HOW TO BUILD A TRADITIONAL KEYHOLE GARDEN
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I have been gardening for 55 years and just tonight heard about keyhole gardening. So I rushed to TH-cam to see what it's about- and found yours lol. I need to try some.
Same here except I'm a beginning gardener
You are such an all-around, confident girl, not afraid to try anything. I like that. People can accomplish much more than they give themselves credit for... like you.
I think my favorite part was when you called deep mulch betting “magical“. I love that after all these years you still obviously love what you’re doing and you have a sense of wonder about it. I love that about you.❤️
In the keyhole garden, you should fill up the center wire section with the composting layers, watering it too! On my keyhole garden I made it garden area like a layered with cardboard, leaves, green matter etc., watered it all over, then covered the whole top surface with a 3-4 inch layer of soil, and you can plant in it straight away!
Came here for the keyhole garden guidance got inspired by the Rumpelstiltskin reference . So greatfull ✨
Julie, I was just thinking about your comment and I just wanted to send you some encouragement. I think of all the things that you could leave behind, a garden is one of the most wonderful gifts you could leave. God bless you in your journeys ahead. And thank you for sharing, I will continue to watch and learn. 💕
Easy solution for cage leakage would be to line the cage with any kind of material; preferably something natural, but scrap plastic, cloth, or cardboard would work too. A better solution would be; if you were/are able to slope the wire from top to bottom (the bottom being wider) the leakage would stay mostly in the cage. Your basically building the equivalent of a tree drip line.(Gravity in gardening is your friend too :) )
Hi just a idea for you if you want grow plants over YOUR winters metal drums painted black and filled with water placed along one side of your poly house that gets winter sun also if you have solar panels with spare capacity you can heat this water which acts like a hot storage system ,we did this for years under raised beds along one side of our poly tunnels ,Keep safe,paul.
Thank you so much for doing this video. I have known about keyhole gardens for a while and tried one a long time ago with very minimal knowledge, and was not successful. Thank you for explaining the downside of things compared to a hot bed. Your channel is amazing!
Tomorrow I'm making a key hole garden!! Thanks Julianne!!
I know this is a 4yr old video and I live in a different zone but I really like your methods and I hope you’re having a great growing season. Central Texas has been brutal this year and I’m looking to do keyholes next year.
I love this idea. I will be trying this in the next couple weeks. Enjoy your vlog.
I love how you do these types of things 😊
I'm so excited to have you head home. I'm moving to Idaho this summer so learning so much from you about gardening in a shorter season. Moving from zone 8 to 6b. I'm nervous about the change.
Dang, I was just thinking about keyhole gardens. Your vid makes it look totally doable!! Thank you for doing these vids. You are awesome.
Love the music and the instruction is excellent. Thank you!
This whole series has been so informative. I did not know what a hotbed was and the keyhole garden is pretty cool. Great job! I hope to try the hotbed idea next season. Do you miss your chickies?
Very cool - I've never seen a keyhole garden implemented this way. It's very like a Banana Circle.
I like it. I did see something similar in Africa, in that it had compost in the middle, but I believe it was more like a doughnut than a keyhole.
So much helpful info! Thanks!
this is super helpful thanks Julie! I may try this this year! wish I were going to Mississippi, would love to say howdy in person....oh well, maybe someday =) thanks again, I really think I will try this this year...
You are a hard worker! Great job.
Stephanie C. Yep i was thinking same thing she really works hard
I loved your analogy! Too cute!
Perhaps attach a screen over the chicken wire to hold it all in? Think that would work?
That is a really cool idea and something different to do. Great job on the video
Hey! I got your package! Thank you so much, the hat is beautiful!
Yayyy!! So glad you got it!!
Info is great and I loved the video!
I enjoy your authenticity darlin, great video.
You are so kind!
Amazing! I love it. 🌱
I love your ideas
Interesting, I've never seen that technique. Thanks for sharing!
Good job lady!
Great job, you have inspired me, I will add this into my row gardens I have been using. Any suggestions for lots of cold weather and snow areas? Blessings.
Wow loved your music!
2:04 so strange you have this song on here. It's so random but what bugged me out is that this is very traditional music for Puerto Ricans and I thought my Spotify started playing in the background! LOL Loved this video and design.
I thought it was very nice chirpy music, glad you liked the video!
Another great video!
Great stuff thanks again and I will share
Very good idea! Love it. I'm planning my key-hole garden in my mind as I type. Thanks
I just planted into it...I guess we will see how it does!
Wish I had the space to do that. How cool!
