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Speaker 1 (00:06):
You're listening to the Resident Builder podcast with Peter Wolfcamp
from News talks at be Gardening with still shaft free
autumn upgrades on Still's best sellers.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Right, Oh, that means it's time. If we're talking excuse me,
still we're talking gardens.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Hello, rude, Hello, take it easy.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'm so excited to get stuck into the garden, you know,
always always hell are you?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I'm good, thank you. I've started a little project and
I did it yesterday with Jack Tam I'm so you can.
People can look that up online if they like. It's
about being the end of summer and all that sort
of stuff, and it's it's it's getting into autumn, getting
cooler and all that sort of stuff. So I've been
looking at why don't we do something really nice for
(00:56):
the environment and for people at this that if we've
got some really good seeds of of of of tomatoes
for instance, you know, shared and we your neighbors. So
I'll give you an example. You know, when I was
building bird bending in Tiano not that long ago, last
end of last year, I came across a guy who
(01:18):
had some really nice plants. Neil Robertson was his name.
And he gave me some and they're beautiful. And then
I found out they are open pollinated. They're not F
one hundreds. In other words, they're not you know, things
that have incredibly strange parents that you can't use the
seed of because you don't know what the hell is
going to happen. But if you have these these these
(01:41):
wonderful if you like non F one hybrids. But the
things like heirlooms, you know, and the ones that are
open pollinated, you can actually save the seeds. So I've
started doing that, and I was wondering, you want some,
they're really really lovely for next year. I'll send you, yeah,
for next year. And as I said on the website
(02:03):
of Jack, you'll find how to do that anyway. I will. Look,
I make that point. Good thing to do now, it's
a lovely idea.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah rightioh, Well, let's rip into it because we've got
people waiting.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Should we do that?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Right? Ye?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Actually, I tell you what. I just want to mention
something that I'm going to this week, which is really exciting.
It's had a little bit of coverage in the news,
and that it's a project where students at one Tree
Hill College in Auckland took an old state house, basically
an old KO house, refurbished it and it's going up
for auction on Thursday. So I've been out to have
a look at the house. It's fantastic and the auction
(02:41):
is on Thursday, so I don't know. If anyone's interested
in a pretty much brand new three bedroom house that
you can take away, you should check it out on
trade me. It's great. And more importantly, it's been a
phenomenal project for the young people involved, like for the
students being able to literally walk from their classroom onto
this effectively temporary building site at their school, work with professionals,
(03:04):
see how a house is put together. It's really environmentally
friendly house in terms of energy efficiency. It's got a
home Star seven rating. It's just fantastic and I wish
them all the best for the auction on Thursday right now. Yeah,
hang on, you talked about this a couple of years
great and I had Charlot mchowan, who's the exit. You
know how when you you know this when you go
(03:26):
to community groups and that there's always one person who's
got that drive and determination for these projects. And she's
that person, along with a whole bunch of others at
the school, but in particular, you know, she's kind of
taken the idea run with it and done just such
a fabulous job and talking to the young people involved.
That's really exciting.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And that's and it's hands on stuff. Yeah, and that
is what I call, you know, multi curricular sort of jobs,
that's really what it is. I'm doing the same. I'm
going to field based STAM Flexi Conference seven to mine
May in christ Church. And so if you've got to
self you're a teacher and you want to do something
about nature, work stuff, all this sort of stuff, Field
(04:06):
Taste STEM Flexi Conference, you'll find it all online easy
and those are the ones we need to do better.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's all more and more absolutely fantastic, right O, Londa,
A very good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Good morning. I've got a problem with keller lilies. When
we bought this property just over two years ago, there
are several different big clumps of keller lilies and they
were all different colors and they were absolutely stunning. This
year we've had a tarm underneda and moskuls, so we've
had a terrible summer. Really, yes, they have been very weak.
