top dressing
Example Sentences
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Add a top dressing of compost and/or earthworm castings to give the plant an added boost.
From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 31, 2023
The soil will benefit from a little cultivation and a top dressing of compost or leaf mold, which is then scratched into the soil.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 29, 2021
You might lay a modest top dressing of rose feed to keep its floral cycles going through the fall.
From Seattle Times • Sep. 22, 2020
A top dressing of evergreen branches kept the ice from melting until midsummer.
From Time Magazine Archive
Apart from his costume and the top dressing of dust, he was tall, cleanly built, and evidently as hard as a wire nail.
From Desert Conquest or, Precious Waters by Rowe, Clarence H. (Clarence Herbert)
