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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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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Asian ladybug beetles prefer to come inside the part of the house that gets afternoon sun.
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Asian ladybug beetles will eat damaged apples, grapes, or other fruits, sometimes creating ladybug wine taint.
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If you have Chinese wisteria, please be a steward of the environment and eliminate it.
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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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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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Nationally, South Carolina is the top state for producing turnips greens and second in collards, kale and mustard greens.
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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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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.