Kategoria BISAC: Gardening >> Lawns

Reviews of the first edition:

"An extremely readable summation of the origins of the addiction to lawns, and of the environmental reasons...

Your lawn is a representative of you and your home it shows your neighbors and visitors how much time and effort you are willing to put into keeping your home looking good. But, in these fragile times, many people also want to ensure their lawn care does not endanger the environment or any of the pets or children that might play on that lawn.
Organic lawn care is becoming much more prevalent for many home owners, but knowing how to effectively plant a grow a lawn, keep weeds away and kill bugs without using chemicals and unnatural law products can be complicated and downright confusing...

With the same format as the popular field guide to garden insects, "Good Bug Bad Bug, Good Weed Bad Weed" is a friendly, authoritative guide to the uninvited plants in our yard: who they are, how to control them safely - and why it's a good idea to love some of them just the way they are. Weed expert Nancy Gift considers 50 of the most interesting and noteworthy weeds in our lives, with generous helpings of full-color photos, some tasty weed recipes. Packaged with heavy matte-laminated pages and concealed-wire binding for handy use outside. An attractive gift book for adults and curious...

A lush green lawn is one of the great pleasures of the natural world, whether it's right outside your front door or on a majestic fairway at a legendary golf course. But anyone who has tried to grow the perfect lawn the conventional way knows it requires an endless cycle of watering and applying synthetic fertilizers and toxic chemical pesticides that costs a lot of money and kills all the life in the soil, on the surface, and on the grass. Fortunately, there's a better way. Organic lawn care is not only healthier for the environment, it's actually cheaper and less water-intensive, whether...