On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:51:39 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:

>On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 22:38:12 -0500, Brooklyn1
> wrote:
>
>>On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 14:01:12 +1100, Jeßus > wrote:
>>
>>>On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 18:42:40 -0800 (PST), Roy >
>>>wrote:
>>>
>>>>On Wednesday, November 30, 2016 at 2:59:15 PM UTC-7, Jeßus wrote:
>>>>> On Wed, 30 Nov 2016 13:40:42 -0800 (PST), Cindy Hamilton
>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> >Tonight's dinner: leftover grilled, skinless, boneless chicken breast,
>>>>> >probably sliced and served on a salad of some sort. Or, if I'm
>>>>> >feeling really low-energy, sliced and dropped into a bowl of
>>>>> >hot, buttered, nuked, previously frozen green beans.
>>>>>
>>>>> Nice. Tonight we're having a small pork rolled roast, probably with
>>>>> mashed potato, garlic and some fresh chives, baby broad beans (fava
>>>>> beans) and rainbow chard from the garden.
>>>>
>>>>Sounds great...I haven't had Swiss Chard for ages. I miss gardening but my health problems kind of interfered.
>>>>====
>>>
>>>Thanks. Shame that health issues have stopped any gardening for you,
>>>chard is very easy to grow (but I'm sure you know that).
>>
>>Chard is easy to grow but a lot of physical labor to harvest because
>>it's on the ground... however chard grows well in large pots. Many of
>>my neighbors are elderly and/or not in good health however they garden
>>with raised beds. Chard will grow well in window boxes on a
>>deck/patio. Container gardening is very popular. It's easy to grow
>>tomatoes, peppers, etc, in a bale hay in a plastic trash bag.
>
>I've decided to convert most of my vegetable garden to raised beds
>sometime next year. My lower back isn't great (digging definitely
>aggravates it) plus raised beds will reduce the amount of weeding
>significantly.
>
>As you say, Roy could possibly grow chard in pots.

Not knowing the nature of Roy's health limitations I would suggest he
start small. perhaps a couple of five gallon contractor's buckets...
and those can be set on dollies.. easy to fabricate ones own with some
scrap lumber and some casters/wheels from a hardware store or on line,
I've bought from:
http://www.servicecaster.com/
http://shepherdcasters.com/
Also from Amazon:
https://www.amazon.com/s?ie=UTF8&pag...rd%20ca sters
I've changed the casters on our computer chairs to a wider and larger
diameter, the casters that come with computer chairs are too teeny and
ruin the chair pads.