No back yard? Limited lawn space? No problem.

You can garden anywhere — regardless of space constraints — with these tips from PBS Wisconsin and our 2025 Garden and Landscape Expo partner, UW-Madison Extension Horticulture.

From planning to planting a balcony garden | Let’s Grow Stuff

PBS Wisconsin’s online content editor Sigrid Peterson — a gardener, budding grower and blog contributor for our digital gardening series, Let’s Grow Stuff — shares some of the gardening techniques, insights, how-tos and hacks she learned as a newbie urban gardener, using containers to transform a small apartment balcony in Madison into a green(er) space begetting good eats (veggies)!

Vertical Agriculture | University Place

In this University Place presentation from the 2023 Garden and Landscape Expo, teaching, learning and tech manager at the D.C. Smith Greenhouse in the department of horticulture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, Johanna Oosterwyk looks at the promise of vertical farming — growing crops anytime, anywhere — and explores when it is the right tool for the job.

Urban gardening | The Wisconsin Gardener

Explore the farmers market, a safe place that focuses on community, nutrition and friendship, then take a look at urban beekeeping.

Growing and Caring for Plants in Wisconsin: Foundations in Gardening

Growing and Caring for Plants in Wisconsin: Foundations in Gardening is an online introductory course where you learn key concepts for selecting, growing and maintaining plants — from trees to vegetables and everything in between! Registration for the fall 2024 course opens July 15!