This update is coming on the first day of the month and includes two elements, one of which is a departure from our normal issuance. Last night we uploaded a YouTube video designed to perhaps assist, or make even easier, … Read More
I spent an hour today (May 14) picking green beans that measured between three and five inches long. My keyhole gardens are filled with them and I topped off a good-sized bag with the harvest, similar to activity two days … Read More
The author of this blog on April 21, 2016 appeared on Beyond 50 Radio, based in Portland, Oregon. Here is the YouTube link, in the event anyone wants to hear the interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9geh6fL2ALE. We are in mid-April and the plants … Read More
As you all know, we embarked on a winter experiment with a newfangled cover for our keyhole gardens. We were expecting a normal winter in which to gauge all the bells and whistles. The abbreviated winter season version we received … Read More
My winter project, explained last month is progressing nicely. I do have some plants coming up, mainly beans and onions, so it appears that the concept works. To me, the downside of this experiment is my having to nearly daily … Read More
Generally, I do not raise a winter garden largely because I am usually wiped out after the first three seasons that are so busy, so I normally just tinker with it, trying to find new ways to protect the few … Read More
Quite a bit of time has been spent during the past two months authoring a book about my experiences with keyhole gardening. It is entitled Plant Your Garden In A Keyhole and is available at Amazon. Otherwise, we spent most … Read More
Sorry for the delay in updating our site, the last one being in July, but I have been busy working on several projects (some not related to keyhole gardening) which has thrown me behind. Right now we are harvesting okra … Read More
I think we mentioned in a previous post that a customer had dumped some rinds and seeds from a Halloween jack-o-lantern into her keyhole garden internal basket last November and this spring some crops erupted from that area, at the … Read More
It’s just been just a few days since the last update, but we have been getting ready for the hot days of summer. This means some spring plants had to go to make way for the new plants. So, we … Read More
Abnormally high, record-breaking rainfall during May here in Central Texas proves that not only are keyhole gardens good in drought, but because of drainage, standing water on the ground is not a problem either, except sloshing through it with your … Read More
Dr. Deb Tolman’s annual keyhole garden tour brought many guests to Keyhole Farm on April 25 and 26 to see, first-hand, our gardens. So far this year we are extremely pleased with the growth of our plants. Most of the … Read More
March is always busy for us at Keyhole Farm; however, April has been like lightning, too. I determined through calculations that the last possible freezing day for our location was March 12, so I looked at the weather forecasts leading … Read More
This year, I am trying to get a head start on spring by germinating some seeds in advance. Usually most of my 11 keyhole gardens are planted with seeds, probably 85 percent. The top two images were taken last May, … Read More
Experiment Number One The metamorphosis of our methods of watering are the following: the first year, we used a water hose on our single keyhole which was made of rocks and cinder blocks. The second year, when we installed the … Read More
This year’s fall gardens at the Keyhole Farm experiment station brought a few surprises. As mentioned in the previous post, deer problems (which have now apparently been solved) threw the autumn garden productions into a delay mode, i.e. replanting some … Read More
To begin, the weekend of Sept. 20 and 21 saw Keyhole Farm garden kits exhibited in Paris, France at a massive Heritage Days event. We had received an e-mail from Agathe Le Mire, a French landscape architect associated with Laure … Read More
Because of a BUSY, BUSY, BUSY schedule, we did not do an update for July. We went through the usual phases of transferring from certain crops to others to better fit the weather. Pictured is a small sampling of our … Read More
Most people who know me are aware that yellow is my favorite color, which is one reason I raise sunflowers in my keyhole gardens. I am very impressed with how wide the stalks are and how tall they grow, but … Read More
It’s been about 10 days since the last update, but since every day shows significant growth of Keyhole Farm’s keyhole gardens, here we go again. I am stuck in a dilemma, since I now want some plants to quit making … Read More