Disabled Gardening

Hello Admins,

Can I make a request / suggestion. The title "Gardening For People With Disabilities" is a bit long-winded and I feel it's in the wrong section. Could it please be entitled "Disabled Gardening" and moved to the specialist section. I'm sure it will be much more visible there. Thanks.

Regards,
Steve

 

Hello Lowie, Is this where we get talking disabled gardening? Can't seem to find anywhere else on the forum. I'm in The Lake District, have a small front garden facing S.E. Blessed with limited mobility & energy reserves these days, I am having to think alternative ways of bringing vitality back to my soil, in order to provide myself with good fruit & veg. To this end, I have chosen to go down the route of organic gardening using soil amendments & aerated compost teas. A friend in a wheelchair is also setting out on this path, so any good advice is always welcome. I have been in the class room reading & now wish to put things in to practice.

 

I don't have any advice I can personally give, but this book might! It crossed my blog feed a while back and I remembered it, hope it helps!

 

Craig, this is where the Disabled Gardening section is...

It still carries its grandiose title - bite the bullet an Admin, please...

Regards,
Steve

 

Perhaps I can help by calling admin to the attention of your request in post #1 LowiePete.

@ARMANDII, @Zigs, @fat controller would one of you be kind enough to consider the above request please.

 

Thanks Super Lucy, I'll take a look at it.

 

Thanks Steve

 

Hi @ARMANDII,

it's the Forum Title that I'm suggesting be changed.
Gardening for people with disabilities - to - Disabled Gardening...?

Regards,
Steve

 

Excluding headings & excusing me, I thought I might get discussions going by saying what steps I have taken as an almost complete beginner to 'applied growing.' Only yesterday, having completed watching a series of films on the Truth about Cancer, I have decided to turn my small plot over to a medicinal garden. These were the areas I began to read about before doing anything else.I read about The Soil Food Web & Nutrient Cycling after a friend suggested it. I have added an interest in Aerated Compost Teas, along the way. It took about a year to go in & I reckon I have enough of a grasp of what is at play (inter-species nutrient exchange) to start to act on it. Dr Elaine Ingham is an early pioneer, see the first link.

The second link is The Soil Association & why I'm going down this route. I would say this is a very detailed subject, where when reading scientific studies, I restrict my understanding to the results & conclusions. This link is easy to read though.
https://www.soilassociation.org/res...c-farmer-increase-yield-through-compost-teas/
Would welcome views

 

I have found that what little turf I have is compacted, I've also got a relatively lifeless veg growing area, so putting what I've found in to practice I have added a soil drench treatment, in a pressure sprayer, made up of Humates, Humic, Fulvic & organic acids (all in one). I'm aiming to improve the condition of my soil. Compaction repair involves altering the charge of the soil particles from a -+, to a -- charge, thus repelling. I mixed this with a plant additive (all ingredients are organic) which is designed to give nutrients welcomed by the soil microbes, improving "soil health & vitality" I put on around 15 litres on to an area of 1.5m x 3M, over 3 hours, resting in between.
I'm intending to repeat this application at least twice a month
& I got lots of sunshine
CraigS

 

About a month ago I also put about 2 " of my own compost over my veg growing area, and also began the first of four suggested applications of said compost on to my lawn, 1/4 " here