Making It Grow Minutes

By Amanda McNulty

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Gardening and horticulture news and tips, as well as agricultural information from Amanda McNulty, the host of SCETV's "Making It Grow" and Clemson University Extension Agent. Produced by South Carolina Public Radio.Making It Grow Minutes are produced by South Carolina Public Radio, in partnership with Clemson University's Extension Service.

Episode Date
The official birds of South Carolina
Jul 11, 2026
The deadly competitive nature of house wrens
Jul 10, 2026
A Carolina wren sets Amanda McNulty's heart aflutter
Jul 09, 2026
After four days around the McNulty home, a possum tires of 'playing possum'
Jul 08, 2026
The 19 cats of Amanda McNulty
Jul 06, 2026
The importance of planting larval food sources
May 30, 2026
Moths rush in where light fears to tread
May 29, 2026
Clothes moths
May 28, 2026
Cedar chests
May 27, 2026
The evolution of home storage
May 25, 2026
The recreational side of magnolia trees
May 16, 2026
Love magnolias? Thank a beetle.
May 15, 2026
Varieties of Magnolia grandiflora
May 14, 2026
Why you should carefully select an evergreen magnolia
May 13, 2026
Magnolia grandiflora is a plant that offers something all year long
May 11, 2026
Honey locust cultivars
May 02, 2026
Honey locust seed pods
May 01, 2026
Gleditsia triacanthos
Apr 30, 2026
The wicked thorns of the honey locust tree
Apr 29, 2026
When humans interacted with megafauna
Apr 27, 2026
The black locust tree: a hardy multitasker
Apr 18, 2026
Black locust fence posts
Apr 17, 2026
Gathering black locust tree blossoms
Apr 16, 2026
The strength of black locust wood
Apr 15, 2026
Black locust trees
Apr 13, 2026
When to use the "cut stump" method of controlling invasive wisteria
Apr 04, 2026
Swamp wisteria
Apr 03, 2026
Wisteria's dark side
Apr 02, 2026
The destructive nature of wisteria
Apr 01, 2026
You say "wisteria," Amanda says "wistaria"
Mar 30, 2026
Swamp jessamine
Mar 21, 2026
A warning about yellow jessamine
Mar 20, 2026
Poor man's rope
Mar 19, 2026
Yellow jessamine wins this year's footrace with Asian azaleas
Mar 18, 2026
Yellow jessamine: South Carolina's state flower
Mar 16, 2026
Managing dandelion growth
Mar 07, 2026
Dandelions and nutrition
Mar 06, 2026
The competitive yet beneficial nature of dandelions
Mar 05, 2026
Dandelions: the world's golden globetrotters
Mar 04, 2026
The variety of greens
Mar 02, 2026
The sad history of sea turtles
Feb 28, 2026
One call can save a sea turtle's life
Feb 27, 2026
Caring for South Carolina's sea turtle population
Feb 26, 2026
Keeping South Carolina's waterways debris-free
Feb 25, 2026
Helping sea turtles in distress
Feb 23, 2026
How sycamores support wildlife
Feb 07, 2026
Creative uses of sycamore hollows
Feb 06, 2026
Sycamores: not ideal for landscaping
Feb 05, 2026
Buttonwood
Feb 04, 2026
Sycamore trees, the contemporaries of dinosaurs
Feb 02, 2026
Heirloom Ornaments
Dec 27, 2025
Candlelit Christmas trees
Dec 26, 2025
Fun at the Christmas tree farm
Dec 25, 2025
A tasteful tabletop Christmas tree
Dec 24, 2025
Putting up the Christmas tree
Dec 22, 2025
Cedar apple rust
Nov 22, 2025
Eastern red cedars and juniper berries
Nov 21, 2025
Building with eastern red cedar
Nov 20, 2025
An eastern red cedar for Christmas
Nov 19, 2025
The protective properties of eastern red cedar
Nov 17, 2025
Bat guano
Oct 18, 2025
Is that bottle of tequila bat-friendly? Check the label.
