August 3, 2024 • 21 mins
This week on the Gardening Show, Pete and Ruud talk agapanthus, carrots, granadilla and tips for stopping those pesky bugs from eating your plants.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resonant Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News Talks.
Speaker 2 (00:11):
It Be, Your news Talks it Be and Rid is
with us. A very good morning to you, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good moting, Peter, can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Good?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Absolutely? Ken, how are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
That's one I've borrowed don Marie.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You'll see that come up. That's right. What is that
flexibility in the field. That's that's the key to it.
That's the key. Do hey, should we do a quick
text before we talk to to l uh. Someone has
planted some leaks six weeks ago. They're hoping they can help.
They're just not growing. Should you see activity after six weeks?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I was so so if you planted them? Yeah, Mindie,
it's a bit chilly. My leaks go okay in my
tunnel house. So it could be the coldness. I don't know.
It might take a lot longer. It's the same with
with the moment with garlic and what do you call
these spring onions as well, they're going, they're going. This
is the slowest time of growth at the mortment to
(01:06):
make Patience might be a good one, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Patience is not a bad thing in the garden.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
No it is it isn't sometimes is it? I know
exactly what you mean.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Absolutely right. See, we get some calls to here we
go L.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Hello there, Yeah, good morning guys. How are you pretty good?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
L How are you all right?
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Yeah? Good things rude. I just wanted to give you
an update. I don't know if you remember a couple
of weeks ago I phoned you with regard to my
two yellow hibiscus plots, and and and one was looking sad.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Do you remember that conversation?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, vaguely? What what? What? What did I say to you?
What did I ask you to do?
Speaker 6 (01:46):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
No, it was just the one was looking sad, and
you said, oh, maybe you know, maybe it's just a
doud a dud plant and just put it in the
green bin.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I was just going to say that quite a funly
case you go on.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
So anyway, I took it out of a pot plant
because I was gonna I was gonna put it in
the green bind. But I noticed that there was three
like worms that had board way into the main stem,
the root stem, And so anyway, I took these things out.
And they're not frisky like the normal ones that the
blackbirds searched for in the garden. And they're not cut rooms.
(02:19):
They were black. Now, they were black with a sort
of a white a white tail. And there was three
of them. I took them out and I and I
washed the root system and I gave it a dusting
of root compound and I put it back in fresh,
fresh soil and all that and learn behold, I've got
a couple of green shoots coming through.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, okay, in that case, there was somebody really tunneling
through your systems, and you have to remember that when
you know what that's happening, isn't it It happened.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
There are quite a few creatures that do that. And
the problem is, I know, it's really hard to detect
them because they're underground and they are inside your plant
as well, so that's really difficult to see. Oh no,
I'm glad that worked out. That is Actually I'm going
to write that down, so I'm going to see.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
You wouldn't it was? Yeah, sorry, rut, you wouldn't have.
But to know what worms they are, would you? Those
sort of black? Black or dark brown? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Black?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So how large were they?
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
The one was probably the biggest one was probably about
twenty five millimeters long, and the others were about fifteen
or so fifteen eighteen millimeters long.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And and they w look like did they look like
earth wuens?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
No, not the normal not well similar shape. But they
weren't frisky like the ones you dig out of your
worm farm or in the garden or whatever. You know,
they get they get quite frisky and and and and
sort of try and find another hole that disappeared downe. Now,
these things were real sluggish type things, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Oh gosh, yeah, I'll have to look that up to
see exactly what what goes for hibiscus, because quite often
they have their own little host plants, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Okay, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well at least you had a positive outcome one.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Ah yeah, Like I said to you know, you know,
you just mentioned the being patient on the garden.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, there you go. It could be a long time. Brilliant.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
All the very best you out, Thank you very much
for that. You take care quick ticks as well. Rud
Can you tell me how to get rid of aga
panthers which are invading my rural property?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yes, agapentas are a real pain in the butt and
the time to work on agapanths is. But okay, let
me do this first. The time to work on agapanthas
is usually in autumn time. If you spread them in
autumn time with some of these what do you call it,
lovely wheat killers that can then take him back into
(04:49):
the plant in autumn, because the plant in autumn is
going to become a bit more dormant, if you like,
and that is the best time to do it. Woody
wat killer and things like that, and die camber band. Fine.
But the other thing that I was going to say
about agapanthas is said, because it's such an invasive species,
there are now Agapentus varieties that are no longer invasive.
