Fertilizer does no good in a heap, but a little spread around works miracles all over.
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Keep the soil healthy and the bad seed won't grow.
I wish we could do something useful with tobacco - like making fertilizer out of it.
The usual way of growing cotton is highly petrochemical-intensive, requiring 110 pounds of nitrogen fertilizer per acre. Some of the fertilizer is broken down by soil bacteria into nitrate, a toxic and highly soluble chemical that can leach into groundwater or get washed into lakes, creating oxygenless dead zones.
Two out of every five people on Earth today owe their lives to the higher crop outputs that fertilizer has made possible.
People are going to buy cheap fertilizer so they can grow enough crops to feed themselves, which will be increasingly difficult with climate change.
I know it sounds ridiculous, but I haven't quite got over the miracle that you plant things, and they do sprout up.
If you build up the soil with organic material, the plants will do just fine.
Failure is good. It's fertilizer. Everything I've learned about coaching, I've learned from making mistakes.
If you were just intent on killing people you could do better with a bomb made of agricultural fertiliser.
The more we pour the big machines, the fuel, the pesticides, the herbicides, the fertilizer and chemicals into farming, the more we knock out the mechanism that made it all work in the first place.
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