U-Pick at Prairie Gardens
Prairie Garden's Crop Report
Prairie Gardens U-Pick Farm> Pick your own produce from July - October
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
 |
Pumpkin Patch in October
Crop report as of September 15/11
- U-Pick Pumpkin Season is now underway!
We Grow 40 Varieties of Pumpkins!
 |
 |
 |
 |
ALSO Available In September
- Potatoes Banana Fingerling
- Fall Squash, Crazy Gourds, Mini and Pie Pumpkins, Jack-o-lantern Carving Pumpkins
Click Here for the Tomato Fare Salad RECIPE!
What's Available Now at the Garden Centre
|
Other crops we grow:
|
- Cornstalk Bundles
- Strawbales
- Apple Trees, Haskap Berry Bushes
- Trees and Shrubs
|
|
Don't forget!
- The Prairie Gardens Express Excursions, and the Lost Lemon Mine are open July - October.
U-Pick Strawberries
Sundrenched Alberta strawberries fresh from the farm
- Available in July at Prairie Gardens
- Season runs July 15th - August 6th
- Picking mornings start at 9:00 AM sharp on Wednesdays & Saturdays
- Ripe strawberries are available on a first come first pick basis & will be in short supply this year
- The Price is $19 / 4L (Ice Cream Pail).
- Sign up for the Friends of Prairie Gardens E-newsletter to be notified when the strawberries are ready for picking!
Never Been to a U-Pick Strawberry Patch - It's Summertime Fun!
Here's how it works! It takes about three days for a half-ripe berry to turn red. Usually we have folks out picking on Saturday mornings, which means that ripe berries are ready by Wednesday again. Picking days are Saturdays and Wednesdays, if the weather cooperates. If it rains, it's the next sunny day. A little hard to plan for, but that's nature for you!
The "King" Berries are the first and largest of the season. Pick-Your-Own starts for them about the 15th of July. They are the first berry of the berry cluster, and are available for the first week.
"Main-Season" Alberta U-Pick Strawberries in the Edmonton region are ripe for the picking the week of July 22nd. The berries are sweet, juicy and dripping with sun-ripened flavor. Main season picking runs for about a week to 10 days, until the end of July.
The "Fairy" Berries are the sweetest (and the smallest) of the season. Pick them starting the week of August 1st. Celebrate the strawberry season with us at our on-farm Fairy Berry Festival the August long weekend.
Winter Squash - Late July - September
We grow a wide variety of squash including green or gold Zucchini, Vegetable Marrow, Scallopini, Lebanese Zucchini, Vegetable Spagetti, Hubbard, Acorn, and Stripetti squash.
They can be cooked in a number of ways. We love to sautee slices of them with butter, garlic, and herbs. You can also stuff them with a mixture of cooked hamburger, rice, and tomatoes.
Sweet Corn and Maze Corn - August and September
Maze Corn
Look up! Way up! Maze corn grows quickly - over 3 meters tall - and is ready to get lost in by the August long weekend. We grow over 7 acres of maze, with 5 km of trails in it. Each year, Precision Mazes, from Kansas City, Missouri, creates a brand new GPS design for our Great Prairie Corn Maze, full of twists, turns and surprizes! Even after the frosts, the maze corn stands tall until the end of October, and becomes part of the fun at the Haunted Pumpkin Festival.
Our sweet corn is usually ready to harvest around the last week of August. We grow six different varieites, from Extra Early Supersweets, to Peaches and Cream. We sell it by the cob or by the sack.
Sweet Corn
Taber may be famous for it's corn production in Alberta, but fresh sweet corn is absolutely the sweetest when it is fresh picked. The sugars within the kernals convert to starch very quickly (by 50% every 24 hours).
We grow six different varieties with different maturity dates. Our corn on the cob will start to be ready the first week of September, and is available until the first killing frost - around mid September.
Please give us a call at 780.921.2272 to order it by the sack for corn roasts or parties. The long weekend in September we celebrate the harvest with the Prairie Garden's Corn Fest! Sweet corn is available until a killing frost, which usually occurs mid September.
Pumpkin Patch - Opens in October!
We're open every weekday in October for school field trips from 9:00 - 2:30, and every weekend from 11 am-5pm for the Haunted Pumpkin Festival. We grow our pumpkins in a huge 7 acre field, then hand pick them and bring them indoors into our greenhouse pavilions when the nightime temperatures start to drop below freezing.
Come pick out a pumpkin weekends at our Haunted Pumpkin Fest! On weekdays, come and choose a pumpkin from our indoor pumpkin patches is between 2:30 and 4:30, when we have staff available to assist you! There is no admission fee for the Haunted Pumpkin Festival during these hours. On the weekends, admission is refunded if you stay less than 1/2 hour to purchase your pumpkin.
We grow all of our own pumpkins in the Edmonton, Alberta countryside, with over 27 different varieties. The prices range from $1.50 for Jack-Be-Littles, to $25 for Jack O'Lanterns.
