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  1. brassi

    Recipe Favourite Christmas recipes....

    Quick Jelly is easy to make and wonderful to give for chirstmas. This recipe makes enough jelly to fill one case of 4 ounce jelly jars 1 case of Ball-- 4 oz jelly jars 1 pkg Ball fruit Pectin or Sure Jell 64 ounces of Jar/can juice(NOT pineapple) 4 cups sugar In the pectin...
  2. brassi

    Can I brag a little?

    ((CONGRATSSSSSSSSS)))) your garden deserves it! Yes, but don't want to seem full of myself. I'll put up pics soon--- CONGRATS!! on your award.
  3. brassi

    Compost anyone?

    Sometimes in type, we can't hear or see the person or persons and things can be taken wrong. I didn't want that to happen, I was only making a clarification. I'm sorry if I came off rude or pushy. I just wanted the best information for everyone reading these posts. Jeannie Francis
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    Compost anyone?

    ROFL.. I don't know if the post was for me Bob.. but I'm a Mrs.. ask WHitty!! we have met in real life often! My name is Jeannie Francis,, aka NJ mastergardener-- or Brassica aka Brassi for short. You can look up my articles on line at Rodale Press-- on Rutgers University Hort/botnay line. Or...
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    Compost anyone?

    The University of Florida says the following about chicken manure as fertilizer: University of Florida: Poultry Manure as a Fertilizer by D.R. Sloan, G. Kidder and R.D. Jacobs Animal manures have been used effectively as fertilizers for centuries. Poultry manure has long been recognized as...
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    Compost anyone?

    Good poop, bad poop What is good for the goose, is not always good for the gander. There are a few manures that should not be used, primarily those of meat eaters. According to Cornell University, "Homeowners should not use any manure from dogs, cats, or other meat-eating animals, since there...
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    Compost anyone?

    becareful with chicken poo-- it is very hot and takes 2 years to cool-- if you put on the garden too early it will burn things out. Howevewr, the exception is,, GREENS-- leaf lettuces, spinach, chard, cabbages love chicken poo-- 1 YR OLD!! I burned out a whole garden in 1980 due to ,,, hot...
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    Vegetables

    I grow alot of produce, in NJ I'm known as the heirloom tomato lady. I grow about 2,000 tomato plants and sell them. This year I grew 42 different types of heirloom tomato's all with lineage to NJ. They have to be over 100 yrs old to add to my collection. My family has been farming in NJ since...
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    Compost anyone?

    running the mower over them is ""a good thing" leaves make the best winter protection and amend the soil at the same time. I always get a real good laugh,, about the folks that rake up their leaves and put them to the curb,, and then buy bags of compost??UMMMMM. The other way to get the leaves...
  10. brassi

    Winter Sowing

    I do alot of winter sowing, especally of early lettuces and spinach. There are many hardy winter perennials( coropisis, brown eyed susans, coneflowers,) and herbs that grow better with winter sowing, such as fennel, parsley, sages, and winter savorys.
  11. brassi

    it's a fun book

    LOLOL it can be found on ebay...... the book came out 3 years ago-- NOW you have to guess which one is ME!!!~LOLOLOL and which one is my Hubs!!~~
  12. brassi

    Compost anyone?

    I'm married to the compost king,, nutting leaves my yard!! Yesterday he chipped up all the leaves, and the neighbors leaves. A friends son has a lawn service and he got his leaf and grass clippings,, ALL went into our huge wooden palate compost bins. Hubs will add some dehydrated cow poo-- next...
  13. brassi

    hi,

    It was ashame we didn't have about 12 more hours for our meeting in Medford, Sharon and Laurie-- some how we have to meet up again-- without a time frame!! I also met Chatty, she came to my house a few years ago-- it is lovely to put real faces to type!!((Love ya all lots-- happy Thanksgiving))
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    it's a fun book

    Beautiful Maddness by James Dodson. This writer follows "crazy plant people" from the Phila Flower Show to the jungle to find rare orchids!! It's a great book
  15. brassi

    hi,

    I forgot-- I'm also a christmas designer and I'm already preped to do 300 wreaths for the holidays. Along with doing 7 programs for the holidays. One of the programs is "living wreaths made with sedums"
  16. brassi

    hi,

    I'm Brassi,, or Jeannie. I'm a refugee from Garden.com, garden gate, garden here, and more! My daughter has a site called simplywomen.org. I can also be found posting at My Grannies Garden. I have had a business called My Grandmother's Garden for 30 yrs. I grow heirloom produce and...
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