Growing potatoes in tires - If you have old car tires
hanging around in the garage put them to work growing potatoes in tires. Remove
the center hub and just use the rubber tire itself. The tires make handy plant
containers when set in the garden. They are also useful stacked. The tires will
last quite a few seasons and can be used year after year.
Before you begin to plant, you need to prepare at least four or five old tires. You can use any tires at any sizes. Some of potatoes seeds, garden soil, compost, and water.
Growing potatoes in tires guides
Lay a tire horizontally on the top of the ground. It's not
necessary to cultivate the ground. If grass is growing where you lay the tire,
cover the grass with a one inch thick layer of newspaper.
Mix garden soil with equal amounts compost or organic
material. Fill the centers of the car tire with the mixture. It's not necessary
to pack the insides of the tire tubes with soil. Enough should spread out from
the center of the tire to do the job.
Plant three seed potatoes in the soil about an inch under
the soil in the center of the tire. Water until the soil is completely wet.
Add another tire on top of the first one when the potato has
sprouted and is 8 inches tall. Fill that tire with additional soil mixture.
Potatoes form on the stem area that is underground. Burying the stem by adding
a tire and filling it with soil means more potatoes will be formed. Continue
adding additional tires as the potato grows until the stack is four or five
tires high.
Water if there is less than an inch of rainfall per week.
If you doing this right, you can enjoy the benefits of this growing potatoes in tires tips with harvesting potatoes. Harvest the potatoes when the plant has blossomed, the
leaves turn yellow and starts to wither. That's when the potatoes are ready.
Remove the tires one by one and search through the soil with a hand shovel.
Tire Planter
Place three tires horizontally on the ground. Fill with
composting materials. One third green matter such as grass clippings, one third
brown matter such as dead leaves and one third kitchen refuse like vegetable
peelings, coffee grinds and tea bags. Water so the ingredients are lightly
moistened.
Add two more tires on top of the first three when the first
three have been filled with compost material. It may take several weeks to get
enough composting material to do that. Fill the top two tires with the mixture
of garden soil and compost.
You can try this growing potatoes in tires tips at your
home. Plant vegetables that demand rich soil and that vine or trail such as
cucumbers, melons and tomatoes. The stack of tires gives the vines room to grow
down instead of spreading out on the ground. The compost in the bottom adds
lots of organic material.