Learn more about carving and caring for pumpkins here
U-Pick at Prairie Gardens
Prairie Garden's Crop Report
Prairie Gardens U-Pick Farm> Pick your own produce from July - October
|
|
|
|
|
|
Pumpkin Patch in October
Crop report as of September 15/11
- U-Pick Pumpkin Season is now underway!
We Grow 40 Varieties of Pumpkins!
|
|
|
|
ALSO Available In September
- Potatoes Banana Fingerling
- Fall Squash, Crazy Gourds, Mini and Pie Pumpkins, Jack-o-lantern Carving Pumpkins
Click Here for the Tomato Fare Salad RECIPE!
What's Available Now at the Garden Centre
|
Other crops we grow:
|
- Cornstalk Bundles
- Strawbales
- Apple Trees, Haskap Berry Bushes
- Trees and Shrubs
|
|
Don't forget!
- The Prairie Gardens Express Excursions, and the Lost Lemon Mine are open July - October.
U-Pick Strawberries
Sundrenched Alberta strawberries fresh from the farm
- Available in July at Prairie Gardens
- Season runs July 15th - August 6th
- Picking mornings start at 9:00 AM sharp on Wednesdays & Saturdays
- Ripe strawberries are available on a first come first pick basis & will be in short supply this year
- The Price is $19 / 4L (Ice Cream Pail).
- Sign up for the Friends of Prairie Gardens E-newsletter to be notified when the strawberries are ready for picking!
Never Been to a U-Pick Strawberry Patch - It's Summertime Fun!
Here's how it works! It takes about three days for a half-ripe berry to turn red. Usually we have folks out picking on Saturday mornings, which means that ripe berries are ready by Wednesday again. Picking days are Saturdays and Wednesdays, if the weather cooperates. If it rains, it's the next sunny day. A little hard to plan for, but that's nature for you!
The "King" Berries are the first and largest of the season. Pick-Your-Own starts for them about the 15th of July. They are the first berry of the berry cluster, and are available for the first week.
"Main-Season" Alberta U-Pick Strawberries in the Edmonton region are ripe for the picking the week of July 22nd. The berries are sweet, juicy and dripping with sun-ripened flavor. Main season picking runs for about a week to 10 days, until the end of July.
The "Fairy" Berries are the sweetest (and the smallest) of the season. Pick them starting the week of August 1st. Celebrate the strawberry season with us at our on-farm Fairy Berry Festival the August long weekend.
Winter Squash - Late July - September
We grow a wide variety of squash including green or gold Zucchini, Vegetable Marrow, Scallopini, Lebanese Zucchini, Vegetable Spagetti, Hubbard, Acorn, and Stripetti squash.
They can be cooked in a number of ways. We love to sautee slices of them with butter, garlic, and herbs. You can also stuff them with a mixture of cooked hamburger, rice, and tomatoes.
Sweet Corn and Maze Corn - August and September
Maze Corn
Look up! Way up! Maze corn grows quickly - over 3 meters tall - and is ready to get lost in by the August long weekend. We grow over 7 acres of maze, with 5 km of trails in it. Each year, Precision Mazes, from Kansas City, Missouri, creates a brand new GPS design for our Great Prairie Corn Maze, full of twists, turns and surprizes! Even after the frosts, the maze corn stands tall until the end of October, and becomes part of the fun at the Haunted Pumpkin Festival.
Our sweet corn is usually ready to harvest around the last week of August. We grow six different varieites, from Extra Early Supersweets, to Peaches and Cream. We sell it by the cob or by the sack.
Sweet Corn
Taber may be famous for it's corn production in Alberta, but fresh sweet corn is absolutely the sweetest when it is fresh picked. The sugars within the kernals convert to starch very quickly (by 50% every 24 hours).
We grow six different varieties with different maturity dates. Our corn on the cob will start to be ready the first week of September, and is available until the first killing frost - around mid September.
Please give us a call at 780.921.2272 to order it by the sack for corn roasts or parties. The long weekend in September we celebrate the harvest with the Prairie Garden's Corn Fest! Sweet corn is available until a killing frost, which usually occurs mid September.
Pumpkin Patch - Opens in October!
We're open every weekday in October for school field trips from 9:00 - 2:30, and every weekend from 11 am-5pm for the Haunted Pumpkin Festival. We grow our pumpkins in a huge 7 acre field, then hand pick them and bring them indoors into our greenhouse pavilions when the nightime temperatures start to drop below freezing.
Come pick out a pumpkin weekends at our Haunted Pumpkin Fest! On weekdays, come and choose a pumpkin from our indoor pumpkin patches is between 2:30 and 4:30, when we have staff available to assist you! There is no admission fee for the Haunted Pumpkin Festival during these hours. On the weekends, admission is refunded if you stay less than 1/2 hour to purchase your pumpkin.
We grow all of our own pumpkins in the Edmonton, Alberta countryside, with over 27 different varieties. The prices range from $1.50 for Jack-Be-Littles, to $25 for Jack O'Lanterns.
Learn more about carving and caring for pumpkins here