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Named a "top-5 garden podcast" by The Guardian newspaper, A Way to Garden is hosted by Margaret Roach, one of America's best-known garden writers. The show, produced by NPR affiliate Robin Hood Radio, covers organic gardening, garden-to-table cooking and nature topics, featuring top experts in a lively interview format, from horticulturists, garden designers, plant breeders and nursery owners to top cookbook authors, plus bird and insect experts and more.

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Weed Control with Duncan Hi...

10.31.2020

“There’s always a weed out there, no matter when.” That’s what today’s guest, education manager Duncan Himmelman of Mt. Cuba native plant center in Delaware, said the other day to me on the phone. And that means now, even as... ...

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10.31.2020 Weed Control with Duncan Himmelman-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach November 2 2020 “There’s always a weed out there, no matter when.” That’s what today’s guest, education manager Duncan Himmelman of Mt. Cuba native plant center in Delaware, said the other day to me on the phone. And that means now, even as... ...
10.24.2020 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 26, 2020 – Heather Holm on Bee- Friendly Gardens In a recent conversation with Doug Tallamy about ecologically minded fall cleanup, he raised the name of Heather Holm, and how some of the pollinator research she’s been part of lately is informing how he shifts his approach to... Read ...
10.17.2020 Ken Druse on Groundcovers- A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 19, 2020 What the word “groundcover” means has really changed in the years Ken Druse and I have been gardening. And I’ll admit right here, some of the choices that I made to do the job of covering the ground under... Read ...
10.10.2020 Julie Zickefoose on Bird Feeding – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 12, 2020 One of the ways many of us have been getting through the last few months is by taking comfort in the outdoors, in all that nature and the garden has to offer—by slowing down, looking around, and connecting. One person... ...
10.03.2020 Dennis Schrader on Overwintering Tropicals – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 3, 2020 I think of them as investment plants, plants that might not be hardy where I garden, but that with a little extra work and the right strategy can be carried over year to year, even without a greenhouse or the... ...
10.03.2020 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 5, 2020 – Doug Tallamy on Ecological Fall Cleanup When I last talked to Doug Tallamy in February around the publication date of his latest book, “Nature’s Best Hope,” I didn’t want to go on and on about the advice in it about smart fall cleanup, which is... Read ...
09.26.2020 Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 28, 2020 – “Uprooted,” a Book by Page Dickey The word “downsizing” was spoken more than once when Page Dickey and her husband were making plans a few years back to leave their beloved home and big old garden, called Duck Hill, in Westchester County, New York, for a... ...
09.18.2020 Marc Hachadourian on Houseplants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 21, 2020 Who are you going to tuck in with this fall and winter, as the garden starts to rest and we are all indoors more? Do you have any hand-me-down houseplants from a relative maybe, or plants that you bought that... ...
09.11.2020 Dan Hinkley on Making Windcliff Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 14, 2020 I have a running joke with today’s podcast guest, a joke I suspect thousands of other former customers just like me email him about regularly, too. Every spring cleanup I come up with more distinctive turquoise plastic labels in my... ...
09.04.2020 Ken Druse on Saving and Sowing Seed – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 7, 2020 Maybe you can feel it where you garden, too. A slight shift in the weather, which combined with shortening days, means summer is loosening its grip. It’s not fall yet. It’s not cleanup time, but what time is it... Read ...
08.28.2020 Jenny Elliott on Flowers for Drying – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 31, 2020 A reader emailed me not long ago, asking if I’d ever written a story or done a podcast about dried flowers—which ones to grow and how to dry them and so on. And no, I hadn’t, I had to admit,... ...
08.22.2020 Matt Mattus on Bulbs You Should Grow – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 24, 2020 I suspect that you each have several mail-order bulb catalogs on hand, and also that each catalog devotes page after page to gorgeous photos of Narcissus and tulips, often right up front. Don’t get me wrong, I love both of... ...
08.15.2020 Owen Wormser on Lawns Into Meadows – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 17, 2020 A new book came my way recently with a title that just said it all. “Lawns Into Meadows” is what it’s called, and its author, landscape designer Owen Wormser, gave me a short course on meadow-making in a recent conversation... ...
08.08.2020 Ken Druse on Rejuvenation and Propagation – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 10, 2020 Today’s show came out of a phone conversation that Ken Druse and I were having the other day, when I found myself confessing to him that I’d let things in my containers get, shall we say, a tad overgrown this... ...
07.31.2020 Ecology Lessons From Mt. Auburn Cemetery – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 3, 2020 Years ago, a friend who founded a botanic garden in Massachusetts took me to visit a landscape that he had long loved and admired. It was not just beautiful, but a designated National Historic Landmark—and one that was also a... ...