Oct 17, 2025
Bats as pollinators
Oct 16, 2025
Bats in South Carolina
Oct 15, 2025
October is Bat Month
Oct 13, 2025
Storing chlorophyll
Oct 04, 2025
Chlorophyll: an expensive molecule for plants to make
Oct 03, 2025
Tapping trees
Oct 02, 2025
Vermont: a leaf-peeper's paradise
Oct 01, 2025
Chasing Autumn: where and when to witness South Carolina's vibrant fall foliage
Sep 29, 2025
An obscure study of stabilimenta
Aug 30, 2025
Mystery of the stabilimentum
Aug 29, 2025
Writing spiders
Aug 28, 2025
Big yellow spiders
Aug 27, 2025
Spiderweb Management
Aug 25, 2025
Appreciating the Trumpet Creeper
Aug 16, 2025
Trumpet creeper
Aug 15, 2025
The efficiency of scout ants
Aug 14, 2025
Wildlife guests
Aug 13, 2025
Ant control
Aug 11, 2025
Enjoying and employing rice
Aug 07, 2025
Salt is hygroscopic, but rice is a desiccant
Aug 06, 2025
Salt cellars
Aug 04, 2025
Swamp milkweed
Aug 02, 2025
A welcome and fortuitous visitor
Aug 01, 2025
South Carolina: 'The Tastier Peach State'
Jul 12, 2025
It's free stone peach season
Jul 11, 2025
When it comes to controlling mosquitoes, 'BT' is your BFF
Jul 10, 2025
Yard foggers kill more than just mosquitoes
Jul 09, 2025
Mosquito foggers can lead to resistance
Jul 07, 2025
Why bees are so busy around watermelons
Jun 14, 2025
South Carolina's Watermelon Queen shares the health benefits of watermelon
Jun 13, 2025
When you think watermelon, think Gilbert Miller
Jun 12, 2025
When it comes to watermelons, variety is the 'slice' of life
Jun 11, 2025
The sound of a ripe watermelon
Jun 09, 2025
If your yard's big enough, plant an oak tree.
May 10, 2025
You are nature's best hope.
May 09, 2025
Birds are having trouble finding enough caterpillars to raise their young.
May 08, 2025
Larval food plants
May 07, 2025
What does entomology have to do with bird decline?
May 05, 2025
'Listen to the Mockingbird'
Apr 26, 2025
The significance of the mockingbird in American literature
Apr 25, 2025
Why Texas chose the northern mockingbird as its state bird
Apr 24, 2025
Mocking birds: the many-tongued mimics
Apr 23, 2025
The fiercely protective mockingbird
Apr 21, 2025
Fun with anoles
Apr 12, 2025
The courtship of green anoles
Apr 11, 2025
To catch an anole
Apr 10, 2025
Anole season
Apr 09, 2025
Uninvited house guests
Apr 07, 2025
Varieties of Yellow Jessamine
Mar 29, 2025
Landscaping with Yellow Jessamine
Mar 28, 2025
South Carolina's state flower is beautiful, but deadly.
Mar 27, 2025
The glory of Carolina jessamine is on full display across S.C.
Mar 26, 2025
Ode to the Yellow Jessamine
Mar 24, 2025
Delicious dandelions
Mar 15, 2025
"Tell Times"
Mar 14, 2025
In defense of the dandelion
Mar 13, 2025
“Tis better to put out your feeders early to the delight of every returning birdy"
Mar 12, 2025
Hummingbirds are returning to South Carolina
Mar 10, 2025
Amaryllis forcing
Mar 01, 2025
Safety tips on transplanting rain lilies
Feb 28, 2025
Other names for Zephyranthes
Feb 27, 2025
What's in a name? That which we call a rain lily by any other name would smell as sweet
Feb 26, 2025
Where the rain lilies bloom
Feb 24, 2025
How to rid your home of brown marmorated stink bugs
Feb 15, 2025
Though the Samurai wasp be but little, it is fierce
Feb 14, 2025
Marmorated stink bugs are relatively new to the U.S.
