Jai Ma


Yes that is funny. One thing though stood out was that old tires are being used. I organic farm and farms around me never will plant potatos in old tires.For a considerable length of time now, I have been noticed gardening sites that promote the growing of food in tyres, in particular potatoes.

Having researched quite extensively the pros and cons of using tires in my garden and on my farm, I have come to the conclusion that the risk outweighs the benefits obtained, so I will continue to use the straw in the wire cage method for my spuds and recommend to others they think twice about using the tyre method of growing food.

One of the main reasons I grow my veggies is to avoid chemicals, why would I utilise something that could add them? Growing my spuds in straw & wire cages may be messier, but I suspect it is a whole lot healthier.

Tires contain both natural and synthetic rubber as well as a whole range of rubber chemicals like pigments, binders, reinforcing agents, softeners, plasticizers and accelerators that are reacting with each other during the vulcanisation process.

Used tires can have adverse environmental impacts and threaten human health and safety. Chemicals leaching from tyres pollute groundwater and any food products grown in them. Used tyres can contribute to leaching of inorganic and organic chemicals (UK Environment Agency Report 1998, Section 4.5). They can also contribute to the release of landfill gas and leachates with the potential to create toxicity on the natural environment (Hird, Griffiths and Smith, p.37).

Leachate (zinc, copper, oil products, paraformaldehyde, and acetone, Stearic acid and butyl rubber being known ingredients used for tyre Cadmium and lead being known impurities of Zinc Oxide.


When i was younger we would grow strawberries in old trackter tires. So this way of growing veggies in old tires is not new but the haelth risks are more known now. I think this is great that people are trying at all areas to recycle but old tires for growing food is not an area that should be toched. Growing flowers or such is fine but what goes into ones body sould be more looked at here.


I wander is this practice to use old tires by Amma's youth groups just done were the video is shoot??



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