MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN show

MARGARET ROACH A WAY TO GARDEN

Summary: A WAY TO GARDEN is the horticultural incarnation of Margaret Roach

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 Ken Q&A-A Way To Garden With Margaret Roach December 17, 2018 | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:27

What really perplexed or downright frustrated gardeners in 2018? I asked that recently on Facebook and elsewhere, harvesting the final crop of Urgent Garden Questions for the year, and Ken Druse helped answer them as we do each month on the radio show and podcast. My longtime friend and fellow garden writer Ken of Ken Druse dot com is author of many books including “The New Shade Garden,” and “Making More Plants,” and “Natural Companions.” We tackled subjects ranging from propagating coleus from cuttings, to repotting a jade plant—and repotting in general—and even why a jade might be blooming now, after many years of ownership with no blooms. Ken shared ideas about some of his favorite unusual houseplants, too, including several that bloom in the offseason. 

 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Monday December 10 – Leslie Hillock on Growing Under Lights | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:17

Indoor Plant Lights: My houseplants are sulking, whispering among themselves about “Why doesn’t that woman get us some more light in here?” And then before I know it, seed-starting season will begin with leeks and onions, but what’s the right light to make those plants happiest indoors?  Leslie Halleck is author of “Gardening Under Lights: the Complete Guide for Indoor Growers.” Since her graduate research at Michigan State, where she explored greenhouse production, Leslie’s become an expert in the subject of light and plants. She shared some insights into what kind of light plants utilize, about short and long-day plants, and more. 

 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Mon Dec 3 – Ali Stafford on 2018’s Top Cookbooks | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:26:00

Top 2018 cookbooks: Cookbook author and food blogger Alexandra Stafford of alexandracooks dot com and I have declared it so: The Twelve Days Of Cookbooks begins now, as in perfect gift picks for holiday giving. Last year around holiday gifting time, my serious cookbook-collecting friend Ali and I talked about our all-time favorites of the genre. And this year, we’re focusing on the latest harvest, cookbooks that caught our attention among the many published in 2018. Ali is author 2017’s “Bread Toast Crumbs,” a book I love to give as a gift, by the way. We’re including recipes to some of the dishes Ali has cooked from the books that caught our attention this year—including the Salted Maple Pie from “Sister Pie” that’s a great holiday dessert. And we’re giving away 12 different books.

 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 26 – Native Plant Conservation with Robert Naczi | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:41

Native plant conservation: When you’re talking plants and not people, how do you figure out who lives where? You can’t send census takers door to door to get a head count, but doing so is a critical step in devising conservation strategies in a changing world, among other key goals. A New York Botanical Garden botanist is coordinating such an effort. Robert Naczi is a Curator of North American Botany at the New York Botanical Garden where the classic reference to the plants of all or part of 22 U.S. states and five Canadian provinces is being fully updated. We talked about the dramatic increase of established invasive plants in the landscape, about native geraniums and orchids, and about various surprising relatives of milkweed (including Vinca!).

 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 19, 2018 – Reduce Food Waste with the James Beard Foundation | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:27

  WASTE NOT COOKBOOK: Having been raised in the presence of a Depression-era grandmother who even went to college to study home economics, I have a built-in thing about food waste. So I was delighted to see a new cookbook from the James Beard Foundation called “Waste Not: Recipes and Tips for Full-Use Cooking from America’s Best Chefs,”and a campaign of anti-food waste advocacy spearheaded by that organization. Chef Tiffany Derryis a contributor to the “Waste Not” cookbook, and a former star and fan favorite of “Top Chef,” among other culinary accomplishments. We talked about becoming “thoughtful, intentional cooks”–about getting the most out of every vegetable and herb (no, not just the tender little leaves but even the stems), why cooking a whole fish is the most economical way to go, and much more. I also learned about the 200ish chefs who have gone through the Beard Boot Camp to become advocates on sustainability and social issues.

 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 12 – Innumerable Insects with Michael Engel | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:25:13

Innumerable Insects: Before I saw it myself, a reader alerted me that she’d come upon a new book I shouldn’t miss, called “Innumerable Insects.”  “I’m just a nurse interested in the world, not a biologist.” said Teresa in her kind note to me. “And yet,” she said, “I found it very compelling and full of ancient, beautiful illustrations.” Dr. Michael Engel is the author of “Innumerable Insects: The Story of the Most Diverse and Myriad Animals on Earth,” lavishly illustrated with historic prints from the American Museum of Natural History Library collection. Dr. Engel is a research affiliate at the museum, and also University Distinguished Professor of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, and Senior Curator of Entomology at the University of Kansas. He joined me to talk about insects–their evolution, and just how amazing they are. 