(05:12):
So there's becoming more and more on the market that
will not set seeds all over the garden and make
it spread. So make sure that you get. If you
do get acapendis for your garden, you are reasonably safe
to do so these days with the modern varieties. I
thought i'd pointed out.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Because it did seem like for a while they were
they were on the band list, right, let's get rid
of them. They're a peace and so on. But the
reason that they're popular and they are hardy, and they're
not unattractive to look. You can sort of understand why
people have found them attractive in the past.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
You got it, And that is exactly why a lot
of these things are still are basically being banned, I suppose.
But this time and this time we have much better varieties.
And I remember vaguely that here it pretending guns in
christ and in Auckland. You can see those varieties and
you can see what look back, what color they are, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Have a not yeah brilliant in a very good morning
to you, Jay, morning, Hello, Jay.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Hey rude. I have a type of pet I'm told
are a passion food, and they're called grenadilla, very large.
I grew them last year and this year they took
all fruited, got about forty fruit on it, and they've
slowly changed color to yellow. Some haven't changed at all,
(06:39):
and they've been fruited for the last six six months,
but some are starting to rot on the vine. Most
aren't changing the yellow or orange color that I'm expecting.
Any ideas on.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Why no, I have never grown grenadilla, Is that what
you call a grenadilla? I've heard of it.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Yes, yeah, there are there are a passion a type
of passion thread. When you cut it open, it's just
full of seas, the same as a passion thread.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, they're African, the African species, I think an African variety.
But but as I said, I've never grown the man,
I'm not very good at passion fruit type. But what
you're telling me now is that the plant is not
doing too well.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Well, a plant itself is healthy and green, but the
fruit itself that have been there for for a last
five months and quite large, just aren't changing the color,
which I imagine they would do. And then and then they're
all blotchy on the outside skin.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Okay, well, rotchiness. I think that is a bit tricky
to identify over the phone. But if you've got something
that doesn't want to ripe that, well, have you tried
feeding them with a little bit of potash or potash
high fertilizers, so that means a fertilizer like a rose
fertilizer or a tomato fertilizer, because that contains usually more
(08:09):
potage than the others, and that means that the fruit
is a much highier, gross better and is sweeter by
the time you harvest it.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Okay, I'll try that.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Did you Did you fertilize it at all? By the way, Jay, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
I did with crush kinna, kin of sea eggs, shells
crushed up with water and pot on it. That's all
that's over hair that took.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And I see now why the plant is not doing it,
because that is a very monotonous diet. It is a
little bit like me telling you I think you should
eat lime all day, every day and all week and
every month and every year. And I don't think that
it is good for your body. You know what I mean.
You're really yeah, yeah, yeah. There certain ideas to get
(08:57):
a good balanced fertilizer if you can, Ja, Okay.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
Okay, It's just that kinners weren't monotonous for my diet,
so that's why I got it here.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Thank you very much, Jay. All of its cricky rud
can you pet? Can you ask rud? Do tooies eat
parsley plants? My potted parsley has been completely eaten. And
the only culprits, although I'm on TURINGI could be rats
or bush pigeons or do we I would.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Go for the bush pigeons. Do we do we as
really is really one of those sweet nectar feeding things really,
and and fruits of course, but also insects. It's definitely
not a major herbivore at all. I tell you what
eats these things sparrows and in my case often I
(09:52):
think goldfinches as well as well as as green finches,
because they're at the moment very very hungry, and they
will go for a lot of different plants. They come
into my tunnel house and literally try to eat my
cost lettuce holes on the edge of a cross that
I put a new door on, maternal host below it.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Brilliant, brilliant. You can call eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty and Craig a very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Good morning. How's the game today?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Good things?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
It's going well, Craig.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (10:25):
I guess this is probably going back a long, long way.
But when I was at high school, I did horticulture
and in our high school and we did I did
a system. I did a study thing on one of
my exam signments about these little worms that eat the
roots of plants called nematodes. Yes, and basically they borrow
into the plants, suck all the juice out of plants
(10:45):
and then then basically reproducing stuff. And they're quite common
around different places around the world. So I was just
running with it. It's probably something similar to what the
other guy was talking about.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, but you well know, a nematodes are so small
that if you think you can see them, it's probably
a nematode. It's that thin. But this was something that
was already what did you say, twenty five meters long
and had the same texture as a earthworm. Nematodes are
really really thin. Really think, yeah, I much to distant riches.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
That sounds quite interesting for what it is.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
They are called actually nematodes. They're really cool to see.
