Alliums, annual buds, peas

Hudson Valley Garden Confidential                                    Issue No.  46

June 25, 2011

I left a few yellow onions to see what their flower would look like.  Pretty nice.

Other Alliums A. bulgaricum  A. Schubertii   Allium aflatunense     In my garden ... buds of volunteers  Cornflower,  bachelor button    Sunflower Calendula Today's Recipe Sugar Snap peas are still coming in strong: Linguine with pea pesto

Reminder : Bridal netting keeps the bugs (think potato beetles, japanese beetles)  and birds (think blueberries) at  bay. Broccoli and all cole crops are suseptable to the   Cabbage Looper .  Use Bt or Dipel for organic control.

Strawberries, Sugar Snaps and Snow in Summer

strawberries and sugar snap peas are in 

Hudson Valley Garden Confidential                                    Issue No.  45

June 6, 2011

In my garden ... now some favorite low growers  Cerastium tomentosum   Veronica 'Georgia Blue'

Covered with buds!  For the first time, my five year old Stewartia pseudocamellia is going to put on a great show later this month.

Hardy annual worth revisiting  Sweet Alyssum  lovely fragrance all summer and then ... it self seeds and reappears in unexpected places next year.  Enkianthus campanulatus