Margaret Roach

@NikiJabbour @NEWS957 Thanks for having me on the show again, Niki. Happy offseason ahead (but first, the cleanup!).

Coming up next on The Weekend Gardener is @margaretroach of AWaytoGarden.com. Tune in now on @NEWS957 or listen live from anywhere on News957.com. It's time to talk about smart garden clean up and why a hands off approach is best.

If I had it as together as @NikiJabbour, even w/the snow piled up outside I'd be harvesting carrots and greens and more. In today's @nytimes, I wrote about her "vegetable-garden toolkit" of simple gear we all need to season-extend and pest-prevent. nytimes.com/2021/02/03/rea…

Compromise: declare that henceforth Fort Bragg is named after Billy Bragg, Fort Hood after Robin Hood, and remove one N and Fort Bening is named after Annette Bening.

Beloved Writers on Nature as an Antidote to Depression via ⁦@brainpickings⁩ brainpickings.org/2020/06/14/nat…

I have admired the way @adrian_higgins of the @washingtonpost has covered the garden in this pandemic year, and we talked about it this week on my podcast/website -- about refuge, about hope, about letting IT take care of YOU for a change. awaytogarden.com/the-garden-as-…

How to grow a great tomato (with advice from Tom Stearns of @highmowingseeds). nytimes.com/2020/05/12/rea…

Things in the garden (like this Astilboides) looked bad after Friday night's 29F snowstorm, and then much worse after a day of high wind and a second snowfall Saturday evening. My strategy: maybe just stop looking out the window in that direction. See no evil...

Apparently people are passionate about weeds, either pro or con. Loved the response to this latest @nytimes piece I wrote last week on one of my favorite subjects. nytimes.com/2020/05/08/rea…

This time of year -- any year, not just this unusual one -- you'll find me shopping in my garden, browsing for self-sowns and overgrowns...seedlings and divisions to move about and make the place hang together better. And free! nytimes.com/2020/04/28/rea…

Nesting season is under way. It's not easy making a home for baby birds, eluding all the would-be predators. A wildlife biologist I admire offers a look inside the incredible drama (including birds who use shed snakeskins to ward off attackers!): awaytogarden.com/the-wonder-of-…

Thank you, @nytimes , for the chance to do a new series of how-to gardening articles, and for knowing your homebound readers everywhere need this support to tackle, and find refuge in, the spaces just outside the door. nytimes.com/2020/04/21/rea…

So glad that just before the world went mad I bought a copy of @LukasVolger 's START SIMPLE, which teaches us to cook with what we have. My podcast and interview transcript with Lukas: awaytogarden.com/cooking-with-w…

@textFIGHT_24477 @ewarren I recognize those cocoa packets I think. : )

@KBAndersen Thanks, Kurt. I am thinking you sound like a potential convert to the green side, so watch out.

I‘m not a gardener but I’m fortunate to live with one and I love plants and flowers and adore this brilliant gardening guru and her beautifully written new book, just out. It’s useful and gorgeous, a great combination. timberpress.com/books/way_gard…

Who needs flowers when you have the autumn fern (Dryopteris erthrosora) and a good selection of Japanese painted?

Easter candy (or giant botanical matzoh balls?). Happy holiday weekend, from me and the #clivia that is outdoing itself this year.

I buy organic seed, and seek out regionally appropriate varieties, too, for best garden success. Here’s why. buff.ly/2FfYlmV

Nonstop wildlife antics go on in my “snag” or wildlife tree. Why I try never to cut down dead or dying trees, but transform them. buff.ly/2FfRM3c

I started watering my Clivias again this week, after a couple of months of no drinks. Caring for these long-lived houseplants. buff.ly/2E6WjWF