FREEBIE! - Garden bird feeding guide

FREEBIE - Free garden bird feeding guide, just enter address for one to be sent. http://tinyurl.com/cfdytll

Jersey Royal Potatoes for Christmas Dinner

Jersey Plants Direct are selling Jersey Royal Potatoes to be delivered in time for Christmas. £9.99 for 5lb / 2,3kg includes UK delivery.

View Jersey Plants Direct HERE

Solar Tariffs A Temporary Setback

I was chatting to a man who runs a Solar energy company. I asked him about how the changes to feed in tariffs might affect the industry, and he was quite optimistic. For those that don't know the government has been offering a deal where anyone with solar panels could feed their electricity into the National Grid at a subsidised rate of about 43p per Kwh, due to the state of the economy they are reducing this dramatically so the feed in tarrif will be about 21p Kwh.

This will mean home solar electricity producers will get less for their excess power. However, the solar man explained that the cost of solar panels have came down dramatically over the last few years, so it makes it much cheaper to install, customers still get free energy that reduces their bills, and even the new rate means that people can be quids in for their excess power.

So, overall I was left with the impression that solar power for homes will continue to be a growing market, and the new lower tariff is just a small adjustment in the long term scheme of things.

Puffin Painting For Sale

DUTCH AUCTION - Puffin painting. Acrylic on canvas board. Size 46 x 61cm (18in x 24in) Best offers to gardenandgreen@hotmail.co.uk

La Train pour Allegmagne c'est GLOWING??

A group of protesters have tried to halt a train that was carrying nuclear waste, being taken from Normandy, France to Germany. Here is a vid of them being chased by a bunch of Deutsch Robocops.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-europe-15905468

Well Done Waitrose

Waitrose has been commended for its commitment to using only palm oil from sustainable sources. Palm oil is used in loads of everyday products from food to cosmetics and in South East Asia large amounts of pristine forest has been destroyed to make way for Palm plantations, resulting in habitat loss for animals such as the Orang Utan.

Tom Hart Dyke's Travels

Over on the main site a new interview with Tom Hart Dyke, of the World Garden at Lullingstone Castle. He has just returned from the Cape Verde Islands and is planning on a new Cape Verde section in his glasshouses.

http://www.gardenandgreen.co.uk/#/cape-verde-plants/4557812991