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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 Talks at b.

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Speaker 2: A red cloud passed a very good morning, sir.

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Speaker 3: A very good morning or cura indeed morena, let's.

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Speaker 4: Is the wiki it is?

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Speaker 5: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: You realize that I do love that.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it's awesome. It's awesome. Right, you're well, I am,

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Speaker 2: I am. So people can call because there's no one

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Speaker 2: calling right now. I wait one hundred and eighty ten

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Speaker 2: eighty if you've got any questions for it.

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Speaker 6: Now.

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Speaker 2: You don't do social media, do you?

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Speaker 4: No? No, I will never be your friend on Twitter.

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Speaker 2: By I will send you a little video that I

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Speaker 2: made that has has amused some people. Anyway, I'll try

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Speaker 2: and send that to you shortly.

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Speaker 4: And is that the one you've put on the album?

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Speaker 2: Yeah?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah yeah.

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Speaker 2: So I've made them, but I've made them for small birds.

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Speaker 5: Right.

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Speaker 2: So now I've got two, one of which is going

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Speaker 2: to my sister. That will be suitable I think for

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Speaker 2: for example, but barn owl boxes are considerably larger. I'm

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Speaker 2: going to have to scout around for some more script

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Speaker 2: number and so we can get to anyway stand by

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Speaker 2: on that one. So I'll do some updates but people

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Speaker 2: are loving the content, I think.

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Speaker 3: And at the moment from what I get, well, I'm

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Speaker 3: surrounded by little owls, which is a species set game

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Speaker 3: from Europe.

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Speaker 4: Right, it's a tiny it's a small owl.

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Speaker 3: And every evening or night sometimes Julie wakes me up

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Speaker 3: to the key here that it's literally sitting there, going

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Speaker 3: next to our BedHead. Just thats and then you know

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Speaker 3: that they're actually you know, they're active there work and

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Speaker 3: it is fabulous. That thing only occurs in the South Island,

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Speaker 3: by the way, but yeah, it's it's mating time all

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Speaker 3: over the place.

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Speaker 4: It's really, really, really active. It's good.

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Speaker 2: Do you have owl boxes at your place?

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Speaker 4: Yes? I do do, okay, yes, and also in.

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Speaker 3: The quarry where we live, we have quite a few up,

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Speaker 3: and also den Venesha's place, so we've got about I

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Speaker 3: think five or six or seven boxes. I think that

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Speaker 3: the reason I put up and now it's it's and

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Speaker 3: we we check them and we bend the babies.

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Speaker 2: That's that's very cool, right, Gary. A very good morning

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Speaker 2: to you, sir.

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Speaker 7: You're boring to you. Not a bad day here in Hamilton,

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Speaker 7: clearing up nicely after down pall last night.

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Speaker 4: How it Yeah, it's been it's been rough, isn't it

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Speaker 4: the last few days? Gary? And it's been a bit rough,

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Speaker 4: hasn't it lately?

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Speaker 7: And it's going to be next week as well at

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Speaker 7: the forecast right, spoke to rain again tomorrow. How my

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Speaker 7: question is I put in about twelve Gazaan years earlier.

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Speaker 7: This year, three of them are flowering beautifully orange and color.

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Speaker 7: The roost are having your sulk. In fact, they haven't

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Speaker 7: even got flower bloods on any particular reason to that.

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Speaker 3: They may be, they may be flowering later. They might

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Speaker 3: just not really want to play ball yet with you.

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Speaker 3: Uh what I what I suggest you can do, And

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Speaker 3: this is generally a pretty standard way for me to

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Speaker 3: actually get plants to flower a bit earlier or a

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Speaker 3: bit more prolifics by giving them a little bit of potash.

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Speaker 4: So give yourself.

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Speaker 3: You can get a little bag of sulfate of potash,

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Speaker 3: put it around the root zone, water it well in,

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Speaker 3: and the plants suddenly wake up saying, my god, Oh

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Speaker 3: that's Gary.

