MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN Podcast
1) A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – March 2, 2026 – Margaret Renkl on the Weedy Garden
Margaret Renkl’s newest book “The Weedy Garden: A Happy Habitat for Wild Friends,” is aimed at children, but it’s really for everyone, she says, and indeed we grownups, too, often need a reminder that...Show More
2) Seed-Starting Mixes with Joe Lamp’l – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb. 23, 2026
When growing from seed, the long list of decisions starts with what turns out to be the simplest question of all: which variety of bean (or tomato, or zinnia, or basil) to order. But then things get m...Show More
3) Homegrown Spices with Sarah Kleeger – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb. 16, 2026
What do you say we explore expanding our herb-gardening efforts to include some goodies to fill those jars in the spice rack, too? Most of us have probably grown cilantro, for instance, with its disti...Show More
4) Rainbow of Peas with Peace Seedlings – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb. 9, 2026
“The dream has always been a rainbow of peas,” Dylana Kapuler said to me more than a decade ago, and that dream continues to fuel a passion for breeding colorful, edible-podded peas at the organically...Show More
5) A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Feb 2, 2026 – Sam Hoadley on Goldenrods
Goldenrods are powerhouses – keystone plants that serve as hosts for more than 100 species of butterflies and moths, and rich late-season sources of pollen and nectar for countless beneficial insects ...Show More
6) Top Tomatoes with Don Tipping – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan. 26 2026
IT WAS 1 degree Fahrenheit outside when I looked at my electronic weather station readout this morning – a perfect time for some winter-defying tactics like talking tomatoes. Organic seed farmer and ...Show More
7) Reprise Matt Mattus on Sweet Peas – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 19, 2026
Every year when I get to the sweet pea listings in the seed catalogs, I think this is the year, the year I’ll organize some supports in the garden for them, and indulge in their unmatched extravagance...Show More
8) Dye Plants with James Young – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 12 2026
Until I met today’s guest, James Young, early in 2025, it hadn’t really registered in my brain that some of the familiar annuals I grow from seed, like cosmos and marigolds and even purple...Show More
9) Must-Try Vegetable Seeds with Lane Selman – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan. 5, 2026
I’m letting myself be transported away from the winter scene outside my window, burying my nose not in the snow but instead in the spring-into-summer possibilities depicted in seed-catalog pages. I ha...Show More
10) Bird-Feeding Season with Julie Zickefoose – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec. 29, 2025
I put out my first bird feeder of the season around Thanksgiving or so each year and get the party started. But there’s more to feeding the birds than just filling the feeders, like how to keep them s...Show More