2025: Visit the Buckeye Garden in the village at the Toledo Botanical Garden. We will share updates about the four raised beds here and share garden resources for you to use in your own garden below.
UPDATES on 2025 GARDEN:
Planted spring 2025: lettuce, radish, chives, tomatoes, basil, cucumbers, beans, peppers
Gardener's Log for garden visits and work: download your own copy
2025 Partners: We are grateful for our local partnerships with Metroparks Toledo, especially the Toledo Botanical Garden, the youth gardners of the Anthony Wayne Garden Club, and the Master Gardener Volunteers. We especially appreciate our former AmeriCorps volunteer who helped plan and plant the seeds - literally and metaphorically - for this community garden project.
Vegetable Gardening Information
Know when to expect Ohio produce? The What's in Season? chart from Ohio Farm Bureau to show what produce is ready for harvest across the spring, summer and fall months.
Basic information on some of the produce that grows in Northwest Ohio:
- Cucumbers
- Herbs
- Simple Pesto using Herbs from the Garden- video from OSU Extension
- Make Your Garden Grow sign, harvest basil
- Tomatoes
- Growing tomatoes in the Home Garden from OSU Extension
- SNAP-Ed Nutrition Newsletter: Tomatoes
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Food Preservation: Salsa—From Garden to Table from OSU Extension
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Make Your Harvest Grow sign, harvest cherry tomatoes
- Zucchini
- Celebrate August, Sneak a Zucchini on Your Neighbor's Porch
Interested in learning more about vegetable gardening?
- OSU Extension, Lucas County Vegetable Gardening Resources
- Fresh, Safe Garden Produce
- Donate Extra Garden Produce (article)
- Growing Together: Food Safety in Donation Gardens by Iowa State University
Interested in learning a few new ways to cook up local produce?
Here some fun, low-cost, healthy recipes that include garden produce or fruits and vegetables from the Farmers Markets:
Check out photos here: https://lucas.osu.edu/image-galleries/make-your-garden-grow
Other vegetables to grow: