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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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  • Hannah Fries's 'A Forest Language' - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept. 28, 2026

    Hannah Fries's 'A Forest Language' - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept. 28, 2026
    2026/09/25
    In the introduction to her latest book “A Forest Language,” Hannah Fries acknowledges a fascination with the words we use to talk about trees – organisms she calls the backdrop of her life. From our human vocabulary of forest ecology and botany Hannah has collected some of her favorite arboreal terms to fill the new volume, ones referred to in its subtitle as “Words That Illuminate the Astonishing World of Trees.” Do you know pitch from sap, for instance, or heartwood from sapwood? What’s a burl, a snag, a nurse log, a lenticel? In “A Forest Language,” Hannah brings to life... Read More ›
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  • Conservation Meets Horticulture with Lea Johnson - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - July 6, 2026

    Conservation Meets Horticulture with Lea Johnson - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - July 6, 2026
    2026/07/03
    Today’s guest is a plant ecologist whose work, she says, is driven by this question: “All of the wild diversity of life on earth is here, with us, right now. How can we take it with us into the future?” It’s a compelling question, and one that can motivate not just scientists like Lea Johnson, Director of Conservation at Native Plant Trust in New England, but also native-plant gardeners like us. She is here to talk about where conservation and gardening intersect, and some of the challenges and the possibilities we face together. Lea Johnson joined Native Plant Trust, the nation’s... Read More ›
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  • Talking Houseplants with August Laska - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - July 20, 2026

    Talking Houseplants with August Laska - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - July 20, 2026
    2026/07/17
    Are you a follower of fashion—houseplant fashion, that is—seeking out the latest variety that everyone’s after, perhaps the “it” plant that’s been splashed across social media? Or was each houseplant in your care carefully chosen because it’s a perfect match for the light and other indoor conditions you can offer it? Whatever your criteria, emotional or practical or otherwise, how do you know what’s the right houseplant for you? It’s a question that today’s guest, August Laska, and his team at The Old Yew Plant Shops are asked all the time. August and I are going to head inside today from... Read More ›
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  • Welcoming Amphibians with JJ Apodaca - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Aug. 3, 2026

    Welcoming Amphibians with JJ Apodaca - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Aug. 3, 2026
    2026/07/31
    I don’t recall who tipped me off to the Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy’s email newsletter, but I am glad that I found it and signed up. Those of you who are longtime listeners or readers of A Way to Garden know that I have, shall we say, a thing for frogs … so maybe it’s no surprise that I was delighted to discover an organization that is implementing a network of on-the-ground conservation projects around the U.S. in behalf of imperiled amphibians, as well as for reptiles. The non-profit Amphibian and Reptile Conservancy’s mission is to identify and conserve the highest-priority... Read More ›
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  • Radicchio with Lane Selman - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Aug. 10, 2026

    Radicchio with Lane Selman - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Aug. 10, 2026
    2026/08/07
    When was the last time you made room in your vegetable garden for something a little out of the ordinary that you’d never grown or maybe even tasted before? I don’t know of anyone who speaks out more passionately or eloquently in behalf of exceptional vegetable varieties than Lane Selman, who’s introduced an ever-widening audience—myself among them—to many of her favorites over the years, like distinctive peppers and an expanded palette of winter crops, including a delicious diversity of radicchio. Now Lane has a cookbook coming out in September, too, called “Radicchio: A Celebration of the Beloved Italian Vegetable,” a crop... Read More ›
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  • Vegetable Garden Wisdom with JM Fortier - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept. 7, 2026

    Vegetable Garden Wisdom with JM Fortier - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept. 7, 2026
    2026/09/04
    When I heard that today’s guest, who’s been a guiding force in educating organic farmers, was finally publishing a book specifically for gardeners … I was thrilled. I’d been following JM Fortier since his first handbook on biointensive organic market farming came out more than a decade ago, and even gone to hear him speak at farming conferences—then done my best to translate and distill his advice and apply it to my own garden size and conditions. Now JM has done all the translating from farm to backyard scale for all of us, within the pages of his latest, “In Your... Read More ›
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  • Exceptional Woody Plants from 'Arnold Selects' - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept. 14, 2026

    Exceptional Woody Plants from 'Arnold Selects' - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept. 14, 2026
    2026/09/11
    What makes a tree or shrub exceptional – something worthy of introduction into the nursery trade, and eventually maybe making its way into your garden? There are many pathways a plant can travel to get there, including one unique one from the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University. As part of its 150th anniversary celebration in 2022, the arboretum announced its Arnold Selects program for identifying and launching such potential treasures, each with its own provenance or story to tell, inspired by the arboretum’s vast and historic living collections. I wanted to know what catches the eyes of the modern-day experts there... Read More ›
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