How do you grill vegetables to perfection? And what do I do with my garlic scapes, or the greens on all those radishes? And so many of the other extras of the garden, or perhaps from your weekly CSA share… Read More ›
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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 18 – Christina King on Rose Rosette Disease
I don’t grow a lot of roses, just a few favorites, but birds plant the occasional multiflora rose seed here and there around the garden. One of the resulting seedlings looked really strange when I noticed while weeding in an… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 11 – Scott Freeman on Saving Tarboo Creek
Since I have lived full-time in a rural place the last decade, I find that probably not coincidentally, my reading list tends increasingly toward tales of the natural world. The new book “Saving Tarboo Creek: One Family’s Quest to Heal… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – June 4 – Alana Chernila Vegetable Cookbook
The vegetable garden is starting to provide in earnest. But before we all dish out the same old side of steamed broccoli or green beans or kale every night from here to the first freeze, it’s time to get some… Read More ›
Doug Tallamy on Nativars – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 28
‘m a gardener, someone who loves showy plants in artful arrangements. But in recent years, I’ve been looking less with a collector’s eye when shopping and more from the point of view of an insect. Yes, really. That means more… Read More ›
Ken Druse Q&A – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 21, 2017
Anybody got an Urgent Garden Question? Apparently so, and because you keep asking them in comments on the website, in emails, and even on Facebook, and now at @awaytogarden, on Instagram, too. Friend and fellow garden writer Ken Druse keeps coming back… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 14 – Lynn Faust on Fireflies
Fireflies: They never fail to bring out that sense of first time wonder, the excitement of a child on a summer camping trip when the sky darkens and the flashing begins. But until a new field guide reached my desk,… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 30 – Butterfly Expert Jeffrey Glassberg
We speak of butterfly plants and of making butterfly gardens, but how well do we really know the diversity of butterfly species that might visit those offerings? Butterflies, and especially how to sharpen our ID skills and become keener butterfly-watchers,… Read More ›
A Way to Garden – May 20, 2013 – Hellebores and Shade Natives with Barry Glick
Barry Glick has been involved in the plant world since 1954, when at the young, impressionable age of 5, he witnessed Don Herbert (“Mr. Wizard” on TV) put a cutting of a plant in a glass of water only to… Read More ›
A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 30 – Seabrooke Leckie on Moths
It was almost six year ago to the day that I had my moth epiphany thanks to Seabrooke Leckie, who in 2012 co-authored the “Peterson Field Guide to Moths of Northeastern North America,” and joined me on my radio program… Read More ›