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Re: [ENABLED] Gardening for the Blind

At 03:38 PM 12/14/98 -0500, you wrote:
>Iam looking for ways of enabling people who are blind to enjoy
>gardening. Can you suggest any references or sources of information ?
>
I interviewed a woman who is sight-impaired and gardens.  She told me that
most sight-impaired people stick to container gardening, but she didn't see
the necessity.  She wears thin-soled shoes, and has different-textured
approaches to her garden beds that she can feel with her feet.  She plants
seeds, using her first knuckle as a depth finder, but prefers to set out
seedlings.  She can tell the difference between weeds and plants by feel.
She also has a string to guide her along a row.  I think her husband has to
help out if there's an insect invasion, but she's pretty self-sufficient.
She doesn't let her guide dog or guide puppy in training in the garden area
with her because they're rather destructive.  Margaret
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