I have a front perennial bed where I grow spring bulbs and lilies. I'm looking for a plant I could add which would bloom between when my irises and aliums die back and when my lilies start blooming. The area receives full sun most of the day.
This is my first big harvest and ferment of the season. This is the first time growing pepperoncini, I can't wait to see how they turn out. (located in the Bonnyville area).
My first tomato of the season is finally blushing! This is a Sakura. My mouth is starting to water in anticipation of a home grown tomato
In southeast Alberta. Second year crop, not doing great but at least survived winter. Covered with straw for the winter. South facing spot, but late afternoon sun gets blocked by the house. Didn't put a lot of effort other than watering and fertilizing. Cut a couple runners off, basically only if the runner was crossing into the other type of berry. My white junebearing strawberries are doing great except for the damn grackles stealing the fruit. I've got them covered right now to try and get to taste the ones that are left.
Any recommendations? Do I have to put a lot more effort in, or was it just this colder rainier spring we've had? Or is it just patience that's the issue?
Thanks!
Kind of a rough growing season but the first of the UofS cherries are ripening. It will be a light harvest due to the late spring cold but its sure better than nothing.
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Hows everyone else's fruit looking? Pears are a total loss this year and our apples are very sparse.
Leaves are starting to be a bit rough, any idea of what could be going after them? I’m assuming the white stuff is from the fertilizer water accidentally hitting the leaves (oops)
Had issues with slugs last year, but haven’t seen them at all this year. Will definitely be setting up a trap for them soon just in case.
For the first time my kid Planted Spinach and sweet red pepper plant in the garden and was very excited to see ot growing. Were growing healthy till now but suddenly start looking like this. He is very upset. Anything I can do to save them?
Even though my backyard is large, the living and kitchen areas of our neighbours to the back face our bedrooms and due to the grading, I feel like I'm in a fishbowl particularly at night when the lights are on. I'm looking for fast growing native species to help create some privacy as well as some shelter for our bird visitors. We have lots of feeders and the small birds need some shelter from the Merlins and Swainsons haks that come around.
Any advice is very appreciated.
I live in a small town a couple hours east of Edmonton. I have a corner lot that is 70'x140'. It's absolutely huge. I have three driveways, a 1100 sqft house and a 24x32' garage and there is still tones of space. We planted 2 cherries trees (a Romeo and Juliet), a honey crisp apple, 2 Saskatoon and 3 raspberry bushes in the back yard. We also have a 20x12' garden that we are slowly expanding but the grass is the biggest issue there.
Our side yard (it's a corner lot) is all grass and is to me a complete waste of space as I could use it to grow food of some sort. I was thinking of some more fruit trees but I'm not sure what to plant there. Problem is we can get some really bad winds from the NW and we've had problems with the wind blowing the flowers off trees. Our two cherry trees have yet to give us much fruit because of this. This area would be fully exposed to these winds. Is there anything I could plant here? I've attached an aerial of my lot. The side I'm talking about is between the RV and the street. We face more NE then straight North. We have a pretty high water table here. If you dig 3' down the hole will have a foot of water in it when your done (our sump pump runs all year, yes even in winter).
We have a steep section at the edge of our property (north facing) that originally had juniper planted as ground cover. It is weed infested, half dead and the deer have adapted to munching on it.
It has been suggested that creeping thyme may be a good option to replace the juniper, but I’m concerned as it says it needs full sun.
Help a non-gardener out with some options to make things look a bit more respectable?
They are so incredible! I included my hand as a size reference because the blooms are magnificently colossal.
This white stuff has shown up in a very small section of my peas in my raised garden bed. Google says it’s a harmless fungus but thought I’d check with some seasoned gardeners. For context, I’m in Alberta and we have had a ton of rain recently. Just thought it was odd that it’s just in this one section. Thanks in advance.
Purchased on discount from Superstore, it was the only one of its kind left and had no tag. It seemed happy enough so I took a gamble. When I use my look up plant feature on my phone it tells me that it is poison oak 🤦🏼♀️
Been slowly building out an east-facing perennial/shrub bed and finally landed on a layout. Backbone is mini lilac, pink spirea, and a bird’s nest spruce going in later for evergreen structure once everything else settles in.
For the narrow strip further down, I will go with clusters of catmint and salvia, even knowing they’re better suited to full sun — wanted to test how they’d actually hold up with morning sun only through a zone 3a winter.
Getting to this point meant a lot of cross-referencing hardiness zones, exposure notes, and just trial-and-error logic, since most of what I found online was either too generic (not zone 3a specific) or focused on full-sun/full-shade beds rather than this kind of in-between exposure.
Is there already a solid resource out there for zone 3a + east-facing specifically? Or is this just one of those things everyone ends up figuring out themselves through trial and error?
I planted some wildflowers + ornamental sunflowers in my pots, and this sprout keeps popping up. any clue what this is?
Hope your garden space is growing well, as well!
Hello all,
I am a horticulturist currently working in industrial vegetation management, as well as doing independent landscape design work. The vegetation job is my primary source of income, but I would like to expand my design business and eventually become a full-time designer.
We have had many missed days recently due to to the weather. While this has been somewhat unfortunate, it has given me the chance to focus on my design work. I was very happy to get back to spraying earlier this week- until I injured my ankle yesterday 🙃. This means that even if the weather does smarten up, I won’t be able to return for several weeks.
If you or someone you know is interested in landscape design services, I would greatly appreciate the work! I focus primarily on smaller urban lots with an emphasis on native and/or edible plantings. Pricing varies by project scope. Please message me if interested!
I'm in the Sylvan Lake area and the next 5 or 6 days is looking to be more rain than we have been getting (which has already veen a lot in a short time)
I have tomatoes, onions, carrots strawberries and butternut squash, corn, Beans pumpkins, potatoes, brocoli and cabbage out there.
Im kinda scared lol, everyone is already definitely vulnerable as it is, and yeesh....the incoming weather has me slightly worried
Of course happy for the rain, ofc ofc
But... should I get out there and try and cover everyone up?
Or just wait and pray? Lol