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
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
Dendrochronology
Jan 14, 2022
Very old bald Cypress trees in Congaree Swamp National Park
Jan 13, 2022
The science of dating trees
Jan 12, 2022
Congaree National Park: Thousands of acres
Jan 10, 2022
Very old bald Cypress trees in Congaree Swamp National Park
Jan 06, 2022
Food Share offers great receipes for healthier meals
Nov 20, 2021
Clemson Extension's Rural Health team
Nov 19, 2021
Lack of access to fresh food exacerbates health problems in SC
Nov 18, 2021
Fighting the effects of "food deserts"
Nov 17, 2021
South Carolina Certified Landscape Professional certification
Nov 06, 2021
Butterbean humus?
Nov 05, 2021
Research to help fight enviromental pressures which limit farmers' yields
Nov 04, 2021
A step forward in developing heat-tolerant vegetables
Nov 03, 2021
Researching the downturn in vegetable yields due to higher temperatures
Nov 01, 2021
Tony Melton: Butterbean Research
Oct 02, 2021
Tony Melton: All About Service
Oct 01, 2021
Tony Melton: Always on Call
Sep 30, 2021
Tony Melton: Humble Beginnings
Sep 29, 2021
A Salute to Tony Melton
Sep 27, 2021
Turtles at Risk
Sep 18, 2021
Controlling the Exotic, Black and White Argentine Tegu Lizard
Sep 17, 2021
The Dangers of the Argentine Black and White Tegu Lizard to Native Species
Sep 16, 2021
Once Pets, Some Non-Native Lizards Are Now Threatening Native Animal Species
Sep 15, 2021
Exotic, Non-Native Reptiles as Pets - Not Always Good for the Environment
Sep 13, 2021
Ragweed Gives Goldenrod a Bad Name
Sep 04, 2021
Making Car Tires from Goldenrod?
Sep 03, 2021
Goldenrod Is Not To Blame For Hayfever
Sep 02, 2021
Seaside Goldenrod
Sep 01, 2021
History of Goldenrod
Aug 30, 2021
Competing at the State Fair
Aug 20, 2021
How Cyads Polinate
Aug 19, 2021
Safely Eating Cyads
Aug 18, 2021
Sago Palms Can Be a Danger to Dogs
Aug 17, 2021
Care For Your Dog - Be Sure Your Enclosure is Free From Sago Palms
Aug 17, 2021
Banning Sale of Invasive Pear Trees
Jul 31, 2021
Just Say No to Bradford and Related Callery Pear Trees
Jul 30, 2021
How the Bradford Pear "Went Viral"
Jul 28, 2021
The Invasive Bradford Pear
Jul 28, 2021
Bradford Pear Trees Will Be Added to the State Plant Pest List in 2024
Jul 26, 2021
Using the Fruit of the Native Black Cherry
Jul 24, 2021
Black Cherry Trees Vs. Tent Caterpillars
Jul 23, 2021
More About the Black Cherry Tree
Jul 22, 2021
The True Value of the Black Cherry Tree
Jul 21, 2021
Plant Aromas
Jul 19, 2021
Trumpet Creeper Invading China?
Jul 10, 2021
A Non-Rampant Cultivar of the Trumpet Creeper
Jul 09, 2021
Humming Birds Love Trumpet Creeper
Jul 08, 2021
What Itch?
Jul 07, 2021
Trumpet Creeper
Jul 05, 2021
The Pond Cypress
Jun 26, 2021
Canoeing Through Goodale State Park
Jun 25, 2021
The Magic of Goodale State Park
Jun 24, 2021
Special Perks For Dedicated State Parks Visitors
Jun 23, 2021
Making a Pollinator-Friendly Mulch Pile
Jun 12, 2021
Elderberry Stems Are Friends to Some Pollinators
Jun 11, 2021
Elderberries Are Mostly Wind Pollinated
Jun 10, 2021
Elderberries Are Only Safe to Eat After Cooking
Jun 09, 2021
Elderberries Plants Are Blossoming
Jun 07, 2021
Backpacks for Birds
May 29, 2021
Migration Patterns of the Prothonotary Warbler
May 28, 2021
Migration Patterns of the Prothonotary Warbler
May 27, 2021
How to Spot a Swamp Canary
May 27, 2021
Swamp Canaries at the Audubon Center Beidler Forest
May 24, 2021
The Virgin Beidler Forest
May 15, 2021
Eastern Tent Caterpillars Are Thriving in Beidler Forest - Which Means the Birds Are, Too
May 14, 2021
Walking the Boardwalk at the Beidler Forest
May 13, 2021
The Audubon Francis Beidler Forest's Environmental Impact
May 12, 2021
The Beginnings of Congaree National Park and the Francis Beidler Audubon Center
May 10, 2021
Callery Pears: A Thorny, Invasive Offspring
Apr 02, 2021
The Spread of the Bradford Pear
Apr 01, 2021
The Rampant Bradford Pear
Mar 31, 2021
Don't Apply Phosphorus Without First Testing Your Soil
Mar 06, 2021
"Scalping" Your Lawn
Mar 05, 2021
