Beginning April 1, Georgians will have a new TV gardening
show created just for
them.
The
Georgia Gardener, which will air twice each week on Georgia Public
Television, is a unique show to
Georgia. It focuses just on Georgia and is designed for
people who enjoy America’s No. 1
leisure activity.
The University of
Georgia College of
Agricultural and Environmental Sciences is
producing the show, in cooperation with GPTV and Peachtree
Film Company.
“Gardener”
debut
The Georgia Gardener will debut on GPTV April 1 at 7:30
p.m. The show will air each
Thursday at 7:30 p.m. and repeat on Saturdays at 10
a.m.
“We hope the Georgia Gardener will be viewers’ weekly
gardening activity
planner,” said host Walter Reeves, a UGA
horticulture educator.
Reeves’
background
Reeves is a familiar voice to many Atlantans. He’s the
host of WSB 750
AM‘s Lawn & Garden Show,
the top-rated Atlanta radio show airs every Saturday
morning from 7 to 10 a.m.
A frequent featured speaker on gardening, Reeves is a
best-selling author and has
appeared on Discovery
Channel‘s Lynette
Jennings Show.
“After answering questions on the radio for more than
10 years, I’ll finally be
able to show people how to do things that before I could
only describe,” he said.
Program for gardeners
statewide
The Georgia Gardener will have something for gardeners
across the state.
“Georgia has four growing zones and three completely
different types of soil,
which makes giving gardening advice a challenge,” Reeves
said. “This show will
help people understand how to be successful within their
zone and with their soil
type.”
The home garden for The Georgia Gardener is being built
on the CAES Griffin
campus. But the show won’t stop
there.
“We’ll use the whole state as our garden,” Reeves said.
Most shows will take
a road trip to see what’s going on in Georgia
gardening.
Drawing from a deep knowledge
base
Reeves will draw on his heritage as a seventh-
generation gardener and his 25 years with
the UGA Extension
Service.
He’ll also tap the wealth of knowledge of the
university. CAES researchers and
extension scientists have the technical know-how and
latest developments to make your
garden a showplace.
“The Georgia Gardener show will be different from other
gardening shows,”
Reeves said, “because it will be friendly, open,
enthusiastic, yet
down-to-earth.”
The show will offer publications and a WWW site that will
give more in-depth
information about most segments of the show. To see what’s
coming on The Georgia Gardener,
visit www.georgiagardener.com
.
