Pistil Farm’s sunflowers are in full bloom!
Three varieties of sunflowers were included in this week’s Bay Ride and Williamsburg CSA flower shares: Firecracker, Zebulon and Pro-Cut yellow lite. They’re all hybrid sunflowers, meaning that they’re the first generation of the cross breeding of two different varieties. The advantage of hybrid sunflowers is that they’re more vigorous, highly productive and uniform. That might be boring for a home gardener, but for a flower farmer it’s ideal.
The Greenwood Heights members received mixed bouquets featuring scabiosa, one of my favorite flowers.
Next Saturday we’re planning to make our debut at the Brooklyn Flea! Hope you’ll come to visit?
Here’s some photos of our harvest and the bouquets.