(04:43):
What flowers they do produce have just folded over and
they've all become the same color.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, have you know, there's something to be said for
getting some new stock if you like, you see the
hardiest ones go through the crappiest winters, you know, in
the crappiest summers. If you get my drift, and sometimes
you need to, you need to re re re see them,
if you like, get new stock. I think that's would
(05:13):
be a good thing to do. Honestly this, you know,
the hardiest ones survive and the beautiful, the beautifulest ones
are not always the strongest ones for your environment. You
might have to replace some of them, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Would that be the reason though, that they've all changed
the same color?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeap?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Oh, okay, all that's disappointing because they were just so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, but you can you can get you can get
those varieties online or in garden centers and things like that.
I'm sure, Santa Desha, Absolutely, there's so many different colors beautiful.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Okay, oh, thanks very much for that.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Aint no worries, but that'll be it. You'll find it
will go for a couple of years, Linda, no worries, right, thanks.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Very much all this. You take care and Trish a
very good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Huh, Trish, how are you?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Is that rude?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Sometimes? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Okay, I just really want your help. I've been feeding
the birds on my property for oh a long long
time with wild bird seed. I get the Fizzard Friends
wild bird seed. It's two kilos and also there's another
(06:36):
one called Value wild bird seed, so they're quite expensive,
about nineteen dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Because the fund anyway.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Go on, Yeah, I have the five kilo bags, but
the the Fizzared Friends that yeah, one of them is
particularly be quite trish anyway. They they're just not eating
(07:13):
is and I just don't understand why.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I get them. What birds? Are you thinking of eating them?
Or needing to eating them if you like?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Well, I just it's something I love to do because
I'm passionate about all wild Ye.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, but that's good. But what sort of birds are
not eating them?
Speaker 6 (07:34):
None of them? But they're not really none of them.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Know, So what have you got flying around in the garden?
What species?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Mainly sparrows and the little finches you know, so a
wee bit of yellow in their wings. I'm not sure what.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
They drink? Finches yeah, go on ye.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
And the occasional fantail two.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
So okay, now here we go. This is the way
it goes through. Yes, you are bringing the right time.
Yesterday I went with my grandson Edoua, and we put
a lot of seeds on the ground at my place
and put nets up above it to catch those birds
to give them a band a ring around their legs.
(08:23):
And we had plenty off greenfinches, sparrows, We even had
hedge sparrows and things like that, and it's just a
matter of time for them when it gets cooler. They
really don't mind your seed at all. But at the moment,
there might be something else in your area that they
prefer over these seeds.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Because my property property backs right onto the South Brosian domain,
so maybe there's something out there. Yeah, you know. I
feed them fruit at lunchtime, chopped up pears and apples
and that sort of thing, because.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Do you get silver rice coming on those later on
in winter.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I'm not sure what they look like, rude.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Well, they're little, little greeny kind of birds that have
a wonderful white ring around their eye, very bright white wings.
Small thing.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Okay, yeah, I shall But the only thing I can
think of. I've got a big black cat coming onto
the property, and he comes up over the fence where
the little birds wait because they know when it's for us. Nine.
(09:43):
I know when it's no. No, no, I'm eighty three. Rude.
In my family don't live in christ so it really
worries me. I've always had them in dogs but cat
and dog that lived till those seventeen Can.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
You find out who owns that cat.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
The sun time?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
No, No, I've got the answer for that, rude. I've
had cats and dogs always rescue ones. Now I put
a collar on the last cat, on all of them
actually with a you know, but you need two bells
(10:30):
because one doesn't work because having to you know, and
rubs up against each other, of course. But when my
cat came inside for a sleep, I always took it off,
you know, because and had a cat door and made
sure I shut the cat door. But I had so
I'm his cat once called Hossan something or other, and
(10:52):
he used to put his poor over this collar while
he hopped along on Threely.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It's a brilliant story. Thank you for all the very best.
To you, right Dan, Greeting to you, sir Don rather don.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Good morning, real there we have a problem with water
lily is and tisted with aphords.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
I can't seem to get on top of them, millions
and millions of aphords.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yep. That happens at times. Niem oil, nim oil and
eat you spray that on top of the leaves and
the still flowering. Yes they are, okay, give it away
very much. Okay, that's exactly So now's the time to
do it. Get get rid of them with kneem oil,
(11:45):
a good dose right on the top, and do it
again in say two weeks time, and if they're still there,
do it again two weeks after that. And the two
weeks is the is the time it takes for eggs
or for young ones to become adults. So you need
to make sure that you can actually if you've got
a variety of afit that has an egg face, that
(12:05):
you get the egg face later when they become literally
creat should walk around. Yeah, thank you, rude mor Than
and welcome made you.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Take care and we'll talk to Michael after the break.
If you'd like to join us. Eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Whether you're painting the ceiling, fixing the fins, or wondering
how to fix that hole in the wall you have
feeder wile gem call on the resident builder on you Talk.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Your news Talks it be is with us. Michael, good morning, Hey,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I'm calling you again about wasps. Yeah, I've fun you
a couple of times, and I'm literally playing whack a
mole with paper wasps. And a lot of the time
I can't find the nests. I've literally spent it was
like decades following wasps and where they're going to? Is
(12:59):
anybody actually pay the paper I've got this bix for
German wasps. Of course that doesn't work on the paper wasps.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
No, it doesn't actually, to be quite honest.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
No.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Best thing is, you know there's a little did I
tell you about the little trick of catching one, putting
it in the fridge for about freezing for three minutes,
putting a thing about it, and find it to go
fly back. You can easier follow it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I tried that, but I'm literally not goking. I would
spend the next three years doing that. Like and you
probably saw the article in the paper recently talking about
obviously the plague of what's's happening? Like, We've like literally
hundreds of different little nests. I've probably killed last the moment.
I'm probably finding twenty or thirty a week.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, I have. Because my eyes are open to insects.
I see them quite often. You go in a certain
direction and I have Well I'm not always, but I'm
pretty good at finding the nest. Knowing that they have
a nest that sits upside down on the branch from
on the bottom, you know, nice and sheltered in a
shrub or something like that, and you will be able
(14:01):
to find them once you've got them. Of course, it's
that evening gig of somebody holding the torch you spraying
it with an insecticide that will get them in. No,
to that is the way. But you're right. It is
the finding of the nest that is the problem, and
that is that is that is hard sometimes. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
So there's nothing like a vespex for paper wasps.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
No, there's not. No, No, We've got three We've got Actually,
I know somebody who does this for a living. She
catches some of the latest version of we've got out
three species of paper wasps, and she catches them to
get a material that you can control them with that
is still in in if you like being organized at
(14:43):
the moment and being done in labs and all that
sort of stuff. But she's got really good eyes and
she knows exactly where to find them. It's really cool
going out with her. But she was in the she
wasn't She's in the North Island base, but she was
at that stage in Central Otago. So there are people
that can actually do that, but you've got to be
bloody good at it.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Thanks Michael. A lot of people are ta saying that,
you know, like this year, the number of what's seems
to be more evident, or the numbers are up. Is
there anything behind that?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I have no evidence of that at this not where
I am. And it might be local, you know, it
might be a local thing.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, okay, fair enough. Hey Jenny, good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Good morning boys, love the session. I've got a question
about violets for rude.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Please.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
Year before last I brought some plants online and they
were to be old fashioned violets with very strong perfume,
which I thought would be fantastic. They did nothing, and
I thought, oh dear, they've died. But however, in the
last month or two. Suddenly I've got this wonderful mass
of leaves that have propped up, dark green, shiny, violently.
(15:58):
And then I got the little heads coming up, and
I thought, everygo. And they turned out I think to
be seas, because they've got like three little helicopter blades
on them that are white, and they're quite firm to touch.
They when they haven't unfolded, they look like a flower
about to open. But when they do, really even and
(16:22):
they're white but quite firm, and not a single sign
of a flower. And I just wondered, would they be
seed heads? And would next year maybe that.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Could could be. I don't know. I'm not a violet grower.
I wish Julie was here, which because she's she's done
this in the past and she would know what that was. No,
I can't tell you if this is delayed. If it's
seed heads, you must have had flowers of something.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
No, well you think so when I've been waiting with
great interest.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That's what I would say. And are you sure they're violets?
Speaker 8 (16:59):
Well, I bought them as violots, and the leaf looked
exactly like violots. I've got vallots and a pot next
to them. The ordinary ones and the same belief, but
much lighter.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Green in this case, Can you take some of these
to your garden center together and identified by the people
that you bought them off? That might have been a
mistake there somewhere, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
Yeah, oh, very good question. Black suity mold on things?
