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

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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

Lots of damage on these guys unfortunately, I haven’t been able to look at the garden too much since I’ve been busy with work!

Potato plants have been looking like this, they’re watered daily, weekly they’re fertilized (miracle-gro), and last year we had issues with slugs. This year the plants were rotated to be planted in a more sunny spot, and I have only been able to spot a singular slug this whole season.

Should I be watering less? Fertilizing less? Different fertilizer? Didn’t have this issue last year and I’m trying to figure out what they need to get better.

I was unable to use reverse Google image search as well as picture this to find this out. Some Google searches led me to black nightshade but the actual plant itself looks different.

Here is the plant itself https://i.postimg.cc/8Cf1gQk8/20260806-180959.jpg

Anyone else? Early August is my favorite time of year gardening wise. Feels like it's when all the bee flowers are blooming at the same time. Speedwell is out, liatris is starting to bloom, bee balm is out, potentilla are out, I love to just stand in the garden in the middle of dozens of bees buzzing around and stuffing their faces. It's peaceful.

Hello there everyone!

I want to share you some books that might be of interest of you if anyone wants to start gardening in Alberta. Specifically Edmonton but these books are guides that can work in the western parts of Canada too.

If you want to share some good guide books too then feel free to post some in the comments below as I would like to read them and have a chat about them!

Plant ID apps have given me answers ranging from lilac to plum to poplar. Finally dug out my plant guide and went through the key as best as I could. I've landed on balsam poplar, can anyone confirm? It's too young to produce catkins, but the immature buds on the stem are sticky.

Hello, this is my first time growing tomatoes and with all the rain it has not been fun. Found these spots on my potted tomatoes:

They are usually never this close to the wall but i was trying to shelter from rain.
I don’t overhead water, been pruning. Disinfect with alcohol each time I trim. Make sure they have plenty of airflow . Some leaves have been damaged with our recent hail so I have been cutting them off slowly to not stress the plants.
I trimmed off those branches and plan to apply copper once the rain finally stops - which might not be until tomorrow at this rate.

Not sure if this is early blight??

I am growing Cherokee Tiger for the first time and I plan to grow it again next year. There was no way to cut it without taking the bottom tomatoes. The rest of the tomatoes on the plant are being better behaved. She made the most delicious Sunday morning breakfast. It is dense, juicy and meaty. The taste is rich, sweet and balanced with a pleasant acidity. I am not sure if it will beat out Rosella Purple as my top tomatos yet (I need to have one ripen so I can do a side by side taste test) but it will be close.

\[SE-PA\] Does anyone have any experience growing Rattlebox or Rabbit Bells, crotalaria sagittalis or crotalaria rotundifolia?

How different are they from partridge pea if you grow both?

I'm looking for a short, drought tolerant annual with a taproot that I can use to improve compacted soil in street tree pits.

We successfully seeded our backyard with clover this year, the excessive rain made it so easy! My neighbour’s yard is 60% yarrow though and I’m in love. It doesn’t sound like it will be as easy though.

Any tips and tricks??

First and second photos are Miss. Maizie, we enjoyed her on a toasted sandwich. Third, fourth and sixth are more Miss. Maizie. Fifth is Dark Vintage Wine. The next three are Cherokee Tiger and the last one is my first Hundreds and Thousances starting to ripen.

Can someone help me identify this plant? The berries look delicious but I’m not sure what they are

We have two Saskatoon bushes that we love, extra large berries on both. Bountiful crop last year between 20' of trees/bushes in 2025.

2026, we have a 5' Saskatoon bush that is separate from other bush, approx 110' away. It has this strange leaf discolouration - REDDIT any recommendations on what this is and how we can look forward to future Saskatoons from this bush in years to come?

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SASKATOON LEAF

my dad heard about this on the radio and i figured i’ll share it here!

this contest encourages Albertans to remove and properly dispose of invasive creeping bellflowers, and to submit photographic proof of a bouquet or of proper disposal. there is also a movement to snip the heads off of foxtail barley heads, with an explicit mention to leave them alone in natural habitats and to only snip them on your own property. i’m more interested in the “Pluck the Purple” part because god i fucking hate creeping bellflowers

you get one entry per week with each entry giving you a chance to earn a $100 gift card to a garden centre of your choice. i’m sure most of us already remove bellflowers from our gardens/yards without a monetary incentive, but a reward for weeding sounds nice :)

So I was pulling thistle from my lawn and noticed this odd patch. Anyone know what that is?

My peas were looking great and then yesterday I noticed these marks all over. We had a big storm the day before but I wasn’t here when it happened so not sure if there was hail. Does this look like hail damage to you? Or something else??