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Building a Healthy Lawn: A Safe and Natural Approach | 
| Author: Stuart Franklin
Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC
Category: Book
List Price: $14.95
Buy New: $6.25
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Avg. Customer Rating:  4 reviews
Sales Rank: 199924
Media: Paperback
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 184
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.7
Dimensions (in): 8.9 x 6 x 0.3
ISBN: 0882665189
Dewey Decimal Number: 635.9647
UPC: 037038005189
EAN: 9780882665184
ASIN: 0882665189
Publication Date: January 10, 1988
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
Condition: New never read , great copy , may have shelf or handling wear-publishers mark I ship fast !
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Product Description
Included are chapters on mowing, watering, fertilizing, soil building, equipment selection, seeding, weed control, diseases and insects, ground covers, and mulches.
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| Customer Reviews:
This book is phenominal July 6, 2003
13 out of 14 found this review helpful
This book is SUCH an easy read. It explains everything you'd need to know in plain english and gives many real life examples. I've just started to put what I've learned in the book into practice and I can't wait to see the results.
Two things would have made this a better book: 1) a tearout that can be used as a quick reference guide and 2) it really could use to be updated. It was written in 1986 and many organic and chemical products have been introduced since then that I would like to get his take on.
A fine book for anyone interested in a nice lawn August 18, 2000
35 out of 35 found this review helpful
I was quite starved for information to help me repair drought damage to my front lawn as well as seed a new lawn from scratch in the backyard. I read the book from cover to cover quite quickly and I feel somewhat enlightened. The concepts put forth by Stuart et al for maintaining a healthy lawn are quite simple to understand and execute. Each aspect from choosing a grass type to how to effectively seed and then eventually maintain your lawn is covered in detail in its own chapter. One aspect of the book which I particularly enjoyed was the explanations of exactly what you need to do to cause problems in your yard. I think sometimes its just as important to be informed how to to screw up as it is to do things right. Sometimes people can accidently kill their lawns without the knowledge of exactly what they are doing wrong. The book covers the functions of different chemical approaches to lawn care, but maintains that natural care is the most cost effective and safest way to maintain a lawn in the long term. I was very impressed by the book, and would highly recommend it to anyone.
Natural Lawn Care, Presented 'Naturally' January 2, 2000
17 out of 19 found this review helpful
This is the best book I have read on the topic. It is clearly written, and loaded with useful information. I recommend it as a great book for those who want to understand why their lawn looks so bad.
The best book on lawn care basics and Organic methods. October 10, 1999
34 out of 34 found this review helpful
This book teaches proper lawn care in an extremely easy-to-understand manner. It tells you all about the right and wrong ways of mowing, and how much of a difference it can actually make to the health and appearance of your lawn. It lets you in on the secrets that professional lawn people use. Most importantly, this book tells you how to care for lawns with little or no Pesticides. I think every homeowner with any sense of environmental responsibility should read this book before they mow their lawn again.
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