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Gardening when you have a disability

The publications in this section give information to help you start or continue gardening when you have a disability.

There are leaflets with tips for general easier gardening and to boost your mood, and publications specifically written for people recovering after a stroke or living with heart disease, and for blind and partially sighted people.

Have a look through our list of publications but if you can't find what you need, try visiting Thrive's website: www.carryongardening.org.uk 

Carry on Gardening has a wealth of information about gardening when you have a disability and advice on gardening with one hand, with no bending, with a weak grip, sitting down and from a wheelchair, after a stroke and with heart disease, and with sight loss.

If you still can't find the information you need, please contact Thrive by email or call on 0118 988 5688. We'll be pleased to hear from you and happy to help. 



£8.99
Gardening for hearts & minds guide
A unique guide of gardening activities to help recovery and rehabilitation after a stroke and when living with heart disease. This guide is free to patients of the NHS in England.

£8.00
Gardening is for Everyone
Ideal if you want to start gardening with a disability, or for horticultural therapists who are planning gardening activities for clients. Includes a year-round, week-by-week programme of indoor and out door activities.

£7.50
Getting on with Gardening (Volume 1)
The first of two volumes, this is the essential guide to gardening when you have a visual impairment. Activities include seed sowing, gardening outside, tools and equipment, raised beds, preparing the ground, planting and watering.

£7.50
Getting on with Gardening (Volume 2)
Getting on with Gardening (Volume 2) follows on from Volume 1 and will help you strart or continue gardening when you have sight loss. It has information on taking cuttings and potting, container growing, gardening outside, protected growing, pruning, lawns, and pests and diseases

£7.50
Getting on with growing food
This book for blind and partially sighted gardeners has 172 full-colour pages of information on how to grow your own fruit and vegetables. The guide is written for everyone who has sight loss, whether you are new to gardening or are more experienced.

Getting on with growing in containers
£7.50
Getting on with growing in containers
Getting on with growing in containers is a fantastic new full colour, 108 page spiral bound book on how to grow an extensive range of plants whatever the size of your gardening space when you have sight loss.

FREE
Gardening yearbook
Free to blind and partially sighted gardeners, this book has 55 pages of year-round gardening advice and includes information on growing fruit and vegetables. Available in large print, Braille and on audio CD.

FREE
Gardening together
This free book has all the information you'll need to start a local gardening club for blind and partially sighted people. There is a wealth of ideas, advice and information, and details of other organisations and sources of information which could be of use.

£0.50
The mood boosting power of gardening
Have you ever thought that gardening could change the way you feel? This free leaflet will help you use gardening to boost your mood, to beat the 'blues' and to relieve mild depression.

£0.50
Tips for Easier Gardening
Free tips for easier gardening from Thrive. There is information on improving access to the garden, low-maintenance solutions, advice on tools and techniques and a list of easy-care plants.


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