There's another nematode type thing that comes out. Sorry, is
it a good time to tell that now at this
time of the day. They come out of the bum
of a weather or a katie did they're parasitic parasitic
hair worms. They also they waved in the sun in
the morning type of that, and they basically so they've
(11:42):
actually killed their hosts and sent their hosts, especially to
wet conditions, to water, and that's when they come out
because that's the next stage of their life cycle. But
that's the type. That's the sort of size that I'm
looking at, not even half the middle eat in diameter.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Yeah, okay, I'm at the distant riches because I used
to do hood coutch quite a lot. I don't do
much nowadays, but I used to find it really interesting.
So it's kind of much to dis some riches. And
that's quote. I won't know what it does. It's most interesting.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
It is.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
It is cool, isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Yes, it's interesting how little tiny things in the soil
help other little things and then works its way up
to the plants. And people don't realize how much loss
in the soil that if she you don't see that,
if she helps plants grow.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
It's really amazing exactly. I've just written a little note
for next week's Jack Game show, and it's all about
what do you call them? Sprint tails? And they are
tiny things that literally are probably they probably run this
world by making everything into compost in the verious, strangest way.
Tiny things, some beautiful, some float on the water like
(12:47):
huge millions of them in a patch and they come in.
It's just that I love stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
It's amazing what nature do okay, it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Hey good Chris, love you to talk to you all
the very best and a very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Frank, good a ruts. You know everything, so can you
help with this one please?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I said that to my kids. Why don't you leave
home while you still know everything?
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Pretty good? I must remember that roots. I've got a
dichromestive till roof want a we but the water blasting
and spouting cleaning guy came round cleaned them out, and
then around my backyard. I've got two big raised gardens
one meter high waist hie, and he dumped some of
(13:41):
the residue from the spouting into my raised gardens, which
I may cantain asbestos because it's asbestos and the dicromestive
toill roofing.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I knew you were going to go there.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Funny, Then what do you reckon?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
No? No, don't, don't muck around. I'm not a doctor.
I'm not I'm not a chemist.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
I'm going to do it.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
No, I would say safety first, and I'm glad you
would a doctor. Wolf will say the same thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Look, I mean there's a just very quickly, Frank, there's
a couple of issues with that one is the contractor
should know better and should have taken us because it's
not uncommon, right, and so for your own safety, I
would probably take a sample of that area very carefully,
take it to a chemist, get it determined whether or
(14:36):
not it might have asbestos in it. If it does,
then you have to go the cleanup, do the testing
first if there is. If you're unfortunate enough for it
to have asbestos in it, then I would certainly be
going back to the contractor to ask for an explanation.
But I would also be inclined to ring work safe
and go, hey, you might want to investigate this guy's
(14:56):
safety practices, you know, don't muck around with this. Frank,
good luck with that, and seriously, good luck with that,
because that's an awful position to be in. Susan, good
morning to you.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
Good morning, good morning to you both. Just a real
quick question. We were we're just trying to retract the toe,
and we've got the water, the sugar water out, but
the wax size just well the toe doesn't get a
look and well we have got no toys. Do you
know how I could attract them in any other way?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Are you talking? What do you what you're going to
say about the wax size.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
They're just they're just drinking it all down very very quickly,
and it's all gone.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
That's the one because they are the same same, they've
got the same diet as two weeks do two we
come to your your your place? Do they come to
that part?
Speaker 9 (15:50):
We've seen one or two around the neighbors, but never
into our section.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And what does your feed and look like?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
It's we've just built it. Actually it's just a little
wooden a little little wooden structure with a bottle that
drips down into.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
A bowl, okay, into a ball. There are there are
thinks called and if you, if you, you'll remember the
name wecker, uh dider, pecker, pecker, pecker, pecker. So have
a look what a pecker pecker looks like. Because they
have a nozzle that the silver ice cannot get into.
(16:30):
They haven't got a long enough bill. And you're two
week your too, we will know how brilliant.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I didn't realize that was an extra feature of that
particular bird feeder. That's smart.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
Yeah, okay from one and the pick picker did you
say on the other.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, that's right. You fade them all all that's the
key to itself.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I love.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I think these are the most practical ways of going
about it, isn't it's good.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That's brilliant. Thank you very much for that, Susan' that's awesome. Hello, Michael,
I mean morning Rude Hill.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Every year I spray my lord for the coach and
have a reasonable good success. And what I do this
year I use it on chemical and kill the lord.
