Growing your own plant recap

After about 6 weeks after we planted the plants ( see growing your own plant post) they have grown heaps. We have been watering them every day and look fantastic. We have used the herbs and lettuce in salads. Here is a picture of our lettuce and herbs that we have grown over the past 6 weeks. See it really is that easy to grow your own plant. It helps the environment and is a fun activity. What do you think about growing your own plant? If you grow your own plant tell me about it and send me a photo!! I would love to see some home grown plants!!!

Solar Panels ( all about solar panels)

A few days ago some men came to my school and put on solar panels on our new library. Solar Panels are a great way to get electricity without making pollution. This is called renewable energy. Renewable energy is energy provided from sunlight, wind, rain etc.

How does a Solar Panel Work ?

A Solar Panel works when the sun goes on to the solar panels and the energy from the sun gets turned into electricity

Where do you find Solar Panels??
Solar panels can be on peoples houses, they can be on street lights and big buildings. Almost anything. They can even go on a car !!!!!
How much are Solar Panels?

For 6 Solar panels the price ranges from 2,000 around to 3,000 Australian dollars.

 My mum and Dad are going to put Solar Panels all over the roof when they build there new house!!!!! Hopefully soon!!

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Growing your own plant

Today My mum and I are going to plant some herbs and lettuces. Firstly we started to get the soil prepared to plant the plants. We found a patch of soil and put a whole bag o cow manure on it. Then you mix the cow manure with the original soil. Then we used the worm castings (see story about wriggly worm farms) and mixed that on as well.

Secondly we got our containers of small herbs which you buy from the plant shop. You then make holes in the soil in lines about 2cm apart. You then very carefully pull put eat plant at a time and place it on one o the holes. After you have done this you very carefully push in the soil around the plant filling on the holes. Then give your plants a big water an wait for them to grow. Make sure you water your plants everyday. We planted 2 types of lettuces and we planted rocked and basil.

What does everyone think about growing you own plant????

Bottle Collection

In South Australia they have a bottle collection program. Where you can bring in cans bottle and milk cartons where they would be recycled. With every bottle and can you give to this program they will give you 10 cents. Do you guys think that we should do something like this in NSW? this would be a great idea to do in Australia. This was also in the lastest BTN - the link is on my last post.

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Plastic Oceans

Hello everyone the other day i was watching a story on BTN about PLastic Oceans about how much plastic was going into our oceans. I thourght you would like to watch it. Here is the link to watch this episode.
http://www.abc.net.au/btn/story/s3591476.htm

I think this is a great episode and supports my blog all the way. If everyone didn't use so much plastic there would be less in the ocean, less in landfill and we could save the earth.

In a rush .... Make sure to turn the lights off

Hi guys i haven't posted things for ages i know. Well this week i will be posting 3 new stories. You know those days when you're in a rush for school and work and the house is all messy and you leave some lights on. Then when you come home you see lights on and go i didn't turn the lights off. Well imagine this if every single person in the world left one light on a day that is about 6 hours if you go to school and 8-9 hours if you work. That is wasting so much electricity. Electricity is very important so we can not waste it. So when your in a rush turn off all the lights it doesn't matter if the house is a mess because that is not wasting electricity. If everyone did this then maybe one day our world would be saved.

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Please leave comments so i know people are reading my blog and i will keep posting. don't forget to turn off all the lights!!!!!

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say no to plastic bags take a stand

Hi everyone i am sorry i havent been posting much it because i have been so busy but now i have loads to tell you about. So today we wnt up to the coner shops an got some milk, bread and a few other things. We were paying for the items and they put them in a plastic bag without even asking if we wanted one. So next time when you go to the shops remeber to bring a bag from home and put your items in there. If everyone did this there would be a  lot less pollution.

Now over 120 people hae read my blog. This great because some day i know we will be able to stop the pollution. One day. Remember to post comments so you can give me suggestions about what to right.Tomorrow will be a great post about our plant which is growing a passion frut. That is all for now my dearest readers

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