Episodes

  • 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 mins
  • Snapdragons With Joseph Tychonievich - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Jan. 27, 2025

    Snapdragons With Joseph Tychonievich - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Jan. 27, 2025
    Jan 24 2025
    Anybody in the mood for something just plain pretty at the moment, something to search the seed catalogs for, choosing among the many wildly colorful varieties, and then get ready to sow? Something hopeful and bright? Me too! After I saw a photo of a bed of snapdragons the other day from last year’s garden of today’s guest, I thought they might just be the thing to bring us all some delight, so Joseph Tychonievich is here to entice us further and tell us how. Joseph Tychonievich is a writer, a plant breeder and of course a gardener—and the creator... Read More ›
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    28 mins
  • 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 mins
  • The Winter Garden With Warren Leach - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Jan. 20, 2025

    The Winter Garden With Warren Leach - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Jan. 20, 2025
    Jan 17 2025
    How’s winter shaping up where you are so far – or more to the point, how’s the winter garden looking? What’s your view out the window this time of year, and could it be improved with some strategic enhancements? That’s today’s topic with the author of a new book called “Plants for the Winter Garden,” Warren Leach, who offers his advice for creating a true-four season garden no matter where you are. Warren is a nurseryman and landscape designer based in Rehoboth, Massachusetts, where he and his wife operate Tranquil Lake Nursery.
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    29 mins
  • Your Natural Garden With Kelly Norris - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Jan. 13, 2025

    Your Natural Garden With Kelly Norris - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Jan. 13, 2025
    Jan 10 2025
    As many of us heavy up on native plants, and transition larger areas of our landscapes toward more naturalistic styles of design, there is a lot to learn – or maybe un-learn, if our gardening experience up until now was a bit more traditionally formal, and ornamentally focused. A new book called “Your Natural Garden” by garden designer Kelly Norris asks, and answers, a lot of the questions we may find ourselves encountering along the way. He’s here today to share some advice on making and maintaining an ecological garden.
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    28 mins
  • 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 mins
  • Winter Tree Care With Basil Camu - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Jan. 6, 2025

    Winter Tree Care With Basil Camu - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Jan. 6, 2025
    Jan 3 2025
    I messaged to my arborist neighbor the other day to just say, “Happy holidays.” And at the end of my note, I also said this: “See you soon.” Winter may be the quiet season up North here in the garden in general, but it’s when a lot of the pruning work gets done. Arborist Basil Camu of Leaf & Limb tree-care company in Raleigh, N.C., helped me map out a tree care to-do list for the season, including winter pruning and other tasks. Basil is co-founder of Leaf & Limb, and author of the book “From Wasteland to Wonder: Easy... Read More ›
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    28 mins
  • 2024 Recap With Joe Lamp'l - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Dec. 30, 2024

    2024 Recap With Joe Lamp'l - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Dec. 30, 2024
    Dec 26 2024
    Whether out loud here on the podcast or just between us on one of our periodic late Friday afternoon phone calls, I always benefit from catching up with today’s guest, Joe Lamp’l (aka Joe Gardener). Probably no time for talking is more beneficial than around year’s end, when Joe and I like to compare notes on what went well—and not so much—in our garden adventures. Comparing notes with a friend who’s a fellow gardener can help each of us do better next time, and that’s what’s on the agenda. Joe Lamp’l is host of a popular podcast called the Joe... Read More ›
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    28 mins