green living recycle organic gardening: The Failed Sweet Potato Experiment - 10/01/10 12:09 PM
The Failed Sweet Potato Experiment
On July 5 I wrote post called Grow Sweet Potatoes in Southeast Michigan and Recycle Your Old Tires at the Same Time.
In a nutshell, we were attempting to grow our sweet potatoes vertically by stacking tires as the plant grew. It idea was, when fall came we could knock over the stack of tires and WALA! Piles of spuds. 50 pounds per stack!
That was the idea....
All summer, as the plants grew over the top of the stack, we would throw another tire on top and run out to the manure pile (beautiful, 2 … (20 comments)

green living recycle organic gardening: Grow Sweet Potatoes in Southeast Michigan and Recycle Your Old Tires at the Same Time - 07/05/10 12:01 PM
My mom and I bought a small farm in the Thumb area of Michigan a little over 15 years ago with the agreement that I would work (a job- real estate) and she would cook, do housework and raise a lot of our own food (which is also work- jut not one with a pay check). It sounded like a good idea at the time and has worked out great. We raise our own beef, pork, eggs and chicken meat and she plants a HUGE garden every year.
One thing that has been a disappointment for Mom is she can't grow a … (3 comments)