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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.

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Speaker 2: Well about the moths. Here we go wasps reeking, have

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Speaker 2: it high, Pete. I'm from Moths and Butterflies of New

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Speaker 2: Zealand Trust, not for profit conservation organization concerned with helping

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Speaker 2: moths and butterfly. I got your details from Michael and

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Speaker 2: the editorial. There's a survey that they're.

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Speaker 3: Doing, survey, the wasp survey.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I think I think so, there we go.

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Speaker 3: Okay, that is there are so we've got quite a few.

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Speaker 3: This is the Moths and Butterfly. This used to be

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Speaker 3: the Monic Butterfly Trust.

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Speaker 2: Ah okay, so Moths and Butterfly of New Zealand.

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Speaker 3: You got it, Yeah, you got it. So what they

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Speaker 3: want to do is they want to do a survey

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Speaker 3: on how many wasps, on which species are ware et cetera,

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Speaker 3: et cetera. And and that's so it's very simple. We've

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Speaker 3: got the German wasp, We've got the common wasp, and

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Speaker 3: then we have three species of paper wasps as well.

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Speaker 3: And guess what MPI just alerted us last week or

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Speaker 3: a week ago before that that there is another wasp

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Speaker 3: that has been found in I think in Auckland, only

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Speaker 3: two observations so far. Mp I would really like to

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Speaker 3: know where they are and if there's any others, yes,

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Speaker 3: quite unlikely in the winter time, but there you go.

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Speaker 3: It's just an idea. And so go and have a

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Speaker 3: look on the Empire MPI website and you'll find out

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Speaker 3: exactly what that thing looks like. And I'll do a

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Speaker 3: little more extensive thing on jack Tame in a couple

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Speaker 2: Anyway, brilliant. Right, Well, we've got a bunch of calls,

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Speaker 2: a bunch of need to talk. Let's let's rip into it.

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Speaker 2: Rick A very good morning to you. Hello, Rick, Hello, Hello,

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Speaker 2: go for it.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, it's rude, it's rude, but two U's in one

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Speaker 3: d a Rudd, there's an invasive fish, just saying no,

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Speaker 3: there's not. Okay, get on with it.

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Speaker 4: Rick again, I have a question about praying mantises. Yeah, yeah, okay,

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Speaker 4: so the invasive species. Is there a way that we

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Speaker 4: can get rid of them or like traps or anything.

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Speaker 3: No, I don't think there is. And besides, you can

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Speaker 3: try all you like. I think this is a thing

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Speaker 3: that he's here to stay. If you like, I must

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Speaker 3: say there are some people are doing some research at

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Speaker 3: the moment on the native wasp as opposed to the

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Speaker 3: African wasp, but South African wases. They call it the

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Speaker 3: springbok mant it. Anyway, this thing is so well established around,

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Speaker 3: especially in the north of New Zealand, that I don't

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Speaker 3: see us doing any eradication of that thing forever. The

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Speaker 3: second thing is and I must say that I've got

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Speaker 3: a bit of a soft spot for that thing because

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Speaker 3: it's the best mentors to have in captivity, work with

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Speaker 3: kids at schools and teach them how to feed them

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Speaker 3: by hand and things like that. It's actually quite cool.

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Speaker 3: And I don't think they compete that much with our

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Speaker 3: native wasp. I have the feeling they have slightly different

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Speaker 3: areas where they live and where they prefer to live,

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Speaker 3: like in gardens which are modified, if you like, areas

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Speaker 3: with in terms of plants and trees, whereas the native

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Speaker 3: one tends to be more in native situations. So that's

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Speaker 3: my idea, So leave them, Rick, I would say, yep,

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Speaker 3: does that make sense?

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Speaker 4: Yeah, I think I was talking about the praying mantis.

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Speaker 3: Yeah yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 4: Okay, yeah, yeah.

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Speaker 3: No.

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Speaker 4: The only place that I found them on our farmers

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Speaker 4: actually on in the barbary hedges. Yeah, I was just running.

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Speaker 4: But I have noticed the invasive ones actually attacked them

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Speaker 4: and eat them.

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Speaker 3: Have you. I have never seen that yet. That is

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Speaker 3: interesting because that was another thing I was going to say,

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Speaker 3: but I thought I wasn't going to take the mickey

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Speaker 3: out of everybody. I've never seen that, so I'm not

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Speaker 3: not too sure it. But if goold well happened because

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Speaker 3: it's an aggressive field.

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Speaker 4: Though property over ten years ago. There's some native ones

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Speaker 4: that there was a silver one with silver Wells was

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Speaker 4: actually eating one of the native ones, and that sort

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Speaker 4: of put me on the quest sort of try and

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Speaker 4: get rid of them.

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Speaker 3: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I can see what you mean. I

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Speaker 3: you'll find that the African mantis will not like it

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Speaker 3: as much as, for instance, a garden setting. You know

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Speaker 4: Yeah, yeah, yeah, I understand that.

