University of Georgia

Whether you’re an avid gardener or don’t garden at all, it’s
easy to grow herbs. Most require little care and are almost pest-
free. And on “Gardening in Georgia” May 14, host Walter Reeves
will show you all you need to know to get started.

“Gardening in Georgia” is produced by Georgia Public
Broadcasting and the University of Georgia College of
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences. It airs each Saturday at
12:30 and 7 p.m.

On his May 14 show, Reeves visits with Wayne McLaurin, a UGA
horticulture professor emeritus who wrote the book on growing
herbs in the South.

Really

McLaurin and his wife Sylvia wrote “Herbs in Southern Gardens.”
You can get the book for $5 at your county UGA Extension office.

Reeves and McLaurin plant an herb bed and describe the flavors
and scents available. Herbs taste better, McLaurin says, when
they get little fertilizer but lots of sunshine. The heat
heightens the taste in the herbs’ leaves.

Later in the show, Reeves will show how he builds a raised bed
with 2-by-10 lumber. Vegetables, flowers and herbs all grow best
in raised beds. Reeves tells about other ways to build raised
beds. And he shows how to prepare the soil, a key to successful
raised-bed gardening.