Prune Your Garden and Care for Your Car

Gardening season is almost among us, and this year’s “Pruning Frenzy” class at Toms Creek Nursery is all about making that connection with nature and setting up your lawn and garden to look their best. But before you start pruning and sweating and enjoying that Mount Airy spring breeze, it’s a good idea to check your car’s tires for replacement—and you might just be able to use those old tires to beautify your outdoor area!

Though we’re not quite there yet, warm weather is right around the corner. And once those warm days hit, it’s time to get your hands dirty and your yard looking like it should.

This is also the time of year when you need to use your truck or SUV—or even your sedan—to haul bags of dirt and transport those pesky weeds and limbs. This also means you will most likely be driving off-road a bit, so you need to make sure your vehicle is ready to handle the workload. In particular, can those old tires you keep forgetting to replace handle the drive over brush and gravel and dirt? You don’t want a blown tire to slow you down, so you need to deal with this situation right away; prune your garden and take care of your car, both make for a happy life.

Here’s the good news: not only does Mount Airy Toyota have a brand-new set of tires at the best price waiting for you, we also have a great idea for what you can do with your old tires—create an artificial reef! That’s right, simply throw those old tires in a lake or pond and they create a perfect habitat for fish.

This idea for an artificial reef first got popular in the 1970s and 80s, and we are bringing it back. Now it’s probably not a good idea to go around throwing tires in random lakes and ponds without permission, but if you have a body of water, large or small, you can repurpose those tires.

Now that you have a new set of tires, and a brand new fresh-water reef, it’s off to pruning class. The 2-hour course costs only $10, and you will learn everything from basic pruning techniques to advanced methods of restoring your plants. Classes are taught by the horticulturalist, Jim Carraher who has been pruning away since the 1980s.

Check Mount Airy’s event calendar for class dates and times here. Come get some insight on how to make your lawn and garden (and brand-new reef!) looking their best this spring.