"sown by" is correct and usable in written English.
It is used in the context of planting something - for example, "The field was sown by the farmer last summer."
The seeds had been sown by the Safavids.
The fear sown by the attack could throw thousands of people out of work, he said.
They are scattered about North Amityville like seeds sown by the wind.
The insecurity and uncertainty sown by terrorism have deterred investment and diverted resources into defence.
Small deadly mines can be sown by bombers, flying far out at sea beyon the range of anti-aircraft, guns.
These young, predominantly IT-based companies are rather the fruit of ideas sown by the Silicon Valley beanbags decades ago.
Says Russell: "People don't imagine leaves sown by hand when they hear that we supply 50kg of salad to Wimbledon".
But there were the seeds being sown by Treasurer Paul Keating towards a more decentralised enterprise-based system.
"I thought, how long have I been Twittering about underwear?" The humiliation sown by these attacks is just collateral damage.
The seeds of the Intel culture on Long Island were sown by a pioneering teacher, Melanie Krieger.
But the seed of my conversion has been sown by two moments of perfectly wonderful operatic drama.