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Speaker 4: Oh he needs he needs flowers. Let's go.

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Speaker 8: Yeah.

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Speaker 7: Yeah, I've actually got passion. I've listened to your other

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Speaker 7: shows and you've recommended it all the way through so

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Speaker 7: that's what I'll do. The honey trouble is is we

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Speaker 7: met down and there's Mark on top of it. But

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Speaker 7: I'll do my best anyway, and here we get on.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I'm not a great fan of wheat met anymore.

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Speaker 3: I used to have it and then I thought that,

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Speaker 7: Yeah, well we could. I don't have had it either,

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Speaker 7: But I've got company and to do some landscape. And

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Speaker 7: that's the way they finished the project.

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Speaker 4: And it's this.

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Speaker 7: Whole fellow that couldn't do it, and that's why I

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Speaker 7: Niching the weed mat and see if I can get

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Speaker 7: the party shonder them excellent.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, good Solary by all.

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Speaker 2: It's funny how the whole weed mat thing is has

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Speaker 2: kind of fallen out of favor for good reason. If

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Speaker 2: you've ever pulled a garden up that's wat mat like

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Speaker 2: underneath it, it's just it's like a there's nobody on

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Speaker 2: a pancake of just soil.

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Speaker 3: It's but it's not even that's what I call dirt,

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Speaker 3: right right, You know how I'm.

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Speaker 4: Against the people saying calling dirt soil. That's dirt. It's

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Speaker 4: got nothing in it.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, yeah, so mulch is way more effective. Well, it's

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Speaker 2: better for the garden. It's just mulching if you're doing

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Speaker 2: weed control. Yep, yeah, brilliant Phil. Have very good morning

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Speaker 2: to you.

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Speaker 5: How you doing.

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Speaker 4: We're good? Thanks. What can we help you with?

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Speaker 5: About ten years ago I put the under floor plastic

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Speaker 5: on the earth under the house, and I recently installed

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Speaker 5: a new toilet and went under to check the ceramics

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Speaker 5: and everything and the the amount of dust from the borer.

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Speaker 5: And there's quite a few peoples of the t and

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Speaker 5: g that are you know, that have given way that

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Speaker 5: I've had to sort of cut out and replace. What's

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Speaker 5: the process for trying to either save what's there or pete,

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Speaker 5: what's the process of replacing the floor in a house?

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Speaker 3: Okay, well let's start off. Let's let's start off with

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Speaker 3: the borer life cycle. The borer will start to fly,

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Speaker 3: so they're coming out of the timber about late October

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Speaker 3: early November, so that is the flight time of it.

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Speaker 3: And the best thing to do, and I've worked quite

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Speaker 3: a lot with that sort of stuff in all the houses.

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Speaker 3: Under under the under the houses is to spray a

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Speaker 3: high if you like a high density permethrin which lasts

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Speaker 3: for a long time, that is residual onto those beams

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Speaker 3: that are infected, and you do that literally just before

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Speaker 3: the flight season, so late October, last week of October

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Speaker 3: you can get from a company called safe Works. Safe

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Speaker 3: Works ends with the letter X. You can find them online.

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Speaker 3: They have shops in Auckland, Wellington, christ Church probably elsewhere

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Speaker 3: and I'm sure that if you ring them up they

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Speaker 3: will send them to you if you come to some

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Speaker 3: agreement with them, use that particular material. It will last

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Speaker 3: you in shaded areas for something like twelve weeks, and

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Speaker 3: that is exactly the time when you need that protection.

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Speaker 5: So that's the end of October. And yeah, some areas

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Speaker 5: of it are quite rotten with it, so.

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Speaker 3: Well in that case. In that case you get rid

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Speaker 3: of it. So I have to pass you on to

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Speaker 3: the builder.

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Speaker 4: Sorry.

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Speaker 2: Look, I think if it's stripped flooring you can sort

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Speaker 2: of cut sections out and replace them if you can

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Speaker 2: find matching boards of it. It'll be strip flooring that's

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Speaker 2: been eaten typically you won't see bora in like particle

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Speaker 2: board and plywood and those sorts of things, because they're treated.

