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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.

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Speaker 2: I can imagine bump. Yeah, yeah, I went on a boat,

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Speaker 2: of course. I was on Morde Island right and offshore

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Speaker 2: island in the Marlborough sounds predator free by the way,

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Speaker 2: absolutely fabulous with kids all over the place and d

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Speaker 2: but you know that also had a day of serious wind.

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Speaker 2: That was awesome. That was really great. But no, it's

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Speaker 2: it's looking absolutely stunning at the moment. I don't know

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Speaker 2: what the heck's going on there you are.

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Speaker 3: It'll come.

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Speaker 2: No, it's been, it's done. But it wasn't It wasn't

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Speaker 2: that bad, to be quite honest. No, it doesn't matter.

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Speaker 2: I'm quite honest. All right.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, good, I'm pleased you're happy. That's important to me.

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Speaker 2: Do you know where I'm going to be next week?

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Speaker 2: Talk to me? Do you know where I'm going to

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Speaker 2: be next week at this time?

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Speaker 3: Uh Auckland?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and studio.

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Speaker 3: Oh that'll be great, that'll be great. You know it's

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Speaker 3: staylight saving eight next week, I know, mate. Yeah, all right, well, look,

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Speaker 3: if you're up for it, we might go for a

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Speaker 3: coffee afterwards.

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Speaker 2: Oh gosh as well? Oh no, goodness. Yeah, I'll see

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Speaker 2: what my granddaughter says.

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Speaker 3: See how you, buddy, let's get into it actually quick ticks.

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Speaker 3: Can you kill a cofi tree by spraying round up

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Speaker 3: on the grass and weeds at the base of the tree.

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Speaker 2: Yes, you could, especially if it goes too deep into

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Speaker 2: the soil and onto the root zone. Why don't you

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Speaker 2: use hitman. That will literally and you have to maybe

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Speaker 2: do it twice or three times around there. But the

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Speaker 2: point is that stuff doesn't go that far away, so

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Speaker 2: you're probably better to do that in a general what

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Speaker 2: do you call it? A bit of a careful amount,

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Speaker 2: don't go over the top.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, there's other options too. If you moult around the

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Speaker 3: base of a tree, then that X is a weed suppressant, so.

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Speaker 2: Yes it does. That's another one. But if you really

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Speaker 2: want to get rid of someone, sure some of these

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Speaker 2: things are the base for your tree. But do it

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Speaker 2: gently and by the way that hitman works, especially on

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Speaker 2: the day like today here in Gratis, would work in

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Speaker 2: about four hours.

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Speaker 3: Right, excellent, right here, Morris, Good morning.

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Speaker 4: Yes, good morning guys. Can I share some information about

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Speaker 4: medics two and medics three with you? You go, I've

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Speaker 4: I used medics two about five or six years ago

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Speaker 4: with good success. A sixty mill bottle was about seventy

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Speaker 4: or eighty bucks, and so dilute it down to a

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Speaker 4: one lead. I had to go to the chemist to

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Speaker 4: get a formula and I needed an eye droppers, So

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Speaker 4: it's pretty pretty valuable per drop. Now you're saying Medics

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Speaker 4: three now, which was the commercial version of Medici two,

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Speaker 4: who was a diluted thing. Now I've been talking to

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Speaker 4: key industries who I've spoken to over the years trying

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Speaker 4: to buy Medics too, and I've found a distributed on

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Speaker 4: the North Shore. Now there's no Medics three in the

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Speaker 4: country at the moment it comes in early October. Evidently

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Speaker 4: it'll be one hundred more bottle, one hundred and ninety

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Speaker 4: dollars correct, and the distributors retailers are saying that there's

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Speaker 4: a minimum order they have to buy, so they probably

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Speaker 4: won't be stocking it. It also has to be kept.

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Speaker 4: It also has to be kept in the fridge at

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Speaker 4: five degrees to extend its life.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, or in my case, in the freezer.

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Speaker 5: Go on, yeah, freezer.

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Speaker 4: It lasts longer. Evidently much better, it longer. But when

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Speaker 4: you open the bottle, it's only got a shelf life

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Speaker 4: of twenty two twenty two months. I think if you

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Speaker 4: keep it in the fridge. Now they're suggesting you share

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Speaker 4: it with your neighbors, but then you lose control over

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Speaker 4: whether they keep it in the fridge or not.

