Tyre planters

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I have recently came across tyre planters so wanted to make my own

These are the tyres I got on freecycle still with wheel rims in.

I marked out my pattern ready to cut out.

Then cut out with a stanley knife. Was not too hard to do, good half an hour to do.

Then came the hard part, to turn inside out, took a while as could not do this myself. Had to get lots of strong men to help, which took a lot of effort from them to do anything, but finally made a tyre planter and here’s how it looks now.

Really came out good.

Looks like a large planter now just brilliant to fill lots of compost and flowers to go in yet.

Anybody thought about tyre planting or actually doing it?

I have now planted up with dirt at the train station

Well here’s how far we have got with the tyre planters at Sholing.
•Took the tyres to the station
•Made the ground ready for the planters to sit on
•put in place (Few people wondering, by the looks on their faces, what we were doing) they did not talk to us though
•Then tricky part – filling with soil – quite a big thing to do, as station has a slope to the entrance to the platforms.
•So the free topsoil that I nicely dug up out of a ladys garden into bags was in the car but had to get to the platform
•With a small half size skate board and 2 x plant pot wheelers ready to help us we put the bags of soil on them and pulled them down the slope (or got pulled down the slope ourselves as some of the heavier bags do go down faster that the smaller ones).
•Only managed 3 bags at a time but that was enough when they want to go different ways.
•Soil put into planters, heavy lifting up to planters but did it. Breaking up the soil making it level with a trowel as we filled the planters.
•One done ,Two done…………….and then another day later and lots of back pain three done this day……………….Five done all together.
•Took for some pictures so here they are

The tyre with the wheel rim still on, makes a nice stand.

The first tyre we manage to turn inside out.

Three tyre planters all together to make flower planters.

After all that there was planting to do so with a lot of plants I have raised from cuttings or seeds we planted them and some brought plants.

So planting done took a bit of time to do and now look like this.

They may not look like much but the plants will grow bigger

Lots of foxgloves and a few teasel and few grasses.

The tyre nearest is still the same way around just a bit of the top cut off as nice and black looking.

Bit closer photos.

What do you think? what plants would you plant in them?

• 26 Nov, 2012
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