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Post by onlyMark on May 23, 2019 15:35:29 GMT
Gardeners of the world, do you know about these? "The keyhole garden was developed in Lesotho by the Consortium for Southern Africa Food Security Emergency (C-SAFE), based upon a design that originated with CARE in Zimbabwe." "......lettuce, kale, and spinach; herbs; and root crops such as onions, garlic, carrots, and beets. Keyhole gardens are ideal for intensive planting, a technique in which plants are placed close together to maximize production." They help with the solution of growing produce in areas of arid land or land with poor soil and are particularly useful as a kitchen garden due to their flexibility in what can be grown, the use of kitchen waste/grey water and that they can be highly productive. One has recently been made in the garden of Mrs M's office as a tool to show others what can be done. They do work. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Keyhole_gardenJust thought I'd throw this in there for you to have a look at if you've never come across them. Several short videos may give you a better idea -
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Post by kerouac2 on May 30, 2019 16:33:17 GMT
Those look quite brilliant, but I'm sure that even in Africa not everybody has a green thumb and that there are some miserable failures.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 30, 2019 17:20:55 GMT
That was excellent. Thanks Mark.
Didn’t notice too many men working on it...
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Post by cheerypeabrain on May 30, 2019 18:45:58 GMT
I think I saw an African keyhole garden at a garden show a couple if years ago...fantastically inventing use of space. Thank you for the videos Mark.
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Post by onlyMark on May 30, 2019 19:05:47 GMT
K2, the climate is such that the main reason it would fail is due to lack of water I think. Or it has been set up wrong.
Mick, if it's supposed to be for the kitchen I'm sure it's beneath the males to consider helping.
Cheery, I've seen a few here and they are effective but the problem always is someone putting the effort in to making it in the first place.
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Post by mickthecactus on May 30, 2019 19:30:25 GMT
I saw something like this in Barbados re males.
There was a problem about shortage of lettuce which are all imported from the USA. Despite the available space and perfect climate nobody could be arsed to grow them.
In a local paper the journalist was totally scathing of the lack of effort.
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