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Well it was a hot day and
aren't you glad you're

inside in the cool. It's
really hard to do yard

work really though until
kind of late in the

afternoon. So we're glad
that you're inside and

joining us for Making It
Grow.

I'm Amanda McNulty.
I'm an extension agent I

get to come over here on
Tuesdays and do with

people who have really
cool fun things. We're so

excited tonight is a very
cool and fun night.

Because people are cool
and fun. Including my dear

friend and former
professor and a hard one at

that, Dr. John Nelson from
the university of South

Carolina, AC Moore Herbarium.

John you had you
tell me what to the

Web Wild Life Center, so
tell me what that

is in one of the
interesting projects that

you learned about. Yeah, I
was fortunate enough to

go with my botany bodies
down to the James L.

Web Center. Which is in
Hampton county one of my

favorite counties and
they did wonderful botany

down near there, on the flood
plain of the Savannah flood

plain. that one of the things
that makes it so

interesting about motion
but it sure is they have

a lot of high ground
ridges right next to the

flood plain and they're
just the the vegetation

is so much different from
surounding wetlands.

But this is a place that
features a lot of

different kinds of
research and what you

were alluding to was a
project involving

Telemetry studies on
rattle snakes. Where in they

attach a little radio
transmitter to the snake

they can go crawling off
into the forest and be

tracked and studied that
is just to cool, and my

friend Ann Nulty
and husband Mike

Stallworth DNR comes to
their house and they're

putting little geo
transmitters on painted

bunnies, and
then trying to but

didn't catch any this
year that had caught

seventy six birds but
none of them had the

little transmitter on
they think that getting

the transmitter put on
the year before made them

like I'm not real sure
I want to get caught this

year. It's one of the
things we can

do to track animals there
is I think technology has

had a lot to do with the
way we study nature now.

I'm I wish that they were
doing all those DNA

studies some plants and
changing the names. I'm

tired of learning their
names every whip stich.

Sorry it is going to
continue on and on and

Chase Smoak is young enough
that he just learning the

new names because he is a
recent graduate of Clemson

and we are just tickled
to death. That he is the

horticulturest in Sumter
County now, and tell us a

little bit about John
says your property is one

another of his very
favorite places tell

everybody about your
family land what makes it

so special. Yes so it this
kind of in between

two huge towns in South Carolina
Pinewood and Summerton.

It's amazing how fast they blew
up

over time. Now all kidding aside

we're in that area and
there's a lot of

different plant
communities that

fall in there we've we've
looked at the seepage

slopes before. We go
out and Dr. Johns brought the

spread was the furnace
right correct

added some photos her
the quality plans and

where we froze hook into
the wall

There's a lot of
different stuff, you never

know last time we were
out we saw some sundews

which is a carnivorous
plant. When Dr. John spotted

them at that little
seepage I was over

there and had my head
down in the mud for fifteen

minutes. You do have to get
real close to that do

they have little tiny
droplets of of attractive

nectar on the tops of
those little spikes?

Yeah and little get on
then stick. They're usually

in nitrogen poor soils
and that's how they give

a lot of those nutrients
are really cool about a

time you see one there's
probably about five

hundred around your field.
you got it it's funny you

have to start adjusting
your vision to see things

that are of different
sizes. That's right. Thank

you. I'm looking
forward to another trip

with Y'all and we
get to go to his mother's

beautiful house and and
use the bathroom. Vicky

Bertagnolli is a Clemson
extension agent in

Aiken and you've had a very very
interesting

trip recently. I did I
went to Taiwan

my mother's from there we
went to go see my

grandmother and went to
see my mother siblings

then I think a good while.
I have not been there

since nineteen ninety
five. So it was a big

difference.
I got to see

cousins that weren't
there before, and but it

was great. We had a great
time and I believe later

in the show you go share
some images with us. I brought

some plant pictures and
there's a there's a few

bugs in there too. Okay
well that's just

delightful. Terasa Lott is the

master gardener
coordinator for the whole

state and she just got
back from a national

master gardener
convention, and Terasa I

believe you heard
it's a very interesting

person talking about insects.
I heard some great talks

both talking about the
importance of insects and

pollinators especially.
Dr.Doug Tallamy.

The author of bringing
nature home and also a

professor from the
university of Maryland

doctor route who has an
interesting website if

your like Vicki. He's got a bug

of the week website it
might be interested in.

You know we are trying to
keep up with the latest

and greatest technology
and it's hard for me to

do and you'll notice that
I have two devices right

now. So I'm trying to work
from my phone and from my

laptop at the same time,
but we are trying to make

our show more
accessible to people so

not only can you view us
from your cable or

satellite provider but
you can also view us through

Facebook Live with the
help of Facebook so

that makes us more
accessible and it makes

the chat process much
easier because there's no

additional logging and
all you have to do is

click right on our a live
stream and you can just

comment in there and so
it's really just kind of

strange because I can now
see myself on the screen

which I didn't it used to
be able to see when we

weren't on Facebook live
and there's a time delay

as well so I'm living in
like this multiple

reality which is very
strange. I'm but we have

also tried to keep up
with the latest and

greatest in terms of
giving a more thorough

and detailed response.
That's not always

possible with live
calling questions so

we've initiated our
question of the week and

we are going to dive
right in this one was

sent in from Tom
Alexander in Greenville

South Carolina. He says
can you tell me what this

is on my Kira Bush I
have a row of them and

this stuff is just on one
it's white comes on the

branches and leaves are
dark in affected areas I

will tell you that I
don't know if I shared

this with the panel ahead
of time he did say he

tried neem oil a couple
times.

and he also wants to know if
pruning would be

affective so let's turn
it over to our panel of

experts and see what they
have to say about this pest.

