Growing a productive vegetable garden in the tropics is absolutely possible: you just need to garden with the climate.

After 15+ years of experimenting at Finca Tierra on Costa Rica’s Caribbean coast, we’ve learned which vegetables actually thrive in humid and dry tropical zones, how to transform clay into rich soil, and how to harvest daily from a compact space.

This guide distills the methods we use at our education center so you can grow abundantly at home in any tropical region.