North GA Home and Garden

 I started harvesting blueberries on June 17.  The bushes were heavily-laden with berries, some of which are the biggest I have ever seen on...

Every summer, I find snakes in the chicken tractors.  So far, the only ones I have seen are black rat snakes.  They're fairly ubiquitous...

 As I have mentioned before , beans store best in an oxygen-free environment. Buying beans in bulk may work well to hold down costs. But the...

  Various sites recommend having about 10 hens per rooster so that the hens don't get over-mated.  Chicken mating is pretty rough on t...

 As I have previously mentioned , my chickens (currently all  layers) sometimes transition to the dinner table, one way or another.  Sometim...

 Muscadines flower and set fruit on new growth, so annual pruning helps ensure that abundant new growth will yield a good harvest.  There...

 I got some new chicks last fall--hatched at the end of September.  A prior batch of Delawares from the same hatchery, hatched at the same t...