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

Of course, it is far better to top-dress the rows in spring than not at all.

From Success with Small Fruits by Roe, Edward Payson

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)

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

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)