August 10, 2024 • 18 mins
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from news Talk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Twenty eight minutes after righty oh, good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Decline passed. How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
A very good morning to you too. Peter the Wolf
a caamp man that needs to be listening to clap
Foot the wolf Men by guess who is that? Who?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It's by guess who gets who?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Yeah? I liked it, right, I'm going to play it,
but I couldn't get the ads of YouTube.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Ah, well, look I have. Let's do a confession. On
my list of jobs to do was to plume prune
the plumb tree. Yeah, and well time has passed like
a bit like, well I did it, am I in
trouble now?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
No good, I've done it to you, thank goodness recently.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, all right, no, that was my job. On Friday
I launched. I thought I could see the first buds coming.
I'm like, oh.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
No, no, no, no, that's okay, all right, right, that's
not a problem. But you know what you should do
or look at the weather forecast for a couple of days.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
It done. When you get some dry weather, yeah you go.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, And it was like it was only a little bits.
It's just I've tried to reduce the canopy, bring it
all down, and I had all this stuff that was
shooting to the stars, and I thought, right, I'm going
to launch into that. And then foolishly enough, I took
all those bits that I'd cut off and I chopped
them up into little bits because I could add them
to the compost bin. But I did so well bending over,
and I have to say that standing up the next
(01:34):
day was a little challenging.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
That's hard. Oh, I I've been chippering yesterday, you know,
so yes. First of all, First of all, I just
want to say.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Volunteers, why do I not have a chipper.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
A handsa handswer chipper. It's easier going to I'd have
them with a delbow without should have had them with
the delbow to be, but that's another story. They're quite heavy,
but they go really well, and they've got lovely sharp
sharp things and that they chipper everything to be. So
I did that yesterday, and then I had it. I
said I would go to the conservation volunteers who planted
(02:07):
two million plant trees. By the way, Yes they no, no,
and of course not come on, there are two million. Really, yes, amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
From one organization exactly who are they?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
The conservation volunteers. They're all over New Zealand in various places.
So that was the But the chipper did really well
because I got rid of a probably a cubic meters
of a cubic meter or more of it was more
than of of what do you call it? Branches and
twigs and all that sort of stuff. And boy, that
went quick and it is such good stuff. Put it
(02:44):
in your compost where you go.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Honest, absolutely fantastic. Right, let's get into it. We've got
a couple of texts, but let's talk to Kerry first.
The lines are open. The number to call eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Kerry, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
All, Good morning guys. Question for root wasteria trunk that
is next to a existing dick, and that dick needs
to be replaced with the foundation. So from what I understand,
the roots will probably hit everywhere. Now we need to
cut an effect to one side of that crunk. Is
(03:19):
it possible to say?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Sure? I'm sure it is because it will probably refurbish
itself quite nicely. And the nice thing about wisteria is
you might have heard Peter and I talking about puhutukawa
and roots and things like that. You know, because they
are quite invasive. They can do quite a bit of
damage to foundations and all that. They know how to
lift a house too, They do that for free, by
(03:41):
the way, anyway.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Nasty, But.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
The wisteria actually is not that awful in terms of
getting near places. It tends to go down with its
roots rather than horizontal. So if you will get rid
of some of it, you'll find it'll grow back down again.
You'll find it's not too bad even if you take
(04:07):
a third of the roots of I reckon the whysteria
will get back into business soon.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
What about what about a fear effectively cutting half of
one side off the the root system to go into
the found that you know, the way the foundation is
almost beside it. That's three hundred away from the house,
and you're cutting right down beside it. You're sort of
fairly confident it will survive.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
It's quite I would take that risk.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
This is one of those things that literally could go anywhere.
And if it and if you drop it off and
you've got still half of it, lest you might have
a couple of years of like or maybe two years. Yeah,
a couple of years of Oh, not too sure about it.
But you'll find that these things quite often refurbish themselves
quite nicely underground. Okay, great, right, Well least the least
(04:57):
you can do is plant a new one if you
really need to. I mean, what the heck? You know
they have quick growing So yeah, now you can do it.
