Fertilizer
noun
A substance used to make plants grow better.
Tomatoes need lots of fertilizer to grow tall and produce lots of fruit.
Often appears as...
- apply fertilizer
- organic fertilizer
noun
In a figurative sense, something that helps to make a situation better or helps something to develop.
His words served as a fertilizer for her motivation.
Often appears as...
- fertilizer for thought
- fertilizer for growth
Usage tips
Literary
noun
A substance used to make plants grow better.
Tomatoes need lots of fertilizer to grow tall and produce lots of fruit.
Often appears as...
- apply fertilizer
- organic fertilizer
noun
In a figurative sense, something that helps to make a situation better or helps something to develop.
His words served as a fertilizer for her motivation.
Often appears as...
- fertilizer for thought
- fertilizer for growth
Usage tips
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Use
Fertilizer is primarily associated with farming or gardening to help plants grow.
The farmer spread fertilizer in the fields to improve the yield.
Pro Tip 2/3Type Variations
Different plants require different types of fertilizers, such as nitrogen or phosphate-based.
For her rose bushes, she used a fertilizer rich in phosphorus.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
Excessive use of fertilizer can harm the environment, so it's not always seen positively.
The runoff from too much fertilizer polluted the nearby lake.
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Use
Fertilizer is primarily associated with farming or gardening to help plants grow.
The farmer spread fertilizer in the fields to improve the yield.
Pro Tip 2/3Type Variations
Different plants require different types of fertilizers, such as nitrogen or phosphate-based.
For her rose bushes, she used a fertilizer rich in phosphorus.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
Excessive use of fertilizer can harm the environment, so it's not always seen positively.
The runoff from too much fertilizer polluted the nearby lake.
Pro Tip 1/3Agricultural Use
Fertilizer is primarily associated with farming or gardening to help plants grow.
The farmer spread fertilizer in the fields to improve the yield.
Pro Tip 2/3Type Variations
Different plants require different types of fertilizers, such as nitrogen or phosphate-based.
For her rose bushes, she used a fertilizer rich in phosphorus.
Pro Tip 3/3Not Always Positive
Excessive use of fertilizer can harm the environment, so it's not always seen positively.
The runoff from too much fertilizer polluted the nearby lake.
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What commercialization...
also started to use pesticides and fertilizers in some ways that we should be concerned with in fact I was recently talking to a buddy who had just left a job at a commercial grow operation because he was so concerned with the chemicals that he was being asked to interact with some of his fellow employees were actually encouraged to
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Jonathan Foley: The...
We've doubled the flows of nitrogen and phosphorus around the world simply by using fertilizers, causing huge problems of water quality from rivers, lakes, and even oceans, and it's also the single biggest driver of biodiversity loss. So without a doubt, agriculture is
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Illegal Marijuana Farms...
In these cases these really large growths are probably being run by a drug trafficking organization And so they'll get whatever pesticides or fertilizers they need brought to them They're gonna go down raw, so extremely important. We stay behind these trees
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Drug Garden Raid PIPE Wild...
miracle-gro plant fertilizer things like all-purpose garden fertilizer all this stuff is spread out in the garden along that water line with the plants and is going right in Durance Creek it's all of a great gem that's the important issue that's a nice
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Vermicomposting: How...
to make the system of food consumption more efficient. If you want to bring on that change, you should know about a humble yet diligent and ever-so-crucial the worm. Worms convert organic waste and other compostable products into natural fertilizers.
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We Are What We Eat:...
Their tractor is the bull, they use manure for fertilizer. In every duration, whether it is peace, whether it is trouble, whether it is earthquake, whether it is something calamity. So, Inshallah the world will come very peaceful and we shall be one.
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Filming The World's...
to germinate it goes through cassery's gut and once it's done that it is obviously food out and it is able to grow in its own little pile of casserole fertilizer australia's wildlife is found nowhere else it's incredibly special so what i
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Can we create the...
eradicating wildlife and emitting huge amounts of greenhouse gases in the process. This approach aims to correct that damage. Meanwhile, moving among the crops, teams of field robots apply fertilizer in targeted doses. Inside the soil,
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The history of the world...
Another wartime technology, the chemical explosive ammonium nitrate, also found new life on the farm. With this new synthetic fertilizer, farmers could plant dense fields of corn year after year,
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Hydrogels as an...
increased value of the crop and the water savings other benefits of hydrogel include it helps reduce topsoil erosion and it allows farmers to use less fertilizer so what's next for the
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What commercialization...
also started to use pesticides and fertilizers in some ways that we should be concerned with in fact I was recently talking to a buddy who had just left a job at a commercial grow operation because he was so concerned with the chemicals that he was being asked to interact with some of his fellow employees were actually encouraged to
Video examples
Jonathan Foley: The...
