I'm so grateful to find your Channel. I think you're the only person on RUclips in Alberta who's giving gardening advice. Thank you thank you thank you
I am in zone 3a Alberta, Peace River area.The cabbages I bought from the local greenhouse were about 3 inches in late May. When I stuck them in the ground I added bone meal and blood meal to each plant. They currently have huge leaves and 6 inch dia heads. I had also cultivated my compost into the soil prior to spring planting. I think yours are going to turn out fine by fall harvest. Happy gardening!! 👌👍
Thanks for watching and your feedback. I’m pretty sure the cabbages will work out fine too. I just have to watch out for the white cabbage moths now. Happy gardening too 😀
I’m also in Alberta. Zone 2. Closer to Lac La Biche area. It’s been hot and dry so lots of watering necessary. I garden in raised beds and one larger above ground garden (no till). This year I invested in the mesh covering for my brassica bed to keep out the white moths as well as the fly that lays the eggs for root maggots. What a wonderful difference it has made. No pest pressure and my cabbages are getting really quite large heads now. Your brassicas that are yellowing may have root maggots. By the time I am writing this comment you will know as they work quickly. Nice to see a fellow Albertan on here! 😊
You should watch Shawn in Ontario in his MySelf Reliance and Our Self Reliance utube show. ( I believe he’s in Algonquin area bush! Built his own cabin .. his garden is amazing and all done in the bush .. has chickens and his chicken coup is so darn cute. he worked so hard to be self reliant. Has a dog named Cally.( Irish setter) Shawn is so darn smart! 😊
Hey great garden. I'm from Manitoba zone 3 so I struggle with a lot of the same issues you have. One thing I've been experimenting with this year is mulching my garden with grass, it's cut down on the need to water considerably, and helps with weed suppression. I notice you have a lot of lawn, so if you have the ability to bag it, it could be very useful. I saw another comment mention eggshells for calcium. I took a course from the University of Saskatchewan a couple years back that told us that the eggshell thing is actually a widely held gardening myth. Although they do contain calcium, the bioavailability of that calcium is non nearly non existent when added to the soil. Typically calcium deficiencies such as blossom end rot in tomatoes result from inconsistent watering since most prairie soil actually contains sufficient calcium - the plant just needs to be able to access it. I'm impressed with your brassicas though. The flea beetles here make it nearly impossible to grow, but I've heard the proximity to so much canola is the cause of that, so maybe where you are that issue isn't as prevalent. Anyway - not a lot of z3 gardening content out there, so I appreciated the video. Keep it up!
It is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed. Wow very nice garden, lovely, well organized. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work. All the best on this journey.🙏
You have a green thumb . Your plants are healthy . I like your dog too . Oh my, i remember my former landlord who plants garlic too . Wow ,you even have celery . Beets, mixed greens , lettuce , and a lot more ! Wow !
Great looking garden ,,put more bone meal around your brassicas, also here in NC I can’t grow cabbage without helping them with the white flies laying larvae on them which turns in to a worm ,,,we use black pepper on them almost every morning,,,you will see it in your cabbage heads but that’s better than poison or dust ,,,the pepper washes out ,,also you should try stone head cabbage,,it’s early , small but has a wonderful taste. There is a tomato variety that I can raise three crops of per year here ,,that means I plant then harvest,,then pull up and replant and harvest three times per summer ,,that variety is called Carolina gold ,,,it’s an orange tomato with huge perfect uniform one to two pound fruits,,it’s determinate an only three foot tall ,,three ft wide ,,which means easy to maintain,,it requires no pruning and each plant will bear thirty to forty huge fruits each and the taste is off the charts good. Also it is always the first tomato I harvest each year usually the last of may or first of June.
Hi, first time here and wanted to say your garden is amazing! I didn’t see a single weed and I’m wondering if you garden organically or use chemicals? 💕🇨🇦
Hi and thank you our garden is all organic. We pull weeds daily to stay on top of them. We are also trying to our best to keep weeds out of our compost.
