A New Series Beginning: Giant Garden Paintings!

ByVivian October 21, 2010

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“It’s a Long Long Time From May to December”
ByVivian December 26, 2011November 28, 2021

“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 love, womanhood and relationships. In retrospect the “Malus Maypole’s” journey to my rooftop garden started before May, but in considering the purchase of this particular tree, who could have imagined just…

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When the Garden Was Just a Twinkle in the Elephant’s Eye
ByVivian September 4, 2010

In the post of August 29th, I was struggling to measure the broom corn with a ten foot pole. I needed a fifteen foot pole to touch the tops of the corn. In this photo if you look at the tiny sprouts at the extreme left you will see the broom corn in my garden in…

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Corn-servation
ByVivian August 17, 2010

Buying supplies for my rooftop garden, I had an after thought.” Why not try growing corn in the planters? I am sure it will look beautiful and rustic.” I picked up a cell pack of corn seedlings and headed up to the garden to plant. The plants grew tall and the sides were swollen with cobs. We boiled…

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Tomato Panic or Red Alert [or yellow, purple, white, pink or maybe, striped alert]
ByVivian April 12, 2011March 24, 2025

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 this year. What would become of the annual tomato tasting? Realizing that I would have to grow the seedlings myself, I went from window to window…

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Bull’s Blood Beets
ByVivian November 20, 2010November 23, 2021

I planted several varieties of beets in my garden including, “Golden, Early Wonder, Flat of Egypt and Chioggio.” They range from the lovely pale anemic beet, “Albino”, to the “Bull’s Blood” beet that bleeds a healthy iron red from the moment I cut the stems in the garden. Thinly sliced “Bull’s Blood” beet in my garden The first preparation I tried,…

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Radishes
ByVivian June 9, 2010

Last week in New York ,I was in a restaurant called Cascabel, www.nyctacos.com a lower east side vibe on the upper east side. Low and behold, what did I see on the menu but radishes with Mexican herbs. Of course I had to order it. They were beautiful french breakfast radishes, coated with salt pepper oil and…

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