Gardening On Your Knees, & Raised Beds

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.