Tire Garden

Last year I did my garden in tires. I know, I know it sounds retarded ;- ). However, it worked wonderful and I am so doing it again this year and even expanding. I use old tires - what's an old tire you ask? Well, I get my tires from my neighbor who owns a trucking business so an old tire for me is one that has been driven for too many miles to be safe. If you're wondering about something leaching out of the tire, there have been studies done at colleges and garden centers and nothing leached in to the soil (again, when you used old tires). I did it for a few reasons - the main one being, bermuda grass is EVIL, and I mean EVIL, LOL. I could not keep up with the bermuda in the garden and I wanted to do raised bed gardens - but it was going to be pretty expensive the first year to get everything - then I thought, what could I use for free - maybe recycle something - then I thought, I have a couple of tires down in the creek bed - and so there you have it - that's how the tire garden came about. You can find free tires just about in any town, before my neighbor offered his old tires I had called a tire center and they told me they had all the free tires I wanted. Here's some pics of the tire garden.