Sprigging

{{Short description|Method for plant propagation}}

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Sprigging is the planting of sprigs, plant sections cut from rhizomes or stolons that includes crowns and roots, at spaced intervals in furrows or holes.{{cite report | title=Turfgrass Establishment: Sprigging | year=2007 | publisher=The University of Tennessee Institute of Agriculture | author=University of Tennessee Extension | url=https://utextension.tennessee.edu/publications/Documents/W160-D.pdf | work=UT Extension Publications | accessdate=22 December 2013 | archive-date=4 September 2012 | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120904073236/https://utextension.tennessee.edu/publications/Documents/W160-D.pdf | url-status=live }} Depending on the environment, this may be done by hand or with mechanical row planters. Sprigging uses no soil with the plant, and is an alternative to seeding (planting seeds directly), plugging (transplanting plugs with intact soil and roots), and sodding (installing harvested sheets of sod).{{cite book|last=Brede|first=Doug|title=Turfgrass Maintenance Reduction Handbook: Sports, Lawns, and Golf|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eJgaza9GmHEC&pg=PA159|date=15 March 2000|publisher=John Wiley & Sons|isbn=978-1-57504-106-3|pages=155–160|access-date=1 November 2016|archive-date=11 January 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140111115624/http://books.google.com/books?id=eJgaza9GmHEC&pg=PA159|url-status=live}}

Stolonizing is essentially broadcast sprigging, using cut stolons and rhizomes spread uniformly over an area mechanically or by hand, then covered with soil or pressed into the planting bed by various means.{{cite book|author=Tennessee Valley Authority|title=Natural Resource Plan: Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia: Final Environmental Impact Statement, Volume 1|url=http://www.tva.com/environment/reports/nrp/pdf/finals/nrp_feis_volume1.pdf|year=2011|page=82|accessdate=22 December 2013|archive-date=3 April 2013|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130403031022/http://www.tva.com/environment/reports/nrp/pdf/finals/nrp_feis_volume1.pdf|url-status=dead}}

Hydrosprigging, similar to hydroseeding, is the use of sprigs or cut stolons and rhizomes in a slurry of fertilizer, mulch, and binding agent, sprayed with a hose over a target area. This can be effective in areas sensitive to soil surface disturbance, such as eroding shorelines, hillsides or other slopes of varying steepness, or in diversion channels. The slurry can be sprayed over {{convert|1000|ft|m}} from a {{convert|1.5|inch|cm|abbr=on}} hose.