Okay.
Well I'm gonna go ahead

and say that we got this
ahead of time and we it

was identified for us
would very nicely, cottony

cushion scale I believe
is going and Vicki is our

entomologist I guess I'll
let you start and tell us

a little bit about it
please.

Chase is telling us that
this was one of the

earlier imports that came
in when did you say like

the eighteen eighties
and

and it was a mistake
whenever got whenever it

got to here as as a lot
of our introductions are

it was an accident but
whenever you look at this

insect.
You'll see that there's a

a red part to it and then
there's a big white hump

and the red part is the
insect itself.

That's that's the female
scale and then that white

hump is actually an egg sack,
and she'll lay,

Chase and I were reading between
eight hundred to a

thousand eggs hello and
then in the spring the

crawlers will come out
from under that. In the

crawler stage,
is is are some of the the

younger ones and that's
when you want to start

looking and that's that
the most effective time

for you to treat.
That easier that's the

easiest stage to control
is that correct? Yes. Okay

because scales have
things on that protect

the adults don't they? A
lot of your scale insects

have a waxy coat to them,
and so whenever you use

something that's water
based if you were spray a

water based insecticide
on a it rolls off

because it's it's like
water on the ducks back

it just rolls right off.
So you're gonna have to

use something like an oil
or a soap or something

systemic. Chase why are the
leaves why's all that

black stuff on the
leaves? Yes that's that's

some city moles that's
building up by these

these little creatures
excrete Honeydew

and often times I think
one thing that you know

Vicki if you want to
touch on is the treatment of

ants. Because ants will actually
come in

and help protect these
scales as well. No kinda

mutualistic relationship.
so the ants will

protect the scale in
exchange for the honeydew.

Because full sugar. Right
and you said earlier like

an oil is and it used to
be we have like winter oils

and dormant oils summer
oils. I think now they're

more highly refined but
that's the most effective

and safest to use. It is
when it and for this

situation it is. Because
you're you're directing a

spray at a certain pest
and the oil is going to

smother the scale.
Because you don't want to

use a systemic in this
case. It did is not

effective against this
particular scale,

and so you would would
use that so in oils

actually gonna be let go
and we were talking

earlier that you've
you've got to pay

attention whenever you
read the label. That you

you've got to make sure
to pay attention to the

temperature parameters
and how often you can

apply the stuff. A lot of
people do want to use a

systemic. Chase and we
were talking that I've

got some clearer and we
cut the attic fan on and

our house was filled with
this fragrance and I was

out there looking at them
and I was like standing

next to
I've been over a giant

buz saw or something.
Even though this is not a

native plant. It was just
covered with insects that

were enjoying those
beautiful flowers and so

we wouldn't it Brad used
a systemic if someone is

a systemic that could
have some pretty severe

consequences. Couldn't it?
I believe some studies

are still being done on
that

I will go too deep into
that section but

yeah I I mean I I believe
that nicotine awards

medical are prohibited
killers not even

effective own those not
and just touching on

Terasa mention pruning.
I believe the scales for

for areas that are more
east in cool soft think

going into some of these
plants may be doing

thinning cuts, get real
thick could be beneficial

to help improve air flow
and bright sunlight and

and and crowding do you
think of the places that

had we actually have a
really good

a fact sheet on that. H.G.I.C.
record information

search for sterling and
making it says pruning

for shrubs I believe
any cuts and rejuvenation

a few different
techniques. Also in

reading about treating
these you have to do a

real good job of covering
that you can't just make

ahead which is key
because if you win some

remember one of those has
eight hundred eggs underneath

that cover. So you you
can't just the

populations will grow
fast. All right so Terasa

did did we give
enough information to

suit everybody?
We are not selling I

really wasn't listening
I'm sure it was

fantastic no doubt.
I'm talking about

fantastic that are all
those are all the photos

that you have shared for
our new gardens of the

week. So it's a way for
you to show off what

you're doing in your
backyard whether the

vegetables or ornamental
so let's see what we have

these are all photos on
that were submitted for

the month of June. So
first we have Cynthia

Lally in Ladson. I feel
like this is a an

eclectic backyard
highlighted with some sun

flowers and then moving
on in Charleston we have

a photograph from Lynette
Rozar of her ginger

and
if my tongue will cooperate

I can tell you the family
name Zingiberaceae

which I think is just a
fun one. If you could say

you could probably
impressed some people

with that.
Then we have our Arlene who

submitted her day lilies
what a vibrant pop of

color. That deep red with
the yellow center.

Then it we have a new
form of gardening I think

with the Lila McCullough
in Colombia

she's like me she's
learned how to grow

puppies in her backyard
garden.

Being out the week we
have Mary Quick from

Cheraw who submitted this
photo of her moon planter

moonflower. You know I
don't I don't see a lot

of that pure white in the
garden one a striking

image. So thank you to
everyone who submitted

their photographs. We do
apologize if we weren't

able to show yours on air.
It was an overwhelming

response it doesn't mean
that we didn't find it

beautiful or entertaining.
We just had more than we

could show. Be on the look
out for our call for

photographs that will
come out in July. That will

show all through the
month and then we'll move

on with another call in
August. Now let's go back

to Amanda and the panel.
Thank you and Billy from

Murrells Inlet is calling and
well since talked

about Murrells Inlet
Katie

Altman and our office is
from there and her sister

Bridget is a beloved
member of that community

there so I imagine
that Billy might

even know Bridget. So
tell us what's happened

down there and we'll do
our best to help you.

