The practice of applying dry amendments to the surface of a living soil bed, under the mulch layer, so microbes and worms carry them down to the root zone.
Jeremy mentions they didn't top dress nearly as heavily in one quadrant (a newer BuildASoil 3.0 bag) and it was slightly hungry as a result. In the other quadrants top dressing continued through flower but the last few weeks were water only.
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