No worries, Gary away.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
With security, much appreciate it. Do we need to take
a break already? No we do, No we don't. No, no, no, no,
I just saw henes.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Someone.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
No, just not wave back, just wave back through the glass.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
All right, and nata a very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Hello, good morning. Could I please ask the roots question.
I've got a lemon tree. He's got all orange spots
on it on it like rust, you know, on the
on the steams and on the branches, and I wonder
what it is.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I think it sounds a bit fun. Oh you're not
having it in the ground.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
No, because my son does not find the place to
put it. So he's got in the post. It's only
a couple of years old. It's only about they meet
a high when it looks you've got about team lemons
on it, but in very spark leaves, but all this
spot and we wonder.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
What what okay, that could be a fungal thing. And
I can't identify it orange. I don't I haven't seen
much orange little orange spots.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
And he's putting a made glasshouse actually, and I put
it inside the glasshouse. And I don't know whether it's
happened in the air or what.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
It could be. It could be a rust for that
you can use. You can spray it with it literally
with a rustkiller or with a fungus side if you
like to stop it. But there was another thing you said,
and it said you don't have many leaves, didn't you?
Speaker 7 (06:36):
It doesn't have many leaves, Yeah, so that means it's
got quite a few lemons on.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Yes, that's fine. But you do need some fertilizer in there,
to be quite honest, And well, you can do that,
but you can also do a liquid fertilizer because when
you have it in a pot, you need to water
it every now and then, of course, and if you
if you use a liquid fertilizer, and and one of
my favorite ones is in this case seaweed tea from
(07:02):
wet and forget seaweed tea. Mix it. Mix it in
to a really weak amount, so it's like a really
weak tea, very light brown, and put that in and
you'll find that the plant will get you a bit
more a bit more leaves. But Anita, in the long term,
if that plant is that keen to do this, I
think it's time to make a decision on where to
(07:23):
plant it, and do it as soon as you can.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Yeah, that's all right. I told my son to. They're
not doing very well in pots anyway, unless it's a
very very big pot.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
That's right, And then you get the trouble of shifting
them and all that sort of.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Nonsense, you know what I mean, become a danger exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
No, No, honestly, put him in the ground and put
him in nice soil, and do it now, because now
it's a good time to literally put that in before
it gets too warm for summer.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
If you like.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Right now, it's good time. So get him to the change.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Bye, you come, plant the damn thing. Thank you very much, Anita.
We'll take a short break. We'll be back with Matt
in just a moment. I think I'll start something, probably
a bad habit with people with their pruning. Good morning,
quick question please. I live in North Canterbury and I
haven't yet pruned my roses. Am I too late? Always
(08:16):
enjoy the show, Have a great day. Cheers from Dafney.
Oh I feel that not doing your roses is worse
than not doing the plum tree.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
No, it depends on where you live. Okay, I mean
you live in Kenbury. You first ask what boat where
you're on? What school did you go to? Three? Have
you quick? Have you clipped your roses anyway? No, it's
not too late. Just have it, you know what, you
know what, Peter, I love I love being you know. Anyway,
(08:47):
when you go to a rose place where they grow
your roses, yea, they go. Ultimately they clip their roses
sort of at this time of the year with a
lawn mower set at twelve so at about four or
five inches above the ground, go over at the top,
off you go, goodbye. That's how your pruna rose.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
But I always thought you had to do it at
Queen's birthday or King's birthday.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You can do that. Yeah, you can do it now. No,
it's not too late, honestly, it's not. And sometimes it
pays if you really want a good rose, and Julie
does there too, is to clip them when they are,
you know, in the middle of summer, to know when
you're in middle of sumber, when they're getting too large
or whatever, you know, to just it's your rose. You
can prune it the way you want to.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Really, we've given up on roses, yeah, so long time.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Really.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, that's why I'm taking the mickey. Yeah, Now, honestly,
i am some Look, I've seen plenty of roses. I've