So I take you as an opportunity because the lord
is country lord, probably about twenty five years old, so
I'm going to put put a new lord down. So
(17:32):
do you think excellently?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Actually, that is a clever idea, to be quite honest,
because there are of course varieties now of lawn that
a heck of a lot more elegant or better or
easier than coach, to be quite honest.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Totally honestly. It just gave me. Anyway, So I walked
around the other week with some round up, and the
Lord was slowly recovering from my spreader to put on.
Funnily enough, and I can't remember the name lockhand, but
it was the spray that I used for killing killing
(18:05):
baga panthers, one of those anyway, that's old world. So
I walk on the other day, was round up and
sprayed on to the heavily infested couch areas that were
still there. Not that they were grind but they I thought, well,
I'll just take the opt because risk fill. Yeah, I
would cover, but it's not really so good. This is
(18:29):
the right time were spraying coach at the moment, because
that was a month ago. Last night a couple of
coach plants out and scratched the steam of them and
it's still showing green in the steam. The speech showed
dormant this time in here and to come back again.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
It will. Let me put it sway, most grasses at
the moment if you sprayed them with restance, whatever round
up or whatever you use, take a lot longer to
become suppressed or killed. If you like better to do
it at a time when it's slightly warmer. You have
to remember June, July and August had the coldest months
in New Zealand. If you done it in September, you
(19:07):
probably have a much quicker response, much faster and you
have still got another four weeks or so to do
with second spray, because you always do it at least twice,
sometimes three times, and in that time you can go
to your local grass grower of whatever it is, you know,
bowls club or whatever, and find out what is the
(19:27):
best one to use for your area. How is that?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
That's that's good. I was going to spray a spray
and get a lawn down over the whole one, but
I just wanted I thought, takes the oportunity and kill everything.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I think. I think it's very clever put on you.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Much appreciated about, much appreciated. I to be feared. I
thought you were going to leap into the wildflower meadow.
No as an alternative.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I was I was going to be practical here. Okay, okay,
yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
But it does a nice idea, though, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You know, if you don't love well better, don't don't
get me started.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Really yeah, I'm kind of tipted, mate. You have a
great day. We'll get things sorted out for next week.
We're gonna we're going to play a song today, rude,
because today is my wife, Debbie's birthday, and it's a
big one.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
It's one of those ones birthday.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
That's awesome, so she will be listening and this is
a lovely song for her to celebrate a birthday. Thanks mate,
lovely to talk to you. Take care then, so yes,
Happy Minesday from Red, Happy birthday from me as well.
We'll be home, we'll celebrate today. All my love to you.
Deb Hour.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
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Speaker 2 (00:11):
It Be, Your news Talks it Be and Rid is
with us. A very good morning to you, sir.
Speaker 3 (00:18):
Good moting, Peter, can you hear me?
Speaker 4 (00:19):
Good?
Speaker 2 (00:20):
Absolutely? Ken, how are you, sir?
Speaker 3 (00:21):
That's one I've borrowed don Marie.
Speaker 2 (00:26):
You'll see that come up. That's right. What is that
flexibility in the field. That's that's the key to it.
That's the key. Do hey, should we do a quick
text before we talk to to l uh. Someone has
planted some leaks six weeks ago. They're hoping they can help.
They're just not growing. Should you see activity after six weeks?
Speaker 3 (00:45):
I was so so if you planted them? Yeah, Mindie,
it's a bit chilly. My leaks go okay in my
tunnel house. So it could be the coldness. I don't know.
It might take a lot longer. It's the same with
with the moment with garlic and what do you call
these spring onions as well, they're going, they're going. This
is the slowest time of growth at the mortment to
(01:06):
make Patience might be a good one, all right.
Speaker 2 (01:08):
Patience is not a bad thing in the garden.
Speaker 3 (01:10):
No it is it isn't sometimes is it? I know
exactly what you mean.
Speaker 2 (01:16):
Absolutely right. See, we get some calls to here we
go L.
Speaker 5 (01:19):
Hello there, Yeah, good morning guys. How are you pretty good?
Speaker 3 (01:25):
L How are you all right?
Speaker 5 (01:26):
Yeah? Good things rude. I just wanted to give you
an update. I don't know if you remember a couple
of weeks ago I phoned you with regard to my
two yellow hibiscus plots, and and and one was looking sad.