Great videos! Please keep making them. For the wind, I recommend a deadcat, which is a furry microphone cover that cuts wind noise. External microphones are often available with a deadcat. I don't know your equipment setup for video, but an audio recorder (like Zoom or Tascam) with a deadcat is a possible fix, if you're currently using the built-in microphones on the camera.
Just found your channel. Shared it with my friends.
I wrap such beds with stretch packing plastic without any holes. It is the only way to grow sweet potato and watermelons in my cool climate without greenhouses
That sounds awesome!!!!
hun i do raised garden made out of old pallet jack and i can fill with mulch just like you did and plant the boxes like you did and have hoppe house on top so it all in one unit and so like min green house like you have also , so i like doing , keep it up
Jill, I haven't seen you all in so long. Where are you now? Where did you settle down
wow! ...I can't stop watching that kind of cute ...face! great idea!
great tips.
YOU ROCK SISTA! ❤
Hey! How are you!?
Loved thisLoved the music too! Mucho gusto!
"Holy" smokes!!!!!! LOOK you made ONE !!!!!!!!! ....... :-D .. . . Best Wishes , ~ Cheers !~ "the" Rev
your little ones take real good care of you.
They do don't they?!
treasure that.
Here's a hard earned tip. When splitting wood the "anvil" that the workpiece sits on should not be taller than half your knee height. This helps prevent the cutting part from hitting the bleeding part.
Nice music! ☺
It’s astonishing how much you have accomplished! I’m an avid follower and am trying to duplicate some of your ideas. I just finished my first year of establishing a small farm. I’ve made many mistakes, all learning experiences. Thanks for your continuous videos and knowledge. I am hoping to do a quarter of what you are doing. I’m 66 and live by myself with my two livestock guardian puppies, 3 pigs and about 40 chickens. (Half layers, half meat birds)
I plan to add ducks, geese, rabbits and sheep, maybe a goat. All in due time.
(One of the lessons I’ve learned)
Thanks again!
That is a lot of chickens! You sound really productive.
@@dirtpatcheaven Not yet, chickens are just starting to lay and I don’t have a setup for butchering meat birds. But I did find a 6’ long stainless steel table that a restaurant tossed. That will be quite handy. Then I need a plucker. I can’t afford the automatic ones, but I may look into one of the ones that works with a drill. Also scrounged a giant cooler, free. I already had a large stock pot to chafe them in. Just need good knives and freezer bags. Or, I could simply skin them and skip all the plucking.
I like this idea. What would be a good alternative to rabbit tea, that can be store bought maybe??
Thanks for the vid. I'm wondering if you could make a 'star dome' top, maybe supported around the perimeter with garden stakes..
*For the keyhole garden.
Yes! Great job on the video, I wish more were like this one, simple, informative and to the point.
I wish I had half of your motivation as well!
(agreed, you are a hard worker)
Thank you!
Shalom
great idea for spring planting! do you find that the compost attracts mice (I don't have cats to take care of that issue).
I learned something new today, your keyhole gardening, I really like your idea, I'm going to try that, keep up the good work, we enjoy your videos
I have been looking for a gal like you for a long time, but im in UK , pity. great video with good music.
awesome video ! thanks for posting ! i have had to leave many great gardens as well . i like to hope that someone is benefiting from them if even wildlife . love your channel , cheers!
Great comment! It is so hard to leave all your dirt and plants behind but you do hope they make someone else happy.
When your voice sped up.💗
I use the jezus magic for vegetables
Hi donald duck...hihihi..so much work...good job!!!
I didn’t get what you put on your compost and where do you buy it to activate it..thank you.
I was thining about making a keyhole garden like this with chicken wire or garden fencing. I was concerned that it would dry out too quickly on the sides though since its open. What has been your experience? Also, does it hold up well? I want to have melons trail down the side, are the sides strong enough to suppot this?
Would the compost in the garden produce any bad molds or bacteria that could harm plants??
what is your opinion on soil experts saying that growing in any more than 5 percent organic matter causes problems like root rot and over fertilisation
Hmmm. Subscribed! 🤔👍😀
Thank you for this video. I want a garden but I have back issues. Your keyhole garden or a version of it may be the answer for me; I may be able to get one or two of my four sons to help me build it and fill it with mulch, wood chips, leaves, etc. Would it work to line the inside of the keyhole garden with cardboard? I’’ll let you know what happens.
Yes, it would totally work to line it with cardboard.
Do you have pests like gophers? If so, how do you get rid of them?
so while this is happening, I assume that produce has to be bought? is there someway to keep a supply of things coming year around? Does that just take forethought and planning? and intentional rotation?
