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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 142) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 142 By: John Ferguson There was an interesting article in the American Naturalist (January 2021) on a species of beetles known as “Burying Beetles”. As most all parents, these...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 141) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 141 By: John Ferguson Home vegetable gardening exploded last year as it is one of the best ways to obtain healthy, nutrient dense, and delicious food. This included fruits,...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 140) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 140 By: John Ferguson Many companies that handle sewage sludge and handle waste water from sewage treatment plants, often want to dispose of this toxic waste on gardeners. One...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 139) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 139 By: John Ferguson As gardeners we are always interested in how to grow the best plants, from turfgrass to fruit trees and flowers. We have often talked about the importance...
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John's Corner: Soil & plants (Part 138) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 138 By: John Ferguson As gardeners we are always interested in how organic matter decays into rich humus. There were two new independent papers published in the online journal...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 137) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 137 By: John Ferguson I have had several inquires over the past few months on growing cannabis species. As in all plants, members of the cannabis family grow best in soils full...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 136) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 136 By: John Ferguson Researchers at Penn State did a study to find where the fungal pathogen Colletotrichum fioriniae comes from. This fungus causes the disease known as...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 135) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 135 By: John Ferguson We often talk about environmental issues in this column, like water shortages, global warming, toxic chemicals, poor quality food, etc. One of the best...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 134) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 134 By: John Ferguson A recent study from the ARS (Agricultural Research Service) a division of the USDA, has found that a harmless airborne fungus, Cladosporium sphaerospermum...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 133) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 133 By: John Ferguson A recent report from France, now that restrictions on the use of glyphosate have been in place, has found that many herbicides now contain arsenic, lead,...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 132) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 132 By: John Ferguson I read an article the other day on the science of flavor in the Journal of Agriculture and Food Chemistry (2020), on the changes in Whiskey by the...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 131) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 131 By: John Ferguson Honey has been used for thousands of years to treat colds and coughs. Researchers at Oxford University has found that honey is a better treatment for...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 130) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 130 By: John Ferguson I recently read a couple articles in the Journals Pest Management Science (2020), and Weed Science (2020), on weed resistance to herbicides. Weeds are...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 129) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 129 By: John Ferguson I read an interesting statistic the other day. The Earth’s most valuable bio-system is its living soil which provides a minimum of several trillion...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 128) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 128 By: John Ferguson Many times, over the last few years I have reported on the research on the different dangers of fluoride exposure and how it hurts everything from soils,...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 127) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 127 By: John Ferguson Over the years some readers have commented that I am too technical and others that I am not technical enough. So, for the technical loving readers enjoy...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 126) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 126 By: John Ferguson In the journal Nature Communications (July 2020) there was a paper where researchers collected a series of seafloor sediments that were dated to be 4.3...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 125) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 125 By: John Ferguson From one of our readers, Deany M. sent it this tip: “A few months ago I purchased the Beneficial Nematodes at Amazon … I put the pkg in the fridge –...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 124) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 124 By: John Ferguson I was listening to a lecture on mycorrhizal fungi the other day and the speaker had a few tips: One ounce of spores will inoculate between 2,000-3,000...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 123) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 123 By: John Ferguson In issue #125 I referenced a research paper on catnip where they listed catmint and catnip as the same species. Several of our readers pointed out that...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 122) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 122 By: John Ferguson A couple weeks ago I wrote an article on fire-ants. A few years ago, I was attending a workshop on environmental health and they were talking about using...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 121) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 121 By: John Ferguson An emerging area of pest control is using scents from one insect to control another. The Max Planck Institute for Chemical ecology has discovered another...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 120) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 120 By: John Ferguson Trees are an amazing plant and by studying them researchers gain a glimpse into our past climate. Over the last few years, we have learned that trees...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 119) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 119 By: John Ferguson A new study by Michigan State University published in the journal Nature (2020) has found that plants control the microbiome diversity inside their leaves...
