Lawn Care for Dummies.
"I would recommend this book to anyone starting a new lawn or improving an existing one." — Kevin N. Morris, Director, National Turfgrass Evaluation Program "This is the one book you should have, keep handy, and use often!" — Doug Fender, Executive Director, Turf Resource Center, Rolling Meadows, IL\ Full Color Section Highlights Ideas for a Beautiful Lawn!\ Grow a Lush Lawn — a Cut Above the Rest! No matter where you live, what you do, or how many kids you have, you too can grow a great...
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If you want a well-coifed lawn, you'll find everything you need to know to help your grass look the best on the block in Lawn Care for Dummies . Lance Walheim and the gardening experts at the National Gardening Association offer a megadose of lawn care information, including information on how to design a low-maintenance or a high-maintenance lawn, evaluate the pros and cons of planting a lawn from seed or starting one from sod, discover how often you need to water your lawn without underwatering it or waterlogging it, and much more. Filled with earth-friendly tips, healthy-lawn advice, and pictures throughout, this book is certain to help your lawn look lovely this summer.
Introduction.PART I: Planning Your Perfect Lawn.Chapter 1: Designing Your Perfect Lawn.Chapter 2: Cool-Season Grasses: The Grasses of the North.Chapter 3: The Warm-Season Grasses.Chapter 4: Lawn Climates, Big and Small.PART II: Getting Ready to Plant.Chapter 5: Preparing to Plant.Chapter 6: Increasing Your Soil Sense.Chapter 7: Installing an Irrigation System.PART III: Planting a Lawn.Chapter 8: Planting a Lawn from Seed.Chapter 9: Starting a Lawn from Sod.Chapter 10: Planting Sprigs, Stolons, and Plugs.PART IV: Showing Your Lawn That You Care.Chapter 11: Watering Lawns.Chapter 12: Fertilizing Lawns.Chapter 13: Lawn Mowing.Chapter 14: Dethatching, Aerating, and Renovating.PART V: Battling the Lawn Invaders.Chapter 15: Weed Wars.Chapter 16: Insect Invaders.Chapter 17: Disturbing Diseases.Chapter 18: Other Lawn Problems.PART VI: The Part of Tens.Chapter 19: Ten Lawn Alternatives.Chapter 20: Ten Top Lawn Trees and How to Care for Them.Chapter 21: (Almost) Ten Things to Do or Not to Do with Lawn Clippings.Chapter 22: Ten Things to Do with Your Lawn During Drought.Chapter 23: Ten Lawn Games.Chapter 24: Ten Weird Things You Can Do with Lawns and Lawn Grasses.Chapter 25: Ten Ways to Deal with Leaves.PART VII: Appendixes.Appendix A: Sources for Lawn Care Products.Appendix B: Lawn Information Sources.Index.
