Enero Olio
If you are like me, a confirmed cruciverbalist, you know the word “olio”. Because what crossword constructor has not been saved by that word, at least once? What solver has not […]
If you are like me, a confirmed cruciverbalist, you know the word “olio”. Because what crossword constructor has not been saved by that word, at least once? What solver has not […]
Yesterday’s trip across Vineyard Sound yielded something I’ve wanted for a few years now. A photograph of the Nonamessett House with snow covering its roof. The Nonamesset house is […]
We had a perfect snow last night. A half a foot of feathery flakes, so light you could shovel the driveway in ten minutes. Some people didn’t bother to shovel, […]
From my earliest years I have loved flowers. If you have been to thetompostpile before, you already know that. Since it’s January, with winter full upon us, let’s look at […]
I love looking closely. A really close look helps you to see the beauty and wonder of life, and how it manifests itself here on planet earth. I’d love to […]
This post is an annotated version of a section of a talk on Vegetable Gardening, given to the Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club. At the edge of Mill Hill, and near […]
Interspersed amidst the vegetable garden pictures in the MV Garden Club presentation were pictures of flowers. But maybe you knew that already. There were also pictures of bugs. Here they […]
At Wishetwurra Farm we love our daffodils and narcissus. But we never, ever eat them. Not even our local deer will eat them. They contain some mildly poisonous alkaloids, which […]
The Martha’s Vineyard Garden Club asked thetompostpile if it might come give them a talk on “vegetable gardening”. The ‘pile obliged, but could not help including flowers in the presentation. […]
We northern hemisphere people are clawing back the daylight we lost to you southern hemisphere people. The “magic moment” of the gardener’s year is coming. The “magic moment” for plants is […]