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I saw a pretty cool idea recently called a keyhole garden. It's a 6' dia raised-bed garden, with a central "basket" for compost to feed it. It has an inset area to provide access to the basket. The idea was developed as a way to grow food in areas with poor soil/hot climates. Anyway- here's mine. It's made of bricks without mortar. I got the bricks from a neighbor who had them as a patio. He got a pool, so the bricks had to go. I wanted to pour a concrete ring as a base and use mortar, but I was working so much that I just didn't have time. I decided to just build it before I missed out on growing season. You can see that I drove in some rebar to give some stability. (Some are below the top level. I used a rotary hammer to drive them. Some went farther than others in the rocky soil where I live) I need to trim them, but I have to replace the spanner for my angle grinder first. Oh yeah- the dirt is held in by a couple of layers of cardboard and some landscape cloth. Everything is growing well. It looks like we'll have more Pablano, Marconi, and Bell peppers than we know what to do with. We also have corn, carrots, onions, leeks...and I don't even remember what else. The compost basket isn't doing much good right now, so I water it every other day and rely on a soil mix that is 60% compost, so I think it will be ok for a while. I can't wait to make Chile Rellenos out of my own garden.