How to Use fertilizer in a Sentence

fertilizer

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  • They use chemical fertilizers on their lawn.
  • We only use organic fertilizer in our gardens.
  • Next, sprinkle fertilizer over all the bare soil, to the edges of the canopy.
    — Nan Sterman, San Diego Union-Tribune, 2 Mar. 2024
  • It’s the steel or the battery in a car, or the wheat that’s grown with fertilizer in a loaf of bread.
    — David Meyer, Fortune, 15 June 2022
  • The plants need to be treated with fertilizer because the soil’s not right.
    — Jessie Kissinger, Popular Mechanics, 16 Aug. 2023
  • In the absence of a test, use a 12-6-6 fertilizer every six weeks.
    — Southern Living Editors, Southern Living, 15 June 2023
  • Use the right type and amount of fertilizer for normal growth.
    — Viveka Neveln, Better Homes & Gardens, 14 Feb. 2023
  • Bonus read: How the war in Ukraine is pushing the world to find a new, greener recipe for fertilizer.
    — Alan Murray, Fortune, 19 Apr. 2022
  • All the spring fertilizer has either done its thing or been lost to spring rains.
    — Paul Cappiello, The Courier-Journal, 15 July 2022
  • The areas of the lawn that receive the proper amount of fertilizer will have a healthy, dark green color.
    — Brett Martin, Popular Mechanics, 21 July 2023
  • And the falling price of energy has helped bring down the cost of fertilizer.
    — Julia Horowitz, CNN, 15 Jan. 2023
  • And that fertilizer — so eye-watering to work with — was messing up the rivers and bays.
    — John Kelly, Washington Post, 3 July 2022
  • The cave was first accessed in 1831 by the owner of the surrounding lands, who was looking for bat guano to use as fertilizer, per the study.
    — Margaret Osborne, Smithsonian Magazine, 2 Oct. 2023
  • The runoff contains fertilizer from farms and lawns, which is made of nutrients that cause plant growth in the water.
    — Courtney Di Vittorio, The Conversation, 17 Feb. 2025
  • Two men from New York have died after using bat poop as a fertilizer to grow cannabis.
    — Gabrielle Rockson, People.com, 17 Dec. 2024
  • To thrive, any plant needs light, water and fertilizer.
    — Debbie Arrington, Sacramento Bee, 30 Jan. 2024
  • It’s stored in piles, often in sheds, until it’s spread on fields as fertilizer.
    — Gavin Off, Charlotte Observer, 26 Jan. 2025
  • The fertilizer used at these times should be high in nitrogen.
    — Chris McKeown, The Enquirer, 3 Sep. 2022
  • The grass will attempt to grow using the fertilizer but then will quickly wither and die due to lack of moisture.
    — Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 2 July 2024
  • What is the timing of fertilizer for azaleas, rhodies etc.?
    — oregonlive, 11 Feb. 2023
  • The headlines about high oil and gas prices seem far away from products like plastic wrap or lawn fertilizer.
    — Austen Hufford, WSJ, 23 Mar. 2022
  • Too much fertilizer can cause less showy blooms and the foliage to overdevelop.
    — Katherine Owen, Southern Living, 8 Sep. 2024
  • Once the biosolids had dried adequately, they were picked up by a company to use the waste as fertilizer for feed crops.
    — Holly Mullen, The Salt Lake Tribune, 15 Sep. 2022
  • Consider adding a winter fertilizer to your lawn to keep a healthy soil.
    — Ashlyn Needham, Southern Living, 19 Dec. 2024
  • The war caused a huge spike in prices for food, fuel and fertilizer, causing inflation in the euro area to rocket.
    — David J. Lynch, Washington Post, 28 Jan. 2024
  • Russia was also the world’s top exporter of fertilizer before the war.
    — Karl Ritter, ajc, 12 Mar. 2023
  • When the deal was inked, the UN agreed in parallel to improve access to Russian food and fertilizer exports.
    — Megan Durisin, Fortune, 17 July 2023
  • Do not apply ash to lawns until at least March 1 to comply with the Maryland lawn fertilizer law.
    — Miri Talabac, Baltimore Sun, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Russia is a major source of grain and fertilizer to African nations.
    — Missy Ryan, Washington Post, 8 Aug. 2022
  • In the mid-1990s, the hog factory farm next door to her mother’s house began to spray manure on nearby cropland as fertilizer.
    — Kenny Torrella, Vox, 7 Feb. 2025

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