Making It Grow Minutes
Mon-Sat, throughout the day
Amanda McNulty of Clemson University’s Extension Service and host of ETV’s six-time Emmy Award-winning show, Making It Grow, offers gardening tips and techniques.
Making It Grow Minutes are produced by South Carolina Public Radio, in partnership with Clemson University's Extension Service.
Latest Episodes
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Cedar apple rust is a fungus, but its brown cases become jelly-like blobs with protrusions that look like something from outer space. -
Our eastern red cedar is one of the junipers whose berries are used to flavor gin.
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Native Americans used eastern red cedar for canoes and ceremonial buildings.
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Before the ubiquitous Fraser firs that don’t grow well here, many people got an eastern red cedar.
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Eastern red cedar has long been used to line chests and closets to protect wool items.
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Bird and bat guano have both been used as valuable sources of fertilizer. The most valuable guano is found in caves protected from water.
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Agave growers get higher yields of tequila precursors when the plants aren’t allowed to flower, imperiling bats that depend on the night-blooming flowers.
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Host Amanda McNulty explains how you can help protect our state's bat population.
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Host Amanda McNulty explains why bats are important mammals worldwide.
