top-dress
Example Sentences
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Return anything too chunky to the bin, and top-dress your plants indoors or out with the good stuff.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 8, 2023
It may be desirable to top-dress with gypsum near the end of the rainy season to stimulate the growth of the plant.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)
If the soil is heavy, top-dress with grit in the fall.
From Making A Rock Garden by Adams, H. S. (Henry Sherman)
They must plow, and sow, and top-dress, and bottom-dress, and deep-drain, and surface-drain, and all the rest of it.
From No Name by Collins, Wilkie
I am in the dairy business and will have by winter enough manure to top-dress the field.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)
