From away to garden.com and Robinhood Radio.com, this is Away to Garden with Margaret

Roach.

You're a weekly invitation to dig in and grow.

Did you have an abnormally dry growing season this year, one where it felt like you just

couldn't keep up with the watering maybe?

Well today's guest naturalist and artist Julie Zikavous and I both did, and are otherwise

different garden locations, places that usually have plenty of rain.

And besides prompting frustration and some plant failures, the dry times also had us making

observations about the impact of drought on various forms of wildlife.

More in a moment from two long-time gardeners recalling their driest year ever, but first these messages. Underwriting support for a way to garden

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Julie Sikapus lives in gardens in the Appalachian foothills of Southeast Ohio.

You probably know her from one of the books she's written and illustrated,

like my favorite of all, saving Jemima, life and love with a hard luck Jay.

And besides being an author and artist, Julie's

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