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Post by Deleted on Mar 30, 2017 13:27:30 GMT -5
You'll just have to choose the right tools and equipment. You should design your garden according to where you're comfortable to work on.
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indigogirl17
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Favorite Vegetable:: sweet corn, collards, turnip greens, yellow wax beans, Cherokee purple tomatoes
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Post by indigogirl17 on Jul 14, 2017 16:03:28 GMT -5
There are some good plans online to build high raised beds that can be easily reached from all sides by a person in a wheelchair. I think these are ideal. here's one of youtube from This old House:
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Post by coppice on Jul 15, 2017 9:08:22 GMT -5
Actually no. Raised beds that tall are a barrier to access. The space between beds for access, and shorter handles on tools is where the rubber hits the road. Haul-ups are also useful.
This is what happens when a *TAB* does the thinking for the disabled. It is ableism in a nice fuzzy wrapper.
*TAB* temporarily able bodied
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indigogirl17
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Blazing here again...90's and dry after aq period of 3 weeks of solid rain a few weeks back. .
Posts: 191
Zone:: 5b
Favorite Vegetable:: sweet corn, collards, turnip greens, yellow wax beans, Cherokee purple tomatoes
Joined: March 2011
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Post by indigogirl17 on Jul 25, 2017 13:23:03 GMT -5
Thanks for your honest feedback, Coppice...would raised beds, but lower be of any use?
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Post by Laura_in_FL on Jul 25, 2017 16:10:00 GMT -5
For a shallow planting bed (under a foot deep), I have seen raised beds that were built like tables. So a person in a wheelchair could roll up right up to the edge and get their knees underneath and reach across at a convenient height to work. It wouldn't work for big plants like okra, tomatoes or corn in something like that, but greens, radishes, short fat carrots, smaller peppers, etc., would grow in a shallow box and be great and easy to work with from a wheelchair, since the entire plant would be at a convenient height. Maybe very small dwarf tomatoes, too.
I've also seen Earthboxes set up in a seniors' garden. They put them up on short stands so that the soil surface was elevated to a convenient height for someone in a wheelchair. They left plenty of space around the containers for folks to maneuver their chairs around to all sides.
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Post by coppice on Jul 28, 2017 7:47:01 GMT -5
I have and will likely continue to use at times my scooter. Beds when I build them are never more than eight inches tall. Benchs that plants rest upon are blocked up only one cinder-block course tall.
Its not how much of me that can drive under a bench or bed, it is how well I can drive (and turn in) rows.
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