Do you put anything inside the tires?Or can you just let dirt fall into them and it doesn't matter
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Do you put anything inside the tires?Or can you just let dirt fall into them and it doesn't matter
blake9999
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I have them started in a Tote with a few 23Watt CFL's attached to the lid. I'm just hoping it stays warm enough for the next few days till they pop out the soil.
too larry
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Never tried those. Our favorite is Pruden's Purple. Not really purple. More pink. But real good tomatoes.
blake9999
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@too larry They call them Mortgage Lifter because the guy that invented them was so successful at growing tomatoes he was able to pay off the mortgage to his farm,... hence the name he gave them.
too larry
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We used a little dirt mixed with lots of sawdust back when Daddy was alive and doing woodwork. You just add tires as they grow. It's been years since I've grown them this way though.
farmerfischer
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I'll have to take a look at are local restore and habitat .. good score on your part eh! most of the packs at the local stores here are like 1.50 to 1.99$ per pack.. or they sell shitty 10" tall plants at 5$ a crack..
Got some extra tires sittin around the other half wanted to paint up all pertty like for a small flower box thingamajiggy out by the mailbox.They been sittin for close to 2 years now lol.I'm done with chickens so i got quite a bit of hay left so i'm going try the hay in side the tires.
too larry
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These were the kind of packs you can get 4/$1 at the Dollar Tree, so not that good of a deal. I had been getting most of my seeds from Lowe's. But my buddy at the contractor's checkout can't give me the discounts he used to. It's going to fuck with my herb garden as well, as I had got used to getting all my soil making stuff at fifty cents on the dollar.
But before Mamma died, she got a kitchen sized trash bag of free seeds from the Farmer's Co-Op. They were out of date. I ended up with all of those. Big bags of Homestead tomato seeds, 3 kinds of collard seeds, 2 kinds of sugar pumpkins, lots of other stuff I can't think of right now. I've been lobbying my wife for a new freezer just for seeds. So far no luck.
farmerfischer
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you sound like me...lol..
two years ago my mother in law gave me a grocery sack full of seed packs .. all of which were from 1999-2003.. lots of country gentalmen corn , beets, lettuce, collard greens , several types of heirloom tomatoes.. all kinds of seeds.. BUT almost all of them were no longer viable. some did pop.. Cherokee purple, better boy, beefsteak, and most of the corn.. but nothing else.. that bag of seeds was bitter sweet...lol
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too larry
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I've had mine in the freezer since I got them. All of the free and cheap seeds were out of date, even the ones from the thrift store. But last year I grew some of the Co-Op seeds, and they all came up pretty good. Will find out what the others will do soon. I'm working tomorrow, but I will try to get some seeds in trays on Monday.
I think it will be easier to dig a new underground greenhouse than trying to clean up the shed to set up lights in there. lol
But when I have sprouts coming up, I will have to do something.
Bareback
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We use to do the stacked tires when I was a kid , I don't remember the dirt we used, but I have been thinking about doing it again. Since I have a goat I also have tons of wasted hay and since I have a sawmill I also have tons of saw dust. But the one thing I do know about hay is it breaks down pretty fast and will leave voids, also here were I live we have what I call sugar ants and they invade everything especially my compost piles. Anyway I'm thinking about doing compost and sawdust and maybe some sand .
too larry
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We have fire ants here. They are the main reason I haven't grown potatoes the last few years. It is always a battle with them.
Sounds like a good mix.
Shit i didn't think of that.They are relentless here
Sour Wreck
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yup, here too. trashcan potatoes sounded better all the time, lol
Bareback
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We had fire ant problems here and I tried everything but nothing worked for long. And then I tried an old wives tale, I took the top off of one ant hill and put it on another and repeated this all summer. And I haven't had fire ants in about twenty years now. The damn sugar ants don't bite but they are everywhere cars, house,shop f'ing everywhere.
too larry
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I had heard about that. Even done it a time or two. I've heard they will kill each other off. I'll have to give it a longer try next time.
The fireants here are odd.I grew up in s.fl where you could walk out your door one morning and find a 3 foot ant hill that wasn't there the day before.
Where i am now they nest in the ground mostly.You don't find them until they are sinkin those nasty pinchers into you but they are EVERY WHERE in the back yard.Have tried some things but they laugh at me....little fucks
Where i am now they nest in the ground mostly.You don't find them until they are sinkin those nasty pinchers into you but they are EVERY WHERE in the back yard.Have tried some things but they laugh at me....little fucks
too larry
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My bug man sprays the yards, so no real ant issues there. But I see my share of them in the garden and in the woods gardens. For the first time, I grew some of my herb garden in pots this past year. 3 or 4 of them had huge ant hills beside them by the time they flowered. I reused the pots in my ill fated spring crop attempt. I shoveled them all flat, and they would build back in a day or two. Deer, grasshoppers and a week and a half in the low 20's {with two nights down to 16-fuckin-F} killed off the plants before the ants could become a problem. But that's another story.
Bareback
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I watched some YT videos of some old dude pouring molten lead in the mounds and then digging them up and washing the dirt off. He was selling the molds it was pretty damn cool. I don't think it to be an effective method of ant control, but just listening to them bastards fry after getting eat up is rewarding.
too larry
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I bet that would be a cool sculpture. No lead on hand these days, but I used to have buckets of it. Way back when I was just out of high school, I went to all the tire stores with a buddy of mine to buy up their used tire weight lead. We made pretty good money selling sinkers to the catfishers.