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nourishment, as fertilizer or chemicals, for plants.

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Origin of plant food

First recorded in 1865–70

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Plant City, plant-cutter, Plante, planter, planter's punch, plant food, planthopper, plant hormone, plantigrade, Plantin, plant kingdom

How to use plant food in a sentence

An indoor herb garden isn’t as difficult to come by as it might seem, because modern indoor herb garden kits typically come in bundles that include planters, seeds, soil, plant food, and more.
The best indoor herb gardens for your home|Timothy Dale|October 1, 2021|Popular-Science
Its rapid disappearance is attributed to the loss of habitat and native plant food as a result of urban development and, possibly, an influx of invasive ants likely spread though the shipment of goods.
This butterfly is the first U.S. insect known to go extinct because of people|Jake Buehler|July 20, 2021|Science News
Now, too cold to find many nuts and berries or other plant foods, Arctic communities would have relied on hunting to survive.
Harsh Ice Age winters may have helped turn wolves into dogs|Bruce Bower|February 3, 2021|Science News For Students
When natural growth cycles are lagging, plant food spikes can help enhance the growth process and target specific aspects of your plant, including its color, as well as stem and leaf growth.
Plant food spikes to level up your foliage|PopSci Commerce Team|January 25, 2021|Popular-Science

For example, vegetable broth can be made by simmering available plant foods in water without any animal food ingredients.
Bone broth will sustain you at home and in the wild. Here’s how to make it.|By Tim MacWelch/Outdoor Life|October 5, 2020|Popular-Science
The complaint adds that the officer further observed “A bottle of Schultz plant food, in plain view.”
Pennsylvania Student Proves You Could Buy Ingredients for a WMD on Amazon|Michael Daly|January 28, 2014|DAILY BEAST
But where and how are these three kinds of raw material manufactured into plant food?
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No. 3, October 1899|Various
The three kinds of raw material thus brought together chiefly in the leaves are there manufactured into plant food.
Birds and All Nature, Vol. VI, No. 3, October 1899|Various
Put the seeds in the tubes, and water with plant food in solution.
The Planet Strappers|Raymond Zinke Gallun
Wherever plant food gained great importance, plant totems were then added.
Elements of Folk Psychology|Wilhelm Wundt
This does not look well in an Aquarium, and is apt to take up so much of the plant-food that the other plants are starved out.
The Practical Garden-Book|C. E. Hunn

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