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Keyhole gardens & compost

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  • 01-09-2014 11:11am
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    zagmund
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    While looking for construction tips for raised beds I came across the idea of keyhole beds. From what I can see they are more or less brick built circular beds which wouldn't be terribly efficient with the layout I have.

    One thing that stood out though was that they all seem to integrate a compost heap in the middle of the bed. This seems an eminently good idea in terms of being handy for disposal of waste & usage of the resulting compost but also for keeping the worms & good beasties near the beds.

    There's no reason I can think of why rectangular beds couldn't have something similar but I've never noticed it.

    So - compost heap in the middle of a bed - good or bad idea?

    z


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    tampopo
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    good I would say. Why not? Mine is near my rhubarb. I'm sure it helps, somewhat...


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    zagmund
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    Yeah, I imagine it would be good. It's just strange that all the keyhole (round) ones included the compost in the middle, but I don't think I've ever seen a rectangular raised bed with this featured.

    z


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