smelled plenty of roses, beautiful ones, and there's these prickly ones,
and those are the ones that always get me, especially
when you don't have much hair with climbing roses. Sure,
but but what I'm saying is no, you can. You
can literally, this is still not too late to do
(09:54):
it the proper way.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, awesome, righto, matt A very good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Heytt, we're going well, my friend. Are you are you
frosting a bit?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Are you frosting a bit?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I am.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Yeah, I've got a heap probably it's around my place
and they've gone like a real white brown color.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
I'm wondering if that the either of them, or would.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
They come back not necessarily. Do you think they have
been done by the frost?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I've noticed that we've had
a couple of rual frosty days.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yes, I know. Well I look when I go past
the what I call a potting shit. Julie's got a
lot of promeliates and they're all at the moment covered
with frost cloth, to be quite honest, and she leaves
them on just in case. But although we hardly ever
get frost, it's just one of those things. Look, keep
(10:48):
them going, see what you can salvage. You never know
if they if they come back. But it doesn't sound
too great, to be quite honest.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah right, okay, no.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I'm sorry, that's the way it is. Do you realize,
by the way, do you realize there's liquid cloth type
stuff which you spray onto the leaves, and that would
stop the frost from say up to four degrees minus
fives minus from actually damaging your your plants gun shops. Yep,
(11:20):
liquid frost materials. Good fun. But honestly, you haven't go
it might be a bit too late. It doesn't work
in reverse afraid. Yeah, okay, okay, sorry to hear that.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Go well, all, am, I assuming rud that with the
familiars that because they're like fleshy leaves, aren't they with
a lot of liquid in them?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Liquid?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
If they got hit by the frost, they would.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
You got it. Yeah, okay, yeah, that's that's exactly how
And then they their veins burst open and all that
sort of stuff. You get a lot of damage that way. Yeah,
it can happen.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Interesting quick question. Lime tree has been transplanted four years ago,
doubled in size, but has never had any fruit, although
I have been feeding it. It's covered in flowers for
the first time. What do you think is going on there?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Potash, silver, sulfate of potash. It's the old standards for me.
That you can feed it with anything you like. But
if there's no potash in the food, the flowers will
not set fruit that easily.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So and because they've got flowers, will they inevitably get
fruit or can it just flour but no fruit?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Well, if it's lacking the potash, it probably won't work.
But if you do have potash, there's flowers will develop
into what they are supposed to develop into, is fruit.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, going back to my plum tree, not that I'm
slightly obsisted by given that I've hacked it, should I
be doing potash as well?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
No? No, no, because you need you need your plum
to be NPK, which is neutral, so general fertilizer. And yeah,
especially after pruning at the moment. And what you can
do is after you've had your plum tree flowering properly
in a month's time, say that's when you can do
a little bit of potash on the root zone.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, okay, all right, job for me. It is twelve
minutes away from nine. We'll take a short break. We'll
be with Helen in just the moment. Do you root
climb passed with me and Helen. Good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
Good morning. Look, I was wonder that's rude, because recommend
a good general fertilizer for my high rangers. I prouned
them in late April, and I've now got nice spream leaves,
and I was just wonder if you could recommend something a.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Good general fertilizer. Helen will do anything that is what
they call a general fertilizer of NPK will do it
reasonably well. And if you wanted a bit extra blue,
you can put some aluminium cell fate on it as well.
But that's another story on all Why oh that's good
Nitroposca blue. I love nitrofosca blue, which is and it's
(13:55):
a granular thing that every time it rains it a
little bit leaches into the root zone and the plants
love it the same same at our price, nitro fossil. Yeah,
you get from your garden center. Yeah, centers, everybody.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
What would be the frequency of personalizing the hydrange right
now and then.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
When no, when you've got the new leaves on now
have you yes?
