1.   But not many people look forward to weekends of spreading fertilizer, eradicating weeds or replacing patches of brown.

2.   Mattingly said he was spreading fertilizer more carefully and using fewer pesticides than he did a few years ago because of the variable-rate applicators.

3.   Pardee is obviously prepping for a career in spreading fertilizer.

4.   Two days after the explosion, Nichols was at home, spreading fertilizer on his lawn by hand, a neighbor, Geraldine Hodson, said.