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  • Goldenrods with Sam Hoadley - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Feb. 2, 2026

    Goldenrods with Sam Hoadley - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Feb. 2, 2026
    Jan 30 2026
    Goldenrods are powerhouses – keystone plants that serve as hosts for more than 100 species of butterflies and moths, and rich late-season sources of pollen and nectar for countless beneficial insects followed by sustenance in the form of seed for birds. Now Mt. Cuba Center, the native plant garden and research institution in Delaware, has published the results of its three-year trial of 70 different goldenrods – and their manager of horticultural research Sam Hoadley is here to tell us what they learned about the best goldenrods and how to use them in your garden. Sam is the Manager of... Read More ›
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    28 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
  • Top Tomatoes with Don Tipping - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Jan. 26 2026

    Top Tomatoes with Don Tipping - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Jan. 26 2026
    Jan 23 2026
    IT WAS 1 degree Fahrenheit outside when I looked at my electronic weather station readout this morning – a perfect time for some winter-defying tactics like talking tomatoes. Organic seed farmer and breeder Don Tipping of Siskiyou Seeds in Oregon is here for that colorful, warming conversation. After trialing 55 tomato varieties last season, Don has some goodies to recommend and some advice on growing your best tomatoes – including ones that actually store well long after harvest – yes, storage tomatoes! Don Tipping founded Siskiyou Seeds, a family run, farm-based organic seed company in 1997. Siskiyou is a farm... Read More ›
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    27 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
  • Reprise Matt Mattus on Sweet Peas – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 19, 2026

    Reprise Matt Mattus on Sweet Peas – A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach – Jan 19, 2026
    Jan 16 2026
    Every year when I get to the sweet pea listings in the seed catalogs, I think this is the year, the year I’ll organize some supports in the garden for them, and indulge in their unmatched extravagance of color and fragrance. Today’s guest, in a repise performance from January 2024, doesn’t hesitate one second or have to think twice about sweet peas ever, which are always on the list in his Massachusetts garden, grown both as cut flowers and elements of beds and borders. Matt Mattus, author of “Mastering the Art of Flower Gardening,” and also of “Mastering the Art... Read More ›
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    27 min
  • Dye Plants with James Young - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Jan 12 2026

    Dye Plants with James Young - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Jan 12 2026
    Jan 9 2026
    Until I met today’s guest, James Young, early in 2025, it hadn’t really registered in my brain that some of the familiar annuals I grow from seed, like cosmos and marigolds and even purple basil, could also double as dye plants. James is co-owner of Grand Prismatic Seed, a gorgeous and information packed online seed catalog based in Northern Utah, where plants that offer natural dyes are one specialty alongside regional natives and high desert-adapted edibles and flowers. James is passionate about the fiber arts, and he’s been an expert knitter since high school and is also deep into the... Read More ›
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    27 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
  • Must-Try Vegetable Seeds with Lane Selman - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Jan. 5, 2026

    Must-Try Vegetable Seeds with Lane Selman - A Way to Garden with Margaret Roach - Jan. 5, 2026
    Jan 2 2026
    I’m letting myself be transported away from the winter scene outside my window, burying my nose not in the snow but instead in the spring-into-summer possibilities depicted in seed-catalog pages. I have familiar, favorite varieties I grow every year – but I’m also looking for some new-to-me possibilities, and today’s guest, Lane Selman of the Culinary Breeding Network at Oregon State University, always has some delicious suggestions. Lane Selman, a professor of practice at Oregon State University, founded the Culinary Breeding Network in 2012, a collaborative community of plant breeders, seed growers, farmers, produce buyers and chefs collaborating to improve... Read More ›
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    27 min