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WorksheetsHorticulture 2 6.0 Turf Grass
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 9mins
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
Kentucky Bluegrass
Tall Fescue
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
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 Ryegrass
Which cool-season grass is used on golf greens but requires cooling fans on the greens during the hot weather of summer in the South?
Tall Fescue
Bentgrass
St. Augustine
Bahia grass
Which cool-season grass grows from rhizomes and has fine-textured, medium- to dark-green leaves?
Bermuda
Centipede
Kentucky bluegrass
St. Augustine
What warm-season grass, produced by stolons and rhizomes, grows best in the eastern and coastal Piedmont areas?
Red Fescue
Tall Fescue
Zoysia
Kentucky bluegrass
A cool-season grass that has coarse-textured, medium-green leaves and bunch-type growth is:
Bermuda
Centipede
St. Augustine
Tall Fescue
Which warm-season grass grows from stolons and has medium-textured light green leaves?
Centipede
Kentucky bluegrass
Perennial ryegrass
Zoysia
The most commonly used method to start a lawn is:
plugging
seeding
sodding
sprigging
The most expensive method of establishing a lawn is:
plugging
seeding
sodding
sprigging
Applying half of the material in one direction and the other half at a 90-degree angle from the first pass is used when:
plugging
seeding
sodding
sprigging
Butting two strips of grass together in a brick pattern is used when:
plugging
seeding
sodding
sprigging
A seed that has the ability to germinate is known as:
inert
viable
noxious
debris
The main expense when using plugging to establish a lawn is:
fertilizer
labor
pesticides
seeds
The weeds in Suzy's lawn that are hard to control are most likely:
debris
inert
viable
noxious
Conditioning the soil includes:
adding fertilizer and lime
grading the slope
selecting quality grass seeds
sowing grass seeds
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
