Lawn Care For DummiesOnly 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. |
Common terms and phrases
1,000 square feet 5th Wave actual nitrogen Aerate apply areas Augustine grass Bahia grass bent grass Blue grama Buffalo grass Centipede grass Chapter 14 chinch bugs climates Common Bermuda grass compost cool-season grasses Creeping bent Dethatching drought edges electric mowers fertilizer garden germinate grass blades grass seed grasses grow green ground covers HEALTHY LAWN herbicides Hybrid Bermuda grass inches high insecticides insects install irrigation system keep Kentucky bluegrass label landscape lawn diseases lawn grasses LAWN JARGON lawn mower leaves moist mulch nitrogen nursery nutrients organic matter P.O. Box patch Perennial ryegrass pests pipe planting a lawn plugs pounds problem rake red fescue reel mower roots rotary mower shade shown in Figure soil pH spreader spring stolons summer sure Tall fescue thatch tolerance trees turf type of grass varieties warm-season grasses weather winter yard Zoysia grass
References to this book
Picture Perfect: Mowing Techniques for Lawns, Landscapes, and Sports David R. Mellor Limited preview - 2001 |