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Speaker 5: The beers and all that seem quite very much. Just

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Speaker 5: the T ANDNG that's sort of given away.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, find the matching stuff first, then cut out the

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Speaker 2: bits that are rotten and work it that way. It's

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Speaker 2: a little bit of a tricky task, but it's certainly doable,

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Speaker 2: which is great, Diane, thank you for calling. How are

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Speaker 2: you this morning?

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Speaker 6: I'm very well, thank you, right, Ruth, can you help me?

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Speaker 6: I can't put in a veggie garden anymore because I

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Speaker 6: have earweeks.

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Speaker 4: Whether they do to you, they eat all my pants

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Speaker 4: at that time of the year.

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Speaker 6: Now, they particularly this time of the year. I've been

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Speaker 6: to all the nurseries and all that around here to

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Speaker 6: try and get something to fix it, but I just

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Speaker 6: can't seem to do it. And they even eat my

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Speaker 6: put a whole lot of bulbs, and I thought I

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Speaker 6: was going to come home to some beautiful daffodils, but

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Speaker 6: they were all eaten. All the flowers are all eaten.

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Speaker 4: I don't think that's earwigs.

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Speaker 6: What do you think it is?

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Speaker 3: I have no idea I should you know? What I

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Speaker 3: would do if I were at your place, I would

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Speaker 3: go out at night with the torch to see who's there.

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Speaker 3: It could be slugs, it could be snails. It could

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Speaker 3: be caterpillars. It could be beetles, It could be a

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Speaker 3: whole lot of different things. What I've noticed with earwigs

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Speaker 3: not needing protein. Earweks are far more protein eaters. They

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Speaker 3: are actually pest controllers in your garden.

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Speaker 9: Oh well, they don't seem to eat anything but the

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Speaker 9: things that I want to have, Like I just put

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Speaker 3: Yeah, And I know my culprit is sparrows and other

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Speaker 3: one is that I have possums as well, and I've

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Speaker 3: And they do it with great verva as well, So

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Speaker 3: we need to actually do it totally different things. I've

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Speaker 3: got earweks too, but they are more interested in eating

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Speaker 6: No, my ewigs are a little bit fringier than that.

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Speaker 6: Love all of the plants that I love.

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Speaker 3: Okay, all right, Well if you if you think that

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Speaker 3: it's the earweks that do it, good luck, because you'll

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Speaker 3: have to work on the on on those on those earweks,

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Speaker 3: I would say, but I know for a fact that

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Speaker 3: they are not that bad at all. They are always blamed,

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Speaker 3: but that's quite often other creatures that do it. And

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Speaker 3: the only way to do it is to go out

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Speaker 3: at night, have a look in your garden with the torch.

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Speaker 4: Who's there? Honestly?

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Speaker 6: Well, I googled eweks and they said to put sources

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Speaker 6: of kitchen oil in the garden. So I did that,

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Speaker 6: and I ended up with so many eweks in this oil.

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Speaker 6: And then I thought, oh well, and I'll pick some flowers,

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Speaker 6: which I tried to pick some flowers, and I bought

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Speaker 6: them inside into a vase, and I had all these

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Speaker 6: earweks all coming out of them.

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Speaker 4: Yep, that can happen. There can be many. Yeah, you

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Speaker 4: know what's really interesting, Diane. In the Netherlands, in.

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Speaker 3: The orchards, the apple orchids, for instance, the orchardice there

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Speaker 3: hang up a little containers with with with all sorts

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Speaker 3: of material that ewigs can hide into so that at

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Speaker 3: would normally eat the apples.

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Speaker 4: Isn't it the same species? Actually?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, interesting because my my apples have all been we're

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Speaker 4: Probably was godling.

