By Alison Kerr
Karen McKnight, an Arkansas reader of Loving Nature’s Garden, wrote to tell me about her frugal, practically-free, tub vegetable gardens.
Karen is 67 years old, lives on social security, is a breast cancer survivor, and has a back problem. She is obviously resourceful and determined to still be gardening. I wanted to know more.
Karen’s vegetable garden is a container garden, but it’s a container garden with a difference. Karen writes:
“All together I now have 100 tubs. The tubs are about 30 inches tall, making them easy to sit in a chair and weed and plant and pick. It’s just wonderful. I have three sections: veggies; then 30 tubs of blue berries; then 30 tubs of corn on the cob.”
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