top-dressed

After the greens get aerated, they get top-dressed with sand, because it slows them down a little and helps the grass grow.

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The remaining amount of N for each treatment was top-dressed to rice in 2 equal splits, at 20 and 40 days after sowing.

1. Green manure crops in irrigated and rainfed lowland rice-based cropping systems in south Asia. 1992

For reasons of hygiene, however, lettuce and vegetables should not be top-dressed.

3. The agricultural setting 1989

After the bed has borne a little while it is top-dressed all over with a half-inch layer of fine soil.

Mushrooms: how to grow them a practical treatise on mushroom culture for profit and pleasure William Falconer

About September 1 they were sown to timothy and red top, fifteen pounds each to the acre, top-dressed with five hundred pounds of fertilizer, harrowed once more, rolled, and left until spring, when another dose of fertilizer was used.

The Fat of the Land The Story of an American Farm John Williams Streeter

Bishop Hall producing sketches as good as the "Horæ Homileticæ:" but we grow sleepy when we try to imagine Scott diluted or Walker desiccated, and from a congregation top-dressed with bone-dust from the "Skeletons," the crop we should expect would be neither fervent Christians nor enlightened Churchmen.

The International Monthly Magazine, Volume 5, No. 1, January, 1852 Various

To insure an extra yield of this valuable grain, the soil must be highly manured, deeply ploughed, thorough cultivated and hoed, and top-dressed with lime, house ashes, and plaster.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

When a piece of land is to be planted in sweet potatoes, it should be top-dressed with some manure, to be dug or ploughed under a week or two before it is to be planted.

The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. P. L. Simmonds

Our course had emerged from its annual spring flood, newly top-dressed with rich river silt, and a few warm days brought the turf through the scars and made the whole glorious expanse of fairway, winding through the silver willows, a velvet carpet.

Penguin Persons & Peppermints Walter Prichard Eaton 1917

If large clumps are well established in 8-or 10-inch pots, they may be top-dressed with new soil containing rotted manure, and as growth increases liquid manure may be given twice

Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) 1906