On the Aug. 31 “Gardening in Georgia,” host Walter Reeves
discovers that growing citrus plants in Georgia isn’t as hard as
it seems.

“Gardening in
Georgia” airs twice on Saturdays, at noon and 7 p.m., on
Georgia Public
Television. It’s co-produced by the University of Georgia
College of
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and GPTV.

On the Aug. 31 show, University of Georgia horticulturist Mark
Reiger shows Reeves several cold-hardy citrus that can be grown
on a deck or patio and moved into the house on the coldest winter
nights.

Stepping stones

Reeves shows viewers how to make stepping stones for your yard or
garden, too. He uses nails to support strips of cardboard that
can be bent into any form to contain poured concrete. On this
show, he makes stones in the shape of a foot and a dogwood flower
petal.

Finally, Reeves looks at mushrooms, the flowering part of an
underground fungus. He shows a line of mushrooms that sprouted
where a tree root died and is being decomposed by fungi.

There is no way to eliminate the underground fungus, he says. So
there’s no way to keep mushrooms from popping up. The various
ways of dealing with mushrooms when they appear, though, aren’t
really so bad. Some can even be fun.