pepper growing technique: inverted car tires as planters

[Mark]

I know many of you stuff peppers for grilling and smoking or smoke dry peppers and grind them for rubs, etc. So this should be on topic.

I know Dave Little's already got peppers planted and I'm getting closer to it. I was searching for information on how to use car tires as raised bed planters that you just mow around and came up with this:

http://www.suite101.com/files/topics/75/files/felderstireplanter.html

So how's it sound?

[brdbbq]

Interesting. Don't see anything abourt pissing on the peppers though.

[Jorge]

Too much work for me! Did a raised bed with 6x6's. Used an auger and then dropped some rebar down to hold everything in place. Being the lazy SOB that I am I just bought my plants (Roma tomatoes, some new 444 tomato that is supposed to be good in the Tx climate, Jalapenos, serranos, big jim, cucumbers). Now I just have to remember to water, or go to Home Depot for a timer and drip irrigation stuff....like either of those is likely to happen....

Lemme know when your peppers come up Brian. Happy to help with the irrigation mod :twisted:

[willkat98]

Looks pretty easy with a sharp blade.

That might work in the corner of the yard.

Good link.

[brdbbq]

Looks pretty easy with a sharp blade.

That might work in the corner of the yard.

Good link.

Arkansas Mod

[Mark]

Definately not something I'd want on my front porch. I'm talking a row of maybe 10 of these in a 1/4 acre vegetable garden. One of the biggest hassles with maintaining a vegetable garden like that is weeding; especially in the middle of summer when it starts getting too damn hot. With these tire planters, you can weed by riding around them on a sit-down mower with a cold beer in one hand.

[chad]

Suckers would last forever!! They would be easy to mow around. Can you imagine trying to cut through steel belted radials :twisted:

I've got some blossoms starting on my larger tomato plants and some of my purchased jalapeno seedlings. The plants started from sees are coming along -- it's been a bit cool at night (yeah, yeah, yeah....cool in Florida is mid-60s at night!) and that has slowed the plants down a bit.

[Jorge]

My Dad down in San Antonio has some tomatoes in the ground, and two plants have already started setting fruit. <And I don't care if a tomato is fruit or vegetable>

[rusold]

I've got tons of flowers on the tomatoes and peppers and one tiny set tomato - only thing not happy is the okra. You pretty much have to do 'really" raised beds here in Houston so I did something like Jorge on a bigger scale 3 6x1 screwed on to 30" 4x4s. Jorge, last time I did this I tried the drip irrigation and it was big hassle and "broke" at lot. Maybe because I use so much mulch (again Houston - think 98 degrees 80 percent humidity starts about JUN)

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[Mark]

Pressure treated lumber has some bad $hit in it I thought Arsenic?

[Jorge]

Pressure treated lumber has some bad $hit in it I thought Arsenic?

Used to be anyway. Think there is/was some move to change the process to remove at least the arsenic.

[brdbbq]

I used pressure treated, made my Johnson bigger that was it.

[shock]

Looks pretty easy with a sharp blade.

No way... Get the oxy-acetylene torch for this...

[Mark]

Shock;

that could be problematic. Lit tires are damn hard to put out. and the smoke contains some really bad $****. Tire sidewalls are thin. The link shows a guy cutting through them with a rusty old filet knife.

[parrothead]

Green pressure treated lumber has been removed from the market due to high arsenic levels. As of the first of this year stores could no longer take shipments, but could sell out their existing inventory. I would suggest not using this stuff for a garden, and if you have it for a deck do not let your kids play around on it. Somewhere I read an article that says it is still alright for kids to play on as long as you seal it every so often.

The more expensive brown stuff is what is now available.

That is why I started sucking up the stock of a plastic lumber company.

[parrothead]

Shock;

that could be problematic. Lit tires are damn hard to put out. and the smoke contains some really bad $****. Tire sidewalls are thin. The link shows a guy cutting through them with a rusty old filet knife.

Damn tootin. Use a sawzall or a band saw

[Mark]

I used pressure treated, made my Johnson bigger that was it.

inflatable love doll mod?

[Mark]

parrothead said "Damn tootin. Use a sawzall or a band saw."

You'd probably have better luck circumcizing a bull with a penknife.

[brdbbq]

I used pressure treated, made my Johnson bigger that was it.

inflatable love doll mod?

Cheaper then the real thing

[parrothead]

Probably right about the sawzall, but a band saw would work real well.

[Mark]

Probably right about the sawzall, but a band saw would work real well.

Don't think so, You cut out the inside of only 1 wall (right before where it meets the tread).

[shock]

Green pressure treated lumber has been removed from the market due to high arsenic levels. As of the first of this year stores could no longer take shipments, but could sell out their existing inventory. I would suggest not using this stuff for a garden, and if you have it for a deck do not let your kids play around on it. Somewhere I read an article that says it is still alright for kids to play on as long as you seal it every so often.


Just don't let yer kids gnaw on the deck anymore....

[parrothead]

Gotcah Mark. I jumped in with out looking at the pic. My bad.

[kcquer]

Ain't makin' that cut with a band saw unless you got a blade welder anyway.

[Mark]

Someone gave me the idea of combinining the used tire technique for planting along with my LOF technique (If you don't know what LOF is, do a search on LOF here) .

So it struck me. The tire planters, if spaced corectly (a little farther apart than the width of the mower deck) could make a fun lawnmower race course. Starting from one end, zig-zag through them like they were pilons. Go around the last one, double back zig-zagging the other way and everything's mowed. This would be a timed event and an open can of beer would be mandatory. Points deducted for spilling beer (i.e., alcohol abuse). Points added for finishing beer without spilling. Bonus points added if you can manage to whiz on any plants during the course.

Any contestants?

[brdbbq]

Post jpegs

[kcquer]

Someone gave me the idea of combinining the used tire technique for planting along with my LOF technique (If you don't know what LOF is, do a search on LOF here) .

So it struck me. The tire planters, if spaced corectly (a little farther apart than the width of the mower deck) could make a fun lawnmower race course. Starting from one end, zig-zag through them like they were pilons. Go around the last one, double back zig-zagging the other way and everything's mowed. This would be a timed event and an open can of beer would be mandatory. Points deducted for spilling beer (i.e., alcohol abuse). Points added for finishing beer without spilling. Bonus points added if you can manage to whiz on any plants during the course.

Any contestants?


I thought nascar already ran a couple road course events.

[racer_81]

George Jones Lawnmower Slalom Mod