Quick facts Dirty gardening tools and pots can spread disease from an infected plant to a healthy one. Properly cleaning and disinfecting tools and containers can reduce the spread of plant diseases.

Space — or the lack of it — doesn’t have to stand between you and a fruitful garden. You just have to be creative.

When I was a kid, my aunt and uncle grew tomatoes in plastic buckets lined up like soldiers on the cement patio in their tiny Queens, N.Y., backyard.

Space — or the lack of it — doesn't have to stand between you and a fruitful garden. You just have to be creative.