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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If you’re new to the South, you need to know that yellow jessamine is extremely poisonous.
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If you’ve ever tried to pull yellow jessamine out by the roots, you’ll understand the nickname “poor man’s rope.”
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Sometimes, yellow jessamine blooms in conjunction with Asian azaleas, but this year, it jumped the gun.
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Amanda McNulty explains why yellow jessamine was selected in 1924 as our state flower.
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Dandelions have long tap roots, and unless you get almost all of them out, they merrily grow right back.
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Early settlers to the New World brought dandelion seeds with them to have a source of vitamin-rich greens.
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Though dandelions are sometimes considered a pest, their prolific growth does have some ecological benefits.
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Dandelions grow everywhere, except in Antarctica.
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Though there are a wide variety of types of greens, Amanda McNulty explains why some are her favorites, while others fall short.
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We now revere and protect our sea turtles, but it was not always this way.