Trufgrass Establishment

4. A machine that sprays a seed-and-water mixture.
5. Used to help conserve moisture and reduce seed loss.
8. seeding The seed of cool-season grasses planted in late fall before the soil freezes.
11. The percentages by weight of pure turfgrass seed, crop seed, weed seeds, and inert matter in the container.
14. seeder A piece of equipment that levels the soil, places seed in the soil at the proper depth, and then firms the soil around the seed.
16. The practice of seeding cool-season grasses ?over? or into a warm-season turf before the existing grass becomes dormant because of cold temperatures.
17. Undesirable forms of vegetation growing on the planting site.
18. The planting of pieces of stolons or rhizomes in holes or furrows.
19. Originally developed for seeding steep slopes and large sites such as the areas beside highways.
20. Vertical rise or fall of surface soil.
21. Sprouting of a seedling from a seed.
22. A result of rhizomes, stolons, and roots knitting together with the soil.

1. Disking or harrowing the soil.
2. To scatter by hand or machine.
3. The percentage of pure seed that is alive and will germinate.
6. Plant parts are partially covered by rolling or disking them into the soil, or by topdressing.
7. seed Guaranteed to be true to type genetically.
9. blowers Machines that chop up straw bales and uniformly distribute over a large area.
10. The sprigs are broadcast and then covered with mulch applied by a hydromulcher, or combined with mulch fibers and fertilizer in the tank and sprayed on the area in a water slurry.
12. Pieces of stolons and rhizomes.
13. A chemical that destroys fungus.
15. Used to prevent the germination of weed seeds.