"Christine Dabney" > wrote in message
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> On Mon, 16 Mar 2009 00:41:31 GMT, "brooklyn1"
> > wrote:
>
>>Raised beds can be somewhat helpful for those with handicaps that prevent
>>bending but I think the kneeling/sitting combo apparatuses found at plant
>>nurseries and elsewhere work better..
>
> Not for someone like me. As I mentioned, I have bad knees. If I am
> in a kneeling position, it is almost impossible for me to get up,
> without dislocating one. And believe me, that is incredibly painful,
> as well as making it difficult to walk for a week or more after that
> happens. I do everything I can to avoid it...
>
> Same with sitting, if the seat is too low...plus I am not supposed to
> sit on a low seat anyway, with my hip replacements. And if the seat
> is too low, my right knee can't take the pressure of getting up from
> it, without dislocating.
>
>
I understand. What you're saying is you're not capable of a whole lot of
gardening. Being handicapped as you describe you'd do better with container
gardening. I had a great uncle, long gone, who was handicapped but loved to
garden, he did miniature gardening, entire landscapes, trees, bushes, moss,
ponds, streams of bits of mirror, etc. in tiny bottles, bottle caps,
toothpaste caps, and even smaller, most required a magnifying glass to see
the detail. They ran a two page article in the Sunday NY Mirror magazine
section all about him... his entire garden of over a hundred plants occupied
his tiny apartment kitchen window.. he liked to plant seeds from fruit he'd
eat; apple. pear, citrus... most of his tiny gardens didn't last very long
but he always had new ones.