2009 (Spring) Remote Broadcasts and Appearances
Mar 21 - Atlanta Home Show - Cobb Galleria - Noon - "Cool Tools a more...

A Man and His Manure
I have had much experience with manure.

Too much, in fact.

Our small farm, in then-rural Fayette County, housed more...

Biofuels - To Meet Energy Needs
The first comprehensive analysis of the full life-cycles of soybean biodiesel and corn grain ethanol shows that biodiesel has more...

Bulbs from My Bubber
I believe I received my penchant for gardening from my grandmother on my father’s side: Rachel Belle Powell Reeves. She was " more...

Changing Names - Just Call Me Frank
I have a friend whose middle name, given at birth, is Elizabeth. In the usual Southern tradition, she was immediately called more...

How To Amend Your Soil
Good soil is the basis of every landscape success. Most of us are not blessed with good soil - we have lots of clay, which h more...

How to Attend Broadcasts at Pike Family Nursery
Pike Family Nursery remote broadcasts are always fun! What could be better than to do a radio show about gardening in the mid more...

How to Attend the 2008 Southeastern Flower Show for Free
The first 50 people who come to our remote broadcast at the World Congress Center (Hall A) February 2 will receive more...

How To be Sherlock Holmes in the Landscape
I receive more than 5000 emails a year asking my advice on solving landscape problems.

I can’t keep all that informat more...

How To Build a Garden Hose Water Level
The heavy rains earlier this year exposed drainage problems I had forgotten over the last four years of drought. Mounds of pi more...

How to Build a Propagation Soil Warmer
My father straightened nails and re-used them. Some nails on our chicken farm had first been bought during the Hoover adminis more...

How to Build a Rain Barrel
Walter's Rain Barrel Instructions< more...

How To Build a School Nature Trail
A school nature trail is a great addition to the educational efforts of teachers, neighbors and parents. Here are some ideas more...

How to Build a Simple Compost Bin
Composting your yard waste is simple if you have an enclosure of some sort to hold the trimmings. You can purchase ready made more...

How to Build a Tree House
When the kids are out of school you may be tempted to build a treehouse for them to play in during the summer. Before you hea more...

How to Buy Fertilizer
For a couple of years now, I have presented a talk entitled "You Can’t Get Any Lower Than Dirt!" to gardening groups in the S more...

How to Choose a Landscape Designer
Did you build your own home?

For the majority of homeowners in the area, the answer is “No! I didn’t have the skills t more...

How to Choose a Landscape Maintenance Company
The slips of paper with scribbled phone numbers are passed from hand to hand surreptitiously at neighborhood gatherings. Phra more...

How to Choose an Arborist
After hurricanes, tornadoes and ice storms, tree care professionals do an excellent job clearing downed trees and repairing d more...

How To Contact Theresa Schrum (Eco Terra Landscape Consultants)
Theresa Schrum is the owner of Eco Terra Landscape Consultants.< more...

How to Dispose of Old Chemicals
If you need to clean out a storage room on my carport that has many old containers of weed killer, bug spray and fertilizer. more...

How To Do a Science Project
Science projects can be a real strain for kids and their parents. Many times "let's do an experiment on plants!" is the first more...

How To Eat Chitterlings
My grandfather, Walter Cowart, was many things: Mayor of Union City, razor salesman, real estate investor, kudzu promoter and more...

How To Enter Garden Event Information
Garden Event Planner -

Just click on the link below and you'll be taken to the event information entry page.

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How to Find Special Plants
Sometimes a particular plant simply knocks your socks off. Maybe you see a picture in a magazine or hear it described on tele more...

How To Find the Farmers and Consumers Market Bulletin
The Farmers and Consumers Market Bulletin is published bi-weekly by the Georgia Department of Agriculture. It contains many c more...

How To Force Branches to Flower in Winter
In just a few weeks the daffodils and flowering magnolias will bloom, but not many other plants are brave enough to display t more...

How to Get Free Compost
DeKalb County Public Works collects landscape debris and composts it. The compost is piled at four sites in the county more...

How To Get Previous Issues of Georgia Gardener Newsletter
The Georgia Gardener Newsletter is e-mailed every two weeks. more...

How To Get Rid of Stumps
Mother Nature has been cooking stumps for millions of years. Given moisture and warmth, insects and fungi consume the tissue more...

How to Get the "Lawns in Georgia" publication
The University of Georgia sometimes pulls publications to update them...but they don't give an expected date when the publica more...

How to Get Your Gardening Questions Answered
My website contains just about EVERYTHING I have ever written. Try to find your answer here first, using one or two words in more...

How to Grow Kudzu
Tifton B.Merritt is a writer, raconteur and afficionado of all things Southern. Here are his directions on the finer points o more...

How to Identify Walter
I often get the opportunity to identify strange plants that appear in Georgia landscapes.

My friend Theresa Schrum sna more...

How to Maintain Your Mower
Maybe you were one of those who can't resist the ‘call of the turf’ this year. If you began mowing (assuming you could get yo more...

How to Make a Garden Tuteur (Trellis)
One of my delights is finding new ways to use common materials to benefit my plants. My friend Tara Dillard taught me the wo more...

How to Make a "Really Raised Bed" Accessible Garden
I've had a great time with mine.

C more...

How to Make a Clay Pot Man
Gardeners have a wide variety of “tastes” when it comes to landscape decorations. If you are looking for directions to make a more...

