MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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A WAY TO GARDEN is the horticultural incarnation of Margaret Roach

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Becoming a successful vegetable gardener involves a lot of trial and error. As the seasons pass we hopefully get better at it—harvesting not just food for the table, but food for thought too, insights gleaned along the way to guide ...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN episodes:

09.26.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 26, 2022 – Joe Lamp’l on Vegetable Success Becoming a successful vegetable gardener involves a lot of trial and error. As the seasons pass we hopefully get better at it—harvesting not just food for the table, but food for thought too, insights gleaned along the way to guide ...
09.19.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 19, 2022 – Mark Richardson on Historic Apples A collection of historic apples that was threatened by disease is having a second act at the New England Botanic Garden at Tower Hill in Boylston, Mass., where a three-year-long restoration of their orchard of 119 antique varieties has just ...
09.12.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 12, 2022 – Cornell Climate Change Garden In emails received from many parts of the country, I’m hearing gardeners say the same thing: This year has been really hard. Count me in on those voicing that sentiment. Gardeners know first-hand that climate change isn’t something in the ...
09.05.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 5, 2022 – Ken Druse on Seed Saving Maybe like I do, you always mean to be better at seed saving, and it gets away from you. Well, right now is the perfect time with pen and paper or your cell phone in hand for making a list ...
08.29.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 29, 2022 – Andy Brand on Beauty in Details Ecological horticulturist Andy Brand can't help himself. He just has to look closely at everything outdoors: every plant, every insect, every process that's unfolding. And he has to take camera phone pictures, too—lots and lots of pictures. These up-close observations ...
08.22.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 22, 2022 – Crevice Gardening I’ve never had a rock garden, I confess. But a new book about a modern and extreme form of the art caught my attention recently. It’s called “The Crevice Garden: How to Make the Perfect Home for Plants from Rocky ...
08.15.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 15, 2022 – Jenny Rose Carey on Flowers for Hot Dry Spots Hot and dry: That’s the lament of gardeners in most regions in high summer, and also of many plants in their flower gardens. The author of a new book called “The Ultimate Flower Gardener’s Guide” is here to suggest which ...
08.08.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 8, 2022 – Craig LeHoullier on Tomato Troubles I call the phenomenon tomato troubles. You know, the yellow-spotted foliage that falls off, or the plant that produces all those misshapen fruits and yes, the attack of the hornworms, too, when you wake up to a lot of missing ...
08.01.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 1, 2022 – Ken Druse on Shade Solutions I recently hosted a shade-gardening webinar featuring my friend, Ken Druse. The enthusiastic registration and the outpouring of audience questions that evening reminded me how popular a topic shade is, especially the challenge of dry shade, so I asked Ken ...
07.25.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 25, 2022 – Alan Branhagen on Natives I’ve been undertaking more native-plant-focused garden transformations in recent years, as I know many of you listening have, too. Today’s guest is a naturalist with a background in landscape architecture who’s been making wildish gardens for decades, both at home ...
07.18.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 18, 2022 – Ali Stafford on Summer Squash You know how the vegetable garden goes. One day, there are just two green beans ready to pick, and then there are 62 all at once. Famine and then feast. Some of that can be moderated by growing different varieties ...
07.11.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 11, 2022 – Angela Sirois-Pitel on Stiltgrass If you think that managing invasive plants in a garden is a challenge, imagine that on a larger scale—a much larger scale, like Angela Sirois-Pitel faces in the name of supporting native habitat on Nature Conservancy land. From barberries and ...
07.04.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 4, 2022 – Hortus Arboretum on Native Fruits More than 20 years ago, artists Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano started a botanical garden in the backyard of their Hudson Valley, New York, home. Today, the Hortus Arboretum and Botanical Gardens has grown to 11 acres of diverse collections. ...
06.27.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 27, 2022 – Dan Wilder on Rethinking Lawn The lecture that he's been giving for a number of years is not so subtly called “Kill our Lawn.” Ecological horticulturist Dan Wilder knows that starting over and creating an entire native habitat instead of a lawn isn't for everyone. ...
06.20.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 20, 2022 – Ken Druse on Surprise Plants Today’s show is all about surprises—and the first one is my guest. He’s back: My old friend Ken Druse is here after too many months of absence, and our subject is the surprises our gardens have offered so far this ...
06.13.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 13, 2022 – Wes Knapp on Taking Stock of Natives While researching a story about the endangered status of native trillium in North America recently, I was happy to meet today’s guest, botanist Wesley Knapp. Our trillium conversations got me thinking about how headlines like the trillium one, highlighting reports ...
06.06.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 6, 2022 – Felicia Keesing on Ticks How are we doing in the effort to reduce tick encounters, and the diseases that ticks carry and can transmit to humans? The results from a multi-year study in Dutchess County, New York, one of the areas in the United ...
05.30.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 30, 2022 – Sy Montgomery on Hawks Today's guest, author Sy Montgomery, writes that “we are on the cusp of either destroying the sweet green earth, or revolutionizing the way we understand the rest of animate creation. “It's an important time to be writing about the connections ...
05.23.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 23, 2022 – Bill Fonteno on Mulch I get a lot of questions every year about mulch, about how to use it, when to use it, which kind to use. And today we'll talk about all that, but also even more important about what goes on in ...
05.16.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 16, 2022 – Uli Lorimer on Native Annuals With the explosion of interest in native plants in recent years, I know I'm not alone among gardeners who are scouring catalogs and specialty nurseries, looking for the right native to match every garden purpose, from trees on down to ...