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Do it now? Do it again in October? I suppose,
and a little bit in December. Just a handful to
the square meter. Oh lovely, Helen, Helen, Helen, This is
the most scientific way of saying it. A handful to
the square media. In other words, you know how gardeners
(14:45):
tossed it down. That's how it works.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Lovely, that's the part I love, so do I.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
But funny how I feel like hydrangers have come back
and the fashion because they to me, they always felt
like a bit of an old person's plan, right, and
maybe because I now am so, I've been planting them
as well, and I I really.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Enjoy it now watching them come up and.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Some stunning varieties. I remember Julie and I went to
Forgot the Forgotten where it was the New Plymouth area,
and we basically got a whole lot of varieties that
were just out and they are doing so well. The
gorgeous stuff, good colors, good flowers.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
No, it looks nice, beautiful, awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Quick last call from Hope.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Morning morning.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
How are you hey, I'm very well, oh fantastic. I
have a question for ru, to be honest. Basically, basically
I want to make a walking tree. So basically I
want to I want to cut a barrel in half
and put some wheels underneath it and basically part my
grandson's are finn worn, and then put lime or lemon
(15:56):
tary on it. Yeah, my question is when you put
when you cut the barrel and half, I've got to
put some holes in the bottom of the barrel.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Of course, victim always because when it rains, you don't
want that water to sit there forever and ever and
ever in the day and and honestly, I know you'll
have to water a bit more often when it gets dry,
you know what I mean. But you do not want
rotting in the root zone because that really will give
your plants. Hell, in fact, that would be the end
(16:27):
of them.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Okay once a bits times itsy one, grab tree and
then plant.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
That tree right now is a good time. Absolutely, Yeah,
where are you based out?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Where are you and us?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Okay, you'll be fine. Yeah, as I said, we just planted.
I would I would never put dirt in there. I
would always put soil in there.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Okay, okay, well.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Yeah, some good planting, a compost, planting mix, planting mix
not not not something like potting mix that's usually too
much organic material, but organic material with proper top soil
mixed in together.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Okay then okay, then and basically just straight in the
barrel and where.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
We go, where you go, you could do it, so you.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Can do it, Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Enjoy your day, story you take care, appreciate all of this.
What a fantastic morning. It's fantastic sporting song. I know
if you go has got this organized? Hey mate, that
was a pleasure. We'll we'll do it again next week.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Ye might do it all right, let's see that.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Take care you go, folks. Thanks for your company. Here
is clap for the wolf Man. My thanks to Jerry
who introduced me to this. Take care of a.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Great day, Rachel, Yes, gracious, the.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Wolf Man, you gone diggin build and the do cover
They crams.
Speaker 1 (18:30):
For more from the Resident build up with Peter Wolfcamp.
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You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter wolf
Camp from news Talk ZEDB.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Twenty eight minutes after righty oh, good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (00:16):
Decline passed. How are you, sir?
Speaker 4 (00:18):
A very good morning to you too. Peter the Wolf
a caamp man that needs to be listening to clap
Foot the wolf Men by guess who is that? Who?
Speaker 3 (00:26):
It's by guess who gets who?
Speaker 4 (00:27):
Yeah? I liked it, right, I'm going to play it,
but I couldn't get the ads of YouTube.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Ah, well, look I have. Let's do a confession. On
my list of jobs to do was to plume prune
the plumb tree. Yeah, and well time has passed like
a bit like, well I did it, am I in
trouble now?
Speaker 4 (00:54):
No good, I've done it to you, thank goodness recently.
Speaker 2 (00:56):
Yeah, all right, no, that was my job. On Friday
I launched. I thought I could see the first buds coming.
I'm like, oh.
Speaker 4 (01:04):
No, no, no, no, that's okay, all right, right, that's
not a problem. But you know what you should do
or look at the weather forecast for a couple of days.
Speaker 3 (01:11):
It's pretty good.
Speaker 4 (01:11):
It done. When you get some dry weather, yeah you go.
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Yeah, And it was like it was only a little bits.
It's just I've tried to reduce the canopy, bring it
all down, and I had all this stuff that was
shooting to the stars, and I thought, right, I'm going
to launch into that. And then foolishly enough, I took
all those bits that I'd cut off and I chopped
them up into little bits because I could add them
to the compost bin. But I did so well bending over,
and I have to say that standing up the next
(01:34):
day was a little challenging.
