STEP 1. Using landscape stakes in combination with string or twine, define the path you wish the gravel driveway to take from the curb all the way to its end point. Next comes a labor-intensive proposition: To prepare the way for the gravel, you must remove any grass or topsoil from the marked-off area.
In Season: Oysters. Our recipe recommendations for what's in season. Raw, fried, baked, stuffed or made into a sandwich, oysters are always satisfying. The bivalves are available all year, but they're best eaten in the colder months from September to April. While a long-standing myth says oysters should not be eaten during months that do not contain an R (May through August), oysters generally are thin in the summer because they devote their energy to reproducing.
Spawning begins in the spring when water temperature exceeds 70 degrees F. Individual oysters are capable of alternating sexes, although the sexes are, at any given time, separate. In South Carolina most spawning occurs from April to October and is intensive during the summer months.