Description
Book SynopsisOnly 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.
Table of ContentsIntroduction 1
Part I: Planning Your Perfect Lawn 7 Chapter 1: Designing Your Perfect Lawn 9
Chapter 2: Cool-Season Grasses: The Grasses of the North 19
Chapter 3: The Warm-Season Grasses 35
Chapter 4: Lawn Climates, Big and Small 51
Part II: Getting Ready to Plant 61 Chapter 5: Preparing to Plant 63
Chapter 6: Increasing Your Soil Sense 77
Chapter 7: Installing an Irrigation System 89
Part III: Planting a Lawn 103 Chapter 8: Planting a Lawn from Seed 105
Chapter 9: Starting a Lawn from Sod 117
Chapter 10: Planting Sprigs, Stolons, and Plugs 131
Part IV: Showing Your Lawn That You Care 137 Chapter 11: Watering Lawns 139
Chapter 12: Fertilizing Lawns 155
Chapter 13: Lawn Mowing 175
Chapter 14: Dethatching, Aerating, and Renovating 197
Part V: Battling the Lawn Invaders 211 Chapter 15: Weed Wars 213
Chapter 16: Insect Invaders 233
Chapter 17: Disturbing Diseases 245
Chapter 18: Other Lawn Problems 257
Part VI: The Part of Tens 265 Chapter 19: Ten Lawn Alternatives 267
Chapter 20: Ten Top Lawn Trees and How to Care for Them 275
Chapter 21: (Almost) Ten Things to Do or Not to Do with Lawn Clippings 281
Chapter 22: Ten Things to Do with Your Lawn During Drought 287
Chapter 23: Ten Lawn Games 291
Chapter 24: Ten Weird Things You Can Do with Lawns and Lawn Grasses 295
Chapter 25: Ten Ways to Deal with Leaves 299
Part VII: Appendixes 305 Appendix A: Sources for Lawn Care Products 305
Appendix B: Lawn Information Sources 313
Index 321
