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January 16, 2021
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shopping for seed-starting grow lights, with leslie halleck

I’M ON MY third generation of seed-starting lights, a journey that began back in the day when shop lights with so-called cool-white and warm-white fluorescent..
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January 9, 2021
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unusual seeds, with nate kleinman of experimental farm network

PARSLEY THAT WAS BRED not for its leaves, but as a root crop. Or a winter squash (above) with vivid green flesh, instead of orange...
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January 2, 2021
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cold-frame 101, with niki jabbour

A NEIGHBOR with a new cold frame emailed me the other day, seeing colder weather finally in the forecast and wanting to know how to..
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December 26, 2020
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our desert-island trees, with ken druse

THEY’RE THE garden’s biggest residents, relative space-hogs who also dictate a lot of what goes on with the patterns of light and shade. I’m talking..
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December 19, 2020
322 Comments

making the switch to native groundcovers, with duncan himmelman of mt. cuba

I’VE SPOKEN recently on the show about my personal war on certain groundcovers I planted years ago that have turned out to be hideous thugs...
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December 12, 2020
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mastering microgreens, with kate spring of good heart farmstead

A “NEW YORK TIMES” column I did recently happily put me back in touch with organic farmer Kate Spring, who in our past conversations has..
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December 5, 2020
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tuning in to heirloom collards, with chris smith

HEIRLOOM TOMATOES and pumpkins you’ve heard of, but why shouldn’t heirloom collards get just as much love—and space in our gardens? Tell the truth: Have..
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November 28, 2020
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cookies, snacking cakes, pies & more: 5 new books to bake by, with ali stafford

YES, APPARENTLY more people gardened in 2020 than ever. And even before the holiday season was upon us, as it suddenly is, everyone was baking..
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November 27, 2020
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gifts for gardeners: my tried-and-true gear

EVERY YEAR I do a guide of “gifts for gardeners,” and every year it’s the same stuff, basically (how unoriginal and embarrassing). But how can..
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November 21, 2020
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seedlinked: a new way to shop for, learn about and evaluate seeds, with bjorn bergman

WHAT IF I TOLD YOU there’s a new way to shop for seed where your purchase yields not just the packets, but also educational support,..
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November 21, 2020
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comfort books: cozy reads for you or for gifting, with katrina kenison

YOU’VE HEARD OF comfort food and oh boy, have we all been hungry for that non-stop this crazy year. But how about comfort books—whether to..
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November 14, 2020
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time to feed–and count–the birds: project feederwatch, with cornell’s emma greig

A FLOCK OF ROBINS visited my garden recently for a three-day-long field day. By the time they decamped, I was down about 40 mature winterberry..
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November 7, 2020
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desert island shrubs: trying to name our favorites, with ken druse

SHRUBS: I think of them as the sort of human-sized plants, and they definitely are the backbone of the garden. Ken Druse and I each..
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October 31, 2020
213 Comments

fighting weeds: an all-season approach, with mt. cuba’s duncan himmelman

‘THERE’S ALWAYS a weed out there, no matter when.” That’s what today’s guest, education manager Duncan Himmelman of Mt. Cuba native plant center in Delaware,..
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October 31, 2020
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hot (and cold) garden glimpses as fall abruptly winds down

SEEN THIS WEEK in the garden (and originally posted on @awaytogarden Instagram): My “selfish crabapple,” variety ‘Ralph Shay’ (above, with little bluestem grass), whose fruits..
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smarter fall (and spring) cleanup, with doug tallamy

WHEN I TALKED to Doug Tallamy in February around the publication date of his latest book, “Nature’s Best Hope,” I didn’t want to go on and on about the advice in it regarding smart fall cleanup, which is one of the ways I know I’ve dramatically shifted the way I manage my own garden compared to 10 or even five years ago. But we were looking ahead to spring then, not fall.

I’m grateful that Doug returned to the podcast in autumn to do just that. Want to plan your most ecologically minded garden cleanup ever, and understand the consequences of each potential action you can take—including next spring?

The subtitle of University of Delaware professor Doug Tallamy’s recent book, “Nature’s Best Hope,” is “A New Approach to Conservation that Starts in Your Yard.” Meaning: The choices we make all year-round, including the very important one of how we clean up, can help counteract an overdeveloped, fragmented landscape that puts the food web to the test. You and I are nature’s best hope, and I’m glad Doug joined me again to help us learn to support it.

(Stream it below,  read the illustrated transcript or subscribe free.)

https://robinhoodradioondemand.com/podcast-player/17424/ecological-fall-cleanup-with-doug-tallamy-a-way-to-garden-with-margaret-roach-october-5-2020.mp3

Welcome! I’m Margaret Roach, a leading garden writer for 30 years—at ‘Martha Stewart Living,’ ‘Newsday,’ and in three books. I host a public-radio podcast; I also lecture, plus hold tours at my 2.3-acre Hudson Valley (NY) Zone 5B garden, and always say no to chemicals and yes to great plants.

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