Thank you Amanda, good
evening to you.

Good evening to you.
I have a question about

Amaryllis I have some
very large Amaryllis in

the front yard and they
are putting out a second

crop of beautiful red
blooms now, and I was

wandering if it's something
that's normal abnormal?

Gosh I wish that I had
something abnormal that

was that positive happen to me.
Chase what do you think?

I phony had month flower
once Johnny and I idea

well they formed the the
buds of the flowers deep

within the bulb of course.
When it's time for the

producing flowers and I
guess they if they're

especially happy about
where they are maybe they

could and that and if
their well fed. I think

there's a lot to do with
that. But I bet the people

who have to hang out with
jinx farmer and his his

crowd could
you know share some

about how amaryllis works.
I wonder if it's a if

it's a stress like and
how you force is it like

forcing flowers?
It would have to be for

the year but you know
the person the year

before.
I don't think we I mean

they go fine in the
garden we have a lot of

them too.
Billy I just think you're

lucky is an
issue

freeze donation yeah
we'll try to see if we

can find out and maybe
expand on that next year

but next week but I'm
good for you

that maybe you'd like to
see dig to a few of them

so it's a member here
we'll plan about home to

tell you if they act like
that for us about that.

Belinda is in
Greenville Belinda were

awfully glad to hear from
somebody if they all of

is the hot weather
finally come to

Greenville or you'll
still little bit cooler?

Hi there how are you? Good
how are you

I'm doing wonderful thank
you. My question is

concerning milkweed plants.
All I had one last year

that was very I put it in
a container. Large

container. Next to mom
and that was very vibrant

and a lot of
monarch okay so this year

course it died down and
this year I went to the

farmer's market
bought one and I have it

I'm container of course
you knew so well and

everything the morning
and it has these flowers

hi
the flight

I guess maybe if the
wind would catch them.

They would go off and do
whatever they do.

But I've never seen this
before and I was

wondering if that
if we don't have a lot of

we're not having a lot of
wind except for when it

storms. But I
wonder if I should

take five been
distributed among

and let me
they never grow another

places? Well Dr. John

they have a pretty
wonderful and

attractive
fascinating seed pod with

their wonderful plants I
think one of the first

questions here's what
kind of milk weed? Okay

and because that probably
could make a difference

and how these things are
easily grown, of course I

don't grow plants too
much

when there plenty of
different kinds of weeds.

The pods themselves of

course follow the flowers
and

hers is already far would
appear I think this is

the the next year's crop
or something like that

she got a new plant. I can
hear it she got a new

plant it sounded like add
on to what she what is

yours because
you change all

the soil and started
all over again. But if the

pods are producing seed
there's I don't know if

again it depends on what
kind of plant it is but

if it's a one of these a

quasi tropical species.
presumably they could be

the same as could be
germinated and if it's a

native species.
I guess just let them go

in the breez. See what
happens or try to capture

some and put them in the
right place. Okay. Chase

what would you do if you
have those have a seed

pod? I'd propagated
by seed before and

they're easy to know if
you get a little tube

before bust open because
reguardless of what you think

it doesn't take much wind

for those things to start
floating around they'll

get everywhere.
You can take them out you

can actually plant them, a
it's it's pretty easy to

start out by seed you
can start them indoors and

start out a little bit of
a low light area and wait

for them to germanate then kind
of slowly move them back out

to the light but
you can certainly do that

option. Okay,
good for you Belinda for

planting things for the
monarch physician and you

got to have a fascinating
science lesson too.

Thomas is in Chester. Thomas
were glad to hear

from you tonight. How can
we try to help you?

Yes, thanks Amanda, appreciate
your show.

I would like to ask a
question about tomato

plants outside the
problem in the past.

I get one or two
tomatoes that just start

the really drooping,
it looked like they had

no water I mean compared
to the ones sitting beside it,

it just looks
very funny and I'll just

wondering if that might be
some kinda insect that

may be at the root or
something or some kind of

fungus or something
I just appreciate your answer.

Thank you. and
I'm going to

suggest that you may want
to look because you you

know exactly what yours looks
like

Clemson home and
garden information center

has a great fact sheet,
Called tomato diseases

and problems or something
like that,

and it has pictures and
describes a lot of things

and sometimes it's easier
for you to look at the

picture because there are
a lot of things that can

cause will tomato spotted
wilt virus didn't

usually make the plant
look wilted to it does

other things on bacteria
there some bacterias that

can cause the same problems
as well or it can be

some really weird with
the soil. I mean it was

just not able to take up
very much water right now

she
there's also yeah the

only thing I always tell
people is that Tony says

when you plant your
tomato plants get a piece

of aluminum foil and
do you remember what he says?

Yeah
there's one, cut

worms come on top of the
soil and then there's a

something become sucked
up in that comes through

the soil Southern stem
blight or something and so

Which soil born and so
he says if you wrap the

part of the stem that
you're going to you know

this part and
lightly with aluminum

foil and had it have it
church to which is about

the stolen two inches
below the soil there are

two things that you would
eliminate out of the hundred

things that can go wrong with
the tomato.

and Thomas but I'm glad
you've got some others

that are still doing well
and I sure hope you go

get some good tomatoes
but

there are a lot of things
but that fact sheet should

and may give you
some help.

