Planting strawberry plants in the Keyhole at Traversine Villiot

This week, a new planting activity brought the Traversine Villiot garden in Paris to life: children helped plant strawberry plants in the Keyhole of the vegetable garden, a large circular container shaped like a keyhole, widely used in permaculture for growing and recycling organic matter. The young gardeners had the satisfaction of planting runners from the Traversine’s rooftop garden at the neighbouring school in Bercy. During the summer, temporary containers had been placed on the school terrace, filled with a little soil, so that the runners produced by the mother plants could develop their roots. After a few weeks of growth, these young strawberry plants, now well-rooted, were collected and transferred to the Villiot garden. There they will find a new fertile space, rich in compost, where they can spread out and produce their first flowers and fruits next spring.