Speaker 4 (01:36):
That's hard. Oh, I I've been chippering yesterday, you know,
so yes. First of all, First of all, I just
want to say.
Speaker 3 (01:44):
Volunteers, why do I not have a chipper.
Speaker 4 (01:46):
A handsa handswer chipper. It's easier going to I'd have
them with a delbow without should have had them with
the delbow to be, but that's another story. They're quite heavy,
but they go really well, and they've got lovely sharp
sharp things and that they chipper everything to be. So
I did that yesterday, and then I had it. I
said I would go to the conservation volunteers who planted
(02:07):
two million plant trees. By the way, Yes they no, no,
and of course not come on, there are two million. Really, yes, amazing.
Speaker 2 (02:19):
From one organization exactly who are they?
Speaker 4 (02:23):
The conservation volunteers. They're all over New Zealand in various places.
So that was the But the chipper did really well
because I got rid of a probably a cubic meters
of a cubic meter or more of it was more
than of of what do you call it? Branches and
twigs and all that sort of stuff. And boy, that
went quick and it is such good stuff. Put it
(02:44):
in your compost where you go.
Speaker 2 (02:46):
Honest, absolutely fantastic. Right, let's get into it. We've got
a couple of texts, but let's talk to Kerry first.
The lines are open. The number to call eight hundred
and eighty ten eighty Kerry, Good morning.
Speaker 5 (02:58):
All, Good morning guys. Question for root wasteria trunk that
is next to a existing dick, and that dick needs
to be replaced with the foundation. So from what I understand,
the roots will probably hit everywhere. Now we need to
cut an effect to one side of that crunk. Is
(03:19):
it possible to say?
Speaker 4 (03:21):
Sure? I'm sure it is because it will probably refurbish
itself quite nicely. And the nice thing about wisteria is
you might have heard Peter and I talking about puhutukawa
and roots and things like that. You know, because they
are quite invasive. They can do quite a bit of
damage to foundations and all that. They know how to
lift a house too, They do that for free, by
(03:41):
the way, anyway.
Speaker 5 (03:43):
Nasty, But.
Speaker 4 (03:46):
The wisteria actually is not that awful in terms of
getting near places. It tends to go down with its
roots rather than horizontal. So if you will get rid
of some of it, you'll find it'll grow back down again.
You'll find it's not too bad even if you take
(04:07):
a third of the roots of I reckon the whysteria
will get back into business soon.
Speaker 5 (04:13):
What about what about a fear effectively cutting half of
one side off the the root system to go into
the found that you know, the way the foundation is
almost beside it. That's three hundred away from the house,
and you're cutting right down beside it. You're sort of
fairly confident it will survive.
Speaker 4 (04:30):
It's quite I would take that risk.
Speaker 5 (04:33):
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Speaker 4 (04:35):
This is one of those things that literally could go anywhere.
And if it and if you drop it off and
you've got still half of it, lest you might have
a couple of years of like or maybe two years. Yeah,
a couple of years of Oh, not too sure about it.
But you'll find that these things quite often refurbish themselves
quite nicely underground. Okay, great, right, Well least the least
(04:57):
you can do is plant a new one if you
really need to. I mean, what the heck? You know
they have quick growing So yeah, now you can do it.
No worries, Gary away.
Speaker 2 (05:06):
With security, much appreciate it. Do we need to take
a break already? No we do, No we don't. No, no, no, no,
I just saw henes.
Speaker 6 (05:17):
Someone.
Speaker 4 (05:18):
No, just not wave back, just wave back through the glass.
Speaker 2 (05:21):
All right, and nata a very good morning to you.
Speaker 7 (05:27):
Hello, good morning. Could I please ask the roots question.
I've got a lemon tree. He's got all orange spots
on it on it like rust, you know, on the
on the steams and on the branches, and I wonder
what it is.
Speaker 4 (05:44):
I think it sounds a bit fun. Oh you're not
having it in the ground.