In Idaho I am growing all year round with the hotbeds. That is also why you want to do canning and dehydrating. There are certain foods that would be too intensive to keep growing all year without lights and heaters. They do it in Burley Idaho with the hot springs. Banana and citrus orchards in Idaho. Not here because I have only been here since the end of September.
So it’s like a little garden buffet in the middle for all the plants to feed from? :)
Yes! Exactly!
felicidades saludos desde España de que estado eres ?
Which one would benefit both of them
It's gonna be easierIf you make a system ps i know a ltle english but this google translete is shit..tnx i use cley
I was tired for you LOL
two years later she is about finished.
also, is it wise to let any kind of raised beds like farrow and unplanted for a season? To build up nutrients and let the soil rest? Or is it wiser, to just tear them down and start fresh?
I add no material to the top every year, we don't turn them, it all just composts down at the bottom.
I live in Mississippi ..
I'm curious how it all turned out. Have you posted any other videos updating this project?
Yes, just put in the search terms 'dirtpatcheaven' 'keyhole garden'. studio.th-cam.com/users/videoJlSN_hXnxZY/edit
Julianne, anyone, can you use pine needles for mulch? Have a good time in Mississippi, our state.
Jeffrey Weeks Yes you can, it will not make your soil acidic, that is a myth. Hope this helps :-)
It depends on the type of needle/evergreen dropping. I am 99.9% sure cedar does add acidity to the soil.
Our Community Garden has a few ... I don't remember if we talked about them when you came to visit .. LOL
Anyone know if I can use an existing 4’x8 raised bed as my hotbed/keyhole garden?!
You could use 2 worm towers. I've used modified buckets.. have also seen big PVC pipes used. Place them in your garden so that all the plants are within 3 feet of a bucket. I can tell you what to put in the worm towers, if need be. The garden gets nutrition and moisture from the towers.
Could you wrap the whole thing in plastic around the outside?
The music is way to loud, but i love what you are doing :)
Is it? I really thought I had turned it down this time. It is different when editing than posted for some reason. I will go listen again.
Dirtpatcheaven I thought it was fine
You fixed it :) TY
Maybe you could have put cardboard inside the wire cage before you filled it.
I think I would have lined the wire bed with heavy cardboard. It would break down, but so would all of it. I would worry about replacing the cardboard next season when it all needs rebuilt again. I use newspaper and cardboard frequently in my gardening. Getting woodchips is like pulling teeth though. All the tree trimming companies charge to come dump them something like $50 per load. I just do not want to pay that. So I wait until I see someone clearing a lot for construction and I ask if i can come gather the wood chips. Thats how ive gotten them so far.
StarFlower99654 I wouldn't recommend newspaper, cardboard, or anything manufactured. Construction debris have all kinds of chemicals in them, newspaper has toner in it, very toxic. You could use fallen branches, rocks, ect. As nature intended, i was a horticultural major in college and everything I learned I had to forget and instead watch how things naturally occured in nature.
WARNING!!! Do NOT plant squash in a keyhole garden unless that ALL you are going to plant or, you plant things that do not like sun and need full shade!!!!! That was my mistake with my first garden (going now.) The squash have taken over and are nearly 3 ft TALL! The beans are pale and trying to reach the sun, the cucumbers are actually climbing the squash and the peppers? Well there's 1 doing well since it's on the corner and gets morning sun and another on the corner that's not quite as big and gets a little sun but is quickly becoming covered by the giant leaves of the squash. I'm not even kidding, these squash plants are HUGE! I've had them out for about a 6 weeks. The left over plants I planted in a traditional raised bed (actually a kiddie wading pool) using the same material as the keyhole and those squash, though putting on blooms are pale and only about a foot tall. You'd never guess they were planted at the same time and came from the same 6x containers!
NO DUCKS? u just had gotten Muscoveys where they go????/
Yep, very sad. We are going to miss them.
where did the ducks go?
why no ducks what happened??? please tell me
Why didnt you line inside with cardboard so your stuff didnt go out the sides.
I finally saw where you talked about it later in vid sorry
I shared this video on Facebook because I have about 4500 contacts there.
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why does it have to be so deep
Judith Griffith I'm guessing to keep chickens and ducks out.. :)
So I don't have to make mine so deep , it won't alter anything important. Thank youi
She made it tall so the plants will get more sun, since otherwise they would be shaded by the fence. Also, the mass will reduce by half, so best to put a LOT in there to start out!
Thank you for the reply. I do something similar in my raised garden bed. I dig a whole in the middle and fill it with food scraps & eggshells & such . The overhead water line sprays on it and helps breakdown and carry nutrients to my plants . My beds are only 3 ft high
stopped watching when she pulled out the mg. 🤢
She takes too long to give us much information.