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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 30 – Ali Stafford on Ideas for Soup

A Way To Garden With Margaret Roach-Ali Stafford on Ideas for Soup I don’t know about you, but I am thinking soup. Soup for lunch and for dinner, too, with the extra portions from each big homemade batch laid into… Read More ›

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 23 – Rhiannon Crain on Fall Cleanup

A Way To Garden With Margaret Roach-A Saner Approach to Fall Cleanup, with The Habitat Network’s Rhiannon Crain When we say, “fall garden clean-up,” just how clean do we mean? A slightly tongue-in-cheek campaign called “The Pledge to Be a Lazy… Read More ›

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 16 – Noah Strycker on Birding Without Borders

A Way To Garden With Margaret Roach October 16 -Noah Strycker on Birding Without Borders IN ONE VERY ACTION-PACKED YEAR of more than a hundred thousand miles of global travel, Noah Strycker saw 6,042 species of birds, which represents 58.3… Read More ›

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 9 – Jane Perrone on Crazy Houseplants

A Way To Garden With Margaret Roach-Jane Perrone on crazy houseplants From 2008 to this summer, Jane Perrone was gardening editor for “The Guardian” newspaper in the U.K, where she lives with her husband, who is forced to compete for… Read More ›

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 2 – Q&A with Ken Druse (Overtime Edition): Overwintering Plants

A Way To Garden With Margaret Roach-Ken Druse Overwintering Plants Q and A (Overtime Edition) The mad stash: overwintering tender plants, a Q&A with Ken Druse IT’S THAT TIME AGAIN, or almost. Startling as it may seem, the mad stash… Read More ›

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – April 22, 2013 – Hugelkultur How-To with Dave Whitinger

hugelkultur, nature’s raised garden beds FOR 25 YEARS I have grown my vegetables in raised beds, but the kind that you need to purchase lumber and bolts and use a saw and hammer to construct, then fill entirely with soil… Read More ›

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 25 – Marta McDowell on Laura Ingalls Wilder Landscapes

ASK MARTA MCDOWELL what she’s harvesting in her garden this fall, and here’s the kind of answer you might elicit: “I’m off to pick the overflow crop of ground cherries that I planted, because of a letter that Ma Ingalls… Read More ›

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – May 11, 2015 – Andy Brand on Best Native Plants

WHY CELEBRATE NATIVE PLANTS? Nurseryman and naturalist Andy Brand offers many reasons, including this one: butterflies. As manager of Broken Arrow rare-plant nursery and founder of the Connecticut Butterfly Society, Andy has intimate insights into whether native species, in particular, really work—as… Read More ›