I tried wooden pallet gardening this year. The lettuce loves the palate. The reason for using the pallet was to cover parts of the soil to help retain the rainwater and keep the area moist longer. Due to the fact that Calgary has been on a water restriction disproved very useful. However only the lettuce did well. Green onion, Dil, spinach and some test flowers hates the wooden pallet technique. But it was a fun experiment.
Very nice and inspired garden. I am from South of Brazil. Here is now winter and as also cold, we usually reserve the May, June and July to prepare the land, as usually July is all frozen. I have reserved 1.5 hectare for my garden (all other land is Preserved Florest + Reforestation + Fruits tree plantation). I liked too much the way you have done with the Tomatoes. Usually we put bamboo here on them. All so clean! Well, I believe you have no ants problems or other wild animals! Here, ants are my biggest problem.
Thanks so much for watching. We are very fortunate to not have many critters. We are dealing with some ants in other places right now but luckily they are not too bad.
@@Gardenwithmezone3 Due our winter, when strong here, than also no critters. But last year the winter was not so strong, than I was obligued to use some chemicals again the critters. For ants, I use only natural control.
I'm zone 3b. Cauliflower is one of my favorite vegetable. My brother doesn't like brussel sprouts...when he worked on the rigs the furthest rig away got stuck with brussel sprouts (the closer rigs took the steak)and he had to eat them for breakfast, lunch & supper and the cook even sent extra when he left camp...they probably had yo use water from the slough... chow!
The ground is quite compacted and looks like it's lacking nutrients. I would suggest cultivating in the spring next year and adding at least an inch or two of fresh compost. Besides that, everything looks great :)
Thanks for the feedback back, our garden gets a good amount of compost and manure in the fall, as well as tilling in the fall and spring. It has been extremely dry here, and the spots that are visible at this time are walking paths, making them look very compact due to the foot traffic.
@@Gardenwithmezone3 Spruce Grove area here, oh boy, it's been DRY hasn't it, I guess some rain is on the way, hopefully no bad storms as forecast! My garden was sown late, sure was an awful crappy cloudy, windy cool spring, then BAM it turned HOT! My veggies are doing well, though again a bit on the later side, the soil is good and light and each year I use copious homemade compost. The flowers are awesome as well, I LOVE gardening, my yard is very large and extensively planted in ornamentals, tons and tons of work, if I were to start all over, I'd reel in my enthusiasm and not have big planting beds EVERYWHERE, so much so that I've cut back a tad here and there, I need a life beyond gardening!
Thank you for the tip. I haven’t seen any signs of them but will definitely look again. I’m beginning to think they don’t like the potatoes next to them, but that’s just a theory.
Beautiful garden! Please conserve water. Water in the morning or at night when it’s cooler with a hose or by hand. Using a sprinkler won’t water the ground deeply enough. Wishing you a bountiful crop ❤️🇨🇦
Thanks so much. We try our best to conserve water, we collect rain water and use that. Most evenings we water by hand, the plants definitely prefer that more direct approach.
We found that having an old radio on a talk station was a help. I also installed motion-sensor lights, but the radio in the garden shed was less work, and probably more effective, We had no close neighbors, so the radio didn't bother anyone else.
8:42 Potatoes are a great choice for planting near plants in the cabbage (brassicas) family. It could just be that they need more fertilizer, as they are heavy feeders, especially when heading up.
Very nice garden. You are not worried that deer and rabbits would eat from your garden? We live in BC and have a 5ft 8 fence around our garden. Two years ago a couple of deer jumped the fence and almost nothing was left in the morning.
We are super lucky where we are in central Alberta, we see deer but have never had an issue with them coming closer. I have family in BC and they require a fenced garden as well.
@@Gardenwithmezone3, they didn't eat all of the onions but had some very good bites. We don't have elks but a small town an hour away from us has a group there.
You said that you started your onions from seeds back in February. We still have winter en February; here in Alberta. The ground still hard for digging. How did you manage to do it back in February? I am in Calgary.
