Native plant conservation: When you’re talking plants and not people, how do you figure out who lives where? You can’t send census takers door to door to get a head count, but doing so is a critical step in devising… Read More ›
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Reduce Food Waste with the James Beard Foundation – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 19, 2018
WASTE NOT COOKBOOK: Having been raised in the presence of a Depression-era grandmother who even went to college to study home economics, I have a built-in thing about food waste. So I was delighted to see a new cookbook… Read More ›
Innumerable Insects with Michael Engel – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 12
Innumerable Insects: Before I saw it myself, a reader alerted me that she’d come upon a new book I shouldn’t miss, called “Innumerable Insects.” “I’m just a nurse interested in the world, not a biologist.” said Teresa in her kind… Read More ›
Vegetable Soup Ideas with Ali Stafford – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 5, 2018
Vegetable soup ideas: Strange but true, though I’ve been following a vegetarian diet for decades already, it wasn’t until just a few years ago that I finally mastered a really good version of vegetable soup. Now I’m gradually extending my… Read More ›
October 2018 Ken Druse Q & A – A Way to Garden with Margret Roach – October 29, 2018
Q&A: Clivia, chestnuts, staking–Yes, it’s us again, me and Ken Druse, here to answer your latest crop of Urgent Garden Questions. We covered topics as diverse as using landscape fabric (or not!); viburnum leaf beetle; blooming and then overwintering Clivia; artistic… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 22, 2018 – Pumpkin Recipes from Lucinda Scala Quinn
Winter squash: I’m mad about winter squash—about pumpkins—and so is my former “Martha Stewart Living” colleague Lucinda Scala Quinn, who you may know as author of the “Mad Hungry” cookbooks, and a former host of the PBS series “Everyday Food,”… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margret Roach – Oct 15, 2018 – Kathryn Schneider on Better Birding
Better birding: For a lot of us gardeners, our connection to birds perhaps started with, or maybe even still centers on, putting up the bird feeder. Kathryn Schneider, wants to nurture us to move from bird watcher to birder, and… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 8, 2018 – Eliot Coleman on Organic Growing
Eliot Coleman: What are our vegetable garden “pests” trying to tell us, and how can we move past the mindset of it being all about us against them, and knee-jerk interventions with some so-called “remedy” every time they show up?… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 1, 2018 – Dahlias with Roger Davis of Longwood
Late in the season, when all else in the flower garden is losing its head, dahlias are coming on strong and having their moment–not just in backyards, but at competitions around the country. The 52nd annual American Dahlia Society national… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 24 – Ken Druse Garden Q & A
Wonder how to get ready for the mad stash—just how to prep and where to put away all those tender plants to hopefully make it to next year? Or maybe you wonder about what went wrong with your hydrangeas if… Read More ›