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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 B.

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Speaker 2: Righty, oh, good morning, root.

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Speaker 3: He lower lower loaf. You're all good? Yeah, absolutely, and

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Speaker 3: so yeah yeah yeah yeah, pretty good so far. I yeah,

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Speaker 3: next week I might be doing this by telephone from home.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah, I'm getting my left knee done.

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Speaker 2: That's right. You got two of them, you might as

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Speaker 2: well have both done.

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Speaker 3: Well yeah, yeah, let's do it. There's also we'll work

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Speaker 3: it out rightio.

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Speaker 2: The leaves are turning, you know, it's the suddenly it's

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Speaker 2: you know, I get up at a b of a

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Speaker 2: time and suddenly it's like, oh, it's a little bit

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Speaker 2: darker outside, and then the garden sort of goes into

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Speaker 2: a dormancy, but not not. Yes, hey it's still quite

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Speaker 2: a bit happening in the garden.

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Speaker 3: Yes, there is still a bit more movement still because

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Speaker 3: we've had we've had a reasonably warmer late summer. Yes,

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Speaker 3: we've gone into we've gone into autumn now of course,

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Speaker 3: just now yeah, yeah, I think yeah, yeah, yeah. Equinox

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Speaker 3: because that's actually that's a really lovely word. Equinox the

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Speaker 3: same size, the same length of equi, its the same

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Speaker 3: Knox is night and the other one is day right day,

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Speaker 3: day and night at exactly the same time now, same

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Speaker 3: same length. Good fun. And but anyway, what I'm going

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Speaker 3: to say is that it was quite It's been quite

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Speaker 3: nice here in christ Shows with. The weather has been

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Speaker 3: quite warm. So yes, stuff is still growing. I still

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Speaker 3: have lots of tomatoes going all that sort of stuff

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Speaker 3: is going.

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Speaker 2: Well, certainly in Auckland. That's the weather in the last

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks has been absolutely stunning, like settled, calm weather,

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Speaker 2: but also finally well, not not that it's a good thing,

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Speaker 2: but you can see the lawn getting really dry, and

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Speaker 2: you know, and talking to next you, to one of

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Speaker 2: my sisters, she goes that the water tanks are empty.

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Speaker 2: There's not really a lot of rain on the horizon,

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Speaker 2: so it's going to be a little bit challenging.

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Speaker 3: That's right. And two weeks ago last week, of course,

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Speaker 3: the week before last, he was in Auckland for most

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Speaker 3: of the week anyway, working with kids and teachers there

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Speaker 3: at the schools. That was really good. We talked about

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Speaker 3: that last week.

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Speaker 2: Fantastic radio. Let's get amongst it. If you've got a

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Speaker 2: question for you can call right now. Oh, eight hundred

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Speaker 2: and eighty ten eighty and mark a very good morning.

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Speaker 4: Good morning, Hello, I've put a Hello. I've brought a

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Speaker 4: new raised a ventual gun in and I had to

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Speaker 4: bring soil in by the contractor about two years ago.

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Speaker 4: It's a very warm spot. But what's happened is that

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Speaker 4: it's almost like a weed net underneath the service. There's

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Speaker 4: no green shoots coming to the service. It almost looks

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Speaker 4: like twitch, but I'm not sure it is twitch, and

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Speaker 4: I don't know what to do about it. It is spreading

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Speaker 4: quite quite quickly.

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Speaker 3: Quite quickly, so it pays to have that identified first.

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Speaker 3: Out of this twitch? Is this something that is for

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Speaker 3: your vegetables?

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Speaker 4: Yes, it's in my vegetable garden and it's underneath the surface.

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Speaker 4: I dig it up and it looks like twitch, but

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Speaker 4: there's no green shoots coming to the surface.

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Speaker 3: Oh I wonder what that is?

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Speaker 4: Then?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, I'll know. But I mean it's really hard

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Speaker 3: to see. Where are you from, Auckland. No, I'm from Timuru,

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Speaker 3: timrou Okay, so from here to look at Timaru is

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Speaker 3: at least a five hour drive. No, it's not that few,

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Speaker 3: but it's three hour drive from where I am let's

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Speaker 3: put it that way. Gosh, I no, I don't know

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Speaker 3: without without really knowing what this is about, and it

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Speaker 3: doesn't come to the surface.

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Speaker 4: You say, no, it doesn't know. It's underneath, it's not

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Speaker 4: getting any sunlight. But when I dig up the when

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Speaker 4: I dig up these these sort of the sort of

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Speaker 4: root system, it's still live.

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Speaker 3: It's still alive, and there's no way of digging it

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Speaker 3: all out. That's too much, I suppose, how because your garden.

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Speaker 4: There, well it's probably about six square meters.

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Speaker 3: Wow, yeah, that's a bit much, isn't it really?

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Speaker 2: Oh?

