Five Painless Tips For Arthritic Gardeners

Is your green thumb arthritic? Mine is. And so are my knees and shoulders. According to the Center for Disease Control: “The various forms of arthritis affect more than 15 percent of the U.S. population—over 43 million persons—and more than 20 percent of the adult population, making arthritis one of the most common conditions in [...]

Eight Back-Saving Garden Options

The first tenet of painless gardening is to get the garden to come to you. That means making your garden as close to your house as possible – reducing long treks across your property with watering cans, hoses, heavy bags of compost or mulch and so on. It also means, where possible, raising your garden [...]

A Cedar Hope Chest of a Garden

Painless Garden Test 2010 As you’ve probably read, the first tenet of Painless Gardening is to move your garden up – to raise it so you can tend it without bending or squatting. The main garden we’ll test this growing season is the best raised garden station I’ve found, the Cedar Creek 2472 Garden Center. [...]

Raising The Garden

There are only five tenets to starting and maintaining a Painless Garden. (For all five, see here.) The first tenet is: Get your garden to come to you. By that I mean, if you want to save yourself back strain, knee and hip pain, time, effort and money – while maximizing your gardening pleasure and [...]