I've grown asparagus for over 40 years, first most important thing is to select a very hardy variety, the Guelph varieties are excellent, there's 'Millennium', 'Eclipse' and 'Equinox', you can't go wrong with any of these! Plant in rich soil and with the crowns several inches down, come late fall you can cut the old stalks to the ground, I like to have the garden cleaned off before the snow flies, if I leave the plants standing for the winter, then I have troubles with the deer spending the winter in the garden patch and eating and pawing away at everything! When the asparagus is mature and growing vigorously, you can pick the large tender spears to mid July and then afterwards leave all to be to grow into fern to give the plant the strength it requires to again return strong the following spring.
Honestly it’s been a bit of a challenge for us too this year we made sure to add some extra calcium to the soil through ground up egg shells. We also have them in a spot that gets morning shade, I believe it’s helping them as well
We had them covered at first but the wind had other ideas. I’ve been checking them daily and removing any caterpillars from the moths. It’s definitely a chore
I'm so grateful to find your Channel.
I think you're the only person on RUclips in Alberta who's giving gardening advice.
Thank you thank you thank you
I’ve personally noticed this, glad you found the channel.
I am in zone 3a Alberta, Peace River area.The cabbages I bought from the local greenhouse were about 3 inches in late May. When I stuck them in the ground I added bone meal and blood meal to each plant. They currently have huge leaves and 6 inch dia heads. I had also cultivated my compost into the soil prior to spring planting. I think yours are going to turn out fine by fall harvest. Happy gardening!! 👌👍
Thanks for watching and your feedback. I’m pretty sure the cabbages will work out fine too. I just have to watch out for the white cabbage moths now. Happy gardening too 😀
I like how she says “that’s enough girls” and the “girls” immediately have “oops” faces. 😂
😂 they definitely know.
Your garden is so nice and tidy! It looks like all of your hard work will be paying off soon 🙂
Thank you 😊
What a beautiful garden and property you have! I am also from. Alberta 👍
Thank you 😊
I’m also in Alberta. Zone 2. Closer to Lac La Biche area. It’s been hot and dry so lots of watering necessary. I garden in raised beds and one larger above ground garden (no till). This year I invested in the mesh covering for my brassica bed to keep out the white moths as well as the fly that lays the eggs for root maggots. What a wonderful difference it has made. No pest pressure and my cabbages are getting really quite large heads now. Your brassicas that are yellowing may have root maggots. By the time I am writing this comment you will know as they work quickly. Nice to see a fellow Albertan on here! 😊
Thanks for the tips, we do have covers for our brassicas but the wind here seems to have other ideas most days.
Nice garden there.. Hope your harvest is great.
Thank you
Looks awesome!
Looks Great!
Zone 3/4 Alberta myself
Thank you 🙏
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Always happy to see another Canadian gardener,i am in Ontario.. your garden is looking amazing.. New subscriber here.
Thank you for subscribing.
You should watch Shawn in Ontario in his MySelf Reliance and Our Self Reliance utube show. ( I believe he’s in Algonquin area bush! Built his own cabin .. his garden is amazing and all done in the bush .. has chickens and his chicken coup is so darn cute. he worked so hard to be self reliant. Has a dog named Cally.( Irish setter) Shawn is so darn smart! 😊
Wow,I watched him too,I have been watching him from the first cabin.. he's amazing.
Sounds like a good channel
💚Viewing your garden was very enjoyable (and the filming was excellent)! GOOD JOB💚
Thanks so much 😀
Lovely garden and layout! I share space on my friends lot, now 3 years running. Novice gardener but I so love it!
It’s a lot of work but definitely worth it.
Just found your channel and subscribed. Your garden looks very nice with no weeds. I know that takes lots of work. Keep up the good work!
Thank you for subscribing, daily weeding helps that’s for sure.
Beautiful garden
Thank you
Gorgeous garden. So neat and tidy and thriving! Viewer neighbor from BC
Thanks for watching
Your garden looks perfect…so lmpressive
Thank you
Hello from Zone 3 Saskatchewan! Beautiful Garden
Thank you 😀
A garden with all kinds of vegetables is very good for health. Accompany you ❤
Hey great garden. I'm from Manitoba zone 3 so I struggle with a lot of the same issues you have. One thing I've been experimenting with this year is mulching my garden with grass, it's cut down on the need to water considerably, and helps with weed suppression. I notice you have a lot of lawn, so if you have the ability to bag it, it could be very useful.
