Garden Guides
Garden Guides
& Curriculum
Keep Growing Detroit’s Urban Gardening Guides are a series of short and easy-to-follow instructional guides designed by our staff to share the best practices that we’ve been honing for decades. Such as info on soil test, garden bed prep, planting garlic, and more! In addition to how to’s and helpful tips each guide features original artwork from Detroit’s talented gardening and farming community. Enjoy!
Quick Links
KGD YouTube Channel - videos to previous classes
Urban Gardening Guides
KGD Soil Testing Guide + Map/Log (updated)
Developing a Community Garden
Guide for Planting Perennial Fruit Trees & Plants
Growing Garlic (updated)
Starting Seeds Indoors (new)
Sweet Potato Care & Planting Instructions
Growing Sweet Potatoes
Rainwater Catchment Safety & Use Tips
12x14' Irrigation Station - DIY Manual
8x12' Irrigation Station - DIY Manual
Using Row Cover
Spring Garden Bed Preparation
Creating Garden Pathways
Building a Rainbarrel
Growing Daffodils
Building a Raised Bed
Fall Gardening Activities
Trellising & Staking
Connecting your Site to City Water
Building a Pallet Compost Bin
Growing in Containers
Learn how to make Garlic Oxymel
Quick Classes
These short garden education videos are a great way to see what your next steps may be in your garden. There’s plenty more shorts to check out on our KGD Quick Classes YouTube Playlist
Building a Raised bed
Seeds and Transplants
Sod Kicking
3 ways to get your garden started quickly
Soil Story time!
What is Thinning?
Garden Curriculum
for K-6 Educators
Keep Growing Detroit’s Garden Curriculum for K-6 educators are easy to implement lesson plans that combine gardening, cooking or physical activity, and nutrition education to make learning in the garden fun and educational.
Fiber in our Food
Go with the Grain
The Skinny on Fats
Get Fit Gardening
Think Before You Drink
Potato's Awesome Adventure
Growing Great Garlic