Nay more?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
No, No, well, yeah, it depends on who. It depends
on who poos the honey jew on the leaves or
on the flowers or wherever they are, because once you've
got honeyjew on a leaf, you get the black suity
mold on the honeyjew. Yeah. So it's always a step
sucking bug that pops out honeyjew and that is the
(17:54):
beginning of your souty mold. And if it is a
step sucking bug, it could be depending on how big
it is, could be controlled with that material. You're right,
with knee oil or you can have anything that kills
a fits and things like that. You'll find that will
work right.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Just playing soapy water not enough.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
No, it only makes them clean.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Okay, No, that's fun my daughter yesterday. No, it's like
it's just short.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Exactly. No, that's not it's the later stage to suti mold.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
That's brilliant. Thank you very much, Jinny, you take care
of all of this. Father and last call I think
today one good morning.
Speaker 9 (18:39):
Good morning, guys, how are you today?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I damn.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
I have been dealing with this problem for the last
few years, and before the summer started, I figured I
had sorted it all out. I've got coddling. What's on
our Grannie Smith apple tree. I've wrapped I wrapped sticky
paper around it, which it said, we sprinkled this granule
stuff on the ground. We put the trap in to
(19:05):
catch the moths. When I flow around my husband's spryde
will conquer oil. Just done everything. I even put a
note on them and tell them to get lost and
go somewhere else.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
But I don't read.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Okay, everything you've done is myths. I love that. I'm
going to I'm going to go to back on the
on the mound and listen to all the things you've done.
In one write a story. Okay, so this is your material.
I know it's expensive, but you can share it with
your neighbors. M A d e X mod.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
X M I d oh, sorry, I've got to change
pm A d.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
E X that you think it's Yeah. You can get
that in shops if you like, and if you and
if you get hold of it, it is u That
is the stuff you spray on your plants, on your
on your trees just after flowering, literally a week after flowering,
and you do that again, and you do that again
a week later. I know it one hundred and fifty bucks,
(20:09):
but honestly it lasts for five years. You have to
do it every year anyway, and that is the best
thing to use medics ad.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
Yeah, I have no more my hair out.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
No, don't pull your hair out. Use madex and that's better. Bye.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You could ride mad about that. Don't pull your hair out.
Used maddox, preferably not on your hair. I would say,
go on, you have a fabulous week, undoubtedly, as you
always will do. And we'll let's do it in April.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, let's do with it. Yeah, let's do with it
April again. Don't forget it's the first soon. None of
these nonsense on Tuesday, right yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I've had people cancel meetings just so they can be
taken seriously on the second, not on the first. I
could you not right work, take care mate, all of
this right way back on next Sunday Take
Speaker 1 (21:06):
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from News talks at be Gardening with still shaft free
autumn upgrades on Still's best sellers.
Speaker 2 (00:19):
Right, Oh, that means it's time. If we're talking excuse me,
still we're talking gardens.
Speaker 3 (00:23):
Hello, rude, Hello, take it easy.
Speaker 2 (00:28):
I'm so excited to get stuck into the garden, you know,
always always hell are you?
Speaker 3 (00:34):
I'm good, thank you. I've started a little project and
I did it yesterday with Jack Tam I'm so you can.
People can look that up online if they like. It's
about being the end of summer and all that sort
of stuff, and it's it's it's getting into autumn, getting
cooler and all that sort of stuff. So I've been
looking at why don't we do something really nice for
(00:56):
the environment and for people at this that if we've
got some really good seeds of of of of tomatoes
for instance, you know, shared and we your neighbors. So
I'll give you an example. You know, when I was
building bird bending in Tiano not that long ago, last
end of last year, I came across a guy who
(01:18):
had some really nice plants. Neil Robertson was his name.
And he gave me some and they're beautiful. And then
I found out they are open pollinated. They're not F
one hundreds. In other words, they're not you know, things
that have incredibly strange parents that you can't use the
seed of because you don't know what the hell is
going to happen. But if you have these these these
(01:41):
wonderful if you like non F one hybrids. But the
things like heirlooms, you know, and the ones that are
open pollinated, you can actually save the seeds. So I've
started doing that, and I was wondering, you want some,
they're really really lovely for next year. I'll send you, yeah,
for next year. And as I said on the website
(02:03):
of Jack, you'll find how to do that anyway. I will. Look,
I make that point. Good thing to do now, it's
a lovely idea.