I saw another comment mention eggshells for calcium. I took a course from the University of Saskatchewan a couple years back that told us that the eggshell thing is actually a widely held gardening myth. Although they do contain calcium, the bioavailability of that calcium is non nearly non existent when added to the soil. Typically calcium deficiencies such as blossom end rot in tomatoes result from inconsistent watering since most prairie soil actually contains sufficient calcium - the plant just needs to be able to access it.
I'm impressed with your brassicas though. The flea beetles here make it nearly impossible to grow, but I've heard the proximity to so much canola is the cause of that, so maybe where you are that issue isn't as prevalent.
Anyway - not a lot of z3 gardening content out there, so I appreciated the video. Keep it up!
Thank you for all that information, I’ll continue researching more.
Well done
Thank you
Thanks for the sneak peek. How nice to have fresh, untouched food.
Thanks for watching
You have a beautiful garden!Ours here is tiny raised bed garden.Awesome video,watching here from Merritt BC!❤
Thanks for watching
It is my first time on your channel and I have just subscribed. Wow very nice garden, lovely, well organized. Thank you so much for sharing. Keep up the good work. All the best on this journey.🙏
Thanks so much for following while we learn and grow.
@@Gardenwithmezone3 you are welcome
You have a green thumb . Your plants are healthy . I like your dog too . Oh my, i remember my former landlord who plants garlic too . Wow ,you even have celery . Beets, mixed greens , lettuce , and a lot more ! Wow !
Thank you, it takes a lot of work, practice and patience but it’s definitely worth it.
Hello from zone 7 well 7a to be exact! Thank you for showing your garden looking forward to seeing the harvest!
Thanks, we can’t wait to share how much we get.
I just found your channel! I was very excited as I am à real inexpérience gardener and live in zone 3! Thankyou for sharing.
Thanks for watching.
Hello am watching and am amazed with how you care for your garden am inspired i ke this. Am new in your channel just ❤❤
Thank you 😊
Wow, not a weed. I’m truly impressed. Great progress. Calgary viewer.
Thank you
Hi I'm from Leithbrige Alberta. Nice garden
Thank you
Great looking garden ,,put more bone meal around your brassicas, also here in NC I can’t grow cabbage without helping them with the white flies laying larvae on them which turns in to a worm ,,,we use black pepper on them almost every morning,,,you will see it in your cabbage heads but that’s better than poison or dust ,,,the pepper washes out ,,also you should try stone head cabbage,,it’s early , small but has a wonderful taste. There is a tomato variety that I can raise three crops of per year here ,,that means I plant then harvest,,then pull up and replant and harvest three times per summer ,,that variety is called Carolina gold ,,,it’s an orange tomato with huge perfect uniform one to two pound fruits,,it’s determinate an only three foot tall ,,three ft wide ,,which means easy to maintain,,it requires no pruning and each plant will bear thirty to forty huge fruits each and the taste is off the charts good. Also it is always the first tomato I harvest each year usually the last of may or first of June.
Thank you for the feedback. I’ll definitely be looking into those cabbages and tomatoes you mentioned, we love trying new things. Thanks again
@@Gardenwithmezone3 watch farmer Dre and get a look at that gold mater growing
Wow. Great garden! No weeds
Hi, first time here and wanted to say your garden is amazing! I didn’t see a single weed and I’m wondering if you garden organically or use chemicals? 💕🇨🇦
Hi and thank you our garden is all organic. We pull weeds daily to stay on top of them. We are also trying to our best to keep weeds out of our compost.
I tried wooden pallet gardening this year.
The lettuce loves the palate. The reason for using the pallet was to cover parts of the soil to help retain the rainwater and keep the area moist longer. Due to the fact that Calgary has been on a water restriction disproved very useful. However only the lettuce did well.
