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Top-dressing

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top-dress (tpdrs)
tr.v. top-dressed, top-dress·ing, top-dress·es
1. To cover (a road surface) with loose material that is not worked in.
2. To cover (farmland) with fertilizer.
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Byline: edited by PIPPA GREENWOOD YOU can make your own top-dressing using medium-fine sand with peat-substitute and top soil, passing it all through a 5mm sieve.
Weekender: Gardens: Dandy hints by The Mirror (London, England)
You can buy proprietary top-dressing but it's just as easy to make your own with equal parts of sieved garden soil, peat and gritty sand.
Our House: Take care of your grass to help your lawn by Sunday Mercury (Birmingham, England)
 
 
 
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