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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 191) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 191 By: John Ferguson Today I am going to lead off with a question from a reader: “Should one put coffee grounds in one’s garden?” This is a complex question due to the...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 190) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 190 By: John Ferguson Another benefit of gardening has been discovered. A review of 1,279 studies has found that exercising three times per week for four months benefits one’s...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 189) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 189 By: John Ferguson A study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (2021) has found that there are more tree species on Earth than previously...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 188) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 188 By: John Ferguson We often talk about the importance of trace elements (minerals). The April issue of Mother Earth News had an advertisement with few quotes on this...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 187) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 187 By: John Ferguson Plants have microbes on their leaves just as humans have microbes on our skin. A group of microbes that are beneficial or neutral to their hosts are...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 186) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 186 By: John Ferguson A study from the University of Maryland confirms that US beekeepers are still losing bees. They found that beekeepers lost 45.5 % of their honey bee...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 185) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 185 By: John Ferguson A new plant database (sPlotOpen) is now available to the public as reported in the Journal Global Ecology & Biogeography (2021). The database was...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 184) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 184 By: John Ferguson The journal Environmental Health Perspectives (2021) had a paper that found an association with pesticides and the disease called shingles. Bottom line,...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 183) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 183 By: John Ferguson I recently read an article in the Journal Environmental Pollution (2021) on children’s health. They found that, “healthy diets including organic diets are...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 182) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 182 By: John Ferguson We often talk about the importance of microbes in this column. The University of Massachusetts at Amherst has found that the ability of agricultural...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 181) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 181 By: John Ferguson Before I get started with my column, I want to give a round of applause to The Garden Club of Houston for bringing Dr. Doug Tallamy in for a lecture this...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 180) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 180 By: John Ferguson Today we continue with our study of all the minerals (elements) in the human body, what they do. See previous newsletters (9/17/21 and 9/24/21) for a list...
by natureswayrdev | Wonderful World of Soil and Plants
John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 179) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 179 By: John Ferguson Today we continue with our study of all the minerals (elements) in the human body, what they do. See previous newsletters (9/17/21 and 9/24/21) for a list...
by natureswayrdev | Wonderful World of Soil and Plants
John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 178) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 178 By: John Ferguson Today we continue with our study of all the minerals (elements) in the human body, what they do. See previous newsletters (9/17/21 and 9/24/21) for a list...
by natureswayrdev | Wonderful World of Soil and Plants
John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 177) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 177 By: John Ferguson Today we continue with our study of all the minerals (elements) in the human body, what they do. See previous newsletters (9/17/21 and 9/24/21) for a list...
by natureswayrdev | Wonderful World of Soil and Plants
John's Corner: Soil & Plants (part 175) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 175 By: John Ferguson Today we continue with our study of all the minerals (elements) in the human body, what they do. See previous newsletters (9/17/21 and 9/24/21) for a list...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 174) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 174 By: John Ferguson Today we continue with our study of all the minerals (elements) in the human body, what they do. See previous newsletters (9/17/21 and 9/24/21) for a list...
by natureswayrdev | Wonderful World of Soil and Plants
John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 173) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 173 By: John Ferguson Today we continue with our study of all the minerals (elements) in the human body, what they do. See previous newsletters (9/17/21 and 9/24/21) for a list...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 172) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 172 By: John Ferguson Today we continue with our study of all the minerals (elements) in the human body, what they do. See previous newsletters (9/17/21 and 9/24/21) for a list...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 171) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 171 By: John Ferguson Today we continue with our study of all the minerals (elements) in the human body, what they do, with a look at elements number 19, 20, and 21 on the...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (part 170) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 170 By: John Ferguson Today we continue with our study of all the minerals (elements) in the human body, what they do, with a look at elements number 16, 17, and 18 on the...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 169) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 169 By: John Ferguson Today we continue with our study of all the minerals (elements) in the human body, what they do, with a look at elements number 13, 14, and 15 on the...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 168) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 168 By: John Ferguson Today we continue with our study of all the minerals (elements) in the human body, what they do, with a look at elements number 10, 11, and 12 on the...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 167) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 167 By: John Ferguson Today we continue with our study of all the minerals (elements) in the human body, what they do, with a look at elements number 7, 8, and 9 on the...
