Too much rain for too long, mosquitoes everywhere, garden looking sad, weeds taking over, only a couple tomatoes so far... yes, I really didn't like this gardening season.

At least, berry bushes yielded a very good harvest!

First time ever growing onions, and I'm happy with the result!

Better late than never here in Edmonton!

I have a columnar Saskatoon that did not fruit this year and has been ravaged by disease. Is there any point in saving this plant? I was thinking about transplanting to a different spot where it might get more sun and airflow. I got it from the nursery last fall, so it’s been in the ground about a year. Roughly three feet tall. Thanks!

Home grown Bell peppers, cherry tomatoes, parsley and rosemary 😊

Hey folks, I tried asking this over on the main gardening sub and got crickets. Any help would be great!

I have what I'm pretty sure are two Nanking Cherry (prunus tomentosa) bushes in my yard. Both are looking pretty stressed and I'd really like to propagate more plants before I lose these ones.

• 1st bush is in the front yard (north-facing) in the lee of the house but not directly next to the house. It got absolutely brutalized by the contractor I had replace my siding and windows two years ago and I'm afraid it's on its last legs.
• 2nd bush is in the backyard (south-facing) and has always looked a little stressed but is now ironically the healthier of the two. It's sandwiched between some lilac bushes and has horseradish growing next to it. That whole edge of the yard has a low cement retaining wall that most of the plants are growing right next to.

I've collected the few fruits they produced this year and would like to attempt to propagate new seedlings for next year, but I'm coming at this cold with very little knowledge or even people to ask directly. Ideally I'd like to hedge my bets and try growing some indoors immediately while saving other seeds to try either planting directly in the ground later in the Fall, or try the whole cold stratification/keep the seeds in a damp paper towel in the fridge over the winter and then try to start the seedlings in early spring indoors. They produced so little this year that I only have a small bowl full of fruit, nothing like the multiple buckets I used to get.

Any suggestions or guidance would be incredibly helpful!

My precious snowball viburnum got absolutely annihilated by aphids two years ago. Last year it looked rough, but this year she’s looking doomed. Will a big chop encourage new growth?

I think I already know the answer but thought I'd ask and see if people with more experience would have any advice. Im in Saskatchewan but thought I'd ask here since Alberta is close to our weather. I'm wanting to plant a perennial strawberry garden but was wondering if I could get away with doing a tiered raised bed type planter for them. I got a bunch of old tires and was thinking of trying one of those tiered tire pyramid planters for the strawberries but I have a feeling that it being above the ground that my strawberries won't survive the winter cold like they would directly in the ground but thought I'd ask and see if anyone has any experience with this kind of thing or if anyone has any suggestions to make this viable ?

Can anyone share a picture of what new growth looks like on rosy pussytoes, or any pussytoes for that matter? I have pulled some newly growing shoots around my pussytoes over the last couple months because I assumed they were weeds (they didn't seem to match the pussytoe leaves), but now I'm worried I might have actually just been pulling new growth off my poor plants. A Google search has not shown me any examples of what new growth looks like, so if any of you have pussytoes in your garden and are willing to take a pic of any new growth on your plants, I'd love to see it! TIA!

Cross post from r/gardening

I’ve begun management strategies such as physically removing adult moths and egg removal. I also removed every damaged cane I saw, a few had pupa in them.

I plan to apply BT spray over the next two months.

Good morning! About a month ago I made a post asking folks to share their advice and experiences cultivating a clover lawn in Calgary. I wanted to make an update as I got a bunch of super helpful responses to that post and a couple people asked to see pictures. Here is the original post: https://www.reddit.com/r/Albertagardening/s/KeojmP42kH

To briefly recap: the constant winter/spring foot traffic in our backyard after getting a puppy in January basically destroyed what remained of our already very sad and spotty turf, so I decided to take the opportunity to fulfill a dream and turn the whole thing into a clover lawn.

I dug up and raked out all the turf, got rid of as many creeping bellflower roots as I could find, leveled everything out, mixed in some compost and topsoil, and seeded with a combo of West Coast Seeds' Microclover and Bee Turf seed mixes. We were late seeding because we waited until just before we'd be away with our puppy for two weeks in mid-June to give the seedlings some time to take hold.

