From the Author
The View from My TurfAs I grew up and grew away from home, I began to realize the significant role the lawn played in our family. The lawn was where I learned to ride my bike, where my Dad taught me how to throw a curveball, where the whole family celebrated the Fourth of July, and where I spent hours daydreaming to the sound of the old lawn mower.
As a garden writer, I began writing about lawn care. And this is the book that couldn't be written ten years ago when I wrote "The Chemical Free Lawn." It answers questions that weren't even asked in that book, such as: Who invented the lawn anyway? What's behind our love/hate relationship with that patch of turf? How does it meet our deep-seated needs for domination, safety, play, and territory? And how low should I mow?
A Man's Turf explores the growth of the lawn in America. It tells the tale of the man who invented the mower. It explains how to soup up your Snapper so that you can take the checkered flag at the local lawn mower races. Want to know how to defeat dandelions? It's in here. Looking for a grass variety that needs less mowing and fewer chemical sprays? You'll read all about it in A Man's Turf
Travel with grass breeding pioneers as they pore over parkland and golf greens looking for the next super grass. Find out, once and for all, how groundskeepers stripe the outfield grass at ballparks. And learn what it would take to build and maintain a backyard golf green.
Writing this book changed forever the way I look at the lawn. I think that reading it will do the same for you.
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