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top dressing

NOUN
  1. a layer of fertilizer or manure not plowed in

How To Use top dressing In A Sentence

  • Top dressing also helps to build up the moisture retention on light sandy and chalky soils. Times, Sunday Times
  • This year the top dressing is softer after complaints of the courts being too slippery. Times, Sunday Times
  • The invention discloses a top dressing flavor capable of covering up couch grass-like miscellaneous gas of tobacco products and relates to the technical field of flavors for tobacco.
  • Top dressing also helps to build up the moisture retention on light sandy and chalky soils. Times, Sunday Times
  • To assure a robust flower spire, feed plants in late winter or early spring with a balanced dry fertilizer or a top dressing of well-rotted manure or compost.
  • Top dressing also helps to build up the moisture retention on light sandy and chalky soils. Times, Sunday Times
  • In early spring, apply a top dressing of ericaceous compost to give the plant a boost.
  • Each of the plants suggested will work well in a rock garden trough; their flowers and foliage contrasting beautifully with a gravel top dressing.
  • I also gave the potted plants (rosemary, chives, oregano and garlic) a bit more compost and a top dressing of bark chips to smarten them up, keep down the weeds and help with water retention.
  • I also gave the potted plants (rosemary, chives, oregano and garlic) a bit more compost and a top dressing of bark chips to smarten them up, keep down the weeds and help with water retention.
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