Gardens

Cotton; in utero

ByVivian October 26, 2010

Growing impatient to see the bolls in my garden burst and ripen with cotton , I picked one today and opened it up to reveal it’s inner beauty. Here the developing cotton is placed on a late blooming dahlia. Breath taking!

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Fleeting Summer, Breakfast in a Flash
ByVivian August 5, 2010

Sliced tomatoes, purple shiso, purple basil, sliced burgundy pole beans, and chives from my urban farm just outside the kitchen door One of my favorite cookbooks is Edward de Pomiane’s cookbook ,”Cooking in 10 Minutes”[ first published in 1948] I love it, not so much for the recipes, but for the theory that a delicious meal…

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Summer Squash: Sunshine
ByVivian September 6, 2010

In the third quarter of July, I noticed a little empty space in the garden leading to the house. It was a stubborn piece of earth. In that spot, I had tried several times to germinate watermelon seeds and seeds from particularly delicious melons I had just consumed. Nothing grew. That tempting piece of earth did not seem…

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The Gardening Sisters’ Wonderful Take on my Garden
ByVivian August 3, 2010

http://torontogardens.blogspot.com/2010/07/vivian-reisss-artful-garden.html

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A New Series Beginning: Giant Garden Paintings!
ByVivian October 21, 2010

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Horseradish, of Plague and Pleasure
ByVivian October 22, 2010

Horseradish leaves in my garden in the Fall The first thing we harvest from our garden in the Spring is horseradish for our traditional Passover plate. We dig up the root ,wash and peel it and then don snorkeling gear to grate it. I usually accomplish this with a blender, adding vinegar as needed. Should you become cavalierly…

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Mutiny on the Blueberry Bounty
ByVivian July 21, 2010February 27, 2022

Driving back from The Stratford Festival on Sunday amongst endless grain fields stood a blueberry farm. Of course, I had to stop. The farmer convinced me that I wanted to buy all the rest of his bounty since he wanted to close for the day. A deal was struck for the rest of his gorgeous berries. I…

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