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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 215) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 215 By: John Ferguson Many of you know that I have been working on a habitat reconstruction at my retirement property near La Grange. Last week I planted 20 Texas Redbuds...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 214) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 214 By: John Ferguson Growing citrus trees continues to increase in popularity. We all know that citrus juice is good for us from both the pulp and fiber to the vitamin-C...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 213) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 213 By: John Ferguson We often talk about the dangers of the herbicide glyphosate that is used in products like Round Up. It has been linked to cancer, intestinal issues,...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 212) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 212 By: John Ferguson This time of year, most of the Monarch butterflies are migrating back to Mexico for their winter rest. This process takes several generations of...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 211) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 211 By: John Ferguson I attended the Urban Gardening and Farming Conference last week hosted by the University of Houston Downtown. A few take aways from the presenters: The...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 210) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 210 By: John Ferguson A recent finding published in the journal American Naturalist (2022) by a professor of entomology at Penn State, was triggered by the observations of an...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 209) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 209 By: John Ferguson We often talk about the dangers of the glyphosate herbicides to or health. Now we have another one of concern. Another study has found 41 percent of all...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 208) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 208 By: John Ferguson From the book “Unlocking the KETO Code” by Steven Gundry, MD there are a few tidbits for gardeners: Another study has found more damage from eating foods...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 208) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 207 By: John Ferguson A question I often get asked when giving tours of my facility is: “What happens if a herbicide is present in the feedstock?” Several years ago, a few...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 206) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 206 By: John Ferguson A joint study by researchers at the University of Idaho and University of Northern Arizona have found a correlation between pesticides and cancer. The...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 205) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 205 By: John Ferguson Do you ever think bananas do not taste as good as they used to many years ago? Well, you are correct. Starting in the 1950’s the main variety of banana...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 204) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 204 By: John Ferguson I read an interesting article the other day from the Journal Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution (2022). The researchers found that the only other animal...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 203) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 203 By: John Ferguson From Dr. Doug Tallamy’s newsletter: (info@homegrownnationalpark.com) MONARCH BUTTERFLY LISTED AS ENDANGERED by Doug Tallamy This week the International...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 202) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 202 By: John Ferguson A nationwide study has found a link between the built food environment (fast food) and the connection to chronic diseases like heart disease, type II...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 201) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 201 By: John Ferguson News of the dangers of sewage sludge continues to come out almost daily. The Boston Globe newspaper had an article recently on a facility that composted...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 200) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 200 By: John Ferguson In Part 2 we talked about PFAS (Perfluoroalkyl and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances), these are the ‘forever chemicals’ found in 99% of Americans”. This past...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 199) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 199 By: John Ferguson First, what is biosolids? Biosolids is the marketing name given to the toxic sewage sludge cake that is produced from waste water treatment plants. It was...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 198) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 198 By: John Ferguson Yesterday I was listening in on a City of Houston Solid Waste Department hosting an internet meeting on recycling organics. Several of the companies in...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 197) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 197 By: John Ferguson Last week we were talking about fungi and their importance to soil and plant health. A reader (Joan M.) wrote in with a recommendation on a documentary on...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 196) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 196 By: John Ferguson A study from Spain found that organic practices enhanced the flavor of lemons. Those grown organically had more aroma which resulted in people...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 195) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 195 By: John Ferguson A rethinking is occurring in gardening across the country as the quality of our food supply continues to decline and be more contaminated with toxic...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 194) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 194 By: John Ferguson Phytoremediation is the process of using plants to remove and store contaminates in their tissue that was taken from soil. Researchers at Nanyang...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 193) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 193 By: John Ferguson A recent report in Science News (2022) stated that the food we eat is responsible for 1/3 of all global greenhouse gasses that are caused by human...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 192) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 192 By: John Ferguson We often hear “I need to order some pine straw mulch to acidify my soil.” This is one of those gardening myths that will not die. Most pine trees have...
