Leo, I have to make inroads into those tough areas a little at a time, and over the years gradually push the garden to where I want it to be. I have a tiller, and I'm going to sell it because I never use it - if I tilled this area to put in a garden I'd be pulling out Bermuda grass from here to eternity. There is no way to get it out except by hand. You probably have a comparable grass or ground cover there.

I've so far weeded about 10' of the path between the traditional garden and the keyhole garden. This means digging then pulling out the rhizomes followed by putting down many layers of newspaper and covering it with mulch. This is to keep the path from growing into both gardens. I know some people can leave a grassy path, but that is garden suicide down here.

SRS