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Garden enrichment
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fertilizer
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
alt. 1 A natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants. 2 A chemical compound created to have the same effect. n. 1 A natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants. 2 A chemical compound ...
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A fertilizer (American English) or fertiliser (British English) is any material of natural or synthetic origin (other than liming materials ) that is applied to soils or to plant tissues (usually leaves) to supply one or more plant nutrients essential to ...
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES a chemical fertilizer (= chemicals to help plants grow ) ▪ Many crops are grown with chemical fertilizers. COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS ■ ADJECTIVE artificial ▪ Paradoxically the ecological problems deriving from the application ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. any substance such as manure or a mixture of nitrates used to make soil more fertile [syn: fertiliser , plant food ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Fertilizer \Fer"ti*lizer\, n. One who fertilizes; the agent that carries the fertilizing principle, as a moth to an orchid. --A. R. Wallace. That which renders fertile; a general name for commercial substances which make plants grow better, as manure, guano, ...
Usage examples of fertilizer.
The fourteen waste treatment plants in New York City produced more than a thousand tons of biosolids a day and sold it throughout the country as fertilizer.
New York City produced more than a thousand tons of biosolids a day and sold it throughout the country as fertilizer.
They have confessed to loading that van with a mix of fertilizer and gasoline and parking it 0 DID near the Brandenburg Gate.
The reason I prefer to use a portion of the cabbage food in the form of manure, is, that I have noticed that when the attempt is made to raise the larger drumhead varieties on fertilizers only, the cabbages, just as the heads are well formed, are apt to come nearly to a standstill.
It was pushed through the hidden gate in the wall and into the thick screen of forest that separated the compound from the fields and the stench-ridden composting area, where bodies were recycled into fertilizer.
Take the cremationist Sir Henry Thompson, who sat down and calculated the value in pounds sterling of the 80,000-odd people who died each year in London, should their cremated remains be used as fertilizer.
Several varieties of lakeweed had thrived on the chemical fertilizers Dokken had added to bring the lake into organic equilibrium for the fish.
In 1956, peasants digging for fertilizer in a cave near Maba, in Guangdong province, southern China, found a skull that was apparently from a primitive human being.
Gradually, though, overfishing and fertilizer runoff had reduced their numbers.
By this the scene had been complicated by the arrival of several market gardeners from the Via Recta, armed with shovels and barrows, and determined to appropriate what was known to be the best fertilizer in the world.
Some biologists believe additional harm came from fertilizers and pesticides which flushed through the Everglades into the bay.
Using chemical nitrogen fertilizers makes plants grow fast, but it does not always give them the strength or range of nutrients they need to resist insect attacks.
The best way to return nutrients to the soil is to add organic matter through compost, mulch, organic fertilizers and cover crops.
Earthworms cannot tolerate chemical fertilizers and are killed by pesticides including slug and snail poison.
Some organic fertilizers consist of plant meal, hoof and horn meal or bonemeal.