Find love gardening, but it is painful or reduced mobility?
Schedule time in the garden and buy the right tools and machines may mean that you continue to enjoy your garden in old age.
Try light with extendable handle means to buy wherever possible, these tools are designed to facilitate the weeding, pruning, general care and maintenance considerably. Seek to ensure in-store before you, that you feel in your hands and buy thatare manageable.
By planning ahead you can use your garden low maintenance plants that can survive without you, unless you go out on a regular basis are based on herbs. Bushes and shrubs need much less care than, for example, annual plants and bedroom. Your local garden center should be able to advise you on low maintenance plants, but here are someExamples:
or Acer
and Yarrow
Ajuga or
or Anemone
or Aquilegia
or Berberis
or Bergen
or Buddleja
or Camellia
or Carex
or Chaenomeles
or Choisya
or Cistus
or Cordyline
or Cornus
or Cotinus
Cotoneaster or
or Euphorbia
or Euonymus
Ferns and
or geranium
or Hamamelis
Heathers or
or lifting
or Hemerocallis
or Hydrangea
or Iris
or Ivy
or lilac
or Magnolia
or Miscanthus
or Perovskites
or Philadelphus
or Phormium
and Photinia
or Pieris
or Primula
Prunus
or Pyracantha
or Rhododendron
or currants
or Rosemary
or Sambucus
or Skimmia
or Sorbus
or Stipa
or Vibernum
Win or
Lawnmaintenance are very high, so why not consider replacing it with slabs, gravel or bark? Leave spaces between the plates to grow plants such as geraniums and low growth or you can add interest and color to the gravel pit. You can also get some single plants grown in large pots, once established, they need food and water once or twice a year.
If you want to keep your lawn mower in a hover, investing easier to bear. Also, leave it in an easily accessibleAvoid steps or obstacles that you should raise the issue.
Planting in containers or raised beds which means less potential or bend back knee problems. The containers can be planted on the pleasant terrace, and can be kept at home to avoid unnecessary travel. This is also a great way to ring the changes, plant colorful annuals for the summer and replace them with evergreens for the winter and flower bulbs, like daffodils and tulips for theSpring.
Most plants can be grown in containers until a couple of points to remember:
• Use a larger pot as possible, even if the plant seems a little early "strange", soon to fill his place
Or put stones, bricks or broken clay pots broke up in the bottom of the pan to drain and stabilize
O Use to bring a good quality compost and manure, and add a general fertilizer to help
o Do not overfill the dish can be a good 2-3 inches for easeIrrigation.
o When casting to fill the pot and let it penetrate through the compost, if you miss the water from irrigated land, you know its true
o Do not over water and let dry completely non-
dress or top with a layer of manure, bark, slate or gravel to help retain moisture and weeds
o Remove any blemishes, remove any weeds or moss that grew on the surface, the thumbs up or so of compost and replace it with a mulch such as manure orCortex
or In order to help retain moisture while maintaining moisture gel to add some
o If you are using to grow acid-lovers such as rhododendrons, camellias or ericaceous compost
Buy or some "standing" to raise the pot to the ground, this will allow water to escape more easily and stop stagnation
help or in some drawer pot wheels Invest move heavy pots
Garden buildings such as greenhouses, cold boxes and sheds must be placed as close as possible to avoidas much as possible on foot and bears. Buy a car easier to help the heavier elements effectively as compost. Water piston position in the rainforests of greenhouses and sheds must avoid a water supply on hand again to take them long distances.
When you create a new shed or greenhouse, make sure it is ready in the most convenient for you. Make sure that the staging and the shelves are at a comfortable height, you might want to sit while the majority of your workSo what in the design. Continue with the work surface area of the same height without lifting the trays to slide.
If you use a wheelchair that the doors are wide enough to assume the presidency and not step outside the door.
If you have arthritis, you should not stop gardening.
The gentle movement of the garden work strengthens the muscles around the joints and can help make them more mobile, not to exaggerate the secret.Repetitive tasks for long periods is not good, to work a little 'and the rest, and come back later.
Listen to your body, if it hurts then stop, a cup of tea and go to something else. You can always return to the original work on another day.
Could produce a plan that begins with hoes then passes seeding or transplanting seeds sitting in a greenhouse, then moves on some cutting. The day after a day of rest may be followed by another dayshort, simple tasks.
Implementation, try to distribute the load on both hands and arms, instead of just your fingers. This reduces the pressure on the joints in his hands. If the knees are trying to reduce the problem to contain elements from the floor of the shed and greenhouse reduction.
To avoid wear and invest on foot in a tool belt. This may contain small items such as gardening gloves, string, labels, hand tools, etc. to keep everything together in aPlace.
Try sitting in the garden, if you can do to reduce the weight bearing joints. There are a number of garden space available, and you would be surprised what can work can be done in this way.
In general, a couple of hours in the garden can do wonders for your health and wellness business, with the excavation will be the greatest fat burner.
Spend half an hour a day to burn calories and the following operations:
or excavation - 250 calories
or mowing - 195 calories
or weeding - 105Calories
or rake - 100 calories
To try to strengthen the body and the heels and Strimming arms and shoulders, try raking, mowing and fork. Digging to help tone thighs and buttocks.
Any activity that leaves you breathless increases the heart rate, protection against heart disease. Try a half-hour fast to cut the lawn or pulling weeds, keep your heart healthy.
It's not just your body that enjoys gardening, the psychological benefits ofoutdoors, working in the sun and fresh air, are immense. Only outdoors reduces stress, lowers blood pressure and relieves tension in muscles.
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