Author Archives: Lori
How to Grow Blueberries Without Ignoring Soil pH
Blueberries are not hard because they are dramatic. They are hard when we ignore what they are asking for. A blueberry plant can look charming at the garden centre: tidy…
How to Grow Beets for Sweet Roots and Tender Greens
How to Grow Beets for Sweet Roots and Tender Greens Beets are one of those generous crops that offer more than one kind of harvest. You can grow them for…
Can You Grow Barley in a Home Garden?
Barley is one of those crops that changes the scale of the conversation. A tomato plant can feed you a salad. A pot of basil can change dinner. A potato…
How to Grow Asparagus Without Harvesting Too Much Too Soon
Asparagus is one of the great patience crops. Not the kind of patience where you wait a few weeks for radishes. The other kind. The kind where you plant roots…
How to Grow Apples in a Small Garden
Apple trees are dangerously romantic. A blossom-covered tree in spring. Fruit hanging in autumn. A basket on your arm. A pie cooling somewhere in the distance, because apparently your fantasy…
Food Security Starts at Home: What a Garden Can and Cannot Do
Food security can feel like a huge, heavy phrase. It belongs in government reports and public health conversations, but it also belongs much closer to home: in the kitchen, in…
About This Garden
About This Garden Welcome! I’m the gardener behind Growing My Dinner — some folks call me Plant Lady — and this site is for people who feel a quiet tug…
The Best Nitrogen to Phosphorus Ratio for Growing Kohlrabi
Kohlrabi can look extremely confident from above. Big leaves. Strong stems. A plant that appears to know exactly what it is doing. Then you move the leaves and find the…
How to Grow Sweet Potatoes for Slips, Vines, and Storage Roots
Sweet potatoes feel like one of those crops that should be harder than they are. The vines are dramatic, the harvest is hidden underground, and the curing step sounds a…
Indeterminate Tomatoes: What They Are and How to Grow Them
Tomato labels can be oddly intimidating. You go looking for a plant that will give you tomatoes, and suddenly you are asked to understand words like determinate, indeterminate, semi-determinate, heirloom,…