Using tires to make raised garden beds

I have about a dozen old tires. I decided to make raised garden beds with them. I am planting tomatoes, hot peppers and string beans. I have filled the tires with a mix of top soil and composted manure. Do any of you have experience or suggestions for my dirt track garden? The photo is not my garden, but it is similar.

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we got a old used tractor tire for free that we used as a sand pit for my daughter, works really well as long as you have a good cover to keep all the crap out of the clean sand

When I was a kid in SEPA, for some reason, these were very popular. Usually spraybombed silver on the outside. Fill with dirt, plant flowers, ???, look classy!!!!!!

Never tried it myself, but I was told you could grow potatoes in tires, stacking them and adding more dirt as the plant grew. At harvest time, you just knock the pile over, and pick the potatoes out, that way you didn't have to dig them.

Of course, you'd still end of with a bunch of scattered tires and a pile of dirt to figure out what to do with.

Karacticus wrote: Never tried it myself, but I was told you could grow potatoes in tires, stacking them and adding more dirt as the plant grew. At harvest time, you just knock the pile over, and pick the potatoes out, that way you didn't have to dig them.

Works better and easier using 5 gallon buckets with the bottom cut out.

My mother has had a tire garden the last few seasons. She seems pleased with the results.

Duke wrote: When I was a kid in SEPA, for some reason, these were very popular. Usually spraybombed silver on the outside. Fill with dirt, plant flowers, ???, look classy!!!!!!

someone in my neighborhood has those at the end of their driveway.

My wife would never go for the tire garden thing. I have 1 lone kumho xs that I havent been able to figure out what to do with.

I think this is how your neighbors start a Home Owners Associations.

RossD wrote: I think this is how your neighbors start a Home Owners Associations.

Yeah, berkeley 'em. You're grandfathered in, shiny happy people.

My grandmother had all kinds of tires as yard planters in south GA when I was growing up. Always painted white. A lot of them were cut up in some way, but nothing as fancy as the one posted above. I always loved it. Rural charm.

RossD wrote: I think this is how your neighbors start a Home Owners Associations.

I hate those things

I use tires for a veggie garden. I see you've already trimmed the sidewalls, if you take it one more step and turn them inside out, they look more like garden edging and less like ass.

HOA's can go fornicate themselves with an iron stick.