Landscaping Maintenance Test Review
question with answers
Name reasons it is important to break up plant roots when transplanting? - -- Roots
can expand and get nutrients
- Grow more
- Encourage root growth
-Explain why it is important to dig a hole that will allow the plant to be at the same
level it was in the pot? - -You cannot cover the stem or any leaves or they will rot
and it also covers the roots
-Discuss how to firm the soil around a new plant in the ground. - -Do not pack the
soil. It will make it harder for plants to root themselves
-Explain why you must water after transplanting. - -- You would need to water twice
a day or more until the plant is established
- Settles the soil around the roots
- Transplanting is stressful for the plant
-What do the 3 numbers on the fertilizer represent? What does the 1st & 2nd
numbers do? - -- The 1st number is the amount of nitrogen (N) and the 2nd number
is the amount of phosplate and the 3rd is the amount of potassium
Nitrogen is for the leaf/stem growth
Potassium is for the root growth
Phosphate is for the fruit/flower
-What can happen to newly transplanted plants if you use liquid fertilizer when you
transplant? - -It can reduce growth and can burn them. This can make the plant
more vulnerable to diseases
-How would you know when to use an organic/slow release fertilizer vs a liquid
fertilizer? - -You would use a liquid fertilizer when the plant is suffering from a
nutrient deficiencies
Slow release fertilizers are less likely to burn the plant, because they release only a
little at a time.
-What is my mycorrhizae? - -A fungus found in growing medium
-How do you know when to water? - -By looking at the soil/growing medium.
-What happens when a plant is allowed to wilt? - -The rate of loss of water from the
plant is greater than the absorption in the plant and the plant will get sick.
-It is a hot week with no rain. YOu have annuals, perennials, and shrubs in a
landscape that you care for. You dont have time to water them all this week. Which
plants would would water? Why? - -Annuals. perennials, shrubs (Used to the
climate)
question with answers
Name reasons it is important to break up plant roots when transplanting? - -- Roots
can expand and get nutrients
- Grow more
- Encourage root growth
-Explain why it is important to dig a hole that will allow the plant to be at the same
level it was in the pot? - -You cannot cover the stem or any leaves or they will rot
and it also covers the roots
-Discuss how to firm the soil around a new plant in the ground. - -Do not pack the
soil. It will make it harder for plants to root themselves
-Explain why you must water after transplanting. - -- You would need to water twice
a day or more until the plant is established
- Settles the soil around the roots
- Transplanting is stressful for the plant
-What do the 3 numbers on the fertilizer represent? What does the 1st & 2nd
numbers do? - -- The 1st number is the amount of nitrogen (N) and the 2nd number
is the amount of phosplate and the 3rd is the amount of potassium
Nitrogen is for the leaf/stem growth
Potassium is for the root growth
Phosphate is for the fruit/flower
-What can happen to newly transplanted plants if you use liquid fertilizer when you
transplant? - -It can reduce growth and can burn them. This can make the plant
more vulnerable to diseases
-How would you know when to use an organic/slow release fertilizer vs a liquid
fertilizer? - -You would use a liquid fertilizer when the plant is suffering from a
nutrient deficiencies
Slow release fertilizers are less likely to burn the plant, because they release only a
little at a time.
-What is my mycorrhizae? - -A fungus found in growing medium
-How do you know when to water? - -By looking at the soil/growing medium.
-What happens when a plant is allowed to wilt? - -The rate of loss of water from the
plant is greater than the absorption in the plant and the plant will get sick.
-It is a hot week with no rain. YOu have annuals, perennials, and shrubs in a
landscape that you care for. You dont have time to water them all this week. Which
plants would would water? Why? - -Annuals. perennials, shrubs (Used to the
climate)