If you just put in your in your
search

engine Clemson H.G.I.C. tomatoe
diseases I

think it'll take you
right to that that fact sheet

and we we hope
that you're

going to that the rest of
the garden and give you

any trouble for the
summer.

I'm John I think that
you've got a plant that

was going to be a mystery
plant that you decided to

tell us what it was out
of kindness. Right.

chase is so good at the
things he would

insist on having five
minutes to look it up

they probably both know
exactly what they're

saying is when I'm just
going to go ahead and

tell us so we see a
picture of so tonight I

want to talk about
Confederate jasmine and

one of the issues here is
like Confederate Jacko

that common name
Confederate jasmine is

used for more than one
kind of plant.

This is a native species and
I saw it this past weekend.

and I will have them the
great honor of hanging

out with my friends at
from the friends of the

Congaree swamp, I went on a
little field trip down to

the national park and I
wandered around looking

at all the beautiful
places and birds. I tell

you what they were some
birds to see,

but this was a vine that
we saw we were so happy

to find it. Everybody had
big smiles this is

Confederate jasmine which
is a native spaces

and it is a deciduous vine
and it's actually pretty

common
in swampy places,

especially in the
Midlands and the coastal

plain.
Very a small doll little

yellow flowers are not
particularly pretty but

it makes beautiful
beautiful fruits that are

long long skinny pods
and that the funny thing

is that the pods are
twins that is there's

always two of them
together at the base and

they hang down so as I
said this is a native

species it's got a long
scientific name

thrysanthella difforme, now the
complicating part

of this is that
the common name has as I

said has been used for
another plant it is

widely grown in people's
gardens and long faces a

and this beautiful
beautiful glossy

evergreen foliage and it
makes is incredibly

fragrant
blooms that are white and

very conspicuous
and lot of people call

out also Confederate
jasmine but an

alternative name for that
one is star jasmine and

that plant is called
tricky Los Birmingham

jazz minorities and I
know people or start

element at me if I keep
these of all these big

names. No it's important.
But that is a tropical

species that's adapted
for growing and South

Carolina.
To make it even more

complicated there's a
second species of

tracking Los Burnham
called AZ attic jasmine

which is
last of the guests to be

a bit of bad weed.
And many people grow that

as a ground cover and all
my

just fix that you never
have to mow your lawn but

it doesn't do anything it
doesn't seem to me to

ever bloom,
but that one is shrinking

low sperm AZ Attica
so we have

in addition to the native
born

we have these two
introduced species.

That you could call
Confederate jasmine

but let me just say this
the Asiatic ones would

have never been seen by
Confederate soldiers. If we

come to it if I think of
it that way where is our

native one what it was in
here for a long long time.

Do you know what they
call, use the word jasmine

with that doesn't have
any Fragrents or small

flowers. Again I don't
think it does

yeah yeah yeah well it
looks like other jasmine

and I've seen the Asiatic
when it climbs up

anything that is going
around.

It is really hard to get
rid of. It's so thick and

woody and it just I don't
like it and I know a lot

of hope I would go out
and visit a lot of

homeowners that say Hey
I've got a big patch of

this is dying and I'm
like pull out the rest of it

but you know a lot of folks
use it to stabilize like

a an imbankment or something
like that.

I personally would try to
do something what's the

one last thing is these
AC addicts species are

very good at making this
milky latex

juice, but in my
experience that stuff is

really irritated if it
gets on your skin. I'm one

of those people trying to
clip this stuff don't

let it get on your skin.
It's more fun than to

have our native although
the to be honest the

flowers are quite a showy
and there's a cultivar

think Madison this a
little more cold hardy is

that right chase? The
love the mayor with

anyone yeah the
tribulus Preminger's jazz

minorities one call
Madison that's a little

more cold hardy so if
you're in a place where

it's a little bit
chillier than Columbia.

You may want to look for
a band like great this

past winter it made it
through this past winter.

Good good, okay, well
Terasa got some news for us

Terasawhat you got for us?
Well I am doing my best

to keep up with some
people are still in our

called our old chat room
or are former chat room

so I'm trying to man that
and the comments on our

Facebook live stream but
it's not working so a

luckily the folks in the
old chat room they know each

other well sort of know
each other by the

communications that would
have on a regular Tuesday

evening basis I'm so just
keep track of themselves

which is fantastic. We did
have a question about

cucumbers and the person
said the cucumber is

flowering but not making
any fruit and he even

tried to hand in a but
still no fruit so I'm

suspecting I'm cucumbers
and also other plants in

the cucumber family they
can commit squash and

melons they make separate
male and female flowers

so you might not have
known that that was

possible and usually the
first flash of flowers

is all male flowers so I
suspect that even though

he was trying to hand
pollinate there what he

he wasn't able to
successfully if at all

male parts there was
nothing to put the pollen

on too so you can
actually look and see the

difference between the
flowers on the little

female flowers will have
with what looks like a

little baby developing
fruit at the end so.

