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David F Paul wrote:I haven't done any keyhole gardens but a lot of raised beds on contour for directing runoff/catching rain water. I'm not sure what kind of climate you are in or what you wet seasons look like but on hills i'm pretty careful not to let too much water build up. I would make your keyhole small, and and your beds short if you get some pretty intense rainstorms sometimes, or make your keyhole more open and shallow, that way you aren't catching a pond, or at risk of blowing it out. also it's a good rule of thumb to stay twice the distance in height away from the edge of retaining walls like that, because that increases the load on them and the amount of water caught and sunk into the ground increases the hydrostatic pressure behind the wall. so if your raised bed is going to be 2ft tall, it should be placed at least 4 feet from the edge of the wall.
David F Paul wrote:I haven't done any keyhole gardens but a lot of raised beds on contour for directing runoff/catching rain water. I'm not sure what kind of climate you are in or what you wet seasons look like but on hills i'm pretty careful not to let too much water build up. I would make your keyhole small, and and your beds short if you get some pretty intense rainstorms sometimes, or make your keyhole more open and shallow, that way you aren't catching a pond, or at risk of blowing it out. also it's a good rule of thumb to stay twice the distance in height away from the edge of retaining walls like that, because that increases the load on them and the amount of water caught and sunk into the ground increases the hydrostatic pressure behind the wall. so if your raised bed is going to be 2ft tall, it should be placed at least 4 feet from the edge of the wall.
I'm a newbie here and had a question that I am hoping someone can answer. I am also quite new to the dehydrating thing. I've been dehydrating fruits and vegetables mostly. Today I began dehydrating one dish meals (recipes from "Backpack Gourmet", precooked then dehydrated) with the intent to use them as our main food source as we build our self-sustainable home. I will be doing this routine for the next 6 weeks in hopes to have enough meals to stretch 4-6 months (March-August). This will be a blessing if it works; it is just my husband and myself building our home and we both need to be focused on the build, not homemaking. So my big question is: Does anyone know the shelf life of dehydrated one dish meals? The backpack gourmet is presumably written for food that is being prepared and used on an upcoming/nearing camping trip, not for how I am wanting to use it.