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New Hampshire

I live in northern NH where the season is some what short.
Last season (my first try at big pumpkins) I used a large tractor tire as a planter in my garden. My thought was that black rubber will hold heat better through cold nights and keep my soil warmer as well. It also kept my soil very loose with no compaction. I grew a store bought AG that I pollinated very late, 07/20 and still managed 231 pounds on my best pumpkins.Do you think the tire helped??? I'm surprised I have not seen them used as planters on the site before.

5/23/2007 5:04:20 PM

C N Y

i am pretty sure that in one of the Don Langevin
Books, probably Volume 2, there was a stump the size of a tree limb (pumpkin stump, lol) growing out of the middle of some kind of a tire,
and my brain is associating that picture with Al Berard of
Maine (WAIT TIL NEXT YEAR on this site)
hope he don't be a-mindin' me a-mentionin'.

5/23/2007 7:00:23 PM

Phoenix, AZ

My very first pumpkin I ever grew was when I was about 7 years old. I grew it out of a tire. My mom still has a picture of me sitting there next to this pathetic little plant. Whidbey Island, WA was just a darn cold place to be growing.

5/23/2007 8:11:50 PM

So. Maine

Hey grasshoppa , Ya that was a 14 in. car tire I used on that plant ( and a couple of others ) , in the photo in book 2 and yes just another idea to warm up the soil and try to hold onto that warmth for a few hours at the end of the day .
Give it a try on a plant or two and see what it does for you. Good luck to ya this summer... AL B.

5/26/2007 9:19:57 PM