Keyhole Gardens (Texas Country Reporter)

[@lisakoehler7313]

I built 1 using cinder blocks 4 yrs ago. It's amazing. I dont use as much water now (live in south tx where it is 100+ most of summer). Plants do amazing. I do keep a separate bin for composting as we have lots to compost and I add that each spring to top off the garden. No pesticides. Easy to reach. When it gets really hot I may water the whole garden once a week. Otherwise I just keep a coffee can in kitchen to put kitchen scraps in and fill it full of water before dumping in the wire composting bin in garden. Because it stays warm so long here and fairly mild winters I plant lots of lettuces in fall. If you dont like the idea of cardboard then go traditional and use grass, leaves, ect to fill. I even put metal food cans in bottom. They rust and put iron in soil. We live in country but these would be perfect for urban dwellers with a yard. I can feed 4 adults off what we grow. Never buy veggies anymore.

[@jamiebrooking6088]

Hi doc thanks for being I am dong my next keyhole garden in baja mexico.I am from tx.

[@lalamunns]

This is brilliant! I have enjoyed watching these videos. Traditional ways of gardening are by far the best. Hats off to you lady! I want loads of these things. I am going to spread the news like gospel.

[@erikhayes3515]

I believe this started I'm Uganda. Love this!

[@doubleav]

I'm going to be making one of these in our garden area! Love seeing Permaculture come to life!

[@lynnedolan7905]

So, I made my keyhole gardens very simply. Nine pieces of rebar (to create the keyhole shape) surrounded by chicken wire (small holes). Bottom layer: cardboard. Then a layer of twigs and branches crunched down. Then a layer each of straw and steer compost. Finally, top soil. The compost bin in the middle is made from chicken wire filled with mostly kitchen scraps. Voila! Cheap, easy, effective and environmentally friendly. P.S. Rocks around the base.

[@isbcornbinder]

What a beautiful idea...........and the lady is very easy on my eyes. Thanks for the video and some ideas for our garden.

[@lisakoehler7313]

Oh and this is who started using keyhole gardens-www.care-international.org/ They were developed for AIDs patients to have easier access to gardens in Zimbabwe. CARE is a consortium of multiple countries. So they are actually correct because it was the group from England that started it.

[@jesusduribe2654]

Never heard of this 🤔 But it is FABULOUS 🌻🍂🍁🍀🌱🥀🌼🌻

[@sushilalove6659]

Keyhole gardens actually hail from Lesotho (Africa), originally, not England.

[@wilfried02121969]

Lesotho in England, look its on a map, direct nerar Basingtoke & Southampton in Westfalia (kzbin.info/www/bejne/oGO5hYVua8Scha8)

[@naeemahjs]

Datt Ding vom Rhing Lesotho is in Africa, surrounded by South Africa. The capital is Maseru. Lesotho was colonized by Britain but was declared independence in 1966.

[@amandathurston2720]

Mayans did it first. They just had a different name.

[@MakeGarden]

Never thought of putting so much cardboard newspaper etc. to make a garden. interesting👍

[@gardencookeat22]

Or all that shiny paper. Tape. White plastic labels. Trash.

[@pershop4950]

I like the idea of wetting down the cardboard first before putting them at the bottom.

[@robinminkler]

This alllmmosst makes me want to get off my butt and garden! :)

[@dinokpir]

Originated in AFRICA! In Lesotho by C-SAFE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhole_garden

[@augustinjoe3733]

Is this kind of garden a lifetime. How long does it take before you redo

[@kushbandit8701]

African Key Hole garden it's called.. why leave that out?

[@kevykev913]

how tight do the cmu blocks need to be????

[@amandathurston2720]

You can compost your enemies in those.

[@maienduo]

All knowledge came from Africa where the original man came from, not from England

[@carltonhamilton316]

“For God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son, that whoever believes in Him should not perish but have everlasting life. For God did not send His Son into the world to condemn the world, but that the world through Him might be saved. “He who believes in Him is not condemned; but he who does not believe is condemned already, because he has not believed in the name of the only begotten Son of God. And this is the condemnation, that the light has come into the world, and men loved darkness rather than light, because their deeds were evil. For everyone practicing evil hates the light and does not come to the light, lest his deeds should be exposed. But he who does the truth comes to the light, that his deeds may be clearly seen, that they have been done through God.” John 3:16-21

[@johnanderson4203]

If it’s true this is awesome

[@heavensent7574]

Keyhole gardens has it's origins in Lesotho. That's in Africa. Wikipedia confirms it.👍😳

[@Infinitybein]

Keyhole Garden concept comes from Africa!

[@SeanRyno]

Folks in England did not invent this. Keyhole gardens are from Africa.

[@ebonysungoddess6648]

Thank You! i get so sick of this thievery

[@kerryward6896]

dear god, please do not let my mother see this

[@kevykev913]

+Kerry Ward no shit lol

[@kerryward6896]

i mean it dude, if my mom aka mrs greenthumb see this then the yard will be full of these things !

[@kevykev913]

I hear ya bro

[@kerryward6896]

you know someone like that to i take it .

[@GOTTshua]

Less mowing.

[@Janada7]

African Keyhole Garden

[@DivaGlamSquad]

some folks in England invented that?!? Huh so sad!!! why can't we just give credit where credit is due?

[@dinokpir]

Originated in AFRICA! In Lesotho by C-SAFE en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhole_garden

[@dinokpir]

@uaedaien C-Safe is American NGO working in Africa and around the globe. What they say is incorrect and plus she is an academic, she should correct this misinformation because that is the norm.

[@carlbeck28]

here's another one

[@kushbandit8701]

started in Africa

[@bio2020]

+kushbandit8701 Invented by British scientists to help the people of Africa. Settle down, you afrocentrist.

[@kushbandit8701]

+bio2020 how is that when Africans was here first dumb ass.... look it up the only thing white people invented was the paten.. just to steal Africans inventions

[@debsmith2789]

The original key-hole gardens were in Africa.

[@deborahvongerichten2922]

The keyhole garden was invented in Lesotho, in Africa, not England! Why would you lie??? That said. I'm building one!

[@brianmarshall3931]

Don't cardboard, newspaper and magazines contain abnormal amounts of chemicals used in both the processing and ink - even though they tell you that the ink, for example is "not harmful & environmentally safe"? While there are about 3000 or so different types of chemicals which "can be used" in paper and cardboard manufacturing, in practice only about 200 individual chemicals are typically used, each satisfying a specific need. A few examples: Silicate of Magnesia, Alkyl Ketene Dimer, Sulfate of Alumina, Natural Sulfate of Lime, Ammonium Zirconium Carbonate, Anthraquinone, Alkylphenol Ethoxylates, Alkenyl Succinic Anhydride, Barium Sulfate, Carboxy Methyl Cellulose, Sodium Hydroxide, ect. etc. etc. How could using these materials - without laboratory analysis of what is actually in each bed - then qualify for producing a truly "organic" healthful plant to eat? And then throw in the Chinese manufactured cardboard and paper - where they have little or regulation as to what can be used?

[@fsnow55]

Yes, full of dangerous chemicals not forgetting Hydrogen Dioxide, Sodium chloride (which is especially bad as it comes from Sodom of Gomorrah fame), glucose, cellulose etc.

[@ghostofreagan3181]

Or you can just plant in the dirt.

[@PHanomaly]

Thats what I didnt understand either, just add cardboard under an enclosed space with soil on top??