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Lawn Care for Dummies | 
 enlarge | Authors: Lance Walheim, The National Gardening Association
Publisher: For Dummies
Category: Book
List Price: $19.99
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Rating:  7 reviews
Sales Rank: 194802
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Unknown), English (Published)
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Pages: 368
Number Of Items: 1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9 x 7.4 x 0.9
ISBN: 0764550772
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9647
UPC: 785555550773
EAN: 9780764550775
ASIN: 0764550772
Publication Date: January 27, 1998
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
Only one thing is standing between you and a fabulous lawn: It's called Lawn Care For Dummies. If you want a spiffy and well-coifed lawn (and not the overgrown, unruly one that people comment on when they pass by your house), you'll find everything you need to know to help you make your lawn the most dazzling spectacle on the block.
Let authors Lance Walheim and the gardening experts at the National Gardening Association treat you and your yard to a megadose of lawn care information. In Lawn Care For Dummies, Walheim and the NGA give you the dirt on all the essentials, including 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 under-watering it or waterlogging it
* Choose a mower that's right for your grass type
* Deal effectively with wicked weeds and pesky insects
* Create alternative lawns, such as ground cover plants, decks, and patios
Lawn Care For Dummies also features a beautiful color insert with photos illustrating the various types of lawns found in yards across the world.
Amazon.com Review
If your neighbors' lawn always resembles a beautiful green carpet while yours looks like something that would cost Tiger Woods several shots, you could use some practical help. Trust the Dummies folks--you really can have a great lawn without breaking your back every weekend, spending a fortune on sod, or poisoning your pets. Lawn Care for Dummies takes you through all the steps: choosing the right grass, planting the seed or laying the sod, installing an irrigation system, fertilizing, aerating, watering, and mowing. It also helps you avoid (or conquer) the Big Three: weeds, pests, and disease. Finally, the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow--you get to enjoy your lawn! In the spirit of all Dummies books, there's a list of 10 lawn games at the end. Bocce, anyone?
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| Customer Reviews: Read 2 more reviews...
 If I can do it , so can you... October 1, 2007
sue (New Jersey)
I didn't have a clue about landscape but had to learn really fast when I bought my house. This book has been my bible. It's great!
 The name says it all August 9, 2006
B. Lewis (Walnut Creek, CA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
A good book that covers all the different info on grass. However, none of the informative paragraphs dig too deep.
 Too Basic! May 30, 2006
W. Roberts (Smyrna, DE United States)
1 out of 7 found this review helpful
This book is really basic. I found that "How to Make Big Money Mowing Small Lawns" as a better resource. It had easy to understand charts. Simplistic pricing method. Simple to understand and extremely helpful/useful in earning extra income. This book offers unique and insightful ideas to help get you off the ground. It gives real life experience of the author will enable them to have insight into business that is fundamental to becoming entrepreneurial. An updated version is available at librarydepot.com
 Very good book for starting a lawn May 21, 2004
Dave (Indiana)
8 out of 9 found this review helpful
I planted my first lawn from scratch this Spring, and spent a lot of time reading and re-reading this book. The advice the book gave was great, particularly when it came to selecting the type of grass to plant for my particular needs and in my area.The other reviewers are correct about the photos being not very useful, but they certainly are pretty! However, I found the author's descriptions of grass types to be very clear and putting pictures of grass types would have been redundant. There were a few things that could have used more coverage, though. In particular, the description of the various options in boundaries and edgings was difficult to follow with very few pictures. Plus, the section on sprinklers touched on only about half of the types of sprinklers offered by my local garden center. My neighbor across the street planted his lawn at the same time I did mine, but without the book. He's a nice guy, but his lawn is a joke! Maybe I'll loan him my book this Fall when he starts over....
Ok but not great August 28, 2001
S. Frank (knoxville, TN United States)
40 out of 42 found this review helpful
The few color pictures are pointless. There is some good information, but the section on revitalizing your lawn is too small. I was looking for a general reference, but they say to aerate but never mention when you should do this (I have read this in other books) and they don't mention other techniques that I have read other places. This book would be pretty good for someone starting from scratch. If you just want to improve your lawn, buy another book.
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