top-dress
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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
The accumulation of the winter is usually applied to the land for the corn crop, except the finer portion, which is used to top-dress meadow land.
From Peat and its Uses as Fertilizer and Fuel by Johnson, Samuel W. (Samuel William)
In the autumn, rake the mulch away and top-dress the soil on both sides for the space of two or three feet outward from the stems with well-decayed manure.
From The Home Acre by Roe, Edward Payson
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)
One of the best methods of preventing this is to top-dress the ground with stable- manure, and hoe it in from time to time when fighting the weeds.
From The Home Acre by Roe, Edward Payson