Table Gardens

Trouble with kneeling and bending often causes gardeners to quit their favorite hobby. Try a table garden, a raised-bed garden that places the soil level at tabletop height, with room for a chair under the work surface. Just be sure to use drought-tolerant plants with short roots, or build the table deeper at one end.

UF/IFAS Publications

• Save Your Back (and Greenbacks) with a Garden Table (PDF)

Also on Gardening in a Minute

• Adaptive Tools
• Therapy Gardens
• Gardening as We Get Older
• Vegetable Gardening with Raised Beds

Other Sites

• The Able Gardener (table gardens and other products for sale)
• Build a Raised Garden Bed: Instructions--American Horticultural Therapy Association (PDF)
• Building a Raised Garden Bed--Go For Your Life! (Australia)
• DIY Wheelchair Accessible Raised Bed Garden for Physically Handicapped Gardeners--Associated Content
• Lazy Susan Garden for the Wheelchair-bound--L.A. Times
• Neighbourgardens Table Top Garden Bed: Plans and Assembly Instructions--The City Farmer (Canada)
• Raised Cedar Planting Bed: 20" Wide Container Garden with Two Height Options--Adams Cedar Furniture (product for sale)
• Special Considerations for Tabletop Gardens--Iowa State University (PDF)