top dressing
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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
Then the tired manure is stripped off, sold to golf courses as a top dressing for $1.50 a ton.
From Time Magazine Archive
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Guano on Grass.—As we are opposed to using it as a top dressing, of course we shall not recommend its application to this crop.
From Guano A Treatise of Practical Information for Farmers by Robinson, Solon
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.