Glossary entry (derived from question below)
French term or phrase:
fertilisants et engrais naturels
English translation:
chemical and organic fertilizers
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Wyley Powell
Mar 31, 2015 22:45
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fertilisants et engrais naturels
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Advice on lawn care from a municipality in Quebec
This is a text with advice on lawn care. One of the headings is "Fertilisants et engrais naturels", followed by this sentence:
"Fournissez à votre pelouse les éléments nutritifs dont elle a besoin et que le sol n’arrive pas à combler. L’utilisation de fertilisants, engrais chimiques et pesticides permet de préserver la qualité du sol."
Not sure how to render "fertilisants" and "engrais naturels" is. Perhaps: chemical fertilizers and natural fertilizers?
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"Fournissez à votre pelouse les éléments nutritifs dont elle a besoin et que le sol n’arrive pas à combler. L’utilisation de fertilisants, engrais chimiques et pesticides permet de préserver la qualité du sol."
Not sure how to render "fertilisants" and "engrais naturels" is. Perhaps: chemical fertilizers and natural fertilizers?
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Yolanda Broad
United States
United States
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Fren & Span to Eng, a ProZ Pro!
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Works in: French to English, Spanish to English
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chemical and organic fertilizers
In US garden stores, they want to sell me "chemical" or "organic" fertilizers.
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Wendy Streitparth
: Or inorganic and organic. https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?PID=304
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I like inorganic! Thanks, Wendy!
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AllegroTrans
: what if "naturel" is the adjective pertaining to both of the nouns in the source text?
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I wondered about that, but decided the syntax didn't allow that (but, of course, the writer might have meant it anyhow)
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writeaway
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Thanks.
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sktrans
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Thanks.
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B D Finch
: I think that AllegroTrans has made a good point. As my discussion entry points out, there is a contradiction between the ST header and the sentence that follows it. Perhaps the text goes on to give arguments against chemical fertilisers.
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Quite possibly, but we don't have that further context. I also wondered about that "engrais chimiques"...
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Comment: "Merci beaucoup."
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Chakib Roula
Algeria
Algeria
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Algeria
Shedding light out of words
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Soil nutrients and natural manure
What happened was that chemical fertilizers alone were suddenly deemed the essential ingredients of agriculture. No heed was paid any longer to the tilth, or physical quality of the soil. What did the soil matter? Just add more chemicals if your corn wasn't growing and everything would be all right. The only problem was, as more and more chemicals were added over the years, the organic quality of the soil was lost. Once friable, rich earth turned into hardpan. The essential chemical ingredients were there all right ... the high crop yields weren't. The reason? Simple. You can't grow abundance on macadam.
Example sentence:
Using Natural Fertilizers: Soil Nutrients, Green Manure and Making Compost
Reference:
http://www.motherearthnews.com/homesteading-and-livestock/natural-fertilizers-zmaz7211zhol.aspx
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B D Finch
: Soil nutrients are not necessarily additives. Your reference seems to have been chosen at random and doesn't elucidate the question or your answer.
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David Hollywood
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fertilizers/fertilisers and green manure
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Green_manure
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In agriculture, green manure is created by leaving uprooted or mown crop parts to wither on a field so that they serve as a mulch and soil amendment. The plants ...
Functions - Nutrient creation - Green manure crops - History
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In agriculture, green manure is created by leaving uprooted or mown crop parts to wither on a field so that they serve as a mulch and soil amendment. The plants ...
Functions - Nutrient creation - Green manure crops - History
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Carol Gullidge
: or just "manure" without the "green" part? Although, in my mind this usually equates to horse manure (extremely nutritious when well rotted!), so perhaps it's best to retain your "green" after all!
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organic soil treatments and fertilizers
Please see the link below on the difference between these two:
"fertilisants" is to treat the soil while "angrais" is to provide the nutrients for the plants.
It takes a long period of time to treat the soil for it to become organic.
"fertilisants" is to treat the soil while "angrais" is to provide the nutrients for the plants.
It takes a long period of time to treat the soil for it to become organic.
Discussion
Of course, you can, and probably should, do without inorganic chemical fertilisers on your lawn.:-) Skip the pesticides, too, although all the dangerous ones are invariably organic compounds.
Beyond me what distinction is intended here between 'fertilisant' and 'engrais'. Le Grand Robert doesn't indicate one.
"L’utilisation de fertilisants, engrais chimiques et pesticides permet de préserver la qualité du sol."
Perhaps what follows clarifies why the word "naturels" appears in the header?