2008-May-27 - Spuds! YAY!
We’ve got all the potatoes in the dirt–finally! :)
This year we are planting our spuds in old tires. Yup. I’ve read on this method, and heard about it for so long, I am trying it out this year.
We just took a sheet of old shed metal roofing (this is NOT a ‘required’ step), set it on the ground where we wanted to plant, put down a few layers of old newspaper beneath each tire, put down the tire–filled half way with dirt & compost, added in spud seed, covered with more dirt & compost and VOILA…..done….til green shoots/leaves pop up and once they get tall enough, add another tire to the stack, fill with dirt (making SURE to leave a few inches of the green leaves of the plant up above dirt each time you do this!) repeat the process til tires are apprx hip/waist high….they will just keep growing and growing within the tire stack you made for them–come late Fall, knock those tires over (that’s what we’ll do anyway) and dig all those deeeeeelicious spuds out!
Easy and fruitful (or, er …vegetable-ful–LOL)
Enjoy
Lisa
Comments
2008-May-30 - Really?!
Posted by AndreaMcNabb
I've heard a little about this. I ought to try it. I never seem to have enough room in the garden and I definitely have a source forLOTS of free tires. Any concern about the tires "leaking" toxins into the potatoes though?
Andrea
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