Waist-Level Gardening: A step-by-step guide to constructing a waist-level garden that's ideal for gardeners of all ages and abilities.
Patricia Watters objective in writing WAIST-LEVEL GARDENING, is an effort to help others enjoy a healthful, environmentally-friendly way of life at any age. Ms. Watters became involved in creating an effective passive solar greenhouse in 1982 while pursuing an interest in growing vegetables year-around that would use a minimum of water. Subsequently, she developed her BIODOME GARDEN, which includes a 900-gallon aquaculture system for heat absorption, radiation, and humidification. But she also discovered that by omitting the fiberglass dome, one has a user-friendly, waist-level organic garden that is ideal for gardeners of all ages, especially those with handicaps who are unable to get down on their hands and knees. Ms. Watters and her husband live in a hand-built log house in the woods of Oregon. Their only source of water is rain water, which is collected off the roof and flows into an 8000-gallon underground cistern.