Hi, I’m Brock, and Bigger Garden started in 2019 as a simple response to a problem I kept running into.
I live in a cooler climate, where the growing season is short and space is often limited. Like a lot of gardeners, I wanted to grow more vegetables and flowers than my yard and weather seemed to allow. Over time, I began experimenting with ways to make small spaces work harder, from raised beds and container gardens to indoor growing and hydroponics.
But my interest in gardening started earlier than that.
I first became curious about gardening while I was in college, after learning about the sudden collapse of a local bee colony caused by pesticide exposure. Millions of bees were wiped out after foraging in a treated field. It was a moment that stuck with me. Something essential to our ecosystem was being treated as disposable, and it didn’t sit right.
That experience pushed me toward organic and low impact gardening practices. I began learning about natural soil amendments like kelp fertilizer and bone meal, and about creating controlled growing environments that reduce or eliminate the need for chemical pesticides. Over time, I found that thoughtful design and small adjustments could make gardening more productive and more sustainable at the same time.
By 2019, friends and family were regularly asking how I was growing so much food in such limited space. Bigger Garden grew out of those conversations. What began as a personal project quickly became a place to share practical, experience based advice for gardeners who wanted better results without needing more land, more chemicals, or more ideal weather.
As the site grew, so did my focus. Alongside outdoor gardening, I became deeply interested in indoor growing and hydroponics. In a climate with only four reliable months of outdoor growing, gardening indoors became less of a hobby and more of a necessity. It kept plants growing year round, and honestly, it kept me sane through long winters.
Today, Bigger Garden is built around a simple idea: you can grow meaningful, productive gardens almost anywhere if you work with your environment instead of against it.
I’m a husband and a dad of two, and gardening has become a family practice in our home. My kids are growing up around plants, soil, and seasons, and that perspective shapes everything I share here. Gardening is not just about harvests. It’s about patience, observation, and stewardship.
Over the years, my work has been featured in a range of respected home and garden publications, covering topics like seed starting, container gardening, outdoor lighting, and practical backyard design. Those opportunities helped refine my approach and reinforced the value of clear, tested advice over trends or shortcuts.
One of my favorite projects to date is an espaliered apple tree planted in my back garden. Each branch was grafted from a different apple variety, allowing cross pollination between varieties on a single tree. It is a living example of what thoughtful design can do in a small space, and a reminder that gardening is as much about curiosity as it is about results.
Bigger Garden continues to evolve. What started as a place to share growing tips has expanded into thoughtfully designed garden products that reflect the same values: durability, sustainability, and intention. Everything we make or recommend is meant to last, work hard, and earn its place in a garden.
If you’re here to grow more food, support pollinators, design a more intentional garden, or simply enjoy the process of growing something real, you’re in the right place.
As Bigger Garden grew, so did the audience it served. What began as a small site focused on growing more in limited space has developed into a widely read gardening resource used by home gardeners across North America and beyond.
Today, Bigger Garden reaches hundreds of thousands of readers each month through its website, newsletters, and visual platforms. The focus remains the same as it was in the early days: practical, experience based guidance rooted in sustainable growing practices, thoughtful design, and real world constraints like climate, space, and time.
Over the years, this work has been featured and referenced by a number of respected home and garden publications. These opportunities came through consistent, tested advice rather than trends or novelty, and they helped shape the clear, accessible approach that defines Bigger Garden today.
Some of the topics I’ve contributed to or been featured for include:
- 🌱How and when to start flower seeds indoors – to get your garden blooming sooner
- 🥀 How to keep cut branches fresher for longer – the 6 tricks that will keep your blossom from dropping too quickly
- 💡Twinkle, twinkle! I’ve found the best outdoor lights for your backyard or balcony
- 🌻Grow Sunflowers in Pots for Beautiful Blooms Even in the Smallest of Spaces
- 🏆The 6 Best Self-Propelled Lawn Mowers of 2023, Tested and Reviewed
These features reinforced an important lesson: gardeners value clarity, honesty, and solutions that work in real conditions.
As the audience continued to grow, Bigger Garden naturally expanded beyond education alone. Readers frequently asked where to find durable, well designed garden markers and signs that aligned with the same values they were learning about on the site. That feedback led to the development of thoughtfully made garden products designed to last outdoors, reduce waste, and add intention to the growing space.
Today, Bigger Garden brings together education, design, and products under one roof. The content teaches gardeners how to grow more thoughtfully, and the products exist to support those same practices in the garden itself.
The site continues to evolve, but the foundation remains unchanged. Bigger Garden exists to help people grow food and flowers in ways that respect pollinators, reduce unnecessary inputs, and make the most of the space they have.
If you would like to learn more about what I love to grow take a look at my favorite flowers by color. This is a great place to start if you’re just beginning or are looking for a bit to add to your already established and thriving garden.
I’m often asked what the most interesting plant I’ve grown. At this point, I’d have to say the espaliered apple tree I planted in my back garden takes the cake.
If you’re not familiar with the practice, espaliered trees are ones that are specially pruned to grow flat against a wall or lined up with other espaliered trees to create a remarkable garden fence.
In fact, George Washington was famously known for using espaliered trees as ornamentals to frame the growing space of his garden in Mount Vernan.
What I thought that was particularly unique about the espaliered apple tree that I planted was that each branch was grafted on from a different variety of apple trees. This allowed the flowers to cross-pollinate with each other creating new sub-varieties which wouldn’t be possible without another nearby apple tree. – Amazing!
I’ve also been known to make a mean hot sauce from my garden peppers which is why you always see at least one or two hot pepper plants in my crop rotations.
Now that you have a better idea of who you are learning from, take a look around.