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

One of the best methods of preventing this is to top-dress the ground with stable- manure, and hoe it in from time to time when fighting the weeds.

From The Home Acre by Roe, Edward Payson

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)

They must plow, and sow, and top-dress, and bottom-dress, and deep-drain, and surface-drain, and all the rest of it.

From No Name by Collins, Wilkie

After this I top-dress heavy with manure, leaving it lie on the land until spring.

From Asparagus, its culture for home use and for market: a practical treatise on the planting, cultivation, harvesting, marketing, and preserving of asparagus, with notes on its history by Hexamer, F. M.