[grannie9]

I do the same as you do...every year more perenials. Of course winter gets them now and then so I have to keep planting those too.

I don't mind doing the window boxes so much, as I don't have to bend over...but the low gardens are getting to both of us.

[Lady Jag]

I hear you, I cracked a lower vertebra decades ago and it never calcified, so I have to keep the muscles around the area strong enough to support it so it doesn't hurt nearly as much. That lets me get outside and get down. The exercycle keeps my arthritic knees from acting up too much, and the gardening helps a lot, too. Every time I get laid up for something else, those all fall apart and I have to start strengthening all over again. The alternatives are unacceptable - for the time being, anyway.