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Definition of top dressing in English: top dressingnoun An application of manure or fertilizer to the surface layer of soil or a lawn. he gave most of the plot another top dressing last month rake or hoe in a top dressing of fertilizer figurative he put a top dressing of grandeur on his career Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- Good compost is a must for every garden, and all of your plants will benefit from a good top dressing with this rich, organic material.
- Courses have been overseeding with winter rye, aerifying and top dressing greens, and preparing 2002 maintenance budgets.
- Sligo County Council has completed the top dressing on Teeling Street after all the man-holes have been filled in and all the underground work now completed.
- In the spring, his crew will be back on the fairways aerating, top dressing and fertilizing.
- The next project was the development of an air strip and aerial top dressing to increase the area of productive land.
- Due to the good nitrogen-fixation, top dressing is normally not required.
- Some sites were completely excavated and refilled with fresh compost and soil; others receive top dressing with 2 feet of compost.
- From now until July 20 he will keep it aerated, fed and watered, give it a top dressing and keep it mowed, usually to a length of 50 mm.
- Then walk up and down the lawn pulling the device and smoothing out the mounds while top dressing the lawn at the same time.
- Sligo County Council have completed the top dressing on Teeling Street after all the manholes have been filled in and all the underground work now completed.
- The operation will involve levelling, grading, top dressing and seeding the pitches but, as was done at Nuttall Park in Ramsbottom last year, a specialist Koro Topmaker machine will be used on one of the pitches.
- A heavy top dressing to improve levels was put in place and the area rolled to a fine finish.
- The work in question involved stripping the pitch using a Koro machine and draining off the surface water before seeding, top dressing and fertilising.
- 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.
Derivatives verbˌtɒpˈdrɛs [with object]Apply manure or fertilizer to the surface layer of (soil or a lawn) top-dress garden beds with two to four inches of compost Example sentencesExamples - Rake up the cores and top-dress with a fine mulch, such as compost.
- Use the small marbles to top-dress your lawn, or mulch roses, vegetables or flower beds.
- Finish pruning and top-dress fruit trees, shrubs and brambles with well-rotted manure or compost.
Definition of top dressing in US English: top dressingnounˈtäp ˌdresiNG An application of manure or fertilizer to the surface layer of soil or a lawn. he gave most of the plot another top dressing last month rake or hoe in a top dressing of fertilizer figurative he put a top dressing of grandeur on his career Example sentencesExamples - 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.
- The work in question involved stripping the pitch using a Koro machine and draining off the surface water before seeding, top dressing and fertilising.
- Some sites were completely excavated and refilled with fresh compost and soil; others receive top dressing with 2 feet of compost.
- Good compost is a must for every garden, and all of your plants will benefit from a good top dressing with this rich, organic material.
- Courses have been overseeding with winter rye, aerifying and top dressing greens, and preparing 2002 maintenance budgets.
- From now until July 20 he will keep it aerated, fed and watered, give it a top dressing and keep it mowed, usually to a length of 50 mm.
- Then walk up and down the lawn pulling the device and smoothing out the mounds while top dressing the lawn at the same time.
- The next project was the development of an air strip and aerial top dressing to increase the area of productive land.
- 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.
- In the spring, his crew will be back on the fairways aerating, top dressing and fertilizing.
- A heavy top dressing to improve levels was put in place and the area rolled to a fine finish.
- Due to the good nitrogen-fixation, top dressing is normally not required.
- Sligo County Council have completed the top dressing on Teeling Street after all the manholes have been filled in and all the underground work now completed.
- The operation will involve levelling, grading, top dressing and seeding the pitches but, as was done at Nuttall Park in Ramsbottom last year, a specialist Koro Topmaker machine will be used on one of the pitches.
- Sligo County Council has completed the top dressing on Teeling Street after all the man-holes have been filled in and all the underground work now completed.
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