Is It Safe To Grow Potatoes In Tires?

Check out my new book that you can pre-order now. Simplify Vegetable Gardening will be available on 16th Feb 2024. Pre-order now to be the first to get a copy of this book that has all my personal tips. https://geni.us/SimplifyVegGardening I have spent the last 10 years helping people to grow their own food at home. And now I wonder about some practices. Is your homegrown food poisoning you? With so many chemicals in use in everyday life and people looking to recycle, reuse and repurpose products in the garden, IT got me wondering how safe tires in the garden are.

Lots of people use tires as raised beds in the garden. Usually to grow potatoes, brassicas, or lettuce. I was recently asked the question by a viewer, ” Is it safe to grow potatoes in tires”? I knew what I felt but i delved into the statistics to bring you the facts so that you can make your own mind up.

So in this video, I am going to take you through all the stats I found so that you can decide yourself if your homegrown food is poisoning your family. Stay tuned!

Here are the links to the safety data sheets on the chemicals mentioned in this video.
http://demo.rkmsuk.com/MSDS/5%20bitumen.pdf
http://www.ecfibreglasssupplies.co.uk/images/SafetyDataSheet/1607.pdf
http://cepsa.ca/client/documents/benzene.pdf
https://hmdb.ca/system/metabolites/msds/000/031/902/original/HMDB33244.pdf?1358894091
http://www.dhc-solvent.de/files/dhc/download/DHC_SDS_008_en.pdf

And this is the link to the study about the illegal tire dump
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/9085433/

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