Heeeyho Readers! More updates from our little ranch!
"Here, some photos to add to the blog," says Dad over the chat app.
With his clear order, I guess this post is more of my dad's post then mine. At least the photos are his, and the idea, and the initiative. Note: I've tried to encourage my dad to start a Hive blog but he doesn't speak English nor is very enthusiastic about writing in Portuguese. I'll keep on trying though. Anyways.
It's been a while that we are planning to fertilize our fruit trees with compost, but, since I was busy having my eyes checked, Dad embarked on this mission solo. It's an important step in cultivating fruit trees for two reasons: I.) provides the trees with nutrients and II.) gives us a chance to repurpose rubber tires.
According to Google, it takes approximately 50-80 years (or longer) for a tire to decompose in a landfill.
Dad collected various used tires at a local shop for this project. Shops are more than glad to give them away for free, as used tires take a lot of space and have no other destination than recycling initiatives. Check what he's done.
Final result
Before we start I have to mention: We could've added the compost without the tires, but 100% of certainty the chickens would scatter it in seconds — that's why we added the tires as a contention barrier.
First and most tedious step is to cut all the tires in half. Dad used our table saw for this step.
Used tires from the local shop
All cut in half
He then cleaned around the fruit trees where the tires will lay. I'm thinking that once the trees grow there's no way to take the tires out unless cutting. I guess it's not a problem. And its better to have the tires rot away serving a purpose then buried into the ground. The half tired goes as follow.
Half tire
Soil preparation
You cannot see, but the soil in our ranch is kinda rocky, in the sense that it has tiny rocks mixed in. For that reason it's crucial to provide the trees with the compost we make separately. You can see our compost here.
Once the soil is prepared we can add the tires over the tree and around the base, in order to create a nice, localized, juicy, super sexy compost directly near the roots.
Tadaaaaam
This has an explanation
As you can see, the compound is very contained where it should be and won't be scattered by demoniac chickens nor the rain.
Speaking of chicken...
Of course the Chickenian army attacked the compost with full raging eyes and tiny little claws, so Dad was forced to place old tiles on top. Not the most beautiful solution. And it doesn't work either {laughs}. The little feathered Satan discovered they can step onto the tip and flip the tiles. Dad is about to make chicken soup if they don't behave well.
I don't have a conclusion picture since I spoiled the result right in the beginning of this post {sorry}. But I do have some other projects using tires that I plan to bring on future posts.
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