Alberta Urban Garden

01/01/2025

Happy New Year!! Wishing you the best growing season in 2025!!

10/14/2024

Well I successfully made grape jelly from the vines I got from my grandfathers while my wife made turkey dinner. Gotta love fall.

10/11/2024

Well I don’t think I have ever harvested raspberries in October. These golden ones I guess if given enough time will fruit twice in a year. Yum.

09/30/2024

We harvested our Paul’s Pear and made jam with some of them. I can’t wait to try it out!

09/14/2024

There is nothing like September light on a pear tree full of fruit in zone 3. How has your garden been this year?

08/16/2024

It Is that time of year to brew up some hard apple Cider for this years harvest! Check out how I take Alberta or Prairie apples and make WONDERFUL hard apple cider.

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07/01/2024

Happy Canada Day!!! To my Canadians what is your favourite tradition. Yo my Americans I’ll be in the USA for Independence day what do you recommend I do?

07/01/2024

I love my three generation pavement roses!!

06/29/2024

I do love a hood gnome in the garden :)

06/08/2024

I just took a late night stroll through my garden and as always was pleased to see the swelling of future pears, apple and grapes. Makes a gardener happy after a tough week.

05/26/2024

And with that garden 2024 is planted and growing! What all did you plant this year that you are excited for?

05/26/2024

Our new columnar crab apple is happy and flowering. It even has a few bees enjoying the blossoms.

05/19/2024

Kiddo picks the garden theme every year. This year it’s French fries. So our friends at helped us pick the variety and we are going to grow Lady Amarilla in containers and in the main garden bed. We hypothesis that growing in the main garden bed will result in more French fry worthy potatoes but hope the pot version will grow some. What are your thoughts?

05/19/2024

Some times when the weather does not cooperate you go plant in the rain :) garden 2024 seed planting is done. With some cool temps the next few nights I’ll wait on planting my larger plants.

05/17/2024

Our first crop from the garden. If you want a treat every spring I highly recommend investing in asparagus!

05/14/2024

Not a bad way to spend my birthday. It’s also apparent I spend more time on my garden than I do on my lawn lol.

04/21/2024

I had a productive Sunday with my kiddo cleaning up the garden for the spring. We are planning for a drought garden this year. How are you getting ready this spring?

03/30/2024

This is one of the proudest achievements of my career. This is a wildlife bridge allowing animals to safely cross highway 1 east of Canmore. It took a team but man oh man am I ever proud to have lead one of the teams that made this possible.