Garden "keyhole": high beds in the African...

Garden"keyhole": high beds in the African manner"Keyhole"in Africa, for the birthplace of this way of planting, is called a garden, but in our awareness it is, faster, not a park, but the highest bed. It is very comfortable for those who like to work gardening, but not drunk to torture the pain in the back. With the help of this garden, it is allowed to bring up enough food to feed a small family. The view of the creation of a similar construction appeared specifically in Africa because of the fact that the climate of this continent implies the effective introduction of aqua resources. For the sake of Africa and other regions with a hot climate, the keyhole is the right thing to do. However, we have this opinion too.
The view of the device is such a"high bed"
The name of the African garden was not invented inadvertently. If you look at it from above, we will see a form that reminds the traditional look of the keyhole. In the center of the structure it is enough to have a basket for the compost, to which a suitable hole is organized. The diameter of the garden itself will not exceed 2-2.5 meters. For this plan, the garden is presented in two foreshortenings: visibility from above and visibility of collection in a section. At times, therefore, according to which reason this building received its exotic name
According to the measure, like a container with a compost is enough to water, in the soil of the garden, nutrients will be released from it. If non-stop adding kitchen waste and a drop in the tank, the supplies of the necessary micronutrients in the soil will be constantly replenished.
If in your region a rainy climate, then for the sake of the compost basket, it is better to design a cover. This will help to regulate the effect of nutrients entering the soil. The presence of a cover will allow to lower the height of evaporations and will keep the heat generated during fermentation. The container for the compost must necessarily be above the ground surface. In this case, the end is played by the occupation of the rainwater receiver. This is a variation for the sake of arid regions, where water should be saved, where it is cherished
For the sake of protecting plants through excessive heat, or through frosts from above, it is permissible to design a protective canopy. It is better to perform a demountable one. In the heat it is enough to do the necessary smallness. In cold weather, the skin, stretched over the canopy, converts the garden bed into a greenhouse. This European variation of the"keyhole"is obviously used in the spring as a greenhouse. Relative of this is the serious protection and comfortable building for the sake of the film
The plants are planted in a sector that consents near the basket. The earth must roll in the direction through the center of the structure to its edge. Such sloping slopes will allow to increase the planting site and provide a good illumination of all plants. For the sake of improving the state of the grassy soil, it is artificially organized by its stratification.
The main discharge fits for the bottom of the sector. It consists of compost, cardboard, large branches, remaining through the remainder. Then lay mulch, unsuitable, wood ash, dry leaves and grass, newspapers and grass, worms. All this is covered with a layer of earth. Then again the discharge of dry crushed materials follows. Change of layers occurs before the time until the planned elevation reaches the planned. The high discharge, of course, consists of a more corrupt land. As the beds are filled, a separate, unprecedented, discharged discharge is moistened. This is for the sake of compaction. Very clearly the layers of filling, sloping view of the slopes and the way of irrigation is allowed to see for this scheme. You see, the costs for such a construction may be the smallest
In the process of using the park can be modified, in order to start very comfortable for its own owner. The one that adds components of the compost must - this of course. Yes, and the earth is also allowed to pour. It is not difficult to execute desire above and the wall of fencing, and the central basket. This garden is more convenient only to own not very far from the kitchen: for no reason it is easier to fill the supplies of compost. Decorative garden can give flowers, planted in accordance with the perimeter fencing. For the sake of starting the building can look here for no reason unconstrained. If the opinion is in accordance with the taste, it is allowed to increase the seat of the garden by raising the walls and giving the soil surface roll
Importance of the African way
The idea originated in Africa was quickly adopted in Texas and highly appreciated in other hot regions of the United States. For the sake of dry and hot climate it is more effective. The park is really universal. In this case, it is strongly protected through a surplus of the sun, which is also superfluous
Such"keyholes"can be extracted where desired, because they have an abundance of advantages, which we list below.
The resulting building, subject to a thorough fencing, can be counted warm. If it should, in the early spring it is freely transformed into a greenhouse. It's enough to construct a dome from the film above it.
This bed helps in the recycling of food waste, which is simply placed in its central part, providing new plants with the necessary nutrient substances. For the sake of this purpose, cleaning and the remainder of vegetables and fruits, washing kitchen water, horticultural wastes are suitable.
Costly materials are not needed to build a keyhole. It is allowed to execute word-for-word from the construction of waste or that which is usually discarded because it is useless.
