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
The soil will benefit from a little cultivation and a top dressing of compost or leaf mold, which is then scratched into the soil.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 29, 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
Then the tired manure is stripped off, sold to golf courses as a top dressing for $1.50 a ton.
From Time Magazine Archive
Hen manure is a good top dressing for onion-beds, furnishing the needed nitrogen.
From Farm Gardening with Hints on Cheap Manuring Quick Cash Crops and How to Grow Them by Anonymous
