A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – January 17, 2022 – Ken Druse on Shade Garden Advice

A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 27, 2021 – Ken Druse on Dividing Perennials: Ive 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, arent looking as good as they used to. Over in New Jersey, Ken Drus by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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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, he said, using the by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Design Tweaks With David Culp-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach November 8, 2021: Designer David Culp sees the garden in layers, but not just the most obvious landscape ones most of us do—meaning the canopy, the shrub layer and ground-covering plants. His view of the garden is more like 3D chess and then some: layers of color, texture by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Surprise Plants With Ken Druse-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach June 20, 2022: Today’s show is all about surprises—and the first one is my guest. He’s back: My old friend Ken Druse is here after too many months of absence, and our subject is the surprises our gardens have offered so far this spring, from extra-bountiful roses to no by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Fall and Winter Fragrance With Ken Druse-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach November 21, 2022: Winter cold has just finally descended here, and I am already missing the smells of the growing season—from the range of flowers to just brushing up against herbs out by the vegetable garden. Ken Druse is here today to encourage us to extend our season o by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Making More Plants With Ken Druse – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – March 20 2023: The days are longer and the light is strengthening—triggers that dont just start to wake up our plants, indoors and out, but also get us gardeners going. The signals have my propagation-mad friend Ken Druse starting more seeds each week and looking aroun by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – September 20, 2021 – Heather McCargo on Natives From Seed: Today were 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 well learn to propagate that way are specifically seeds of native plants—bo by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Umbels With Sam Keitch-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach March 28, 2022: I thought my obsession with Angelica blooms was a serious one until recently, when I met Sam Keitch of the Pennsylvania Horticultural Society, who takes it one step further. Sam has a passion for various other garden-worthy, umbel-shaped flowers—not just by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Stay Fit While Gardening-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach March 21, 2022: Whats your most important gardening tool? A new public television series reminds us that its not a trowel or pruner or spade, but our body, which can also be stressed by gardening if we dont know how to look after it. Taking care of your body while takin by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Terrariums With Patricia Buzo-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach December 6, 2021: Im eyeing a vintage glass cookie jar I havent used in years, and a big glass snifter, too, thats been sitting idle on a shelf in the sideboard for ages. And Im thinking terrariums, and Im thinking holiday centerpiece, or maybe a gift or two. Are you feel by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – October 4, 2021 – Marc Wolf on Native Shrubs: Im always looking for more places to tuck native plantings, and my current mission is along my property edges, where Im adding a more complex layer of shrubs and small trees adjacent to the big old canopy-level ones to increase habitat for beneficial ins by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Garden Gifts With Ken Druse-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach December 13, 2021: When Ken Druse and I talked on the program a couple of weeks ago about putting our tools away for the winter, all cleaned and oiled, one part we failed to mention: Were both eyeing some new tools, too, for the year ahead. All of them would make gre by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Soil and Compost With Annie Novak – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach April 4, 2022: Do I need a soil test? And what kind of amendments should I be adding to my vegetable beds or containers to get things off to a good start? And how can I fine tune my composting this year to optimize results? Those are some of the timely questions I cove by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Lessons Learned With Joe Lampl – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach December 20, 2021: Being an ever-better gardener means staying open to change. As long as weve both been gardening, my friend Joe Lampl was saying to me the other day, were still evolving, still learning lessons every single growing season. We were comparing notes on the p by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Plants of Merit with Daria McKelvey-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach April 11, 2022: Even though I dont live anywhere near St. Louis, one of my most used and appreciated resources for plant information over many, many years has been the Missouri Botanical Garden, with its world-class offerings to gardeners both in person and online. One by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Weed-Fighting Natives With Nancy Lawson – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – June 12, 2023: When I spoke to naturalist and nature writer Nancy Lawson recently about her adventures in wildscaping at her Maryland garden, there was one topic in particular that I wanted to double back to, and dig in deeper: her tactics for fighting unwant by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Food Habitats With Jared Rosenbaum- A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach -November 7, 2022: In his new book, Wild Plant Culture, restoration ecologist Jared Rosenbaum says something provocative about gardening with native plants. Its time to expand our vision past supporting birds, butterflies, and bees, and fully integrate the most chall by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Fraser Fir With Missouri Botanical – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – December 27, 2021: To discover and share knowledge about plants and their environment in order to preserve and enrich life. – Missouri Botanical Garden mission Founded in 1859, the Missouri Botanical Garden is the nations oldest botanical garden in continuous opera by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Last Fall Chores With Ken Druse – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach November 15, 2021: Its been a strangely mild fall so far in the Northeast, where Ken Druse and I both garden. But as some recent overnight freezes served as a reminder: Get the must-do chores done or else, because who knows when the weather will lower the boom for good. by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Peat Alternatives With Brian Jackson – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach March 7, 2022: Gardeners have increasingly heard the call to reduce or eliminate their use of peat moss, the most familiar ingredient in seed-starting mixes and potting soils—one that a lot of us have long relied on. But peat is not sustainable, and its harvest release by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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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 todays topic with Associate Director Cary Oshins of the US Composting Council. And well talk about everything fro by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Wildscape With Nancy Lawson-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach April 24, 2023: Our human-centric way of looking at things in the garden and tasting, hearing, seeing and touching things is just one persons opinion, and hardly represents the consensus of all the living creatures whose home it is.  Todays guest is naturalist by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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113-Designing Abundant Container Gardens: Pro Tips for Healthy Plants & Beautiful Combinations: Whether you’ve got an extensive garden area or just a postage-stamp-sized balcony, you can garden in containers just about anywhere. There are some similarities in techniques for gardening in the landscape versus containers, by The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l

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Succession Planting With Meg Cowden -A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach March 14, 2022: In late winter, we gardeners rev up around sowing those first seeds indoors under lights. But the promise of a bountiful vegetable garden that keeps on giving doesnt end there. Now is also the moment to make succession-sowing plans for the longer haul, t by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Shrub Propagation With Ken Druse – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach June 14, 2021: Today we’re going to do some multiplication, as in: make more shrubs, thanks to a lesson in propagating favorites like Hydrangea or elderberry or Physocarpus and more, courtesy of our friend and regular guest, Ken Druse. Ready to learn the... Read by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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214-The National Gardening Association’s 2021 Survey Findings: What Gardeners Think: Each year since 1973, the Texas-based National Gardening Association works with professional pollsters to conduct the National Gardening Survey, which offers valuable insights into the mindset of gardeners across the United States. To help break the... by The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l

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Deer With Brad Roeller-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 21, 2022: While most of us focus on keeping deer from browsing our gardens, Brad Roeller actually once managed what was called a Deer Browse Garden as part of a 10-year research study to learn more about what these big herbivores do, and dont do, when offered the by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Natural Design With Ben Vogt-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 20, 2023: . It’s probably the question I am asked most: Gardeners want to go wilder and use more native plants to create habitat. But how do they figure out which plants, since it’s not one size fits all regions, or even different locations within a region...an by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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Natives at Stoneleigh with Ethan Kauffman – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – July 10, 2023: Can a historic formal space become the home to a forward-thinking landscape of native plants? The team at Stoneleigh, a five-year-old public garden on an old estate in Villanova, Pennsylvania, says the answer is an emphatic yes, and their horticultural e by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

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112-Efficient Watering in the Garden and Landscape and Why it Matters: Water – When it comes to the garden, water can be a blessing and a curse. One year brings heavy rain, while the next might bring severe drought challenges. Mother Nature can definitely wreak havoc on our garden success, by The joe gardener Show - Organic Gardening - Vegetable Gardening - Expert Garden Advice From Joe Lamp'l

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