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MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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00:26:35

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 24,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2022/01/24

As regular readers and listeners know, I’ve had a longtime interest in the organic seed movement, especially farm-based companies that grow at least some of the seed they sell and are proud to tell you where they source the rest.... Read More ›

00:26:39

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 17,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2022/01/17

The other night I hosted an online class about shade gardening, featuring Ken Druse, whom I met in 1992-ish, almost exactly 30 years ago to the day, when I interviewed him on the publication of his book “The Natural Shade... Read More ›

00:26:52

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 10,...

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2022/01/10

Did you maybe get or give a cookbook or two for a holiday gift? Well, hopefully you can make room on the shelf for another couple of good ones. Our expert guide who’s been browsing and cooking from the latest... Read More ›

00:26:36

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 3, 2022...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2022/01/03

Uh-oh, now I’ve learned that there’s another plant I didn’t think I could grow in my Northern garden, but it sounds like I can. Hello, Crinum lilies, you gorgeous size-XL bulbs that I thought were the domain of Southern gardeners... Read More ›

00:25:47

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 27,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/12/27

“To discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment in order to preserve and enrich life.” – Missouri Botanical Garden mission Founded in 1859, the Missouri Botanical Garden is the nation’s oldest botanical garden in continuous operation and a National... Read More ›

00:26:50

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 20,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/12/20

Being an ever-better gardener means staying open to change. As long as we’ve both been gardening, my friend Joe Lamp’l was saying to me the other day, we’re still evolving, still learning lessons every single growing season. We were comparing... Read More ›

00:26:15

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 13,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/12/13

When Ken Druse and I talked on the program a couple of weeks ago about putting our tools away for the winter, all cleaned and oiled, one part we failed to mention: We’re both eyeing some new tools, too, for... Read More ›

00:25:36

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 6,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/12/06

I’m eyeing a vintage glass cookie jar I haven’t used in years, and a big glass snifter, too, that’s been sitting idle on a shelf in the sideboard for ages. And I’m thinking terrariums, and I’m thinking holiday centerpiece, or... Read More ›

00:25:56

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 29,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/11/29

Some of the most beautiful and intricate creatures in the garden are not plants at all. A diversity of lichens are showing off right now on tree bark and branches, on stones, on unpainted garden furniture and even soil, more... Read More ›

00:25:50

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 22,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/11/22

Author Marta McDowell, a gardener and landscape designer in contemporary New Jersey, has an enduring passion for digging into history, particularly into noted authors and their gardens—what she calls the “connection between the pen and the trowel.” She’s written books... Read More ›

00:26:16

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 15,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/11/15

It’s been a strangely mild fall so far in the Northeast, where Ken Druse and I both garden. But as some recent overnight freezes served as a reminder: Get the must-do chores done or else, because who knows when the... Read More ›

00:26:30

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 8,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/11/08

Designer David Culp sees the garden in layers, but not just the most obvious landscape ones most of us do—meaning the canopy, the shrub layer and ground-covering plants. His view of the garden is more like 3D chess and then... Read More ›

00:25:44

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 1,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/11/01

When I saw news of a popular new garden book called “The Heirloom Gardener,” I thought it would be about growing vegetables or flowers of old-time, open-pollinated varieties maybe. You know: of heirlooms. But John Forti’s latest book is about... Read More ›

00:26:18

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 25,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/10/25

What are the forward-looking steps in your fall garden routine—the most important tasks you take now to get your garden tucked in, that really focus on success next year? Over at the part-farm, par-garden of Lee Reich in the Hudson... Read More ›

00:25:41

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 18,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/10/18

“What do you want to talk about when we tape our next podcast segment, I asked Ken Druse the other day, and his answer was succinct. “Monocots,” he said. To which I said, “What?” “I want to talk about monocotyledons,”... Read More ›

00:26:11

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 11,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/10/11

Have you made room in the compost heap for all that incoming organic material about to be created during your fall cleanup? Compost is today’s topic with Associate Director Cary Oshins of the US Composting Council. And we’ll talk about... Read More ›

00:26:31

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 4,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/10/04

I’m always looking for more places to tuck native plantings, and my current mission is along my property edges, where I’m adding a more complex layer of shrubs and small trees adjacent to the big old canopy-level ones to increase... Read More ›

00:26:06

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 27,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/09/27

I’ve been scouting around in my garden for orphaned plants, ones that used to be in visually pleasing clumps or masses, but because of expanding shade or a naughty vole or who knows what, aren’t looking as good as they... Read More ›

00:25:27

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 20,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/09/20

Today we’re going to get a lesson in winter sowing, sowing seeds in fall and early winter outside in a protected spot, a sort of easy DIY home nursery for making more plants. What we’ll learn to propagate that way... Read More ›

00:25:41

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 13,...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2021/09/13

The days are getting shorter, and in my Northern garden, they’re growing cooler, too. I know my houseplants will be screaming soon to come back inside, and then screaming all winter about the less-than-ideal conditions I’m offering, and how they’d... Read More ›

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