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Tire Gardens in Haiti Photo by Danny Blank |
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| Description |
A successful technique used in areas where gardens may benefit from being out of the ground due to factors like flooding; roaming chickens, iguanas, or goats; extremely poor or acidic or alkaline soil; or simply the ease of working at gardens that are raised to waist or chest height. ECHO have seen above-ground gardening methods used from rural Haiti (where raised tires kept chickens from ruining gardens), to the rocky soils of the Bahamas, to very urban settings like St. Petersburg, Russia, where rooftops may be the only space available for growing. |
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Agriculture |
| Other Purposes
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Agriculture, Nutrition |
| Climate |
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| Emphasis |
Communities, Individuals |
| Effort to Implement
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Simple |
| Maximum Cost |
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| Why |
Mark Hare, currently working in Haiti, recently commented that tire gardens are the most popular technique he has ever been involved with, even in a rural area. The area is constantly stripped of all of its old tires. Gardeners use them primarily to start seedlings for transplants . The seeds and tender seedlings are less likely to be destroyed by ants, snails, chickens, or goats.
Rooftop garden
Cabbage and lettuce grown hydroponically on a piece of old carpet in ECHO's urban gardening area.
All the methods use recycled materials and are exceptionally light weight. You will find extensive details on ECHO's website about the many methods for above-ground gardening that ECHO has developed |
| URL(s) |
http://www.echotech.org/mambo/index.php?option=com_content&task=blogcategory&id=124&Itemid=164
http://echotech.org
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| Resources |
Click on Gardening on Rooftops on the ECHOtech website |
| Email |
Withheld |
