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The Jenkins County Times
Friday, April 7, 2023- Page 9
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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.
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