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
They must plow, and sow, and top-dress, and bottom-dress, and deep-drain, and surface-drain, and all the rest of it.
From No Name by Collins, Wilkie
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
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)
It may be desirable to top-dress with gypsum near the end of the rainy season to stimulate the growth of the plant.
From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)