05.09.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 9, 2022 – Jeff Epping on Gravel Gardens Today, we're going to do some gravel gardening—not merely applying a thin mulch-like top dressing of gravel to a garden bed, but planting right into a deliberate foundation of 4 or 5 inches of gravel. My guest is Jeff Epping, ...
05.02.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 2, 2022 – Kenny Coogan on Carnivorous Plants Have you ever grown a carnivorous plant—a Venus flytrap or sundew or pitcher plant, perhaps? I bet even a lot of keen gardeners haven't. Today's guest is going to encourage us to change that and maybe, as a start, adopt ...
04.25.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 25, 2022 – Amy Highland on Trilliums I’m thinking about Trilliums – prompted not just because these treasured spring ephemerals are coming into their season, but by the disturbing news in a report just published that found that 32 percent of all North American Trillium species or ...
04.18.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 18, 2022 – Justin Chapple on Seasonal Recipes Finally, the first fresh flavors of spring are starting to show up at the farmer's markets, and before long in our gardens, with more to come every unfolding week. Chef and cookbook author Justin Chapple, who's also the “Food & ...
04.11.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 11, 2022 – Daria McKelvey on Plants of Merit Even though I don't live anywhere near St. Louis, one of my most used and appreciated resources for plant information over many, many years has been the Missouri Botanical Garden, with its world-class offerings to gardeners both in person and ...
04.04.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 4, 2022 – Annie Novak on Soil and Compost Do I need a soil test? And what kind of amendments should I be adding to my vegetable beds or containers to get things off to a good start? And how can I fine tune my composting this year to ...
03.28.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 28, 2022 – Sam Keitch on Umbels I thought my obsession with Angelica blooms was a serious one until recently, when I met Sam Keitch of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, who takes it one step further. Sam has a passion for various other garden-worthy, umbel-shaped flowers—not just ...
03.21.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 21, 2022 – Stay Fit While Gardening What's your most important gardening tool? A new public television series reminds us that it's not a trowel or pruner or spade, but our body, which can also be stressed by gardening if we don't know how to look after ...
03.14.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 14, 2022 – Meg Cowden on Succession Planting In late winter, we gardeners rev up around sowing those first seeds indoors under lights. But the promise of a bountiful vegetable garden that keeps on giving doesn't end there. Now is also the moment to make succession-sowing plans for ...
03.07.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 7, 2022 – Brian Jackson on Peat Alternatives Gardeners have increasingly heard the call to reduce or eliminate their use of peat moss, the most familiar ingredient in seed-starting mixes and potting soils—one that a lot of us have long relied on. But peat is not sustainable, and ...
02.28.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 28, 2022 – Craig LeHoullier on Tomatoes Sick of winter? What I find helps, besides the occasional warmish, sunny day, is thinking about tomatoes. And that's what we're going to do today with Craig LeHoullier, author of the hit 2014 book “Epic Tomatoes,” who has over the ...
02.21.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 21, 2022 – Brad Roeller on Deer While most of us focus on keeping deer from browsing our gardens, Brad Roeller actually once managed what was called a Deer Browse Garden as part of a 10-year research study to learn more about what these big herbivores do, ...
02.14.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 14, 2022 – James Golden’s Wild Garden There's an old expression in gardening, a folksy piece of advice that states: "Don't fight the site." James Golden has been guided by a more nuanced version of that idea in creating a much praised garden, a wildish, unexpected landscape ...
02.07.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 7, 2022 – Sam Hoadley on Native Hydrangeas It's hard to name another genus of shrub that's more beloved by gardeners than Hydrangea. But with the overwhelming popularity of Asian species, like the big blue mop heads and summer into fall Hydrangea paniculata types, where do hydrangeas fit ...
01.31.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 31, 2022 – Christian Allyn on Invasives When I saw news of an upcoming webinar about invasive plants listed on the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society's website, I knew I wanted to sign up and listen in. And also that I wanted to talk to the presenter, who founded ...
01.24.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 24, 2022 – Owen Taylor on Ancestral Seeds 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. ...
01.17.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 17, 2022 – Ken Druse on Shade Garden Advice 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 ...
01.10.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 10, 2022 – Ali Stafford on Latest Cookbooks 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 ...
01.03.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 3, 2022 – Jenks Farmer on Crinum Lilies 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 ...
12.27.2021 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 27, 2021 – Missouri Botanical on Fraser Fir "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 ...
12.20.2021 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 20, 2021 – Joe Lampl on Lessons Learned 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 ...
12.13.2021 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 13, 2021 – Ken Druse on Garden Gifts 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 ...
12.06.2021 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 6, 2021 – Patricia Buzo on Terrariums 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 ...
11.29.2021 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 29, 2021 – Jessica Allen on Lichens 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 ...
11.22.2021 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 22, 2021 – Marta McDowell on a Secret Garden 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 ...
11.15.2021 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 15, 2021 – Ken Druse on Last Fall Chores 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 ...
11.08.2021 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 8, 2021 – David Culp on Design Tweaks 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 ...
11.01.2021 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 1, 2021 – John Forti on Heirloom Gardening 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 ...
10.25.2021 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 25, 2021 – Lee Reich on Fall Prep 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 ...
10.18.2021 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 18, 2021 – Ken Druse on Monocots "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," ...