Speaker 3 (01:38):
Yeah.
Speaker 5 (01:39):
Do you remember that conversation?
Speaker 3 (01:41):
Yeah, vaguely? What what? What? What did I say to you?
What did I ask you to do?
Speaker 6 (01:46):
No?
Speaker 5 (01:46):
No, it was just the one was looking sad, and
you said, oh, maybe you know, maybe it's just a
doud a dud plant and just put it in the
green bin.
Speaker 3 (01:54):
I was just going to say that quite a funly
case you go on.
Speaker 5 (01:57):
So anyway, I took it out of a pot plant
because I was gonna I was gonna put it in
the green bind. But I noticed that there was three
like worms that had board way into the main stem,
the root stem, And so anyway, I took these things out.
And they're not frisky like the normal ones that the
blackbirds searched for in the garden. And they're not cut rooms.
(02:19):
They were black. Now, they were black with a sort
of a white a white tail. And there was three
of them. I took them out and I and I
washed the root system and I gave it a dusting
of root compound and I put it back in fresh,
fresh soil and all that and learn behold, I've got
a couple of green shoots coming through.
Speaker 3 (02:38):
Yeah, okay, in that case, there was somebody really tunneling
through your systems, and you have to remember that when
you know what that's happening, isn't it It happened.
Speaker 5 (02:46):
Yeah, that's why.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
There are quite a few creatures that do that. And
the problem is, I know, it's really hard to detect
them because they're underground and they are inside your plant
as well, so that's really difficult to see. Oh no,
I'm glad that worked out. That is Actually I'm going
to write that down, so I'm going to see.
Speaker 5 (03:04):
You wouldn't it was? Yeah, sorry, rut, you wouldn't have.
But to know what worms they are, would you? Those
sort of black? Black or dark brown? Yeah?
Speaker 7 (03:15):
Black?
Speaker 3 (03:16):
So how large were they?
Speaker 6 (03:18):
Oh?
Speaker 5 (03:19):
The one was probably the biggest one was probably about
twenty five millimeters long, and the others were about fifteen
or so fifteen eighteen millimeters long.
Speaker 3 (03:29):
And and they w look like did they look like
earth wuens?
Speaker 5 (03:33):
No, not the normal not well similar shape. But they
weren't frisky like the ones you dig out of your
worm farm or in the garden or whatever. You know,
they get they get quite frisky and and and and
sort of try and find another hole that disappeared downe. Now,
these things were real sluggish type things, you know.
Speaker 3 (03:51):
Oh gosh, yeah, I'll have to look that up to
see exactly what what goes for hibiscus, because quite often
they have their own little host plants, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 5 (04:01):
Okay, yeah, yeah, okay.
Speaker 3 (04:03):
Well at least you had a positive outcome one.
Speaker 5 (04:06):
Ah yeah, Like I said to you know, you know,
you just mentioned the being patient on the garden.
Speaker 3 (04:12):
Yeah, there you go. It could be a long time. Brilliant.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
All the very best you out, Thank you very much
for that. You take care quick ticks as well. Rud
Can you tell me how to get rid of aga
panthers which are invading my rural property?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Yes, agapentas are a real pain in the butt and
the time to work on agapanths is. But okay, let
me do this first. The time to work on agapanthas
is usually in autumn time. If you spread them in
autumn time with some of these what do you call it,
lovely wheat killers that can then take him back into
(04:49):
the plant in autumn, because the plant in autumn is
going to become a bit more dormant, if you like,
and that is the best time to do it. Woody
wat killer and things like that, and die camber band. Fine.
But the other thing that I was going to say
about agapanthas is said, because it's such an invasive species,
there are now Agapentus varieties that are no longer invasive.
(05:12):
So there's becoming more and more on the market that
will not set seeds all over the garden and make
it spread. So make sure that you get. If you
do get acapendis for your garden, you are reasonably safe
to do so these days with the modern varieties. I
thought i'd pointed out.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
Because it did seem like for a while they were
they were on the band list, right, let's get rid
of them. They're a peace and so on. But the
reason that they're popular and they are hardy, and they're
not unattractive to look. You can sort of understand why
people have found them attractive in the past.
Speaker 3 (05:47):
You got it, And that is exactly why a lot
of these things are still are basically being banned, I suppose.
But this time and this time we have much better varieties.
