Gardening
A Walk Through the Yard
Join me and let’s take a walk. It’s 9:00 o’clock a.m. so that’s the reason for the sun and glare and on top of that I’m not a photographer. Forgive me for not stating the botanical names of these plants — in my younger days I could spit them out right and left, but no…
Read MoreAunt Bill Rambles
Lord have mercy, this garden is a-working us to death. You ain’t never seen so much “stuff” in your life. Y, you would think me and JW wuz a-gonna raise a big family. I’s jist settin’ here a-shellin’ peas and I got to thinkin’ about young folks. They don’t know nothing about workin’ lack us…
Read MoreFigs are Ripe
And so it’s another fig season. We have two Brown Turkey trees and one that’s a large green variety — some of these green figs are as large as golf balls. A number of years ago a lady advertised in the Georgia Market Bulletin for figs and her ad read: “I can do without cattle and I…
Read MoreNothing’s Like it Used to Be 2012
In the last year our extended family has acquired a new husband and a new baby. Hanging Christmas stockings has been a tradition in this family for a number of years and I’ve been trying to knit new stockings for these new family members. Would you believe I cannot find good yarn? In 2001 and…
Read MoreBaking Sugar Cookies
It’s been a few days since I’ve baked anything sweet and it’s imperative that we keep such in the house — The One I Love Best is a sweet-a-holic. John leaves to deal with weeds — they’ve literally taken over the hosta bed in our front yard. We’ve had so much rain we can’t keep…
Read MoreVaried Room Uses 1999
The linens have been laundered and returned to the bed to await the next sleep-over company and now this room is to be used for something I doubt it’s ever been used for before. It’s July and time to harvest spent hydrangea blossoms for drying and that’s just what’s happening today. With clippers and large…
Read MoreHappenings at The Windy Knoll
We butchered Penny Mac yesterday and it was not before she needed it. The Penny Mac Hydrangea was so overgrown we could hardly get between her and the Japanese Red Maple and this is our path to the rooting bed. Our job was not professional by any means, but we did get the shrub cut back a…
Read MoreThe Rewards of Buterfly Gardening 2005
Lepidoptera means scaled winged and describes the butterfly with its most obvious features — wings covered with flattened scales. Few people think of butterflies as pollinators, but just like bees butterflies pollinate plants, too. One report states that the number of honey bees in the US has decreased by 25% in the past decade due…
Read MoreAbout Corn 2003
Corn has long been a staple here in the south and especially here on Sand Mountain. Sweet corn is not our favorite corn to be “cut off the cob.” It’s good on the cob, but our favorite to be “cut off” and “fried” is Malsby. This is an old field corn variety, white in color, and…
Read MoreA Windy Knoll Report
We’ve had so much rain we discussed looking for plans to build an arc, but John decided we wouldn’t need one since we live atop Sand Mountain. He said, “Let those people over in Wills Valley worry about that.” It’s a busy time here — the garden is growing, but so is the grass therein. …
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