Hopefully if he's patient
hill and then we'll get

both male and female
flowers and he can't help

the pollination longer
you can help the

pollination along by hand
pollinating with like a

little Q-tip or a
little peek fresh or

something like that so
plants are pretty

creative sometimes and
you have to know your

flower parts and how to
help them along in the

process. Amanda back to you.
We got a lovely lovely

letter.
From a young lady and it

was just the sweetest
nicest letter and to get

a hand written letter and
the the writing was all

straightened everything
and I'm in retail Wilson

and it was such a great
letter in it she said of

my family has the best
blueberry cobbler recipe

imagining, imaginable well
in where he is a graduate

of the got the
commissioner school at

Clemson which is for
outstanding high school

students who want to go
in agriculture and she's

just been accepted at
Clemson for the coming

year and she lives at
chant needs blueberry

farm Anna she's one topic
two gallon of blueberries

and sixteen minutes or
something like that which

is like winning the
Boston Marathon,

but anyway she brought
some marvelous

blueberries up here and
we're going to go and

learn how to make her
family's delicious cobbler.

My guest today is Emery
Tumbleston, who comes up

here from the low country.

Emery thanks for coming
and your farm has an

unusual name.

Yes ma'am were Champney's
blueberry farm were in

Ravenel, South Carolina
off of highway seventeen.

And when I think of
Champney's I associate

that with the rose.

Tell us how
that came about.

Yes ma'am the Champney's
paint cluster John

Champney's hybridized
it at the turn of the

nineteenth century and
it's actually the mother

of the noisette roses.

Of Charleston?

Yes ma'am downtown
everywhere everywhere you

see noisette at.

But y'all are
not a rose farm.

No ma'am not a rose farm.

All we do is blueberries.

We started out as a dairy
farm right from the early

nineteen hundreds all the
way up to the nineteen

fifties.

And then from the fifties
up until around the maybe

the nineties it was just
row crops and then when my

father retired he
had to stay busy.

So he's decided to
start blueberries.

So you have grown up since
you were two years old

picking blueberries.

Yes ma'am as soon as soon
as I could get out there

even my grandmother would
take me out on the golf

cart and put me under
the under the bushes.

And I just sit
there and eat.

Well we're so happy
that you brought these

beautiful newblueberries
today and I think you're

going to share a
favorite family recipe.

Yes ma'am so I've I've
had this all my life.

It's one of the simplest
and definitely one of the

most delicious blueberry
cobblers I've I know at

least.

Well let's make one.

Yes ma'am.

So what's the first step.

So we're just gonna take
about a nine by thirteen

pan you can use a
disposable cake pan to if

you want to.

Okay.

Right now got a pretty
glass pan but we're going

to grease this
up really good.

So nothing sticks because
we really don't want any

stick in.

Okay.

So you really are
gonna give it a good.

Yeah yes ma'am if you
really want some over

kill you can throw some
flour in there and it

definitely won't stick.

Okay and because when we
cook all this is gonna be

kind of like jelly or
something so it could

stick with all that sugar.

Yes ma'am and blueberries
are quite hard to clean up

after.

Well thanks for the tip.

Right so we got it all
nice and prepared.

Yes ma'am and so
we're just gonna take

those blueberries
right there.

And you said
this is about.

That is about about about
a pint maybe a little bit

more it depends on
how much you want.

A little over two cups.

So you want about
a single layer.

I put I put a
little bit more.

Mama would say a single
layer but I do in my own

little way.

So that looks
like a good start.

And so you just want to
you just want to single

layer of blueberries and
then you're going to take

a can of crushed pineapple
and its own juice not not

syrup you just want
regular one hundred

percent pineapple juice.

Okay.

No added sugar because
trust me your yeah you're

get your get enough sugar
from the blueberries and

from the pineapple itself.

So just kind of
evenly get this over.

Yes ma'am and then you can
take that spatula if you

need to and kinda.

Okay.

Flatten it out make sure
it's all over everything.

Crushed pineapple?

Crushed pineapple.

Chunked pineapple is a
little it doesn't spread

as well and just really
make sure you get it and

its own juice.

Okay.

You don't need
any added sugar.

well I tell ya I was
tasting these delicious

blueberries and they're
pretty sweet already.

Yes ma'am we got three
different varieties.

So they each have a little
bit different of a taste

and these are middle
variety mostly.

So those are sweetest.

What are the three
varieties that you have?

So we have we grow the
Rabbiteye blueberries.

And so we have three
different sub varieties of

Rabbiteye blueberries.

So climax comes in first.

They're a little bit more
on the tart side a lot of

the kids like them and
then brightwell comes in

second and they're they're
my favorite personal

favorite.

They're nice and round and
big and sweet and then

tifblue comes in last.

They're kind of in the
middle in my opinion there

in the middle.

Yeah but there
all delicious.

Yes ma'am.

Especially when the from
a South Carolina farm.

Yes ma'am they're
fresh off the bush.

Okay so I've got this.

And so then we're just
going to take box of lemon

cake mix.

lemon flavored cake mix.

Yes ma'am you don't need
to do anything to this

cake mix just
pour it on top.

All righty if you say so.

You don't have to you
don't have to mix it or

anything like that.

Now when people come to
your farm do you you have

blueberries already ready
or could people pick there

own or how does it work.

Mostly it's a you
pick operation.

We do already picked
berries, we just ask

people to call before
before they come just to

make sure we have them in
stock because we will some

days we will sell
out very quickly.

So don't make the drive
out without calling.

Yes ma'am.

Okay so I've got that
done and then do you want

this again.

I normally just use my
hands because it'll it'll

stick but yeah I just use
my hand and kinda get it

and every little all over
the all over the place.

We both washed our hands
very carefully before we

started I promise.

