The problem of recycling used tires has been of concern to environmentalists since the late 70s of the last century. This is especially true of our country, where there are still not a sufficient number of enterprises capable of using them as recyclables. As they say, in such a situation, everyone is saved as best he can, so you can only welcome those craftsmen who are trying to free landfills from these non-decomposable waste and, for example, make flower beds from tires with their own hands. They can be very different, from simply worn out tires buried in the soil in which flowers are planted to complex flowerpots in the form of swans with a bright pattern. If you are interested in this idea and want a beautiful flower bed from a tire to decorate the area in front of your house, you can read below how to make it yourself.
Which to use
If you have a choice, then a complex flowerbed made of tires with your own hands, the manufacture of which involves cutting figures, will look better if you use foreign products, as they have thinner and more supple rubber. In addition, it makes sense to give preference to winter tires, as they are more textured, and worn tires. The fact is that the shabby proctor is softer, so the eversion process is easier and does not require special efforts.
"Flower"
To make original flower beds from tires with your own hands in the form of daisies, you just need to take any 4 tires, preferably the same size. You will need to remove the rubber from the metal rim and cut so that you get two identical halves. This is what you need to do with three tires, and for one, leave the rubber shell intact, as it will be used as the core of the flower. Then the halves and the whole tire must be painted in various colors and dug 5-6 cm into the ground, laying out of them a flower having 6 petals with a round center. The composition will look more interesting if the core is planted with flowers of one species, and the petals of another.
Flower bed pyramid
This very simple and beautiful version of a flowerbed made of tires, made with your own hands, is suitable for plots or yards with a small area. For its implementation, you need 6 tires, which must be painted in bright colors and laid in 3 rows, in which there will be 3, 2 and 1 tire. If the summer cottage is quite spacious, then you can make the design more complicated by laying out a flower of 5-6 tires in the bottom row, from 3 in the second row and crowning it with one. Such a pyramid will look especially impressive if you select a plant with large leaves for the upper "flowerpot".
Flowerbed made of car tires in the form of a vase
There is a more complex option, the implementation of which will require a lot of patience. However, the result is usually usually just excellent.
So, to create original flower beds from tires for your own hands in the form of large vases resembling opened flowers, you need:
- Lay the tire on a flat surface and draw in chalk the petals of the desired shape around the entire circumference. In this case, the size of each petal should not exceed 12 cm.
- Cut the workpiece with a sharp knife or a jigsaw according to the applied contour. To facilitate this task, you can occasionally apply a little liquid soap to the knife.
- Make longitudinal cuts along the grooves of the tread at a distance of about 10 cm.
- Using a grinder, make several cuts on the outside and smoothly cut the rubber with an indent of 15 cm. If everything is done correctly and the grinder touches the metal cord, white smoke should be emitted.
- Turn the tire inside out so that you get a kind of flower on the leg.
- Decorate using enamel, oil or nitro paints.
To make a flower bed made of tires with your own hands even more beautiful, you can apply an ornament or stick various decorative elements on top of the base layer of paint with a stencil.
Slide pyramid
If you have 3 tires of different sizes or at least two and one plastic bucket with a capacity of 0.5 l, then you can make a pyramid according to the principle of a well-known children's toy. To create it, the tires need to be stacked on top of each other in decreasing order of diameter, stuffing each with earth. From above it is necessary to install a bucket and, plant in it and in the tires from the lower layers of the climbing plants, so that they hang down from the hill as they grow, covering it all.
Flowerbed - "cup"
The flowerbed made of tires, made in the form of a cup, will also look original. Moreover, if the place allows, then on your site you can even install a whole tea service.
For such crafts, first of all, you need to make the bottom part, which will depict the saucer. You will need a tire from the truck, which you need to cut off the sidewall with an electric jigsaw (to make work easier, it is recommended to cool the jigsaw blade from time to time in soapy water). Having finished this work, they take the R13 tire and cut off the sidewall with a well-sharpened, and even better with a boot knife, lubricating the blade with liquid soap. After that, the tire is turned inside out so that the tread is inside, and the bowl turns out without a bottom. The next stage is the manufacture of the upper part of the mug, which will require a slightly larger diameter tire, for example, from an UAZ. Both sides are cut off from it. In this case, on the one hand, it should be done so that the resulting hole in size is no larger than the diameter of the “bowl”. In addition, a handle strip is cut from the scraps of the largest tire.
When all the parts are ready, you should start painting and assembling the flowerbed. To do this, the “saucer” and the pen are painted in one color, and the parts of the mug in another. Then, at the place where they are going to install the flower bed, they lay a piece of cellophane and put a “saucer” on top, and first place a “bowl” and then the upper part of the mug in its hole. Then, with the help of self-tapping screws, fix the handle and use a stencil to apply the mugs to the mug in the color of the “saucer”. All! Now you know how to make a flower bed out of a tire with your own hands in the form of a cup. It remains to fill it with earth and plant flowers.
Piglet and Ladybug
If you are interested in the question of how to make a flower bed out of tires with your own hands simpler, but so that it looks original, you can use your imagination. To do this, you can simply remove the “gum” from the rim, turn it on the wrong side and paint it accordingly. For example, if you want a ladybug to appear on the site, you can paint the tire red, apply black dots with a stencil and depict a muzzle with eyes. You can also make a funny pig by painting the inverted tire in a bright pink color and adjusting the spiral tail cut out of a plastic bottle. After the soil is planted in such a flowerbed and plants are planted, you need to cut a head with ears and a patch from a piece of rubber from another tire and insert it inside the tire circle, between the flowers.
Flowerbed - "frog"
A flower bed made of tires, made with your own hands, can be of very different shapes, for example, resembling a frog. For such a craft you will need:
- three used car tires;
- two lids from kilogram ice-cream or ghee buckets;
- enamel PF green, yellow or red;
- self-adhesive colored paper;
- hose;
- awl;
- sponge;
- wire.
How to make a frog flowerbed
The manufacturing process is very simple: the tires need to be painted green and, if desired, put yellow rims on top. Then install two tires on the chosen place, and on top, between them, a third. From the hose, also painted green, it is necessary to cut two lengths of about 1 m, and from another tire - 4 legs and put two in front of the lower tires, and two in between, after attaching “hoses” to them. When the frog’s body is ready, you need to go to the design of its head. To do this, it is necessary to draw eyes on the covers of ice-cream buckets, and on the upper tire - mouth red paint. After that, it remains just to fill the ground and plant flowers. If you wish, you can turn the frog into an enchanted princess by making her a crown from a plastic bottle painted with yellow paint.
"The sun"
Many summer residents are interested in how to make a flower bed out of a tire with their own hands in the form of the sun. For such a craft you will need one tire, bright yellow paint and several plastic bottles. The tire must be removed from the metal wheel and buried in the ground so that only a semicircle remains above the surface.
Then on the tire you need to make holes with a diameter equal to the sizes of the necks of plastic bottles, and, lubricating them with glue, screw them into the tires. After that, the entire structure needs to be painted yellow and the flowers planted.
Flowerbed pool for aquatic plants
Water lilies and water lilies can be an excellent decoration for a summer cottage. However, what if there is no way to equip at least a small pond or pool? In such cases, it is enough to make a “water” flower bed from the tire. To do this, the tire must be cut off the upper part and dig it into the ground to half. Then it is necessary to lay on top a round piece of a special waterproofing film, which is designed to equip pools with a diameter of 1 m more than the diameter of the tire. The edges of the film protruding above the tire edge must be turned outward, fixed and overlaid with small round stones or broken brick. It remains to put at the bottom of the reservoir a small mesh basket with earth, in which the roots of a water lily are planted.