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that gives disabled individuals maximum gardening space within normal reach.
• Raised planters can be either permanent or temporary structures depending on the desires and needs of the gardener.
• A wide variety of plants can be used.
• Planters can be built to be mobile to adjust to available sun or move out of the way during other activities.
• Problems of poor soil or soilborne disease can be overcome easily.
• Planters drain well, warm quickly, thus producing early crops.
• Seedlings can be started in small, mobile planters indoors and brought out when the weather is appropriate, thus extending the growing season.
• Planters offer opportunities for innovative landscape ideas and creative plant structures, such as walls of plants.
Dr. Diane Relf is a horticulture specialist with Virginia Cooperative Extension and is a member of the faculty of Virginia Tech.
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