Making It Grow Minutes

Rice isn't just delicious, it's functional.

Has South Carolina's humidity clumped up your salt dispenser? Add some rice. Amanda McNulty explains why this household hack works.

Have you ever used a salt cellar? Host Amanda McNulty explains how to place them on the dining table and gives some helpful information on storing salt.

Monarch butterflies love swamp milkweed for egg-laying and feeding caterpillars, but find competition for food with the native swamp milkweed beetle.

'The Great Outdoors' sometimes comes indoors to the McNulty house.

California grows more peaches than South Carolina and Georgia, but South Carolina's peaches are juicier and sweeter.

No matter which grower produced peaches near you, all of South Carolina's are delicious, and different varieties come available about every ten days.

Bacillus thuringiensis, variety israelensis, is a naturally occurring bacterium that only acts on mosquito larvae.

Since 1970, we’ve lost three billion North American birds and experienced declines in native bees, other beneficial insects, and our recycling decomposers in large part due to the use of pesticides.

Mosquitos can be a pain, but Amanda McNulty shares alternatives to fogging and pesticides to help keep mosquitos from pestering you.

A lot goes into getting watermelons from seed to a tasty treat in your refrigerator.

Gracen Vaughn hands out watermelon slices at school field days, farmers markets, grocery stores, festivals, and other gatherings to tell people about the health benefits of watermelons.

Gilbert Miller of Clemson’s Edisto Research and Education Center is not only a Doctor of Plant and Environmental Sciences, but also president of the South Carolina Watermelon Association.

Watermelon breeders are developing new varieties each year, with over 1,200 different kinds currently grown around the world.

Amanda McNulty explains the trick to picking the perfect melon when giving it the "thump" test.

Oak trees serve as the larval food source for almost a thousand different caterpillars.

Amanda McNulty explains how making space for native plants in your yard can help restore North America's declining nesting bird population.

Caterpillars can only eat the leaves of certain native plants. Amanda McNulty offers ways to help build back North America's rapidly declining nesting bird population.

Boxwoods, azaleas, and crepe myrtles are lovely to look at, but are dead zones for caterpillars.

Host Amanda McNulty shares a shocking statistic regarding North America's bird population.