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The Complete Idiot's Guide to a Beautiful Lawn (The Complete Idiot's Guide)
 
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The Complete Idiot's Guide to a Beautiful Lawn (The Complete Idiot's Guide) (Paperback)

by Maureen Gilmer (Author)
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Another in the popular series of Idiot's guides, The Complete Idiot's Guide to a Beautiful Lawn is intended for the homeowner who is confounded by their own backyard. Author Maureen Gilmer has written a lawn care guide that runs nearly 400 pages and is a remarkably exhaustive resource, for all its dumb-acting. Highlights include a section about Resurrecting your Lawn Step by Step; a section on turning the lawn into a wildflower meadow; and a "no-brainer" lesson in lawn design.

Gilmer has written a clear, sometimes condescending lesson in the art of creating "golf course green" from weeds and dead patches. Each chapter ends with a summary entitled "The Least You Need to Know," and there's even a cute little cartoon blade of grass which offers "turf tips." There is occasional eco-friendly advice about the dangers of chemicals and pesticides, accompanied by perfunctory warnings such as: "Keep products from drifting into any natural waterways." Of course that is an incredibly complex proposition and consequently this is not a book for the environmental purist. Rather it's meant to assist the total novice who is worried their house is starting to become a public nuisance and the corny text is an attempt to tame the garden's mystery and envision it as an assignment that can be completed, a test that can be passed, even if you need to use Cliff's Notes. -–Emily White

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Showing how to grow and maintain a beautiful lawn, this guide covers all the basics, from how to choose grasses and groundcovers, growing and maintaining traditional turf versus an "alternative lawn", to the art of mowing, weed management, and controlling pests and disease.


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