Gardening should not only be enjoyed by those people who could walk. Gardens can be grown by everyone who wishes to make this a beautiful, fun hobby. Easy gardening for the handicapped is simple if you just have some useful ideals.
People who are in wheelchairs cannot walk, move around, or get down on their hands and knees. Therefore, they must bring the garden to their level, wheelchair level. The best way to garden from a wheelchair is to use some form of container or tiers that are easy to reach. The containers cannot be too wide or too tall or it will be difficult for the handicap person to keep the soil tended properly, and keep any weeds from growing and stealing precious minerals and water from the plants.
The containers should be about thirty inches off the ground or high and twenty inches wide. (30 x 20 x 8) are good dimensions for a container or box. This is so that the handicap person can easily reach the gardens and work easily with the plants. Furthermore, the containers or tires must be at least eight inches deep or more to full them with a good mixture of potting soil.
Easy gardening for the handicapped is a fun summer or a year round thing. If you have the place and a controlled inside garden you can garden all year long. If however, you are only limited to, the summer months then you will want to get the most out of your garden you can.
Practically anything will grow in a summer container garden. One can grow beautiful flowers, herbs, and even vegetables can be quite productive in container gardens. Trees, roses and some other things like asparagus will all need special soil and much more room for roots to grow. However, there are the tiny miniature roses that one can grow in containers quite well.
Easy gardening for the handicapped usually pertains to the flower, herb, and vegetable type gardens. Gardeners can have as many containers, tiers, or boxes as they wish to plant any or even all of these kinds of things in. The flowers may be used a pretty boarder around the herbs garden in one container. A tier garden may have the larger types of plants, like cannas and corn on its tiers.
There are endless possibilities to the combinations of things handicap people can grow in a garden like this. The plants that are well tended and fertilized will yield all summer long and some even into early winter if the garden is, planned well and well cared for.
