Making It Grow Minutes
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- Duração: 6:08:45
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Sinopse
Gardening and horticulture news and tips, as well as agricultural information from Amanda McNulty, the host of SCETV's "Making It Grow" and Clemson University Extension Agent. Produced by South Carolina Public Radio.
Episódios
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The Importance of Snags
08/03/2024 Duração: 01minIn part of our large yard, one area has three dozen mature pines. Occasionally one gets hit by lightning and dies, becoming a snag, and we leave them up.
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Flight of the Kestrel
07/03/2024 Duração: 01minThe American kestrel, our smallest falcon, is a handsome bird easily seen as they perch on power lines looking for prey on the ground below or flying past them.
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The crisis for cavity-nesting birds
06/03/2024 Duração: 01minWe know about the crisis of people without homes but there is also a crisis for cavity-nesting birds.
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The difference between kestrels and hawks
06/03/2024 Duração: 01minHost Amanda McNulty of Making It Grow sees the natural beauty of the Wateree floodplain during her daily commute.
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Distinguishing a Pest-Controller from a Pest Among Ladybugs
10/02/2024 Duração: 01minLadybug larvae, both native and imported, are described as looking like alligators. But, there's an important difference between the two...
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How to Rid Your Home of Asian Ladybug Beetles
09/02/2024 Duração: 01minAsian ladybug beetles prefer to come inside the part of the house that gets afternoon sun.
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Asian ladybug beetles
08/02/2024 Duração: 01minAsian ladybug beetles will eat damaged apples, grapes, or other fruits, sometimes creating ladybug wine taint.
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The Dangers of Planting Chinese Wisteria
07/02/2024 Duração: 01minIf you have Chinese wisteria, please be a steward of the environment and eliminate it.
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Collard green USDA seed bank
27/12/2023 Duração: 01minTwo 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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Brassica field day
25/12/2023 Duração: 01minNationally, South Carolina is the top state for producing turnips greens and second in collards, kale and mustard greens.
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Cotton species
16/12/2023 Duração: 01minHello, 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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Packaged cotton
15/12/2023 Duração: 01minI 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.
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Rowland Alston and 30 years of Making It Grow
14/12/2023 Duração: 01minMaking It Grow celebrated thirty years of being on air with SCETV this year. The show was developed and hosted for much of that time by Rowland Alston, a Clemson Extension agent and son of an agent.
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Early mechanical cotton pickers
13/12/2023 Duração: 01minThe early mechanical cotton pickers dumped their filled bins into carriers which were then emptied into wagons in the field. Workers drove these wagons to the gin daily and waited for hours as each was emptied and credited to the farmer.
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Hickory trees feed regal moths
09/12/2023 Duração: 01minHickory tree leaves are the larval food source of two hundred moths or butterflies; and one is particular is spectacular in both the larval and adult stage.
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Shelling hickory nuts is a tough job
07/12/2023 Duração: 01minFor people, shelling them is a laborious process and the tools used include hammers, vises, and a peculiar item called the Texas York Nut Sheller.
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