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Just learnt that my car needs new tyres for mot.So got �4 off the bill for taking the old ones home to grow my spuds in!!
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I use old tyres to grow my courgettes in - I throw the tyres onto the cultivated ground, plant the young courgette plant in the centre of tyre and the tyre walls offer it protection from any wind and the black rubber holds heat so the tyre acts as a personalised growth enhancer until the courgette is nice and strong - when it sends out it's tentacles, I lift these up on to the tyre wall and it keeps the slugs at bay.Originally posted by JILLY JACKSON View PostJust learnt that my car needs new tyres for mot.So got �4 off the bill for taking the old ones home to grow my spuds in!!Rat
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I use a tyre for my strawberry plants.....Comment
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Wow,i didnt know about growing courgettes that way!I may have a rethink then as i already have 2 long rows of potatoes in.I havent started sewing my courgettes yet,but could i start now?
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I spotted an old tractor tyre on our new house plot. Not sure what I could do with it but I'd have to roll it up a big hill to get to our garden though.Comment
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ha ha!will look for your post on how you managed,may be quite a laugh for you OR US!!
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Take a look at my albums - there's a photo there. As regards sowing your courgettes now - I don't know as you are so far south of me you might as well be in another continent ! I won't sow mine for a bit yet.Originally posted by JILLY JACKSON View PostWow,i didnt know about growing courgettes that way!I may have a rethink then as i already have 2 long rows of potatoes in.I havent started sewing my courgettes yet,but could i start now?Last edited by sewer rat; 23-03-2009, 08:35 PM.Rat
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Scottish by the Grace of God
http://scotsburngarden.blogspot.com/
http://davethegardener.blogspot.com/Comment
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May give it another week as the weather has changed again,been looking at your blog very impressed.Havent read it all yet ,but will.Thanks SR.
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Did you know that a 195.45.17 tyre takes a large wheelbarrow of soil to fill?
I am using towers of tyres with sifted soil to try and grow some decent carrots this year.I am certain that the day my boat comes in, I'll be at the airport.Comment
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I've got 10 on the plot now, 4 are going to be used for strawberries (hopefully planted this weekend) and the others for various squashes.
Some of us live in the past, always talking about back then. Some of us live in the future, always planning what we are going to do. And, then there are those, who neither look behind or ahead, but just enjoy the moment of right now.
Which one are you and is it how you want to be?Comment
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