sprigging (from Wordcraft)

[Mark A. Mandel]

> From: "Word Crafter" <wordcraft2 at hotmail.com>
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> Subject: Wordcraft Word of the Day – sprigging
> Date: Wed, 07 Sep 2005 16:55:21 +0000
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Theme – Horticulture Words


sprigging – planting sprigs of grass in shallow furrows, to make a lawn
[This word is not yet in any major dictionary, but is in reasonably
frequent use.]

You can make a lawn by laying sod, by seeding, or by plugging. Sodding
(basically moving an existing lawn to a new location) is fast but
expensive. Seeding is cheap but take time and continued effort;
furthermore, some hybrid grasses do not grow "true" from seed. A
compromise is to plant plugs of grass at intervals, and letting them knit
together over time. Or you can plant smaller sprigs – which produces a
lawn faster than does plugging.

The Grove Hill Town Council agreed Monday night to kick in an extra $6,200
to ensure that the new ballfield at Hudson Park will be fully sodded and
not sprigged.

– Jim Cox, Grove Hill Council kicks in extra $6,200 to sod ballfield,
avoid sprigging grass for surface, The Thomasville (AL) Times, Apr. 7,
2004


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