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top dressing

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

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  • 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.
  • Top dressing also helps to build up the moisture retention on light sandy and chalky soils. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fill any hollows and gaps with some top dressing (see mulching, below) and/or reseed. Times, Sunday Times
  • Fill any hollows and gaps with some top dressing (see mulching, below) and/or reseed. Times, Sunday Times
  • The utilization of 15N from azolla in the rice-azolla-fish system is increased to 67.8% (Table 4); whereas, the rice-azolla treatment using 15N-labelled azolla as a top dressing at the maximum tillering stage had a utilization rate of 46.1%. Chapter 6
  • Top dressing also helps to build up the moisture retention on light sandy and chalky soils. Times, Sunday Times
  • The compost can be used as mulch around plants, as a top dressing over your lawn which can fertilise the soil, or as a soil improver in vegetable or flower beds.
  • Top dressing also helps to build up the moisture retention on light sandy and chalky soils. Times, Sunday Times
  • Top dressing also helps to build up the moisture retention on light sandy and chalky soils. Times, Sunday Times
  • 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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