Hort 2 Unit 6

Conditioning the soil includes:

• adding fertilizer and lime.

• grading the slope.

• selecting quality grass seeds.

• sowing grass seeds.

A seed that has the ability to germinate 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 is the best running-type grass for Malik to plant in a shady area of his lawn?

• Tall fescue

• Bent grass

• Creeping red fescue

• Bahia grass

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 the year to plant warm-season lawn grasses is:

• fall.

• spring.

• summer.

• winter.

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.

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

• Centipede grass

• Kentucky bluegrass

• Perennial ryegrass

• Zoysia grass

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

• annual ryegrass.

• Bermuda grass.

• Kentucky bluegrass.

• tall fescue.

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

• sodding.

• sprigging.

• sowing.

• plugging.