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The two owners have been growing most of their food for 25 years in this large organic vegetable and fruit garden outside of New Buffalo. They heat with a wood boiler using wood that they glean from the wooded areas of their property. They try many gardening experiments;... » more

My very resourceful sister bought a house with this old swingset frame in the backyard. When she wanted to add a bed for more veggies, she made a lasagna garden under the frame, and used the frame and some PVC pipe for trellises. As the plants got bigger, the PVC... » more

No money to fix up the house, so we're using it as the best garden shed in town... saving seeds, trading plants and produce with friends, shoveling up manure from our neighbor's horse, harvesting bamboo for next year's trellises... it's frugal fun and we're saving... » more

This year we're going for quality, not quantity. I started six varieties of tomatoes, but only six of each (we'll see how that works out; so far none have sprouted)... also three types of eggplants, six of each, Some basil, a few jalapenos, and some seeds we saved... » more

Two vacant lots in the Central City neighborhood of New Orleans, owners unknown, have been cultivated by locavore chefs for use by community members. Surplus produce is sold to restaurants to help pay for materials. » more

Two artists have created a wonderland of yard art and low-maintenance plantings. This garden looks good in every season. » more

Now that we live in our fixer-upper former rooming house full time, we are hoping the garden will prosper. The game plan this year is to use up as many of our seeds and various other garden stuff that's accumulated over the last decade or so as possible. Our front... » more

A beautiful perennial garden in Southwest MI with views of Lake Michigan. Also features a vegetable garden, rock river and an outdoor shower embraced in honeysuckle!

Two summers ago this garden was just an abandoned lot next to my house in Chicago's East Pilsen neighborhood. After countless hours, buckets of sweat and lots of help from dedicated friends last years garden included...

This garden is a chronicle of the generosity of friends and fellow gardeners who have helped us along the way. The idea of a friendship garden is to share plants and grow new friendships. All of the perennials in our...

A small balcony in Amsterdam, with morning sun. Click on the photos for more explanation!

A beautiful, expansive garden in Southwest Michigan. The land used to be home to an order of nuns but now houses a beautiful water garden, border gardens of flowers and veggies, a private gazebo and stunning perennial...

45 sq m terrace in San Saba, Rome, planted with 6 varieties of roses, at least a dozen cactus and succulents, kitchen herbs, annuals, climbing vines and rubber trees.

It is a backyard garden with ginkgo, lemon, apple, birch trees and kiwi, oleander, lavender, camelia, jasmin and more.....

We were lucky enough to move into a home with a large fenced garden (probably at least 1/4 acre). We inherited several perennials, including asparagus, blueberry, and raspberry patches. We've been hard at...

A typical suburban garden slowly turning into a hodge-podge of interesting plants.

Large, shady garden with many trees.

I have an embarrassment of peony riches at my home in the Hudson Valley and I am a peony junkie. I have always loved these late spring blooming plants for the showy blossoms which look, for all the world, like party...

I have been working with raised garden and container gardens because of my land and the wet ground.

Art Sculpture Garden

My garden is very eclectic.  I have about 3 acres and most of it I barely have time to mow. (I have to work to support my habit.)  I have deliberately kept my flower and garden beds small to cut down on the work. ...

My front yard is small but filled with perennials. My back yard is ringed with vegetable gardens, shade gardens and annual gardens.

Manchester Boddy's rancho, developed while he ran LA's only liberal newspaper in the 1930's, is the center of controversy even today.  When WWII came, he was a "placeholder" landlord for a Japanese nurseryman and family...

Flower gardens, herb garden, 3 vegetable gardens... I just keep digging up my children's grassy yard and growing them organic food!

Our old farmhouse sits on an acre and a half of gardens with an old barn as its background. The house has many window boxes with a variety of flowers. There is a large pond with a waterfall designed by my husband. The...

"More is better for me. The more diversity, the better. I like a complicated landscape, with all kinds of variations in the details, one that you don't immediately understand just looking at it from a distance, one...

Ornamental, beds and borders where evergreen conifers and deciduous shrubs mingle with perennials, bulbs, and a few favorite annuals. Some Iowa prairie plants such as side-oats grama grass. A still-water, self-maintaining...

This is our farm. We bought it in June of 2005 and immediately started to work on it. This year (2012) I renamed Le Corone to Lisaland. Please visit there to see our garden this year. Happy Gardening!

i cannot really select one garden 'type'...except to say perhaps 'eclectic'.  i do a bit of everything, flowers, sun, shade, edibles...including herbs.

This is the continuation of the Le Corone garden here on YourGardenShow, renamed in Lisa's honor. We want to carry on her legacy of great gardening practices and it's going to take a few of us to do it. The team here...

My garden is 10 foot by 19 foot and has flax, potatoes, peppers, tomatoes, squash, gourds, borage, onions and lettuce.  

We started this garden in 2010 and could not believe the harvest!!!  We expanded in 2011 and now we are exhausted because the harvest was so much more.  We are completely organic and feel that this is so helpful for...

My vegetable garden is getting a makeover this year!  Not only will I be growing more heirlooms, but the area where they will be growing will have a Bohemian flair.....colorful, artsy, fun, and perhaps a bit of the...

The success of our gardening has been great, with some disappointments due to the learning curve. We are learning what we can do when we have 4 months of temperatures over 100 and no rain. Our soil is all sand! We...

Two years ago my family moved to a under-resourced community to help with community organizing and community development. Getting the neighbors to trust us was our first big obstacle to overcome. Even though I had never...

In the early spring the daffodils and tulips start to poke out of the ground...the 2 lilac bushes begin their blooms soon after. During mid-May, I begin to add veggie, herb, and annual plantings. Also, my parents bring...

This is my very first garden and it is a work in progress. Sunnypatch Bayou got it's name because it is a little patch of sunshine in a marshy world. After working in the landscape nursery for so long I finally have...

An organic garden that provides interest for all seasons and entices every sense.

When I moved here there was a small organic garden but most of the topsoil was washed away by gold mining and logging. I'm creating a food forest and learning permaculture practices. There is more life here now but...

My garden began with one raised bed.  I grew up in Ohio where you could pretty much stick a plant in the ground and it would grow.   I now live in Texas where the "soil"  is not soil.   Its clay.  I think they...

This year 2012 will be the third season of my organically grown 20'x25' fenced kitchen garden.  My garden grows primarily in raised beds and along vertical trellising, all surrounded with a diverse herb border. ...

We are a young family attempting to grow our food. It hasn't been easy, but has been rewarding to say the least. Last year was our first successful garden and this year we are expanding. We decided to move to a new...

A community garden plot filled with mostly heirloom veggies. I'm taking a risk and planting everything from seed.  Hopefully I'll get some decent crops and have surplus for canning. 

Our garden is a true extension of our desire to grow healthy food for our family and friends without the use of chemicals. And this year, NO GMO's! Wahoo!!!!

This garden is a tribute to Lisa  Marini,  from her Chicago friend Karen.  The garden is part of the Peterson Garden Project community gardens.  They are raised bed organic,  square foot gardening, 

Each year I grow at least 15 new varieties while hanging on to tried and true cultivars I cannot live without. This garden story will focus on new additions, most notably heirlooms.

A Grow It Forward heirloom garden

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