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Fertilizing:

"Make (soil) more fertile or productive by adding suitable substances to it".

Most types of plants will grow in typical soil without adding nutrients to it, but they will grow with varying degrees of success. Weeds seem to thrive wherever they are. Flowering plants will grow only half-heartedly in soil with low fertility. Vegetables like corn will grow very poorly, if at all, in soil with low fertility. It is largely a matter of what you are growing, and how good of a crop you want of it. Most plants (not all, but most) will grow at least acceptably well without added fertilizer.

All plants benefit from a modest amount of extra fertilizer. ANY plant will be killed by EXCESSIVE fertilizer. Repeated use of the same soil for growing successive crops is doomed to failure WITHOUT extra fertilizer. That gives you the general picture.

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