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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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  • Transplanting & Watering Tips with Jenks Farmer - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept. 15, 2025

    Transplanting & Watering Tips with Jenks Farmer - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept. 15, 2025
    2025/09/12
    In recent growing seasons, the “new normal” of a changing climate has sometimes been making me feel like my Northeastern garden has relocated farther to the South. So maybe that’s part of what caught my attention when I saw news of a new book called “Secrets of Southern Gardening: Pro Tips for Success” that was just published by today’s guest, horticulturist, nurseryman and garden designer Jenks Farmer. He’s here to share some of those tips on smarter planting, especially of trees, and watering how-to’s and more, many of them applicable for wherever you garden, so more in a moment. Augustus... 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
  • Bird Watching with Julie Zickefoose - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept. 8, 2025

    Bird Watching with Julie Zickefoose - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept. 8, 2025
    2025/09/05
    The fall bird migration is under way, and that means the cast of characters we’re seeing and hearing in the garden is changing quickly – as we say goodbye for now to some species, and keep a close eye out for any southbound travelers who may stop in for a short visit. I love to watch for signs of both – and can’t imagine a day that doesn’t involve watching birds at least a little. That’s why I was happy to learn about a fun new book about bird-watching basics by the editors of “BWD Magazine” that ventures into related... Read More ›
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    28 分
  • Poison Ivy with Dr. Susan Pell - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept. 1, 2025

    Poison Ivy with Dr. Susan Pell - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Sept. 1, 2025
    2025/08/29
    In the age of climate change, my guest on today’s reprise edition of the podcast told me, we can expect “more poison ivy and meaner poison ivy,” and I’d say from what I see growing around me and the rashes on friends, that both are coming true. Though it may feel like it to many gardeners and others who spend time outdoors, poison ivy was not put on the planet to punish mankind for some sin—or to boost antihistamine sales and dermatologist visits. As with every native plant—and yes, Toxicodendron radicans is a native plant, and an important one at... 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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  • 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
    2025/08/22
    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 分
  • 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
    2025/08/15
    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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