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• Usually oats is last in a rotation and does not get the fertilizer that other feed grains get.From the entry oats
• Dumping fertilizer on top of whatever mysterious goop was in the storage tank created a combustible mix which caught fire.From the entry combustible
• The farmer coapplied fertilizer and herbicide to the field.From the entry coapply
• Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.From the entry revert
• The company also sells the shed shells of the growing mealworms as fertilizer.2022 February 3, Tess Joosse, “Insect ranchers pour $5 million into world’s first large-scale genetic breeding facility”, in Science…. From the entry tofulike
• In the agribulk sector the main products transported are grais, animal fodder and fertilizers.2016 July 16, Bart Wiegmans, Rob Konings, Inland Waterway Transport: Challenges and prospects, Routledge, page ???. From the entry agribulk
• Nitrates are most commonly used in fertilizers, especially sodium and potassium nitrates.1992 March 10, “Removal of Nitrates”, in The New York Times, →ISSN. From the entry nitrate
• He plucked a few blades of grass and sucked them, tasting dirt and fertilizer and lime.1987, Joseph Monninger, Second Season, page 142. From the entry take a knee
• Pʻu-kʻou has a modern chemical fertilizer plant and a tractor factory.1968, “NANKING (NAN-CHING)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 15, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 1167. From the entry P'u-k'ou
• Chemical fertilizers can produce rapid results, often greenening up a lawn in just a few days after application.2024, Barrett Williams, The Ultimate Guide to Mastering Lawn Care. From the entry greenen
• Farmers used to apply them to their fields as fertilizer, and all along the coast, river herring festivals celebrated their arrival.2014 April 20, Richard Conniff, “An Evolutionary Family Drama”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry alewife
• Using cellulose from native rather than from cultivated plants (“grassoline”) does not require fertilizer or the petroleum-using machinery to spread it.2011, Harvey Blatt, America's Environmental Report Card: Are We Making the Grade?. From the entry grassoline
• Most banana-philes recommend mixing 1 pound of potash with 4 pounds of a well-balanced fertilizer such as 10-10-10 during each application.2006 August 27, Ron Sympson, “Purple sheaths: Bananas in bloom”, in The Palm Beach Post, page 3K. From the entry banana-phile
• Urine and faeces are complete fertilizers of high quality with low levels of contaminants such as heavy metals.2004, Håkan Jönsson, Håkan Jönsson, Anna Richert Stintzing, Björn Vinnerås, Eva Salomon, Guidelines on the Use of Urine and Faeces in Crop…. From the entry faeces
• Both farmers and suburban users fertilizing lawns and golf courses generally apply more fertilizer rather than risk underapplication.2004, Ellen E Wohl, Disconnected Rivers: Linking Rivers to Landscapes. From the entry underapplication
• Primarily, the seedlings, fertilizers, pesticides, insecticides and plant hormones should be provided adequatively and timelily with concessional rate.2002, A.D.N. Bajpai, S.K. Chaubey, Anjila Gupta, Post-reform Leading Issues Of Indian Economy - Volume 2, Atlantic Publishers and…. From the entry adequatively
• A fertilizer factory lay a mile to the south.1991, John Colvin, “Journeys to China”, in Twice Around the World: Some memoirs of diplomatic life in North Vietnam and Outer Mongolia…. From the entry Erh-lien
• Someone should have told those babies you put the fertilizer on the hops before you grow em, not after.1990, Stephen King, The Moving Finger. From the entry you buy cheap, you get cheap
• They could build a fertilizer factory and stink you out.1985 January 3, “Zoning Could Protect Pender”, in Star-News, Wilmington, NC. From the entry stink out
• Unfortunately, every cowpat that is burned as cooking fuel means that no nitrogen is available for use as fertilizer.1979, Jack M. Hollander, Melvin K. Simmons, David O. Wood, Annual Review of Energy, →ISBN. From the entry cowpat
• To prevent this, the drill is first opened, and fertilizer is applied at the bottom of the drill.1960 January 1, R. W. Mungomery, “The Use of Insecticides to Control Subterranean Insects in Taiwan”, in The Cane Growers' Quarterly…. From the entry Touliu
• In putting on fertilizers, care should be taken to see that the material is in good drillable condition.1915, Farm Machinery and Equipment, page 16. From the entry drillable
• Several studies have been carried out on application of fertilizers and manures for improving yield of pearl millet, moong bean, moth bean, sesame, sunflower, etc.2023, Natural Resource Management in the Thar Desert Region of Rajasthan, Springer International Publishing, page 91. From the entry moong bean
• Vale, the big Brazilian mining company, denied on Monday afternoon that it was in talks to acquire the giant Canadian fertilizer company.2010 August 23, “Vale Denies It Is Potash's White Knight”, in NY Times DealBook. From the entry white knight
