Topdressing is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for TOPDRESSING in dictionary:

NOUN:
• an application of fertiliser to soil
• an application of manure or fertilizer to the surface layer of soil or a lawn
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• a material used to top-dress soil

Words related to TOPDRESSING

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Words that contain TOPDRESSING

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How to use TOPDRESSING in a sentence

• In order to accumulate the necessary amount of fine sea-sand, he ordered the steward to prepare for an elaborate system of top-dressing all the grounds.
• A light top-dressing of cow manure applied annually, and keeping the roots free from stagnant water, will preserve the plants in good health.
• In the spring a top-dressing of rich manure and soot should be given.
• Apply a top-dressing of farm-yard manure to the beds before the frosts set in, as this will both nourish and protect the roots.
• A heavy top-dressing round each stem is also desirable, and the application of copious supplies of water will carry the nourishment down to the roots.
• If the soil needs enriching, there is no better material than decayed cow-manure, which may be incorporated as the work goes on, or it can be applied as a top-dressing.
• If the plants should lack age or vigor on entering the first winter, a top-dressing of farmyard manure will render great service in protecting them.
• The year following the sowing of the clover, it is cut for hay or for seed, and the next year it is pastured with or without a top-dressing of farmyard manure.
• Later, we commenced to use gypsum as a top-dressing on clover.
• And this extra growth was caused by the small top-dressing of powdered gypsum rock.
• Still we may infer that this top-dressing did considerable good.
• I have seen great benefit apparently derived from such a top-dressing.
• In 1860, I made some experiments with gypsum, superphosphate, and sulphate of ammonia as a top-dressing on oats.
• The term “top-dressing” usually refers to sowing or spreading manures on the growing crop.
• If we sow nitrate of soda, or guano, on our winter-wheat in the spring, that would be top-dressing.
• Top-dressing in the sense in which I understand the term, is seldom adopted, except on meadows and pastures as a regular system.
• I do not say that this is better than to apply the manure at the time of sowing the wheat, but if we neglect to do so, then top-dressing is a commendable practice.
• Numerous experiments on top-dressing meadows are reported from year to year.
• But it is probably used more for top-dressing mowing land, and for potatoes, than for anything else.
• The practice of applying manure as a top-dressing to winter-wheat, is rapidly gaining ground here.
• Voelcker reports the result of some experiments in top-dressing winter-wheat on the farm of the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester, England.
• The soil had a topdressing of charcoal cinders and ashes that I thought would help.

Similar words containing TOPDRESS without suffix ing

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