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MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN episodes:

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 26, 2022 – Joe Lamp’l on Vegetable Success

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 19, 2022 – Mark Richardson on Historic Apples

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 12, 2022 – Cornell Climate Change Garden

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 5, 2022 – Ken Druse on Seed Saving

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 29, 2022 – Andy Brand on Beauty in Details

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 22, 2022 – Crevice Gardening

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 15, 2022 – Jenny Rose Carey on Flowers for Hot Dry Spots

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 8, 2022 – Craig LeHoullier on Tomato Troubles

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 1, 2022 – Ken Druse on Shade Solutions

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 25, 2022 – Alan Branhagen on Natives

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 18, 2022 – Ali Stafford on Summer Squash

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 11, 2022 – Angela Sirois-Pitel on Stiltgrass

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 4, 2022 – Hortus Arboretum on Native Fruits

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 27, 2022 – Dan Wilder on Rethinking Lawn

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 20, 2022 – Ken Druse on Surprise Plants

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 13, 2022 – Wes Knapp on Taking Stock of Natives

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 6, 2022 – Felicia Keesing on Ticks

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 30, 2022 – Sy Montgomery on Hawks

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 23, 2022 – Bill Fonteno on Mulch

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 16, 2022 – Uli Lorimer on Native Annuals

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 9, 2022 – Jeff Epping on Gravel Gardens

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 2, 2022 – Kenny Coogan on Carnivorous Plants

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 25, 2022 – Amy Highland on Trilliums

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 18, 2022 – Justin Chapple on Seasonal Recipes

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 11, 2022 – Daria McKelvey on Plants of Merit

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 4, 2022 – Annie Novak on Soil and Compost

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 28, 2022 – Sam Keitch on Umbels

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 21, 2022 – Stay Fit While Gardening

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 14, 2022 – Meg Cowden on Succession Planting

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 7, 2022 – Brian Jackson on Peat Alternatives

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 28, 2022 – Craig LeHoullier on Tomatoes

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 21, 2022 – Brad Roeller on Deer

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 14, 2022 – James Golden’s Wild Garden

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 7, 2022 – Sam Hoadley on Native Hydrangeas

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 31, 2022 – Christian Allyn on Invasives

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 24, 2022 – Owen Taylor on Ancestral Seeds

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 17, 2022 – Ken Druse on Shade Garden Advice

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 10, 2022 – Ali Stafford on Latest Cookbooks

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 3, 2022 – Jenks Farmer on Crinum Lilies

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 27, 2021 – Missouri Botanical on Fraser Fir

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 20, 2021 – Joe Lampl on Lessons Learned

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 13, 2021 – Ken Druse on Garden Gifts

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 6, 2021 – Patricia Buzo on Terrariums

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 29, 2021 – Jessica Allen on Lichens

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 22, 2021 – Marta McDowell on a Secret Garden

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 15, 2021 – Ken Druse on Last Fall Chores

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 8, 2021 – David Culp on Design Tweaks

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 1, 2021 – John Forti on Heirloom Gardening

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 25, 2021 – Lee Reich on Fall Prep

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 18, 2021 – Ken Druse on Monocots