The Healthy Lawn Handbook [Paperback]

Lane L. Winward (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1992

A professional landscaper explains how the home gardener can achieve a lush, vibrant, weed-free lawn.

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

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From the Back Cover

The Healthy Lawn Handbook provides all the information you need to transform a lawn from a weed-ridden, patchy object of frustration to the envy of the neighborhood. Beginning with the best varieties of grasses for different climates and conditions, The Healthy Lawn Handbook goes on to present a thorough survey of the several methods of planting a lawn - seeding, sodding, sprigging, and plugging - and explains the advantages and disadvantages of each one. There is also plenty of clear, practical advice about identifying and controlling a broad range of lawn pests, diseases, and weeds.The key to a healthy lawn, as Winward shows, is the right kind of maintenance - a proper balance of mowing, aeration, watering and fertilizing - for which he offers dozens of professional tips from his years of experience caring for lawns of all kinds. With everyone from the novice to the veteran in mind, he answers key questions like: which lawn mowers break down the least; how often should you cut your lawn; should you leave the clippings; why is it better to water at night; what's the best method for spreading fertilizer?There is an extensive section on organic lawn care, an invaluable state-by-state assessment of lawn-care strategies and a regional lawn-care calendar with specific tips for lawn-owners from Arizona to Maine. Complete with a full-color insert with inspiring and instructional photographs, this handbook will provide the average home gardener with the know-how to achieve a showcase lawn. (7 x 10, 176 pages, color photos, illustrations)

--This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

About the Author

Lane L. Winward is a landscaper living in Salt Lake City, Utah. --This text refers to an alternate Paperback edition.

Product Details

• Paperback: 143 pages
• Publisher: Lyons Pr (March 1992)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1558211489
• ISBN-13: 978-1558211483
• Product Dimensions: 9 x 6.8 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 7.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (3 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #6,972,157 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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3 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Everything I ever wanted to know!, February 7, 2002

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Cindy Lu Cazier (Salt Lake CIty, Ut USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healthy Lawn Handbook (Paperback)

I was never privileged to have the time to learn what I needed to know in order to take care of my lawn, using the regular methods such as practical experience and personal experimentation. But I have always desired to have that knowledge anyway. Thank heavens Author Lane Winward found the time to learn eveything about lawns. Even more to the point, thank heavens he documented them.
I found the information in this book easy to retrieve and easy to apply. The pictures were lovely and the methods outlined have truly worked for me. The writing style was not over bearing and boring. Others book like this are more like encyclopedias and are not so easy to read and understand. I actually do have the greenest lawn in my neighborhood.

Cindy Lu Cazier

2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars It helped me, it will help you!, April 26, 2002

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Robert Royson (New York, New York) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healthy Lawn Handbook (Paperback)

The book was simple enough to not be boring, but in depth enough to tell everything I possibly wanted to know. I have read books that told me more than I needed, and I never finished them. I have also read through far too many that simply said nothing. This one was right in the middle and perfect for me. I bought several for friends who liked it as well.
Winward obviously has a big organic bent, because most solutions he gives are organic. I think more people than just myself will like this. You hard core chemical users will find some fair stuff, but probably not as much as your drooling to get. Anyway, I recommend it.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Best lawn book in ages, March 23, 2002

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David J Crane (Magna, UT USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: The Healthy Lawn Handbook (Paperback)

The easy step by step approach illustrated by the author was a miracle cure for my yard. I aerate correctly now, and boy it makes all the difference.