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
Would it be good policy to use the manure, or would it be more satisfactory to top-dress with gypsum?
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)
After this I top-dress heavy with manure, leaving it lie on the land until spring.
From Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history by Hexamer, F. M.
A deep moist loam suits them best; and as the plants grow and bloom, add bone meal and top-dress with manure.
From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)
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
