From: Paula
Tawra...I feel your garden pain. Our land was
rootbound from loads of trees. We broke our backs
trying to put in a garden. I got the idea of
getting old tires (free),stacking them 2
high,filing with compost/topsoil and planting…We
had the best garden going. The tires kept the
tomatoes feet hot for huge crop, the small opening
kept the weeds down, and you don’t have to bend.
if you can handle the sanford and son jokes,like
we got, you’re halfway there..Sorry no tips on hail…
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Tire Gardening
5 Aug, 2009 Frugal living, Gardening
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My mom had asked a friend bring her the extra tires from his car shop. He brought her 36!! She had 18 stacks of tires. This year she had tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, zuchini, bell peppers, cantelopes, and corn. The added bonus was the pets could not get in her garden. It worked out great all around.
We saved up our old pots from all the trees and bushes we’ve planted over the years. We also got some old carpeting from my Husband’s Dad and laid it out over the garden plot. Then my hubby cut circles out and we just plant through the holes. I’ve weeded all of an hour total this year!
hubby and i were just talking about htis yesterday… and well, we wanted to start gardening but use pots instead…
we used to work with a couple at the newspapers many many years ago and what they did was build like a tressel (not sure of the correct wording.. they did and added the dirt to it and hten planted it…
they were much older than us and well had arthritis and had a really hard time bending over… but they had this on their back porch that got lots of sunshine… adn it made their gardening so much easier…
and yes, the vegi’s were huge and sooooo delish! esp the tomatoes…
and i remember the tressel (or huge box with legs on it) (not sure of the correct word) was almost as long and almost as wide as the back porch…
i saaw them not too long ago when i was in walmart and asked them if they still did their gardening that way and they said yes… and all the money they saved by growing their own food was phenominal… they were able to take several small trips around the country (if they chose) several times a year… not to mention the health benefits of growing ur own food…
Now about the hail. It’s a blessing in disguise. Don’t you remember, Tawra? Your Great Grandma had a story she’d tell about the time the hail got her tomatoes and they came back, bigger and better than ever! From then on, she said if a good hail didn’t come along, then get out a big stick and beat the tar out of ‘em. :^) You gotta love our feisty Grandma! Now granted, you probably had to have just enough hail to give those tomatoes a lickin’ but not so much that it beat ‘em to a pulp. :^) But what a great mental picture ~ Grandma out there with her stick just a whackin’ away at her tomato plants!