Green onion, Dil, spinach and some test flowers hates the wooden pallet technique. But it was a fun experiment.
I’ve tired some pallet plantings in the past and I agree our lettuces loved it.
Such a neat and tidy garden ❤
Thank you
Very nice and inspired garden. I am from South of Brazil. Here is now winter and as also cold, we usually reserve the May, June and July to prepare the land, as usually July is all frozen. I have reserved 1.5 hectare for my garden (all other land is Preserved Florest + Reforestation + Fruits tree plantation). I liked too much the way you have done with the Tomatoes. Usually we put bamboo here on them. All so clean! Well, I believe you have no ants problems or other wild animals! Here, ants are my biggest problem.
Thanks so much for watching. We are very fortunate to not have many critters. We are dealing with some ants in other places right now but luckily they are not too bad.
@@Gardenwithmezone3 Due our winter, when strong here, than also no critters. But last year the winter was not so strong, than I was obligued to use some chemicals again the critters. For ants, I use only natural control.
Beautiful garden! I garden in Brandon Manitoba!
Hello and thank you. Happy gardening 😀
I'm zone 3b. Cauliflower is one of my favorite vegetable.
My brother doesn't like brussel sprouts...when he worked on the rigs the furthest rig away got stuck with brussel sprouts (the closer rigs took the steak)and he had to eat them for breakfast, lunch & supper and the cook even sent extra when he left camp...they probably had yo use water from the slough... chow!
That’s a good point excuse to not like Brussels. 😀
Nice. I notice that your legal quota of four plants are also looking healthy. 😊
😂
Zero weeds, except the weed. 😂 Miss Alberta, used to live in Stettler. ❤
😂 everyone always comments there’s no weeds…. Except the large ones 😂
@@Gardenwithmezone3 🤣🌱💚
The ground is quite compacted and looks like it's lacking nutrients. I would suggest cultivating in the spring next year and adding at least an inch or two of fresh compost. Besides that, everything looks great :)
Thanks for the feedback back, our garden gets a good amount of compost and manure in the fall, as well as tilling in the fall and spring. It has been extremely dry here, and the spots that are visible at this time are walking paths, making them look very compact due to the foot traffic.
@@Gardenwithmezone3 Spruce Grove area here, oh boy, it's been DRY hasn't it, I guess some rain is on the way, hopefully no bad storms as forecast! My garden was sown late, sure was an awful crappy cloudy, windy cool spring, then BAM it turned HOT! My veggies are doing well, though again a bit on the later side, the soil is good and light and each year I use copious homemade compost. The flowers are awesome as well, I LOVE gardening, my yard is very large and extensively planted in ornamentals, tons and tons of work, if I were to start all over, I'd reel in my enthusiasm and not have big planting beds EVERYWHERE, so much so that I've cut back a tad here and there, I need a life beyond gardening!
Beautiful, neat tidy garden! New sub 👍
Thanks for subscribing 😀
Looks great
Look for root maggots in your cabbages. Yellowing is one of the signs of those evil doers. GREAT video, I'm a 3a zone gardener😊
Thank you for the tip. I haven’t seen any signs of them but will definitely look again. I’m beginning to think they don’t like the potatoes next to them, but that’s just a theory.
Beautiful garden! Please conserve water. Water in the morning or at night when it’s cooler with a hose or by hand. Using a sprinkler won’t water the ground deeply enough. Wishing you a bountiful crop ❤️🇨🇦
Thanks so much. We try our best to conserve water, we collect rain water and use that. Most evenings we water by hand, the plants definitely prefer that more direct approach.
Very nice looking garden. Not sure how you do it, but I barely see a weed, lol. It's been dry and hot here in zone 5b New Brunswick. New subscriber 🙂
Thanks for subscribing, we try to spend a couple minutes everyday weeding, it helps to keep them manageable
Very nice ... wish our weather was as good ... UK 🇬🇧 zone 8 😊
It’s hard to garden when the weather doesn’t cooperate 😀
@@Gardenwithmezone3 oh yes .... very challenging here in 🇬🇧 lol ... Happy growing 🙂
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Hey from Diamond Valley, AB!! How are you keeping the bloody deer out of your awesome garden?
