Lawn Care & Gardening: A Down-To-Earth Guide to the Business [Paperback]

Kevin Rossi (Author), Lee Weisman (Illustrator)

Book Description

Publication Date: March 1994

While no one volume can contain everything about this engrossing and rewarding occupation, Kevin Rossi's book gets the reader off on the right foot, provides a solid core of information, and leads easily to more. It covers the details of management and gardening in a lively, personal manner.

Learn about building a base of satisfied, paying customers, managing the workload and being an employer. Learn to find the right tools and how to judge quality. Read the concise description of a simple bookkeeping system, and the legal requirements for starting the business.

Then introduce yourself to the chemistry of soils, fertilizers, and plant growth, as well as the best way to mow lawns, prune shrubbery, encourage plants, and discourage pests. With reproducible forms, agreements, and letters.

Editorial Reviews

From Booklist

This is first in a series on how to start and run specific small businesses. Rossi takes the would-be horticultural entrepreneur from such basics as building up an asset, getting customers, collecting money, and securing a license to making a capital investment, marketing, keeping books, advertising, and customer relations. In addition, he provides information on such horticultural concerns as soil, fertilization, and mowing; lawn installation, renovation, and disorders; tools; and pest control; and he covers such topics as estimating and bidding on jobs. The publisher dutifully cautions readers requiring legal or other expert assistance to seek the services of appropriate competent professionals, but otherwise this is an excellent and efficient general guide for beginners. George Cohen

Review

An excellent guide for both homeowners and those who would enter the lawn care business. -- The Bookwatch, April 2001

Lawn Care & Gardening continues to be an invaluable, indispensable, "how to" reference and instruction guide for horticultural entrepreneurs. -- Reviewer's Bookwatch, June 2001

Willis brings to her book her experience of management techniques and resources with an emphasis on sound ecological practices. -- Small Business Opportunities Journal, September 2001 --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 220 pages
• Publisher: Acton Circle Pub Co (March 1994)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0963937197
• ISBN-13: 978-0963937193
• Product Dimensions: 8.4 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 12.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.2 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (4 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,837,534 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

Customer Reviews

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19 of 20 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Got me started in the landscape maintenance business., January 12, 1999

By A Customer

This review is from: Lawn Care & Gardening: A Down-To-Earth Guide to the Business (Paperback)

I first read Kevin Rossi's book at my local library when I was considering starting my own landscape maintenance business. I ended up buying it and have referred to it many times. While it is not a technical manual, it does have lots of useful information from bidding,to fertilizing,to pruning. If you are thinking of starting this kind of business, add this book to your library!

12 of 14 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Provides new tips reflecting changes in technology, April 29, 2001

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Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lawn Care & Gardening: A Down-To-Earth Guide to the Business (Paperback)

This second edition of Lawn Care & Gardening expands and updates the first 1994 publication, providing new tips reflecting changes in technology and consumer attitudes, and covering everything from mowing heights for different types of grasses to fertilizing, pest control choices, tools and equipment and record-keeping for a lawn care business. An excellent guide for both homeowners and those who would enter the lawn care business.

4 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Lawn care & Gardening, January 27, 2000

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David Zucco (Canaan,Ct. U.S.A.) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Lawn Care & Gardening: A Down-To-Earth Guide to the Business (Paperback)

I found that the book gives a good deal of important information, BUT.. is a little out dated.