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
  • Meadow Making With Benjamin Vogt - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - July 15, 2024

    Meadow Making With Benjamin Vogt - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - July 15, 2024
    Jul 12 2024
    Are you thinking about the possibility of transitioning an area of your lawn into something more diverse, like maybe a meadow? A question I’m asked a lot is how to go about it – the actual preparatory steps – so I invited Benjamin Vogt, a specialist in natural landscape design, to walk us through the process. Today’s guest, Benjamin Vogt, is owner of Prairie Up, formerly called Monarch Gardens, and besides offering garden design to clients nationwide, he teaches online classes and webinars, too. Benjamin is the author of two books, “A New Garden Ethic,” and more recently, “Prairie Up: An Introduction to Natural Garden Design.”... Read More ›
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    28 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
  • Lessons from the High Line - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - July 8, 2024

    Lessons from the High Line - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - July 8, 2024
    Jul 5 2024
    It’s one of the best-known naturalistic gardens anywhere, and yet it’s perched in the most unnatural spot imaginable, 30 feet high above New York City traffic on an abandoned elevated railway line. The High Line on Manhattan’s West Side is celebrating the 15th anniversary of the opening of its first section, years that have been filled with expert lessons on gardening in this looser, nature-inspired style. Today’s guest is Richard Hayden, the High Line’s senior director of horticulture. His team of 10 horticulturists manages the naturalistic gardens, originally designed by Piet Oudolf of the Netherlands, spanning portions of the 1.5-mile... Read More ›
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    29 m
  • A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - July 1, 2024 - Hortus Arboretum's Unusual Fruits

    A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - July 1, 2024 - Hortus Arboretum's Unusual Fruits
    Jun 28 2024
    Some of the many unusual fruits that Allyson Levy and Scott Serrano grow in their arboretum in the Hudson Valley of New York, like goji berries or maybe Schisandra, are ones you’re more likely to see on ingredient labels of health food store products than for sale in nurseries or growing in gardens. But grow them you can. Allyson and Scott have a passion for fruit, which was the topic of their 2022 book, “Cold-Hardy Fruits And Nuts: 50 Easy-to-Grow Plants for the Organic Home Garden or Landscape,” including selections from around the world that they’ve had success with. They... Read More ›
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    29 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
  • Audit Your Garden With Rodney Eason - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - June 24, 2024

    Audit Your Garden With Rodney Eason - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - June 24, 2024
    Jun 21 2024
    Nobody wants to get the IRS notice in the mail that they’re being audited, heaven forbid. But when it comes to gardens, Rodney Eason believes that the occasional audit is a very positive process, and encourages us to perform one on our own landscape. Rodney became director of horticulture for the Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University in the fall of 2023. Prior to that, he was CEO at Mount Desert Land and Garden Preserve in Maine, the director of horticulture and garden curator at Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens, and even before that, display leader at Longwood Gardens in Pennsylvania.
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    29 m
  • Garden Visiting With Ken Druse - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - June 17, 2024

    Garden Visiting With Ken Druse - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - June 17, 2024
    Jun 14 2024
    What’s one of the best sources of inspiration and information about gardening you can get outside of a classroom, and that is also wonderfully entertaining? By making time to go visit other people’s gardens, we can open ourselves up to lots of learning. And on the flip side of that equation, opening our own gardens to visitors can be a pretty educational experience, too. It’s peak garden-visiting season, and my friend Ken Druse is here to talk about being a garden tourist and a garden host. Ken Druse is familiar to all of you as a regular guest on this... Read More ›
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    29 m