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Other than the basics, I’m just looking for some good advice so that this unique tree grows plenty of donut peaches someday. It’s for my mom. Thanks!

I have been growing peaches for 25 years and never heard of a donut peach. Learn something new everyday. Hard to give you many tips I don’t know what kind of climate you live in or what kind of soil you have. I am in Ca. we have 150 acres of peaches apricots and almonds. Over the years we are going more and more organic. They like a good fertilizer at least 2 times a year. Since I don’t know what your soil make up is I’d say make or buy some compost. for a young tree put about 2 pounds around base of tree once in winter and late spring when they have flowers. You have to prune and shape them this is very important. You can buy books on pruning or go to the library. For a good organic spray that keeps away bugs heres one that we use. In a quart hose sprayer (you can get these at any garden store) put in 2 tables spoons of dish soap half a can of stale pepsi or coke and 2 table spoons of some kind of hot sause tabasco or anything like that. fill sprayer up the rest of the way with water and spray tree or trees till it drips off. the pepsi or coke (or you can use beer) feeds the trees the sugar breaks down very fast through the leaves and the trees really like it. It’s like if you were having a candy bar. All fruit trees and vegtables break their food down to a type of sugar. The dish soap helps make the pepsi and hot sause stick and it cleans the trees also. All the bugs that bug fruit trees hate the hot sause it won’t kill them but they won’t bother the trees when they have this on them and won’t hurt the trees any. That’s about all I can tell you for now with limited info. If you are really serious about growing healthy trees get a soil sample tester. they are cheap and will tell you what the soil needs better than I can. It may need some lime or gypsm. Good Luck!

My purposes are
Saves Energy
Saves Environmental Conditions and Reduces Pollution
Saves Natural Resources
Economic Benefits
Saves Space for Waste Disposal.

The word recycling or going green has been said many times thorough out the years. If you ask a random person what they think about recycling, they might say, “Well, it’s good for the environment.” The matter of fact is, it is good for the environment, but it is also very beneficial to the creatures and humanity. Even though many things has been said about recycling, not much has or being done. Recycling is one of the best ways for you to have a positive impact on the globe which we live. “Why should you recycle you ask?” Well, according to massrecycle.org and recycling-guide.org UK, recycling is crucial because recycling saves our environment, energy, natural resources, and it is critical to the people.

Recycling is effective by reason of reducing greenhouse gasses and help end the source of global climate change. For example, on August 28th, 2005 hurricane Katrina hammered the southern coast of the United States with devastating effects, which killed more then 1,800 people and more than 81 billion dollars of damage occurred, according to hhs.gov.

Possibly a more important reason to recycle is because it will reduce pollution risks in our society. The most obvious way is by keeping waste out of landfills, which introduces contaminants and other toxins into groundwater systems. Recycling also keeps materials out of incinerators, which pollutes the air and create severe ash residue, which is very dangerous for the health. Furthermore, it reduces financial output in the economy, making products from raw materials costs much more than if they were made from recycled products.

What can you do to recycle? Here are three easy steps you can do. Firstly, you can separate plastic, aluminum, glass, and paper, into different container or bags. Secondly, you can turn the water off when you’re not using it. Thirdly, you can switch to energy- efficient light bulb, which saves you money.

In conclusion, Recycling is one of the best ways for individual to have a positive impact on the world in which we live. Recycling Saves Energy, Environmental Conditions and Reduces Pollution, Natural Resources, Economic Benefits, and Saves Space for Waste Disposal. Therefore, I think we should make more of effort to recycle.

Thanks.

you can talk about how recycling keeps trash out of the ocean (there is a great Pacific Garbage patch in the middle of the Pacific ocean the size of Texas) animals eat pieces of trash and die by choking or they can’t fit anything else in their stomach, or the garbage tears up their intestines.

You talk about more than just recycling. Switching to CFL bulbs is an example of reducing, not recycling. Turning off water when not using it is also reducing, not recycling. Recycling water would be like installing a gray water system that waters the lawn with the water that you take a shower in. What is the goal of your paper? Strictly recycling? Recycling is good, but reducing is even better. It saves 70 times as much energy and resources if you don’t consume an item as opposed to recycling it. Energy and resources have to go into mining the resources, transporting the resources to the factory, making the product, transporting the product to the store, you getting to the store and taking the product home, and then when you are through with it, the recycling truck has to come and pick up your recycling, take it to the recycling facility, separate the recycling, take your recycling to a factory where it can be turned into something else, and taken to the store, where someone else goes to buy it, and the cycle continues. Reducing eliminates all of that! That’s why it’s first in the Reduce, Reuse Recycle slogan, but people often forget about the first two because they feel they are doing a good thing for the environment by recycling, which they are, but we Americans are overconsumers and we need to start reducing our consumption. Americans have 5% of the world’s population, yet we consume 25% of the world’s resources. We are using 5 times our share! That’s not fair!

More water consumption, means more hot water consumption. And hot water is produced via electricity or any other means of energy.

Note: everything that emmits greenhouse gases does cause global warming. and heating water consumes energy..
energy is produced via electricity -> burning fuels..

Could anyone advise me on saving energy in my home, Do I save more energy turning my appliances off by the wall socket or is it just the same if I turn them off by the button-for example turning my tv off from the button on the tv(not standby).

Turn all appliances off at the wall sockets, turn the heating off.
Return to bed and smother yourself with blankets for the day.
1 hour before your husband/partner returns get up, turn heating on and cook dinner. SORTED….

My parents are very conscious of energy bills and even shut off the water heaters and only turn them on when taking a shower. Is this necessary? Most places I know keep them on 24/7 without a problem. How much energy are they really saving by doing this practice?

You can save alot with not having the hot water system running 24/7. Talk to an electrican, and see if they can put in a timer. I have one and it only runs for an hour in the morning and an hour at night – so showers are only run at certain times, but my power bill has decreased. With the timer you can set it for what times and lenght suits your household and also put it on maunal anytime you need extra. Hope this helps.