Definitions
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- noun agriculture the application of
fertilizers or other water-soluble products through an irrigation system
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Examples
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To some species, extra fertilized water (what I call "fertigation") hardly made any difference at all.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway Steve Solomon
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The soils are merely a physical support for the vines, and vines are often kept growing by fertigation.
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Those with thinner soil who are going to depend more on fertigation may plant closer, how close depending on the amount of water available.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway Steve Solomon
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_Irrigation: _ Will grow and produce a few fruit without any watering, but a bucket of fertigation every three to four weeks during summer may result in the most luxurious, hugest, and heaviest-bearing eggplants you've ever grown.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway Steve Solomon
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If increasingly larger amounts of fertigation can be provided every two to three weeks, the lush Brussels sprouts plants can become 4 feet in diameter and 4 feet tall by October and yield enormously.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway Steve Solomon
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With the help of occasional fertigation they grow lushly and are enormous by September.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway Steve Solomon
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_Irrigation: _ The more fertigation you can supply, the larger and more luxuriant the plants and the bigger the heads.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway Steve Solomon
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_Sowing date: _ If the plants are a foot tall before the soil starts drying down, their roots will be over a foot deep; the plants will then grow hugely with a bit of fertigation.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway Steve Solomon
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Foliar spraying and fertigation are two occasions when I am comfortable supplementing my organic fertilizers with water-soluble chemical fertilizers.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway Steve Solomon
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Each fertigation makes the plant grow very rapidly for two to three weeks, more I suspect as a result of improved nutrition than from added moisture.
Gardening Without Irrigation: or without much, anyway Steve Solomon
john commented on the word fertigation
"Professor Michael Delwiche, chairman of biological and cultural engineering at UC Davis, has experimented with wireless sensing systems that precisely apply water—sometimes mixed with chemical fertilizers in a process called fertigation—to tree crops like nectarines."
The San Francisco Chronicle, Wireless system can detect water level in soil, by Tom Abate, September 1, 2008. As quoted in Double-Tongued Dictionary.
September 6, 2008