Question for 6/18/2018... Tire gardens...

daylilydude Administrator The Eclectic Gardener "Old" when your bender over works but your gettin' back up is broken! Posts: 7,842 Zone:: 7b Favorite Vegetable:: Is bacon a vegetable? Joined: December 2010	Question for 6/18/2018... Tire gardens... Jun 18, 2018 5:22:26 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by daylilydude on Jun 18, 2018 5:22:26 GMT -5 What are your thoughts on growing in tires?
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Question for 6/18/2018... Tire gardens... Jun 18, 2018 6:33:11 GMT -5 bluelacedredhead likes this

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Post by brownrexx on Jun 18, 2018 6:33:11 GMT -5

Tires contain many chemicals including benzene which is a known carcinogen and heavy metals like cadmium and mercury.

Do these chemicals leach out? I don't think that anybody knows how much or how fast. Many proponents of tire gardens say it is slow and that release of these chemicals to the environment is mostly caused by burning.

I wouldn't use them.

pepperhead212 Veteran Pepper King Posts: 7,031 Joined: January 2011	Question for 6/18/2018... Tire gardens... Jun 18, 2018 7:45:42 GMT -5 via mobile bluelacedredhead likes this Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by pepperhead212 on Jun 18, 2018 7:45:42 GMT -5 Why use them, when there are many better things to grow in?
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carolyn Veteran Posts: 834 Joined: July 2015	Question for 6/18/2018... Tire gardens... Jun 18, 2018 11:24:09 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by carolyn on Jun 18, 2018 11:24:09 GMT -5 if it was all I had to work with... nah. not even then.

carolyn Veteran Posts: 834 Joined: July 2015	Question for 6/18/2018... Tire gardens... Jun 18, 2018 11:24:43 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by carolyn on Jun 18, 2018 11:24:43 GMT -5 although they do make great retainer walls.

paulf Veteran Posts: 3,859 Joined: December 2010	Question for 6/18/2018... Tire gardens... Jun 18, 2018 11:43:09 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by paulf on Jun 18, 2018 11:43:09 GMT -5 I wouldn't do it.

guruofgardens Senior Member Posts: 422 Zone:: 5B Joined: December 2017	Question for 6/18/2018... Tire gardens... Jun 18, 2018 12:34:50 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by guruofgardens on Jun 18, 2018 12:34:50 GMT -5 No, thanks anyway.

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Question for 6/18/2018... Tire gardens... Jun 18, 2018 12:45:29 GMT -5 carolyn likes this

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Post by spike on Jun 18, 2018 12:45:29 GMT -5

OMG a pinterest project!! I have seen pics of tires cut and painted and "fancied" up and shockingly they look a lot like tires cut and painted and "fancied" up. I always thought it was because people didn't know what to do with those old tires hanging around so they got creative. I have never been interested in using them so really have no input! (wow what a long ass story for no good info added!)

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Question for 6/18/2018... Tire gardens... Jun 18, 2018 14:33:26 GMT -5 spike likes this

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Post by ladymarmalade on Jun 18, 2018 14:33:26 GMT -5

Well, I wouldn't intentionally seek out to use tires for a garden. However, I'm a big fan of using what you have on hand or is available to you. I grow vegetables in discarded buckets and raised beds made from leftover plastic fencing. I'm certainly not going to judge someone for using tires!

Gardening would be one way to repurpose and reuse an old tire that is just sitting around. I personally think they are ugly, but if my option was to have a raised bed in an old tractor tire or not have a garden because I couldn't afford the materials necessary, I would go with the tire and have fun with it.

september Veteran Looking forward to summer 2024! Posts: 3,931 Zone:: 3b Favorite Vegetable:: Maters of course! Joined: April 2013	Question for 6/18/2018... Tire gardens... Jun 18, 2018 16:42:20 GMT -5 Quote Select Post Deselect Post Link to Post Back to Top Post by september on Jun 18, 2018 16:42:20 GMT -5 No reason you couldn't grow flowers in one, and put trailing things near the sides, you might not even notice it was a tire when everything was up and growing over the sides.

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