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Speaker 3: It probably was godling, and that's what the ewiks eat too,

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Speaker 6: Well, it's mainly the ewigs are mainly where my apple

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Speaker 6: Absolutely, So what do I put there there? That's what

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Speaker 6: I'm just trying to work out. What do I How

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Speaker 4: I don't know. I'm going to say, I don't know. No,

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Speaker 2: A nice bit of all the very best. But now

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Speaker 2: But I've got to say this text first, one person,

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Speaker 3: Well, Well, if you ever go to Wingspan and you

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Speaker 4: I'll make sure to look after you. But we've got

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Speaker 3: The barnail there and during a normal flight, would eat

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Speaker 4: Fantastic in one. But they don't do it.

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Speaker 3: It goes straight in and the coolest thing feeder is

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Speaker 2: You know, or flossing. Yeah, you got it.

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it's wonderful. So yeah, those owls eat eat mice.

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Speaker 2: Bright Sandy are very good morning to you. Hello Sandy, Hello.

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Speaker 8: It's Sandy here in Belmont and little hat Reason. Good morning.

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Speaker 4: What can we do for you?

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Speaker 5: Now?

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Speaker 8: I've got seaweed in a bucket and it's cementing. It's

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Speaker 8: really horrible. Can I still use it on my garden?

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Speaker 8: Walter it down?

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Speaker 3: I'm sure you can, because that is exactly what basically

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Speaker 8: Good, and it's not going to burn the leaves on

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Speaker 3: Well, the idea with that is to maybe put it

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Speaker 8: Okay, I got well, I'll do that now. That does

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Speaker 8: That's all I wanted to know. Absolute. Oh, I don't

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Speaker 8: know about this, Yeah, rude, it's always saying. It just

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Speaker 3: That's another thing that's that's the same with the with

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Speaker 3: you're like, dump it right on the leaves, but just around. Oh,

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Speaker 8: And another thing, the lady with the airwaves and you

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Speaker 4: In them, absolutely, and they're very good at hiding too, and.

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Speaker 8: It's great. And I think, you know I've got I

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Speaker 3: And then what you do, what do you do with them?

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Speaker 3: Then you put them? You toss them over the fence

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Speaker 8: Or no, no, I put them on top of the

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Speaker 8: I smash them and the birds eat them, and the

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Speaker 4: Excellent. There you go. That's an ecosystem.

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Speaker 2: Then there you go a cycle of life there as

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Speaker 2: I take away for the local birds. That's fantastic.

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Speaker 8: Yeah, and I love your program. And another thing, we

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Speaker 4: That's more.

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Speaker 8: I've actually got You've just got to hear this. I've

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Speaker 4: There you go, there you go, Thank you. That's lovely,

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Speaker 4: A good day you do.

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Speaker 2: That's fantastic, Thank you, Sandy. That's that's absolutely awesome. A

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Speaker 2: directly here to ZIB and I'll sort it out from there, right, Roger.

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Speaker 2: Last one for the morning, good morning.

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Speaker 10: Good morning. I just sort of about grass, that seaweed.

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Speaker 10: I make a lot of seawood here and the good,

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Speaker 10: the fake, the heavy stuff, and I would learn and

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Speaker 10: and then the leaves it there for about six months

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Speaker 10: the other drum. I take say twenty liters out pour

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Speaker 10: And within ten days if you see the growth moving. Yeah,

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Speaker 3: But if it's too strong, you can also you could

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Speaker 10: You know, I've got some produce crates and I have

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Speaker 10: crate and it'll heat up. And for men, yes, I

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Speaker 10: put that on the drip line of the trees, my

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Speaker 4: Yes? Why not?

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Speaker 3: But the point is that if it's just a lot

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Speaker 10: I've got heaps in that and I put that to

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Speaker 3: And yes you can, but again make sure you've got

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Speaker 2: That's really important, because thanks very much for that, Roger Wis.

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Speaker 4: That's a good one, right, yeah, I think it is.

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Speaker 2: It's really good and fat. And that's the thing with composts.

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Speaker 2: I'll send you a little video. I know what I've

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Speaker 6: There you go.

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