There will be cotton
Today, I noticed our cotton is growing fat bolls. When they burst we will have cotton. Cotton has been cultivated for 7,000 years, but is this a first for Canada?
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And sandwich
The favorite sandwich of my youth, hardly requires a recipe. Slice a tomato. Spread one side of a slice of rye bread, and yes, it must be rye, with mayonnaise. Top with tomato slices and another piece of rye bread. Only spread mayonnaise on one side, so one piece of bread will resist the tomato…
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Hot and cold running soup
I love making and eating soup for breakfast. On this hot Summer’s day looking at a pile of ripe tomatoes that I grew, it was obvious what the main ingredient for today’s soup was going to be. I knew that I felt like having cold tomato soup but I knew my husband would prefer his hot. From one…
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Figs, Show me your Leaves!
Last year I planted fig trees in all of my gardens. www.annexrentals.com I even planted them in pots at the entrance of our office building. www.empressbuilding.com Their leaves are beautiful and growing such exotic fruit in our climate, Toronto Canada, peeks the interest of the many people who notice them and watch them grow and ripen. Autumn arrived and…
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Spoon Tomatoes
Standing in the greenhouse looking at a choice of seedlings of 200 varieties of heritage tomatoes I could grow was a thrill.This Spring having built more wooden boxes and added more colored plastic tubs to my office roof top vegetable garden I could still only accomodate about 60 varieties, accounting for multiples of favorite ones from last year. I had poured over the printout catalogue and circled the…
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Food | Gardens | Urban farming
Today on the Boulevard
Today on the boulevard the broom corn has reached 10 feet tall and the millet-like sprays are opening. It is sure to add another few feet. The amaranth heads are 3 feet high by at least one foot wide. The cotton is blooming , pink, white and yellowish greeny white blossoms reflecting the various varieties….
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Fleeting Summer, Breakfast in a Flash
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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Art | Decor | Food | Gardens | Urban farming
The Gardening Sisters’ Wonderful Take on my Garden
http://torontogardens.blogspot.com/2010/07/vivian-reisss-artful-garden.html
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Art | Decor | Food | Gardens | Urban farming
Rouge gallery of tomatoes and a couple of jaune ones too!
Today on my office rooftop garden at www.124merton.com there were at least 22 varieties of tomatoes ripening.We have a total of 57 different varieties of heritage tomatoes. Photos from left to right: Hawaiian Pineapple, Crynkovic Yugoslavian, Anna Russian, Abe Lincoln, Stupice, Black Russian, Wapiscon Peach, Black from Tula, Tondose des Conores, Spoon, Speckled Peach, Orange Banana, Orange Strawberry, Thai…
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You can do anything you put your mind to; Thinking in the living room
As a child my Mother encouragingly told me;” You can do anything you put your mind too.” As an adult, reality usually impinges on that fantasy and you realize that a great deal of action is required too. Well maybe, not anymore! My Daughter, Ariel Garten is the CEO of Interaxon www.interaxon.com a thought controlled computing…