07.24.2020 Michael Balick on Poisonous Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 27, 2020 A surprising number of people ask me about whether this plant or that plant in my garden or theirs is poisonous. And so when I saw news from the New York Botanical Garden about a just-published, fully-updated edition of a... ...
07.18.2020 Ken Druse on Leaves First – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 20, 2020 Ken Druse and I both love leaves, and so do the naughty furbearing herbivores who have been visiting our gardens with a vengeance this season—but that’s another story. Today’s topic is leaves to love from the gardener’s point of view,... ...
07.10.2020 Niki Jabbour on Season Extending – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 13, 2020 Season Extending with Niki Jabbour – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 13, 2020 Longtime gardeners and first-timers went all out in this craziest of years, bringing the expression “victory garden” back into the headlines. We all... ...
07.04.2020 Uli Lorimer on Native Plants – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – July 6, 2020 As more gardeners shop for native plants each year, more plant descriptions in catalogs and on nursery labels use the blanket phrase “pollinator-friendly” to catch our attention. But is that the whole story behind each plant that’s so labeled, and... ...
06.28.2020 Reprise of Stephen Shunk on Woodpeckers (2016) – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 26, 2020 When I got my copy of the new “Peterson Reference Guide to Woodpeckers of North America,” I tracked down the author’s email address at once, and sent him a message: “I’m mad for woodpeckers,” I wrote, and Stephen Shunk wrote... ...
06.26.2020 Daryl Beyers on How to Water – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – June 29, 2020 Summer: It’s what I refer to as the season of dragging hoses, and for me at least this year, the fact that it seems to have stopped raining with any regularity or measurable impact is making it worse. This is... ...
06.20.2020 Adrian Higgins of the Washington Post – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – June 22, 2020 The world is shifting focus again now toward opening up this time, several months after much shutting down. But as we do, I for one hope we won’t turn too quickly away from awareness of the solace that the garden... ...
06.13.2020 Bill Noble on Garden Design – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 15, 2020 Garden designer Bill Noble starts his new book with this promise, “I’m going to tell you a story of the pleasures and challenges, both aesthetic and practical, of creating a garden that feels genuinely rooted to its place.” His book,... ...
06.05.2020 Carol Gracie on Summer Wildflowers – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 8, 2020 The beloved wildflowers of springtime—the trilliums, the mayapples, the Virginia bluebells—are probably gone till next year, but don’t despair. Here comes the next cast of players, the wildflowers of summer. The acclaimed naturalist Carol Gracie looks beyond their surface beauty... ...
05.29.2020 Ken Druse on Remembering Fallen Plants – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – June 1, 2020 I was crawling around weeding the other day and there it was, yet another turquoise colored plastic label I knew was from the original Heronswood Nursery near Seattle, which has been closed about 15 years. No plant, just a label.... ...
05.22.2020 David Sibley on Being a Bird – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 25, 2020 If you’re a bird person, as I am, you may feel as if you know today’s guest, because one of his field guides, illustrated with his artwork to help you figure out who’s who, is probably within reach at all... ...
05.15.2020 Craig LeHoullier on Tomato Success – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 18, 2020 Tomato Success With Craig LeHoullier – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – May 21, 2020 Every gardener has his or her own tomato secrets, tips, and tricks they’re sure will bring earliest fruit or the biggest harvest. Some... ...
05.08.2020 Ross Bayton on Botanical Latin – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – May 11, 2020 I’m grateful that when I began gardening, I fell in with a bunch of plant nerds who spoke not in common names but in botanical Latin, and turned me on to oddball mail-order nurseries whose entire lists were likewise... Read ...
05.01.2020 Ken Druse on Post-Spring Garden Tuneups – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 4, 2020 A famous gardener Ken Druse and I know often says this one-liner: “Anyone can do spring.” What he means is: and then what happens after that? What happens after the current tender colorful parade of beauty, with flowers everywhere and ...
04.24.2020 Brett DeGregorio on Amazing Bird Nests – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 27, 2020 I’m mad for birds, so much so, that I’ve been looking expectantly lately at the interactive migration maps on the BirdCast website and browsing reports coming in from ares to the south of me on eBird.com, wondering when my fair-weather,... ...
04.17.2020 Cooking with What You Have with Lukas Volger – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 20 2020 Cook With What You’ve Got with Lukas Volger – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 20, 2020 Just before things shifted in our world, I bought a new vegetarian cookbook called “Start Simple,” by Lukas Volger. Little... ...
04.10.2020 Dividing Perennials With Ken Druse – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 13, 2020 One of my favorite books by our friend Ken Druse is called “Making More Plants,” and though it’s about all kinds of propagation, Ken and I talked the other day about what is maybe the easiest way of all to... ...
