Using recycled tires, or whole tires in your garden décor, is a really great thing to do to help the environment and believe it or not your plants!
Using whole tires as garden containers, actually helps keep your plants warm in the winter months, as they help keep the soil warm, and the therefore keeping frost away from the roots. You can also use whole tires to create swings for children. You should be able to find plenty of places and people who would be happy to give you their old useless tires for free.
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Posted in Enviroment, Garden, Recycled Tires, Rubber Mulch, recycle, rubber soil
When you look out your child, and think that they are looking too pale from sitting inside and playing whatever game is flavor of the month on their console, then it’s time to get them outside and teach them about gardening and recycling, with the help of your newly installed rubber soil!
Encouraging your child to participate in some gardening is as simple as giving them a few seeds, some gardening tools made for children a little plot of land, and a watering can! It is best to go out first of all on a sunny day, as until you have shown you child the merits of gardening, they are likely to go back inside and get back on their games consoles.
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Posted in Environment, Garden, Rubber Mulch, gardening, recycle, rubber soil
One of the most niggling things in life is when cats choose your garden to do their pooping in; it’s even more annoying when these cats are not even yours.
Imagine the scenario you’ve just laid rubber mulch around your prized plants, and play set in your garden and a cat starts using a certain patch of this rubber mulch, for its daily business. It’s not nice for your kids if it’s in the play set area, or you if it’s near your prized plants when you go to tend them.
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Posted in Garden, Landscape, Rubber Mulch
Many new gardeners, homeowners, or people new to landscaping, do not appreciate how rubber mulch (rubber soil made from recycled tires) can actually benefit their gardens and landscapes, and even lessen their workloads.
Regardless of which garden/landscape type is your passion, putting rubber mulch around the garden beds, will be beneficial in many ways like weed control, conserving water, protection from the cold and enhancing the beauty of your garden.
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When the frosts come and ice or snow hit our gardens hard, there are all sorts of things that we have been told we can do to protect our plants. This is all good and well, but what about protecting the soil around our plants.
More and more people are turning to mulch, for a protective layer around their plants. Nowadays, the aim for most people is to be as friendly to the environment as possible, and that is a good thing. But when you get chemicals sprayed onto things like wooden mulch, so they last a bit longer, or so that they don’t pass on fungal infections to the plants, don’t you think that is defeating the object?
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Posted in Environment, Recycled Tires, Rubber Mulch, recycle
Garden design has come along way from the old front lawn, to creating an oasis of relaxation in the front and rear of our premises. We have stepping stone pathways, gravel and even decking, to make our garden environment more enjoyable.
We also look for more ideas from around the world to give different contrasts to our gardens. For example, we have taken the idea of minimalism from the Japanese environment in the garden, and used it with the traditional English garden to create something that is relaxing, peaceful and beautiful all at the same time.
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Posted in Garden, Rubber Mulch
Have you ever wandered down the local neighborhood and thought, what on earth is that smell? It smells like someone has just had a crash with a silage container. You know you are not walking down a small road in the countryside (you’re in your local neighborhood), where some farmer is doing the muck spreading behind the hedge you have just walked past.
The smell is invading your nostrils and reminds you of a dodgy trip in the car you went on with your parents when you where young. As the strong odor hits the back of your throat, the memory of being sick in the car, because of that exact same smell rushes through your mind.
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Almost any tire can be recycled, including passenger vehicle tires (cars, motorbikes, buses and even airplanes) and commercial trucks and trailers. So you can imagine that the amount of these tires that cannot be reused because they are too worn down, or suffered irreparable damage is phenomenal.
First of all the rubber recycling process involves the collection of these discarded tires. Tires left on landfill sites or burn harm the environment, so a much better way is to recycle this abundance of rubber. A whole host of new markets have opened up recently to make good use of this rubber, one being the tire mulch industry. Recycling rubber tires not only helps the environment, but the economy too, as people need to be employed for the recycling process of rubber.
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Posted in Enviroment, Recycled Tires, Rubber, Rubber Mulch, recycle
A friend told me about this experience the other day and I think it was rather poignant.
Walking around the other day was very interesting, the scenery, what I could see of it was beautiful, the soda cans were being used by young snail’s as a playground, plastic bags in the hedgerows that rats where using to play hide and seek with, and multi colored bags flying up in the air creating what some might consider as modern art in our trees surrounding the environment.
The snails, seemed to be enjoying themselves especially, the one who was stuck, kind of half way in, and half way out. He was wriggling about faster than I have ever seen a snail move, in his natural environment.
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Posted in Enviroment, Rubber Mulch
Following from a recent blog post – Rubber Mulch FAQ, here are some more questions that are often asked about using rubber mulch in your garden.
Why is rubber mulch a better alternative to wood mulch?
To start of with, rubber mulch is a really environmentally friendly type of matter to have in your garden, and an indicator to all people who see it, that you are helping the environment!
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