Flower bed - original homemade decoration for your garden

Actually, according to the laws of recyclables, those who have worn out their tires should go straight to the scrap, where they will recycle and do something rubber that can still serve the person. But, honest in your heart, where did you see in our country an organized collection of tires? Especially somewhere "deeper", where to go for a couple of dozen tires - at a loss. On the other hand, a craftsman is able to see beauty even in scraps ...

Whatever it was, it's possible to make a lot of useful and beautiful things from the tire with your own hands - from simple curbs and children's swings to elegant sculptural installations. But our task is to create a flowering flower-bed from it, we proceed to it.

Strictly speaking, how to create a flower bed from this rubber product, you can not particularly bother, because we already have a form. But the flowerbed has its own characteristics, they will have to be taken into account. In principle, they are the same as the usual flower pots.

We only have to be surprised: the sites that tell us how the flowerbed is made of tires are more than enough, but there are practically no references to the fact that such a bed is vitally important drainage. But the plants will have to be watered, the water will penetrate the bottom of the structure through the soil, and if it stays there, sooner or later the roots of the plants will simply rot. So, before making a flower bed, take care of its drainage. It is done very simply: in the place where your product will stand, dig a hole and fill it with stones or large branches.

Another feature is the living space of plants. If they grow, it should be enough. Otherwise, the flowers will begin to take away moisture and nutrients from each other, and the leaves - the sun's rays. The weakest will wither, the strongest will crush everyone around. It will turn out ugly.

It is better to paint a tire with water-based emulsion and parquet varnish, but only when it is completely washed and dried. Choose colors to trust your imagination and taste. You can go much further than the principle of "one tire - one color." The main thing, of course, is harmony.

And the figure for a bed of tires can be made any - a curbstone, a turret, a bookcase, even a whole flowering wall!

But who of the aesthetes will not like a chic bed of tires in the form of a classic bowl ?! To work on it, however, it is necessary, but the final result, indeed, is worth it.

If you have, from which to choose the source material - choose a tire not of domestic production (our incredibly thick) and with winter tires (above it is easier to conjure). Prepare a chalk, sharpened shoe knife, soap solution and Bulgarian.

Chalk needs to outline the contours of the future "petals" of our vase. If you want to make the flower bed of the tire very beautiful, try to observe the symmetry. The lower contours should not extend a little to the inside edge of the tire.

Start cutting on the contour with a knife, periodically plunging its blade into a soap solution to facilitate the process. Do not give in to the provocation of those who will persuade you to make it a Bulgarian! In addition to strong smoke, harmful to health, you greatly reduce the tool life.

The time of the Bulgarian will come, if the tire still did it with us: it will have to cut the metal cord so that there is enough strength to turn the tire inside out. Three cuts are made outside the tire; As soon as sparks go - this is a metal cord.

There is an eversion. A smaller part of the cut tire will become a stand resting on the ground, most of it facing it, a shelter for plants and flowers.

The flower bed of the tire is ready. It was left only to clean and paint. For painting, pick up light colors, otherwise the earth in the flowerbed will overheat in the summer.