On Thu, 01 Dec 2016 11:44:05 -0500, Brooklyn1
> wrote:

>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.

Deck gardening is simple and rewarding. I started my deck garden when
I was very ill. You can sit for everything you need to do. Very,
very little weeding is needed. My source of pots was my local
nursery/garden center. They always have pots they are discarding.
Lots of the pots had trees in them and therefore are fairly large. But
all size pots are available. The springy, coiled hoses to carry water
are a blessing for a deck garden. You can add a water turnoff right
at your feet on the deck. All you really need is someone to carry
those initial bags of potting soil to you from your vehicle.
http://i1171.photobucket.com/albums/...ps4knee7zu.jpg
There are more pots out of the photo on left and right. Everything is
mixed together. I'm going to cut back in 2017. It has grown much,
much bigger than seen here. I've got to exercise some restraint.
Janet US