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top dressing

1. A covering of loose gravel on a road.

2. A covering of fertilizer or compost spread on soil without being worked in.

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top dressing

topdressing

1. (Agriculture) a surface application of manure or fertilizer to land

2. (Civil Engineering) a thin layer of loose gravel that covers the top of a road surface

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top dressing - a layer of fertilizer or manure not plowed in

fecundation, fertilisation, fertilization, dressing - making fertile as by applying fertilizer or manure

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This maintenance consists of two top dressings per season and twice weekly mowing of the grass (which takes two men half-anhour).

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After they cool, they are broken into different size “stones” for various horticulture products from growing mediums to soil aerators to fungus gnat control top dressings. “A six-pack of beer bottles is roughly enough to Growstones to grow one tomato plant,” says CEO, Mike Langone.