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Category: Michele's Garden | Posted: Tue May 27, 2008 4:31 pm

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This was the weekend that I wait all fall and winter to come. It is finally time to start the garden. Living way up here in Northern Vermont I can get the soil ready etc but no planting until the end of May. This year I am converting most of the garden space into a tire garden. I always used tires to plant my tomatoes in but never heard of anyone else doing more then that. After some research I found out there are a lot of people that do tire gardening. It helps with reducing weeds, aides in water retention and the black rubber tires make it warmer up here in the great north and promotes growth. So this weekend my husband helped me lay out a 20 X 25 ft piece of black plastic and we put about 45 tires on it. About 25 of these tires will have tomato plants, the others have peas, beans, cukes and peppers. We placed the trellises over the peas, cukes and beans. I am using garden soil combined with bought top soil, peat moss and humus. The only vegetables that will be in the ground without tires or plastic will be the pumpkins, onions and cantaloupes.

Back at the end of March I started all my tomato plants. I love a variety and I have a hard time finding new and interesting varieties. So I bought 9 different varieties of heirloom seeds online. I am trying the Black Krim, Pink Lady, Brandywine, Yellow Pear, Cherry, Mini Beef Steaks, a plum and a Tangerine. I have planted in the past the yellow pear and Brandywine and they are fantastic. I have also started watermelons, cantaloupes and cukes. My son loves melon and the past 2 years we have tried to start them in the soil from seed with no luck, so this is my last attempt. Start them from seed and my husband has made a small portable greenhouse that I can place over them when they are in the ground and while it is still cool at night. With any luck I can hope to have cantaloupes and watermelons.

I am hoping that this will be the best growing season we have had at this house.


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Droopy wrote on Tue May 27, 2008 5:02 pm:

Your tire garden sounds interesting, and I hope you'll share both progress and a few photos eventually. I'd love to see it!

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Frank wrote on Tue May 27, 2008 7:09 pm:

Welcome to GardenStew gardenmama and congrats on your new blog. Sounds like did a great job with the tire garden, hope we can get to see a photo or two sometime :)

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gardenmama wrote on Tue May 27, 2008 9:27 pm:

As soon as I figure out how to add pictures I plan to post through the season...I have a lot of pics from the past few years as well that I will be posting.

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