Tag: Blogs

Watering the Vegetable Garden

May 30, 2022 | In the Garden

As you drink your recommended 6 to 8, 8-ounce glasses of water per day, don’t forget that your vegetable garden should also never be short of water this summer.  Did you know that water makes up 80...

Be a Lazy Gardener and K.I.S.S. for Healthy Plants

May 26, 2022 | In the Garden

Most people know K.I.S.S. is an acronym for Keep It Simple Silly (or something very similar). K.I.S.S. is great because you can apply it to just about any situation in life. Horticulture is no...

SC Fruit and Vegetable Field Report – May 23, 2022

May 25, 2022 | In the Garden

Coastal Region Rob Last reports, “As we see temperatures increase, strawberry flowering is reducing. Plants are still heavy with fruit, so managing diseases such as anthracnose and botrytis through...

Corn Poppies

May 24, 2022 | In the Garden

Corn poppies (Papaver rhoeas) are charming little darlings whom I let mischievously wander around my garden from season to season, deciding upon a new piece of real estate to make their home. Their...

What’s Happening with Hemp? May 22, 2022

May 23, 2022 | In the Garden

Each year the South Carolina Department of Agriculture puts out a call for applications to farm hemp in the state. In 2022 nearly two hundred farmers were issued permits to grow industrial hemp in...

May 23 Week 4 Garden Photos

May 23, 2022 | Photo Blog, Photo Worthy Insects and Animals, Photo Worthy Plants

May Wildflowers Benefit Pollinating Insects Small's Ragwort (Packera anonyma) and Prairie Fleabane (Erigeron strigosus) Barbara H. Smith, ©2022 HGIC, Clemson University Butterflyweed with Bumble Bee...

National Brown Bag-It Day

May 19, 2022 | Tasty Bites

Bringing your lunch is a sure way to save money on eating out during the work week, and it’s also a great way to know what you’re putting in your body. You can always pack the classic peanut butter...

Growing Health

May 17, 2022 | In the Garden

Gardening and health are intrinsically linked. In order to eat healthy, we must first grow healthy foods. Working in the yard or the garden can provide us with physical activity. And, of course, the...

May 16 Week 3 Garden Photos

May 16, 2022 | Photo Blog, Photo Worthy Plants

A Recent Visit to Cypress Gardens in Moncks Corner, SC Cypress Gardens Barbara H. Smith, ©2022 HGIC, Clemson University Alligator Statue at Cypress Gardens Entrance Barbara H. Smith, ©2022 HGIC,...

Annual Vines for the Mailbox or Trellis

May 12, 2022 | In the Garden, Vines

The pioneering American landscape architect Frank Lloyd Wright once said: “A doctor can bury his mistakes, but an architect can only advise his client to plant vines.” Aside from hiding things,...

National Women’s Health Week

May 11, 2022 | Health, Tasty Bites

Mother’s Day is the kickoff to National Women’s Health Week each year. The initiative encourages women and girls to make their health a priority. The CDC has found that women make up two...

Blue Carbon

May 10, 2022 | In the Garden, Water

If your summer vacation plans include a trip to the beach, you’ll have the chance to see our coastal blue carbon resources up close and personal. What is blue carbon, you may wonder? It’s the carbon...