My epic garden: Spring tire planters

So in my tire planters this spring I've added ornamental flowers known as Angles Trumpet. They have a huge flower that is rather eye catching and the plant itself tends to stay a nice green. I imagine these will get about 10 ft tall which will add a "castle wall" effect for my fence line. Also in each tire I have Luffa and a few caster bean trees in 2 of them.

Things grow remarkably well out of the tire planters.

Luffa coming up, I tend to pull of the lower leafs of the angles trumpet to give more light to the new Luffa as well as to improve their appearance.

On either side of the tires I've planted Cuban Oregano. The goal is to have a green wall of it around my property to discourage inbound pests. Also I'd like to have enough Luffa so little or none of the actual fence shows. Green walls. :)

Last years Luffa tire with new Luffa coming up from last years seed.

So these tires for those of you who wish to duplicate what I've done with such success -

1. Go get tires - You can get these from used tire shops typically. They may try to charge you for them but the reality is that they actually have to pay to get rid of them. So if anything you should talk them into paying you a small amount for each tire but I wouldn't pay a dime for a tire. If your paying you got hustled.

2. Take these tires home and wash them off, preferably in the shower so all the run off goes to never never land where all our waste magically disappears and never hurts or harms anything in the process. After washing you can choose to spray with a toxic paint to get the desired color which is a great way to put toxins into the air you breath. If the price of hurting everyone around you is worth having a different color tire then go for it. If you look you may even be able to find a non toxic paint but the cost of not poisoning all your friends and family may be a few extra bucks. Are they worth it? Are you?

3. Fill tire with your compost. Bills, bank statements, letters, old paper, weeds from your garden, leftover dinners, dead animals, twigs, logs, leaf mulch, and so on. Since I only grow non edibles out of my tires I don't worry so much about what I put in them. I've even put old dog food in one and things are growing great. Be sure to pack it in the sides of the tire first before filling the middle, bottom tire first and then top. When you get to the top mound it a little as it will settle as time goes on. You can toss in a few worms, water the thing good, and or ad some ants or help them find it with a trail of food.

4. Wait a few months. If you didn't do all the above in the fall (when I should have posted this haha) just ad a flower pot worth of dirt to the top part of the mix. You can plant in that dirt and maybe that will give the rest a chance to break down a little before the roots reach it.

5. Plant your seeds or plants and forget about them. Some may wish to water a little bit in the beginning but once the plant has any root to speak of it shouldn't be an issue. Personally I just plant my seeds and forget about them, has worked for me every time so far. The lip of each tire will hold the water in the tire but under the soil safe from mosquitoes. The rain is enough to keep things going great. I can't imagine having to actually water any of these but maybe I'll water a few here and there as a test this season.