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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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00:28:05

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 16, 2024 –...

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2024/09/13

“Plants tell the story of a place,” says field botanist and native plant nursery owner Jared Rosenbaum. “If you want to be rooted on the earth you live on, you can look to plants to interpret that story.” With his... Read More ›

00:28:11

Soil-Supporting Advice, With the Real Organic Project...

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2024/09/06

Organic farming and gardening have always been based on the principle of “feed the soil, not the plant.” In a recent interview, I got some expert advice for doing that, and also learn why our diligent soil-consciousness matters so much,... Read More ›

00:28:43

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 19, 2024 –...

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2024/08/16

I was scrolling through Instagram the other day – yes, sometimes I just cannot help myself – when I saw a post by Matt Mattus about Christmas cactus. Even though it was still high summer, it made me long for... Read More ›

00:28:14

Medieval Herbs With Carly Still – A Way to Garden...

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2024/08/02

When most of us think of growing herbs each spring, what we probably put into our shopping cart, whether from online seed catalogs or at the garden center, are the culinary must-haves: the basil, the parsley, the dill and such. ... Read More ›

00:28:46

Audit Your Garden With Rodney Eason – A Way to Garden...

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2024/06/21

Nobody wants to get the IRS notice in the mail that they’re being audited, heaven forbid. But when it comes to gardens, Rodney Eason believes that the occasional audit is a very positive process, and encourages us to perform one... Read More ›

00:30:40

Neonic Dangers With Hardy Kern – A Way to Garden With...

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2024/06/07

I suspect every gardener has for years now, over and again, heard the warnings about the most widely used pesticides in the US, neonicotinoids – or neonics for short. In 2013 the American Bird Conservancy issued a report, warning of... Read More ›

00:27:54

Stephen Procter on Ceramic Garden Art – A Way to...

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2024/04/19

It’s that time of year when we gardeners are shopping, shopping, shopping, often in hot pursuit of just the right plant that will make the design of a bed or the larger landscape hang together—that elusive missing ingredient. But what... Read More ›

00:27:41

Hilton Carter on Propagating Houseplants – A Way to...

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2024/04/12

I for one have a number of houseplants that would look a whole lot better right now if given a pinch or two or three, plus I could potentially enjoy the benefit of more plants from those trimmings, whether to... Read More ›

00:28:52

Container Design With David Mattern – A Way to Garden...

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2024/03/22

Wait! Before you find yourself at the garden center grabbing up every irresistible thing that calls out to you, figuring you can somehow find a role for it in this season’s container designs, think again: What’s your plan for this year’s seasonal... Read More ›

00:28:33

Amsonias With Sam Hoadley – A Way to Garden With...

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2024/03/01

Early on in making my garden decades ago, I bought a nursery pot of bluestar, or Amsonia, at a native plant sale, and planted it in a border here. It has never asked anything of me, never had any pests... Read More ›

00:28:11

K Greene on Herbs – A Way to Garden with Margaret...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2024/02/23

When shopping the seed catalogs, I realize I’m probably more likely to consider a tomato or pepper I haven’t grown before, or some unusual annual flower, than to try some new-to-me herb. But what a shame. I need to modify that... Read More ›

00:27:56

Rebecca McMackin on the Native Movement – A Way to...

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2024/02/16

Maybe more than any other topic, the use of native plants has consistently figured among the top garden trends in recent years. Just how popular is the movement toward a more ecological focus in the way we design and care... Read More ›

00:28:38

Be a Better Bird Watcher – A Way to Garden with...

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2024/02/08

Watching birds lifts my spirits, as it has for decades, and who couldn’t use their spirits lifted right about now? But there’s another much bigger potential benefit, which is that sharing my sightings helps scientists understand what’s going on with... Read More ›

00:27:55

Don Tipping on Diversity of Zinnias – A Way to Garden...

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2024/02/02

What’s not to love about zinnias? Organic seed farmer and breeder Don Tipping of Siskiyou Seeds and I both vote an emphatic “yes” in favor of making zinnias a part of every garden year. But what goes into creating the... Read More ›

00:28:01

Nancy Lawson Asks Is Your Yard Undergrown? – A Way to...

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2024/01/26

As she often does, naturalist and nature writer Nancy Lawson—perhaps known better to some of you as the Humane Gardener after the title of her first book—caught my attention the other day. “My yard isn’t overgrown and neither is yours,”... Read More ›

00:27:42

David Culp on Snowdrops – A Way to Garden with...

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2024/01/19

David Culp is a self-professed Galanthophile—a lover, and passionate longtime collector, of snowdrops in all their various incarnations. He is also a host of the annual Galanthus Gala symposium, which happens the first weekend of March in Downingtown, Pa., and... Read More ›

00:28:11

Ken Druse on Seed Planning – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2024/01/12

If you think nothing’s on the to-do list in winter, fellow gardeners—that we’re all meant to be dormant like the cannas in the cellar and the herbaceous perennials outside in the flower beds—well, think again. Most of us in colder... Read More ›

00:27:28

Matt Mattus on Sweet Peas – A Way to Garden with...

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2024/01/05

Every year when I get to the sweet pea listings in the seed catalogs, I think this is the year, the year I’ll organize some supports in the garden for them, and indulge in their unmatched extravagance of color and... Read More ›

00:28:03

Uli Lorimer on Ecological Resolutions – A Way to...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/12/22

Like everyone around this time of year, I get into a “looking back while looking ahead” combined mindset. Today I want to do just that, but with a sort of ecological filter, taking stock of how things in the garden... Read More ›

00:28:23

Jennifer Jewell on Beloved Seed Catalogs – A Way to...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/12/15

Ho-ho-ho: It’s seed season, among other festive reasons to celebrate in December. Today I invited a similarly seed-obsessed friend, Jennifer Jewell, to help me curate some seed-catalog recommendations you might not otherwise browse, and to talk seeds in general. Jennifer’s... Read More ›

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