Keyhole gardening

Keyhole gardens are practically raised beds on flat ground, raised by sticks. Rowed gardens are ordinary raised beds. Should you go for keyhole gardens or rowed ones?

Bonus: all the ingredients - old boxes, newspapers, and leaves - are totally free!

There are numerous benefits to installing a keyhole garden and the process is not difficult at all. Learn how to build, plant and maintain one here.

Keyhole gardens are commonly seen in permaculture because they are beautiful and productive, ideal for small spaces, and can accommodate a variety of plants, annual vegetables, herbs, and flowers. …

This old dog is learning new tricks. I've been introduced to the idea of an African keyhole garden. When it was first suggested that I check these gardens out, I thought they were nothing special, just a raised bed with an aisleway cut into them for easy access to the out of reach plants. Wrong. Sure, a standard keyhole is like that, but these African developed ones are different. These are designed for low water useage and no commercial fertilizer. Now......now, my interest was piqued…

Not all keyhole gardens are round. In the photos below we illustrate how we created a small rectangular overgrown space into a good looking, functional, sheet mulched square keyhole garden. Doing this instead of rows in...

Grow your vegetables in a raised bed and compost at the same time with this efficient keyhole garden bed design.

Have terrible soil? Living in the middle of a drought but still want fresh vegetables? Then you need a keyhole garden! NOTE: If you missed my posts "Building…

Using an empty 2 Lt bottle, cut off the bottom. Fill with worm castings and worms leaving space for some raw organic vegetable waste. Plant the bottle in the middle of a large container, leaving a …

Last week, I wrote about the many social and ecological problems that we face as a society and linked them to the systems we use to meet our needs. After that post, I received a lot of feedback from people offline. In fact, from the analytical data I have access to, that last post quickly became one of the most read and shared pieces I've written here. Many said they had been thinking similarly along these lines, somehow intuiting the challenges we face, but not quite connecting it to our…