We make beautiful and bright flower beds from tires with our own hands

Benefits of tire beds

First, used tires are inexpensive material. Original flower beds made of old rubber will give a special charm and class to your site, while almost without hitting your wallet. Old tires are easy to work with - they are easy to paint, you can cut the necessary shapes from them according to the patterns.

Another obvious advantage is its small size. Tire flower beds are somewhat reminiscent of flowerpots, which they willingly decorate the terraces of houses with. Due to their small size, such flower beds are easy to install with your own hands, as well as, if necessary, move from place to place. Another factor of popularity is the ability to show a high class of creativity by making such a flower bed. An old tire can be cut, turned out, painted, and thus, a flower garden of any shape can be made.

For example, the “frog” shape is especially popular, which is quite easy to do with your own hands - just paint two or three tires green. Also, unlike clay flowerpots, rubber cannot be broken, it is very durable. A drop of inspiration, a little effort and a flower house on your site will be considered a design creation.

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What materials will be required

Naturally, the first thing that will be required, in fact, tires. If you have a choice, it is better to give preference to imported ones. The class of these products is higher, which means that it will be easier to work with them and they will last longer. Tire wear is not critical, although worn tires are easier to work with. The main thing is to know that these are definitely not needed by anyone and you can make whatever you want from them. A true craftsman can transform old rubber into amazingly beautiful things.

The easiest way to make an unusual flower bed with your own hands is to paint several tires with bright paint. You can use special rubber compounds, but leftovers from home repairs will also work. A higher class of complexity is curly flower beds, where the tire must be cut. Before work, you should stock up on a sharp knife.

Stages of work

For an example of working with a tire, let's take a master class on making a flower bed. The first thing to do is to clean the tire of sand and dirt. Then, apply a drawing of the petals and make cuts along this line with a sharp knife. To facilitate this work, the master would advise to lubricate the knife with soapy water or oil. You should not choose too small petals for the first time, you will have to work with a knife for too long.

On the other hand, petals that are too large will disrupt the shape of the flower bed, making it polygonal instead of the original idea. Thus, it is optimal to make petals of ten centimeters. After cutting, the tire must be turned out. And it's not so easy to do it yourself!

Craftsmen advise turning the tire over with cuts down and fixing it on a flat surface.After that, the rubber must be pulled upwards towards you, and considerable effort will have to be made. The most difficult thing is to turn out the first part of the tire, and the further the work will go the easier, the less you turn out. But for complete confidence, you can find on the Internet and watch a master class on tire inversion.

Now the tire needs to be painted. Before painting, it is degreased with acetone or white spirit. Better to paint in two layers, white at the bottom, and color on it. Thanks to this trick, the base color fits better and looks brighter. It is advised to paint not only the outer surface of the future flower bed, but also partially the inner one - to the level of the soil layer, this will give the flower bed durability and a single aesthetic appearance. The pot is ready, and it remains to fill it with earth and plants. Usually, at this stage, the rubber cutting and painting master passes the baton to the flower growers.

What are the flower beds

Tire beds can take on the most bizarre shapes, because ideas, what they can be, are not limited to anything. Such flower beds can be single or prefabricated, ground, on a stand, wall, hanging. As for the form, here the ideas are also endless: just a painted tire, a flower, a frog, a swan, a cup, a turtle, a boat, a car, this is just the case when original ideas are endless.

It happens that the tire cannot be turned out in any way, but this is not a reason to be upset. The master is learned not by making strictly according to the instructions, but by making beautifully. Instead of turning it inside out, the tire can be painted in different colors or pebbles, glass, small metal or plastic parts can be glued to it. Multicolored painting will give the tire pot no less high class than artistic carving.

How to decorate a finished flower garden

Finished flower beds need to be filled with drainage, then earth. You can mix the soil mixture with your own hands, you can take ordinary garden soil. For growing in flowerpots made of tires, flowers with a branching root system without a pronounced main root are better suited. Although a gardening master will be able to grow strawberries, seedlings and even cucumbers in them. For beginners, simple bulbs are suitable - crocuses, tulips, daffodils.

If the flower beds made of tires are raised above the ground, then any climbing plants can be planted in them - vines, sweet peas, ivy. Periwinkle, marigolds, cornflowers, daisies, violets also look beautiful. And, of course, the highest class of ornamental plants is roses. As a matter of fact, any flower that you take care of with your own hands will delight both in an ordinary flower bed and in a flower garden made of tires. The ideas for decorating your garden are endless, as are the ideas for the alternative use of your worn-out items. Hand-made flower beds made of old tires are a good way to combine both. And it is also a great reason to show that the owner of the dacha is a jack of all trades.

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