[
US
/ˈfɝtəˌɫaɪzɝ/
]
NOUN
- any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile
How To Use fertilizer In A Sentence
- The application of fertilizer increased the size of the plants.
- Urea nitrogenized fertilizer, 80.3 in 1969; 141 in 1974. CUBAN WORKERS CONGRESS
- Don't spurn organic fertilizers that are low in nutrients, because they're rich in organic matter that turns to valuable humus in the soil.
- Many fertilizers contain nitrogen compounds.
- But Walter Mulbry, the USDA microbiologist, also showed that corn and cucumber seedlings could thrive on an organic fertilizer made from the dried-out algae.
- Don't amend the soil with compost or other fertilizers unless your soil is so poor it won't even grow weeds.
- The use of superphosphate in manure to prevent nitrogen losses by reducing pH is not usually recommended because the added phosphorus is not necessary or desirable when poultry manure is used as a fertilizer.
- They are smothered by sediment, and choked by algae growing on nutrient rich sewage and fertilizer run-off.
- Our topsoil is disappearing, the materials we use for fertilizer rising in price, and other nations are developing their own mechanized agriculture. Matthew Yglesias » Farm Blogging
- They mix them with soil and distribute them with a device similar to a fertilizer spreader.