And I remember vaguely that here it pretending guns in
christ and in Auckland. You can see those varieties and
you can see what look back, what color they are, etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.
Speaker 2 (06:08):
Have a not yeah brilliant in a very good morning
to you, Jay, morning, Hello, Jay.
Speaker 8 (06:16):
Hey rude. I have a type of pet I'm told
are a passion food, and they're called grenadilla, very large.
I grew them last year and this year they took
all fruited, got about forty fruit on it, and they've
slowly changed color to yellow. Some haven't changed at all,
(06:39):
and they've been fruited for the last six six months,
but some are starting to rot on the vine. Most
aren't changing the yellow or orange color that I'm expecting.
Any ideas on.
Speaker 3 (06:58):
Why no, I have never grown grenadilla, Is that what
you call a grenadilla? I've heard of it.
Speaker 8 (07:06):
Yes, yeah, there are there are a passion a type
of passion thread. When you cut it open, it's just
full of seas, the same as a passion thread.
Speaker 3 (07:14):
Yeah, they're African, the African species, I think an African variety.
But but as I said, I've never grown the man,
I'm not very good at passion fruit type. But what
you're telling me now is that the plant is not
doing too well.
Speaker 8 (07:28):
Well, a plant itself is healthy and green, but the
fruit itself that have been there for for a last
five months and quite large, just aren't changing the color,
which I imagine they would do. And then and then they're
all blotchy on the outside skin.
Speaker 3 (07:47):
Okay, well, rotchiness. I think that is a bit tricky
to identify over the phone. But if you've got something
that doesn't want to ripe that, well, have you tried
feeding them with a little bit of potash or potash
high fertilizers, so that means a fertilizer like a rose
fertilizer or a tomato fertilizer, because that contains usually more
(08:09):
potage than the others, and that means that the fruit
is a much highier, gross better and is sweeter by
the time you harvest it.
Speaker 8 (08:18):
Okay, I'll try that.
Speaker 3 (08:21):
Did you Did you fertilize it at all? By the way, Jay, Yeah.
Speaker 8 (08:25):
I did with crush kinna, kin of sea eggs, shells
crushed up with water and pot on it. That's all
that's over hair that took.
Speaker 3 (08:35):
And I see now why the plant is not doing it,
because that is a very monotonous diet. It is a
little bit like me telling you I think you should
eat lime all day, every day and all week and
every month and every year. And I don't think that
it is good for your body. You know what I mean.
You're really yeah, yeah, yeah. There certain ideas to get
(08:57):
a good balanced fertilizer if you can, Ja, Okay.
Speaker 8 (09:00):
Okay, It's just that kinners weren't monotonous for my diet,
so that's why I got it here.
Speaker 2 (09:10):
Thank you very much, Jay. All of its cricky rud
can you pet? Can you ask rud? Do tooies eat
parsley plants? My potted parsley has been completely eaten. And
the only culprits, although I'm on TURINGI could be rats
or bush pigeons or do we I would.
Speaker 3 (09:31):
Go for the bush pigeons. Do we do we as
really is really one of those sweet nectar feeding things really,
and and fruits of course, but also insects. It's definitely
not a major herbivore at all. I tell you what
eats these things sparrows and in my case often I
(09:52):
think goldfinches as well as well as as green finches,
because they're at the moment very very hungry, and they
will go for a lot of different plants. They come
into my tunnel house and literally try to eat my
cost lettuce holes on the edge of a cross that
I put a new door on, maternal host below it.
Speaker 2 (10:12):
Brilliant, brilliant. You can call eight hundred and eighty ten
eighty and Craig a very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (10:20):
Good morning. How's the game today?
Speaker 2 (10:21):
Good things?
Speaker 3 (10:22):
It's going well, Craig.
Speaker 5 (10:23):
What can I do for you?
Speaker 7 (10:25):
I guess this is probably going back a long, long way.
But when I was at high school, I did horticulture
and in our high school and we did I did
a system. I did a study thing on one of
my exam signments about these little worms that eat the
roots of plants called nematodes. Yes, and basically they borrow
into the plants, suck all the juice out of plants
(10:45):
and then then basically reproducing stuff. And they're quite common
around different places around the world. So I was just
running with it. It's probably something similar to what the
other guy was talking about.
Speaker 3 (10:54):
Yeah, but you well know, a nematodes are so small
that if you think you can see them, it's probably
a nematode. It's that thin. But this was something that
was already what did you say, twenty five meters long
and had the same texture as a earthworm. Nematodes are
really really thin. Really think, yeah, I much to distant riches.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
That sounds quite interesting for what it is.
