top dressing in English

noun
1
an application of manure or fertilizer to the surface layer of soil or a lawn.
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.

Use "top dressing" in a sentence

Below are sample sentences containing the word "top dressing" from the English Dictionary. We can refer to these sentence patterns for sentences in case of finding sample sentences with the word "top dressing", or refer to the context using the word "top dressing" in the English Dictionary.

1. Peruvian guano is most Advantageously applied as a top-dressing to young corn and particularly to oats

2. Tear off the rhetorical top - dressing form his speech and you find there's very little solid content.

3. A shallow depression in a lumpy Bumpy lawn – less than an inch deep – can be corrected gradually by sprinkling top dressing over it

4. Turf and yard care machines, namely, aeration core harvesters, debris blowers, sprayers, spreaders, seeders, ground grooming machines, shrubbery movers and top dressing machines, and structural parts therefor