Keyhole composting garden bed

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

This method of raised bed gardening is an ideal solution if you live in a challenging climate

Keyhole gardening is a perfect solution if you'd like to have a garden but live in an area with poor soil, dry weather, or limited outdoor space. Keyhole gardens are round raised beds built around a central compost basket. A small entryway gives the bed its keyhole shape and provides convenient access.

As Oklahoma summers continue to get hotter and drier, gardeners are looking for ways to prolong the growing season while responsibly maintaining resources.

How To Build a Keyhole Garden Bed: Grow your vegetables in a raised bed and compost at the same time with this efficient keyhole garden bed design.

A complete guide to starting your first Keyhole Garden. A keyhole garden is a circular raised bed. You grow crops in the outer circle and the center portion has a composting basket. Due to the old-fashioned skeleton-keyhole shape, it has been given this name. You throw kitchen scrapes and grey-water into the compost basket daily. This will help to recharge the soil to encourage development in the plants.

Keyhole Gardening 101: All You Need to Know | Bob Vila

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. …

In essence, a keyhole garden is a raised planting area, complete with a composting bin in the middle, to ensure equal distribution of nutrients.

This is what our keyhole bed looked like yesterday just before I fed the remaining vegetables to our chickens and the compost pile. Ignore the large pot--that's a future solar powered fountain that will be incorporated in a new vegetable garden we're working on.

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

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?

Keyhole gardening is a clever method to get more from less with a smartly structured garden bed, build around a compost tower. Click to learn how!

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…