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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.

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Not your usual Medieval Salat; more Recipes from the Concert
ByVivian July 22, 2010

Last month on a tour of the Medieval Gardens At The Cloisters, the uptown branch of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the docent paused in the herb garden to tell us of the Medieval cooks ‘ love of salats. That is salad to us. Many herbs , flowers, greens were used. Lettuce was not always the main ingredient. Bitter greens…

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More on White, Ghost Eggplants
ByVivian July 27, 2010

Ghost Eggplants in my Garden These eggplants are beautiful, delicious and prolific. I have planted them in all my gardens this year. When it comes time to eat them, place raw ones in the middle of the table as a centerpiece and set the rest of them whole in a hot barbeque. Roast the eggplants until their skins are smokey…

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Toronto Star Article “Artist in Residence: Vivian Reiss”
ByVivian February 4, 2011November 28, 2021

New article on me in the Toronto Star: http://www.thestar.com/article/932594–artist-in-residence-vivian-reiss Artist in Residence: Vivian Reiss – thestar.com Outside, it is your standard, upscale red brick Annex house. Inside, it could be the domicile of the love child of Scheherazade and Salvador Dali.

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Sorghum: The Sweet Taste of Success
ByVivian October 23, 2010

Sorghum; the sweet extracted juice This Summer’s boulevard garden was a great success. The broom corn reached a record height of 15′ 8″. Nestled among the amaranth, broom corn, cotton, beets, artichokes, buckwheat, zinnias, dill, Swiss chard, upland rice, coriander, eggplants, and ground cherries, sorghum was growing. It’s sap growing sweet in the Toronto sun. Sorghum is…

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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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There will be cotton
ByVivian August 17, 2010

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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