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Clemson Extension Agents Still On the Job

Making It Grow Minute
SC Public Radio

Hello Gardeners, I’m Amanda McNulty with Clemson Extension and Making It Grow. The Clemson Extension Horticulture team interacts with professional fruit and vegetable growers as well as home-based clients. Although restricted by safety guidelines during these times, Extension office phones are working and hort agents are available to solve residential and commercial problems. Agents are also offering a variety of programs on line, from environmentally sustainable landscaping to step-by-step instructions on renovating your lawn, check out the Clemson Horticulture Facebook page. The Ag Service lab will accept soil samples in zip lock bags from residential customers and the Plant and Pest Diagnostic Clinic also is operating. Please call your local extension office for information on what is required to submit materials to those agencies by mail or private carrier. The Home and Garden Information Center agents are answering phones all day long advising clients on plant and food problems or questions.

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Amanda McNulty is a Clemson University Extension Horticulture agent and the host of South Carolina ETV’s Making It Grow! gardening program. She studied horticulture at Clemson University as a non-traditional student. “I’m so fortunate that my early attempts at getting a degree got side tracked as I’m a lot better at getting dirty in the garden than practicing diplomacy!” McNulty also studied at South Carolina State University and earned a graduate degree in teaching there.