MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN Podcast
1) Seed Sources with Joseph Tychonievich – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov. 17, 2025
Once upon a time the seed catalogs came out around the start of the New Year, but these days the very first ones may arrive by Thanksgiving, and their listings may be posted online even earlier. So I ...Show More
2) Eco Garden Care with Dan Wilder – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Nov. 3, 2025
Besides their native-heavier plant palette and looser style, ecologically designed landscapes have another difference: The way we maintain them is not the same as with more traditional, ornamentally-f...Show More
3) A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 27, 2025 – Paul Bannick on Woodpeckers
Today’s guest didn’t have to convince me to be wild about woodpeckers, because I already am—utterly so. These charismatic, hardworking birds make oversized ecological contributions to the environments...Show More
4) Max Ferlauto on Leaf Removal’s Impact – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 20, 2025
Every gardener has certainly heard the rallying cry each recent autumn to “leave the leaves”, invoking us to go gentler with our cleanup to support a diversity of beneficial invertebrates who call the...Show More
5) Winter Squash with Kevin West – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct. 13, 2025
Kevin West begins his newest book, called “The Cook’s Garden,” like this:  “This is a book about flavor,” he writes. “It is a book about how to become a better cook by stepping into the garden.”&...Show More
6) Sourdough, with Gardener Sarah Owens – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct. 6, 2025
Almost 10 years ago on this program, I talked about making sourdough starter with today’s guest, Sarah Owens, on the occasion of the publication her book called “Sourdough.” Now a 10th anniversary edi...Show More
7) A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 29, 2025 – Basil Camu on Privacy Screens
Most of us have something to hide – in our gardens, that is, some view of something we’d like to erase. It could be the telephone pole across the street that we can see from certain spots, or the neig...Show More
8) A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 22, 2025 – Leslie Needham on Design Tips
The “what plant goes where?” aspect of gardening is the hardest part for a lot of us. And as we increasingly shift our plant palette and gardening style to more native and ecologically focused, decisi...Show More
9) Transplanting & Watering Tips with Jenks Farmer – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept. 15, 2025
In recent growing seasons, the “new normal” of a changing climate has sometimes been making me feel like my Northeastern garden has relocated farther to the South. So maybe that’s part of what caught ...Show More
10) A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 8, 2025 – Julie Zickefoose on Birdwatching
The fall bird migration is under way, and that means the cast of characters we’re seeing and hearing in the garden is changing quickly – as we say goodbye for now to some species, and keep a close eye...Show More