 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – November 5, 2018 – Vegetable Soup Ideas with Ali Stafford | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:30

Vegetable soup ideas: Strange but true, though I’ve been following a vegetarian diet for decades already, it wasn’t until just a few years ago that I finally mastered a really good version of vegetable soup. Now I’m gradually extending my repertory and today we’ll talk about just that, about variations on vegetable-based soups, plus ones with beans and even ideas for mushroom soup, too. Regular listeners and readers will recognize my friend Alexandra Stafford of Alexandra Cooks dot com, author of the “Bread Toast Crumbs” cookbook, and a mad collector of cookbooks and therefore possessor of recipe ideas galore. Besides recipes, we talked brining beans; about changing up the texture of a soup to you’re your preference, and about that “extra” ingredient that can make all the difference: dill with mushroom, orange rind with black beans, and other such flavor surprises.

 A Way to Garden with Margret Roach – October 29, 2018 – Ken Druse Q & A | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:51

Q&A: Clivia, chestnuts, staking–Yes, it’s us again, me and Ken Druse, here to answer your latest crop of Urgent Garden Questions. We covered topics as diverse as using landscape fabric (or not!); viburnum leaf beetle; blooming and then overwintering Clivia; artistic staking of dahlias and other plants; chestnuts, and more. Ken is a longtime garden author and photographer, with many books to his credit including “The New Shade Garden” and “Natural Companions” and “Making More Plants.” He can be found at Ken Druse dot com.

 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 22, 2018 – Pumpkin Recipes from Lucinda Scala Quinn | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:32

Winter squash: I’m mad about winter squash—about pumpkins—and so is my former “Martha Stewart Living” colleague Lucinda Scala Quinn, who you may know as author of the “Mad Hungry” cookbooks, and a former host of the PBS series “Everyday Food,” and of her own “Mad Hungry” TV show. We’ll talk pumpkin recipes, including a Libyan spread or dip called chershi. Lucinda Scala Quinn has written five cookbooks with inspirations as diverse as Jamaican to rustic Italian, but whatever the culinary tradition she’s writing and cooking in, her approach is always smart can-do meals—ideas developed to feed and please her family of five, including her three mad, hungry sons. I’m so glad to reconnect with her today

 A Way to Garden with Margret Roach – Oct 15, 2018 – Kathryn Schneider on Better Birding | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:56

Better birding: For a lot of us gardeners, our connection to birds perhaps started with, or maybe even still centers on, putting up the bird feeder. Kathryn Schneider, wants to nurture us to move from bird watcher to birder, and her new book tells us how. Kathryn is past president of the New York State Ornithological Association, has directed New York’s Natural Heritage Program, and conducted bird surveys for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. Her new book is “Birding the Hudson Valley”, and she’s also one of us, a gardener.

 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 8, 2018 – Eliot Coleman on Organic Growing | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:23:16

Eliot Coleman: What are our vegetable garden “pests” trying to tell us, and how can we move past the mindset of it being all about us against them, and knee-jerk interventions with some so-called “remedy” every time they show up? That’s just one of the attitude-adjusting insights I discussed with organic farming and gardening champion Eliot Coleman, whose 30th-anniversary edition of “The New Organic Grower” is just out. Eliot Coleman has written extensively about organic agriculture since 1975. He has more than 50 years’ experience in all aspects of the subject and has been a commercial market gardener, the director of research projects, a designer of tools for farmers and gardeners, and a teacher and lecturer. He and his wife, Barbara Damrosch, operate Four Season Farm, a commercial year-round market garden in Maine. Learn why he invokes us to “cultivate ease and order, not battle disease and disorder,” and more—plus enter to win the revised book.

 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Oct 1, 2018 – Dahlias with Roger Davis of Longwood | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:40

Late in the season, when all else in the flower garden is losing its head, dahlias are coming on strong and having their moment–not just in backyards, but at competitions around the country. The 52nd annual American Dahlia Society national show just took place at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania. Longwood’s senior horticulturalist and dahlia expert Roger Davis was heavily involved in bringing the national show to Longwood in late September, and he joined me on the show to talk all things dahlia, from ribbon-winning varieties to cultural tips for best performance, and even timely ones for off-season storage of those tubers. 

 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 24 – Ken Druse Garden Q & A | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:59

Wonder how to get ready for the mad stash—just how to prep and where to put away all those tender plants to hopefully make it to next year? Or maybe you wonder about what went wrong with your hydrangeas if they didn’t bloom as well as you hoped this summer. 

 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 17 – Tovah Martin on Senses and Seasons | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:34

We’re at a cusp—the coming of fall—and that is not a time to lament, but rather to take in what the new season and the one beyond it have to offer, each to its own. So says Margaret, and so says Tovah Martin in her latest book, “The Garden in Every Sense and Season.” We have timely advice for both to-do’s (and an attitude adjustment should you need one).

 A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Sept 10 – Broaden Your Plant Palette with Andy Brand | File Type: audio/mpeg | Duration: 00:24:13

Zen masters call it beginner’s mind, the state of being free from preconceived views and willing to learn—a state they encourage us to cultivate, though it can be disconcerting. Sometimes we’re thrown into that not-knowing mind by a change in circumstances. Like when Andy Brand, one of the most plant savvy people I know, moved to a new job, a new garden and a new state, and suddenly met a lot of unknown plants. 

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