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Speaker 3: Have you got any other vegetables in there that are

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Speaker 3: in the ground that you can see and that work.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I mean I've planted vespalls and potatoes and they're

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Speaker 4: all growing. But when I when I was walking with Soilo, right,

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Speaker 4: I had to discover these sort of twitch like roots.

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Speaker 3: Now, but the best, the best thing is to get

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Speaker 3: your local garden center, see and get them properly identified.

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Speaker 3: In Timuru, they'll know, they'll know what it is, and

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Speaker 3: then you can start working on it. Now. Okay, it's

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Speaker 3: really hard to do that without seeing it or without

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Speaker 2: Right, thank you very much, right Owen greetings.

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Speaker 5: Oh, good morning. Hey, I've just run back with a

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Speaker 5: good happy news, good solution. I've found to a problem.

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Speaker 5: I spoke a couple of weeks back, right, I wanted

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Speaker 5: to spy. It is from living in my carmeras and

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Speaker 5: putting spider webs all over them at less, I probably

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Speaker 5: wouldn't pick up any of them in speeding tickets when

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Speaker 5: they sumer car on that stuff. But I found Kingsman spray,

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Speaker 5: which is a spider to turn that you can get

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Speaker 5: from Rep Coo. It's only twelve bucks for a little

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Speaker 5: squired a bottle. It's New Zealand made with a whole

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Speaker 5: of the natural stuff. And be honest, you look at

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Speaker 5: the ingredients of pet normal the time you go and

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Speaker 5: buy all that stuff, you're better off to buy the

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Speaker 5: Kingsman spray. And it works. The spiders women shifted out

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Speaker 5: and shifted out gone, nothing has come back, and never

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Speaker 5: it would never be free for more than them. In

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Speaker 5: a day or two before cleaning, we've off go out

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Speaker 5: It's back again sort of thing. So yeah, you pull

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Speaker 5: kings spray, Yeah, Kingsman something or other. I can, but

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Speaker 5: Kingsman anyway, Rep Co twelve bucks for a little fifty

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Speaker 5: mili spray bottle. It works brilliant and I'd much rather

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Speaker 5: do that than kill a little yeah, because otherwise I

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Speaker 5: put that toxin and every spy that came on to

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Speaker 5: take a look, I'd kill them. So I feel like.

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Speaker 3: It's not very nice, is it? Because they're usually pretty good.

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Speaker 3: We have a good creatures, I know absolutely. I totally

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Speaker 3: agree with you. What can I see on Kingsman's spray? Oh,

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Speaker 3: here you go, Kingsman Spiders spray from Repco. No, I

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Speaker 3: did not know that. I'll have a look at that

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Speaker 3: actually to see whether it contains a lot of toxins

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Speaker 3: or not. Might not.

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Speaker 5: Sorry your previous callers problem. I would describe it as

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Speaker 5: a live, alive but not twitching.

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Speaker 3: Clever.

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Speaker 2: Very good, very good, Thank you, Thank.

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Speaker 3: You for this Kingsman Spiders pray. I'll ever knows you

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Speaker 3: that and they'll be called to know. Yeah, thank you.

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Speaker 2: All the best. On Hey, I'm just on things that

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Speaker 2: have emerged in the garden. I have been absolutely staggered

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Speaker 2: the last couple of days behind the lawns a couple

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Speaker 2: of different places, and the number of those little skinks

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Speaker 2: if normally, if I'm owing the lawns, i'd see a

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Speaker 2: couple right now. I spent probably an hour and a

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Speaker 2: half bowing the lawns. It would have to be like

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Speaker 2: thirty or forty in that time.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, that's that nasty Australian thing.

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Speaker 2: Is this breeding season for them, because a lot of

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Speaker 2: them are tiny, like maybe forty to fifty millimeters long.

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Speaker 3: Yes, they've been going all over to the summer. I

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Speaker 3: would I say these things, and I've seen them. I

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Speaker 3: saw them in Auckland too. We don't have them here

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Speaker 3: in Canterbury, which is nice because I can say the

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Speaker 3: same about my little skinks that are native and live

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Speaker 3: in my garden, and not just one or two, also

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Speaker 3: a couple of dozen every now and then. It's brilliant.

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Speaker 3: But yeah, that particular skink is a real bugger and

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Speaker 3: I don't know what we can do about that. I

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Speaker 3: don't think anybody knows.

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Speaker 2: I think that ship has sailed, hasn't it. I mean

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Speaker 2: that are literally everywhere at the moment.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, exactly.

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Speaker 2: Radio Sally, good morning.

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Speaker 6: Good morning. I have got two Golden Queen peach.

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Speaker 3: Trees golden so which once golden queen, Oh, golden queen. Okay, yeah, yeah, yeah,

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Speaker 6: And I'm just wondering how much should I prune off them?