And so just just get it
nice and level if you can.

Doesn't have
to be perfect.

And so then were gonna
take this butter here.

I've already cut it up.

Just try to get thin
little slices of butter

and this is what is going
to break make your lemon

cake mix brown.

And so it's about a stick
of butter mama says a

stick of butter.

I say is much
better as it needs.

We are in the
south after all.

And your Daddy does
rice in every single.

Yes Daddy has to have rice
and some sort of beans or

gravey to put on top of
it every single meal.

Otherwise we will hear
it for a very long time.

And so we're just putting
us all over the lemon cake

mix don't be skimpy
with your butter.

Okay and this is going to
help it get a beautiful

brown color.

Yes ma'am I'm gonna get
that pretty golden brown

color.

Now what do you what what
what did you pre-heat the

over too.

We're going to put
it in at three fifty.

Three fifty.

Three and fifty degrees
for about forty five

minutes or until it
gets golden brown.

It could take a little bit
longer depending on if you

got one of those dark dark
cake one of those dark

cake dishes.

Or fancier or
less fancy oven.

Yes ma'am.

Just about got this one
topped off pretty well I

think what do you think?

yes ma'am that's
all of our butter.

Well this is
I'm exhausted.

It's really hard isn't it.

And then you said that
after you finish with that

you generally let it
cool a little before.

It comes out really hot.

And it's gonna it's gonna
the blueberries are going

to bubble up.

So you really you really
don't want to burn.

So let's set this one
aside I think you brought

one with you.

Yes ma'am so this is what
that pale lemon cake mix

is going to turn to
a little help with

some butter.

And you brought your
mother's beautiful China.

Yes ma'am.

She been able
to come with us.

And I'll let you
do the honors.

All right whoever wants a
corner piece can have it.

So it's not gonna win any
beauty contests but it

will win a taste contest.

So kind of got a channel
my inner Mary Poppins and

I say perfectly in
perfect in every way.

Okay an then.

I got it I got to
get me one too.

You notice she gave
me the big piece.

Oh yeah.

Hey I got to
keep you happy.

And so you see the
blueberries the

blueberries will
automatically mix

with the pineapples
on the bottom.

And there's your fork.

Thank you ma'am.

Well let's see.

Champney's
blueberry cobbler.

Oh my goodness.

Don't smile your
teeth will be purple.

I don't mind at all.

Well worth purple teeth
to have something this

delicious.

You're right it's just the
right amount of sweetness.

Yes ma'am.

And I can get that little
bit of lemon that just

make it all wonderfully
flavorfull.

No added sugar and you get
the fiber the blueberry so

Hey it's a little bit
nutritious even though

it's good.

Gosh and again the
blueberries have a not a

real long period but
because you'll have

three different ones about
when do they start coming

in?

Normally it's around the
first week in June we can

be a little bit earlier a
little bit later depending

on the weather.

You know if we get too
much rain it's bad.

We get too little bit rain
it's bad so it's a very

fine line and then it
depends on you know what

even what the weather was
all the way back in the

when they were when they
were blooming in the

spring.

So really just weather but
you normally around that

first week of June.

Well if people want to get
more information about

Champney's blueberry farm
what's the best way to do

that.

You can call us directly
at eight four three seven

six three six five six
four and you can find us

on Facebook and Instagram.

You can see behind the
scenes pictures of the

farm and everything you
want to and we love to

have everybody out.

Is it pretty easy to find.

Yes ma'am we are right off
highway seventeen just

south of Charleston.

Were about eight miles
south of citadel mall so

not not too far out.

Alright well thank you so
much for making the trip

to Sumter and bringing
this wonderful recipe.

Yes ma'am thank
you for having me.

Hope you like it?

It was really delicious
so.

There's still some
blueberries out there

wonderful stuff gonna
blueberries found out who

near you has them.
Right now in Sumter we

still have them at Friday
farmers market. Some just

will have to get someone
make what I thought this

would be. I'm looking
forward to it.

Alfonso's in Hephzibah
Georgia. Alfonso we're

delighted to hear from
you and tell us what's

going on we'll try our
best to help you.

Good evening
Amanda how are you? We're all

doing we do well, and we hope
you are too.

Okay doing well. I am having a
problem with brown fungus

on my peaches this year
and if the if the peaches stayed

on the tree. the fungus will
encompass the whole peach.

copper is the whole P.
that it only takes a

peach all and about two
or three days later if I

look back on the tree to
ones that that did not

take off
the fungus will

reappear and is it
start out being brown

and if it gets into like
a fungus, kinda state

I want to find what can I do and
is it harmful to me?

for the peaches

that is not affected?
Have you been using us

had a spray program on
your peaches Alfonso?

have you been doing in
the spraying of a of a of

a pest pestacide on the

peaches to help control
this?

I did put a pestecide the
peaches.

are
I'm not gonna come out

about six days ago just
one just one spray? Just

one spray? Okay.
No I've done it

throughout the year.
Yeah, but this is this app

used to same pestecide up to
five trees for

three going on for years
and I paid that

type brown fungus looking
appears okay and I'm

guessing that the thing
you're using has a

fungicide in it
the spray you're using

has a fungicide in it
not that I don't know.

A three in one fruit spray
is it like a three in one

fruit spray?
Yes.

