
For a healthy compost pile that’s safe to use on the garden and won’t create unpleasant odors, steer clear of adding these materials.

This hearty, vegetable-centric dish from the Toledo Zoo’s Chef Sam Misiura can be customized to whatever produce you’re harvesting from the garden.
Whether you call them sunchokes or Jerusalem artichokes, these vegetables belong in the urban garden.

A once-popular cool-season crop, collards should become a mainstay in your garden.

Build healthy soil your garden can rock out in with this German compost technique.

Encourage healthy crops and boot weeds to the curb with these cultivation tips for small-scale gardens.
A Mediterranean native, bay laurel trees are a perfect plant for container growers who want to grow their own flavorful seasonings.

Improve your garden selection with these mushrooms any urban farmer can grow.

Got a pile of junk destined for the curb? Give it new life as a trellis or planter in the garden.

Use our Green Thumb advice for easy pruning solutions.

Sticking to a schedule, including winter mulching, gives spring plants a head start and cuts down early-season work.

Small greenhouses, row covers, can speed up the growth of your annuals.