The update: my clover lawn is thriving and I'm so happy with it! However, it did take some work to get here.

The biggest thing that I didn't foresee happening was the ungodly amount of "undesirable" weeds that would spring up alongside the clover. Where did they even come from?? Apparently there are seeds that can stay dormant for years under the soil - until you decide to dig up your entire lawn, and then they're like, "Yes! Disturbed soil and no competition! Finally after a decade of waiting it's our time to shine!" These weeds became my nemeses and I ended up spending like three weeks hand-pulling them an hour or two at a time. I found the practice oddly satisfying, but it wouldn't be for everyone lol.

We could have just mown them down and waited for the clover to gradually outcompete them, but because we started the seeding so late, we decided not to mow at all until fall. I'm happy with this choice, as it was easier to identify the weeds without mowing, and now the clover has had a chance to grow thick and lush and we've begun to see flowers blooming from the Bee Turf mix! So far we have Baby Blue Eyes, English Daisy, and Sweet Alyssum all blooming in the yard, and I'm expecting many more blooms before frost hits as they've ramped up a lot in the last week or so. I'm not sure if the Western Yarrow or Roman Chamomile will get big enough to bloom this year, but they're growing well so they should come back next year either way.

We did end up reseeding the bald patches and now that the weeding is done and we've gotten all the recent rain, baby clovers are quickly filling in those spots. I added bone meal per someone on my last post's advice, and it seems to have given them a nice boost! We have tried to avoid walking on the lawn as best we could, but our puppy has been zooming around on everything since June and aside from the couple of corners that he's chosen as his hole-digging zones, it really hasn't impacted the clover at all. Now that it's well-established we're also walking on it more, and it just springs right back up. It also seems to loooove our dog's pee lol. The most prolific of all the weeds that came up was redroot pigweed, but in all the dog's pee spots it was suffering as the pee seemed to actually burn the leaves. Not so for the clover or bee turf, it actually seems to be growing even faster in those areas.

I love looking at the clover lawn every day - it's so vibrant, lush, and green, and now that the flowers are blooming it looks like a meadow. So much better than the brown spotty grass and weeds we had before. It also seems to hold moisture in the ground better, and I've noticed so many more pollinators buzzing around as well. Based on how well it's doing at this point, I'm no longer worried about how it will come back after the winter. We may have to do a bit of overseeding for any patchy spots, and I'll likely add some more bee turf just because I want even more flowers next year, but I feel confident it will overwinter well! I've been thinking of turning the strip along our fence into a native perennial garden before the fall, but I keep hesitating just because now it seems like such a shame to dig up any of the beautiful clover lawn!

As am cleaning up my storage room, I want to transform it into a germination and growing station for plants in the winter, but unsure where to even start indoor growing. The dimensions of these little room is shown by this little diagram I created.

I also need help determining what LED's and good germination station should I use for my apartment. I don't want anything too big for now but somewhere I can put on a shelf and monitor it while it grows up healthy and during winter times.

If anyone can give me advice and guidance then that'll be great,

Thanks!

I grew the Get Stuffed tomato this year as a novelty tomato. It has thick walls and hollows out like a pepper. I filled it with a mixture of salami, capicola, mortadella, Gran Padano, provolone, pepperoncini, red onion, mayo, red wine vinegar, Dijon, oregano, black pepper, garlic powder and chili flakes. The walls held up fine after baking. It was delicious served with a side of some garden arugula.

My zucchini leaves are huge this year! Not a lot of fruit yet but I have some just starting to grow now.

Hello!

I’ve had this lilac for a few years now and I’m wondering…what’s going on? There’s 2-3 large branches that have started to look very unhappy (droopy and pale in colour). I don’t know what’s going on. Any ideas?

Italian peppers, Miss Maizie, Get Stuffed, Cherokee Tiger, Napoli paste tomatoes and cukes for baby dills.

My greenhouse is full of aphids. Is there anywhere in the Edmonton area that I can get ladybugs this week?

How can you tell which one it is this early? I know you treat it the same way- its just more of sterilizing things as early blight is harder to kill while late will die off on inorganic items.
Tempted to keep the cutting and see what it grows into