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
  • Garden Resources with Rebecca McMackin - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Aug. 25, 2025

    Garden Resources with Rebecca McMackin - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Aug. 25, 2025
    Aug 22 2025
    Today’s guest and I were sitting having a cup of tea together recently and talking abou guess what? Plants! What came up pretty fast was how lately we both sometimes cringe at the results to our online searches about one garden topic or another, which only seem to be getting worse in the age of A/I—or at the misinformation we see on some viral social-media posts. Ecologically focused garden designer Rebecca McMackin and I wanted to talk out loud here with all of you about what trusted sources we go to again and again, and about how we filter out... Read More ›
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    27 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
  • Scented Geraniums with Patrick McDuffee - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Aug. 18, 2025

    Scented Geraniums with Patrick McDuffee - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Aug. 18, 2025
    Aug 15 2025
    Patrick McDuffee believes that everyone should have at least one scented geranium on their windowsill year-round, for an on-demand invigorating whiff of fragrance, or to admire its colorful flowers…or to make a homebrewed cup of herbal tea from its leaves. Patrick is the third generation of his family to cultivate scented geraniums, or Pelargoniums, at Well-Sweep Herb Farm in rural New Jersey, where 80-something Pelargonium varieties are among some 2,000 different kinds of herb plants in the nursery’s amazing collection. Well-Sweep Herb Farm is a popular destination nursery in Port Murray, N.J., founded in 1969 by Cyrus and Louise Hyde,... Read More ›
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    26 m
  • Clematis with Alla Olkhovska - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Aug. 11, 2025

    Clematis with Alla Olkhovska - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Aug. 11, 2025
    Aug 8 2025
    The last time I spoke to Alla Olkhovska from her home and garden in Ukraine, she confessed to growing about 120 different types of Clematis—a number that after seeing her recently published e-book “Clematis Passports,” which profiles 140 kinds, I suspect has increased in the year and a half since that chat. Whatever the precise number, suffice it to say that Alla is devoted to growing and propagating Clematis, and photographing them and using them in cut flower arrangements, too. They are a joy of her life, and were the subject of our conversation. Alla, with her dual passions for plants... Read More ›
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    28 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
  • Trialing Seed for Seed Savers Exchange - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Aug. 4, 2025

    Trialing Seed for Seed Savers Exchange - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Aug. 4, 2025
    Aug 1 2025
    On the weekend of Aug. 8 and 9, the beloved Seed Savers Exchange will celebrate its 50th anniversary of preserving our seed heritage with festivities at its homebase in Decorah, Iowa. I wanted to celebrate Seed Savers here a little, too, by learning more about some of their participatory programs that we gardeners can help with – including one called ADAPT, where gardeners trial varieties from the Seed Savers’ seed bank in their own gardens and provide feedback on their performance, to help Seed Savers understand the adaptability of these varieties to different environments around the country. I’m joined by Mike... Read More ›
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    27 m
  • Wonders with Thor Hanson - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - July 28, 2025

    Wonders with Thor Hanson - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - July 28, 2025
    Jul 25 2025
    For each of us, it’s probably safe to bet that our most familiar piece of the natural world is the outdoor space right beside the place we live – our own yard. But how well do we really know even that everyday terrain, and the creatures we share it with? In his new book called “Close to Home,” conservation biologist Thor Hanson encourages us to retrain our eyes and connect more intimately – and also to take actions that can enhance the biodiversity of the place we call home. Thor Hanson is a conservation biologist whose work has taken him... Read More ›
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    28 m