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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09.22.2023

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 ...

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN episodes:

09.22.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 25, 2023 – Ross Gay on the Garden’s Delights 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 ...
09.15.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 18, 2023 – Marianne Willburn on Overwintering Tropicals 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 ...
09.08.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 11, 2023 – Brad Herrick on Jumping Worms 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 ...
08.24.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 28, 2023 – Linda Lipsen on Pressed Plants 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 ...
08.17.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 21, 2023 – Claudia West on Immersive Landscapes 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 ...
08.09.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach -Aug. 14, 2023 – Michael Judd on Food Forests 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 ...
08.04.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 7, 2023 – K Greene on Shallots 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 ...
07.26.2023 Craig LeHoullier on Ripe Tomatoes – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 31, 2023 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 ...
07.19.2023 Ken Druse on Lost Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 24, 2023 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. ...
07.12.2023 Harnek Singh on Succulent Stars – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 19, 2023 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 ...
07.06.2023 Ethan Kauffman on Natives at Stoneleigh – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 10, 2023 Can a historic formal space become the home to a forward-thinking landscape of native plants? The team at Stoneleigh, a five-year-old public garden on an old estate in Villanova, Pennsylvania, says the answer is an emphatic yes, and their horticultural ...
06.27.2023 Erik Keller on the Garden as Therapy – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 3, 2023 No doubt all of you who are listening, all you gardeners, would agree that interacting with plants, and with nature, has a restorative benefit—that it has the undeniable power to lift us up and make us feel better. That idea—that ...
06.23.2023 Ken Druse on Summer Edits – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 26, 2023 Summer has just officially arrived ... and with it a whole new to-do list of tasks aimed at keeping the garden going in the best possible shape all season long. We’re succession sowing vegetables, of course, as the spinach and ...
06.13.2023 Noah Charney on Reading Your Land – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 19, 2023 How well do you really know the piece of land on which you live and garden, or the bigger landscape context it sits within—that forms your neighborhood, perhaps? A new book I’ve been reading called “These Trees Tell a Story: ...
06.08.2023 Nancy Lawson on Weed-Fighting Natives – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 12, 2023 When I spoke to naturalist and nature writer Nancy Lawson recently about her adventures in wildscaping at her Maryland garden, there was one topic in particular that I wanted to double back to, and dig in deeper: her tactics for ...
05.26.2023 Ken Druse on Primula From Seed – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 29, 2023 I was remarking to my friend Ken Druse earlier this spring about a garden I’d just visited, and how the stands of primulas in it made me jealous, and crave more more more. But only a few primrose varieties are ...
05.14.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 1, 2023 – Jenks Farmer on Pineapple Lilies I am crazy about pineapple lilies – bulbs in the genus Eucomis – and though in my Zone 5 garden they aren’t hardy, I can’t imagine a growing season without pots full of them. In his South Carolina garden and ...
05.04.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 8, 2023 – Frances Palmer on Dahlias Some of us plant a row or two of annuals for cutting, but Frances Palmer has taken the phrase “cutting garden” to the most delightful extreme. From the first spring bulbs to the final asters of fall, ceramic artist Frances ...
04.19.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 24, 2023 – Nancy Lawson on Wildscaping Our human-centric way of looking at things in the garden and tasting, hearing, seeing and touching things is just one person's opinion, and hardly represents the consensus of all the living creatures whose home it is. Today's guest is naturalist ...
04.12.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 17, 2023 – Owen Wormser on Meadows The time is approaching for my annual pass with the tractor through my little meadow on the hill above my house, the one time each year I really intervene in it, by mowing. Meadow making is an exercise in patience, ...
04.05.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 10, 2023 – Purdue Plant Doctor As a garden writer, I get a lot of questions every year basically asking this: What’s wrong with my (fill in the blank) plant? An accurate diagnosis is the critical first step before taking any corrective action...but how do gardeners ...
03.22.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 27, 2023 – Marianne Willburn on Tropical Edibles Marianne Willburn appreciates the bold and often vertical element that some favorite tropical plants add to her temperate garden. But maybe best of all are the ones that also provide that something extra: ingredients for cooking, which is her other ...
03.16.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 20 2023 – Ken Druse on Making More Plants The days are longer and the light is strengthening—triggers that don't just start to wake up our plants, indoors and out, but also get us gardeners going. The signals have my propagation-mad friend Ken Druse starting more seeds each week ...
03.08.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 13 2023 – Jim Nardi on the World of Trees Today’s guest says you can tell a lot about a tree by the company it keeps – from unseen microbes to fungi, countless insects and other arthropods, to vertebrates like birds, squirrels, and even porcupines. From soil life around their ...