Speaker 7 (05:51):
No, because my son does not find the place to
put it. So he's got in the post. It's only
a couple of years old. It's only about they meet
a high when it looks you've got about team lemons
on it, but in very spark leaves, but all this
spot and we wonder.
Speaker 4 (06:05):
What what okay, that could be a fungal thing. And
I can't identify it orange. I don't I haven't seen
much orange little orange spots.
Speaker 7 (06:14):
And he's putting a made glasshouse actually, and I put
it inside the glasshouse. And I don't know whether it's
happened in the air or what.
Speaker 4 (06:23):
It could be. It could be a rust for that
you can use. You can spray it with it literally
with a rustkiller or with a fungus side if you
like to stop it. But there was another thing you said,
and it said you don't have many leaves, didn't you?
Speaker 7 (06:36):
It doesn't have many leaves, Yeah, so that means it's
got quite a few lemons on.
Speaker 4 (06:42):
Yes, that's fine. But you do need some fertilizer in there,
to be quite honest, And well, you can do that,
but you can also do a liquid fertilizer because when
you have it in a pot, you need to water
it every now and then, of course, and if you
if you use a liquid fertilizer, and and one of
my favorite ones is in this case seaweed tea from
(07:02):
wet and forget seaweed tea. Mix it. Mix it in
to a really weak amount, so it's like a really
weak tea, very light brown, and put that in and
you'll find that the plant will get you a bit
more a bit more leaves. But Anita, in the long term,
if that plant is that keen to do this, I
think it's time to make a decision on where to
(07:23):
plant it, and do it as soon as you can.
Speaker 7 (07:26):
Yeah, that's all right. I told my son to. They're
not doing very well in pots anyway, unless it's a
very very big pot.
Speaker 4 (07:33):
That's right, And then you get the trouble of shifting
them and all that sort of.
Speaker 7 (07:36):
Nonsense, you know what I mean, become a danger exactly.
Speaker 4 (07:41):
No, No, honestly, put him in the ground and put
him in nice soil, and do it now, because now
it's a good time to literally put that in before
it gets too warm for summer.
Speaker 5 (07:50):
If you like.
Speaker 4 (07:51):
Right now, it's good time. So get him to the change.
Speaker 2 (07:55):
Bye, you come, plant the damn thing. Thank you very much, Anita.
We'll take a short break. We'll be back with Matt
in just a moment. I think I'll start something, probably
a bad habit with people with their pruning. Good morning,
quick question please. I live in North Canterbury and I
haven't yet pruned my roses. Am I too late? Always
(08:16):
enjoy the show, Have a great day. Cheers from Dafney.
Oh I feel that not doing your roses is worse
than not doing the plum tree.
Speaker 4 (08:24):
No, it depends on where you live. Okay, I mean
you live in Kenbury. You first ask what boat where
you're on? What school did you go to? Three? Have
you quick? Have you clipped your roses anyway? No, it's
not too late. Just have it, you know what, you
know what, Peter, I love I love being you know. Anyway,
(08:47):
when you go to a rose place where they grow
your roses, yea, they go. Ultimately they clip their roses
sort of at this time of the year with a
lawn mower set at twelve so at about four or
five inches above the ground, go over at the top,
off you go, goodbye. That's how your pruna rose.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
But I always thought you had to do it at
Queen's birthday or King's birthday.
Speaker 4 (09:09):
You can do that. Yeah, you can do it now. No,
it's not too late, honestly, it's not. And sometimes it
pays if you really want a good rose, and Julie
does there too, is to clip them when they are,
you know, in the middle of summer, to know when
you're in middle of sumber, when they're getting too large
or whatever, you know, to just it's your rose. You
can prune it the way you want to.
Speaker 2 (09:28):
Really, we've given up on roses, yeah, so long time.
Speaker 3 (09:33):
Really.
Speaker 4 (09:33):
Yeah, that's why I'm taking the mickey. Yeah, Now, honestly,
i am some Look, I've seen plenty of roses. I've
smelled plenty of roses, beautiful ones, and there's these prickly ones,
and those are the ones that always get me, especially
when you don't have much hair with climbing roses. Sure,
but but what I'm saying is no, you can. You
can literally, this is still not too late to do
(09:54):
it the proper way.
