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Help for the Creaky Gardener

Face it - none of us is Peter Pan. These days the garden seems lower than ever and harder to reach down to. Tasks we may once have done without a taught suddenly seem to require special tools.

We know of countless people who got joy from gardening when they were in their 80s or even more. How do they manage? What are their special secrets?

I'm not just aging, but have a disability which made me feel 80 when I was barely 50. I worried most about not being able to manage my gardens. But luckily, with a bit of research I found ways to simplify the garden and its plantings, ways to arrange the garden itself to make things easier, and tools to help me out. If I can still garden, then so can most every other aging baby boomer out there.

After all, gardening is good for us. It is good for the soul, the actions required are great for our fine motor skills, we get fresh air and exercise and are rewarded at the end by having a place of beauty and refuge to sit back and enjoy. So I want to share all that I've learned with you, so that we can all creak our way into the gardens for a long time to come.

Book Review by Mary Casey
When I read Carol Wallace’s “Help for the Creaky Gardener” I found myself smiling and nodding my head in agreement with her wonderful advice on planning and maintaining a garden when you are no longer a spring chicken.

The anthology begins with a chapter on her story of how she was dealt a series of unfortunate setbacks More...

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