Feb 13, 2025
How marmorated stink bugs survive the winter
Feb 12, 2025
The Pitfalls of Painting
Feb 10, 2025
The industry of Spanish moss
Dec 28, 2024
Life in the clouds
Dec 27, 2024
How resurrection ferns live up to their name
Dec 26, 2024
What's an epiphyte?
Dec 25, 2024
What kind of plant is Spanish moss?
Dec 23, 2024
How and when to water blooming holiday cacti
Dec 14, 2024
A closer look at the anatomy of Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti
Dec 13, 2024
Have a spare box? Save it for your holiday cacti.
Dec 12, 2024
The difference between Thanksgiving and Christmas cacti
Dec 11, 2024
Table decorations for the holidays
Dec 09, 2024
Chickie Wimberly's special visit
Nov 16, 2024
The McNulty Family's Memorable Meals
Nov 15, 2024
Chickie Wimberly joins the McNulty Family
Nov 14, 2024
Menageries and menu choices
Nov 13, 2024
The unusual childhood pets of Amanda McNulty
Nov 11, 2024
How do you solve a problem like mosquitos?
Sep 28, 2024
Make it STOP growing!
Sep 27, 2024
The beauty and ecologic necessity of the sweetbay magnolia
Sep 26, 2024
Southern magnolias vs sweetbay magnolias
Sep 25, 2024
The fleeting fragrance of tea olive trees
Sep 23, 2024
The preferred diet of cattle egrets
Sep 14, 2024
Cattle egret nests
Sep 13, 2024
Favorite foods of the cattle egret
Sep 12, 2024
How to identify cattle egrets
Sep 11, 2024
The origin of cattle egrets
Sep 09, 2024
The rewards of home canning
Aug 24, 2024
How to check your canning and freezing equipment for accuracy
Aug 23, 2024
Is your family recipe for canning foods safe?
Aug 22, 2024
Turning your garden bounty into pickles and chutneys
Aug 21, 2024
Safe canning
Aug 19, 2024
Controlling carpenter bees
Jul 27, 2024
Sipping 'the forbidden nectar of knowledge'
Jul 26, 2024
The solitary life of the carpenter bee
Jul 25, 2024
Hanging pictures and painting pews
Jul 24, 2024
Carpenter bees take a seat on Amanda McNulty's porch
Jul 22, 2024
The importance of using native plants
Jun 22, 2024
Corn OFF the cob
Jun 21, 2024
The multicultural flavors of corn on the cob
Jun 20, 2024
Sweet Corn
Jun 19, 2024
Preparing the perfect cob of corn
Jun 17, 2024
A brief history of California's Cottonwood Spring Oasis
May 18, 2024
Look before you plant
May 17, 2024
Large amounts of water quench the fastest-growing native tree in North America
May 16, 2024
How does the eastern cottonwood "sing"?
May 15, 2024
Where to find the cottonwood trees Debbie Reynolds sang of in the movie "Tammy and the Bachelor"
May 13, 2024
Mountain Laurel: beauty and beast
May 04, 2024
The taste of honey has not always been so sweet, especially during historic battles.
May 03, 2024
Kalmia latifolia, also known as mountain laurel, is now in bloom.
May 02, 2024
"Miss May" turns a garbage heap into a free, public garden
May 01, 2024
Coker University's Kalmia Gardens is home to an unusual ecosystem featuring glacial relicts
Apr 29, 2024
The work of female cicadas and their nymphs
Apr 20, 2024
South Carolina could witness two beautiful events of the natural world at Landsford Canal State Park through mid-May.
Apr 19, 2024
Cicadas set the stage for a historic event
Apr 18, 2024
The serenade of the cicada
Apr 17, 2024
Cicada season is drawing near
Apr 15, 2024
The South Carolina Botanical Garden at Clemson University is a State Treasure
Mar 23, 2024
Pine Trees are Likely not Making You Sneeze
Mar 22, 2024
Why Yellow Means Green for South Carolina
Mar 21, 2024
The Biology of Pine Cones
Mar 20, 2024
The Science of Calculating Pine Tree Pollen
Mar 18, 2024
Our cavity-nesting birds are running out of places to have babies. Here's how you can help.
