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hi senn started gardening hmmmmmmmm………… anyways i don hav much knowldge abt gardening all i knw is that water them regularly n haan make sure that u don spray harmful insecticides on them take gud care of them..
6 x 8 might be a large enough space if you utilize wide row gardening techniques. Tomatoes, cucumbers, and cantalope can be grown on a trellis or in cages. Cantalope will need to be cradled to do this. This eliminates sprawl and wasted space.
Strawberry plants do not need to be grown in the garden, they do make a pretty good landscape. You will need to remove older plants every other year.
Corn usually does require a larger area for pollination but, you can manually pollinate by shaking the tops once the tassles form.
The two sites below might give you additional information.
I planted peas April first (every year) but other plants may have to wait.
If you already have the tires – I say use 'em. Don't burn them, however. I can't imagine there is any concern about the quality of the veggies since what that really depends on is the soil you put them in and how you fertilize etc. They make rubber mulch these days – probably from old tires…
One critter warning – if you are not going to turn the tires inside out to eliminate the ridges, or if you are going to "store" tires, I would give you a caveat about mosquitoes who LOVE to breed in the little bit of water that usually sits in those ridges. Make sure the tires are packed tight with soil.
If you don't have tires already, I don't see an advantage to this method over any other raised bed method.
There are lots of unanswered questions that would help determine what the best garden situation is for you :
Do you want raised beds because you have trouble up and down? If that is the case, build a box (make the bottom out of screening and landscape fabric so water will flow through) and set it on top of some table legs or horses.
Or is it because you only have a little bit of space? Container gardening is easily done with vegetables. See the book Movable Harvest for really great ideas. You can use pretty much anything you can put a drainage hole in (provided it didn't have chemicals in it first!).
Personally, I think anytime you are recycling something for a good use it is worthwhile – but for the love of God – PLEASE don't buy new tires to try this project out!
Just in case you DO have a bunch of tires laying around, I attached a link to a site that has many ideas for using them up in the garden.
Good luck to you and your dad!