We've doubled the flows of nitrogen and phosphorus around the world simply by using fertilizers, causing huge problems of water quality from rivers, lakes, and even oceans, and it's also the single biggest driver of biodiversity loss. So without a doubt, agriculture is
Video examples
Illegal Marijuana Farms...
In these cases these really large growths are probably being run by a drug trafficking organization And so they'll get whatever pesticides or fertilizers they need brought to them They're gonna go down raw, so extremely important. We stay behind these trees
Video examples
Drug Garden Raid PIPE Wild...
miracle-gro plant fertilizer things like all-purpose garden fertilizer all this stuff is spread out in the garden along that water line with the plants and is going right in Durance Creek it's all of a great gem that's the important issue that's a nice
Video examples
Vermicomposting: How...
to make the system of food consumption more efficient. If you want to bring on that change, you should know about a humble yet diligent and ever-so-crucial the worm. Worms convert organic waste and other compostable products into natural fertilizers.
Video examples
We Are What We Eat:...
Their tractor is the bull, they use manure for fertilizer. In every duration, whether it is peace, whether it is trouble, whether it is earthquake, whether it is something calamity. So, Inshallah the world will come very peaceful and we shall be one.
Video examples
Filming The World's...
to germinate it goes through cassery's gut and once it's done that it is obviously food out and it is able to grow in its own little pile of casserole fertilizer australia's wildlife is found nowhere else it's incredibly special so what i
Video examples
Can we create the...
eradicating wildlife and emitting huge amounts of greenhouse gases in the process. This approach aims to correct that damage. Meanwhile, moving among the crops, teams of field robots apply fertilizer in targeted doses. Inside the soil,
Video examples
The history of the world...
Another wartime technology, the chemical explosive ammonium nitrate, also found new life on the farm. With this new synthetic fertilizer, farmers could plant dense fields of corn year after year,
Video examples
Hydrogels as an...
increased value of the crop and the water savings other benefits of hydrogel include it helps reduce topsoil erosion and it allows farmers to use less fertilizer so what's next for the
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Quote examples
Fidel Castro
Statesman
When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
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Lael Brainard
American Public Servant
Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
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Tatiana Schlossberg
Excess nitrogen from the fertilizers can cause eutrophication in the ocean, which can lead to harmful algae blooms or hypoxia - reduced levels of oxygen that create conditions in which organisms can't survive.
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Norman Borlaug
American Scientist
It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive.
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Betsy Hodges
American Politician
My mother's first career was physical therapy, her second was writer, and her third career was president of an organic fertilizer company. And she's driven a tank.
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Bill Gates
American Businessman
People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
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Burning Spear
Jamaican Musician
Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.
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Dick Armey
American Politician
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
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Kylie Bax
New Zealander Model
I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow.
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Paul Dudley White
American Scientist
I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
Quote examples
Fidel Castro
Statesman
When the Revolution triumphed in 1959, our island was a true Yankee colony. The United States had duped and disarmed our Liberation Army. One couldn't speak of developed agriculture, but of immense plantations exploited on the base of manual and animal labour that in general used neither fertilizers nor machinery.
Quote examples
Lael Brainard
American Public Servant
Women with minimal access to resources and no access to child care have limited choices that too often mean low-wage and part-time labor. In rural communities in the developing world, when women farmers have unequal access to fertilizers or training, their farm productivity lags behind men.
Quote examples
Tatiana Schlossberg
Excess nitrogen from the fertilizers can cause eutrophication in the ocean, which can lead to harmful algae blooms or hypoxia - reduced levels of oxygen that create conditions in which organisms can't survive.
Quote examples
Norman Borlaug
American Scientist
It's a free society. But don't tell the world that we can feed the present population without chemical fertilizer. That's when this misinformation becomes destructive.
Quote examples
Betsy Hodges
American Politician
My mother's first career was physical therapy, her second was writer, and her third career was president of an organic fertilizer company. And she's driven a tank.
Quote examples
Bill Gates
American Businessman
People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
Quote examples
Burning Spear
Jamaican Musician
Dig into the roots of culture, and it will grow. It's like a grass that is growing, and it cannot stop, and music is like the fertilizer for that.
Quote examples
Dick Armey
American Politician
Programs that pay farmers not to farm often devastate rural areas. The reductions hurt everyone from fertilizer companies to tractor salesmen.
Quote examples
Kylie Bax
New Zealander Model
I wish I had more hair on my head. Maybe if I sprinkled fertilizer on it, it would grow.
Quote examples
Paul Dudley White
American Scientist
I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
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