Speaker 2 (02:12):
Yeah rightioh, Well, let's rip into it because we've got
people waiting.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Should we do that?
Speaker 4 (02:17):
Right? Ye?
Speaker 2 (02:19):
Actually, I tell you what. I just want to mention
something that I'm going to this week, which is really exciting.
It's had a little bit of coverage in the news,
and that it's a project where students at one Tree
Hill College in Auckland took an old state house, basically
an old KO house, refurbished it and it's going up
for auction on Thursday. So I've been out to have
a look at the house. It's fantastic and the auction
(02:41):
is on Thursday, so I don't know. If anyone's interested
in a pretty much brand new three bedroom house that
you can take away, you should check it out on
trade me. It's great. And more importantly, it's been a
phenomenal project for the young people involved, like for the
students being able to literally walk from their classroom onto
this effectively temporary building site at their school, work with professionals,
(03:04):
see how a house is put together. It's really environmentally
friendly house in terms of energy efficiency. It's got a
home Star seven rating. It's just fantastic and I wish
them all the best for the auction on Thursday right now. Yeah,
hang on, you talked about this a couple of years
great and I had Charlot mchowan, who's the exit. You
know how when you you know this when you go
(03:26):
to community groups and that there's always one person who's
got that drive and determination for these projects. And she's
that person, along with a whole bunch of others at
the school, but in particular, you know, she's kind of
taken the idea run with it and done just such
a fabulous job and talking to the young people involved.
That's really exciting.
Speaker 3 (03:45):
And that's and it's hands on stuff. Yeah, and that
is what I call, you know, multi curricular sort of jobs,
that's really what it is. I'm doing the same. I'm
going to field based STAM Flexi Conference seven to mine
May in christ Church. And so if you've got to
self you're a teacher and you want to do something
about nature, work stuff, all this sort of stuff, Field
(04:06):
Taste STEM Flexi Conference, you'll find it all online easy
and those are the ones we need to do better.
Speaker 2 (04:11):
It's all more and more absolutely fantastic, right O, Londa,
A very good morning to you.
Speaker 5 (04:18):
Good morning. I've got a problem with keller lilies. When
we bought this property just over two years ago, there
are several different big clumps of keller lilies and they
were all different colors and they were absolutely stunning. This
year we've had a tarm underneda and moskuls, so we've
had a terrible summer. Really, yes, they have been very weak.
(04:43):
What flowers they do produce have just folded over and
they've all become the same color.
Speaker 3 (04:52):
Yeah, have you know, there's something to be said for
getting some new stock if you like, you see the
hardiest ones go through the crappiest winters, you know, in
the crappiest summers. If you get my drift, and sometimes
you need to, you need to re re re see them,
if you like, get new stock. I think that's would
(05:13):
be a good thing to do. Honestly this, you know,
the hardiest ones survive and the beautiful, the beautifulest ones
are not always the strongest ones for your environment. You
might have to replace some of them, you know what
I mean.
Speaker 5 (05:27):
Would that be the reason though, that they've all changed
the same color?
Speaker 3 (05:31):
Yeap?
Speaker 5 (05:32):
Oh, okay, all that's disappointing because they were just so beautiful.
Speaker 3 (05:37):
Yeah, but you can you can get you can get
those varieties online or in garden centers and things like that.
I'm sure, Santa Desha, Absolutely, there's so many different colors beautiful.
Speaker 5 (05:48):
Okay, oh, thanks very much for that.
Speaker 3 (05:51):
Aint no worries, but that'll be it. You'll find it
will go for a couple of years, Linda, no worries, right, thanks.
Speaker 2 (05:58):
Very much all this. You take care and Trish a
very good morning to you.
Speaker 3 (06:07):
Huh, Trish, how are you?
Speaker 6 (06:10):
Is that rude?
Speaker 3 (06:11):
Sometimes? Yeah?
