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Avoid spring gardening mistakes for a summer veggie bounty

3 weeks ago | scliving.coop | L.A. Jackson

While spring is a season of giddy optimism for gardeners planting warm-season vegetables, summertime reality lurks in the form of meager harvests due to poor fruit set. This occurs for several reasons, but many can be cut off at the pass with proper gardening techniques. Below are four of the more common causes: Shady situation. Sun-loving summer vegetables will not properly produce in areas that receive less than six hours of Ol’ Sol a day. Why?
Unusual SC place names unlock passwords to the past

3 weeks ago | scliving.coop | Hastings Hensel

A few years ago, I took an 800-plus-mile road trip around South Carolina to learn about the origins of 10 of the state’s most intriguingly named communities: Round O, North, Plum Branch, Ninety Six, Due West, Possum Kingdom, Cross Anchor, Prosperity, Coward and Ketchuptown. Colorful town names, I knew, would lead me down colorful backroads to colorful places and colorful people. And I wasn’t wrong.
Azaleas, cowboys and art, oh my! Spring into SC festival season

3 weeks ago | scliving.coop | Sarah Ellis

South Carolina is in bloom with a bushelful of seasonal festivals from corner to corner of the state, celebrating everything from azaleas and peach blossoms to fine art and South Carolina traditions. Here are some of the fun and family-friendly festivals you’ll find throughout our state this spring. For more upcoming festivals and events, check out our online events page.
SC’s tiny Lake City blooms with ArtFields festival

3 weeks ago | scliving.coop | Jeff Wilkinson

April Matthews has been working at her family’s produce store in tiny Lake City since she was a toddler. Her grandfather Ross began operating Matthews Fruit Stand at the corner of North Acline and Sauls streets in 1963, selling snap beans, peanuts, watermelons and much more directly to people on the sidewalk. April has been a fixture there since she was old enough to walk. “I was helping unload trucks when I was 4,” she says. Ross Matthews passed away in 2016, and April now runs the business.
Visit a ‘best-kept secret’: SC’s Medal of Honor Museum elevates heroes

3 weeks ago | scliving.coop | Sarah Ellis

Darling I love you with all my heart and I know you do me. Just be true until we can be together again and maybe we won’t have so much to worry about then. I must close. Kiss Sharon for me and let her know I love her and you too. Love, Vernon McGarity Words from a 23-year-old Army soldier, held captive in Germany in 1945, capture a small sense of the personal sacrifice that underlies every war.
Electric cooperatives help SC speed up rural internet

1 month ago | scliving.coop | Sarah Ellis

South Carolina has reached a milestone no other state has: Residents of rural areas now enjoy faster broadband internet speeds, on average, than those in urban areas of the state, according to a national internet speed-test firm. It’s a feat that might have been unimaginable only a few years ago and in many parts of our nation, where rural internet infrastructure lags, may still feel light-years away.
From young to old, pickleball proves to be a sport for all

1 month ago | scliving.coop | Hastings Hensel

Maybe you’ve heard the thwocks and the whacks of paddles and balls at your neighborhood park. Maybe you’re an expert at dinks and serves. Maybe you’re just wondering what all the fuss is about pickleball. More than 13 million players across the country tell an unmistakable truth: Pickleball is one of the hottest sports around, and it’s getting hotter by the moment. In South Carolina, you can find more than 200 places to get your volley on.
In a pickle(ball): A beginner’s first lesson in the country’s fastest-growing sport

1 month ago | scliving.coop | Hastings Hensel

I won’t lie. When I arrive at Wild Dunes Tennis Center on Isle of Palms for my first foray into the booming sports phenomenon of pickleball, I believe the game will come naturally to me. After all, I’d grown up playing intense pingpong every summer at Lake Murray in my family’s July Fourth tournaments. And I’d played in my fair share of Junior Tennis League tournaments, until the day I got so angry at an errant shot that I mimicked John McEnroe and smashed my racket, thus ending my tennis career.
Glory lily lives up to its name as a glorious garden beauty

1 month ago | scliving.coop | L.A. Jackson

Gloriosa superba “Rothschildiana”—when it comes to botanical names, that’s about as pompous as it gets. But this beauty has the visual goods to back up such an ostentatious tag. Commonly called gloriosa lily, flame lily or (my preference) glory lily, this dazzler is an herbaceous perennial vine grown from tubers planted in the spring.
Bright kalanchoe is a midwinter garden showoff

2 months ago | scliving.coop | L.A. Jackson

Kalanchoe is a succulent plant that hails from the subtropics of Madagascar, which suggests it could be a popular showoff outdoors in the steamy heat of our South Carolina summers. Instead, it is usually found full of blooms in the winter at local nurseries, waiting to be taken home as a houseplant to sustain gardeners visually while they wait for the glory that will be yet another spring. What gives?