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

I am in the dairy business and will have by winter enough manure to top-dress the field.

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)

Would it be good policy to use the manure, or would it be more satisfactory to top-dress with gypsum?

From One Thousand Questions in California Agriculture Answered by Wickson, Edward J. (Edward James)

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

In the autumn, rake the mulch away and top-dress the soil on both sides for the space of two or three feet outward from the stems with well-decayed manure.

From The Home Acre by Roe, Edward Payson