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.

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 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.

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.

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.