Rodney Eason on Auditing Your Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 24, 2024

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Rodney Eason on Auditing Your Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 24, 2024

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Nobody wants to get the IRS notice in the mail that they’re being audited, heaven forbid. But when it comes to gardens, Rodney Eason believes that the occasional audit is a very positive process, and encourages us to perform one... Read More ›

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Florapedia With Carol Gracie – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach April 19, 2021: There’s the so-called language of flowers, as in the symbolism or sentiment attributed to a rose versus a pansy or a daisy. And then there’s the actual language of flowers in botany, as in what’s a sepal or a tepal... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Wasps With Eric Eaton – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach May 10, 2021: I just read a book that filled me with wonder and awe. Now, would it startle you to hear that it was a book about wasps? Don’t cringe and turn away; listen as I talk to entomologist Eric Eaton,... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Brassicas With Steve Bellavia – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach April 12, 2021: They’re among the most popular and good-for-you vegetables, but brassicas—broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and the like—can also be a little tricky to grow unless you start with the right variety, get the timing right, and have a pr by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Ecological Landscaping With Rebecca McMackin – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach April 26, 2021: I watched a Zoom lecture the other day that really put into words a lot of the ways my own deepening understanding of ecology is shaking up the way I practice horticulture—from spring cleanup, right on to the last... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Tropicals With Marianne Willburn-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach July 19, 2021: I was at the local garden center the other day, when a truck full of tropical plants was being unloaded. And in the heat of a summer day, they looked like just the right choice to bring home to liven... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Shrub Propagation With Ken Druse – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach June 14, 2021: Today we’re going to do some multiplication, as in: make more shrubs, thanks to a lesson in propagating favorites like Hydrangea or elderberry or Physocarpus and more, courtesy of our friend and regular guest, Ken Druse. Ready to learn the... Read by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Design Tweaks With David Culp-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach November 8, 2021: 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 some: layers of color, texture by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Horticultural Vinegar With Noelle Orloff – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – July 9, 2021: In a recent industry newsletter, I saw a link to a story about the herbicide called horticultural vinegar, and clicked on it. And then, realizing how little I knew about this product that I see prominently displayed in every garden... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Monkey Puzzle Tree With Nate Kleinman – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach June 28, 2021: I have a fascination for seeds of unusual edibles from around the world, and the other day on Instagram, I saw maybe the oddest one of all: What about growing a monkey puzzle tree from Chile from seed? And who... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Asparagus With Ali Stafford – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach May 17, 2021: One dimension of my friendship with today’s guest is a years-long ongoing barter. She shares her cooking expertise with me and my extended family, and I give Alexandra Stafford and her husband gardening advice. It’s a pretty sweet deal,... by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 20, 2021 – Heather McCargo on Natives From Seed: Today were going to get a lesson in winter sowing, sowing seeds in fall and early winter outside in a protected spot, a sort of easy DIY home nursery for making more plants. What well learn to propagate that way are specifically seeds of native plants—bo by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Small Trees With Bruce Crawford-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach June 7, 2021: Looking around the garden as some of spring’s show off shrubs and perennials fade, I realized how glad I am that I made room for some garden-sized trees too. Not too big and not too small, and the best... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Natural Communities With Patrick McMillan – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach July 5, 2021: I’ve been looking forward to connecting with Patrick McMillan, who last October took over as director of the exceptional plant collection and astonishing landscape that is Heronswood Garden in Kingston, Washington. Besides wanting to know what&# by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Radicchio and More With Brian Campbell – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach June 21, 2021: A story I wrote recently for my “New York Times” column took me on a fascinating, deep dive into the world of radicchio and put me back in touch with today’s guest, organic seed farmer Brian Campbell of Uprising Seeds. ... