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Section 1-42
Lawn Care Related Terms & Definitions
| Definition | Term |
|---|---|
| A subdivision used to describe different grasses within the same species | Cultivar |
| Working of the soil without destroying the turf | Cultivation |
| Any method used to reduce the thatch layer of a lawn | De-thatch |
| Sixteen elements needed by plants including turfgrasses; C, O, H, N, P, K, Ca, Mg, S, Fe, Zn, Cu, Mn, Mo, B, Cl | Essential nutrient elements |
| The process of water losses from a water body or a surface | Evaporation |
| The combination of evaporation and transpiration; described as a layer of water lost from a planted area in millimeters | Evapotrasnpiration |
| A material containing one or more essential nutrients; can be safely used to grow plants and can be in granular or liquid form | Fertilizer |
| The percentage by weight given on the fertilizer bag. i.e. 23-7-7 | Fertilizer analysis |
| The start of new seedlines; requires proper moisture, temperature, oxygen, and nutrient conditions | Germination |
| The growing pattern by which a turfgrass spreads itself | Growth habit |
| A fertilizer made of inorganic salts with a quick release fate such as potassium nitrate (KNO3) | Inorganic fertilizer |
| A type of maintained turf that is maintained surrounding a residential house or public building | Lawn |
| A trained individual who runs a lawn care business and service | Lawn care service owner |
| A trained individual who provides mowing, fertilization, and pest control treatments to lawns and follow-up customer service to a territory rout of several dozens to hundreds of homeowners | Lawn care technician |
| Any material used to cover a newly established or renovated turf, usually straw | Mulching |
| A fertilizer from natural organic materials such as animal manure, dead plant and animal materials, sewage sludge, bone meal, and blood meal, or from synthetic organic materials such as urea, sulfur coated urea, and other urea containing materials | Organic fertilizer |
| The measurement of the acidity or alkalinity of a soil; 7.0 is neutral, below 7.0 is acidic, above 7.0 is alkaline | pH |
| A method of establishing a new turf using turf plugs harvested from a mature turf | Plugging |
| An industry that specializes in lawn care and directly provides lawn care service to homeowners | Professional lawn care |
| A practice of improving a poor turf | Renovation |
| Excessive removing of green leaves resulting in a brown appearance by exposing dead leaves of even bare soil; main cause is lower mowing height or uneven turf | Scalping |
| A ripened ovule with the potential to germinate a new plant | Seed |
| The outside protective layer of a seed | Seed coat |
| A term used to describe the germination rate (based on 100 seeds) and the purity of the seeds | Seed quality |
| A site prepared for starting a new turf | Seedbed |
| A harvested turfgrass unit in a thin layer with soil and roods intact used for new turf establishment | Sod |
| A printout of the results of a soil test which includes soil pH, organic matter %, Component %, as well as levels of available nutrients | Soil analysis |
| A vertical view of the soil layers usually obtained by using a probe | Soil profile |
| A type of fertilizer that will Dissolve completely in water and stay in solution | Soluble fertilizer |
| A type of turf that is maintained as the cover of a sports field to protect athletes and reduce the damage to the field | Sports turf |
| A method to use pieces of stolons cut from a mature turf to start a new turf | Sprigging |
| A coarse texture, bunch type turfgrass commonly used in cold, cool, or transition zones | Tall fescue |
| The accumulation of dead roots and stems, mostly at soil surface or immediately above | Thatch |
| A fertilizer that continually discharges a small amount of nutrients over a period of time | Time-released fertilizer |
| The zone between the warm season and the cool season zones, where both warm and cool season grasses can be grown but where the climate is not optimal for either | Transition zone |
| Water losses through a plant body; it cools off the body temperature of a plant | Transpiration |
| The general name for an area covered with maintained turfgrass | Turf |
| The appearance and function of a turf | Turf quality |
| A type of grass with spreading growth habit and tolerance to mowing and traffic | Turfgrass |
| The science, art, and business of cultivating turfgrasses for various purposes | Turfgrass science and management |
| A type of turf, such as highway and airport turf, that is used to reduce soil erosion and to protect the environment | Utility turf |
| The sowing of a cool season grass (usually perennial ryegrass) into the lawn to provide green winter color while the warm season turf goes dormant. | Southern winter over-seeding |
| A type of growth habit with tillers as new shoots; includes tall fescue and perennial ryegrass | Bunch-type |
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