All right we'll
Vicki let's talk a little

bit about that because
there's some important

things about when
to spray when not

to spay,
and maybe changing

sometimes
can you have resistance

sometimes? Yeah
so there's a we've got a

an it's it's hard to find
a but we do have a spray

schedule for peaches.
It's one of those things

whenever folks call me
about home grown peaches on

I tell and let the
commercial folks grown

one reason I say that is
that is hard to spray a

peach tree effectively
and we don't have

protective clothing. The
equipment that whenever

they come through the
fields I've got

there ultra low volume
misters that aren't that

they pull behind the
tractors that are blowing

the pesticide all over
the trees

and as homeowners we just
we can't do that with a

pump up sprayer and then and
also because the stuff is

blowing all over the
place you have to wear I

mean it's it's a tyvex suit so
you can it's it's full

head gear and like that
Chase explain a

pesticide
encompasses several

different things so
either that's kind of

like the broad spectrum
term if you will no pun

intended with pesticides
but yeah I I I think one

thing worth mentioning is
in that it can be in it I

mean it means an answer
and so I decided to

pester sodomite inside of
a fungicide

and so the Vicki was
talking about as a

combination is that cool
a water sprite is like

one of those ready to use
three way mixes and

the problem with that is
is sometimes you can

treat for stuff that you
don't need to treat for

an end up causing more
harm than good

but clemson to do or there
was a graduate student

who did some work on
using these bags over the

peaches and sometimes
that's option that works

really well
I don't know where you

can find more information
maybe or some online

there are some online if
you if you search Clemson

peach bag
Clemson peach bags each

bag around it in in the
home homeowners in the

area that would be
something that would be

up I think would work
really well instead of

thinking about spraying
all the time course your

student to treat some but
you know if you can just

go out and put a bag over
the fruit into the game

with them that would be
nice and

even some years certain
problems are worse than

others are they thinking
if it's a particularly

wet year you're gonna
to have a lot of issues

with fungus
it fits that may I mean

even if even if it's kind
of dry

it's Matt did and windy
you're gonna have stuff

moving around you can
have issues with insects

and so it it tends to be
exacerbated if it's moist

if it's really humid it
that have to necessarily

be rain it could be
humidity.

Okay so Alfonso
again you on you're

doing very well it sounds
like you're following the

schedule according to the
way it's been written on

the label and that's the
first thing to do for

safety.
N. whip at this step I'm

hoping that maybe this is
just a year when the

environment was such that
it made it worse for you

it kind of sounds like
that the peaches I have

brown rot or soft
rot. Yeah,

but anyway
and but look up peach bags

and and we hope that map
and I don't think any of

this is if there's a
peach that has some on

one side and the rest of
it's still fine I think

you can cut it off and
eat the the other part of

the peach
but

anyways I hope that
you'll get some peaches off

that tree and you I
guess you have to pick

someone bring them in.
Terasa and has got some

news for us Terasa.
Well I just thought

people might be curious
about this peach bag that

Chase was mentioning and
it is on our H.G.I.C.

factually about peach
insect pests and let's

see if I click on there
there you can see is a

picture of you don't
really see but there is a

peach underneath that bag
so

would work in a
residential scenario but

as you can imagine
probably not so practical

on the commercial side
when we have people

growing acres of of
peaches but I thought you

just might like to see
that and then there is of

course more information
the Curculio that's

a one of the terrible
insect pests in there you

can see that the larva
and the adult so

something that I remember
in fact a few weeks ago I

believe someone sent me a
picture of damage done by

this particular pest. So
I I concur with Vicki I

vote try to
try to support

your locally grown
whenever possible this

one this is tough to do
in your backyard. Although

the peach bag does look
on pretty interesting. Amanda

back to you. Thanks
for giving us that update.

I really appreciate that.
That was fun.

Well it's national
pollinator week,

and, Yay. So I went out in the
garden and

anything that had buzzing
going on I got a little

bit of it. Brought it in,
even

this hydrangea which is a
lace cap hydrangea. Has

sterile flowers the big
fancy flowers are sterile

with the ones inside are
real flowers and they had

a lot of
activity going on today.

Someone that was a fun
happy Monday to go out

and get to see what was
going in my garden. Diane is

in Charlotte. Diane we're
happy to hear from you

and how can we try to
help you tonight?

I have a
question about whether

having I have
purchased and plant for

the whole minutes for
better processor and they

have been
therefore less of a but

not all of them
the rooms at night

and I don't know if I
should happen marsh

and that had been like
you

or something
because the only slightly

and I see that there's
other going further up

the stem
so I did I wanna make

sure I'm not doing the
wrong thing the better

for both of them out
Andrea into bad question

as well I've got about a
five and a half foot

comparable formula
that looks like the the

benefits can get heading
Chase, what do you think?

I think you could do most
anything to a butterfly

bush she wanted to it'll be O.K.
They're pretty tough and

this is badly in that
she's talking about yeah

David I believe is one of
the more popular ones

that we see in landscape
industry. But yeah you

can go in and
you can dead head that

stuff off and it's going
to keep sending them out,

keeps them out the
five foot tall purple salvia?

A giant one, another option

lost me on that one.
Itself is usually just

keep blooming and
blooming from my,

experience but
if it's five feet tall and

a Salvia. Once again
probably can't hurt what

do you think? John
do you know anything

about the re blooming of
self is assessing

total Salvia there's
there's several of those

that are tall and one
that I know of is Salvio

Gagarin medica
which is got gorgeous

gorgeous flowers in the
crawl is blue

Hey Alexis sort of black
good Sam they can't

really tall and and
again I'm I haven't done

this too much but I've
seen this in gardens and

when those things are
trimed after the after

all
below it okay rooms

plants will top like to
branch after that

okay and so they're going
to be sending out new

growth is there you know
happy about their

situation in life they're
going to keep producing

more stems. Okay and it's
not even July yet we have

a lot of
a lot of

it was still with me
thank yeah okay

your bug picture
of my hat has all kinds

of things. John wants me tell
whats in my hat.

