2019 TOP TIPS: Another garden season is complete, and we’ve just passed the end of another year of the radio show and podcast, too, which I create each week to share with you, of course. But there is also a… Read More ›
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Bird Migration Insights From 2019-A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 6, 2020
Though I mostly stay put these days, no longer inclined to move very far beyond my home range, apparently I’m intensely curious about the subject of bird migration, which came up in questions I asked during several favorite podcast interviews… Read More ›
Ken Druse on Garden Resolutions – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 30, 2019
GARDEN RESOLUTIONS: What do you plan to do differently in the garden in 2020? Maybe something that didn’t work out so well this year, or a project that’s been put off so long that it simply must be placed at… Read More ›
Louis Bauer of Wave Hill on Garden Advice – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – December 16, 2019
Garden Design Ideas: A few of the gardeners I’ve learned the most from over my career have one thing in common: They’ve worked at Wave Hill, the exceptional public garden in New York City, perched above the Hudson River with… Read More ›
Ken Druse on Garden Gifts – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Monday December 9, 2019
By the time I finished fall cleanup in November, a few essential pieces of garden equipment were looking worse for wear, like that tarp I’ve been dragging around over a couple of seasons loaded with debris that suddenly looks more… Read More ›
Ali Stafford on Spicing it Up – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Monday December 2, 2019
Spice It Up: Standing in my kitchen the other day I had a craving, specifically for sesame or peanut noodles, for something I eat when I do take out or go out to eat. Because with such flavors we think… Read More ›
Emma Grieg on How to Help Birds – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Monday November 25
How to Help Birds: Research on bird populations published in fall of 2019 was alarming: 29 percent of all birds in the U.S. and Canada have vanished since 1970, a drop of 2.9 billion birds in our lifetime. In light… Read More ›
Long Litt Woon on Mushrooms – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 18, 2019
Mushrooms: I have only in recent years tuned in to mushrooms really at all, despite much of a life spent engaged with the outdoors. So when I saw a review in late summer of a new book called “The Way… Read More ›
J.C. Chong on Plant Pests – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 11, 2019
Plant Pests: In an issue of his “Pest Talks” e-newsletter not long ago, entomologist Dr. Juang-Horng Chong wrote something that I really loved. “I often consider ignorance the most serious pest of plants,” said J.C, as he is known, who… Read More ›
Margaret Renkl on Late Migrations – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 4, 2019
Margaret Renkl: In her recent book, “Late Migrations,” and also in big letters displayed across the homepage of her website, “New York Times” contributing opinion columnist Margaret Renkl reminds herself and her readers where to focus their attention. “Every day,… Read More ›