Keyhole gardening question

**maytreefrannie** · 15-09-2013, 07:52 PM

?????What's Keyhole Gardening??

**zazen999** · 15-09-2013, 07:54 PM

Originally posted by Sylvan View Post

It's been bothering me...

When you make compost you chuck it on the beds after it has cooked. With keyhole gardening presumably you have to eventually somehow get the finished compost out of the tube so you can start again with fresh materials? Sounds very difficult.

No it gets taken into the surrounding soil by the worms.

**veggiechicken** · 15-09-2013, 07:58 PM

Its a way to utilise every available bit of growing space, however small. So, for example, you could grow a radish in your front door keyhole

or you could do it like this.......Keyhole Gardens: A Drought Tolerant Composting Garden

**Gina's plot** · 15-09-2013, 08:13 PM

Wow

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**Sylvan** · 15-09-2013, 11:46 PM

So the worms take the compost out into the soil, but don't bring any soil back into the keyhole?

**zazen999** · 16-09-2013, 05:07 AM

Originally posted by Sylvan View Post

So the worms take the compost out into the soil, but don't bring any soil back into the keyhole?

I think you are overthinking it. We have a green cone which works on the same principle. We fill it to the max every week and never empty it. But by the spring, all the stuff in the cone disappears and we can start filling it again.

**Sylvan** · 16-09-2013, 01:20 PM

Moi? Overthinking summat? Never!

Thanks zaz

**Two_Sheds** · 16-09-2013, 03:55 PM

Originally posted by Sylvan View Post

When you make compost you chuck it on the beds after it has cooked.

Not necessarily.

I'm now putting all my weed prunings, green manures, old foliage etc. straight on the beds (roughly chopped)
I let the weather & the worms do the work for me: it's quicker than a compost heap & less effort

**Sylvan** · 16-09-2013, 04:56 PM

Do you do that with beds that have things growing in them as well Two_Sheds?

**Two_Sheds** · 16-09-2013, 05:27 PM

yep

photos in the FB link below

**Penellype** · 16-09-2013, 08:02 PM

Originally posted by Two_Sheds View Post

Not necessarily.

I'm now putting all my weed prunings, green manures, old foliage etc. straight on the beds (roughly chopped)
I let the weather & the worms do the work for me: it's quicker than a compost heap & less effort

I nearly did this earlier this year, but I was worried about transferring caterpillars from the old foliage to the growing plants, so I didn't.

**Two_Sheds** · 17-09-2013, 01:12 PM

What caterpillars?

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