Speaker 3 (11:19):
They are called actually nematodes. They're really cool to see.
There's another nematode type thing that comes out. Sorry, is
it a good time to tell that now at this
time of the day. They come out of the bum
of a weather or a katie did they're parasitic parasitic
hair worms. They also they waved in the sun in
the morning type of that, and they basically so they've
(11:42):
actually killed their hosts and sent their hosts, especially to
wet conditions, to water, and that's when they come out
because that's the next stage of their life cycle. But
that's the type. That's the sort of size that I'm
looking at, not even half the middle eat in diameter.
Speaker 7 (11:56):
Yeah, okay, I'm at the distant riches because I used
to do hood coutch quite a lot. I don't do
much nowadays, but I used to find it really interesting.
So it's kind of much to dis some riches. And
that's quote. I won't know what it does. It's most interesting.
Speaker 6 (12:09):
It is.
Speaker 3 (12:10):
It is cool, isn't it. Yeah?
Speaker 7 (12:12):
Yes, it's interesting how little tiny things in the soil
help other little things and then works its way up
to the plants. And people don't realize how much loss
in the soil that if she you don't see that,
if she helps plants grow.
Speaker 3 (12:23):
It's really amazing exactly. I've just written a little note
for next week's Jack Game show, and it's all about
what do you call them? Sprint tails? And they are
tiny things that literally are probably they probably run this
world by making everything into compost in the verious, strangest way.
Tiny things, some beautiful, some float on the water like
(12:47):
huge millions of them in a patch and they come in.
It's just that I love stuff like that.
Speaker 7 (12:57):
It's amazing what nature do okay, it's pretty good.
Speaker 2 (13:00):
Hey good Chris, love you to talk to you all
the very best and a very good morning to you.
Speaker 6 (13:05):
Frank, good a ruts. You know everything, so can you
help with this one please?
Speaker 3 (13:14):
I said that to my kids. Why don't you leave
home while you still know everything?
Speaker 6 (13:20):
Pretty good? I must remember that roots. I've got a
dichromestive till roof want a we but the water blasting
and spouting cleaning guy came round cleaned them out, and
then around my backyard. I've got two big raised gardens
one meter high waist hie, and he dumped some of
(13:41):
the residue from the spouting into my raised gardens, which
I may cantain asbestos because it's asbestos and the dicromestive
toill roofing.
Speaker 3 (13:55):
I knew you were going to go there.
Speaker 6 (13:56):
Funny, Then what do you reckon?
Speaker 3 (13:59):
No? No, don't, don't muck around. I'm not a doctor.
I'm not I'm not a chemist.
Speaker 6 (14:07):
I'm going to do it.
Speaker 3 (14:08):
No, I would say safety first, and I'm glad you
would a doctor. Wolf will say the same thing. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (14:15):
Look, I mean there's a just very quickly, Frank, there's
a couple of issues with that one is the contractor
should know better and should have taken us because it's
not uncommon, right, and so for your own safety, I
would probably take a sample of that area very carefully,
take it to a chemist, get it determined whether or
(14:36):
not it might have asbestos in it. If it does,
then you have to go the cleanup, do the testing
first if there is. If you're unfortunate enough for it
to have asbestos in it, then I would certainly be
going back to the contractor to ask for an explanation.
But I would also be inclined to ring work safe
and go, hey, you might want to investigate this guy's
(14:56):
safety practices, you know, don't muck around with this. Frank,
good luck with that, and seriously, good luck with that,
because that's an awful position to be in. Susan, good
morning to you.
Speaker 9 (15:08):
Good morning, good morning to you both. Just a real
quick question. We were we're just trying to retract the toe,
and we've got the water, the sugar water out, but
the wax size just well the toe doesn't get a
look and well we have got no toys. Do you
know how I could attract them in any other way?
Speaker 3 (15:30):
Are you talking? What do you what you're going to
say about the wax size.
Speaker 9 (15:33):
They're just they're just drinking it all down very very quickly,
and it's all gone.
Speaker 3 (15:39):
That's the one because they are the same same, they've
got the same diet as two weeks do two we
come to your your your place? Do they come to
that part?
Speaker 9 (15:50):
We've seen one or two around the neighbors, but never
into our section.
