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

A deep moist loam suits them best; and as the plants grow and bloom, add bone meal and top-dress with manure.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by Bailey, L. H. (Liberty Hyde)

If the soil is heavy, top-dress with grit in the fall.

From Making A Rock Garden by Adams, H. S. (Henry Sherman)

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

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