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Building A Healthy Lawn
A Safe and Natural Approach
(Franklin)
Lying on your back on a newly mown lawn is the quintessential summertime pleasure. Traditionally, however, lush lawns have been achieved only by using heavy doses of chemical weedkillers, pesticides and fertilizers, elements many homeowners have come to distrust and environmentalists to condemn.
This breakthrough book shows how to grow a lawn that is beautiful to look at yet safe for kids, pets, picnics and badmintion - and neither expensive nor time-consuming to maintain. |
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Professional landscaper Stuart Franklin wrote this book in response to numerous customer questions. In clear, direct language, he explains exactly how a lawn grows and how to care for it. He then shows the homeowner how to move away from reliance on hazardous chemicals.
The secret, he explains, is to build healthy soil and roots. The home-owner must work with the lawn, not against it, in mowing (don't cut the grass too short) and watering (water deeply, but not too often). There are 900 billion organisms living in a cubic foot of soil, and Franklin explains how to put them to work for the homeowner.
Included are chapters on mowing, watering, fertilizing, soil building, thatch, equipment selection, seeding, weed control, diseases, and insects. There is a chapter on groundcovers and mulches, because a lawn may not be suitable for every area. A reference section lists and illustrates desirable and undesirable lawn grasses.
A useful calender of month-by-month lawn care specifics completes the book, making it the only guide even a beginner needs to achieve the emerald green lawn of the American dream. Softcover. 168 pages. |
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Order #9865284
Building A Healthy Lawn
(Franklin)
14.95 |
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The Lawn & Garden
Owner's Manual
What To Do and When To Do It
(Hill/Hill)
The ultimate guid to rejuvenating worn-out lawns and gardens and how to keep your landscape looking its best!
You know when it's time to mow the lawn, but do you know when and how to prune the tree that is starting to block the view? Move shrubs that are overcrowded? Liven up an overgrown perennial bed? Fertilize and aerate your lawn? Let Lewis and Nancy Hill show you how easy lawn and garden care can be! |
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Includes a through-the-year calender, customized for your climate, keeps you on top of simple landscape maintenance and allows you to plan the best time to tackle those special projects. Troubleshooting guides for your lawn, perennials, ornamental grasses, ground covers, shrubs, roses, trees, and water gardens help you to diagnose potential problems and to solve them quickly and easily. A comprehensive program for building great soil and controlling pests and disease. Everything you'll ever need to know to create and maintain a picture-perfect landscape.
Leave it to expert gardeners and best-selling authors Lewis and Nancy Hill to make lawn and garden care as clear and trouble-free as this. Softcover. 185 pages. |
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Order #9865288
The Lawn & Garden
Owner's Manual
(Hill/Hill)
21.95 |
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