Too Late for Pre-Emergent "Weed and Feed" on Your Turf
Mar 04, 2021
Don't Waste Money - or Nitrogen
Mar 03, 2021
Know Your Grasses
Mar 02, 2021
Resoponsible Turf
Mar 01, 2021
Bats and Agave
Feb 06, 2021
Leaving a Dead Tree Standing Makes a Home for Bats
Feb 05, 2021
Bats Need a Warm Home
Feb 04, 2021
My Home, the Bats' Home
Feb 03, 2021
Bats and Palmetto Trees
Feb 01, 2021
White-Nose Syndrome in Bats
Jan 23, 2021
How Bats Hunt
Jan 22, 2021
Bats and Insect Control
Jan 21, 2021
How Bats Benefit Farmers
Jan 20, 2021
Bats Have Gotten a Bad Rap
Jan 18, 2021
Walking in the Beidler Forest
Dec 26, 2020
Nesting Boxes for Prothontary Warblers
Dec 25, 2020
Activities for Kids at the SC Botanical Gardens
Dec 24, 2020
Classes at the SC Botanical Garden
Dec 23, 2020
Encouraging Kids to Garden
Dec 21, 2020
Peanut Oil and Cholesterol
Nov 23, 2020
The Humble Peanut Is a World Traveler
Nov 14, 2020
A Peanut Dish to Remember
Nov 13, 2020
"Goober Peas"
Nov 12, 2020
Types of Peanuts
Nov 11, 2020
How Peanuts Grow
Nov 09, 2020
Peanuts in Agriculture
Oct 31, 2020
Creating the Market for Peanuts
Oct 30, 2020
Origins of the Peanut
Oct 30, 2020
George Washington Carver - and Peanuts - Helped Save Southern Farmland
Oct 28, 2020
Boiling Peanuts
Oct 26, 2020
Plants at Zoo Exhibits
Oct 17, 2020
"Furniture" in Zoo Enclosures
Oct 16, 2020
Immersion Horticulture for Zoos
Oct 15, 2020
Volunteering in Outdoor, Public Spaces
Oct 14, 2020
Magnolia Plantation and Gardens
Oct 12, 2020
Legislating Measures to Save America's Birds
Sep 05, 2020
Refuge for Pelicans
Sep 04, 2020
Pelicans
Sep 03, 2020
Victorian Fashion Included Hummingbirds as Ornament
Sep 02, 2020
The Historic Toll of Fashion on Bird Populations
Sep 01, 2020
Cruel Fashion
Aug 31, 2020
The History of Gourds as Containers
May 02, 2020
Ancient Bottle Gourd
May 01, 2020
Bottle Gourds
Apr 29, 2020
Instruments Made from Plants
Apr 27, 2020
During Pandemic Some Farm Produce Once Bound for High-End Restaurants Now Available for Home
Apr 09, 2020
Clemson Extension Agents Still On the Job
Apr 08, 2020
Essential Activities of Agriculture Continue During COVID-19 Pandemic
Apr 06, 2020
Supporting the 21 Billion Dollar Forestry Industry in S.C.
Mar 28, 2020
The Benefits of Owning Woodlands
Mar 27, 2020
Protecting Woodlands Against Invasive Plant Species
Mar 26, 2020
Helping and Training Woodlands Owners
Mar 25, 2020
Women Owning Woodlands
Mar 23, 2020
Important Members of the Nightshade Family
Mar 06, 2020
The Bumblebee is an Important Pollinator
Mar 05, 2020
Pollinating Commercially Grown Tomatoes is a Challenge
Mar 04, 2020
Tomato Plant Pollination
Mar 03, 2020
The Challenges of Growing Tomatoes
Mar 02, 2020
Ogeechee Lime
Feb 08, 2020
Honeydew Honey
Feb 07, 2020
Honey Varietals
Feb 06, 2020
Ogeechee Honey
Feb 05, 2020
Nyssa Ogeche
Feb 03, 2020
Varieties of Nyssa Sylvatica
Feb 01, 2020
Hollow Trees
Jan 31, 2020
More Blackgum Tales
Jan 30, 2020
Using the Hollow Trunk of a Blackgum Tree
Jan 29, 2020
Nyssa Sylvatica
Jan 27, 2020
Demanding Chicken
Dec 07, 2019
One Bossy Chicken
Dec 06, 2019
A Great Pet
Dec 05, 2019
Pet Chicken
Dec 04, 2019
Lucky Hen
Dec 03, 2019
Good Folks, Good Animals, Great Neighbors
Dec 02, 2019
Varieties of Dogwood
Nov 29, 2019
Mast and Dogwoods
Nov 27, 2019
Beautiful Dogwoods
Nov 25, 2019
More Rail Trails
Nov 23, 2019
More on Spanish Moss Trail
Nov 22, 2019
Spanish Moss Trail
Nov 21, 2019
The Magic of the Rails for Today
Nov 20, 2019
"Recycling" Old Rail Lines
Nov 18, 2019
More on Colorful Maples
Nov 15, 2019
The Best Southern Maples for Fall Color
Nov 14, 2019
When is Peak Color for Red Maples in S.C.
Nov 13, 2019
Fall Color in Southern Red Maple Trees
Nov 11, 2019
White Cabbage Moths
Oct 26, 2019
Mustard Greens
Oct 25, 2019
Jersey Cabbage
Oct 24, 2019
Wild Cabbages?
Oct 23, 2019
Origin of "Greens"
Oct 21, 2019
A Smelly, Worldwide Pest
Oct 19, 2019
Invasion of the Brown Marmorated Stink Bugs!
Oct 18, 2019
The Aggressive Morning Glory
Oct 17, 2019
Fall Favorites
Oct 16, 2019
Farewell to Summer
Oct 14, 2019
Fungus Resistant Boxwoods
Sep 30, 2019