Speaker 3 (15:54):
And what does your feed and look like?
Speaker 9 (16:01):
It's we've just built it. Actually it's just a little
wooden a little little wooden structure with a bottle that
drips down into.
Speaker 3 (16:08):
A bowl, okay, into a ball. There are there are
thinks called and if you, if you, you'll remember the
name wecker, uh dider, pecker, pecker, pecker, pecker. So have
a look what a pecker pecker looks like. Because they
have a nozzle that the silver ice cannot get into.
(16:30):
They haven't got a long enough bill. And you're two
week your too, we will know how brilliant.
Speaker 2 (16:37):
I didn't realize that was an extra feature of that
particular bird feeder. That's smart.
Speaker 9 (16:43):
Yeah, okay from one and the pick picker did you
say on the other.
Speaker 2 (16:49):
Yeah, that's right. You fade them all all that's the
key to itself.
Speaker 5 (16:54):
I love.
Speaker 3 (16:56):
I think these are the most practical ways of going
about it, isn't it's good.
Speaker 2 (17:01):
That's brilliant. Thank you very much for that, Susan' that's awesome. Hello, Michael,
I mean morning Rude Hill.
Speaker 4 (17:10):
Every year I spray my lord for the coach and
have a reasonable good success. And what I do this
year I use it on chemical and kill the lord.
So I take you as an opportunity because the lord
is country lord, probably about twenty five years old, so
I'm going to put put a new lord down. So
(17:32):
do you think excellently?
Speaker 3 (17:34):
Actually, that is a clever idea, to be quite honest,
because there are of course varieties now of lawn that
a heck of a lot more elegant or better or
easier than coach, to be quite honest.
Speaker 4 (17:44):
Totally honestly. It just gave me. Anyway, So I walked
around the other week with some round up, and the
Lord was slowly recovering from my spreader to put on.
Funnily enough, and I can't remember the name lockhand, but
it was the spray that I used for killing killing
(18:05):
baga panthers, one of those anyway, that's old world. So
I walk on the other day, was round up and
sprayed on to the heavily infested couch areas that were
still there. Not that they were grind but they I thought, well,
I'll just take the opt because risk fill. Yeah, I
would cover, but it's not really so good. This is
(18:29):
the right time were spraying coach at the moment, because
that was a month ago. Last night a couple of
coach plants out and scratched the steam of them and
it's still showing green in the steam. The speech showed
dormant this time in here and to come back again.
Speaker 3 (18:45):
It will. Let me put it sway, most grasses at
the moment if you sprayed them with restance, whatever round
up or whatever you use, take a lot longer to
become suppressed or killed. If you like better to do
it at a time when it's slightly warmer. You have
to remember June, July and August had the coldest months
in New Zealand. If you done it in September, you
(19:07):
probably have a much quicker response, much faster and you
have still got another four weeks or so to do
with second spray, because you always do it at least twice,
sometimes three times, and in that time you can go
to your local grass grower of whatever it is, you know,
bowls club or whatever, and find out what is the
(19:27):
best one to use for your area. How is that?
Speaker 5 (19:31):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (19:32):
That's that's good. I was going to spray a spray
and get a lawn down over the whole one, but
I just wanted I thought, takes the oportunity and kill everything.
Speaker 3 (19:41):
I think. I think it's very clever put on you.
Speaker 2 (19:43):
Much appreciated about, much appreciated. I to be feared. I
thought you were going to leap into the wildflower meadow.
No as an alternative.
Speaker 3 (19:52):
I was I was going to be practical here. Okay, okay,
yeah it is.
Speaker 2 (19:58):
But it does a nice idea, though, isn't it.
Speaker 3 (20:00):
You know, if you don't love well better, don't don't
get me started.
Speaker 2 (20:04):
Really yeah, I'm kind of tipted, mate. You have a
great day. We'll get things sorted out for next week.
We're gonna we're going to play a song today, rude,
because today is my wife, Debbie's birthday, and it's a
big one.
Speaker 3 (20:17):
It's one of those ones birthday.
Speaker 2 (20:20):
That's awesome, so she will be listening and this is
a lovely song for her to celebrate a birthday. Thanks mate,
lovely to talk to you. Take care then, so yes,
Happy Minesday from Red, Happy birthday from me as well.
We'll be home, we'll celebrate today. All my love to you.
Deb Hour.
Speaker 5 (20:59):
Our Mother's Playing.
Speaker 1 (21:09):
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