manuring

The difference may be due to monks manuring crops in friary gardens with their own faeces, the study suggests.

Less is known about the manuring practices of lower classes in the town.

While mechanized tools are widely used in manuring and to cut fruit from shorter trees between 3 and 8 years old, robotic technology to harvest from mature trees does not exist.

To cover with dung, as for manuring; to bedaub or defile, literally or figuratively.

The use of phosphates for hops was long neglected by hop-planters, and even now there are many growers who do not realize the full importance of heavy phosphatic manuring.