[Talk-GB] crop=grass or sod

Chris Hill osm at raggedred.net
Mon Jan 9 21:36:50 UTC 2017


The farms near me that grow grass as a crop to transplant onto, say, a 
pitch sell their product as turf.

I would say this is crop=turf on landuse=farmland, the turf is grown for 
many seasons on the same location.

-- 
cheers
Chris Hill (chillly)


On 09/01/2017 21:28, Warin wrote:
> Hi,
>
>
> There are a number of farms near me (on a flood plain) that are used 
> to produce grass.
>
> However when I look it up on wikipedia .. I get sod. And, yes, I will 
> know what you mean if you tell me to 'sod off' :-)
>
> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sod
>
>
> I am wondering what is 'best' GB English in this case ... grass? or sod?
>
>
> I am tending towards sod, but this might create language translation 
> problems, I'll raise that on a separate forum if necessary.
>
>
> So, what say you? grass? or sod?
>
>
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