Murray's Potato Tire Towers

Plant: Potato (Solanum tuberosum) | 3 |

I start with 5 tires and filled them with rich compost (home brew). In each tire I planted one potato saved from last years crop. After they sprouted I added tires and filled dirt around the plants as they grew. Now I have tire stacks two or three high and the plants are up to my chest height. I’ll be harvesting new potato by Christmas.

Planting Data

Plant: Potato (639)

Source

Planted on 20 Sep 07

Milestones

Day 125

23 Jan 08 Harvesting

Comments

nath wrote:
I saw Jamie Oliver suggest that you should keep piling dirt around potatoes so that they keep growing up but I was thinking that it wouldn’t work as all you would have is a massive pile of dirt.

This is an ingenious solution. I love it!

Posted on 16 Dec 07 (about 1 years ago)
Murray wrote:
The tires help by trapping extra heat as well as holding the dirt up, plus they make them really easy to harvest… you just lift the tires off and pick up the spuds that fall out.

Posted on 17 Dec 07 (about 1 years ago)
Happibun wrote:
Nice to see someone doing this. I have heard of it being done, but have always had a shortage of tyres. Now that we are being taxed for their disposal, it makes sense to take your old ones home and grow potatoes in them :-)

Posted on 03 Jun 08 (about 1 years ago)