top dressing
Example Sentences
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Add a top dressing of compost and/or earthworm castings to give the plant an added boost.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2023
That’s not considered a compost, that’s more a top dressing.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 10, 2021
You might lay a modest top dressing of rose feed to keep its floral cycles going through the fall.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2020
A top dressing of evergreen branches kept the ice from melting until midsummer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Lime sinks in the soil; and therefore, when used alone, should always be applied as a top dressing to be carried into the soil by rains.
From The Elements of Agriculture A Book for Young Farmers, with Questions Prepared for the Use of Schools by Waring, George E. (George Edwin)
