Category: In the Garden

Bring bold color and pollinators to your garden with easy-to-grow Mexican sunflowers. Discover care tips, cultivars, and seed-saving advice.

Learn how Beauveria bassiana naturally controls pests like diamondback moths and when to apply bioinsecticides for best results.

Explore the Southern heritage of muscadines, their origins, legends of the Mother Vine, and how these native grapes shaped regional culture and cuisine.

Bleeding hearts bring beauty and pollinator value to shady gardens. Discover native species and care tips for South Carolina landscapes.

Fall weather brings active disease scouting, strawberry planting, and strong muscadine and sweetpotato harvests in South Carolina’s October 2025 report.

Wool sower galls look like fuzzy cotton balls on oak trees. Learn their causes, life cycle, and whether treatment is necessary.

Discover October gardening tips for lawns, vegetables, flowers, trees, and houseplants across South Carolina’s coastal, midlands, and upstate regions.

Field updates from Coastal, Midlands, and Upstate SC—see the latest on fall crops, pests, and disease management.

Discover why mulberry weed is such a troublesome invasive and explore effective identification and control methods for South Carolina landscapes.

Support native bees by leaving stems, bare soil, and planting native flowers. Simple gardening choices can create safe backyard habitats for these essential pollinators.

Fall begins with continued dry weather across South Carolina. Cucurbit crops show widespread virus symptoms, while strawberry planting is underway. This week’s field report includes regional updates on pests, diseases, and fall crop progress from the Coastal, Midlands, and Upstate regions.

Bring fall and winter containers to life with pansies, kale, herbs, and evergreens for lasting color and texture.