Tim Johnson on Bio-Productive Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 18, 2024

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Tim Johnson on Bio-Productive Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 18, 2024

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In a recent phone call, today’s guest, Tim Johnson, used the phrase “bio-productive gardens,” and it stopped me. What does he mean by that, I thought? And then he explained: There are ways to manage our landscapes, he said, so... Read More ›

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Caterpillar Clinic With Julie Janoski – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – September 6, 2021: Todays guest answers even more Urgent Garden Questions each year than I do, in her role as plant clinic manager at The Morton Arboretum in Lisle, Illinois—including lots each summer and fall about caterpillars galore, from bagworms to gypsy moths and fal by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Oaks with Doug Tallamy – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – April 5, 2021: Every time over the years that I’ve spoken to today’s guest, one word comes up: oak. If entomologist and University of Delaware Professor Doug Tallamy sounds a little fixated on native oaks, it’s because they are the most powerful plant by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Brassicas With Steve Bellavia – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach April 12, 2021: They’re among the most popular and good-for-you vegetables, but brassicas—broccoli, cabbage, cauliflower, Brussels sprouts and the like—can also be a little tricky to grow unless you start with the right variety, get the timing right, and have a pr by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Tropicals With Marianne Willburn-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach July 19, 2021: I was at the local garden center the other day, when a truck full of tropical plants was being unloaded. And in the heat of a summer day, they looked like just the right choice to bring home to liven... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Asparagus With Ali Stafford – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach May 17, 2021: One dimension of my friendship with today’s guest is a years-long ongoing barter. She shares her cooking expertise with me and my extended family, and I give Alexandra Stafford and her husband gardening advice. It’s a pretty sweet deal,... by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Echinacea With Same Hoadley-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach March 1, 2021: Any gardener shopping at a local nursery or paging through perennial plant catalogs can’t help but notice there are a lot of Echinacea, or coneflowers, on the market—more every year, including in unexpected colors and some with extra-showy double f by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Ecological Landscaping With Rebecca McMackin – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach April 26, 2021: I watched a Zoom lecture the other day that really put into words a lot of the ways my own deepening understanding of ecology is shaking up the way I practice horticulture—from spring cleanup, right on to the last... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Small Trees With Bruce Crawford-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach June 7, 2021: Looking around the garden as some of spring’s show off shrubs and perennials fade, I realized how glad I am that I made room for some garden-sized trees too. Not too big and not too small, and the best... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Native Spring Perennials With Ken Druse-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 8, 2021: Facing a forecast of heaps of snow the other day, Ken Druse and I got to dreaming on the phone together of more colorful times ahead. Of the emergence, not so very long in the future, of spring’s first woodland... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Outdoor Treasure Hunt With Ken Druse – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach May 24, 2021: Ken Druse and I are putting a new spin on weeding by giving it a new name: treasure hunting. Maybe the incessant, relentless nature of all those naughty things that keep popping up around the garden beds will be softened... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Vegetable Diseases With Meg McGrath – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach August 30, 2021: Here’s how my head, which is always lost in the garden, I guess, works: The first thing I thought about when the pandemic started—when we got news of a new pathogen in the world—was how many plant pathogens I’ve written... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Natural Communities With Patrick McMillan – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach July 5, 2021: I’ve been looking forward to connecting with Patrick McMillan, who last October took over as director of the exceptional plant collection and astonishing landscape that is Heronswood Garden in Kingston, Washington. Besides wanting to know what&# by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Trilliums With Uli Lorimer – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach May 3, 2021: It’s Trillium Week the first week of May at Garden In The Woods, the headquarters of Native Plant Trust in Framingham, Massachusetts, the nation’s oldest plant conservation organization with more than a century of history. Well, with a little by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Secret Garden With Marta McDowell-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach November 22, 2021: Author Marta McDowell, a gardener and landscape designer in contemporary New Jersey, has an enduring passion for digging into history, particularly into noted authors and their gardens—what she calls the “connection between the pen and the trowel.” Shes by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Texture and Variegation With Ken Druse – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach August 16, 2021: Texture and Variegation With Ken Druse – A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach – August 16, 2021 Ken Druse called the other day to say that he and his garden have the August lulls. The sort of annual... Read More › by MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN
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Tim Johnson on Bio-Productive Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 18, 2024

Tim Johnson on Bio-Productive Gardens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 18, 2024

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