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

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.

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

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

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

It may be desirable to top-dress with gypsum near the end of the rainy season to stimulate the growth of the plant.

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