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
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)
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)
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