Mar 09, 2024
The Importance of Snags
Mar 08, 2024
Flight of the Kestrel
Mar 07, 2024
The crisis for cavity-nesting birds
Mar 06, 2024
The difference between kestrels and hawks
Mar 06, 2024
Distinguishing a Pest-Controller from a Pest Among Ladybugs
Feb 10, 2024
How to Rid Your Home of Asian Ladybug Beetles
Feb 09, 2024
Asian ladybug beetles
Feb 08, 2024
The Dangers of Planting Chinese Wisteria
Feb 07, 2024
Tallow Trees
Feb 07, 2024
Collard green USDA seed bank
Dec 27, 2023
Collards
Dec 26, 2023
Brassica field day
Dec 25, 2023
Cotton species
Dec 16, 2023
Packaged cotton
Dec 15, 2023
Rowland Alston and 30 years of Making It Grow
Dec 14, 2023
Early mechanical cotton pickers
Dec 13, 2023
Cotton
Dec 11, 2023
Hickory trees feed regal moths
Dec 09, 2023
Shelling hickory nuts is a tough job
Dec 07, 2023
Hickory nut oil
Dec 06, 2023
Memories of a hickory tree
Dec 05, 2023
Hickory trees in fall
Dec 04, 2023
Southern magnolias during the holidays
Nov 18, 2023
Holidays at the Robert Mills House
Nov 17, 2023
Raisins on the stem
Nov 16, 2023
Holidays at Colonial Williamsburg
Nov 15, 2023
Citrus in Christmas stockings
Nov 13, 2023
SC Botanical Garden: Endangered Plants
Oct 21, 2023
SC Botanical Garden: Natural Heritage Gardens
Oct 20, 2023
SC Botanical Garden: Birding Garden
Oct 19, 2023
SC Botanical Garden: Native Plant Studies
Oct 18, 2023
SC Botanical Garden
Oct 16, 2023
Spider lilies
Oct 07, 2023
Hurricane lilies?
Oct 06, 2023
Using spider lilies in arrangements
Oct 05, 2023
Naked Lady Lily
Oct 04, 2023
Deer resistant bulbs
Oct 02, 2023
Sneezing
Sep 23, 2023
Sneezeweed snuff
Sep 22, 2023
Soil types
Sep 21, 2023
Sneezeweed cultivars
Sep 20, 2023
Sneezeweed
Sep 18, 2023
Crotalarias and moths
Sep 08, 2023
Crotalaria spectabilis
Sep 07, 2023
Black-eyed Susans
Sep 06, 2023
South Carolina's yellow flowers
Sep 04, 2023
Lettuce on tomato sandwiches
Aug 25, 2023
Bacon mayonnaise
Aug 24, 2023
Homemade mayonnaise
Aug 23, 2023
Tomato sandwiches
Aug 21, 2023
The gum industry
Aug 12, 2023
Gum trees
Aug 11, 2023
Gum parkers
Aug 10, 2023
Gum
Aug 09, 2023
Making It Grow's 30th anniversary
Aug 07, 2023
Popcorn garlands
Jul 29, 2023
Popcorn toppings
Jul 28, 2023
Varieties of popcorn
Jul 27, 2023
History of popcorn
Jul 26, 2023
Popcorn around the world
Jul 24, 2023
Sunflowers and birds
Jul 15, 2023
Sunflowers and Teton Dakota tribes
Jul 14, 2023
Sunflower seeds
Jul 14, 2023
Sunflowers and Native Americans
Jul 11, 2023
Sunflowers' connection to Ukraine
Jul 10, 2023
Discovering real southern turkey dressing
Jul 01, 2023
Carolina aromatic rice
Jun 30, 2023
Cornbread and buttermilk
Jun 29, 2023
Cornbread and cast iron
Jun 28, 2023
Corn sticks!