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Speaker 6: Because last year I pruned a third off and I

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Speaker 6: never got well, I've got about three peaches, but the

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Speaker 6: year before I was laden with them. And I'm on

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Speaker 6: the north here of Auckland, and now one of you

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Speaker 6: can help me. How much can I prune off?

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Speaker 3: A third is not a bad gas normally, but it

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Speaker 3: depends exactly where you go. So if you do it

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Speaker 3: on one side of the tree, the other side will

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Speaker 3: still go in its normal system, and then you go

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Speaker 3: the next year another third on the side, and at

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Speaker 3: last third you've done it all, you know what I mean.

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Speaker 3: So you do it in three bits of one third,

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Speaker 3: that is probably your best bead. So don't you do

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Speaker 3: everything from the top down, because that could be causing

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Speaker 3: the troubles that you are just describing.

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Speaker 6: Yes, it's just amazing because at the last place I lived,

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Speaker 6: I had golden cream peaches, yeah, coming off and backut

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Speaker 6: loads for fifty years.

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Speaker 3: Yeah oh yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Where are you ringing from?

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Speaker 3: If I may ask Melford on North Milford. Okay, we

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Speaker 3: used to have golden queens when we lived in Titirangi

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Speaker 3: and places like that, and they were always a pain

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Speaker 3: in the bum because they quite often got all sorts

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Speaker 3: of diseases too, if you didn't watch out. Did you

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Speaker 6: No, I actually the bad sicks that were left on

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Speaker 6: the tree and blew off in the wind. I only

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Speaker 6: had one that had brown rot.

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Speaker 3: Okay, yep, there's brown rot. And there was also silver

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Speaker 3: leaf quite often with these things, and that was always

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Speaker 3: obtained in the bottom. But you're right, pruning actually happens now.

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Speaker 3: March is a good time, February March, maybe a bit

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Speaker 3: early April, so you can still do it. But as

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Speaker 3: I said, do a third of your tree, and not

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Speaker 3: all over the tree, but in one spot.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, thank you very much, all the very best to you.

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Speaker 2: Take care. I got told off by the other day.

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Speaker 2: I can't think of another way of describing it. But

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Speaker 2: he came to look at doing some work on the

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Speaker 2: pudica tree which is in front of our place, and

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Speaker 2: then he knew that we'd taken some olves out at

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Speaker 2: the back and replaced it with a hedge, and so

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Speaker 2: he came down to have a look at that as well. Oh,

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Speaker 2: nice job doing the trimming, and then he looked at

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Speaker 2: my plum tree and went, ah, I said, I've only

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Speaker 2: just started pretty He was like, no, you've done that wrong.

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Speaker 2: You've done it.

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Speaker 3: It is a bit tricky because even I have to

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Speaker 3: sometimes go in a book for very sting. Okay, what

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Speaker 3: down was it again? Yep, that's okay, good done right,

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Speaker 3: you know and where Yeah.

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Speaker 2: So I'm going to I now have to fix that

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Speaker 2: before he comes back to do the work on the tree.

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Speaker 3: Is he grumpy?

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Speaker 2: good morning to you.

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Speaker 8: Oh, good morning. Yeah, I'm just talking to you about

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Speaker 4: Sure, and a woman rang up.

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Speaker 8: I think she lived in Auckland and she couldn't figure

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Speaker 8: on her swan plants. Well, I've got a sister in

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Speaker 3: So once those wasps have got they've got the idea,

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Speaker 3: oh my god, there is that's our food. It's right

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Speaker 8: Yeah, that's a good idea of she stick to her

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Speaker 3: Yeah, would be pots as much, I bet right, But

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Speaker 2: You take care and Lynn of very good morning to you.

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Speaker 7: Good morning. I've been dogging old strawberry plants out of

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Speaker 3: Yeah, take the runners off, those off those particular plants

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Speaker 3: You're talking about grass grub. Yes, okay, yates have got

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Speaker 3: No, it's what this is against these these insects.

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Speaker 2: I'm actually just on the skinks. One person said, they're

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Speaker 3: They're plague skinks, and they eat our current native skinks,

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Speaker 2: Great Barrier Skinks Morning root Chocks Love eating them. Yeah,

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Speaker 1: To do, right.

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Speaker 3: Yarrow? Yero? Yeah it was I don't know yero, but

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Speaker 3: Yero? Is one of Is it the grass? I think

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Speaker 2: Yeah, okay, we'll do that next week. Now we've only

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Speaker 3: I would do it now?

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Speaker 2: Okay, yeah, perfect, There you go. That's Sunday sorted at

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Speaker 2: your place. Welcome, and I might have to go and

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Speaker 2: deal with my plum tree before the abress comes back

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Speaker 2: and embarrasses me again. Always lovely to talk. Thank you,

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Speaker 2: take care and thanks folks for all of your company

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Speaker 2: this morning, have a great week, and we'll be back

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Speaker 2: again next Sunday.

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Speaker 3: Take care.

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