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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 94) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 94 By: John Ferguson A study published in the journal Microbiome (2019) has found that it is the lactic acid bacteria used to ferment dough used in making rye bread, that modify...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 93) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 93 By: John Ferguson I was at the Environmental Fair last week put on by the Lutheran churches in our area and was listening to a professor from the University of Houston on...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 92) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 92 By: John Ferguson I was listening to Home Show Garden Pros radio show (610 AM) the other day and there was a call about getting rid of slugs and snails. The show’s host Danny...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 91) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 91 By: John Ferguson Often one of the goals for gardeners is to provide habitat for wildlife. This can range from butterflies, moths and hummingbirds to birds and small mammals....
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 90) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 90 By: John Ferguson I was listening to the news on TV the other day about a recall of vegetables contaminated with pathogens from the livestock manure applied as fertilizer....
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 89) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 89 By: John Ferguson Now that we are in the middle of summer one might be thinking about his/her fall garden. There is a natural protein found in food called NAC...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 88) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 88 By: John Ferguson One of the keys to having a healthy garden is diversity. Diversity is essential to having stability in an eco-system. Diversity of microbes in the soil,...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 87) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 87 By: John Ferguson Remember the old saying by Hippocrates, “Let food be thy medicine”? A new study from the University of East Anglia in cooperation with Harvard University...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 85) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 85 By: John Ferguson I attended the national prairie conference held at the University of Houston Clear Lake last week. One of the presentations I found very interesting was on...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 84) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 84 By: John Ferguson For thousands of years the only method for the disposition of human remains was burying a body or burning a body. This way the elements in one’s body was...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 83) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 83 By: John Ferguson Good news from JAMA (Journal of the American Medical Association Internal Medicine) has found a significant reduction in the risk of cancer among consumers...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 82) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 82 By: John Ferguson We often hear that all life is linked, good or bad. Hundreds of thousands of people are dying every year due to antibiotic resistant bacteria that occurs...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 81) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 81 By: John Ferguson More and more folks are growing their own fruits and vegetables. The reasons range from avoiding toxic pesticides to better quality, flavor and health...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 80) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 80 By: John Ferguson I had the pleasure to visit with Kim Konte of Non-Toxic Neighborhoods a few weeks ago. In Houston, her organization is working with the Herman Park...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 79) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 79 By: John Ferguson There is an exciting branch of plant research going on that discovered plants produce small membrane wrapped spheres called vesicles encased in a larger...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 78) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 78 By: John Ferguson Here are a few books I have finished reading over the last couple months that a gardener might enjoy. “The Secret Life of Your Microbiome – Why Nature and...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 77) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 77 By: John Ferguson Gardeners often use corn meal or corn gluten meal in their gardens. A topic came up the other day as to what happens if the source of the corn is from a GMO...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 76) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 76 By: John Ferguson We have talked about the multiple health benefits of gardening many times. A study found the most common hobby among centenarians is gardening!...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (part 75) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 75 By: John Ferguson A while back I was at a lecture at Rice University and it was stated that there are now over 42 million food gardens in the United States. Have you ever...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 74) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 74 By: John Ferguson Historically, biosolids (sewage sludge) have been dealt with common disposal practices including ocean dumping, landfilling, and incineration. When sewage...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 73) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 73 By: John Ferguson Over the last couple years, we have talked about the poor quality of our food today from toxic chemicals on and in it, to the lack of nutrition. One of the...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 72) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 72 By: John Ferguson A study from Rutgers University has found a new method of how plants acquire nutrients from microbes called the “rhizopagy cycle”. “Rhizophagy” means root...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (part 71) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 71 By: John Ferguson A study from the University of Main has found that adding blackberry leaf litter in stormwater catch basins creates an “ecological trap,” enticing mosquito...
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John's Corner: Soil & Plants (Part 70) News from the Wonderful World of Soil & plants 70 By: John Ferguson I am often asked why organic matter is important in our soils. Here is another reason to add to the list of the many benefits of organic matter. For every...
