“Gardening in Georgia” (
www.gardeningingeorgia.com) is produced by the University of
Georgia College of Agricultural and Environmental Sciences and
GPTV. It airs twice each
Saturday, at noon and 7 p.m.

This week, the tomatoes are up, and the squash is growing fast.
Reeves advises on managing some of the vegetables he planted in
an earlier show at the UGA Research and Education Garden in
Griffin.

Buggy Peaches

CAES entomologist Dan Horton tells how hard it can be to control
insects in peaches. He describes some integrated pest management
(IPM) techniques you can use to grow backyard peaches. Horton
recommends the UGA publication, “2002 Disease and Insect IPM in
the Home Orchard.”

Wayne McLaurin, a CAES horticulturist, tells all about growing
watermelons in your home garden. He tells the best varieties to
plant and how to coax the tastiest melons from them.

Finally, you may have heard that when someone gives you a
florist
azalea, it won’t survive and flower if you plant it outside. But
Reeves says it will — if you give it special care during the
first critical year after you plant it.