• Fehrenbacher also liked the NatureMill, a small indoor composter made of recycled and recyclable polypropylene that converts food waste into fertilizer for houseplants and gardens.2009 February 19, Tim Mckeough, “All Shades of Green”, in New York Times. From the entry composter
• I purchased a half dozen of the healthiest-looking beefsteaks I could find, and tenderly planted the young shoots, using plenty of fertilizer and mulch.2001, Patricia Mondore, A Perennial Faith: Finding Courage to Grow in the Garden of Life. From the entry beefsteak
• Prills are free-flowing pellets developed for fertilizer as a coarse product with little setting tendency that can be spread easily and smoothly.2000, R. R. Fullwood, Probabilistic Safety Assessment in the Chemical and Nuclear Industries, page 275. From the entry prill
• With the exception of the fertilizer products, most phosphorus compounds are derived from orthophosphoric acid, produced by the oxidation of elemental phosphorus.2000, Nicholas P. Cheremisinoff, Practical Guide to Industrial Safety: Methods for Process Safety Professionals. From the entry orthophosphoric acid
• Lurvy doesn’t care what she heard, doesn’t care about expanding feed-bed carriers, automatic empty early-warning fertilizer attachment trays, steaks warm in cow juices.1999, Hal Niedzviecki, “[The Pig Farm] Problems At Work”, in Lurvy: A Farmer’s Almanac, Toronto, Ont.: Coach House Books, →ISBN, page 30. From the entry cow juice
• There were highly significant differences in percent cobbing between the two fertilizer levels, with the unfertilized treatment producing significantly more cobs than the fertilized treatment.1995, Maize research for stress environments, page 50. From the entry cobbing
• By the time you figure in the cost of fertilizer, fungicides, bugicides, mulch, soil conditioners, equipment and the like, your total cost is outrageous.1994 April 16, “Today’s showplace is tomorrow’s arid wasteland”, in The Item, volume 99, number 181, Sumter, S.C., page 3A. From the entry bugicide
• If you find liquid fertilizer more convenient—fish emulsion is a honey, except for the smell—you might like the Connecticut Extension Service mix.1978, Geri Harrington, “What You Need to Know to Garden in Containers”, in Grow Your Own Chinese Vegetables, New York, N.Y.: Macmillan…. From the entry flowerpotful
• Closely associated with coal and power, Chi-lung's industries include fertilizer factories several shipbuilding yards, a grain elevator, a flour mill and a bicycle plant.1968, “CHI-LUNG (KEELUNG; Japanese, KIIRUN)”, in Encyclopedia Britannica, volume 5, →LCCN, →OCLC, page 550, column 1. From the entry Chi-lung
• Plants producing chemical fertilizer, acid and soda make use of the phosphates from Lienyunkang and the salt from the Huaipei salt works.1964, 任育地 [Jen Yu-ti], 中国地理概述 [A Concise Geography of China], Peking: Foreign Languages Press, page 119. From the entry Lienyunkang
• The cover crops mentioned are superior to a constant use of inorganic fertilizers were a continuous cropping of bedded vegetables are grown.1958, University of Arizona. Agricultural Experiment Station, Report - Agricultural Experiment Station, page 76. From the entry bedded
• The largest proportion of NO₃⁻ ions was found in the farmland samples of hoar frost; the reason for this may be the application of nitrogen fertilizers in agriculture.2013, “Rain Water: Atmospheric Deposition”, in Sven Erik Jørgensen, editor, Encyclopedia of Environmental Management, volume I, Boca…. From the entry hoar frost
• It thrives on compost and natural fertilizers brewed from comfrey or seaweed and uses only rain, natural groundwater or wastewater purified through a system of reed beds.2007 April 25, Kim Severson, “Farmer, Cookie Maker, Ecologist and, Yes, the Future King”, in New York Times. From the entry comfrey
• First, in equilibrium the marginal (last) farmer finds that the cost of the last unit of fertilizer (i.e. the market price) is just equal to its benefit.2007, Liam Brunt, “Where there’s muck, there’s brass”, in The Economic History Review, volume 60, number 2, Wiley Online Library, →DOI…. From the entry marginal farmer
• Adding fertilizer to a terrarium is a lot like adding salt to a recipe: Once you've added too much, you can't unadd it, and you've likely ruined the recipe!2007, Philip Purser, Natural Terrariums, T. F. H. Publications, →ISBN, page 82. From the entry unadd

Meaning of fertilizer

1. noun A natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants.
2. noun A chemical compound created to have the same effect.
3. noun Human remains, especially obscured or to be forgotten.

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How do you use fertilizer in a sentence?

Fertilizer is used as a noun. For example: “The farmer spread fertiliser across the fields.”

What is a short sentence with fertilizer?

“Phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.”

What does fertilizer mean?

Fertilizer means a natural substance that is used to make the ground more suitable for growing plants.