Keyhole garden originally comes from Africa, have developed for the use of growing vegetables and fruits to live on. Keyhole gardens also work well in the UK. The basic materials to build a keyhole garden include, wood, stone, wire, string, iron, compost, soil and manure.
Keyhole garden originally comes from Africa, have developed for the use of growing vegetables and fruits to live on. Keyhole gardens also work well in the UK. The basic materials to build a keyhole garden include, wood, stone, wire, string, iron, compost, soil and manure.
We divided in to two groups to find materials and clean the garden. We had to find materials with a low cost due to our budget limitations (100 pounds). Moreover we looked at places with waste materials in Edmonton.
We ‘d like to thank Wickes that has been very useful with donating materials that they no longer needed.
Sketches & Ideas
Carmen, our client has chosen the regular shape of keyhole garden.
Then the construction begun by digging the ground to create the shape and add the foundation.
Visit at Resource Centre
We visited the Winkfield Resource Centre in Wood Green where our client, Carmen spends her two days of the week. She showed us around, rooms for different activities such as arts and crafts. We also went to the garden where there were two raised beds with a variety of permanent and seasonal plants such as tulips, and other flowers. Also there is a fish tank and small waterfall in the round raised bed.
The two raised beds are made from different materials, brick and concrete blocks with wood finishing. We also measured the heights of each raised bed.
After, as we discussed with the client we found out she likes flowers, low maintenance plants, and general herbs, also loves the smell of lavender.
Construction process
After we presented some ideas to the client, she decided to go with the regular keyhole shape so we started the construction.
The first step was to mark the area that we would build the keyhole garden. Then we continued with adding the concrete blocks for the foundation. Then we added another two layers of concrete blocks and cement to bind them together. We used a fourth layer of red bricks for the finishing of the keyhole garden. After that we covered the keyhole garden with cement so as to make it more compact, strong and rendered.
We also tried to layout the landscape of the area around the keyhole garden. Therefore we created a path from stones so Carmen can have an easier access to her keyhole garden.
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