The garden does not need to allocate a huge plot near its construction. Only 2,5 meters according to the circumference there is even for the smallest dacha section or in the yard. But you have quite an excellent melon, a decorated flowerbed or an amazing vineyard.
For the sake of what goals do not use this garden! In a variety of weather conditions, it helps to grow grass, melons and gardening, flowers and grapes.
If the climate of your region is hot, count, which you lucky. After all, using a"keyhole", you can only harvest two crops from a single year. In this bed, the nutrients and moisture are magically retained. This"keyhole"is made verbatim from only one that prevented its owner from living. The main elements are mesh netting and dark skin, between which there is a complete unwanted private waste
Building our"keyhole"
Equip a similar garden for your site quite easily. Take absolutely no time and materials and quickly you can appreciate all the dignity of this unusual structure.
It is necessary to clear a short part of the earth. Humus can be removed from it with the help of a plane or a shovel. The dimensions of the future design should be predetermined without the help of others, the proportions we want to suggest are those that are indicated for the figure. Sadik does not have to exist huge. You need only a bit 2-2.5 meters of free space - such a diameter of the circle. Being a"keyhole"of a small size to take care of from plants becomes easier. A short part of only 2-2.5 meters is found for each site. Near the classic beds you had a desire to ward off much more space
We mark the focus of the bed and insert a milestone in it. We attach a rope to it, in order to extract the resulting design as a compass in the forthcoming one. Using two sticks attached to the rope for a suitable distance, draw two circles. A large circle is a room where there is enough outdoor protection of the garden, drinks determine the location of the compost basket.
The soil should be loosened up. In the center of the facility, we install a ready container for the sake of compost or we do it without the help of others. For this, it is permissible to take, for example, sturdy sticks and insert them into the ground according to the circumference for a distance well-wisher through a friend of approximately 10 cm. To force them between themselves is better not by a rope, but by wire. Causes are rather more reliable. So the necessary compost basket came out. Its perimeter is closed geotagging. All the stages of the building are allowed to carefully look at the bottom of the article for the video, and this kind clearly indicates, in particular, it is necessary to extract geotextiles
According to the outer circumference, we lay out a brick or a stone with protection. Do not forget about the entrance area, which should provide us with an opening to the center of the structure. For the sake of this we will leave a part whose width is about 60 cm. We fill the basket with the prepared compost. The resulting high bed is filled layer by layer without reason, like it was told above. Each building can look great, a"keyhole"is not an exception. And near this garden beds will grow beautiful flowers
If this garden is used for the sake of feeding the weaving plants, do not forget to foresee them for their support. That, like it will be specifically occupied by plants, it is better to think ahead of time, so that all the inhabitants of this structure in abundance lacked the sun, and you yourself had no difficulty in wanting to take care of them.
More about compost capacity
In most cases, baskets are made by the already described weaving method. As a base, not only wood, but also iron rods are used. Not bad for the same purpose pipes made of plastic or a duralumin stainless profile. The frame is allowed to braid either branches or wire. It is better if the earth does not filter sufficiently into the compost. Tokmo look at how different there can be baskets for the sake of compost! You can eat to show all your imagination
As a protective membrane, it is permissible to use geotextile, which closes the perimeter of the basket. Other variants are used: canisters with a cut off upper part or barrels made of plastic. In order to leak from the"basket"into the soil the necessary nutrients, in accordance with the perimeter of the barrel or canister make holes.
Which material is better for fencing?
As usual, the choice of the material from which it is permissible to design a defense depends only on the imagination of the master himself. Bricks and stones are just more trivial building material, from which such fences are made in most cases. It is permissible for this purpose to adapt a frame-type building from pipes and profiled sheets, gabions, boards, bottles, a fence, bales of grass. For the photos placed above, you can also find fences of various types, but these options are also very interesting in their own way.
Beautifully look plastic, glass bottles and even two rows of mesh netting, the place between which can exist is filled with a variety of scrap. It is permissible to extract the same cement blocks or to construct an integral barrier of concrete. Materials, just right, are successfully combined. The height of the enclosure also varies.
A video example of a mini-garden device
This appearance of gardening, as has already been said, came to us from Africa, and the first popularizer in Russia was Sendacow. Look at the video clip, where the stages of the"keyhole"construction for the motherland of the method are visually presented without a break.