Speaker 6 (06:14):
Okay, I just really want your help. I've been feeding
the birds on my property for oh a long long
time with wild bird seed. I get the Fizzard Friends
wild bird seed. It's two kilos and also there's another
(06:36):
one called Value wild bird seed, so they're quite expensive,
about nineteen dollars.
Speaker 3 (06:46):
Because the fund anyway.
Speaker 6 (06:51):
Go on, Yeah, I have the five kilo bags, but
the the Fizzared Friends that yeah, one of them is
particularly be quite trish anyway. They they're just not eating
(07:13):
is and I just don't understand why.
Speaker 3 (07:15):
I get them. What birds? Are you thinking of eating them?
Or needing to eating them if you like?
Speaker 6 (07:22):
Well, I just it's something I love to do because
I'm passionate about all wild Ye.
Speaker 3 (07:29):
Yeah, but that's good. But what sort of birds are
not eating them?
Speaker 6 (07:34):
None of them? But they're not really none of them.
Speaker 3 (07:37):
Know, So what have you got flying around in the garden?
What species?
Speaker 6 (07:43):
Mainly sparrows and the little finches you know, so a
wee bit of yellow in their wings. I'm not sure what.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
They drink? Finches yeah, go on ye.
Speaker 6 (07:55):
And the occasional fantail two.
Speaker 3 (08:02):
So okay, now here we go. This is the way
it goes through. Yes, you are bringing the right time.
Yesterday I went with my grandson Edoua, and we put
a lot of seeds on the ground at my place
and put nets up above it to catch those birds
to give them a band a ring around their legs.
(08:23):
And we had plenty off greenfinches, sparrows, We even had
hedge sparrows and things like that, and it's just a
matter of time for them when it gets cooler. They
really don't mind your seed at all. But at the moment,
there might be something else in your area that they
prefer over these seeds.
Speaker 6 (08:44):
Because my property property backs right onto the South Brosian domain,
so maybe there's something out there. Yeah, you know. I
feed them fruit at lunchtime, chopped up pears and apples
and that sort of thing, because.
Speaker 3 (09:04):
Do you get silver rice coming on those later on
in winter.
Speaker 6 (09:08):
I'm not sure what they look like, rude.
Speaker 3 (09:10):
Well, they're little, little greeny kind of birds that have
a wonderful white ring around their eye, very bright white wings.
Small thing.
Speaker 6 (09:21):
Okay, yeah, I shall But the only thing I can
think of. I've got a big black cat coming onto
the property, and he comes up over the fence where
the little birds wait because they know when it's for us. Nine.
(09:43):
I know when it's no. No, no, I'm eighty three. Rude.
In my family don't live in christ so it really
worries me. I've always had them in dogs but cat
and dog that lived till those seventeen Can.
Speaker 3 (10:01):
You find out who owns that cat.
Speaker 2 (10:06):
The sun time?
Speaker 6 (10:07):
No, No, I've got the answer for that, rude. I've
had cats and dogs always rescue ones. Now I put
a collar on the last cat, on all of them
actually with a you know, but you need two bells
(10:30):
because one doesn't work because having to you know, and
rubs up against each other, of course. But when my
cat came inside for a sleep, I always took it off,
you know, because and had a cat door and made
sure I shut the cat door. But I had so
I'm his cat once called Hossan something or other, and
(10:52):
he used to put his poor over this collar while
he hopped along on Threely.
Speaker 2 (10:59):
It's a brilliant story. Thank you for all the very best.
To you, right Dan, Greeting to you, sir Don rather don.
Speaker 7 (11:10):
Good morning, real there we have a problem with water
lily is and tisted with aphords.
Speaker 3 (11:17):
Yep.
Speaker 7 (11:17):
I can't seem to get on top of them, millions
and millions of aphords.
Speaker 3 (11:23):
Yep. That happens at times. Niem oil, nim oil and
eat you spray that on top of the leaves and
the still flowering. Yes they are, okay, give it away
very much. Okay, that's exactly So now's the time to
do it. Get get rid of them with kneem oil,
(11:45):
a good dose right on the top, and do it
again in say two weeks time, and if they're still there,
do it again two weeks after that. And the two
weeks is the is the time it takes for eggs
or for young ones to become adults. So you need
to make sure that you can actually if you've got
a variety of afit that has an egg face, that
(12:05):
you get the egg face later when they become literally
creat should walk around. Yeah, thank you, rude mor Than
and welcome made you.
