It has been awhile since my last post. As the year comes to an end, I have still been picking tomatoes and carrots out of Keyhole Farm gardens and making plans for the start of the new year. In November, … Read More
Last year after the hot days of summer hit and the tomatoes quit making, I pulled them up, except for one plant, and was surprised when fall arrived and they made a comeback, producing excellently. This year, I left most … Read More
Ryan Pankau, a horticulture educator with University of Illinois Extension, recently penned an article for The News-Gazette that features keyhole gardens manufactured from Keyhole Farm kits sold in Texas. Entitled “In the Garden:Keyhole gardening growing in popularity,” Pankau’s piece explains … Read More
Goober Pyle of the Andy Griffith Show might be proud to know this, as would Snoopy for his namesake cartoon, but Keyhole Farm this season embarked on something new — to determine if peanuts could be raised in a keyhole … Read More
Hot weather is upon us in Central Texas. We have been busy at Keyhole Farm picking a multitude of tomatoes early this month, along with Swiss chard, potatoes, and jalapenos, in particular. We also hosted several tours of our facility, … Read More
We are into early May and the keyhole gardens at the Keyhole Farm experiment station are looking quite well. We have begun harvesting spring crops and more are nearing that point. Even though spring is a great time to develop … Read More
My plants are doing exceedingly well at this stage, as this is posted on April 23. Our annual keyhole garden tour occurred on Friday (April 21) and just prior to its opening we shot some video of our keyhole gardens … Read More
I held my breath this morning (April 2). We had a massive storm and it was predicted we might have baseball-size hail. Luckily, we just had thunder, lightning, high winds, and rain. The plants in my keyhole gardens are looking … Read More
We are halfway through March and the greenery in my keyhole gardens is starting to show. Actually, some plants had begun erupting from the soil about a week ago (which was about a week after we planted), but a frost … Read More
As teased in our December update, a month-long experiment was conducted in January 2017 to determine if perhaps seeds planted in wood-smoked soil would do better than ones planted in regular soil, the idea being to add carbon content to … Read More