Time to get back to gardening Stickfigure style. I've been stove-up due to health problems and have basically let the garden go fallow all of last year. Gardening is such good exercise that I just have to get back into it. Because of my bad legs I cannot stand for very long periods of time. About 5 years ago I built a carrier for my tools that is just the right height to let me rest my chest on it so that I could work the garden on my knees. I use a pad on top of the carrier and wear knee pads that I bought at Home Depot. I designed a set of hand tools especially for the task. It saves a lot of back-breaking and leg-aching toil.
This year though, I have decided to start building raised beds so that I don't have to crawl around on my hands and knees so much. I'm planning on making them 4 feet wide and about 12-13 inches high...a little under standard chair height. The paths will be wide enough to accommodate a wheel chair that I use to cart things around and covered with wood chip mulch that will be used as humus each time it is recovered with fresh chips.
Stickfigure Gardening with Leonardo de Stickfigure
The Stickfigure Family
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