Episodios

  • Tomatoes With Craig LeHoullier-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 28, 2022

    Tomatoes With Craig LeHoullier-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 28, 2022
    Feb 26 2022

    Sick of winter? What I find helps, besides the occasional warmish, sunny day, is thinking about tomatoes. And that's what we're going to do today with Craig LeHoullier, author of the hit 2014 book “Epic Tomatoes,” who has over the years grown some 3,000 varieties in his home garden and adds new ones to his list every year

    Craig, who gardens in North Carolina, is a retired chemist with a longtime passion for tomatoes. He's the co-founder of the Dwarf Tomato Project, an advisor on tomatoes to Seed Savers Exchange, and the person who in 1990 named the popular heirloom Cherokee Purple from seed that had been passed down and eventually made its way to him. 
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    26 m
  • Creating Habitat with Shaun McCoshum - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - March 30, 2026

    Creating Habitat with Shaun McCoshum - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - March 30, 2026
    Mar 27 2026
    We talk about pollinator gardens, and seek out the plants that provide that essential nourishment to bees and butterflies and moths, for example. But insects do not live by pollen alone: To make our gardens places of life-sustaining habitat, we have to provide for other needs, too—like water, for example, and shelter in each season of the year, and more. A new book called “Natural Habitats and Wildlife Gardening: Inviting Nature into Your Backyard,” by today’s guest, Shaun McCoshum, provides inspiration for doing that. Shaun is a landscape ecologist, conservationist, pollinator researcher and writer who has worked on green energy initiatives,... Read More ›
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    26 m
  • Tomatoes With Craig LeHoullier-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 28, 2022

    Tomatoes With Craig LeHoullier-A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach February 28, 2022
    Feb 26 2022

    Sick of winter? What I find helps, besides the occasional warmish, sunny day, is thinking about tomatoes. And that's what we're going to do today with Craig LeHoullier, author of the hit 2014 book “Epic Tomatoes,” who has over the years grown some 3,000 varieties in his home garden and adds new ones to his list every year

    Craig, who gardens in North Carolina, is a retired chemist with a longtime passion for tomatoes. He's the co-founder of the Dwarf Tomato Project, an advisor on tomatoes to Seed Savers Exchange, and the person who in 1990 named the popular heirloom Cherokee Purple from seed that had been passed down and eventually made its way to him. 
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    26 m
  • Wisdom in a Tree with Ned Friedman - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - March 23, 2026

    Wisdom in a Tree with Ned Friedman - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - March 23, 2026
    Mar 20 2026
    I wish that when I was a college freshman, a course like Harvard’s seminar called “Tree” had been part of the curriculum, because since I learned about the class last year, I’ve never looked at a tree quite the same way again. It’s not a botany course, nor one for aspiring arborists – despite its name. A sentence from the syllabus for “Tree” hints at its core intention: “Imagine a semester devoted to connecting two organisms,” it reads, “a person (you) and a tree (not you).” And then it adds this: “The goal of this freshman seminar will be to... Read More ›
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    27 m
  • 'Plant This, Not That' with Elise Howard - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - March 16, 2026

    'Plant This, Not That' with Elise Howard - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - March 16, 2026
    Mar 13 2026
    You’ve seen and heard the list of no-no plants that were showy longtime nursery and garden standards, but have proven invasive and need to go. Yes, we can yank out the Bradford pears and butterfly bush and the rest of the long list—and should. But then what? We need to know what to plant instead. A new book called “Plant This, Not That” by Elise Howard establishes some basic principles for selecting and using native plants, along with specific examples of substitutions for plants you may be wanting to replace. She’s here to talk us through some of her suggestions... Read More ›
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    26 m
  • Editing and Dividing Perennials With Toshi Yano - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach August 23, 2021

    Editing and Dividing Perennials With Toshi Yano - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach August 23, 2021
    Aug 20 2021
    Maybe you, like I do, have certain perennial beds that could use editing and some particular plants that need dividing in the process. That’s just one focus of today’s guest, Toshi Yano, in his role as director of horticulture at Wethersfield, a former private estate turned public garden in the Hudson Valley of New York, He’ll tell us the how-to, and also about visiting this special place.  Toshi Yano Toshi is in his third year as director of horticulture at the former estate called Wethersfield garden in Dutchess County, New York, with its 3-acre formal gardens plus 7 acres of wilderness garden and commanding views of the Catskills and Berkshire Mountains.  Toshi and his team are bringing the gardens back to life, and he told me about the place, and specifically about the tasks of editing and dividing that every perennial gardener needs to do, whatever their garden scale. 
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    26 m
  • Let's Get Out and Botanize - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - March 9, 2026

    Let's Get Out and Botanize - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - March 9, 2026
    Mar 6 2026
    When spring approaches and we get out into the garden again, it’s easy to get distracted by the to-do list, or just by the latest pretty thing that’s emerging after winter’s relative blank slate. But there’s a whole other layer there in front of our eyes (and ears, and noses) – and it’s actually the foundation layer of life. How about we gardeners learn to tune in not just to the horticulture happenings outside, but to the wonders of botany unfolding before us? Today’s guests, Ben Goulet-Scott and Jacob Suissa, encourage us to follow our curiosity, to look closely, and... Read More ›
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    27 m
  • The Weedy Garden with Margaret Renkl - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - March 2, 2026

    The Weedy Garden with Margaret Renkl - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - March 2, 2026
    Feb 27 2026
    Margaret Renkl’s newest book “The Weedy Garden: A Happy Habitat for Wild Friends,” is aimed at children, but it’s really for everyone, she says, and indeed we grownups, too, often need a reminder that our gardens are not just “our gardens,” but critical habitats for our wild neighbors. How we manage these spaces determines whether bees and butterflies and frogs and fireflies and turtles and birds and everybody else out there thrives—or not. Margaret is here to talk about the new book and the message for humans of all ages that guides her approach to gardening. Like many readers, I... Read More ›
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    27 m