Smart Yard: 60-Minute Lawn Care

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Summary: The ABC's of a Green Lawn
Review: Basic lawn care techniques presented in a simplistic manner that even a reader with a brown thumb can comprehend and initiate. The authors provide an assortment of techniques with step by step instructions that can be utilized in assessing your lawn's quality, improving your current lawn's condition or starting a lawn from scatch. Overall, an excellent book for the homeowner with limited time to dedicate to lawn care and limited financial resources to hire professional assistance.

Rating:
Summary: The ABC's of a Green Lawn
Review: Basic lawn care techniques presented in a simplistic manner that even a reader with a brown thumb can comprehend and initiate. The authors provide an assortment of techniques with step by step instructions that can be utilized in assessing your lawn's quality, improving your current lawn's condition or starting a lawn from scatch. Overall, an excellent book for the homeowner with limited time to dedicate to lawn care and limited financial resources to hire professional assistance.

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Summary: A Comprehensive Guide
Review: Ever since I bought my first house three years ago (with the worst lawn I have seen), I have been asking people how to make it better. I've tried a few things and been told to try much more. I never was good at understanding plants and soil, so I was looking for a book that explained how and why my lawn grew, why it was thin, weedy, etc. I didn't want someone to tell me "Just do this and that" but more of an educational tool that empowered me to decide what was best for my lawn.

This book has answered all of my questions in a way easy for me to grasp. It's too cold now to do anything, but I will use this book next spring. I like how the authors try to be environmentally conscious without being afraid to use modern chemicals when they are best. I would recommend this book to evey homeowner in the North. (...)

Rating:
Summary: A Comprehensive Guide
Review: Ever since I bought my first house three years ago (with the worst lawn I have seen), I have been asking people how to make it better. I've tried a few things and been told to try much more. I never was good at understanding plants and soil, so I was looking for a book that explained how and why my lawn grew, why it was thin, weedy, etc. I didn't want someone to tell me "Just do this and that" but more of an educational tool that empowered me to decide what was best for my lawn.

This book has answered all of my questions in a way easy for me to grasp. It's too cold now to do anything, but I will use this book next spring. I like how the authors try to be environmentally conscious without being afraid to use modern chemicals when they are best. I would recommend this book to evey homeowner in the North. (...)

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Summary: Everything you Need to Grow Grass!
Review: This book has everything you need to create a beautiful lawn. I covers every problem you might ever in encounter and is a very readable 200 pages. It's one draw back is that it does not have color pictures. I (and my neighbors) have seen an immediate improvement in my lawn since I changed to lawn care practices mentioned in the book.

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Summary: Everything you Need to Grow Grass!
Review: With the reviews and the premise, I was totally excited to be receiving my copy of "Smart Yard". Three pages in, my jaw dropped in utter disappointment: this book is written for northern climates and grasses. Neither the book's review nor a synopsis of the book (both on Amazon and on the book itself) mention this limitation. With 100+ days of 90+ degree weather, limited rainfalls, special soil types (Georgia red clay) and different grass (hybrid fescue and bermuda), this book essentially became a waste of my (money). I'm holding on to the book for the information (80% *does* apply) and the genteel manner it promotes for lawn care. I just wish I had known earlier.