Spuds in tyres.

Quote from: barley on November 13, 2014, 06:21

any tyre centre will let you have them willingly free of charge

To be honest, you may find that it is not that easy to find the tyres.  It's illegal, I believe, to dispose of tyres otherwise than through a regulated process - and that includes giving them away to others.

Yorkie: working as a site engineer in the highly-regulated nuclear industry, I can tell you that the legal mantra for waste is the 3 R's: reduce, re-use, recycle. Re-use comes before recycle, which is what I intend to do. I can re-use the tyres for another purpose (other than their original intention), but I cannot dispose of them (recycle) without going through the correct legal process, which in my case would be to take them to the local council recycling centre. However, you are quite right in saying that there is a legal process in place for the disposal of all waste.

my tyre centre said come back and take as many as I want    he has to pay to get rid so he's more than happy to loose some


re the rims you can fill with straw or old newspaper so it doesn't fill with compost making them less heavy to empty at harvest time

i did this last year for my Christmas spuds it worked a treat and was still cropping for new years day so far they are coming along a treat this year and no worries about blight, enjoy your tatties they are a lot healthier than commercially grown