Margaret Roach

Ex-Martha exec, now just mad gardener, rural nature addict, award-winning writer & podcaster, creator of and matching book & podcast

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

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

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

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. https://t.co/Kn5xNTkQDS

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

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.

[Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org]

Beloved Writers on Nature as an Antidote to Depression via ⁦@brainpickings⁩ https://t.co/avfR1Qm2ke

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

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. https://t.co/DX2vENfGf1

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

How to grow a great tomato (with advice from Tom Stearns of @highmowingseeds). https://t.co/ZkaH9jVXi0

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

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...

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

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. https://t.co/b8FXo7pQka

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

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! https://t.co/0IOghniG4I

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

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!):

https://t.co/4QUvJUiqFR

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

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. https://t.co/h3H6xXy3Gm

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

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: https://t.co/u30p7uFWKA

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

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

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

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

[Kurt Andersen @KBAndersen]

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. https://t.co/9tnfBM32Ai

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

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

[Timber Press @timberpress]

"Thoreau wrote that, 'God made ferns to show what he could do with leaves,' and I think we should make gardens of them to show the same."

--@margaretroach, from A WAY TO GARDEN

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

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

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

I buy organic seed, and seek out regionally appropriate varieties, too, for best garden success. Here’s why.
https://t.co/nJJpGiQfrP

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

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.
https://t.co/V8qmoU0XGo

[Margaret Roach @margaretroach]

I started watering my Clivias again this week, after a couple of months of no drinks. Caring for these long-lived houseplants.
https://t.co/iw65euhzHf