Creating an easy care senior garden.
Gardening for the elderly design.
Not just seniors but people of all ages find gardening helps them reduce stress feel satisfied and get a sense of intrinsic wellbeing.
Continued enjoyment in the garden may be diminished if it is difficult to get around or the routine of work is too vast.
Waist high raised beds are one way to eliminate bending altogether.
Easy access to your garden layout design tips and landscaping services that may help if you are elderly disabled or gardening from a wheelchair are covered on or linked from this page.
But beds that are only 1 or 2 off the ground can make gardening easier on the.
The catch 22 of gardening and seniors is that gardening is good for seniors ricky kemery horticulture educator for the allen county office of the purdue cooperative extension service told.
Senior gardening activities may require some adaptation and knowledge on elderly accessible gardens.
Low stamina and limited mobility are two of the biggest impacts of aging.
Mobility landscaping work includes improving access to and around your garden constructing paths for wheelchairs leveling slopes terracing fitting.
With tall raised beds seeding weeding and harvesting are a snap.
Garden beds equipment and tools can all be modified to create a garden that is interesting accessible and productive.
Gardening has many health and therapeutic benefits for older people especially edible gardening.
Thus it improves strength and endurance.