Three Uses for OldTires, Calcium for Tomatoes and More

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250,000,000 used tires are added to disposal sites like this one each year.

Three Uses for Old Tires

Gophers: After watching both young and mature plants
disappear overnight from my vegetable garden, gobbled from
the bottom up by gophers, the following year I decided to
foil those critters by planting in raised beds out of their

  • Published on Feb 1, 1995
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