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Making It Grow Minutes

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.

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Distinguishing a Pest-Controller from a Pest Among...

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2024/02/10

Ladybug larvae, both native and imported, are described as looking like alligators. But, there's an important difference between the two...

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How to Rid Your Home of Asian Ladybug Beetles

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2024/02/09

Asian ladybug beetles prefer to come inside the part of the house that gets afternoon sun.

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Asian ladybug beetles

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2024/02/08

Asian ladybug beetles will eat damaged apples, grapes, or other fruits, sometimes creating ladybug wine taint.

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The Dangers of Planting Chinese Wisteria

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2024/02/07

If you have Chinese wisteria, please be a steward of the environment and eliminate it.

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Tallow Trees

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2024/02/07

Benjamin Franklin brought the tallow tree to the U.S.

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Collard green USDA seed bank

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2023/12/27

Two vegetable scientists, Powell Smith and Mark Fortnum, traveled through South Carolina and Georgia on a search for old timey collard plants, especially ones in flower.

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Collards

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2023/12/26

At the Coastal Research and Development Center 2023 brassica field day we saw a field with several hundred different collard green plants growing in it. There’re two major types of collards.

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Brassica field day

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2023/12/25

Nationally, South Carolina is the top state for producing turnips greens and second in collards, kale and mustard greens.

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Cotton species

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/12/16

Hello, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. There are 50 species of cotton in the genus Gossypium — basically they’re seeds with fibers attached. Only a few are commercially important.

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Packaged cotton

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/12/15

I visually see changes in agriculture and society on my daily commute to Sumter. From the older compressed modular storage units of cotton, today’s extraordinarily complex cotton picking machines press the cotton into round units and wrap them in a protective covering before depositing them in the field, all the while continuing to pick cotton from the plants at the front of the machine.

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Rowland Alston and 30 years of Making It Grow

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/12/14

Making It Grow celebrated thirty years of being on air with SCETV this year. The show was developed and hosted for much of that time by Rowland Alston, a Clemson Extension agent and son of an agent.

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Early mechanical cotton pickers

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/12/13

The early mechanical cotton pickers dumped their filled bins into carriers which were then emptied into wagons in the field. Workers drove these wagons to the gin daily and waited for hours as each was emptied and credited to the farmer.

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Cotton

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/12/11

This year's cotton crop seems phenomenal. It’s the closest thing to a snow-covered landscape I’m likely to see in these days of changing weather patterns.

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Hickory trees feed regal moths

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/12/09

Hickory tree leaves are the larval food source of two hundred moths or butterflies; and one is particular is spectacular in both the larval and adult stage.

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Shelling hickory nuts is a tough job

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2023/12/07

For people, shelling them is a laborious process and the tools used include hammers, vises, and a peculiar item called the Texas York Nut Sheller.

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Hickory nut oil

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/12/06

It's hard to harvest at home.

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Memories of a hickory tree

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2023/12/05

Twenty some odd years ago, Edward and I dug up a hickory seedling on his family’s farm. The foot tall seedling had a six-foot long tap root that fortunately took a turn and didn’t go straight down. We brought it home and heeled it in near the house.

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Hickory trees in fall

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2023/12/04

One of the most beautiful of fall trees is the hickory. With leaves the color of slightly browned butter it is quite a standout.

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Southern magnolias during the holidays

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2023/11/18

Magnolia grandiflora, our southern magnolia with large, glossy leaves is part of many nature-based decorations for holidays and special occasions.

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Holidays at the Robert Mills House

Making It Grow Minutes ·

2023/11/17

The relatively modest Christmas decorations at Historic Columbia’s Robert Mills House reflect what would have been accurate during the 1820’s.

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