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Guest contributor Pamela Price is the founder of Red, White & Grew, a blog devoted to “Promoting the Victory Garden Revival and other simple, earth-friendly endeavors as bipartisan, patriotic acts in an age of uncertainty.” As mentioned here last month, folks short on fertile land but eager to grow their own vegetables can opt for container-based Victory Gardens with astonishing results.

Today I  was putting a few plants into one of the newly dug borders that we have made this year.  I was thinking about how I go about re-planting a flower bed - or a whole garden for that matter. This is what the “Keyhole bed” looked like in 2006 when we moved into the house.

Photo from ‘Cowfiles African Gardens’. From: ‘Ideas that will catch on here.’ July 12, 2008, BBC “Another fantastic idea I picked up - which could make its way onto my allotment before long - is the keyhole veg bed. This is a raised bed with bells on: it’s about 1m (3′6″) high, and the outer bed, where the vegetables are growing, slopes down from a central hollow column.

Pic by Gemma Wiseman ~ Keyhole garden ~ Haiku Friday prompt Rockin' Chair Writers prompt #2 ~ If your blog is your home show us around ~ Another garden Changing tones of keyhole light Another insight ~ My world is many gardens in many lights. There are sky gardens, gardens of the sea, gardens of the earth and gardens of the inner spirit.

“Lesotho cannot wait for the UN food summit in Rome to come up with ideas, so it has developed some of its own. Mahaha Mphou does not know much about global economics, but she does know how to grow vegetables.