We’re lucky enough that they don’t come close to our garden. I’m honestly not sure why they don’t but I’m grateful for it.
We found that having an old radio on a talk station was a help. I also installed motion-sensor lights, but the radio in the garden shed was less work, and probably more effective, We had no close neighbors, so the radio didn't bother anyone else.
Looks great! We just tried potatoes in containers but we went away and they didn’t get watered and are looking not so great.
8:42
Potatoes are a great choice for planting near plants in the cabbage (brassicas) family. It could just be that they need more fertilizer, as they are heavy feeders, especially when heading up.
Good to know. Thanks 😀
Very nice garden. You are not worried that deer and rabbits would eat from your garden? We live in BC and have a 5ft 8 fence around our garden. Two years ago a couple of deer jumped the fence and almost nothing was left in the morning.
We are super lucky where we are in central Alberta, we see deer but have never had an issue with them coming closer. I have family in BC and they require a fenced garden as well.
@@Gardenwithmezone3, ours are very bad. They eat almost everything. They took bites from onions too . Crazy...
Wow even the onions that not like them. Do you have Elks as well?
@@Gardenwithmezone3, they didn't eat all of the onions but had some very good bites. We don't have elks but a small town an hour away from us has a group there.
You said that you started your onions from seeds back in February. We still have winter en February; here in Alberta. The ground still hard for digging. How did you manage to do it back in February? I am in Calgary.
Hey, we started them from seed, indoors under lights in February. We then transplanted them into the garden in May.
Well duh lol of course 😊
Hello from PEI
Welcome , I hope you’re summer is going well in PEI
Very nice and neat garden! How do you keep the weeds off?😊
Daily weeding, we pull a couple every day and then spend at least 1 day a week doing a thorough weeding.
How do you keep your large garden free of weeds?
Your garden looks great
We weed on a daily basis, which really helps.
Hi, I'm from Manitoba and would like to know more about how to grow asparagus. I know its a perennial plant but what do you do with the plant in fall?
I've grown asparagus for over 40 years, first most important thing is to select a very hardy variety, the Guelph varieties are excellent, there's 'Millennium', 'Eclipse' and 'Equinox', you can't go wrong with any of these! Plant in rich soil and with the crowns several inches down, come late fall you can cut the old stalks to the ground, I like to have the garden cleaned off before the snow flies, if I leave the plants standing for the winter, then I have troubles with the deer spending the winter in the garden patch and eating and pawing away at everything! When the asparagus is mature and growing vigorously, you can pick the large tender spears to mid July and then afterwards leave all to be to grow into fern to give the plant the strength it requires to again return strong the following spring.
Hope These to heal up us .
If you could tell us the date, I would appreciate it.
Will do, thanks for the feedback
What's your secret for cabbages? Mine are only half that size!
Honestly it’s been a bit of a challenge for us too this year we made sure to add some extra calcium to the soil through ground up egg shells. We also have them in a spot that gets morning shade, I believe it’s helping them as well
@@Gardenwithmezone3 Maybe the morning shade is the secret I'm missing, I think the spot I chose this year gets hot too fast.
Why do you have railway spikes laying in your garden?
They were used for weights for covers and are now just sitting there doing nothing. Good eye
Camrose here
Hello and welcome
You have a beautiful garden, but I couldn't hear a lot of what you were saying!!!
Sorry about that we’re in process of acquiring a microphone.
Your brassicas aren't covered don't you get white moth worms in them question question mark?
We had them covered at first but the wind had other ideas. I’ve been checking them daily and removing any caterpillars from the moths. It’s definitely a chore
@@Gardenwithmezone3check out btk for help with cabbage worms. I found it at a local garden centre.
No deer?
Luckily we don’t have problems with deer but we do see them so it’s always a possibility.
You live out in the country their dogs let them run around and play
They’re trained to stay on our property but they definitely wander off if left alone too long.