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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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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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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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Tomato tasting: Part 4; Goddess Salad
ByVivian August 18, 2010

Ariel and Rachel have been friends since they met at Frosh week at university. The two would sit at my kitchen island as I fed them delicacies that I had just cooked. Rachel would sometimes refer to me as “The Chocolate Goddess.”I think that would have been after I served them the Rocky Road Brownies I made for special occasions. They…

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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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“To V. or not to V.” The 3rd Act
ByVivian May 4, 2011November 28, 2021

The invitation to my birthday party read, “To v. or not to v.?” That is the question. Come to a birthday party to celebrate my birth, rebirth and the birth of William Shakespeare. I’ll supply the Elizabethan feast, please supply your ideas of Shakespeare or of the Elizabethan era or just come as you. After…

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Horseradish, of Plague and Pleasure
ByVivian October 22, 2010

Horseradish leaves in my garden in the Fall The first thing we harvest from our garden in the Spring is horseradish for our traditional Passover plate. We dig up the root ,wash and peel it and then don snorkeling gear to grate it. I usually accomplish this with a blender, adding vinegar as needed. Should you become cavalierly…

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