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… Read More ›
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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,”… Read More ›
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 today’s topic with Associate Director Cary Oshins of the US Composting Council. And we’ll talk about… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 4, 2021 – Marc Wolf on Native Shrubs
I’m always looking for more places to tuck native plantings, and my current mission is along my property edges, where I’m adding a more complex layer of shrubs and small trees adjacent to the big old canopy-level ones to increase… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 27, 2021 – Ken Druse on Dividing Perennials
I’ve 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, aren’t looking as good as they… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 20, 2021 – Heather McCargo on Natives From Seed
Today we’re 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 we’ll learn to propagate that way… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 13, 2021 – Darryl Cheng on Light for Houseplants
The days are getting shorter, and in my Northern garden, they’re growing cooler, too. I know my houseplants will be screaming soon to come back inside, and then screaming all winter about the less-than-ideal conditions I’m offering, and how they’d… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 6, 2021 – Julie Janoski Gives a Caterpillar Clinic
Today’s 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… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 30, 2021 – Meg McGrath on Vegetable Diseases
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 ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – August 23, 2021 – Toshi Yano on Editing and Dividing Perennials
Maybe you, like I do, have certain perennial beds that could use editing and some particular plants that need dividing in the process. That’s just one focus of today’s guest, Toshi Yano, in his role as director of horticulture at… Read More ›