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top-dressing

noun as in fertilizer

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Example Sentences

The soil will benefit from a little cultivation and a top dressing of compost or leaf mold, which is then scratched into the soil.

Peruvian guano is most advantageously applied as a top-dressing to young corn and particularly to oats.

For this reason it acts best when applied in small quantity as a top-dressing to grass-land, and to young corn.

It has been employed alone for turnips, or mixed with farm-yard manure, and also as a top-dressing to cereals.

Straw is occasionally employed as a manure, and sometimes even as a top-dressing for grass land.

It is usually best to pull out the weeds and give the border a top-dressing each fall of well rotted manure.

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On this page you'll find 27 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to top-dressing, such as: compost, enrich, germinate, impregnate, inseminate, and mulch.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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