topdressing

There may be a period of withdrawal, but you can remedy this with a ¼-inch topdressing of quality compost.

Maria Rodale: Front Lawn Freedom Maria Rodale 2011

The Mugo in the container is very tasteful with your careful trim and the white rock topdressing.

Plum Yew-Inspiration And Adaptation « Fairegarden 2010

The soil had a topdressing of charcoal cinders and ashes that I thought would help.

The Narrative of Gordon Sellar Who Emigrated to Canada in 1825 Gordon Sellar

In the case of mushroom beds in which black spot has appeared in the crop, I have found that a topdressing of fine, fresh earth applied evenly all over the bed acts, to a certain extent, as a preventive of further attack, but of course has no effect upon any of the already affected mushrooms, large or small.

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

Sifted soil has no advantage over unsifted earth, except when it is to be used for topdressing the bearing beds or filling up the holes in their surface.

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

It is excellent for garden crops and as a topdressing for lawns, on account of its fineness and freedom from all rubbish as sticks, stones, old bottles, old shoes, and the like, is in much demand.

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

Then fill up all the holes caused by pulling the mushrooms or rooting out the old stumps, and when the whole surface is level apply the topdressing evenly all over the face of the bed, avoiding, as much as possible, burying the well advanced mushrooms.

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

But while this topdressing assists all mushrooms that are visible above ground, no matter how small they may be when the dressing is applied, I am not convinced that it induces greater fertility in the spawn, or, in other words, induces the spawn to spread further and produce more mushrooms than it would were no topdressing applied.

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

In growing mushrooms we need loam for casing the beds after they are spawned, topdressing the bearing beds when they first show signs of exhaustion, filling up the cavities in the surface of the beds caused by the removal of the mushroom stumps, and for mixing with manure to form the beds.

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

For my own part, I always stow the ground tier of my cargo dry, and then take a topdressing.

Tom Cringle's Log Michael Scott 1812