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The Home & Garden Information Center (HGIC) provides research-based information on landscaping, gardening, plant health, household pests, food safety & preservation, and nutrition, physical activity & health. 1-888-656-9988 (SC residents only, 9 am - 1 pm, M - F)

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A roasting turkey with a meat thermometer insertedFood Safety & Nutrition News
Don't Let Your Thanksgiving Turkey Make You Sick! - This Thanksgiving, even if your turkey has a pop-up thermometer, take your turkey’s temperature to make sure eating turkey won’t make you sick. The one weapon in your kitchen arsenal that can best keep you from getting a foodborne illness after your Thanksgiving meal, is a food thermometer.  (continue)

Wild garlicSeasonal Gardening Tips
Wild Garlic Control - Wild garlic is a cool-season, perennial weed that can invade any lawn, but becomes especially noticeable in dormant, warm-season turfgrasses. This weed emerges from bulbs in the fall, and continues to grow throughout the winter and spring, towering above straw-colored, dormant turfgrasses. (continue)

A woman preparing food in a home kitchenNew Publication – Food & Nutrition
Preparing Quick, Healthy Meals - Quick meals are a necessity, especially when time is limited by working outside the home, participating in many community activities, or staying busy with small children or elderly parents. Throwing together a meal in minutes is easy if you have done some advance preparation. (continue)

DollarweedNew Publication – Gardening
Dollarweed - Dollarweed (Hydrocotyle spp.), also known as pennywort, is a warm-season perennial weed. It gets the common name, dollarweed, from its silver-dollar-shaped leaves. The leaves of dollarweed are round, bright green, fleshy  ... (continue)

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The HGIC staff of horticulture Extension agents and food safety specialists are available to answer questions via their toll-free number, 1-888-656-9988 (South Carolina residents only), between 9 am and 1 pm, Monday through Friday. Non-residents of South Carolina can locate their local County Extension Office here.

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The mission of the Clemson Extension Master Gardener Program is to select, train, and utilize knowledgeable volunteers to assist the educational work of the local Consumer Horticulture Agent by delivering researched-based information to citizens of the state.

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