03.04.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach March 6, 2023 – Karl Gercens on Houseplant Tuneups Could your houseplants use a tuneup after a hard winter indoors? I know mine will need it, from re-potting, to light pruning, to full scale rejuvenation in some cases, so I wanted to get expert advice. Today's guest has been ...
02.22.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 27, 2023 – Jared Barnes on Garden Trends Each year the powers that be in the horticulture industry declare what the trends are—what color is “in” and what design styles we’re all meant to adhere to, and what plant is hot—or not. Today’s guest and I beg to ...
02.20.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 20, 2023 – Ben Vogt on Natural Design . It’s probably the question I am asked most: Gardeners want to go wilder and use more native plants to create habitat. But how do they figure out which plants, since it’s not one size fits all regions, or even ...
02.03.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 6, 2023 – Bonnetta Adeeb on Ujamaa Seeds Like any gardener looking ahead to another growing season, I’m deep into the seed catalogs, dreaming of things to come. But many seeds also offer us a window to look back in time by telling us their stories, which are ...
01.28.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 30, 2023 – Charles Dowding on No-Till Gardening Promises of less work with more garden productivity often raise my suspicions, perhaps sounding too good to be true—except when the subject is no-dig gardening. The no-dig method of caring for our vegetable beds, which today's guest, Charles Dowding, has ...
01.19.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 23, 2023 – Jay Tracy on Crazy Cucumbers If you think you know what a cucumber is, think again. Spend even five minutes on the website of The Cucumber Shop, a passion project of today’s cucumber-mad guest Jay Tracy, and you will realize that you don’t. At all. ...
01.12.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 16, 2023 – Sam Hoadley on Sedges With the surge in interest in lawn alternatives and other native choices for groundcover, the genus Carex is always mentioned high up on the list. But which of these grass light perennials, most of them labeled as best suited to ...
01.04.2023 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 9, 2023 – Lane Selman on Seed Shopping Have you started browsing the incoming seed catalogs yet or clicking around their websites, looking to see if the 2023 lineups have been unveiled? Today's guest, Lane Selman is always on the lookout for exceptional varieties of edibles, particularly those ...
12.29.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 2, 2023 – Marc Hamer on a Garden Life It's that time of year when we look both ways. Not left and right, like we're crossing the road, but back and forward at the year just wound down, and ahead at the one coming into view. It's a moment ...
12.18.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 19, 2022 – Kathy Tracey on Botanical Holiday Cheer When shorter, colder days have us indoors more, a bit of botanical company can make it all a lot brighter. This edition of the podcast has suggestions for some winter solstice decorating, for bringing a bit of nature indoors for ...
12.08.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 12, 2022 – Julie Zickefoose on Safer Bird Feeding I put out my first bird feeder of the season on Thanksgiving and got the party started. But there's more to feeding the birds than just filling the feeders, like how to keep them safe in the age of increased ...
12.02.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 5, 2022 – Noel Kingsbury on Creative Maintenance If I say garden maintenance, you probably think of work—of getting out the pruners and hedge trimmers and such, and subduing any overenthusiastic plants, getting them back into bounds. But what if we thought of maintenance as an expression of ...
11.16.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 21, 2022 – Ken Druse on Fall and Winter Fragrance Winter cold has just finally descended here, and I am already missing the smells of the growing season—from the range of flowers to just brushing up against herbs out by the vegetable garden. Ken Druse is here today to encourage ...
11.10.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 14, 2022 – Lee Reich on Historic Fruit ‘Tis the season when I'm making more applesauce to freeze and baking pears for dessert (or for breakfast), so what sweeter topic for today's episode than fruit? Lee Reich, who has written several books on the subject, is here with ...
11.03.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach -November 7, 2022 – Jared Rosenbaum on Food Habitats In his new book, Wild Plant Culture, restoration ecologist Jared Rosenbaum says something provocative about gardening with native plants. "It's time to expand our vision past supporting birds, butterflies, and bees, and fully integrate the most challenging animal of all, ...
10.26.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 31, 2022 – Uli Lorimer on Eco Cleanup We’ve all heard the environmentally conscious advice: The way we used to clean up our gardens – extra-tidy, but to within an inch of its life for every unseen beneficial creature out there trying to tuck in for winter – ...
10.19.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 24, 2022 – Joan Strassman on Slow Birding A new book I’m reading emphasizes the word watching in the expression bird watching. As in: Don’t be in such a hurry to merely note that you’ve seen a bird, but instead really have a close look at what it’s ...
10.15.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 17, 2022 – Ken Druse on Plant Surprises One thing that Ken Druse and I are certain about when it comes to plants: that they will often surprise you, Some grow bigger or stay smaller than the catalog promised, and some are better- or worse-behaved, or tougher or ...
10.10.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 10, 2022 – Nick McCullough on Garden Design If I say “English garden,” you probably conjure a mental picture of colorful mixed borders and garden rooms enclosed by hedging. But what's the essence of an American garden? That was what a new book called “American Roots” set out ...
10.03.2022 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 3, 2022 – Charley Eiseman on Galls and Mines Since I took a walk with today’s guest about 10 years ago, I’ve adopted a whole different way of looking at what I might have once seen as imperfections in plants. Now when I spy a squiggle in a columbine ...
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 ...

