Essay On Fertilizer In Plants

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Title: If three grass plantings are grown, one with organic fertilizer, one with inorganic fertilizer, and one without fertilizer, which grass planting will grow the tallest and which the lushest over the course of ten days? Purpose: The purpose of this experiment was to determine what kind of soil is best for grass plantings. Background Information: The number one crop in the United States by acreage is lawn grass. Many different people use different kinds of fertilizer for their grass. The purpose of this experiment is to determine what kind of fertilizer is best for grass. Fertilizer has been used on plants for thousands of years and it has come from many different sources. The first use of fertilizer is thought to be manure about 8000 years ago because it provides a good amount of nutrients for the plants and allows them to grow healthier with nutrients like nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium (NPK); which are essential for plant growth. Manure would be considered an organic fertilizer which is still used today; however, it can also be found from sources like fish emulsion and compost. Organic fertilizer…show more content…
Around the 1860s, scientists realized the kind of benefit synthetic or inorganic fertilizer could have on the agricultural community and began to develop inorganic NPK based fertilizer. There are different kinds of inorganic fertilizers. One kind is called sodium nitrate which is a fertilizer that contains amounts of nitrogen of up to 16%. Nitrogen is the most vital nutrient in plant growth and these fertilizers make it immediately available to plants. It is commonly used when fertilizing younger plants, garden vegetables, and fertilizing acidic soil. Another kind is rock phosphate which is an inorganic fertilizer that provides phosphorus to the soil. With enough water, rock phosphate fertilizers allow extended growing periods with better plant

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