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Heirloom Gardening With John Forti – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach November 1, 2021: 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 Fortis latest book is about much more, a by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Oaks with Doug Tallamy – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – April 5, 2021: Every time over the years that I’ve spoken to today’s guest, one word comes up: oak. If entomologist and University of Delaware Professor Doug Tallamy sounds a little fixated on native oaks, it’s because they are the most powerful plant by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 4, 2021 – Marc Wolf on Native Shrubs: Im always looking for more places to tuck native plantings, and my current mission is along my property edges, where Im adding a more complex layer of shrubs and small trees adjacent to the big old canopy-level ones to increase habitat for beneficial ins by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Around the World in 80 Plants With Jon Drori – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach May 31, 2021: Environmentalist and best-selling author, Jonathan Drori, says that for him, plant science is fascinating, but it’s truly enlivened when it’s entwined with human history and culture. In his new book, “Around the World in 80 Plants,” the follo by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Vegetable Diseases With Meg McGrath – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach August 30, 2021: Here’s how my head, which is always lost in the garden, I guess, works: The first thing I thought about when the pandemic started—when we got news of a new pathogen in the world—was how many plant pathogens I’ve written... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Trilliums With Uli Lorimer – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach May 3, 2021: It’s Trillium Week the first week of May at Garden In The Woods, the headquarters of Native Plant Trust in Framingham, Massachusetts, the nation’s oldest plant conservation organization with more than a century of history. Well, with a little by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Mint Relatives With Ken Druse-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach July 26, 2021: Don’t answer this question too quickly; take your time and think it over. How many mints are you growing in your garden? When Ken Druse suggested the other day to me that we talk about mints on the show. I... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Propagating Ferns With Uli Lorimer-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach August 2, 2021: By the time we hit August, some plants in the garden are a little beat up—or have at least needed deadheading, or even wholesale cutting back, perhaps. As delicate as they might look texturally from the moment of their first... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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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 Valley of New York Sta by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Birdpedia With Chris Leahy – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach July 12, 2021: How many bird species are there in the world and how many individual birds? And how do you even try to count?  Do bird sweat, and how is their eyesight or sense of smell? What makes some eggs solid blue... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Texture and Variegation With Ken Druse – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach August 16, 2021: Texture and Variegation With Ken Druse – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – August 16, 2021 Ken Druse called the other day to say that he and his garden have the August lulls. The sort of annual... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Outdoor Treasure Hunt With Ken Druse – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach May 24, 2021: Ken Druse and I are putting a new spin on weeding by giving it a new name: treasure hunting. Maybe the incessant, relentless nature of all those naughty things that keep popping up around the garden beds will be softened... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 11, 2021 – Cary Oshins on Composting Tips: Have you made room in the compost heap for all that incoming organic material about to be created during your fall cleanup? Compost is todays topic with Associate Director Cary Oshins of the US Composting Council. And well talk about everything fro by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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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, he said, using the by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Caterpillar Clinic With Julie Janoski – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – September 6, 2021: Todays guest answers even more Urgent Garden Questions each year than I do, in her role as plant clinic manager at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois—including lots each summer and fall about caterpillars galore, from bagworms to gypsy moths and fal by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 27, 2021 – Ken Druse on Dividing Perennials: Ive been scouting around in my garden for orphaned plants, ones that used to be in visually pleasing clumps or masses, but because of expanding shade or a naughty vole or who knows what, arent looking as good as they used to. Over in New Jersey, Ken Drus by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Prairie Plants With Neil Diboll – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – June 3, 2024: Interest and awareness around native plants has been trending in recent years, and it makes them almost feel new. But of course natives are the original plants of an area—and even in certain specialty corners of the nursery industry they... Read More &#8 by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 27, 2024 – Basil Camu on Supporting Trees: Most people call in an arborist when they think it’s time for a tree to be removed—a costly process both financially and environmentally, since trees are critical drivers of diversity. Today’s guest runs a tree-care company and also a tree-focused... Rea by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Apiary Studio on Regenerative Landscaping – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 20, 2024: Landscape design may be part of the green industry, but sometimes rethinking a garden space, or creating a garden where there didn’t used to be one, can create a lot of very un-green waste material—especially true when you’re designing in... Read More &# by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Peter Zale on Native Orchids – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 13, 2024: Today’s topic is orchids, but not the ones you might be growing as a flowering houseplant. Our subject is native terrestrial types that are more often than not under great pressure in the wild, their numbers dwindling.  Now, thanks to... Read by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Rodney Eason on Auditing Your Garden – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 24, 2024

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