VIDEO: Growing Cotton in Your Front Yard
Learn how to plant and grow cotton, and what you get after it has blossomed.
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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.
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…
Most office buildings are cloistered away from nature, let alone agriculture. One exception is Toronto’s 124 Merton St, which is a boutique office building whose bounteous crops reap benefits for the tenants, both local and international. Owner, artist, designer, and chef Vivian Reiss has been in the avant-garde of urban farming, having practiced it for…
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…
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….
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.
One of the most beautiful, healthy and delicious parts of my garden is my “front chard”. It grows between the sidewalk and the road on a patch about 140 square feet ,which is about the size of a large Tokyo apartment or a very small Florida walk-in closet. Well, you can’t live in it, but you can certainly…