Speaker 2 (12:13):
Take care and we'll talk to Michael after the break.
If you'd like to join us. Eight hundred and eighty
ten eighty is the number to call.
Speaker 1 (12:20):
Whether you're painting the ceiling, fixing the fins, or wondering
how to fix that hole in the wall you have
feeder wile gem call on the resident builder on you Talk.
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Your news Talks it be is with us. Michael, good morning, Hey,
good morning.
Speaker 4 (12:38):
I'm calling you again about wasps. Yeah, I've fun you
a couple of times, and I'm literally playing whack a
mole with paper wasps. And a lot of the time
I can't find the nests. I've literally spent it was
like decades following wasps and where they're going to? Is
(12:59):
anybody actually pay the paper I've got this bix for
German wasps. Of course that doesn't work on the paper wasps.
Speaker 3 (13:05):
No, it doesn't actually, to be quite honest.
Speaker 5 (13:07):
No.
Speaker 3 (13:07):
Best thing is, you know there's a little did I
tell you about the little trick of catching one, putting
it in the fridge for about freezing for three minutes,
putting a thing about it, and find it to go
fly back. You can easier follow it. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (13:19):
I tried that, but I'm literally not goking. I would
spend the next three years doing that. Like and you
probably saw the article in the paper recently talking about
obviously the plague of what's's happening? Like, We've like literally
hundreds of different little nests. I've probably killed last the moment.
I'm probably finding twenty or thirty a week.
Speaker 3 (13:39):
Yeah, I have. Because my eyes are open to insects.
I see them quite often. You go in a certain
direction and I have Well I'm not always, but I'm
pretty good at finding the nest. Knowing that they have
a nest that sits upside down on the branch from
on the bottom, you know, nice and sheltered in a
shrub or something like that, and you will be able
(14:01):
to find them once you've got them. Of course, it's
that evening gig of somebody holding the torch you spraying
it with an insecticide that will get them in. No,
to that is the way. But you're right. It is
the finding of the nest that is the problem, and
that is that is that is hard sometimes. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (14:19):
So there's nothing like a vespex for paper wasps.
Speaker 3 (14:22):
No, there's not. No, No, We've got three We've got Actually,
I know somebody who does this for a living. She
catches some of the latest version of we've got out
three species of paper wasps, and she catches them to
get a material that you can control them with that
is still in in if you like being organized at
(14:43):
the moment and being done in labs and all that
sort of stuff. But she's got really good eyes and
she knows exactly where to find them. It's really cool
going out with her. But she was in the she
wasn't She's in the North Island base, but she was
at that stage in Central Otago. So there are people
that can actually do that, but you've got to be
bloody good at it.
Speaker 2 (15:02):
Thanks Michael. A lot of people are ta saying that,
you know, like this year, the number of what's seems
to be more evident, or the numbers are up. Is
there anything behind that?
Speaker 3 (15:14):
I have no evidence of that at this not where
I am. And it might be local, you know, it
might be a local thing.
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Yeah, okay, fair enough. Hey Jenny, good morning to you.
Speaker 8 (15:26):
Good morning boys, love the session. I've got a question
about violets for rude.
Speaker 3 (15:31):
Please.
Speaker 8 (15:33):
Year before last I brought some plants online and they
were to be old fashioned violets with very strong perfume,
which I thought would be fantastic. They did nothing, and
I thought, oh dear, they've died. But however, in the
last month or two. Suddenly I've got this wonderful mass
of leaves that have propped up, dark green, shiny, violently.
(15:58):
And then I got the little heads coming up, and
I thought, everygo. And they turned out I think to
be seas, because they've got like three little helicopter blades
on them that are white, and they're quite firm to touch.
They when they haven't unfolded, they look like a flower
about to open. But when they do, really even and
(16:22):
they're white but quite firm, and not a single sign
of a flower. And I just wondered, would they be
seed heads? And would next year maybe that.
