Jerry Baker's Green Grass Magic: Tips, Tricks, and Tonics for Growing the Toe-Ticklinest Turf in Town! (Jerry Baker's Good Gardening series) (Jerry Baker Good Gardening series) [Hardcover]

Jerry Baker (Author)

Book Description

Series: Jerry Baker Good Gardening series | Publication Date: April 1, 2004

This definitive lawn-care guide provides professional secrets, seasonal tips, and recipes for homemade fertilizers to improve the attractiveness and health of grass from seed to sod. Insider tips include how to avoid the most common mowing blunders, cure yellow grass with Epsom salts, and bug-proof a lawn with mouthwash. A detailed lawn-care calendar offers season-by-season advice on maintaining a thick, green lawn. Do-it-yourself homeowners, green thumbs, and gardening beginners will benefit from the tested, effective strategies for growing hearty grass using safe, inexpensive, natural products.

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About the Author

Jerry Baker is the author of more than 50 books, including Jerry Baker's Perfect Perennials!, Jerry Baker's Terrific Tomatoes, Sensational Spuds, and Mouth-Watering Melons, and Plants Are Like People. His syndicated radio show, On the Garden Line, is heard nationwide, and his gardening specials have been televised on PBS. He lives in New Hudson, Michigan.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 384 pages
• Publisher: American Master Products, Inc. (April 1, 2004)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0922433399
• ISBN-13: 978-0922433391
• Product Dimensions: 9.3 x 7.4 x 1 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.6 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (25 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #767,142 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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Jerry Baker is the author of more than 50 books, including Plants Are Like People, Jerry Baker's Old-Time Gardening Wisdom, and Jerry Baker's Herbal Pharmacy. His syndicated radio show, On the Garden Line, is heard nationwide, and his gardening specials have been televised on PBS. He lives in New Hudson, Michigan.

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22 of 22 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Practical, May 23, 2006

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This review is from: Jerry Baker's Green Grass Magic: Tips, Tricks, and Tonics for Growing the Toe-Ticklinest Turf in Town! (Jerry Baker's Good Gardening series) (Jerry Baker Good Gardening series) (Hardcover)

Filled with practical, easy to follow advice for growing a lush, green lawn... Tells you what grasses to grow where with extensive information on each grass type. Includes lots of recipes, many consisting of common household ingredients, for maintenance or repair. Details problems and how to solve each. A very thorough and complete book on lawn care.

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Finally Organization, August 29, 2006

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This review is from: Jerry Baker's Green Grass Magic: Tips, Tricks, and Tonics for Growing the Toe-Ticklinest Turf in Town! (Jerry Baker's Good Gardening series) (Jerry Baker Good Gardening series) (Hardcover)

Jerry Baker's Green Grass Magic is a wonderful book for people who want to know more about growing grass (the turf kind) but, don't want to be to technical. He does get into the technical aspects of Grass but those sections are delivered simply and in small chuncks with a dose of humor. What I like about Mr. Baker is that reading his books is a bit like talking with your grandfather, he interjects tidbits about how life was and wisdom from his Grandma Putt, in with his advice for your lawn. Mr. Baker has finally gotten better in orginazing his books. You can quickly find the information that you want. His chapter headings give you an idea about that that chapter is about which makes it easier to find a given subject and the book is indexed. He has put all of the recipies that crop up in the book for his various tonics and such in the back of the book as well as through out the book. It makes it a lot easier to look up what is in a given tonic. I like the tonics that he gives though, the neighbors raise eyebrows when they find that I am buying Beer for my lawn, but, if you do what he tells you to do then you will have a more beautiful lawn.

16 of 16 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Much Better Organized Than His Other Books, December 2, 2007

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DivaHerHighness - See all my reviews

This review is from: Jerry Baker's Green Grass Magic: Tips, Tricks, and Tonics for Growing the Toe-Ticklinest Turf in Town! (Jerry Baker Good Gardening series) (Paperback)

Sometimes all of his tonics can get confusing but in this book they are well organized with an index at the back. In chapter two he lists steps one through five of what to apply when. There is a chapter for weeds which helped to me to finally figure out that what we used to call Winter Grass is Annual Bluegrass. He uses a lot of non-standard products like mouthwash and beer. In this book he explains a little bit more about why they work which I really liked. He also talks about the five grass growing regions of the country and the properties of various cool and warm season grasses. I thought he covered the western states better than in the other two books I have from him. All in all I would highly recommend.