04.03.2020 Jenny Elliott on Best Cut Flowers and Dahlias – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 6, 2020 Yes, yes, I know; you plan to grow the usual rows of zinnias, but what other among organic flower farmer Jenny Elliott’s must-grow list of cutting varieties do you have lined up and ready to sow, or have a source... ...
03.27.2020 Ken Greene on the Power of Seeds and Sunflowers – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – March 30, 2020 Seeds and Sunflowers: Before the weeks got darker, Ken Greene and I had planned a chat about a sunny subject: sunflowers. Ken is co-founder of Hudson Valley Seed Company and also of the nonprofit called Seedshed, and though he and... ...
03.20.2020 Ken Druse on Gardening as Refuge – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 23, 2020 Garden as Refuge: It’s Thursday, March 19th, 2020, as Ken Druse and I are taping this show from our respective homes via Skype. In my weekly newsletter last Sunday, I said I didn’t know just what to say, or how... ...
03.13.2020 Daryl Beyers on Composting 101 – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 16, 2020 Compost Smart: What’s your composting setup? Bin, tumbler or open pile—or maybe even an ingenious set of three pits in the ground? And most important, how is it working? More effective composting tactics, along with other timely advice to prepare... ...
03.11.2020 Weather with Pat Pagano – Wednesday March 11, 2020 YOUR FORECAST: TDY: PARTLY SUNNY –– MID 50S TNTE: CLOUDY – 30-35 THURS: PARTLY TO MOSTLY CLOUDY – 50 FRI: CLOUDY- PERIODS OF RAIN – 45-50 SAT: MAINLY SUNNY AND BREEZY – LOWER 50S WEATHER TRIVIA: 1962-RECORD HEAVY SNOWFALL IN ...
03.06.2020 Kim Eierman on Pollinator Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 9, 2020 Pollinator Gardens: One of the most common questions that garden centers and other garden professionals are asked these days: How can I add more pollinator plants? Kim Eierman designs ecological gardens with such beneficial insects in mind, and is the... ...
02.28.2020 Women in Horticulture with Jennifer Jewell – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 2, 2020 Women and Plants: I’m a woman who’s made a good portion of her career in the field of horticulture, specifically in the journalism end of the plant world. But until I read the new book “The Earth in Her Hands:... ...
02.21.2020 Native Plant Q&A with Ken Druse – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 24, 2020 Gardeners including myself want to add more, more, more native plants to their landscapes to support pollinators and birds and other native wildlife, but if our beds and borders are already established? Do we have to erase them and start... ...
02.14.2020 Rachel Hultengren on Seed Stories-A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 17, 2020 Seed Stories: Call me a seed nerd and I won’t mind because yes, I’m obsessed with where seed comes from and specifically how critical it is to support organic seed breeders and farmers with our seed-shopping dollars. I’m also drawn... ...
02.07.2020 Doug Tallamy on Nature’s Best Hope-A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 10, 2020 Doug Tallamy: “Nature’s Best Hope” is the title of University of Delaware professor Doug Tallamy’s new book, and the subtitle reads like this: “A New Approach to Conservation That Starts in Your Yard.” In other words, you and I are... ...
01.31.2020 Joe Lamp’l on Seed Starting Tips-A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 3, 2020 Seed Starting: What really matters when we start seeds? What tweaks to our process or our gear can actually move the needle from so-so results or worse to closer to pro? My friend Joe Lamp’l wondered that, too, and undertook... ...
01.24.2020 Mobee Weinstein on Ferns-A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 27, 2020 Indoor Ferns: I don’t know about you, but I’m drawn to ferns, to their primitive flowerless beauty, their diversity of foliar textures and shades of greenness, to their range of sizes from tiny to towering. And I want to invite... ...
01.17.2020 Nate Kleinman, Vegetable Breeder-A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 20, 2019 Perennial edibles: A lot of what I learned about gardening, I learned from seed catalogs, always gravitating to ones featuring the odder varieties the better—plants promising lots of both personality and productivity. So when I got introduced to the nonprofit... ...
01.10.2020 Lane Selman of Culinary Breeding Network-A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach January 13, 2019 Culinary Breeding Network: It’s seed-shopping time, time to kick off my annual Seed Series on the show and website, and introduce you—and myself—to plants both traditional and cutting-edge worth searching out to try in this year’s garden. Lane Selman, who ...
01.06.2020 Garden Music January 6 2020-A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach
01.06.2020 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Garden Music
01.02.2020 Bonus Top Tips From 2019-A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach(BONUS PODCAST) 2019 TOP TIPS: Another garden season is complete, and we’ve just passed the end of another year of the radio show and podcast, too, which I create each week to share with you, of course. But there is also a... ...
01.02.2020 Bird Migration Insights From 2019-A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 6, 2020 Though I mostly stay put these days, no longer inclined to move very far beyond my home range, apparently I’m intensely curious about the subject of bird migration, which came up in questions I asked during several favorite podcast interviews... ...

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