CntryBoy777 - The Lazy A** Acres Adventures

[Bruce]

People who don't have spare old tires around also grow potatoes in wire "towers". Same as @CntryBoy777's method of adding medium. I think even just hay or straw. I ASSUME if the ground is totally worthless for growing things you would need to start the spuds in something better, maybe a bag of potting soil.

Of course this would be quite the Herculean effort for 240' of potatoes. But ... never having grown them, are they like squash where one plant can take over 50' sq feet of land so you need a lot of linear space but not all that many plants? Maybe only need 12 plants in 120' of row? If so, perhaps a much better yield per sq ft can be had with growing them "vertically". And, I think!, no weeding I'm going to grow some white and some sweet potatoes for the first time this year, hope all goes well.

 

[NH homesteader]

Who doesn't have old tires lying around?

 

[CntryBoy777]

We have stopped and picked them up off the side of the road....our civic service........they also make instant raised beds. We have herbs growing in some, and compost in others. Really easy to weed-eat around them without losing the string, too.

 

[NH homesteader]

And you can make goat play structures out of them!

 

[Bruce]

Who doesn't have old tires lying around?

ME!
But I have to get new summer tires (*) next month so I can choose to have 4 tires for the garden and not pay for disposal. Just had a thought (big surprise), tires would be a better plan than a wire cage for early planting. The black tires will absorb heat during the day to warm the "planting medium".

* for those in the south Summer tires are the ones that have less rolling resistance so better MPG, longer tread life, stop well on wet and dry roads, all things winter tires DON'T do. But they don't do well in snow, something winter tires DO, which is kinda important up here

 

[NH homesteader]

I've had my winter tires on my car for 2 years straight. I probably will keep them on for a while longer. I'm cheap and I don't drive much.

For anyone who's curious, mud tires are not good in the snow either. I don't drive the Jeep much in winter, but when spring hits I told DH the Jeep is mine!

 

[Baymule]

@Devonviolet I lost that link @misfitmorgan a deep well here is 600' and will cost $12,000!!! can pay a lot of water bills for that $$$

I don't have old tires either. This place had so much garbage on it, it took so long and so much work to clean it up, that I would seriously damage someone if they dumped old tires here. The half acre pasture the pigs are in has a earthen pile in it that they are rooting up. A couple of times a week, I get half a bucket of old rusted cans, broken glass and other goodies. Already picked up 2 feed sacks full!

 

[NH homesteader]

Wow what the heck were they doing, just burying trash? No pigs injured by broken glass I hope?

 

[CntryBoy777]

There haven't always been trash service in rural areas and people just do what they have to in order to get rid of trash that won't burn. Now days people don't want to pay, when they can get rid of it for free.

 

[NH homesteader]

I don't have trash service either but have some respect for your land people.