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food, garden, green tips, home grown, organic, potatoes, recycle, tyres, upcycle, vegan, vegetarian
These potatoes were planted in the tyres when they were sprouting in October 2012.
As the potatoes grow, another tyre is added and more soil added until we reached 3 tyres for each plant. The flowers on the plants were nipped off so that the harvest would not come out green. The plants died off and we removed the tyres and harvested the most delicious potatoes.
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thank you for the reblog 🙂
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Hi, thank *you* for the tips and I’ve been meaning to email you to buy some sprouts before I leave CT 🙂 Will get in touch.
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great thank you 🙂
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I have heard this is not so good to do- something about heavy metals seeping into your potatoes from the tires- have you read anything more on that danger? Because I really want to try it!
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I have heard of people saying that it is not good because of the heavy metals…. I have found no proven information on this. I have been doing this for several years now with no ill effects. 🙂 *Brigid
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So you did not develop a new love for heavy metal music? Do you go through airport security just fine? Nothing beeping furiously? No sudden glowing in the dark at night? Then I think I am going to try it too!
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Only Pink Floyd, but then again I have always had a love for them. No sudden beeps anywhere, or luminous bodies 🙂 Give it a go….
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Then I am gone too- I also love Pink Floyd…
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same generation then 🙂 Mind you my kids love it too
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We have much better music than them, they should!
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Have tried this in the past very successfully.
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wonderful, thanks Bridget 🙂
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