How to Make a PVC Hoop Greenhouse
Here's an idea that strecthes the seasons a little, for bedding plants and early veggies:

Get several pieces of 1/2 or more...

How to Make a PVC Plant Light Stand
My neighbor Lisa called me after reading an article I'd written about building a heating pad for plant propagation. "You are more...

How to Make Ambrosia
Kathy Henderson hosted "The Lawn and Garden Show" on WSB for many years. One bit of information she featured each holiday sea more...

How to Make Cheese Muffins
Molly Wilson’s cheese muffin recipe.

2 sticks of very soft (almost melted) butter
1 cup of sour cream
2 cups of more...

How to Make Colored Flames for Fireplace
A reader recently asked me. "Do you know where I may obtain the formulae for the chemicals in which to soak pine cones that w more...

How to Make Compost
"I am trying composting for the first time so I bought one of those compost enclosures in August. At this point it looks more more...

How to Make Garden Footstones
At this time of year, I’m looking for any excuse to keep out of the sun while still accomplishing projects for my landscape. more...

How to Make Homemade Bird Suet
Some time ago my newspaper colleague Charles Seabrook wrote about the many species of ducks that overwinter at the E. L. Huie more...

How to Make Muscadine Hull Pie
My mother was never one to let things go to waste. We enjoyed sucking the sweet contents of muscadine grapes each fall but we more...

How to Make Peach Ice Cream
I grew up hand-cranking ice cream.

The churn body was wooden, with a cast iron gearbox and a long cast iron arm with a more...

How To Make Well-Drained Soil
I was explaining to someone recently that flowering cherry trees absolutely require well-drained soil to succeed. “Well, that more...

How to Make Your Own Potting Soil
Good General Growing Mix: Cornell "Peat-lite"

4 qts. Vermiculite (#2 size)
4 qts Shredded Peat Moss
1 T. Limesto more...

How to Mulch Correctly
Though occasional rain is reassuring, the hot weather always reminds us that drought is persistent. I’ve gotten many questio more...

How to Order Hey Bug Doctor!
I’ve enjoyed reading Jim Howell’s columns on insects in the AJC Home and Garden section for several years. When I heard he wa more...

How to Propagate Shrubs from Cuttings
June is the perfect time to propagate shrubs. Whether it’s your great-grandmother’s rose or just a favorite hydrangea, we all more...

How to Soil Test
If the word TEST gives you the fantods, contemplate a test that is simple to take, doesn’t reflect on your intelligenc more...

How To Tell Friends About Georgia Gardener Newsletter
If you enjoy receiving the Georgia Gardener newsletter every two weeks, maybe your friends would too.

Clicking the lin more...

How to Thoroughly Water
You’d think I would know better but this spring I learned even more about what thoroughly water means. I started two b more...

How To Use 1-800-ASKUGA-1
As far as I’m concerned, it’s magic.

For years, I struggled with telling radio listeners how to telephone their local more...

How to Write an Excuse for School
We all know about the classic excuses students offer when their homework is late: "My dog ate it.", "My Dad spilled coffee on more...

I'm Looking Over My Dead Dog Rover
When I mentioned to a schoolteacher friend that I had sung "I'm Looking Over My Dead Dog Rover" (sung to the tu more...

Most Distant Radio Listeners
Recently I got an intriguing email:

"I'm a long time listener from Cleveland, Ga, currently assigned to camp Re more...

Newsletter - Not Receiving
It is frustrating when you suddenly realize that The Georgia Gardener e-mail newsletter has stopped appearing in your e-mail more...

Plant Names - Deciphering
The caller to my radio show a few Saturdays ago proffered a simple question: “What should I do with my Sammy Chips shrub? It more...

Rain Barrels - Building and Buying
A rain barrel is an excellent way to collect water in times of drought.

Just a thousand feet of roof area can collect more...

Seeds - Saving
This past spring, a friend gave me three seeds from a giant gourd. He assured me that if I planted the seeds in warm soil I w more...

South Africa Garden Tour - Jan. 2009
Remember how cold it gets in Atlanta in January? Brrrrrrr!

How would you like to join me on a garden tour to a more...

Spiced Pecans - Recipe
I occasionally share food recipes on my radio show. When a caller asked for details about spiced pecans, I got three good one more...

There is Power in the Mud!
My garden friend Ed emailed me with what he thought was a terrible mistake ("an unpardonable sin" in his words) that he’d mad more...

Treehouse - Building
Tree-Literate Treehouses

Dr. Kim D. Coder
Professor, Silvics/Ecology
Warnell School of Forest Resources
The U more...

Walter Cowart - Campbell County Chamber of Commerce
I'm always proud to find bits and pieces of the life of my grandfather, a progressive leader in Union City, East Point and ot more...

Walter Cowart - In His Own Words
My grandfather, Walter Cowart from Union City, GA, was a unique individual.

He was a politician, promoter, story-telle more...

Walter's Books
The Revised Georgia Gardener's Guide
by Walter Reeves and Erica more...

What is a Sercy?
When I was in college I had the privilege of working as a camp counselor at Rock Eagle 4-H Camp in Eatonton, GA. The four sum more...

Why Soil Test
My twelve-year old nephew has been named “Ultimate Geographer” by his school system in Arkansas. Now he will compete with oth more...

You Know You're a Georgian If....
1. You can properly pronounce Chickamauga, DeKalb, Dahlonega, Senoia, Buena Vista, Valdosta, Okefenokee, and La Fayette.
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