Speaker 2 (09:56):
Yeah, awesome, righto, matt A very good morning to you.
Speaker 4 (10:01):
Heytt, we're going well, my friend. Are you are you
frosting a bit?
Speaker 6 (10:06):
Sorry?
Speaker 4 (10:07):
Are you frosting a bit?
Speaker 6 (10:09):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (10:09):
I am.
Speaker 6 (10:10):
Yeah, I've got a heap probably it's around my place
and they've gone like a real white brown color.
Speaker 4 (10:16):
Yeah.
Speaker 6 (10:17):
I'm wondering if that the either of them, or would.
Speaker 4 (10:18):
They come back not necessarily. Do you think they have
been done by the frost?
Speaker 6 (10:23):
Yeah, I think so. Yeah, I've noticed that we've had
a couple of rual frosty days.
Speaker 4 (10:28):
Yes, I know. Well I look when I go past
the what I call a potting shit. Julie's got a
lot of promeliates and they're all at the moment covered
with frost cloth, to be quite honest, and she leaves
them on just in case. But although we hardly ever
get frost, it's just one of those things. Look, keep
(10:48):
them going, see what you can salvage. You never know
if they if they come back. But it doesn't sound
too great, to be quite honest.
Speaker 2 (10:57):
Yeah right, okay, no.
Speaker 4 (10:59):
I'm sorry, that's the way it is. Do you realize,
by the way, do you realize there's liquid cloth type
stuff which you spray onto the leaves, and that would
stop the frost from say up to four degrees minus
fives minus from actually damaging your your plants gun shops. Yep,
(11:20):
liquid frost materials. Good fun. But honestly, you haven't go
it might be a bit too late. It doesn't work
in reverse afraid. Yeah, okay, okay, sorry to hear that.
Speaker 2 (11:33):
Go well, all, am, I assuming rud that with the
familiars that because they're like fleshy leaves, aren't they with
a lot of liquid in them?
Speaker 4 (11:42):
Liquid?
Speaker 2 (11:43):
If they got hit by the frost, they would.
Speaker 4 (11:45):
You got it. Yeah, okay, yeah, that's that's exactly how
And then they their veins burst open and all that
sort of stuff. You get a lot of damage that way. Yeah,
it can happen.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Interesting quick question. Lime tree has been transplanted four years ago,
doubled in size, but has never had any fruit, although
I have been feeding it. It's covered in flowers for
the first time. What do you think is going on there?
Speaker 4 (12:08):
Potash, silver, sulfate of potash. It's the old standards for me.
That you can feed it with anything you like. But
if there's no potash in the food, the flowers will
not set fruit that easily.
Speaker 2 (12:20):
So and because they've got flowers, will they inevitably get
fruit or can it just flour but no fruit?
Speaker 4 (12:26):
Well, if it's lacking the potash, it probably won't work.
But if you do have potash, there's flowers will develop
into what they are supposed to develop into, is fruit.
Speaker 2 (12:37):
Yeah, going back to my plum tree, not that I'm
slightly obsisted by given that I've hacked it, should I
be doing potash as well?
Speaker 4 (12:45):
No? No, no, because you need you need your plum
to be NPK, which is neutral, so general fertilizer. And yeah,
especially after pruning at the moment. And what you can
do is after you've had your plum tree flowering properly
in a month's time, say that's when you can do
a little bit of potash on the root zone.
Speaker 2 (13:03):
Yeah, okay, all right, job for me. It is twelve
minutes away from nine. We'll take a short break. We'll
be with Helen in just the moment. Do you root
climb passed with me and Helen. Good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (13:16):
Good morning. Look, I was wonder that's rude, because recommend
a good general fertilizer for my high rangers. I prouned
them in late April, and I've now got nice spream leaves,
and I was just wonder if you could recommend something a.
Speaker 4 (13:32):
Good general fertilizer. Helen will do anything that is what
they call a general fertilizer of NPK will do it
reasonably well. And if you wanted a bit extra blue,
you can put some aluminium cell fate on it as well.
