The problem of recycling used tires has been a concern for environmentalists since the late 70s of the last century. This is especially true for our country, where there are not yet a sufficient number of enterprises capable of using them as recyclable materials. As they say, in such a situation, everyone is saved as best they can, so we can only welcome those craftsmen who are trying to free landfills from these non-decomposing wastes and, for example, make flowerbeds from tires with their own hands. They can be very different, from worn tires simply dug into the ground, 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 the area in front of your house to be decorated with a beautiful flower bed made of tires, you can read below how to make one with your own hands.
Which to use
If you have a choice, then an intricate DIY tire bed that involves carving shapes will look better if you use foreign-made products, as they have thinner and more pliable 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 worn proctor is softer, so the process of eversion is easier and does not require much effort.
Flower
To make original flowerbeds of 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 it so that you get two identical halves. So you need to do this 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 different colors and dug 5-6 cm into the ground, laying out a flower with 6 petals with a round center. The composition will look more interesting if the core is planted with flowers of one type, and the petals of another.
Pyramid Flowerbed
This is a very simple and beautiful version of a flowerbed made of tires, made by hand, suitable for plots or yards with a small area. For its implementation, you will need 6 tires that need to be painted in bright colors and laid in 3 rows, in whichthere will be 3, 2 and 1 tires. 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, of 3 on the second and crowning it with one. Such a pyramid will look especially impressive if you choose a plant with large leaves for the upper "vase".
Flowerbeds from car tires with their own hands in the form of a vase
There is a more difficult option, the implementation of which will require a lot of patience. However, the result is usually just excellent.
So, in order to create original flower beds from tires with your own hands in the form of large vases resembling open flowers, you need:
- Place the tire on a flat surface and draw with 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 jigsaw along the marked 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 a few cuts along 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 stem.
- Decorate using enamel, oil or nitro paints.
To make a bed of tires, with your own handsmade, it has become even more beautiful, you can use a stencil to apply an ornament or stick various decorative elements on top of the base layer of paint.
Pyramid slide
If you have 3 tires of different sizes, or at least two and one plastic bucket with a capacity of 0.5 liters, 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 laid on top of each other in descending order of diameter, stuffing each with earth. From above, you need to install a bucket and, plant climbing plants in it and in the tires from the lower layers, so that they hang down from the hill as they grow, covering it all.
Flower-"cup"
A flowerbed of tires made in the form of a cup will also look original. Moreover, if the place allows, then you can even install a whole tea set on your site.
For such crafts, first of all, you need to make the bottom part, which will depict a saucer. You will need a tire from a truck, which needs to cut the sidewall with an electric jigsaw (to make work easier, it is recommended to cool the jigsaw blade in soapy water from time to time). Having finished this work, they take the R13 tire and cut off the sidewall with a well-ground, or even better, shoe knife, lubricating the blade with liquid soap. After that, the tire is turned inside out so that the tread is inside, and a bowl without a bottom is obtained. The next stage is the manufacture of the upper part of the mug, for which you need a tire of a slightly larger diameter, for example, from an UAZ. Both sides are cut off. In this case, on the one hand, it should be done so that the resulting hole alongthe dimensions were no larger than the diameter of the "bowl". In addition, a strip for the handle is cut from the scraps of the largest tire.
When all the details are ready, you should start painting and assembling the flower bed. To do this, the "saucer" and the handle are painted in one color, and parts of the mug in another. Further, at the place where they are going to install a flower bed, they lay a piece of cellophane and put a "saucer" on top, and first a "bowl" is placed in its hole, and then the upper part of the mug. Then, with the help of self-tapping screws, the handle is fixed and, using a stencil, mugs are applied 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.
"Pig" and "Ladybug"
If you are interested in the question of how to make a flowerbed 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 inside out 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 using a stencil and depict a muzzle with eyes. You can also make a funny piggy by painting an inverted tire hot pink and attaching a spiral tail cut from a plastic bottle. After the earth is filled up in such a flower bed and plants are planted, it is necessary to cut out a piece of rubber from another tirehead with ears and patch and insert it inside the tire circle, between the flowers.
Flower-"frog"
A flowerbed made of tires, made with your own hands, can be of various shapes, for example, resemble a frog. For such crafts you will need:
- three used car tires;
- two lids from kilogram buckets of ice cream or ghee;
- enamel PF green, yellow or red;
- self-adhesive colored paper;
- hose;
- awl;
- sponge;
- wire.
How to make a frog flower bed
The manufacturing process is very simple: the tires need to be painted green and, if desired, apply yellow rims on top. Then install two tires in the chosen place, and on top, between them, the third. From the hose, also painted with green paint, it is necessary to cut two pieces about 1 m long, and from another tire - 4 paws and lay two in front of the lower tires, and two between them, after attaching the "hoses" to them. When the body of the frog is ready, you need to move on to the design of its head. To do this, you need to draw eyes on the lids of ice cream buckets, and a mouth on the top tire with red paint. After that, it remains just to fill up the ground and plant flowers. If you wish, you can turn a frog into an enchanted princess by making her a crown from a plastic bottle painted with yellow paint.
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 crafts, 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 size of the necks of plastic bottles, and, after smearing them with glue, screw them into the tires. After that, the entire structure must be painted yellow and flowers should be planted.
Flower-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, it is necessary to cut off the upper part of the tire 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 intended for arranging swimming pools, with a diameter of 1 m more than the diameter of the tire. The edges of the film protruding above the side of the tire must be wrapped outward, secured and overlaid with small round stones or broken bricks. It remains to put a small mesh basket with soil on the bottom of the reservoir, in which water lily roots are planted.
