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KarenInWichita

KarenInWichita's Back Foundation Tire garden

Garden Type: Foundation | Sun: Full Sun | Soil: Combination I'm Organic!

Instead of filling a true raised bed (and thereby burying the house foundation), I’m putting in tire planters. I experimented a little with it last year, and it worked well.

This year, I hope to actually get around to cutting out the sidewalls and inverting the tires, so my potatoes and tomatoes don’t have whitewalls.

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  • Tire 1 - Red Potato Day 247

    Tire 1 - Red Potato

    Solanum tuberosum

    Sown on 20 Mar 09 I improvised this garden last year, without cut...

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Wichita, Kansas

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