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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 166) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 166 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 4, 5, and 6 on the...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 165) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 165 By: John Ferguson We continue with our study of the elements found in animals and humans and how they affect our gardening success. Newsletter articles 166 and 167 have the...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 164) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 164 By: John Ferguson My first exposure to the importance of trace minerals occurred about 28 years ago. I was planting some early spring vegetables in the garden behind my...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 164) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 163 By: John Ferguson Five years ago, we did a series of articles that covered all 79 elements found in the human body. We looked at what they did in society, for soils,...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 162) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 162 By: John Ferguson Last week we talked about the benefits of Native Mulches on earthworms and I want to continue our discussion on native mulches. I often get asked “When...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 161) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 161 By: John Ferguson One of the most desired oaks in the world is Quercus crispula known as Mizunara that take 200-500 years to reach maturity. This oak grows on the...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 160) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 160 By: John Ferguson Researchers have identified several plant pigments that help the body prevent macular degeneration. Lutein, zeaxanthin, meso-zeaxanthin, and astaxanthin...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 159) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 159 By: John Ferguson A few times over the last couple weeks I have mentioned plants and their ability to help clean up problems or even mine elements out of soils and...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 158) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 158 By: John Ferguson Research by the American Chemical Society have found that agricultural chemicals applied to land persist in the soils for decades after the last usage....
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 157) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 157 By: John Ferguson I was listening to a lecture the other day which included a very effective homemade mosquito trap. It works better than misting systems and does not have...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 156) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 156 By: John Ferguson I was reading in the July issue of Life Extension an article on vitamin studies and there was some interesting data presented on the interaction between...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 155) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 155 By: John Ferguson 1) To help our crepe myrtle trees recover from the abuse and stress of crepe murder we need to fertilize them. When fertilizing only use organic...
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John's Corner: Soil & plants (Part 154) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 154 By: John Ferguson A study in Scientific Reports (2021) has found that the neonicotinoids group of systemic pesticides disrupts the memory and sleep patterns of bees and...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 153) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 153 By: John Ferguson I read today that organic food sales set a new record in 2020 of $56 Billion! More and more people are learning that most of our health problems are...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 152) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 152 By: John Ferguson I finished reading a new book a few weeks ago titled “Compost Utilization In Production of Horticultural Crops”, CRC Press, 2021 ISBN 978-081536646-1. ...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 151) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 151 By: John Ferguson A paper in the Crop Science Association news magazine (2021) was on how climate change is affecting our food crops like carrots. “Heat stress, salt in...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 150) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 150 By: John Ferguson A paper in the journal Frontiers in Forests and Global Change (2020) was on carbon storage by trees. The researchers found that the largest 3% of the...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 149) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 149 By: John Ferguson A paper in the journal Molecular Ecology (2020) was on how fungal communities in the soil change after burning. They found that there were changes in some...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 148) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 148 By: John Ferguson I enjoy a good cup of coffee every morning and prefer organic shade grown coffee for many reasons, from more flavonoids to higher levels of phytochemicals...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 147) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 147 By: John Ferguson We often talk about the benefits of seaweed in gardening to help plants grow, as both a foliar and soil fertilizer to strengthen a plants immune...
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John's Corner: Soil & Pants (Part 146) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 146 By: John Ferguson We often talk about gardening and planting trees as a way to sequester carbon to help fight climate change. I read a thought-provoking article the other...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 145) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 145 By: John Ferguson We all know that corrugated materials are stronger than flat sheets (corrugated tin, plastic sheets, etc.). Researchers published a paper in the journal...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 144) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 144 By: John Ferguson After the hard freeze a few weeks ago, it is nice to hear the birds singing and watching them build their nests. However, the USA has lost billions of...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 143) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 143 By: John Ferguson Evidence continues to mount that we are losing our insect populations from multiple causes. Insects are the main sources of food for many animals from...
