Episodi

  • 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 min
  • 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
    Jul 3 2026
    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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    27 min
  • Tomato Troubles with Craig LeHoullier – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 13, 2026

    Tomato Troubles with Craig LeHoullier – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – July 13, 2026
    Jul 10 2026
    I call the phenomenon tomato troubles: the yellow-spotted foliage that falls off, or the plant that produces all those misshapen fruits. And yes, the attack of the hornworms, too, when you wake up to a lot of missing leaves one day. Or all of the above. A few years back I checked in with the tomato man himself, Craig LeHoullier, author of the book “Epic Tomatoes,” to see what we can do even under such high summer pressures to bring in that delicious harvest, and since I’m hearing from listeners already this year about tomato troubles of their own, I thought it... Read More ›
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    28 min
  • 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
    Jul 17 2026
    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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    27 min
  • Pick of the Hydrangeas, with Adam Wheeler - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - July 27, 2026

    Pick of the Hydrangeas, with Adam Wheeler - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - July 27, 2026
    Jul 24 2026
    Trigger warning: Today’s segment will include mention of irresistible hydrangeas and may prompt severe plant-shopping binges in susceptible individuals. You’ve been warned. My guest is Adam Wheeler of Broken Arrow Nursery, a retail and mail-order destination for exceptional plants in Connecticut, where an extravagant array of unusual hydrangeas representing more than just your average species are part of the portfolio. There are hydrangeas with gold leaves, or variegated ones, and every imaginable flower form, and even a wider range of flower colors than you may know about. Adam Wheeler joined Broken Arrow Nursery in 2004, where he is the production and... Read More ›
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    27 min
  • 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
    Jul 31 2026
    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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    26 min
  • 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 min
  • Successions and Cover Crops with Doug Muller - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 29, 2026

    Successions and Cover Crops with Doug Muller - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - June 29, 2026
    Jun 26 2026
    I know, it feels like we just planted the vegetable garden moments ago. But a close look around as summer really takes hold quickly reminds us that our work is never done. Some crop or other is reaching the end of its run, making room for a succession sowing of more of that same thing or something else altogether, or maybe of a weed-suppressing, soil-building cover crop—some of which are actually edible, too, in what’s perhaps the cleverest season-extending scheme of all. Mastering the art of stretching the harvest season is my topic today with Doug Muller of Hudson Valley Seed... Read More ›
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    27 min