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Speaker 2: So well, it's just I get your point. I know

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Speaker 2: exactly what you mean, because I talked to Key Industries

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Speaker 2: as well about this some time ago, and again a

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Speaker 2: couple of weeks ago. Even the Medics three is, of course,

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Speaker 2: and it is quite expensive because it's made of a

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Speaker 2: Granulo's virus, a virus that kills coddling moth right correct,

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Speaker 2: And as I said, I've got a couple of these

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Speaker 2: medics two bottles still in the freezer that I've had

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Speaker 2: for about four or five years. I just asked them,

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Speaker 2: you think they're still okay? They reckon it still is,

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Speaker 2: so yeah, well I have to have a go this year.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, because if you I'm sorry, I'm interrapting. But if

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Speaker 4: you use that, if you use it, you don't sign

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Speaker 4: out for a year, and then you've lost a year,

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Speaker 4: haven't you. That's like I've still got some medics two

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Speaker 4: from yester year, but I'm lost two and to you?

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Speaker 2: Did you have it in the freezer?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: I kept it in the fridge.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, and then you're probably only maybe two years

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Speaker 2: or so of efficacy. That's about it.

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Speaker 4: That the open is that I have to open the

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Speaker 4: bottle or manufacturer.

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Speaker 2: I reckon. If you open the bottle and put it

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Speaker 2: into your into your sprayer. You do this and immediately

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Speaker 2: back into the freezer. Should be fine as far as

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Speaker 2: I'm concerned. Yeah, and I've done that for five years

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Speaker 2: already with that stuff.

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Speaker 5: Okay.

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Speaker 4: Now the cost the cost of it, now I was

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Speaker 4: going to be prohibitive to the home gardner. It's yes,

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Speaker 4: So what do you think about it? The ass products

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Speaker 4: success ultra.

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Speaker 2: Success, oh success, yes, uh yes, I suppose that would work,

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Speaker 2: but it would not be as easy and as african

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Speaker 2: efficient as the as the medics that that particular virus

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Speaker 2: that kills that particular Yeah. Yeah, but you can ever go.

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Speaker 2: I'm quite sure you'll have some. You'll have a reasonably

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Speaker 2: good success with that. Why not?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: So well, well, the medics three at one hundred and

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Speaker 4: ninety dollars for one hundred mil. Yeah, that should last

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Speaker 4: two or three years. But that's I mean one hundred

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Speaker 4: and ninety dollars worth of apples. Is I know?

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Speaker 2: I'm aware of that. Yeah, yeah, it's and that's why

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Speaker 2: it's it's they tried the medics too as a thing

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Speaker 2: for gardeners. But you're right. The amount of the amount

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Speaker 2: you pay for it is quite long, to be quite honest. Yeah,

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Speaker 2: it's been around for decades, by the way. Go on.

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Speaker 6: Yeah.

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Speaker 4: The only reason I ring is that you. I listen

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Speaker 4: to you every Sunday. You're part of my religion.

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Speaker 2: Have you got nothing better to do with your time?

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Speaker 1: No?

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Speaker 4: No, I went interesting yesterday Sundays for you.

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Speaker 2: Oh, thank you? Do you hear that? Oh?

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Speaker 4: Let you go os. I just thought because you're always

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Speaker 4: saying medics three, medics three, medics three, and people go

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Speaker 4: up and you can't buy it. And then when you

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Speaker 4: gold card, will you run home and get the wife?

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Speaker 4: I suppose I.

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Speaker 2: Don't know, Yeah, listen, I did not know. Did you

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Speaker 2: sayes know that Medics three is also not yet in

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Speaker 2: the country.

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Speaker 4: No. I spoke the King Industries during the week. They're

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Speaker 4: expecting a shipment and so, and there was a place

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Speaker 4: over the north Shore who used to buy it from

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Speaker 4: and they no longer they no longer be going to

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Speaker 2: So Medics three are based in Auckland, so you can

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Speaker 2: actually go and see them there. I'm quite sure you

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Speaker 2: can do it on the north Shore.

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Speaker 4: No, they won't sell to me. They asked them.

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Speaker 2: You tell them they're Dutch.

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Speaker 6: Right, are they out of here?

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Speaker 5: I'm gonna change the radio station.

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Speaker 3: Around shut right, Hey, Grant, talk to me about your

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Speaker 3: cofi tree.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, good morning.

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Speaker 7: I have quite a lineup of coor trees that are

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Speaker 7: getting full of a borer branches snapping off, and appears

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Speaker 7: there's in the golden elms as well. Any ideas of

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Speaker 7: what the.