But that's another story on all Why oh that's good
Nitroposca blue. I love nitrofosca blue, which is and it's
(13:55):
a granular thing that every time it rains it a
little bit leaches into the root zone and the plants
love it the same same at our price, nitro fossil. Yeah,
you get from your garden center. Yeah, centers, everybody.
Speaker 8 (14:13):
What would be the frequency of personalizing the hydrange right
now and then.
Speaker 4 (14:18):
When no, when you've got the new leaves on now
have you yes?
Speaker 7 (14:23):
Yes?
Speaker 4 (14:25):
Do it now? Do it again in October? I suppose,
and a little bit in December. Just a handful to
the square meter. Oh lovely, Helen, Helen, Helen, This is
the most scientific way of saying it. A handful to
the square media. In other words, you know how gardeners
(14:45):
tossed it down. That's how it works.
Speaker 8 (14:48):
Lovely, that's the part I love, so do I.
Speaker 2 (14:52):
But funny how I feel like hydrangers have come back
and the fashion because they to me, they always felt
like a bit of an old person's plan, right, and
maybe because I now am so, I've been planting them
as well, and I I really.
Speaker 3 (15:06):
Enjoy it now watching them come up and.
Speaker 4 (15:09):
Some stunning varieties. I remember Julie and I went to
Forgot the Forgotten where it was the New Plymouth area,
and we basically got a whole lot of varieties that
were just out and they are doing so well. The
gorgeous stuff, good colors, good flowers.
Speaker 3 (15:27):
No, it looks nice, beautiful, awesome.
Speaker 2 (15:30):
Quick last call from Hope.
Speaker 3 (15:32):
Morning morning.
Speaker 6 (15:34):
How are you hey, I'm very well, oh fantastic. I
have a question for ru, to be honest. Basically, basically
I want to make a walking tree. So basically I
want to I want to cut a barrel in half
and put some wheels underneath it and basically part my
grandson's are finn worn, and then put lime or lemon
(15:56):
tary on it. Yeah, my question is when you put
when you cut the barrel and half, I've got to
put some holes in the bottom of the barrel.
Speaker 4 (16:05):
Of course, victim always because when it rains, you don't
want that water to sit there forever and ever and
ever in the day and and honestly, I know you'll
have to water a bit more often when it gets dry,
you know what I mean. But you do not want
rotting in the root zone because that really will give
your plants. Hell, in fact, that would be the end
(16:27):
of them.
Speaker 6 (16:28):
Okay once a bits times itsy one, grab tree and
then plant.
Speaker 4 (16:34):
That tree right now is a good time. Absolutely, Yeah,
where are you based out?
Speaker 6 (16:40):
Where are you and us?
Speaker 4 (16:42):
Okay, you'll be fine. Yeah, as I said, we just planted.
I would I would never put dirt in there. I
would always put soil in there.
Speaker 6 (16:54):
Okay, okay, well.
Speaker 4 (17:00):
Yeah, some good planting, a compost, planting mix, planting mix
not not not something like potting mix that's usually too
much organic material, but organic material with proper top soil
mixed in together.
Speaker 6 (17:15):
Okay then okay, then and basically just straight in the
barrel and where.
Speaker 4 (17:19):
We go, where you go, you could do it, so you.
Speaker 6 (17:22):
Can do it, Okay.
Speaker 2 (17:25):
Enjoy your day, story you take care, appreciate all of this.
What a fantastic morning. It's fantastic sporting song. I know
if you go has got this organized? Hey mate, that
was a pleasure. We'll we'll do it again next week.
Speaker 3 (17:41):
Ye might do it all right, let's see that.
Speaker 2 (17:43):
Take care you go, folks. Thanks for your company. Here
is clap for the wolf Man. My thanks to Jerry
who introduced me to this. Take care of a.
Speaker 9 (17:54):
Great day, Rachel, Yes, gracious, the.
Speaker 4 (18:14):
Wolf Man, you gone diggin build and the do cover
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