On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for October 12, 2025, Ruud talks about how to handle Passion Vine Hoppers, what to do about struggling broad beans, and how ...

On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for December 14 2025, Ruud discusses how to get rid of Mealybugs, how to control Montbretia, and how to deal with bronze ...

On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for Sunday November 23 2025, Ruud shares what you should do for your garden as spring turns to summer, what to do about ...

Plants feed themselves through Photosynthesis (you don’t need to feed your plants!) They’ll pick up elements in the soil that they need for growth and development – nobody feeds the plants in a native ...

This time of the year a wonderful Pohutukawa “shrub” is flowering its little heads off: Metrosideros carminia known as the crimson rata; a Native in the North Island all the way down to Taranaki and ...

If you think you've had a hard day at work, imagining wearing a long beard composed entirely of killer bees. "A full seven pounds," says Ruud Kleinpaste, a New Zealand entomologist, writer, educator ...

They are “on the wing” at this time of the year. Spiders do not have wings of course, but they can fly for many miles – it’s called Ballooning. There are many examples of them flying in jet streams, ...

At this time of the year there’s only one place I’d love to be: The North Island. These are the largest moths in Aotearoa. They are also very nicely coloured – lots of green and yellow as well as ...

On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for October 19, 2025, Ruud and Pete discuss their home-made ruru boxes, how catch and relocate weta, and the nuances of your ...

On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for 2nd November 2025, Ruud chats about the dealing with moths in trees, keeping an eye out for hornets, and how to grow ...

On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for November 16 2025, Ruud shares how to remove Paspalum from your lawn, how to tackle the pesky moths ruining your clothes, ...

On The Garden Hour with Pete Wolfkamp and Ruud Kleinpaste Full Show Podcast for November 9th 2025, Ruud shares his tips on tackling the invasive yellow-legged hornets, how to test to see if imported ...