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  • 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
    Oct 4 2024
    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 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.
  • 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
    Sep 27 2024
    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 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.
  • 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
    Sep 20 2024
    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 Min.
  • Native Plant Stories With Jared Rosenbaum - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Sept. 16, 2024

    Native Plant Stories With Jared Rosenbaum - A Way to Garden With Margaret Roach - Sept. 16, 2024
    Sep 13 2024
    “Plants tell the story of a place,” says field botanist and native plant nursery owner Jared Rosenbaum. “If you want to be rooted on the earth you live on, you can look to plants to interpret that story.” With his friend, a filmmaker named Jared Flesher a.k.a. “the other Jared,” Jared Rosenbaum creates what they call “funky but highly cinematic 5-minute videos about the ecology of wild plants.” The second season of their series titled “Rooted” is debuting on YouTube Sept. 15 with a video on none other than the Eastern prickly pear cactus, the only hardy cactus of the... Read More ›
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    28 Min.
  • 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 Min.
  • Soil-Supporting Advice, With the Real Organic Project - A Way to Garden, With Margaret Roach - Sept. 9, 2024

    Soil-Supporting Advice, With the Real Organic Project - A Way to Garden, With Margaret Roach - Sept. 9, 2024
    Sep 6 2024
    Organic farming and gardening have always been based on the principle of “feed the soil, not the plant.” In a recent interview, I got some expert advice for doing that, and also learn why our diligent soil-consciousness matters so much, with the co-directors of the nonprofit Real Organic Project, a farmer-led organization advocating for food produced in concert with healthy soils and pastures. Dave Chapman and Linley Dixon are co-directors of the Real Organic Project, which since 2018 has created an add-on label to USDA Organic, to differentiate organic food that is soil-grown, not hydroponic, and animal products that are... Read More ›
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    28 Min.