Tips to Lessen the Impact of Gardening with Arthritis
Tips to Lessen the Impact of Gardening with Arthritis by Anya McCoy | Nov 21, 2013 | Anya's Garden Perfumes | 4 comments PVC pipe is used to drop big seeds into furrows, so bending over is avoided October and November begin the planting season for us here in Miami, and a few weeks ago I got busy beginning the planting of my veggie garden. And then the arthritis flares began three really bad ones. I have no problem bending over, I’m flexible, and I feel very little pain at the time. Over the next week, though, I had three bouts of flare that disabled me and made sleeping difficult, as every tiny movement brought excruciating pain. I remembered something I had seen years ago: a length of PVC pipe cut to about four feet, with one end cut on the diagonal. The diagonal end is supposed to touch the soil, so you can see where your seed goes, but I found that useless. I actually like dropping the seed in the upright diagonal end, but YMMV. See the instructions in the photo on how