There will be cotton

ByVivian August 17, 2010

cotton 002 — cotton boll in my garden with discarded blossom behind it

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?

cotton 004 — erlene's green cotton blossom

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Buzz in in the garden
ByVivian July 29, 2010

This morning Dan Goodbaum www.foodbomb.org came to my garden to interview me for a video he is making about my garden and my gardening philosophy . The bees were at work.

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Spoon Tomatoes
ByVivian August 10, 2010

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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A toast to the tomato: tomato tasting, part 3
ByVivian August 18, 2010

This is the recipe I created after last year’s tomato tasting . I used cinnamon bread because the taste of cinnamon and basil are reminiscent of each other. Cinnamon French Toast topped with Tomato Salad Make a tomato salad following “The Remains of the Day” blog post For each serving cut 2 pieces of slightly dry cinnamon bread…

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The Tempest at Stratford Ontario
ByVivian July 18, 2010February 28, 2022

Christopher Plummer commands the stage, so it is not a stretch, as Prospero commands a tempest. When Prospero said goodbye to Ariel it made me cry. I played Ariel as a child and my daughter is an Ariel, just what I was saying to Christopher Plummer when this photo was snapped.

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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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VIDEO: Growing Cotton in Your Front Yard
ByVivian November 28, 2012November 28, 2021

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.

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