{"id":54574,"date":"2020-08-05T06:40:25","date_gmt":"2020-08-05T11:40:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54574"},"modified":"2020-08-05T06:41:30","modified_gmt":"2020-08-05T11:41:30","slug":"a-free-solution-for-raised-bed-gardens","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/?p=54574","title":{"rendered":"A Free Solution For Raised Bed Gardens"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/a-free-solution-for-raised-bed-gardens\/\">A Free Solution For Raised Bed Gardens<\/a><\/h3>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignleft\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.wp.com\/www.theorganicprepper.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/07\/potatoes_tires.jpg?resize=300%2C225&amp;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-32298\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">As concerns about interruptions in the supply chain due to the pandemic hit the news, Victory Gardens are once again becoming popular. This is great news!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Building a garden infrastructure can be expensive, especially for those in urban or suburban environments where open space is limited. If you start pricing boards for building raised beds, for example, you\u2019re likely to come away shaking your head in disbelief.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Surely there is some inexpensive way to establish a viable garden?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">There is. I\u2019m here to tell you about an excellent free resource for raised bed gardening which nearly everyone ignores because of a powerful but incorrect urban myth about the dangers. I refer to gardening in tires. Yes, tires. Car tires, truck tires, tractor tires\u2026you name it. And, these can be used tires!<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Why Tires?<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">When we moved to our rural homestead seventeen years ago, we thought it would be a simple matter to establish a garden. After all, how hard could it be? Plow, plant, water, and voil\u00e0: Food security.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We were wrong. We hadn\u2019t factored in the heavy clay soil, pests ranging from deer to voles, and especially the tough prairie grasses. Every year we found our vegetables overwhelmed with weeds and baked into hard clay. No one who hasn\u2019t experienced prairie grasses has any idea how pervasive, stubborn, and overwhelming those grasses can be. Since we didn\u2019t have a tractor, our attempt to keep a half-acre garden weed-free was impossible.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">For nine years, we struggled to plant in the ground, and for nine years, we failed. We tilled in compost and mulched. We pulled weeds, and we pulled more weeds. When it looked like we might succeed with a modest patch of beans or peas, the deer would invade, or the voles would dig things up (or an early frost would hit), and that would be the end of that.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u2026click on the above link to read the rest of the article\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Free Solution For Raised Bed Gardens As concerns about interruptions in the supply chain due to the pandemic hit the news, Victory Gardens are once again becoming popular. This is great news! Building a garden infrastructure can be expensive, especially for those in urban or suburban environments where open space is limited. If you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[30145,29578,19896,5756,30146],"class_list":["post-54574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-survival-2","tag-food-garden","tag-patrice-lewis","tag-raised-garden-beds","tag-the-organic-prepper","tag-tires"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54574","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54574"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54574\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54575,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54574\/revisions\/54575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/olduvai.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}