overfilling

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Soil tests evaluate conditions and help you target your efforts, eliminating costly and potentially toxic effects of overfertilizing.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 11, 2023

Fewer livestock, for instance, might mean farmers would stop overfertilizing soybeans to feed to animals.

From Science Magazine • Mar. 21, 2018

By overfertilizing algae and other plant life, phosphates start a process that depletes the oxygen supply in the water and eventually results in the eutrophication, or "death," of lakes and ponds.

From Time Magazine Archive