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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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00:28:11

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

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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...

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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...

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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 ›

00:28:31

New USDA Hardiness Zone Map – A Way to Garden with...

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2023/12/08

You no doubt have seen news that the USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map was just updated, and that half the country once again got reclassified a half-zone warmer—just as many of us did after the previous update of the map,... Read More ›

00:27:50

Seed Shopping with Turtle Tree – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/12/01

Let the seed-shopping season begin! The 2024 offerings are being loaded into seed-catalog websites, and the earliest print catalogs are already arriving in our mailboxes, as if to help soften the separation anxiety we may feel if we’ve already put... Read More ›

00:28:02

‘Gardening Can Be Murder’ Book – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/11/17

I don’t think I’ve read a mystery novel since the “Nancy Drew” books of my long-ago childhood, though I will confess to having watched more than a few who-done-it TV series over the years, most of them from the BBC. ... Read More ›

00:28:05

Eric Lee-Mader on Milkweeds – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/11/10

Most of us may automatically think “monarch” after hearing the word “milkweed,” or vice versa. And that’s in fact a critical and intimate relationship, the one between monarch butterflies and native milkweed plants. But the genus Asclepias offers sustenance to... Read More ›

00:27:40

Ken Druse on Fall Cleanup – A Way to Garden with...

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2023/11/03

Yes, it’s time or almost time to do some raking, and to dig the dahlias to stash – time to perform the rounds of the so-called “fall cleanup” and put the garden to bed. But today Ken Druse and I want... Read More ›

00:26:52

Byron Martin on Citrus Houseplants – A Way to Garden...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/10/27

Are any of your houseplants edible? A new book by the owners of the beloved rare plant business called Logee’s Greenhouses suggests that we make room for some delicious candidates among our potted indoor plants, including a range of citrus.... Read More ›

00:27:06

Cornell’s Natural Lawn – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/10/20

Reducing the footprint of our lawns has been a key environmental message for gardeners in recent years, since lawns lack biodiversity, and involve huge amounts of pollution between fertilizers, herbicides and the gas used in mowing. But what to cultivate... Read More ›

00:27:50

Brandywine Valley du Pont Gardens – A Way to Garden...

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2023/10/13

It’s hard to think of another place so rich with major gardens as the Brandywine Valley in Chester County, Pennsylvania, and an adjacent portion of Delaware. Five of those gardens have a historic connection—a family connection—as they were all by... Read More ›

00:28:08

The Wild-ish Garden of Margaret Renkl – A Way to...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/10/06

My how times have changed. That’s what I keep thinking looking around my own garden in recent years, and I’ve been struck by the same thought over and over as I read “The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year,” the... Read More ›

00:26:25

The Real Organic Project – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/09/29

When you shop for food—whether produce or meat or eggs—and see a label that says “organic,” what do you think that means? At its most fundamental level, I guess I always thought it meant vegetables grown on the fields of... Read More ›

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