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MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN episodes:

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 25, 2023 – Ross Gay on the Garden’s Delights

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 18, 2023 – Marianne Willburn on Overwintering Tropicals

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 11, 2023 – Brad Herrick on Jumping Worms

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 28, 2023 – Linda Lipsen on Pressed Plants

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 21, 2023 – Claudia West on Immersive Landscapes

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach -Aug. 14, 2023 – Michael Judd on Food Forests

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 7, 2023 – K Greene on Shallots

Craig LeHoullier on Ripe Tomatoes – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 31, 2023

Ken Druse on Lost Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 24, 2023

Harnek Singh on Succulent Stars – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 19, 2023

Ethan Kauffman on Natives at Stoneleigh – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 10, 2023

Erik Keller on the Garden as Therapy – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 3, 2023

Ken Druse on Summer Edits – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 26, 2023

Noah Charney on Reading Your Land – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 19, 2023

Nancy Lawson on Weed-Fighting Natives – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 12, 2023

Ken Druse on Primula From Seed – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 29, 2023

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 1, 2023 – Jenks Farmer on Pineapple Lilies

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 8, 2023 – Frances Palmer on Dahlias

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 24, 2023 – Nancy Lawson on Wildscaping

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 17, 2023 – Owen Wormser on Meadows

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 10, 2023 – Purdue Plant Doctor

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 27, 2023 – Marianne Willburn on Tropical Edibles

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 20 2023 – Ken Druse on Making More Plants

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 13 2023 – Jim Nardi on the World of Trees

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach March 6, 2023 – Karl Gercens on Houseplant Tuneups

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 27, 2023 – Jared Barnes on Garden Trends

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 20, 2023 – Ben Vogt on Natural Design

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – February 6, 2023 – Bonnetta Adeeb on Ujamaa Seeds

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 30, 2023 – Charles Dowding on No-Till Gardening

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 23, 2023 – Jay Tracy on Crazy Cucumbers

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 16, 2023 – Sam Hoadley on Sedges

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 9, 2023 – Lane Selman on Seed Shopping

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 2, 2023 – Marc Hamer on a Garden Life

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 19, 2022 – Kathy Tracey on Botanical Holiday Cheer

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 12, 2022 – Julie Zickefoose on Safer Bird Feeding

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 5, 2022 – Noel Kingsbury on Creative Maintenance

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 21, 2022 – Ken Druse on Fall and Winter Fragrance

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 14, 2022 – Lee Reich on Historic Fruit

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach -November 7, 2022 – Jared Rosenbaum on Food Habitats

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 31, 2022 – Uli Lorimer on Eco Cleanup

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 24, 2022 – Joan Strassman on Slow Birding

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 17, 2022 – Ken Druse on Plant Surprises

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 10, 2022 – Nick McCullough on Garden Design

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 3, 2022 – Charley Eiseman on Galls and Mines

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