Eco Tips in April

Winning April Eco Tip

Instead of buying expensive liquid fertiliser for your fruit trees from the shop, get a large spare bucket or drum and fill it 3/4 way with water and add a few fronds of bull kelp. keep this in the garden for 2-3 weeks in warm weather to allow the kelp to start to break down. after 2-3 weeks remove the solid kelp fronds and place in your compost (this makes great fertiliser) but then pour the brown liquid in the bucket on your fruit trees. HINT-if the liquid is dark brown, you might need to dilute the mix with more water before adding to your fruit trees. presto....this makes a cheap and easy liquid fertiliser.
Submitted by Sandy.

Congratulations from Composition Construction

All April Eco Tips

Before setting up a clothes line in the yard ensure that the proposed spot will receive maximum sunlight from 9am to 3pm. The cheapest and ecofriendliest way to dry clothes is with sunlight, make sure you expose the clothes line to as much of it as you can.

Using the principle that hot air rises, set up vents in the ceiling and roof lining that will draw hot air out of the house. Similar vents are then placed in the floor of the house to draw cool sub floor air in. An addition to this, or where there is a slab contruction, a substantial hole can be dug in the yard space. Into the hole a structure is placed (similar to a water tank) and covered over. This structure is vented to the surface in order to draw air in, and a pipe is either run from the structure to the subfloor or directly to the floor surface. House cooling with no need for power.
Submitted by Doug.

Always use cold water when washing clothes, you do not need to use warm water when washing any clothes! Disregard the labels!

If you accidentally put your clothes in wash with tissue still in pockets, instead of rewashing and wasting water and electricity, get some household cleaner clothes (latex) and wipe over clothes and it comes off easily!
Submitted by Kylie.