the february garden chores
RESTLESS, ANYONE? The houseplants are noticing, and so am I: the days are longer, making us both want to get [read more…]
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RESTLESS, ANYONE? The houseplants are noticing, and so am I: the days are longer, making us both want to get [read more…]
THE ANSWER IS NO: No, you probably shouldn’t start all your vegetable seed now, unless it’s for a cool-season crop [read more…]
NATIONAL LEAF MONTH: That’s what I’d declare it if I were in charge of such things. November is nonstop leaves [read more…]
EVEN I—SHE OF THE MONTHLY CHORES LISTS—get overwhelmed at the thought of it: fall cleanup. As the month begins, I [read more…]
IF ONLY IT WOULD RAIN, here is what I would do, I promise: divide and also add perennials (leaving room [read more…]
HOT, PARCHED, EXHAUSTED. That’s a three-word portrait of me and the garden both most Augusts. We must fight back, so [read more…]
EACH JULY DAY is a stern little conversation or two (or 10): with myself, to push onward; with certain weeds [read more…]
EACH MAY I ADVISE us all to remember, amid the frenzy, that there is nothing wrong that some good-quality mulch [read more…]
I’M STICKING to what I say each year at this time: We are not powerless over April–even though in most [read more…]
I’M LIKE THE KID in the backseat on the way to the amusement park, with my one incessant question: “Are [read more…]
Welcome! I’m Margaret Roach, a leading garden writer for 25 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.