Jun 26, 2023
A revolution for corn lovers
Jun 17, 2023
Picking sweet corn
Jun 16, 2023
Field corn vs. sweet corn
Jun 15, 2023
A history of corn
Jun 14, 2023
Glories of real grits
Jun 12, 2023
Types of milkweed
Jun 03, 2023
Milkweed and monarchs
Jun 02, 2023
Tagging monarch butterflies
Jun 01, 2023
Maypops
May 31, 2023
A garden that teaches
May 29, 2023
Laurel hells
May 20, 2023
Mountain laurel
May 18, 2023
Origin of Kalmia Gardens
May 17, 2023
Glacial relics
May 15, 2023
Fasciation in cockscomb celosia
May 06, 2023
Fasciation in Ailanthus altissima, "Tree of Heaven"
May 05, 2023
Dog fennell
May 04, 2023
Fasciation brings variety to flower arrangements
May 03, 2023
Fasciation
May 01, 2023
The bounty of Judge Arthur Solomon's travels
Apr 22, 2023
The George Lindley Taber variety of Indica azalea
Apr 21, 2023
More azalea varieties at Brookgreen Gardens
Apr 20, 2023
What's in a name? A lot of history
Apr 19, 2023
Spring beauties: Indica azaleas
Apr 17, 2023
A native honeysuckle
Mar 25, 2023
Bignonia capreolata for hummingbirds
Mar 24, 2023
"Apple blossom" clematis
Mar 23, 2023
Varieties of jessamine
Mar 22, 2023
Yellow jessamine
Mar 20, 2023
Redbuds for my arrangements
Mar 11, 2023
Redbud cultivars
Mar 10, 2023
Native redbuds feed native bees
Mar 09, 2023
"Judas tree"
Mar 08, 2023
A redbud variety that loves full sun
Mar 07, 2023
South Carolina's redbuds are in bloom
Mar 06, 2023
Sap sucker diet
Feb 11, 2023
Yellow-bellied sap suckers nesting
Feb 10, 2023
Tree damage by yellow-bellied sap suckers?
Feb 09, 2023
Yellow-bellied sap sucker migration
Feb 08, 2023
Yellow-bellied sap suckers suck sap
Feb 07, 2023
What's in a name?
Feb 06, 2023
Walking in nature
Jan 27, 2023
Depleted aquifers
Jan 25, 2023
Polluted river = polluted ocean
Jan 24, 2023
The Los Angeles river - a sad story
Jan 23, 2023
Reclaiming a river bed
Jan 17, 2023
History of asparagus farming in South Carolina
Jan 14, 2023
The flexiblel bald Cypress
Jan 13, 2023
Dendrochronology
Jan 12, 2023
Very old bald Cypress trees in Congaree Swamp National Park
Jan 11, 2023
The science of dating trees
Jan 10, 2023
Congaree National Park: Thousands of acres
Jan 09, 2023
Using "amaryllis" flowers in arrangements
Dec 31, 2022
"Amaryllis" cultivars
Dec 30, 2022
Planting and care of "amaryllis" bulbs outdoors
Dec 29, 2022
More on caring for "amaryllis"
Dec 28, 2022
Keeping "amaryllis" healthy indoors
Dec 27, 2022
Amaryllis plants are not really amaryillis
Dec 26, 2022
Hickory trees feed regal moths
Dec 17, 2022
Shelling hickory nuts is a tough job
Dec 16, 2022
Hickory nut oil
Dec 15, 2022
Memories of a hickory tree
Dec 14, 2022
Hickory trees in fall
Dec 12, 2022
Black cottonwood
Dec 03, 2022
Cottonwood seed dispersal
Dec 02, 2022
Cottonwood trees in the swamp
Dec 01, 2022
The Friends of the Congaree Swamp
Nov 30, 2022
Patti McGee shared her love of plants with the community around her
Nov 29, 2022
The legacy of Patty McGee
Nov 28, 2022
A Fragrant Christmas Tree - Not Always a Good Thing
Nov 25, 2022
Selection and Care of a Christmas Tree
Nov 24, 2022
Natural Christmas Trees vs. Artificial
Nov 23, 2022
Finding a Christmas Tree
Nov 21, 2022
A "deer resistant" plant for your garden
Oct 29, 2022
The beauty of rattlesnake master flowers
Oct 28, 2022
Rattlesnake master has a pollenator useful to gardeners
Oct 27, 2022
One plant, many pollinators
Oct 26, 2022
"My new favorite plant..."
