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thejenkinscountytimes.com The Jenkins County Times Friday, April 7, 2023- Page 9 Small Engine Repair * Lawnmowers * Weedeaters * Generators * Chainsaw OUTDOOR EQUIPMENT 225 Old Millen Hwy Waynesboro, GA30830j Hometown Service & Hometowi Pride 706.551.5094 Gardening with Talmadge Feed the Bees By Talmadge Fries, Special Contributor for The Times Without the bees, we would not have food to eat nor beautiful flowers. The bees pollinate the food crops as well as flowers. And the Bees produce honey. Not only is it delicious, but it has also healing properties to help heal wounds and helps with allergies. When planning or buying plants for your garden, always look for pollinator friendly plants. Not only for the bees, but also it attracts butterflies and Hummingbirds also. And pollinator blooms are fragrant and colorful. Coneflowers come in a variety of colors and make excellent perennials in the garden. The blooms can be used in cut fresh and dries arrangements. The Butterfly bush is an excellent choice for the garden and is also a perennial, that will give beauty year after year. Daylilies are also a good pollinator, and you can find a wide variety of colors to choose from. Most are very hardy to our area and make excellent garden choices. The Purple Passionflower is sometimes considered a weed. But the blooms resemble something from Star Trek and are very alluring and almost look they are from outer space. And the Shasta Daisy is an old favorite in the garden. It is hardy and is easy to maintain. The blooms are excellent in fresh vase arrangement. As always, join your local garden club for a wealth of information and fellowship. Uncle Shed’s Fish Camp & Ogeechee Boats is a place on the river tbat has been left as the site of a famous fish camp. Like other fish camps. Uncle Shed’s was a place where river lovers rented boats, bought bait, camped and got on the river. The boats rented at Uncle Shed’s and other places were unique. Ogeechee fish camps were somewhat unusual. They featured boats with a narrow stem where the outboard motor was mounted and a wide bow that provided room for the angler casting gill nets for shad, which is the opposite configuration of most johnboats built today. In the 1950s these vessels rented for $1 a day at places like Uncle Shed’s. The camp bears the name of Shedrick Jasper Dickerson, Sr. whose daughter, Bessie Dickerson Saxon, bom in 1938, would become the camp’s matriarch. She died in 2013. The camp and Ogeechee gives great stories as such river natives as George Altman, standing knee-deep in water and reeling out fishing stories as he flicks his line into a shaded area beneath a fallen tree; and Jack Mikell, Sr., whose life on the river is told in the array of frying pans that hang on the wall behind him and in his recollections of long nights tending moonshine stills in the backwater swamps. Leigh tells of the many stories the river holds of the Muck Runners, Louisville men who each winter slog through these swamps and deadfalls two hundred miles to Savannah and of Frank Cox, whose journey down the river, taken in numerous pieces with as many reluctant partners, fulfilled a childhood dream andt hen there is a woman's baptism in Warren County, at which beads of anointing oil mingled with the cold water of the mshing river. At Uncle Shed's Fishing Camp, are tales of fish fries and courtship thatr conjure up more than fifty years on the Ogeechee. You can look across the clearing, capturing the pattern of river life in the faded letters of a hand-painted sign, with the weathered face of camp matriarch Bessie Dickerson, and in the scattered flowerpots, lawn chairs, ceramic swans, and gravestone that lie cluttered against a cabin wall. You are able to also see the wild ramblings and lazy progress of the Ogeechee, the quiet rituals and great stories of its people, and this site chronicles the course of lives that ran with the current of the river. ADVERTISE wini i ni: TRUSTED SOURCE YUILJR NEWSPAPER Southern Bank CERTIFICATE OF DEPOSIT SPECIAL 5.16 % APY* The Ogeechee has a lot of history in its water. These are just a few. In the next few weeks, we are going to take a look at some of the history of the river, just like this one you just read. I know you will enjoy these historical stories of places on the Ogeechee as much as I do. See you next week. Uncle Roger - Tree & Stump Removal - Tree Triming & Removal - Brush Cutting - Land Clearing (478)299-1839 CALL TODAY! 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