I feel like this is absolutely the wrong time of year to be posting this!
I started writing it way back when my tomato plants hadn’t even started flowering and definitely before I was aware that my strawberry plants were going to give me a grand total of three strawberries before deciding they were done for the Summer!
I didn’t finish it off for some reason and now I just found it, half written and gathering dust in my drafts. I hovered over the delete button but decided I’d share it anyway in the hope that you might bookmark it and come back in six month’s time when Spring arrives and you have a few spare tyres waiting to be used in a DIY upcycling project. 😁
(Please pretend it’s June when you read this…)
I’m not very knowledgeable when it comes to gardening but I enjoy it so I’m trying to get better.
We bought a nice little raised planter a couple of months ago with the intention of popping some tomato plants in but when I was at the garden centre, I found a couple of pots of pathetic looking rocket that had definitely seen better days.
I hoped, but wasn’t confident, that I could bring the rocket back to life so I bought all four pots and planted them in the planter along with the strawberry plants. It turned out they were very happy in their new home and they thrived – a little bit too well.
Within a couple of days, the rocket plants were looking super healthy and within a week or so, they’d taken over the planter completely!
There was no way we could leave it where it was so we needed a planter big enough for the four plants that were back to living their best life.
At the same time as our rocket was doing its best beanstalk impression, we were having a good tidy up of the garden to get it ready for Summer. As we were filling up the trailer with all of the random junk that we’ve accumulated in the garden, I had a brainwave – I decided that I wanted to make a planter out of some of the tyres.
I decided that I was going to turn some old tyres into what I hoped would be a quirky, budget-friendly planter for my rocket. The tyre theme really fits in our garden as my partner is car mad so there’s always some random car part out there.
You know you’re going to want to make your own tyre planter when Spring rolls around so next time you get new tyres, keep two of the old ones to one side so you can be ready to go when the sun comes back out!
I stacked two tyres on top of each other to raise the planter up a little bit and I decided against painting them although I can imagine how lovely they would look painted up using a bit of outdoor gloss paint or some spray paint. I have seen a tyre planter a good while back that was painted to look like a minion and I was tempted but in the end I went au naturale.
Next up, I lined mine with a few thick plastic sacks that we had in from some topsoil that we’d bought and some some super strength weed liner that we also had in to make sure that nothing nasty from the tyres would get through and harm the plants.
I had rocket in mine this Summer but I think I’ll go with flowers next Summer as no-one but me likes rocket and if it’s only me who eats it then I definitely don’t need that much. 😁
I think that the black would look great filled with colourful flowers.
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