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
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.
It is a great nuisance for a public man who is liable to come home late at night to have to top-dress his head before he can retire.
From A Guest at the Ludlow and Other Stories by Edgar Wilson
Of course, it is far better to top-dress the rows in spring than not at all.
From Success with Small Fruits by Roe, Edward Payson
First he tells me to top-dress the upper lot, and then right off he wants me to harness up and go to the mill.
From A Princess in Calico by Black, Edith Ferguson
