I'm designing my own logo

My mum and dad have asked me to create my own logo for my website.  A logo is a picture or words that tell you what the logo means like the MacDonald's logo and the Apple for my primary school (Applegarth).

Applegarth Primary School

I will come up with some ideas over the school holidays then I will ask you all to choose your favourite.  The chosen one will be made into my logo for the website and maybe even a special Facebook page which mum and dad will look after.

I better get creating!

Bye, bye
Amelia

What happens when hot pepper plants flower? Part 2!

In my first post about pepper plants (http://ameliasgardenproject.blogspot.co.uk/2013/07/what-happens-when-hot-pepper-plants.html) I asked what would happen after the plants flowered?

Well the answer is...they produce peppers.  I have a lot of small peppers on my plants, so many that we might have to re-pot them into a bigger pot soon!

I hope the peppers will grow bigger and bigger so we can eat them! YUMMY!!!

Bye, bye

Amelia

How to attract butterflies to your garden?

I want to attract butterflies to my garden because I like their pretty colours and patterns.
I have to provide butterflies with warm, sunny parts of the garden. I have to include shrubs, trees and flowers so nectar (What butterflies drink!) will be available for the butterflies.  This will let butterflies use my garden and maybe even make baby butterflies!

You need some special plants in your garden

Lavender 

Buddlea

Snapdragon

There are many other plants but these are the ones I want in my garden.

I hope mum and dad will treat me to some of them soon!

Bye, bye

Amelia

Creating a vegetable plot!

My mum, dad, brother and me have dugout a new vegetable plot in our garden.  It was really hard work and we found a massive piece of concrete, which dad had to move...it was really heavy!

This is how we done it.

1.  We marked out the area with string.

2.  We removed the turf and stored it in the corner of the garden to      start a compost pile. (I will explain about compost and making          your own soon)

3.  We dug the area over and dug out the big piece of concrete.

4.  Dad moved this and it hurt his back because it was so heavy!

5.  We might use it somewhere in the garden as it's nearly too heavy to move!

6.  Mum put down some old carpet to stop the weeds regrowing but we have to get some more black bags over it soon.

I wonder what vegetables we will grow next year once it's ready?

Bye, bye

Amelia

Miniature Fairy garden

 This is how I made my Fairy garden...


1.  First I chose my pot 

2.  Next I picked what plants I wanted in it...

3. I filled my pot with compost, added my fairy house, and the taller plants which are Cosmos (they look like trees)....

4. I added a tea-light holder as decoration, & an alpine plant called Armeria....

5. I added the pansies & shells for the footpath, & stones for seats & pine cones as decoration & finally my fairy...

I plan to do more of these as it was fun & is really magical

Do you believe in fairies???

I do :)

bye for now Amelia.x

Back From Camping

Hi Everyone
I`m back from Camp & have lots of different posts to do, I had a really good time...When we first got to camp we had to set our tents up,set up the camping stove which our friend Steve did. Our dear friend Sue had made a stew for tea which was yummy scrummy...
Saturday was a lovely sunny day all day, I spent most of the day with my new friend, I helped with her grandma`s stall there were people selling different things & I bought a little blue fairy statue to go in my miniature fairy garden & a bottle of fairy dust :)
We all had a really good time, only we did come back a day early due to Saturday night there was a really bad storm, but we stayed as long as we could on Sunday so I had tea with my friend....

                                                       Mummy & our friend Sue

                                                      Me with my flower garland  

My mummy

                                                                Me playing the drums

Bye for now
Amelia

Another type of bird feeder!

Today i'm going to show you how to do another type of bird feeder.

You will need

• A plastic bottle
• A sharp knife or a pair of scissors
• A special bird feeder adaptor
• AN ADULT TO HELP

This is how to do it

First, ask your mum or dad to buy a special feeder like this from a garden centre, or you can save your pocket money.  They only cost about £2. 

Next, break off the special attachment and make 2 holes in your plastic bottle using your scissors or a sharp knife.  YOU WILL NEED AN ADULT TO HELP.

Then, attach the hook fastening.

Then, turn it upside down and add the bird food.

Then screw on the attachment like this.

Turn it the right way up.

Then hang it wherever you want, i'm hanging mine at our feeding station.

You can use any size of bottle from a small juice bottle to a larger one.  Remember to keep it filled up as the birds will expect food to be there.

There will be more "How to's" soon

Bye, bye

Amelia