European Gardening: MY GARDEN ON THE OUTER HEBRIDES, 0 by bruntongardens

bruntongardens wrote:
As you can see the plants are fine they come to no harm as long as you have some form of wind brake.
The trouble on the Island is there is a distinct lack of trees, but we have been persuading the councils to plant trees that are wind tolerant, which they are now doing, are you aware that they are talking about building a bridge or a tunnel from the mainland to the Island and also that they are going to build the biggest wind farm in the world on Barvas moors on the Island to Generate electricity for the UK.
The newest project that i am taking on at the moment is to make the cottage self sufficient in energy, i am building 2 wind turbines and going to add solar panels to the roof as we face south and get the sun all day, and solar water heaters, to heat the water for our needs in the house, it is really not so complicated, and you can save alot of money on your electricity and help the environment at the same time.
We have enjoyed you coming back and its nice to have an intelligent conversation, hope that you come back again, and i will show you some pics when we get the wind generators up and running, each one will generate 500watts of electricity, that is a thousand watts of free electricity 24 hours a day 7 days a week, even a very light breeze can power these generators.
Well kindest regards from Peter and Mary-Anne stay warm and look after youself