The healing hands: how to garden safely

GARDENS are places of pleasure, relaxation, fresh air, and exercise, but they involve work that is synonymous with aching backs and therapeutic activity. But gardens are also a place of accidents, so safety is paramount.

Children and adults are regulalrly treated in hospital because of garden accidents.

Accidents will always happen, but the greater number of garden accidents may be prevented with a few basic and common sense, safety precautions.