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MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

Margaret Roach

A WAY TO GARDEN is the horticultural incarnation of Margaret Roach

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 13, 2022 –...

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2022/06/13

While researching a story about the endangered status of native trillium in North America recently, I was happy to meet today’s guest, botanist Wesley Knapp. Our trillium conversations got me thinking about how headlines like the trillium one, highlighting reports of the... Read More ›

00:27:31

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 6, 2022 –...

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2022/06/06

How are we doing in the effort to reduce tick encounters, and the diseases that ticks carry and can transmit to humans? The results from a multi-year study in Dutchess County, New York, one of the areas in the United... Read More ›

00:25:17

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 30, 2022 –...

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2022/05/30

Today’s guest, author Sy Montgomery, writes that “we are on the cusp of either destroying the sweet green earth, or revolutionizing the way we understand the rest of animate creation. “It’s an important time to be writing about the connections... Read More ›

00:26:32

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 23, 2022 –...

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2022/05/23

I get a lot of questions every year about mulch, about how to use it, when to use it, which kind to use. And today we’ll talk about all that, but also even more important about what goes on in... Read More ›

00:27:47

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 16, 2022 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2022/05/16

With the explosion of interest in native plants in recent years, I know I’m not alone among gardeners who are scouring catalogs and specialty nurseries, looking for the right native to match every garden purpose, from trees on down to... Read More ›

00:26:56

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 9, 2022 –...

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2022/05/09

Today, we’re going to do some gravel gardening—not merely applying a thin mulch-like top dressing of gravel to a garden bed, but planting right into a deliberate foundation of 4 or 5 inches of gravel. My guest is Jeff Epping,... Read More ›

00:26:21

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 2, 2022 –...

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2022/05/02

Have you ever grown a carnivorous plant—a Venus flytrap or sundew or pitcher plant, perhaps? I bet even a lot of keen gardeners haven’t. Today’s guest is going to encourage us to change that and maybe, as a start, adopt... Read More ›

00:26:12

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 25, 2022...

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2022/04/25

I’m thinking about Trilliums – prompted not just because these treasured spring ephemerals are coming into their season, but by the disturbing news in a report just published that found that 32 percent of all North American Trillium species or... Read More ›

00:26:34

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 18, 2022...

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2022/04/18

Finally, the first fresh flavors of spring are starting to show up at the farmer’s markets, and before long in our gardens, with more to come every unfolding week. Chef and cookbook author Justin Chapple, who’s also the “Food &... Read More ›

00:27:27

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 11, 2022...

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2022/04/11

Even though I don’t live anywhere near St. Louis, one of my most used and appreciated resources for plant information over many, many years has been the Missouri Botanical Garden, with its world-class offerings to gardeners both in person and... Read More ›

00:26:44

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 4, 2022 –...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2022/04/04

Do I need a soil test? And what kind of amendments should I be adding to my vegetable beds or containers to get things off to a good start? And how can I fine tune my composting this year to... Read More ›

00:25:46

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 28, 2022...

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2022/03/28

I thought my obsession with Angelica blooms was a serious one until recently, when I met Sam Keitch of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, who takes it one step further. Sam has a passion for various other garden-worthy, umbel-shaped flowers—not just... Read More ›

00:26:46

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 21, 2022...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2022/03/21

What’s your most important gardening tool? A new public television series reminds us that it’s not a trowel or pruner or spade, but our body, which can also be stressed by gardening if we don’t know how to look after... Read More ›

00:26:05

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 14, 2022...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2022/03/14

In late winter, we gardeners rev up around sowing those first seeds indoors under lights. But the promise of a bountiful vegetable garden that keeps on giving doesn’t end there. Now is also the moment to make succession-sowing plans for... Read More ›

00:25:50

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 7, 2022 –...

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2022/03/07

Gardeners have increasingly heard the call to reduce or eliminate their use of peat moss, the most familiar ingredient in seed-starting mixes and potting soils—one that a lot of us have long relied on. But peat is not sustainable, and... Read More ›

00:26:16

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 28,...

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2022/02/28

Sick of winter? What I find helps, besides the occasional warmish, sunny day, is thinking about tomatoes. And that’s what we’re going to do today with Craig LeHoullier, author of the hit 2014 book “Epic Tomatoes,” who has over the... Read More ›

00:26:15

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 21,...

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2022/02/21

While most of us focus on keeping deer from browsing our gardens, Brad Roeller actually once managed what was called a Deer Browse Garden as part of a 10-year research study to learn more about what these big herbivores do,... Read More ›

00:26:57

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 14,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2022/02/14

There’s an old expression in gardening, a folksy piece of advice that states: “Don’t fight the site.” James Golden has been guided by a more nuanced version of that idea in creating a much praised garden, a wildish, unexpected landscape... Read More ›

00:27:18

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 7,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2022/02/07

It’s hard to name another genus of shrub that’s more beloved by gardeners than Hydrangea. But with the overwhelming popularity of Asian species, like the big blue mop heads and summer into fall Hydrangea paniculata types, where do hydrangeas fit... Read More ›

00:26:32

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 31,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2022/01/31

When I saw news of an upcoming webinar about invasive plants listed on the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society‘s website, I knew I wanted to sign up and listen in. And also that I wanted to talk to the presenter, who founded a... Read More ›

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