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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Cicadas are native to our area and have been coexisting with their ecosystems for eons and eons.
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Residents of the Palmetto State won’t have to go too far to experience the emergence of maybe a billion periodic cicadas.
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When Thomas Jefferson was president, there was an event that is finally repeating itself this year -- a concurrent emergence of two specific broods of periodic cicadas; and it won’t happen again until about another two hundred years.
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Unlike some people these days, cicadas don’t have dating apps; they use sound to find a mate.
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Naturalist Austin Jenkins talked to us recently about the periodic cicada emergence in South Carolina. Our state’s cicadas that will come out in huge numbers in the Piedmont are on a thirteen-year cycle.
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The South Carolina Botanical Garden is a treasure located on the campus of Clemson University.
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If you can eat those delicious pine nuts without trouble, you probably aren’t allergic to pine pollen.
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Agriculture is the largest industry in South Carolina, with timber being by far the most valuable crop, and pines are the largest component of that.
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Pine trees produce male pine cones on the lower part of the tree and female ones towards the top, a clever way to prevent self-fertilization.
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There’s actually a scientific method to establish when pines will be releasing pollen: by keeping a record of the number of degree-days above 55° Fahrenheit after February 1st.