"Gardening is the work of a lifetime: You never finish."
- Oscar De La Renta
It seems there are never ending garden projects, and those are just the bigger projects, not the daily chores of watering, weeding, harvesting, and of course just observing your plants.
It sounds like I'm complaining, and I am a little, but I know it is my own doing. I LOVE scouring magazines, books, blogs, and websites for new garden projects. It is just that there is always more that I want to do than I really have the time or energy to do. However, I have still managed to get many garden projects completed.
I have built raised garden beds, rain barrel stands and rain barrels, bee platforms and bee hives, cold frames, & fixed benches. Not always all successfully, as I always say, the garden is for experimenting.
Tire Planter - July 2021
My current garden project is my tire planter. I had an old tire taking up the very limited real estate in my shed, limited because I keep buying more garden "stuff." I decided, after some research online and in a garden project magazine, to turn this old tire into a planter. The planter will be for flowers only, I am not sure I would want to eat anything grown in a used tire, blech.
I don't like the appearance of just placing a tire in my yard and growing in it, and my research lead me to buy some rope to wrap the tire with. I used some scrap wood and drilled holes and bolted it in place. Then, I screwed in some stool legs I found at the hardware store. I left some holes in the scrap wood for drainage and stapled some mesh in place to keep in the soil. I am currently gluing the rope in place. I unroll, glue, walk a step... unroll, glue, walk a step... unroll, glue, walk a step... you get the hint. Needless to say it is taking longer than expected.
