how we garden today: a conversation with joe lamp’l
‘MY HOW TIMES have changed,” I write in the beginning of my new-old book, “A Way to Garden,” out April [read more…]
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old gardeners, old gardens, new books: ken druse interviews margaret roach
THE LATEST PODCAST is special, because it’s a special time for me, just days from the 21st anniversary version of [read more…]
visiting may 11? ‘extras’ to fill out your day (and garden!)
LUCKY YOU if you have already grabbed a ticket, since many of the special classes my neighbors and I organized [read more…]
margaret’s garden in april ‘martha stewart living’
IT’S LIKE A HOMECOMING of sorts, the experience of seeing my garden in the pages of the April 2019 issue [read more…]
showoff shrubs, new and old, with tim wood of spring meadow nursery
SO MANY SHRUBS, so little time. I’m kidding, sort of, but I think shrubs are a gardener’s best investment, and [read more…]
what weed is it? putting names to pesky plants
I KNOW A LOT OF PLANTS BY THEIR PROPER NAMES, but when it comes to “weeds,” as we term unwanted [read more…]
margaret in ‘the washington post’
IT’S ALWAYS a treat to hear “The Washington Post” garden columnist Adrian Higgins’s voice on the other end of the [read more…]
battling mice and voles (but never with mothballs)
THE SNOW MELTS, revealing the horror: Mice and voles have had at it in your garden, coldframe or greenhouse. As [read more…]
getting to know sparrows, with rick wright
I’VE WATCHED BIRDS for decades, but in one matter, the matter of sparrows, I mostly took the lazy route, simply [read more…]
soil preparation: 7 ways to make a garden bed
HOW DO YOU GET your garden soil ready for growing things each spring? Do you till to prepare your beds, [read more…]
