bit

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Speaker 3: for Jack Thames program on a Sunday on Saturday morning

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Speaker 3: in in the next week or two about exactly what

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Speaker 3: you can still do right now before it becomes really

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Speaker 3: winter and the other thing, Margaret, because this was such

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Speaker 3: a really nice question. And Peter wolf Camp is always

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Speaker 3: the guy that takes the mickey out of me for

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Speaker 3: never ever having grown a picture in my life.

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Speaker 2: Notice my restraint today.

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Speaker 3: I did you know why, because i'd have. I got on.

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Speaker 2: This success, success for the patient for it. That's amazing.

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Speaker 3: The cat didn't there, I didn't. It's still there.

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Speaker 6: A while back I tried to find out what was

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Speaker 3: A powder? Footed wasps? I don't know. I still don't.

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Speaker 2: I went I went and found some. I find it.

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Speaker 3: Okay, there you go, Tom, that's it. That's what. Yeah, No,

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Speaker 3: Oh yeah, is that papers?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, the German ones, the unhappy ones. And I discovered

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Speaker 7: Great things. Hello, how are you?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, we're good. What are you doing with your monarchs?

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Speaker 3: How do you get them? Like inside?

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Speaker 7: I don't mind the brown ones, it's.

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Speaker 3: Just I've got them on my hands and so to

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Speaker 3: That's right. It was just sorry, how do I know

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Speaker 7: Yes, yes, okay, I'm just make it warmer.

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Speaker 2: It'll be great. Enjoy that, Marian. I have to say

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Speaker 3: Very good. Yeah, you got it.

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Speaker 2: Wonderful. Well now the people texting have got it, so

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Speaker 2: Oh folks, thank you very much for your company this morning.

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Speaker 2: It's been absolute delight. Thank you to Hope for jumping

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