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  • 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
    2022/02/26

    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 分
  • Dye Plants with James Young - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Jan 12 2026

    Dye Plants with James Young - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Jan 12 2026
    2026/01/09
    Until I met today’s guest, James Young, early in 2025, it hadn’t really registered in my brain that some of the familiar annuals I grow from seed, like cosmos and marigolds and even purple basil, could also double as dye plants. James is co-owner of Grand Prismatic Seed, a gorgeous and information packed online seed catalog based in Northern Utah, where plants that offer natural dyes are one specialty alongside regional natives and high desert-adapted edibles and flowers. James is passionate about the fiber arts, and he’s been an expert knitter since high school and is also deep into the... Read More ›
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    27 分
  • 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
    2022/02/26

    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 分
  • Must-Try Vegetable Seeds with Lane Selman - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Jan. 5, 2026

    Must-Try Vegetable Seeds with Lane Selman - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Jan. 5, 2026
    2026/01/02
    I’m letting myself be transported away from the winter scene outside my window, burying my nose not in the snow but instead in the spring-into-summer possibilities depicted in seed-catalog pages. I have familiar, favorite varieties I grow every year – but I’m also looking for some new-to-me possibilities, and today’s guest, Lane Selman of the Culinary Breeding Network at Oregon State University, always has some delicious suggestions. Lane Selman, a professor of practice at Oregon State University, founded the Culinary Breeding Network in 2012, a collaborative community of plant breeders, seed growers, farmers, produce buyers and chefs collaborating to improve... Read More ›
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    27 分
  • Bird-Feeding Season with Julie Zickefoose - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Dec. 29, 2025

    Bird-Feeding Season with Julie Zickefoose - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Dec. 29, 2025
    2025/12/26
    I put out my first bird feeder of the season around Thanksgiving or so each year and get the party started. But there’s more to feeding the birds than just filling the feeders, like how to keep them safe in the age of increased disease transmission, or how to provide essential water in the coldest months, and of course, much-needed tactics for outsmarting the squirrels. Smart bird feeding and more bird-related wisdom was the topic of conversation I had in December 2022 with Julie Zickefoose, that we’re featuring in encore on the show today. I’m always delighted to talk to Julie... Read More ›
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    28 分
  • 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
    2021/08/20
    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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  • Melissa Finley on Tree Care History and How-to - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Dec 22, 2025

    Melissa Finley on Tree Care History and How-to - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Dec 22, 2025
    2025/12/19
    The earliest references to people cultivating trees date back to 6000 B.C., and there are records of tree-care tactics in the Bible, too, and from ancient Egypt. These person-to-tree interventions were the start of the science and art of arboriculture, and our best practices of pruning and other how-to have evolved in each successive era to the methods we know today. We’re going to take a little look backward, and also at some current recommendations, with today’s guest, Melissa Finley, the New York Botanical Garden’s Thain Curator of Woody Plants, and curator of NYBG’s Peggy Rockefeller Rose Garden, too. Woody... Read More ›
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    27 分
  • Keystone Plants with Uli Lorimer - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Dec. 15 2025

    Keystone Plants with Uli Lorimer - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Dec. 15 2025
    2025/12/12
    Not so many years ago, relative to the history of horticulture, even a now-ubiquitous phrase like “pollinator plant” wasn’t part of our everyday gardening language and mindset the way it is today. Our collective consciousness about the importance of native plants has grown fast, and with it have come more new words for our vocabulary. One phrase that I’ve heard a lot lately is “keystone plants” – an expression I probably didn’t even know five years ago – describing native species that are disproportionately important to local ecosystems, the sort of powerhouse plants of all. I wanted to learn... Read More ›
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    26 分