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Speaker 3: Good observation, though, thank you didn't know I did. Well,

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Speaker 3: I knew about it. I heard about it, but I've

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Speaker 4: Yeah, it was just very odd because I don't know, like, yeah,

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Speaker 4: a lot of the schools and that they don't or

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Speaker 4: kids in school don't no the difference between the invasive

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Speaker 4: one and the native one. Correct the little bluish yet

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Speaker 4: on the arms.

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Speaker 3: Of their front the front legs. That's right, lovely A.

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Speaker 3: It's very nice to see. Hey, have you have you

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Speaker 3: ever have you ever had some of those either natives

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Speaker 3: or African ones egg cases that hatched? I used.

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Speaker 4: One lay and eat case. I've never seen the native one, okay,

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Speaker 4: not that I'm aware of, but I have seen the

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Speaker 4: African one layer casing.

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Speaker 3: Okay. What I always like is when they hatch from

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Speaker 3: the eggs. These these babies, they run in all the rections,

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Speaker 3: They run like hell, and I've always wondered why that is.

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Speaker 3: And the reason is usually the first meal they have

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Speaker 3: is their brother or sister. Yeah, just saying.

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Speaker 2: The quick and the hungry. Good thanks that the very best.

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Speaker 2: Take care and Gary, what's going on at your place?

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Speaker 5: Good morning, gentlemen. I have a property at Mangi Fi

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Speaker 5: Heads north of Auckland, and I have a situation with

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Speaker 5: the birds. And these are the ones that are slightly

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Speaker 5: bigger than the sparrows, but are scratching my precious lawn

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Speaker 5: right down to the soil. I'm wondering if you tell

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Speaker 5: me why they'd be doing it for the first time

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Speaker 5: ever and secretly, how I overcome it.

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Speaker 3: If you have an answer, I might have an answer

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Speaker 3: because it's starlings, is it that they're doing it?

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Speaker 5: Yes, it probably would be.

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Speaker 3: Yes, the dark ones, the black ones were the lovely

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Speaker 3: actually lovely, lovely, not some of the men things like that. Lovely.

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Speaker 5: Ye, yes, they are.

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Speaker 3: The people are fiending, they are, They are the offenders,

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Speaker 3: that's right. The reason is you have such a fabulously

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Speaker 3: gorgeous lawn that the grass grub, which is a native

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Speaker 3: beetle species, go into or lawn because it has got

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Speaker 3: nice roots, and that's what they eat, the roots of grasses,

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Speaker 3: and they go maybe two or three inches deep. At

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Speaker 3: this time of the year, they're coming more and more

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Speaker 3: to the surface, and you can like it or love it,

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Speaker 3: But these stylings know exactly when they come to the

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Speaker 3: surface and they say, ha, you know what, I'm going

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Speaker 3: to Gary's place because he's got the best grass grubs

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Speaker 3: in the world. So does that make sense?

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Speaker 6: Ye?

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Speaker 5: Anything I do about it?

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Speaker 4: Yes?

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Speaker 5: You can believe it.

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Speaker 3: There are quite a few things like Yates have got

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Speaker 3: a grub and phina thing that actually kills those grubs

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Speaker 3: right now. So it's grub and phina pour parina is

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Speaker 3: a caterpillar that lives in your lawn as well. Probably

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Speaker 3: they might go for that too. So use that grubs

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Speaker 3: and porhina stuff that Yates is making and spray your

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Speaker 3: lawn with that, and you'll find that when these creatures

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Speaker 3: have been an iholated, and you'll find that the starlings

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Speaker 3: know exactly are No gary is not that great anymore?

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Speaker 5: Right? And is there once? Only applications do I need

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Speaker 5: to do on a regular basis.

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Speaker 3: I think you can do it with ones now and

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Speaker 3: maybe do it again in about three weeks time, two

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Speaker 3: or three weeks time to make sure that you got

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Speaker 3: most of them, because they all go upwards in their

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Speaker 3: own tempo if you like, you know what I mean,

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Speaker 3: when they're low down at the root zones. They so

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Speaker 3: this is a period of the year that they are

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Speaker 3: coming up. So yes, it pays it again three.

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Speaker 5: Weeks last way to pick the grass itself.

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Speaker 3: No, because it's specifically made for those grass grubs.

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Speaker 5: Yeah, thank you very much for advice.

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Speaker 2: Good, it's all very busy to you, buddy. Hey, them

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Speaker 2: with grass grubs, which I don't know that I've got

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Speaker 2: them or not, But do they tend to sort of

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Speaker 2: heave the soil as well, because I've noticed mowing the

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Speaker 2: lawns now it's it's like driving on a pothole road.

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Speaker 3: That's right. Yeah, they do that sometimes, and so do

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Speaker 3: parhina the pirinum off as well, so they expose the

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Speaker 3: tops of the soil a little bit, right, And if you, uh,

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Speaker 3: there's actually a good good thing to say about that

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Speaker 3: level of which you cut the grass. Don't go too

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Speaker 3: low at this time of the year. No, I don't worry,

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Speaker 3: you know what I mean, But that is that is

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Speaker 3: always a very good thing to remember because I know

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Speaker 3: you think you won't have to mow that quickly again,

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Speaker 3: which is logical. But on the other hand you're causing

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Speaker 3: quite a few troubles as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Roger, that thank you. I might file it away

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Speaker 2: for discussions at home on a later date. As much

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Speaker 2: discussed anyway, we might talk about lawn rolling as well.

