The Easy-Care Garden – Comfortable, Low-Maintenance Gardening After 60 (Printable PDF)

Keep gardening – comfortably – for years to come.

A garden doesn't have to get smaller as we get older. It just needs to be easier to reach, easier to water and kinder to the back. The Easy-Care Garden shows you how to bring the garden up to you with raised beds and containers, choose tools and plants that do more of the work, stay safe in sun and heat, and keep the joy of growing things season after season.

What's Inside

• Why keep gardening – the benefits, and an easy-care answer for everything that gets harder
• Plan an easy-care garden – layout ideas, safe paths and comfortable path widths
• Raised beds and containers – bed heights and widths that work, including for wheelchair users
• Your body, your garden – warming up, pacing and protecting your back and knees
• Tools that do the work – lightweight, long-reach and easy-grip tools, carts and kneelers
• Low-maintenance plants – perennials, shrubs, ground cover, bulbs, herbs and native plants
• Watering made easy – mulch, soaker hoses, timers and water butts
• Safe in sun and heat – warm-day habits, warning signs and a tetanus check
• Growing food simply – easy crops, herbs, fruit and cut-and-come-again salads
• Through the year – seasonal jobs, gardening with others and when to ask for help
• 40 easy-care tips to make your garden kinder to you
• Printables: a garden plan, a seasonal checklist and a garden journal

A lovely gift for a gardening parent or grandparent – or for yourself.

Details

• 17 pages, printable PDF – A4 (prints on US Letter too – choose "Fit to page")
• Large, easy-to-read text
• US measurements with metric in brackets
• Instant download after purchase
• Fill-in pages – print as many copies as you need for personal use
• General information only – not medical advice

Please note: this is a digital product. No physical item will be shipped.