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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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00:28:31

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

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

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...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

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...

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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...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

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 ›

00:27:36

Ross Gay on the Garden’s Delights – A Way to Garden...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/09/22

The words joy and delight figure prominently in writer Ross Gay’s work – and so do moments he spends in his garden, and descriptions of his relationship to plants. Is that a coincidence — that the garden is a main character... Read More ›

00:26:42

Marianne Willburn on Overwintering Tropicals – A Way...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/09/15

It’s not time quite yet for what I call the mad stash – storing those non-hardy plants for the winter that we wish to keep alive for another year of service – but it is time to make some plans... Read More ›

00:26:53

Brad Herrick on Jumping Worms – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/09/08

The question “What do I do about the Asian jumping worms that are destroying my soil?” has outpaced what was the most common thing I was asked year in and out for decades as a garden writer—the relatively simple challenge... Read More ›

00:26:56

Linda Lipsen on Pressed Plants – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/08/24

I saw news of a new book called “Pressed Plants” recently, and it got me thinking about my grandmother, and one of the many crafts she enjoyed way back when. Grandma made what she called “pressed flower pictures,” bits of... Read More ›

00:26:58

Claudia West on Immersive Landscapes – A Way to...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/08/17

Maybe seven or eight years ago, in a conversation with landscape designer Claudia West, she said a sentence that has really stuck with me, as she explained her approach to selecting and combining plants. “Plants are the mulch,” Claudia said... Read More ›

00:25:44

Michael Judd on Food Forests – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/08/09

The term food forest, from the permaculture world, sounds big—like if I suggested you start one, you’d probably say, “I don’t have room for a forest of any kind.” But today’s guest bets that most of us who garden have room... Read More ›

00:27:35

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

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/08/04

I saw a video reel on social media the other day of a harvest of shallots, and it made me realize that I haven’t grown those delicious little Allium bulbs in forever—and who knows why. The harvest video was on... Read More ›

00:26:40

Craig LeHoullier on Ripe Tomatoes – A Way to Garden...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/07/26

Around this time each summer I look forward to the onslaught of fresh tomatoes—while at the same time hoping against hope that what I call “tomato troubles” don’t reveal themselves and get the upper hand. I’ve been hearing from lots... Read More ›

00:27:48

Ken Druse on Lost Plants – A Way to Garden with...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/07/19

We gardeners all know the experience of loss: of plants that don’t make it, for one reason or another—from a tomato felled by disease in a too-humid summer to a venerable old tree taken out by a nasty winter storm.... Read More ›

00:27:01

Harnek Singh on Succulent Stars – A Way to Garden...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN ·

2023/07/12

Succulents: You probably already grow some perennial ones in your garden, and perhaps others that aren’t hardy are among your favorite houseplants. But what if some of those indoor types started playing seasonal roles in the garden, too? That’s what... Read More ›

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