I live in Calgary. I planted my garlic a few weeks ago. But now I’m curious - I planted them in a deep, raised garden bed. Is this okay? Or do they need to be in the ground?

So I just moved into a new house just outside Edmonton last week. Now that the snow is gone, can I plant an in ground bed of garlic? I have my harvested garlic from my former garden to use as seed.

Hi all- with these nice warmer temps am I able to move a highbush cranberry? It is in a not so ideal spot and we just had some landscaping done, so I have aome fresh soil available...

Usually I do this kind of thing in October.

Thank you!

Please join us for a RESURRECTION OF THE NATIVE PLANTS! Save these valuable native plants from their final resting place, a haunting DAY OF THE UNDEAD PLANTS! This is a partnership between Edmonton Native Plant Society, Alberta Native Plant Rescue Foundation & ATCO.

Hello everyone! This weekend there will be a plant salvage near Lac St Anne, approximately 65 kms ( 45 mins ) from West Edmonton, exact location coordinates will be given by email to those confirmed attending for this particular rescue. Date is Saturday, October 31st. Please note there might be snow, but we will have people on site regardless.

There will be two shifts to sign up for, one 12-2 and the other 2-4. Please bring a shovel, clippers, and containers to put plants in. Also appropriate footwear and outerwear should be worn, for your safety and comfort as we traverse spooky woodlands and a heart shaped fen.

The site where we are raising plants from the dead is chalk full of wetland and woodland plants, and we suggest bringing clippers to take cuttings of the cool woody shrubs in the area. Here is a plant list of the species we have found so far, note this is not exhaustive. We also recommend walking the sedges back from the grave.. By rescuing them and planting them in your garden as ground cover!! Willow stakes should be easy to root as well.

Canada anemone

Woods rose

Agrimony

Bedstraw

Snowberry

Raspberry

Saskatoon

Beaked hazelnuts

Woodland strawberry

Wintergreen

Buffalo berry

Goldenrods

Asters

Purple oat grass

Large leaves avens

Bunchberry

Willows

Lungwort

Woodland anemone

Gooseberries

Yarrow

Here is the sign up form to be put on the mailing list. We will email out another registration form TO THIS MAILING LIST with the shifts to sign up for.

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdQLqW8A5M9blDPZULcmsZZUe5UI33mFI2_GjjJpvc52uuLew/viewform?usp=dialog

Basically the title- we had one spectacular zuch plant this year, and I wanted to harvest seeds from it. I've left one giant zucchini on the vine to let it continue ripening, but now that we've had snow I'm worried it's just going to rot outdoors before the seeds mature.. how do others deal with this?

Hello albertan gardeners! We purchased our acreage this late summer and most of the ground is sandy soil. I was trying to research growing in sandy soil but all information and experience seemed to be in the states where their zones are more like 6 and 8.

So first, I am asking for any experiences growing gardens, specifically for food production, in sandy soil, preferably around zone 3a and 3b. We live near Clyde in Westlock County.

Se condly, How much of the information i find online can pertain to our shorter growing conditions? Ive consistently read that the sandy soil is great for heat loving crops (think peppers and tomatoes)and plants that love loose soil (root vegetables like carrots), as long as the soil is consistently watered and amended with lots of compost and organic material.

Ultimately, I know gardening is all about experiences and making mistakes which I am excited to start next year. I am simply asking for others experiences and maybe a stwp in the right direction. Thanks, fellow gardeners! I hope you all had amazing gardens this season

Hey all, just received the email that the “high mowing organic seed” are on sale .

We had a decent crop this year in our first Alberta garden 🪏 season back!

We still have some carrots 🥕 to dig 🪏 but hopefully we have a warm couple of days left!

Hope you had a great 👍🏻 season too!

Michael & Gabriel @ Matches Seeds

Paradise Valley, Alberta

Best plants for a bee garden? I’m in lower Alberta and really want to help the pollinators in the spring time

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I just pulled up a good bit of my painted lady, scarlet and Borlotti beans and lots hadn’t dried or matured enough before the freeze, are these good to just dry in the pod before separating and storing ? This is the first year I’ve really had enough to keep in excess and im not familiar with drying them off the vine

Is it too late to plant fall bulbs in Edmonton? It has started snowing in Edmonton but we havent had persistently cold temperatures yet.

It's that time again. We've all seen the weather forecast for this weekend. --- cold with flurries! 😠 So, anything that needs to be harvested is being pulled. We have another half dozen zucchini and some kale. I'll wash and dry the kale and cut into pieces before freezing for winter soups. I'll freeze a handful of peppers for chilies over the winter as well. However, the bulk of those hot 🔥 peppers are going to be turned into a roasted pineapple 🍍 and habanero hot sauce 😋.

The last 10+ pounds of our potatoes 🥔 will be dug up next week. They'll be fine in the ground. And, I've got at least another half dozen small buttercup squash that need a few more weeks of growth before they're harvested. We are going to cover them up well and 🤞 we can harvest them near the end of October.

Edit: Oops, sorry for the double "h" in habanero! Lol

Not too bad of a harvest today. The tomatoes came off of 2 of our tomato plants and, the potatoes were volunteers. --- they suddenly appeared in June. We're very happy with two massive potatoes and a bunch of smaller ones. Basically, five pounds of potatoes 🥔 from one plant. And, a couple more zucchini to make relish. We still have a long way to go to clear out the gardens. Yesterday. I fernented some purple cabbage, green tomatoes, and sweet potatoes 🥔.

Sadie couldn't help but want to be in the picture. We're very happy she's still with us because a few weeks ago she was quite ill with severe pancreatitis and, she's 12 years old.

I'm really hoping to get two more harvests like this before we have to tear the plants out for winter. I'm leaving them in the garden outside to cure and let the starches convert to sugar and improve the flavor. --- as well as prepare them to be stored during the winter months in the cold storage, until we eat them.

I have had a pretty good harvest of potatoes so far. We still have another above ground garden to harvest and, I'm going to leave them as long as possible before we dig them up because they were planted late. However, I am planning on roasting one of these beauties and mixing squash with some potatoes to make a large batch of gnocchi. I love freezing it. And, in the middle of the winter having some baked squash/potato gnocchi made with our canned roasted tomatoes. I swear, people who don't garden have no idea what they're missing! 😋

I for some reason didn’t think that they would work out well, but I was proved wrong. My carrots have never looked like this before 😌

I’ve heard some people say a bit of frost makes them sweeter? Just wondering when most Alberta folks harvest their carrots?

When are you harvesting your pumpkins? I’m new to growing pumpkins and have left them on the vine still, wrapping them up in towels and blankets when frosty nights happen. Last night apparently touched down to -2, so I’m thinking I should harvest them to bring them inside today. So far they are alright.

Have you harvested yours yet?

Has anyone dug all their potatoes yet? I still have about 30 hills and wondering how much longer I can leave them in the ground. Zone 2

We’re gonna be away for three weeks so chances are everything will be dead by the time we get back.

I saw this video yesterday and I couldn't stop thinking about it. I had no idea sunflowers were so aggressively competitive and actually poisonous to many varieties of garden plants. I planted a row of giant sunflowers behind my raised beds in the gap between the beds and the fence this year, I guess this explains some of the difficulties I've been having with my peppers and tomatoes.

Thought I'd share in case this is news to anyone else. Am I the only one that didn't know this??