The Able Gardener: Overcoming Barriers of Age & Physical Limitations

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Summary: Never give up!
Review: An excellent guide to the basics, Yeomans' "The Able Gardener" caters to gardeners with physical limitations. Yeomans offers tips for garden accessibility, easy care gardens, a review of tools (commercial and homemade), safe gardening techniques and strengthening exercises. Yeomans draws on her 15 years experience as a nurse and includes anecdotal advice from gardening patients.

Chapters - sowing seeds, mulching, composting, transplanting and container gardening - offer useful advice for every gardener, including highlighted summary tips. A final section details 20 special gardens, including a sit-down garden, a hummingbird garden, and a touch garden.