How to Garden with Ease when Disabled or Elderly

Step-by-Step Guide

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   Step 1: Take notes on how you want to improve your garden.

   Create a plan with everything you need in your garden.
   
   Add easy paths in your plan so watering, pruning and maintaining plants will be easier.
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   Step 2: Provide for wheelchair access Level and smooth the garden paths for wheelchairs Raised planter boxes

   ,,, Don't buy unusual or unnecessary garden items., for yard-work and gardening.
   
   People can donate their extras., Small (terminating) plants or flowers that stay in control are great for your garden, whereas vine plants are indeterminate, and never stop growing until frost or freeze in the fall of the year., Tomato and strawberry plants are handy.
   
   Herbs are easy to maintain and great for cooking.
   
   Growing rhubarb is easy.
   
   It looks after itself.
   
   The only thing you need to do is keep cutting it back and it grows like anything.
   
   You will never be short of rhubarb jam, rhubarb tarts, and rhubarb turnovers. , Rodents, rabbits and birds may eat your crops, if they're left out in the open with nothing to protect them.
   
   Try using a small fence and/or netting., Mind over matter can help you achieve a lot in life.
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   Step 3: Make your gardening easier to do by using: Patio gardening in containers Kneeling mats Knee pads Extended hand tools Built in watering tubes/hoses Long handled watering wand Low bench/seat Small handcart/wagon

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   Step 4: Ask a neighbor

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   Step 5: friend or family member to help out with things you can not do

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   Step 6: such as: Digging Building planter boxes

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   Step 7: Stick to a budget.

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   Step 8: suggest or help organize a cooperative

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   Step 9: community or small business re-claims yard for planks of wood

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    Step 10: bricks

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    Step 11: pottery

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    Step 12: Buy bushes and plants that require low maintenance.

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    Step 13: Make sure that you buy outdoor plants as indoor plants will not survive outside.

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    Step 14: Protect your plants

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    Step 15: especially your vegetables and fruits.

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    Step 16: Be persistent and keep a positive attitude.

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