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Gardening And Arthritis - How To Make Gardening With Arthritis Easier

Information on gardening with arthritis. The pain and limitations imposed by arthritis can make gardening difficult. Gardening with arthritis can be made much easier with some creativity, special garden tools, and a little preparation and planning.
Before You Buy Arthritis-Friendly Garden Tools
Many people with arthritis are forced to give up activities because of physical limitations. With specially designed tools, gardening is one hobby which arthritis sufferers can continue to enjoy.
Ergonomic Garden Supplies
Gardening is a soothing hobby for people with arthritis. Ergonomic, arthritis-friendly garden supplies help make gardening enjoyable. Easy-to-use garden supplies reduce strain on arthritic joints.
Top Arthritis-Friendly Garden Tools
Ergonomic garden tools help you maintain your favorite outdoor hobby with ease and maximum joint protection.
Radius Garden Hand Tools
A usability test and evaluation of NRG's line of Radius Garden Hand Tools, including the trowel, bulb trowel, cultivator and weeder.
How to Use the Radius Garden Hand Tools
Illustrations of how to use the Radius garden hand tools.
Pruner Preferences - Selecting Garden Pruners
Gardeners can be very partisan when it comes to naming their favorite tool, but few will deny the absolute indispensability of a good pair of hand pruners. Pruning can tire the hardiest hands, but if you are already starting out at a disadvantage with carpal tunnel or arthritis, you should look into ergonomically designed models.
Exercises To Prepare For Gardening Season
The most common gardening injuries are back strain and knee pain. Some easy stretching will go a long way toward lessening both of these. And I do mean easy.
10 Tips For Great Container Gardens - How To Create A Garden In A Pot
You can grow almost anything in a container. Gardening in pots and containers gives you the ability to insure great soil, expiment with color, move your garden with the sun and raise your garden to a comfortable working height.
Step by Step: How to Build Raised Beds
An advantage of the "bench" style of raised beds is that they're high enough to eliminate bending over altogether while you garden, a point that won't be lost on those who suffer from bad backs. In addition, installing a caster on each leg of the raised bed makes it portable.
How to Prevent Slips and Falls
Slips and falls can greatly threaten your health and independence. Slips and falls are major causes of serious injury and death. Slips and falls have many causes, but usually have one thing in common, they could have been prevented.
Gardening Step-By-Step (Complete with Pictures)
Here are a series of gardening step-by-steps to make garden maintenance a little easier to comprehend and a little easier to do.
Gardening Basics: Getting Started With A Garden
Resources, articles, and information to make you a better gardener.
10 Tips For Low-Maintenance Landscaping
Take these 10 tips to heart if you're serious about low-maintenance landscaping.
Free Newsletter E-Course - Small Space Garden Design
No space for a garden? Limited space doesn't mean you can't have a garden. Learn how to plan a garden to suit your needs and tastes.
Free Newsletter E-Course - Online Landscape Design Course
This online landscape design course is a free newsletter providing you with landscaping tips to apply to your own yard.
Landscape Design For Beginners
Designing a garden or landscape for do-it-yourselfers. If you need to spruce up the landscape design of a house that you are about to sell, or if you simply want to enjoy an enhanced beauty in your backyard, you could profit from a straightforward, no-nonsense look at the ideas behind designing a garden, supplemented with pictures.
Landscape Solutions For Those Problem Areas
Problem areas? Almost every landscape has at least one, be it a rocky spot, a slope, areas plagued by drought or a muddy mess, or a place so heavily shaded that design options with plants are limited. You do have several landscape solutions for dealing with these and other problem areas.
Gardening & Arthritis
If you’ve always loved the pleasures of tending your own garden - fragrant flowers or the taste of a really fresh tomato - you don’t have to give them up just because arthritis has come into the picture, from Arthritis Foundation.
10 Tips for Easier Gardening
Use the following tips to help keep gardening and yard work fun and relaxing, from Arthritis Foundation.

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