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Speaker 4: Hell of it?

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Speaker 2: No, I don't know without looking at it. If it's

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Speaker 2: if it's really makes those tunnels in the wood. Is

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Speaker 2: that what it is? Yes, Yeah, it could be. It

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Speaker 2: could be any of a couple of borer beetles that

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Speaker 2: I know. And they're quite large, well, quite nice. They

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Speaker 2: were a couple about five mills or so deep, aren't they?

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Speaker 2: Or of diameter?

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Speaker 4: Very destructive?

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Speaker 7: Yeah, okay, And initially I started to feed like a

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Speaker 4: But there's that many of.

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Speaker 2: Them, there's too much. Okay, there's another thing that you

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Speaker 2: could do, I suppose, and that they have a sprayer

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Speaker 2: with a very fine nozzle and go into all those

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Speaker 2: holes with a little bit of it. You know what

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Speaker 2: I mean? It is It depends entirely on what it is,

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Speaker 2: because sometimes those particular holes were from last year and

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Speaker 2: there's nobody home. But it's probably better to do more

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Speaker 7: Yeah, Okay, have a go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, get you made.

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Speaker 3: Bye bye olivery bussy, Thank you very much for that grant.

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Speaker 3: And we'll take a break. Actually, then we'll take the

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Speaker 3: suit and talk to suit. We'll be back and see

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Speaker 3: your news. Talk be Sue A very good morning.

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Speaker 6: Yes, good morning, good good morning, rud.

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Speaker 2: Hello.

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Speaker 6: Now I have been drigging my bitch, my gab and

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Speaker 6: where I live for many years, and for several years

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Speaker 6: I have noticed a worm that is a source of

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Speaker 6: a light brown rather than a long sort of pinky earthworms.

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Speaker 6: And when you dig it up, it ties itself up

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Speaker 6: and there not is do you know what that worm is?

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Speaker 6: And useful or not?

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Speaker 2: Well? There you have to remember in New Zealand. We

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Speaker 2: have but at least thirty or forty different species of

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Speaker 2: earthworm in New Zealand. And I think I know what

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Speaker 2: you mean, but I can't tell you exactly what species

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Speaker 2: is this, and I'm quite sure it's something that's been

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Speaker 2: here for a while. Some of these worms do that automatically.

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Speaker 2: They go straight into a ball if you like, they

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Speaker 2: worm themselves up. I don't think there's any problem with that.

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Speaker 2: That's just their way of making sure they're okay and

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Speaker 2: they're not being eaten by anybody else.

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Speaker 6: Okay, well that sounds all right, long as it's not

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Speaker 6: doing any damage my garb. That's what I was thinking of,

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Speaker 6: because I don't it's only in one part.

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Speaker 2: Of my garden nowhere, and that could have something to

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Speaker 2: do with the p H, with the acidity in your

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Speaker 2: soil in that particular part of the garden, or about

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Speaker 2: whatever was planted in the past, and they like that

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Speaker 2: particular material. See, they all have their own little They

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Speaker 2: only have their little gig to do.

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Speaker 6: It's right. Thank you for that.

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Speaker 2: You are more than welcome.

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Speaker 6: Thank you.

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Speaker 2: Remind remind me of well, who is the people that

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Speaker 2: have that stuff against borer beetles. I've forgotten their name.

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Speaker 3: People that don't like beetles or.

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Speaker 2: Because they they literally they air rate the soil, they

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Speaker 3: Right, Yeah, isn't they. They consume and drag that material

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Speaker 3: Yeah, awesome, awesome. Hey Peter, good morning to you.

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Speaker 4: Put some put composts down.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, put some composts in there. You can rake that

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Speaker 3: One of those things. It feels like it was something

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Speaker 2: Did I ever tell you what happened in Bannockburn. So

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Speaker 4: Oh, well, I I was just wondering what theating the

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Speaker 6: Some striped I put a night time if you heard

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Speaker 6: the care of Sene trick with the soul a lot Yeah.

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Speaker 2: No, yeah, no, that doesn't No, don't worry. Don't do that. Please,

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Speaker 3: Flammable is like making a little flame flower things.

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Speaker 2: Now sorry, I can't help you with that. I've lost.

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Speaker 3: It'll come back to us. It'll come back to us,

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Speaker 3: have time unfortunately for carry right now. Novice Garde, the

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Speaker 3: If it's old planet like sleepers, they'll be fine.

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Speaker 3: Just don't freak out, you don't free k gardening. There

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