One side of the vegetable patch.
Beautiful Gardens alberta sweet Calgary story and photo by shauna dobbie Alberta Sweet. 10 • 2020
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very year the neighbours an kids ask the same question: are you going to garden again this year? And she gives them the same answer: I most certainly am. She may be slowing down a bit with the vegetables and putting in more perennial flowers, but the family can count on a bountiful harvest of raspberries, cherries, potatoes and lettuce. All organic. Every year. Alberta Sweet keeps the garden going because she loves it. She grew up in Calgary with parents who gardened. Her husband Arthur, who passed a couple of years ago, grew up at the north end of Gull Lake, just north of Red Deer. His parents were farmers, so they gardened to keep themselves in vegetables throughout the year. When they got married in 1966, they lived here and there for a few years, but when localgardener.net
