Car Tyres on Allotments, Yes or No?

[Lovage]

For what it's worth the Soil Association do not allow registered organic growers to use tyres because of toxins leaching out.

[klf_1956]

thanks to all for the response. I must say my plot isn't the only plot on our site to be breaking site rules,that said rules are rules. However i think i'll hang on and see what happens. I'll stack them 2 or 3 high and maybe staple some sort of cloth to them, hessian maybe. What the eye doesn't see and all that. Thanks again

[Shiek Yerboutti]

Farmers have been using hundreds of tyres as weight to hold down polythene covers on their huge silage piles, which the cattle eat. Glad I dont eat meat

[Two_Sheds]

safety of car tires

My Mad allotment partner was going to grow potatoes in car tyres but has found out they leak out Cadmium which is very posionous. ...had a dig around the net and not really found out much

This looks interesting, but I haven't the time to digest it right now. If anyone wants to read through and then paraphrase?

[Jeanied]

That article argues that tyres do not cause a hazard to ground water or 'off-gas' when used to construct walls in an earth ship, Two Sheds. It still doesn't clarify whether a tyre in the open air on an allotment causes any problems.
I'm willing to try something recommended by Bob Flowerdew though, because he is pretty sound on these matters.

[Snadger]

This looks interesting, but I haven't the time to digest it right now. If anyone wants to read through and then paraphrase?

Nice looking allotment shed!

[smallfrog]

This looks interesting, but I haven't the time to digest it right now. If anyone wants to read through and then paraphrase?

Thanks two-sheds started to read it and my brain got a bit muddled. will have a look later on.

There was an earthship on grand designs amazing looking thing built somwhere in france.

[solway cropper]

Farmers have been using hundreds of tyres as weight to hold down polythene covers on their huge silage piles, which the cattle eat. Glad I dont eat meat

Any toxin that might leach from the tyres would be washed down the outside of the polythene sheet and into the drainage channels. It could not contaminate the silage so the good news is you can start eating meat!!

[maypril]

the good news is you can start eating meat!!

rofl