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BASE DRESSING
Base dressing: This is the incorporation of fertiliser into the soil or potting compost before sowing or planting.`
A fertilizer, usually a compound applied at the preparation stage; J.I. Base (plus lime) mixed into a mixture of loam, peat and sand to produce a potting compost; Growmore raked into the soil of a vegetable garden prior to sowing or planting.