 Lawn Care For Dummies
ISBN: 978-0-7645-5077-5
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368 pages
January 1998
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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.
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.
