This may be off the trail a bit, but I just ran across this article about using tires for compost containers and I was wondering if anyone had ever used this kind of method?
I’m a total newby to composting, btw. Done a lot of reading, but never actually been involved with it.
http://www.countrysidemag.com/issues/91/91-1/Paul_Farber.html
I confess I am not a very good composter. We have a patch of land behind the woodpile that is basically a cirlce of chicken wire. Everything just gets pitched in and occasionally stirred. It doesn’t stink (amazingly) and it never seems to get full.
I also have one that looks like a trash can that we put kitchen scraps, leaves, and shredded paper in. It does not lend itself to easy mixing. It also has never been stinky, and in the summer it shrinks quickly.
I suppose the worms do their thing since both composters are directly on the ground. I was quite interested in using some old tires that we had to plant potatoes.
You start out with your soil/compost in a tire and add tires and compost/straw as the potatoes grow. Hubby said the tires weren’t used enough.
That was 3 years ago, and they still haven’t been used anymore. They were studded tires I took off a car and I no longer have to get out in winter since I retired.
Maybe this Spring Cleaning season will be the one where he decides I can use them.LOL.