MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Joan Strassmann on a Birding Journal – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oc. 14, 2024 Oct 11, 2024

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It was almost two years ago to the day when today’s guest, Joan Strassmann, last visited me on the show, right around the time her book “Slow Birding” was released. Now, as then, I’ve seen what are pretty much my... Read More ›

Tim Johnson on Native Seeds – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 7, 2024 Oct 04, 2024

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When I read the other day that Native Plant Trust, the nonprofit plant conservation organization in New England, had successfully raised the money to complete the endowment fund needed to save its region’s most imperiled native plants in a seed... Read More ›

Daniel Weitoish on Managing Invasives – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 30, 2024 Sep 27, 2024

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Increasingly in recent years, my garden “weeds” include more and more tenacious opponents – and the landscape along the roadsides nearby and pretty much everywhere I drive is one of hedgerows formed of a tangle of non-native shrubs and vines.... Read More ›

Preston Montague on Ecological Landscaping – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 23, 2024 Sep 20, 2024

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If you have ever tried creating, and then caring for, a habitat-style garden with native plants … well, let’s just say it’s not exactly the same thing as combining a group of hostas with some astilbes an a couple of... Read More ›

Jared Rosenbaum on Native Plant Stories – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 16, 2024 Sep 13, 2024

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“Plants tell the story of a place,” says field botanist and native plant nursery owner Jared Rosenbaum. “If you want to be rooted on the earth you live on, you can look to plants to interpret that story.” With his... Read More ›

Real Organic Project on Soil-Supporting Advice – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 9, 2024 Sep 06, 2024

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Organic farming and gardening have always been based on the principle of “feed the soil, not the plant.” In a recent interview, I got some expert advice for doing that, and also learn why our diligent soil-consciousness matters so much,... Read More ›

Ken Druse on Bulb Shopping and Dividing – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 26, 2024 Aug 22, 2024

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Have you done your bulb shopping yet? It’s ordering time—both for fall-blooming treats like Colchicum, which you can only buy now if you hurry, and for the ever-wider assortment of fall-planted, spring-into-summer blooming species. Ken Druse and I both have... Read More ›

Matt Mattus on Holiday Cactus – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 19, 2024 Aug 16, 2024

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I was scrolling through Instagram the other day – yes, sometimes I just cannot help myself – when I saw a post by Matt Mattus about Christmas cactus. Even though it was still high summer, it made me long for... Read More ›

Daniel Weitoish on Extreme Weather – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 12, 2024 Aug 09, 2024

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I suspect I’m not alone when I say that weather extremes in recent growing seasons have made me feel a bit like a stranger in a strange land in my own garden—wondering what will bloom when, and when to do... Read More ›

Carly Still on Medieval Herbs – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Aug 5, 2024 Aug 02, 2024

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When most of us think of growing herbs each spring, what we probably put into our shopping cart, whether from online seed catalogs or at the garden center, are the culinary must-haves: the basil, the parsley, the dill and such. ... Read More ›

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