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Click here to download the "Grown in Our Garden" promotional leaflet Growing your own vegetables can be great fun as well as providing good quality food. If more is grown than is needed it could be sold and so start your own very enterprise! A very efficient way of growing vegetables, as well as recycling waste materials, is by means of a "Key-hole garden" Let's see how one was made in Uganda.
Click on the image above to see the video clip (With grateful thanks to the charity "Send a Cow") Have a go at making a "Key-hole" garden at your school, its good fun and you will learn a lot as well. The instructions are below but have a look at the video clip before you start.
A Key-hole Garden made at Discovery Centre Instructions for Building a "Key-hole garden" 1. Find a piece of ground that is at least four metres by four metres square, is in a sunny position, sheltered and has access to water. 2. Mark out two circles on the ground, one with a radius of 150cms and the other with a radius of 45cms.
3. Mark out the "key hole" so access can be made to the central "basket" once the garden has been built.
4. Using sticks or canes, about 125cms long, make the central "basket" ,Line the "Basket" with straw or other similar material to keep the contents from falling out. Fill the "basket" with top-soil, composted material and if available rotted manure. 5. The perimeter of the garden is made using logs, bricks or stones. 6. The garden is then filled with a bottom drainage layer of small stones or broken pots. On top of this layers of top soil,compost and well rotted manure are built up to create the garden,
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