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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
  • Eco Garden Care with Dan Wilder - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Nov. 3, 2025

    Eco Garden Care with Dan Wilder - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Nov. 3, 2025
    2025/10/31
    Besides their native-heavier plant palette and looser style, ecologically designed landscapes have another difference: The way we maintain them is not the same as with more traditional, ornamentally-focused gardens. I’m asked again and again by gardeners who have planted a meadow-like area or some other habitat-inspired, naturalistic feature about how to handle its aftercare: about what to do when the picture changes a couple of years down the road and thereafter — when the balance of the plants in their design starts to shift, and there’s too much or too little of something for their liking, or when some unwanted weedy... Read More ›
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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
  • Woodpeckers with Paul Bannick - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Oct. 27, 2025

    Woodpeckers with Paul Bannick - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Oct. 27, 2025
    2025/10/24
    Today’s guest didn’t have to convince me to be wild about woodpeckers, because I already am—utterly so. These charismatic, hardworking birds make oversized ecological contributions to the environments they inhabit and to the other creatures that they share them with — and the more you learn about them, the more astonishing they become. Paul Bannick’s new book is “Woodpecker: A Year in the Life of North American Woodpeckers” and he’s here to tell us their story. Seattle-based Paul is an award-winning author and wildlife photographer focused on the natural history of North America, and in particular on the conservation of... Read More ›
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    28 分
  • Leaf Removal's Impact with Max Ferlauto - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Oct. 20, 2025

    Leaf Removal's Impact with Max Ferlauto - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Oct. 20, 2025
    2025/10/17
    Every gardener has certainly heard the rallying cry each recent autumn to “leave the leaves”, invoking us to go gentler with our cleanup to support a diversity of beneficial invertebrates who call the fallen leaves their home. Now a recently published research study calculates just what the impacts of leaf removal are to which organisms, and also offers insights into how and where in our landscapes we can leave the leaves to create habitat with the most positive impact. Max Ferlauto, the Maryland state entomologist, is one of the scientists who conducted the new research, and in March this year,... Read More ›
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  • 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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  • Winter Squash with Kevin West - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Oct. 13, 2025

    Winter Squash with Kevin West - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Oct. 13, 2025
    2025/10/08
    Kevin West begins his newest book, called “The Cook’s Garden,” like this: “This is a book about flavor,” he writes. “It is a book about how to become a better cook by stepping into the garden.” His is not just a cookbook, though. It’s also a book about how to grow edible crops, from seed to harvest—so a cookbook and a gardening book all in one, highlighting exceptional varieties to cultivate and enjoy. Since this is the start of serious winter squash season, and Kevin and I both delight in them, so growing and cooking winter squash was our topic for... Read More ›
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    27 分
  • Sourdough, with Gardener Sarah Owens - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Oct. 6, 2025

    Sourdough, with Gardener Sarah Owens - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Oct. 6, 2025
    2025/10/03
    Almost 10 years ago on this program, I talked about making sourdough starter with today’s guest, Sarah Owens, on the occasion of the publication her book called “Sourdough.” Now a 10th anniversary edition of the James Beard Award-winning book is about to arrive, and I wanted to check in with Sarah—who is also an accomplished gardener—to inspire us to maybe get that starter going again and do some baking with seasonal ingredients this fall and winter. Sarah Owens, author of “Sourdough: Rustic Recipes for Fermented Breads, Sweets, Savories, and More,” has already had several very creative careers. Originally a professional ceramic... Read More ›
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    28 分