Unit 6

Conditioning the soil includes:

• Adding fertilizer and lime

• Grading the slope

• Selecting quality grass seeds

• Sowing grass seeds

What is the best running-type of grass for Malik to plant in a shady area of his lawn?

• Tall fescue

• Bent grass

• Creeping red fescue

• Bahia grass

A seed that has the ability to geminate is known as:

• Inert

• Viable

• Noxious

• Debris

Two-warm season grasses that do not grow well in "high-traffic" areas are:

• Bermuda and Tall fescue

• Centipede and St. Augustine

• Kentucky bluegrass and tall fescue

• Perennial and Annual ryegrasses

What warm-season grass, produced by stolons and rhizomes, grows best in the eastern and coastal Piedmont areas?

• Creeping red fescue

• Tall fescue

• Zoysia

• Kentucky bluegrass

The proper time of year to plant warm-season lawn grasses is:

• Fall

• Spring

• Summer

• Winter

A warm-season grass that grows from both stolons and rhizomes and has fine-textures leaves that vary in color from light green to dark green is:

• Annual ryegrass

• Bermuda grass

• Kentucky bluegrass

• Tall fescue

Which warm-season grass grows from stolons and has medium-textured light green leaves?

• Centipede grass

• Kentucky bluegrass

• Perennial ryegrass

• Zoysia grass

The main difference between sodding and plugging is that sodding uses strips of sod to cover the whole lawn, but plugging starts the lawn by using:

• Plant runners or cuttings

• Seeds

• Small pieces of sod

• Stolons and sprigs

Butting two strips of grass together in a brick pattern is used when:

• Sodding

• Sprigging

• Sowing

• Plugging