Gardens – Vivian Reiss

Boutique Office Building Yields Bountiful Crops and Inspiration

Most office buildings are cloistered away from nature, let alone agriculture. One exception is the Toronto's 124 Merton St is a boutique office building, whose bounteous crops reap benefits for…

October 2, 2013

VIDEO: Growing Cotton in Your Front Yard

Learn how to plant and grow cotton, and what you get after it has blossomed. Please also join Vivian Reiss Landscapes Facebook page: facebook.com/VReissLandscapes.

November 28, 2012

Video: Reiss interviewed in her garden

Vivian interviewed by her son Joel Garten. http://vimeo.com/52122212

October 25, 2012

“It’s a Long Long Time From May to December”

"Maypole" Columnar Apple Tree in Bloom on the Rooftop Garden 124 Merton Street in May 2011 The song, "It's a long, long time from May to December", chronicles the stages of…

December 26, 2011

Of Rye and Radishes

Rye in my garden This morning looking out at my garden, I noticed that the rye was ripening in the paisley bed near the elephant. How did that happen? Just…

June 3, 2011

“To V. or not to V.” The 3rd Act

The invitation to my birthday party read, "To v. or not to v.?" That is the question. Come to a birthday party to celebrate my birth, rebirth and the birth…

May 4, 2011

Expanding Rooftop Garden

Even though it is still quite cold, it is time to start the cold weather crops such as lettuce. In a month or so bunches of our beautiful organic…

May 2, 2011

Getting to The Root of the Matter, How Deep Are Your Roots?

If you think; " a new broom sweeps clean," is a refreshing adage, you have no idea of how the concept of getting to the root of my garden's suffocation and plague is…

April 15, 2011

Tomato Panic or Red Alert [or yellow, purple, white, pink or maybe, striped alert]

Last week I had a tomato panic. I found out that Doris Giardino, who grew my beautiful heritage tomato seedlings for my www.124merton.com rooftop garden, was not growing them again…

April 12, 2011

Sow to Sew

Last year my boulevard garden yielded, as far as I know, 100% of Canada's cotton crop. Continuing my quest to live off the land in the city and grow "wearables"…

March 15, 2011