Oct 24, 2022
Rattlesnake master: Another odd common name
Oct 15, 2022
Fighting the "Dust Bowl" disaster
Oct 14, 2022
Osage orange wood burns intensely
Oct 13, 2022
The spread of osage orange
Oct 12, 2022
"Bodark" trees
Oct 10, 2022
Tree inspecton
Sep 17, 2022
How trees react to pruning can cause them to be less stable in the wind
Sep 16, 2022
The dangers of saturated ground for trees
Sep 15, 2022
Increased hurricane wind speeds will have a greater impact our trees
Sep 14, 2022
The expanding range of the black vulture
Aug 19, 2022
Know your vultures
Aug 18, 2022
Our native turkey vulture
Aug 17, 2022
The turkey vulture: nature's vacumn cleaner
Aug 15, 2022
Vultures at work
Aug 06, 2022
An uplifting sight
Aug 05, 2022
Vultures, not buzzards
Aug 04, 2022
Sunbelt Ag Expo
Aug 03, 2022
A C Moore Herbarium offers resouces via its website
Jul 09, 2022
"Rattlesnake plantain"
Jul 07, 2022
Orchids in South Carolina?
Jul 06, 2022
A. C. Moore Herbarium
Jul 05, 2022
Why fireflies flash
Jun 25, 2022
The beauty of 'lightening bugs'
Jun 24, 2022
Vanishing fireflies
Jun 23, 2022
Synchronous firefly displays
Jun 22, 2022
Harry Hampton and the Congaree National Park
Jun 22, 2022
Farming sunflowers in the US
Jun 11, 2022
Birds and sunflowers
Jun 10, 2022
Traditional Native Americans' uses for sunflowers
Jun 09, 2022
Uses of sunflowers over the years
Jun 08, 2022
A history of sunflowers
Jun 07, 2022
Sunflowers in Ukraine
Jun 06, 2022
Ag & Art tours are great outings for the kids
May 14, 2022
Ag & Art Tours are from May through June
May 13, 2022
Fox Hideaway Farms
May 12, 2022
More on Ag & Art Tours
May 11, 2022
Ag & Art Tour
May 09, 2022
Farming Foundations
Apr 30, 2022
McKissick Museum
Apr 29, 2022
Pearl Fryar
Apr 28, 2022
Topiary
Apr 27, 2022
Farming Foundations
Apr 25, 2022
A native honeysuckle
Apr 02, 2022
Bignonia capreolata for hummingbirds
Apr 01, 2022
"Apple blossom" clematis
Mar 31, 2022
Varieties of jessamine
Mar 30, 2022
Yellow Jessamine
Mar 28, 2022
MUSC: making safe spaces
Mar 19, 2022
MUSC: an arboretum
Mar 18, 2022
Horticultural therapy at MUSC
Mar 17, 2022
An urban farm as MUSC
Mar 16, 2022
MUSC's green spaces
Mar 14, 2022
Natural, red food coloring
Feb 12, 2022
The South Carolina Sustainable Agriculture Research and Education Program
Feb 11, 2022
Beet surprises
Feb 10, 2022
Asparagus and an odoriferous outcome
Feb 09, 2022
An asparagus receipe
Feb 07, 2022
Grades of asparagus
Jan 27, 2022
History of asparagus farming in South Carolina
Jan 26, 2022
"Aaparagus, again?"
Jan 24, 2022
The flexiblel bald Cypress
Jan 15, 2022