Hole Bed

Hole Bed
By: Nikki Tilley , Author of The Bulb-o-licious Garden

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Keyhole garden beds are commonly seen in permaculture gardens . These beautiful, productive gardens are ideal for small spaces and can accommodate a variety of plants like vegetables, herbs, flowers, and more. In addition, permaculture keyhole gardening can be easily adapted to fit the individual needs of the gardener.
In a permaculture keyhole garden, plants that are used on a regular basis (and those that require the most upkeep) are placed nearest the home, for quick and easy access. By using creative patterns and designs, gardeners can increase productivity, especially with the use of keyhole garden beds.
These beds can be designed in a number of ways, depending on the gardener’s needs and preferences. Typically, however, keyhole gardens are horseshoe shaped or circular (like a keyhole) so they can be easily reached from all sides. As for how to make a keyhole garden, there are various methods for its construction.
One of the best and most common methods for keyhole gardening construction is the use of raised beds. Raised beds are most preferred, as they reduce the need for bending or stooping while performing garden maintenance. They’re well suited for nearly any plant, especially perennials, which have deeper root systems and require less water.
Place a stake in the ground to measure the center, attaching a string and measuring out about 24 inches (60 cm.) around. Then, measure out about 5-6 feet (1.5-1.8 m.) from the stake, which will become the outer perimeter of your garden bed. You can then build keyhole raised beds by building up the soil with stones, boards, or anything that will hold dirt in your desired shape to a height of about 3-4 feet (0.9-1.2 m.).
Sheet mulching is another method for implementing keyhole garden beds. These beds are placed on existing lawn or dirt without the need for digging, and can eventually be built up into raised designs as well. Wet newspaper or cardboard is placed on the chosen site (in the desired shape). A layer of straw is then added over top with a layer of compost and soil applied along the outer edges (for plantings), with an opening left for entry. Larger keyhole gardens can also be constructed with a center planting or focal point such as a small ornamental tree, shrub, or water feature.
Another method for building a keyhole garden involves the construction of a rock wall around a center water-catching basket. Find or level off an area of ground about 6.5 feet (2 m.) in diameter, near the home is best for easy access to water.
Mark the perimeter of the center water catch basket with four sticks, which will be about 16 inches (40 cm.) wide and 5 feet (1.5 m.) tall. However, it’s important to note that measurement is flexible and can be changed to fit your needs. Tie the four sticks together with string and line the basket with a permeable lining. The outer edges will consist of a wall of flat stones that will gradually be built up to 4 feet (1.2 m.) high. Again, this is up to you. Don’t forget to leave a keyhole opening about 1.5-2 feet (45-60 cm.) wide.
The floor of the keyhole garden is made up of compost that includes a layer of kitchen scraps, followed by a layer of sticks, twigs, and dry leaves, followed by soil and repeated.
Keyhole gardening is perfect for anyone who wants to grow productive, organic plants in any climate, in any space with little effort.
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When manufacturers design and engineer new trucks, they often invest over a billion dollars in the process. You can bet that water flow, both around the vehicle and in the truck bed, are a part of that design. There’s also the aesthetics of the drain points. Who wants to see a big round hole in the corner of the truck bed?
For the last several decades, all pickup truck beds have had drain holes of some kind in the front of the truck bed. Rather than a round hole, these drains are usually small gaps between the floor of the truck bed and the forward wall. They’re designed to not be obvious, but they are certainly there.
Just look along the front of the truck bed, close to the corners. You should see a small gap in the seam where the bed floor meets the front bulkhead. Unloaded pickups are designed to be slightly higher in the rear when empty, so water will naturally run towards the front of the truck. Another way to find the drain holes is to simply pour a cup of water in each front corner, then watch the ground underneath to see where the water hitting the ground is coming from.
I’ll start with what you don’t want to do. The drainage points were designed, built and finished to aid in keeping the truck bed dry, and to help prevent rust. Part of the process is being sure the inside edges of the holes are finished, just like the rest of the body. Shoving a wire coathanger or any other abrasive object through the holes could cause a starting point for rust and corrosion.
If none of these ideas work, they should have at least cleared the area enough that you can actually see what’s causing the blockage. If you have to go after it, be sure to use something that isn’t going to damage the finish on either side of the bed.
The ridges of a truck bed serve several purposes. Water flow is one of them. Since water always takes the path of least resistance, it will flow to the lower portion of the channels. From there, it will either flow to the drain holes in the front or flow to the back of the bed and drain out under the tailgate. But those ridges do serve other purposes.
As of this writing, Ram trucks are using steel for truck beds. Ford has been making full-sized trucks with aluminum bodies for several years, including the truck bed. Many Chevrolet and GMC truck models are now using forms of carbon fiber for truck beds. But in every case, these beds have front drainage and ridged floors.
Truck beds don’t need rear drain holes. Unlike an SUV or other passenger vehicles with a tailgate, a truck tailgate is far from watertight. Water easily flows right out between the bottom of the closed tailgate and the rear edge of the truck bed, just like the engineers designed it to do.
Okay, we’re off topic a bit here. But what if you’re hauling dirt, sand or some other granulated item that wants to spill through this gap? Or maybe you’re camping in the truck bed, and you just want to keep that draft out.
Pipe insulation is the perfect solution. Just cut it to length. It’s already split so it’s easy to open up a bit and spread over the offending area. Just close the tailgate on it and your leaking or draft issue is solved. Swim noodles also serve the same purpose.
There’s a lot of speculation in several truck forums about these rubber plugs. They may never serve a purpose in your application, but they are there for a reason… AND THEY AREN’T DRAIN HOLES!
After spending some time on the phone with Ford, Chevy and Ram professionals at local dealerships, I have no solid answers for most of these mysterious rubber plugs. But I do have several examples of what they actually use them for.
In most cases, these rubber plugs are there to ease the installation of common accessories, The passages could easily be used for routing wiring to a 5th wheel trailer, a slide-in truck camper or some other in-bed accessories. In some instances, they could be there for dealer-installed accessories like Nissan’s Utili-track tie-down system.
Ram makes a dealer-installed bed lighting kit that makes use of these access points. This service rep also said they remove the rubber plugs on the bed floor when they install spray-in bed liners. They do this for drainage.
The plugholes are also used for aftermarket stereo speakers that mount in the box. Rather than completely pull the plug, they cut a hole in it. This gives an added layer of protection against the elements and protects the metal edge from wearing through any wiring. An interesting point, they run the wires out of the cab via rubber plugs in the back wall or in the floor under the carpet.
I’ve also seen one hotshot trucker use the rubber access plugs in the forward wall of the bed to run drainage from their in-bed toolbox. He also ran his dual-whip CB radio coax through these holes, under the truck and into the cab.
The bottom line seems to be that nobody really wants to drill a new hole in a truck, especially when one of these access passages is so convenient.
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