
Dye Plants with James Young – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 12 2026
09/1/2026 | 26 mins.
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 basil, could also double as dye... Read More ›

Must-Try Vegetable Seeds with Lane Selman – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan. 5, 2026
02/1/2026 | 27 mins.
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 have familiar, favorite varieties I grow every year –... Read More ›

Julie Zickefoose on Bird-Feeding Season – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 29, 2025
26/12/2025 | 28 mins.
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 safe in... Read More ›

Melissa Finley on Tree Care History and How-to – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec 22, 2025
19/12/2025 | 26 mins.
The earliest references to people cultivating trees date back to 6000 B.C., and there are records of tree-care tactics in the Bible, too, and from ancient Egypt. These person-to-tree interventions were the start of the science and art of arboriculture,... Read More ›

Uli Lorimer on Keystone Plants – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Dec. 15 2025
12/12/2025 | 26 mins.
Not so many years ago, relative to the history of horticulture, even a now-ubiquitous phrase like “pollinator plant” wasn’t part of our everyday gardening language and mindset the way it is today. Our collective consciousness about the importance of native... Read More ›



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