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Speaker 2: But later on we're going to take a short break

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Speaker 2: if you'd like to talk to give us a call

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Speaker 2: right now. Oh, eight hundred eighty ten eighty right, Oh,

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Speaker 2: you and your talk, so it is with us. We're

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Speaker 2: talking all things in the wonderful world of gardening. Stephen,

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Speaker 2: Good morning.

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Speaker 6: Good morning, Rude. I live in Auckland, and I've got

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Speaker 6: a lot of citrus trees, which I think I look

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Speaker 6: after quite well. But this year the orange trees and

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Speaker 6: the tens yellows are dropping their fruit. And I'm not

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Speaker 6: talking about one or two, about a lot of them,

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Speaker 6: probably a month earlier, and there's two sour to eat.

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Speaker 6: I'm just wondering if there's something I should be putting

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Speaker 6: in the mathetilizer or something like that which can make

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Speaker 6: the fruit hang on a bit better.

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Speaker 3: Yeah. Quite often with citrus, from what I remember, especially

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Speaker 3: in the Auckland region where I used to live, quite

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Speaker 3: often it's something to do with inconsistent watering or something

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Speaker 3: like that, or too much or indeed, as you said,

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Speaker 3: also temperature if you like fluctuations. But indeed what you

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Speaker 3: say too nutrient deficiencies. So in other words, of the

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Speaker 3: np K, there isn't enough. K K is the material

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Speaker 3: that makes flowers flour but also makes fruit develop and

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Speaker 3: become nice and sweet and k in the normal language

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Speaker 3: that we know is also known as potash.

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Speaker 6: Yeah. Well, I know that the trees got quite stressed

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Speaker 6: over the summit. As an Auckland we had a very

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Speaker 6: very dry summer dry, yeah, and then of course the

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Speaker 6: winter and Auckland the rain has been a biblical proportions

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Speaker 6: over the last month.

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Speaker 3: You got it. So that's exactly what I'm saying. So

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Speaker 3: there's all these little tricks of inconsistent watering in this

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Speaker 3: case by nature, and the nutrient deficiencies is probably another

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Speaker 3: one as well. So what I would do is don't

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Speaker 3: overwater them now, because you know that's never good. Overwatering

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Speaker 3: Did Yeah, And it's really good to have in your

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Speaker 6: All right, Well I'll do that, thanks very much.

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Speaker 2: From no worries almost to Stephen. You take care and Lee,

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Speaker 7: Oh good morning. I want if I can hit some

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Speaker 7: Will it take too much goodness from the banana tree?

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Speaker 3: Yeah, I know what you mean. I've had it in Langholm.

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Speaker 7: Is it a strange time of year for it to

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Speaker 3: No, because it takes a bit longer than it does

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Speaker 7: Just I mean, I love it, but I'd hate for

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Speaker 7: You know, I don't know much about bananas, what I

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Speaker 3: No, No, I don't know much about bananas out because

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Speaker 7: Oh that's always got answer, isn't that. Yeah, Well, I'm fascination,

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Speaker 3: Thank you so much, hey, Lee, that was exactly why

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Speaker 7: Too, exactly fascivates. So that's so it's going to rest

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Speaker 3: All right, who cares, hey, But one thing is it's

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Speaker 2: I much appreciated. Thank you, Lee, all the very bid

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Speaker 2: that's lovely. I quick text. I planted, Someone says, I

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Speaker 2: planted thirty deafidils in my garden five years ago. Only

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Speaker 3: Oh deaffidils. Oh gosh, you need to sometimes you need to.

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Speaker 3: What does jewels do she hangs them up. Yeah, at

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Speaker 3: That is quite a thing. I don't know exactly what

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Speaker 2: Okay, because I have to say, I was in Blenheim

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Speaker 2: It just looked absolutely stunning yesterday morning.

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Speaker 3: It is just and tomorrow is the first day you

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Speaker 2: Brilliant, brilliant, the go folks, you heard it here. First,

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Speaker 2: talk to Julian just the moment your news talks. It'd

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Speaker 8: Yeah, I've got two questions. Actually, the first question is

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Speaker 8: and the turned brown. Yeah, and so we picked it

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Speaker 3: No, no shrubs, no trees, no nothing.

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Speaker 8: No, it walked away from grass and trees to our

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Speaker 3: Okay, normally these so stick in sects, let me tell

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Speaker 8: It was a strange question.

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Speaker 3: No, it's a wonderful question. It's brilliant. I loved it

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Speaker 8: Yeah. And actually the tree that we do have a tree,

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Speaker 8: little little flies have been had been growing, or just

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Speaker 3: I was, look, I know, we're running out of time. Yes,

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Speaker 3: the final bit. That's what I gone. There you go.

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Speaker 2: It's all the balancing act, doesn't it. It is ultimately

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Speaker 2: lovely to talk to you, Julie, Thanks for joining us,

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Speaker 2: Take Care of Folks.

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