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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
  • Lawn Transformation With Sara Weaner - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Oct. 21, 2024

    Lawn Transformation With Sara Weaner - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Oct. 21, 2024
    2024/10/18
    Today’s guest, Sara Weaner Cooper, and her husband, Evan Cooper, bought their first home a couple of years ago, and before long undertook transitioning the front lawn organically from mown grass into a meadow. Sara’s here to tell us about their hands-on adventure and all the how-to steps—including the importance of communicating your intentions to your neighbors along the way. Sara Weaner Cooper, who has her bachelor’s and master’s in anthropology and education, is executive director of New Directions in the American Landscape, an educational organization founded by her father, the renown ecological landscape designer Larry Weaner, that promotes ecology-based landscape... Read More ›
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    29 分
  • 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
  • Birding Journal With Joan Strassmann - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Oct. 14, 2024

    Birding Journal With Joan Strassmann - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Oct. 14, 2024
    2024/10/11
    It was almost two years ago to the day when today’s guest, Joan Strassmann, last visited me on the show, right around the time her book “Slow Birding” was released. Now, as then, I’ve seen what are pretty much my last migrant warblers of the year move through the garden, and am wondering how long I get to look at the garden’s masses of winterberry hollies before the robins and cedar waxwings have at them … and whether the black bears will let me put up the bird feeders as early as Thanksgiving this year or not without a run-in. ... Read More ›
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    29 分
  • Native Seeds With Tim Johnson - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Oct. 7, 2024

    Native Seeds With Tim Johnson - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Oct. 7, 2024
    2024/10/04
    When I read the other day that Native Plant Trust, the nonprofit plant conservation organization in New England, had successfully raised the money to complete the endowment fund needed to save its region’s most imperiled native plants in a seed bank, it was like a silver-lining kind of story. Yes, the plight of natives in the region – like the state of native species in other regions around the country – is dire; Native Plant Trust estimates that “a staggering 17 percent of the region’s native plants are on the brink of extinction, with an additional 5 percent already lost.”... Read More ›
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    29 分
  • 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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  • Managing Invasives With Daniel Weitoish - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Sept. 30, 2024

    Managing Invasives With Daniel Weitoish - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Sept. 30, 2024
    2024/09/27
    Increasingly in recent years, my garden “weeds” include more and more tenacious opponents – and the landscape along the roadsides nearby and pretty much everywhere I drive is one of hedgerows formed of a tangle of non-native shrubs and vines. I’m talking about invasive species, of course, and they are our topic today with Daniel Weitoish of Cornell Botanic Gardens. We’ll hear how to identify which plants to target as we try to manage our landscapes, and how to tackle them most strategically. Daniel is the Arboriculture Supervisor at Cornell Botanic Gardens in Ithaca, New York, where he and his colleagues... Read More ›
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    29 分
  • Ecological Landscaping With Preston Montague - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Sept. 23, 2024

    Ecological Landscaping With Preston Montague - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Sept. 23, 2024
    2024/09/20
    If you have ever tried creating, and then caring for, a habitat-style garden with native plants … well, let’s just say it’s not exactly the same thing as combining a group of hostas with some astilbes an a couple of bleeding hearts. In the process of writing a recent NY Times garden column about Wild Ones, the nationwide nonprofit membership organization that promotes native plants, I was introduced to today’s guest, the artist and landscape architect Preston Montague of Durham, N.C., who patiently schooled me in some of whys and how-to’s of naturalistic garden design and care that I wanted... Read More ›
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    28 分