Last year I decided I needed a big garden. I want to grow lots of food and ideally one day produce enough to support myself in the event that I needed to. In the mean time I like the idea of eating better and saving money.

My first attempt was a mixed success. I went the standard method. Plowing compost into clay soil and planting my plants. Soon I had more weeds then I had the energy to deal with and all the work I put into it would reset each year so I decided I needed a new method.

I needed something that could grow a lot of food, was dirt cheap to build and was much less maintenance then my previous attempt.

Eventually I came up with the idea of a Tired Garden made from used tires. People give me their tires for free or I pick them up where people have dumped them. I remove the sidewalls then lay them down on the ground and add in a mixture of topsoil and compost. For some extra deep rooted plants I dig down a bit and give them more root space.

This blog will be documenting my adventures in Tire Gardening.