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Lawn Disease
100
The daily minimum number of knocks you should have when out in the neighborhood?
What is 80 knocks
100
A new customer will receive a thorough evaluation of your lawn's progress. This is a service offered for free from TruGreen and offers tremendous value to the new customer. We are currently the only company offering this.
What is a LQA - Lawn Quality Audit
100
This material is used to help strengthen the cell structure of the root system and is usually applied in the fall where adequate soil moisture exists. This application's main fuction has to do with moisture retention in the grass plant. This application improves root growth and reduces watering frequency resulting in a healthier plant with less disease problems/
What is Potassium
100
Tiny insects that feed on the juices from grass plants. They thrive in hot and dry weather. The start out quite small with bright orange abdomen with distintive white stripe. As they grow the orange darkens to rusty brown. This bug damage is often mistaken for drought damage.
What is Chinch Bugs
100
This a fungal disease that attacks Kentucky bluegrass, fescues, ryegrass and bentgrass. In moisture saturated air, the blades may be covered with pink fungal growth, which along with grass tissue, forms thread like material upon dying out.
What is Red thread and or Pink patch
200
The special spring fertilizer (SSF) bundle percentage weekly expectation?
What is 15 percent
200
This is our 100% natural organic lawn feeding program designed to maintain a healthy lawn for the customer who prefers this approach.
What is TruNatural
200
Healthy lawns crave air, water and fertilization. This service allows these vital elements to reach the roots, where they are needed most. After this application thatch is broken down, compaction is relieved and roots have room to spread out. Name this service.
What is an Aeration
200
These insects are the larvae of the Japanese Beetles that you see in late summer. The beetles feed on ornamental trees and shrubs and this larvae can destroy lawns in August and September by feeding on your grass roots until they are large enough to emerge and fly. What is the name of the insect?
What is Grubs
200
Raking the damaged turf in the spring will assist in recovery from this disease. Raking removes matted grass, improves air circulation, and stimulates new grass growth. This disease is most severe under wet conditions and areas that have been covered by snow.
What is Snow Mold
300
The minimum weekly revenue required to be sold by a sales representative..
What is $2500
300
Balanced fertilizer, designed to get your lawn off to a great start by promoting deep green color. May contain pre-emergent crabgrass control depending on timing.
What is Early Spring Treatment
300
Establishing the proper PH is one of the best ways to maintain a rich, healtyh soil base. This treatment helps to ensure maximum effectiveness of your regular lawn care applications.
What is Lime Treatment
300
This insect resembles very large mosquitoes. Adults are harmless but the larvae of some species can damage the roots of your lawn. Control treatments should be applied in the fall to kill young larvae.
What is Crane Fly
300
This disease of many turgrasses cause small spots of turf to decline and develop a light tan color. The small spots often join to form large, irregular discolored patches several feet in diameter. The most notable symtoms of this disease in early stages are the occurrence of the small circular spots in the turf, and a distinct pattern of colors in bands across the leaf blades
What is Dollar Spot
400
The expanded bundling percentage goal for the week.
What is 65%
400
What specific program offered to all of our new or potential customers which will provide the best overall value. Name the applications.
What is 6 application, grub control and special spring fertilizer.
400
This application is guaranteed to prevent grubs from damaging turfgrass as well as the damage from the animals that dig in the turf to feed on them.
What is Grub Control
400
These insects are like caterpillars that damage turf. They build tunnels in the soil or thatch and line them with silk. They live in the tunnels during the day and come out at night to feed on grass blades and shoots at night. The use of pesticide is the most efficient way to control this insect.
What is Sod Webworms
400
The overall symtom of this disease is off-colored, yellow turf. When the infestation is widespead and pronounced in a lawn, the lawn has a golden-yellow color from the distance. Rubbing the leaf blade will reveal a red powdery material. This powder is composed of millions of fungal spores. What is the name of this disease?
What is Rust Disease
500
This is a tropical grass plant, which was intentionally introduced into this country as a pasture grass due to its high tissue carbohydrate content. In the temperature climates of the U.S., though, these plants function as a summer annual weed germinating in the spring and dying in the fall shortly after the first hard frost. Due to the vigorous growth of this weed during the hot weather, it is considered a serious turf weed.
What is Crabgrass
500
Balanced fertilizer is applied. Broadleaf weeds are treated as needed. This application helps the lawn maintain color as cooler temperatures begin
What is Late Fall Treatment
500
This service is provided accompanying an aeration only. This service introduces new seed to thinner areas of the lawn to improve overall density and appearance of the lawn.
What is Overseeding
500
This insect has a red dot on it's nose and will often tell jokes to the other lawn insects. They are usually thought of as the life of the party.
What is Funny Flies
500
This disease can spread rapidly and cause severe damage in 24 hours. Initial symptoms include white, cobweb-like growth of the fungus on lawns which can be observed in the morning while the grass is wet from dew. Grass blades may become water-soaked, dark, and slimy. A core aeration will help reduce thatch and improve drainage which will help control this disease.
What is Pythium Blight