Speaker 3 (16:32):
Could could be. I don't know. I'm not a violet grower.
I wish Julie was here, which because she's she's done
this in the past and she would know what that was. No,
I can't tell you if this is delayed. If it's
seed heads, you must have had flowers of something.
Speaker 8 (16:49):
No, well you think so when I've been waiting with
great interest.
Speaker 3 (16:53):
That's what I would say. And are you sure they're violets?
Speaker 8 (16:59):
Well, I bought them as violots, and the leaf looked
exactly like violots. I've got vallots and a pot next
to them. The ordinary ones and the same belief, but
much lighter.
Speaker 3 (17:10):
Green in this case, Can you take some of these
to your garden center together and identified by the people
that you bought them off? That might have been a
mistake there somewhere, I don't know.
Speaker 8 (17:23):
Yeah, oh, very good question. Black suity mold on things?
Nay more?
Speaker 3 (17:31):
No, No, well, yeah, it depends on who. It depends
on who poos the honey jew on the leaves or
on the flowers or wherever they are, because once you've
got honeyjew on a leaf, you get the black suity
mold on the honeyjew. Yeah. So it's always a step
sucking bug that pops out honeyjew and that is the
(17:54):
beginning of your souty mold. And if it is a
step sucking bug, it could be depending on how big
it is, could be controlled with that material. You're right,
with knee oil or you can have anything that kills
a fits and things like that. You'll find that will
work right.
Speaker 8 (18:12):
Just playing soapy water not enough.
Speaker 3 (18:15):
No, it only makes them clean.
Speaker 8 (18:18):
Okay, No, that's fun my daughter yesterday. No, it's like
it's just short.
Speaker 3 (18:27):
Exactly. No, that's not it's the later stage to suti mold.
Speaker 2 (18:30):
That's brilliant. Thank you very much, Jinny, you take care
of all of this. Father and last call I think
today one good morning.
Speaker 9 (18:39):
Good morning, guys, how are you today?
Speaker 3 (18:42):
I damn.
Speaker 9 (18:45):
I have been dealing with this problem for the last
few years, and before the summer started, I figured I
had sorted it all out. I've got coddling. What's on
our Grannie Smith apple tree. I've wrapped I wrapped sticky
paper around it, which it said, we sprinkled this granule
stuff on the ground. We put the trap in to
(19:05):
catch the moths. When I flow around my husband's spryde
will conquer oil. Just done everything. I even put a
note on them and tell them to get lost and
go somewhere else.
Speaker 8 (19:16):
But I don't read.
Speaker 3 (19:19):
Okay, everything you've done is myths. I love that. I'm
going to I'm going to go to back on the
on the mound and listen to all the things you've done.
In one write a story. Okay, so this is your material.
I know it's expensive, but you can share it with
your neighbors. M A d e X mod.
Speaker 9 (19:42):
X M I d oh, sorry, I've got to change
pm A d.
Speaker 3 (19:48):
E X that you think it's Yeah. You can get
that in shops if you like, and if you and
if you get hold of it, it is u That
is the stuff you spray on your plants, on your
on your trees just after flowering, literally a week after flowering,
and you do that again, and you do that again
a week later. I know it one hundred and fifty bucks,
(20:09):
but honestly it lasts for five years. You have to
do it every year anyway, and that is the best
thing to use medics ad.
Speaker 9 (20:19):
Yeah, I have no more my hair out.
Speaker 3 (20:24):
No, don't pull your hair out. Use madex and that's better. Bye.
Speaker 2 (20:27):
You could ride mad about that. Don't pull your hair out.
Used maddox, preferably not on your hair. I would say,
go on, you have a fabulous week, undoubtedly, as you
always will do. And we'll let's do it in April.
Speaker 3 (20:46):
Yeah, let's do with it. Yeah, let's do with it
April again. Don't forget it's the first soon. None of
these nonsense on Tuesday, right yeah. Yeah.
Speaker 2 (20:54):
I've had people cancel meetings just so they can be
taken seriously on the second, not on the first. I
could you not right work, take care mate, all of
this right way back on next Sunday Take
Speaker 1 (21:06):
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