The Able Gardener: Overcoming Barriers of Age & Physical Limitations

by Kathleen Yeomans

Book Overview

Tips and techniques that make gardening easier and more enjoyable no matter what your ability. Yeomans covers adapting tools, managing garden tasks, and more. Features easy-to-read type, 20 garden... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0882667890
• ISBN13: 9780882667898
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Storey Books
• Length: 296 Pages
• Weight: 0.45 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 7.4" x 9.2"

Customer Reviews

Never give up!

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.