I'm I have taken there's
must look at that okay so

the yellow part of my
hat is one of the Saint

John warts and native one
and I was pulling the

leaves off this
it's hard to do that.

okay there the site jobs
more than the other

things in it we have I
can name shows we have

zillions and zillions of
dizziness that have

big centers that have on
the floor parts of very

good for for pollinators
and I've got some

I get flour and then pick
man from which is just

about the best thing to
take Manson is a little

purple and green thing
and it's about the best

thing in the world for
pollinators there it is

right there. In the mint
family smells good too,

but anyway only links
look what we found. I was

so excited. It was just
fabulous

we thought maybe thank
you said you thought I

don't know what they are
you said it takes a hard

yeah eggs are hard and it
it's one of those things

were hard.
That is not me.

Well anyway I was
and I'm the Terasa it

was kind enough to tell
me the business fix up

Terasa
are you still there to

Terasa so you too busy on
chat room the grey

hairstreak thank you the
grey street does use this

plant this so John's
worts as a novel food

sources such a cute
little butterfly is it a

it's a tiny little thing
like it and it's on the

on the wings it's got a
little

I don't know what you got
there like tiny little

tails
kinda kinda swirly is

so cute okay Largo right
home and look it up okay

well Vicki you've got
some pictures for us and I

think you actually know
what they are I did I did

I did so whenever I went
to Taiwan of course

you've got a you've got
when you're doing out

about you to take
pictures and so

I brought some pictures
back and this was our

main that
John was telling me that

a lot of the plants that I
took pictures that we

have here. So I didn't
have to go on the other

side of the world to take
these pictures but

and this one valor Manda
um and then this is

at and it yeah this is a
what you say water

willing this is actually
in a pot that my uncle

has on our roof
and then this is that a

pistachio gosh and it's
neat because it has a

little wings on the only
does done yeah

the rachis the deli
and this is a giant crepe

myrtle and these
were all over

the place quite
models are native

to Asia.
Yeah

and then we went to
rainbow city and this was

one of my very favorite
things they have ficus

trees planted all over
the place and there's

they're extremely large
and

you can see what looks
like vines but they're

not actually vines their
their aerial roots what

they are okay
and when you go to the

grocery store you have
seen star for you yeah

and this is some immature
star free so you see the

flowers in the middle and
then the the under

chartreuse green that's
hanging under

those are actually too
immature fruits isn't

that awful fascinating
and whenever

they grow a lot of
mangoes one in the not

the big man goes yeah we
have here they're they're

tiny palm sized mangoes
but this is the real

issue that we
only nine goes

there are signs
everywhere to watch out

for falling mangoes
and there was a we went

to a a play house and
inside showing and this

is the this is on top of
an opera house and this

is the rooftop garden
that they had out there

and the funny thing about
the rooftop garden that

was mostly turf really is
what it was

is that those are just
big structures that are

on the roof and the
winding path

that goes in between them
okay

and then all the rooftop
of our house yes uncles

got all these potted
plants and there was a

white pomegranates
hi there this is this is

that our office
and then walking down the

street
when you walk down the

streets and Taiwan they
have so many plants in

pots
but there is this is a

pomegranate tree and
apart

and they were they were
good size they would not

pomegranates like what we
would not

and one of the accident
plants that they have

quite a bit of in the
street plantings is this

how you say it exam are
up

it was ten is the store
and this was this had

beautiful butterflies on
it and then so I was so

excited when I saw this
thing we were we were at

an overlook and
I saw this and I was all

my goodness what is this
and it's a it's a white

team we call it like she
here in Taiwan it

completes the it's a free
and this is a stink bug

milk
and the younger ones are

really colorful like this
and the as they get older

they turn will but darker
then I saw it in

where site a parasitoid
of American Cocker jags

as the American cockroach
from there now with the

the meeting which is not
from here okay and then

the are those that big
family over there

this was that thank god
my wetlands eco center

and and all those things
in the background is our

people well how fun it is
a island of twenty three

thank you for sharing
thank you for all the

people you are
interacting with your

news modern way
always fun although more

and more challenging to
keep up especially while

we're trying to run to
chat rooms I apologize if

I wasn't able to answer
your question feel free

to register our Facebook
page during the week and

we will try to get to
your answers Amanda. Okay

we are going to be off
next week because of the

holiday and so but we'll
be right back after that

so I don't have a clock so I
don't how much time we

have left. They're giving me
all kinds of only five

seconds so that means I
can just say good night

and we'll see you in two
weeks

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twenty two varieties of
peaches. McCall farms

helping South Carolina
grow with brands such as

Peanut Patch, Bruce's Yams,
Margaret Holmes and Glory

Foods. Super Sod a family
owned sod farm.

Supplying the south with grass
sod and seed including Tiff-

Tuff drought tolerant
Bermuda grass.

F. T. C. diversified, a proud
part of your local communities

providing communication,
entertainment and security.

Additional funding
provided by International

Paper and the South
Carolina Farm Bureau

Federation and Farm
Bureau Insurance.