Cyanobacteria – is it toxic?
Summer, it’s that time of year for sweet corn, peaches, watermelon, and pond calls! Pond calls are phone calls, emails, texts, etc. with questions that Extension Agents get on any topic related to...
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Oct 5, 2020 | In the Garden
Summer, it’s that time of year for sweet corn, peaches, watermelon, and pond calls! Pond calls are phone calls, emails, texts, etc. with questions that Extension Agents get on any topic related to...
Oct 1, 2020 | In the Garden
Would you like an easy-to-grow perennial that flowers from July to August and is a magnet for many pollinating wasps, skippers, bees, and moths? Then consider mountain mint for your garden. Mountain...
Sep 30, 2020 | In the Garden
Puss Caterpillar Identification Later instar caterpillars densely covered in yellowish, reddish, brown, or mouse gray setae (hairs). Middorsal crest has rusty to smoky setae. “Tail”...
Sep 29, 2020 | In the Garden
Thars gold in them thar hills (and in the flatlands too)! The rustling of dried corn stalks, stacks of pumpkins at the roadside stand, Halloween costumes at your local general store… all are signs...
Sep 28, 2020 | Photo Blog, Photo Worthy Plants
“Even the greatest creations start from small seeds.” ~Anonymous~
Sep 28, 2020 | In the Garden
With all those mums and pumpkins at garden centers and farmers markets, how can we select the best and make them last? For an immediate impact, many people choose chrysanthemums (“mums”) in full...
Sep 24, 2020 | Tasty Bites
What’s for dinner? Instead of getting take out or running to the grocery store, consider “using what you have on hand”. A beauty YouTuber called it ‘shop your stash’ as she described using what you...
Sep 23, 2020 | In the Garden
Fall Webworm Tent Tent Structure Fall webworm caterpillars incorporate leaves, and sometimes entire branches in silken tents spun, typically, at branch tips. (In contrast, eastern tent caterpillar,...
Sep 21, 2020 | Photo Blog, Photo Worthy Plants
“Look deep into nature, and you will understand everything better.” ~Albert Einstein~ Cloudless Sulphur Butterfly (Phoebis sennae) Barbara H. Smith, ©2020 HGIC, Clemson University...
Sep 21, 2020 | In the Garden, Water
The weather events and weather patterns of recent years, like the “1000 year storm” in 2015 associated with Hurricane Joaquin, have left residents grappling with water management in their yards. On...
Sep 17, 2020 | Tasty Bites
September marks the beginning of National Whole Grains Month, which places all our favorite comfort foods such as pasta, bread, cereals, and popcorn on the pedestal they so lovingly deserve....
Sep 16, 2020 | In the Garden
Tobacco Hornworm and Braconid Wasps Fast Fact Cotesia congregata are important biological control agents of about a dozen moth species in two families (Sphingidae and Noctuidae). Life Cycle An adult...
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