Container Gardening For Visually Impaired
One of the people we follow on Twitter is Vision Aware, a blog about resources and tips for Blind or Low Vision People. The site has useful information for visually impaired, caregivers and eyecare professionals. If you have a website or blog, you might consider putting their link up on your site for Visual Impairment Resources.
Coming into Spring and Summer, they had a great article on Gardening Tips for the Visually Impaired:
If I can’t see well enough to tell a weed from a cultivated plant, how can I garden?
Gardening can be a wonderful sensory experience. A number of simple tips can reduce the workload and increase your sensory pleasure:
Use Landscaping Fabric or Mulch
- Try using landscaping fabric, mulch, or even corrugated cardboard around plants and seedlings.
- Using these materials can reduce the need to weed and water as frequently.
Use Colorful and Tactual Borders
- Use commercial edging products, such as crushed stone, bricks, pavers, pieces of lumber, or fencing to mark where one area ends and another begins.
- Use planking, long boards, rocks, or bricks to mark off the outer edges of your garden or raised beds for easier location and separation from lawn or play areas.
- Paint your existing fencing or stones in contrasting colors, such as white or yellow, that will contrast with the green grass.
- Use textured and/or colorful materials, such as crushed white marble chips, natural wood chips, and crushed seashells.
- Old car tires can contain spreading plants like pumpkins and squash.
Read the full article here
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