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wall of tires

Denise on Saltspring,

Perhaps the quality of tires in retaining too much moisture and choking the
roots on Saltspring, might be just what you want if you live in a desert
location.  Except the strong acrid smell of tires in the summer doesn't
make me want to wrap them around my growing food.  The moisture retention
would be a disaster for potatoes, unless you harvest them all in early fall
(or cover the pile of tires when it still dry).  I'm on high, well-drained
ground in the Cowichan Valley (Vancouver Island) and leave my potatoes in
the ground all year, digging them as we use them.  They are much fresher
and tastier this way.  Then in the spring you just dig out what you need
for seed and plant a new bed.  This method also keeps me from using the
same bed year after year, which courts serious problems.  A wonderful old
lady who lived on Read Island up the coast and became the guru of
subsistence living for many young people moving out into the bush in the
late Sixties and early Seventies told me to rotate strawberries and
potatoes and you'll never have problems with either.  Trouble is, after too
many moves, we lost the Royal Sovereigns she gave us as a start and have
never found strawberries as tasty.

Maroc in the Cowichan
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