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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Gleditsia triacanthos is the scientific name for honey locust, Gleditsia for a German botanist and triacanthos means "three-spined." -
Some scientists theorize the reason that honey locust trees developed thorns is because of the mastodon.
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Early human inhabitants of our continent did interact with mammoths, mastodons, saber tooth tigers, and even horses that are no longer here.
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Host Amanda McNulty describes the many uses of black locust trees.
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Want fence posts that will last for 100 years? Use black locust wood.
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Host Amanda McNulty describes the joys of gathering the fragrant white blossoms of the black locust tree.
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Locust wood is extremely durable and reports say locust fence posts easily last fifty years.
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At first glance, the blossoms of a black locust tree can be mistaken for white wisteria.
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If done at the wrong time of the year, cut-stumping wisteria can strangle the trees they’re wrapped around.
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Native wistaria (Wisteria frutescens), also known as "swamp wisteria," isn’t as showy as its invasive cousins and blooms later.
