Something I’ve discovered since our first kid was born on January 17, is that it can be heartbreakingly difficult to separate fact from fiction in farming/livestock circles online. People can be careless with advice, usually not maliciously so, but sometimes poor advice makes for dead animals. Look for the information you need from a wide variety of sources, one ideally…
Here’s a clue (less of a clue and more an obvious answer, thanks to some paperwork being finalized) where I’m going to be gardening at next spring: http://www.plantmaps.com/interactive-alberta-plant-zone-hardiness-map.php But according to this, I’ll be in zone 3b to 4a, where the official Canada hardiness map indicates 1b to 2a: http://atlas.agr.gc.ca/agmaf/index_eng.html#context=phz-zrp_en (yeah Alberta is a big province, a more narrowed down…