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Title: Lawn Bible, The: How to Keep It Green, Groomed, and Growing Every Season of the Year
ISBN: 0786888423
Author:
David Mellor
Publicate Date: 2003-04-16
Publish: 2003-04-16
List Price: $16.95
Average Customer Rating: 4.5
Format: Paperback
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1: Nicely written and informative - but no pictures
This is my first lawn book - bought to help me with my first lawn. I found it well written with plenty of helpful advice and guidance. D. Mellor stars the book by teaching you how to listen to your lawn - and figure out what it needs. He goes into detail about the different kinds of grass available, and which grow best in what locales. He discusses different aspects of mowing, watering, reseeding and renovating, and weeding. He also gives instructions at what he is most famous for, mowing with patterns.
However, I don't think a lawn book can be complete without pictures. How will I know that I need to treat a "plantain" infestation, if I don't know what "plantains" look like? How do I know what "Sulfur cinquefoil" looks like?
Pictures are worth a thousand words.
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2: Educational - anecdotal - interesting
An intelligent book written by someone with lots of hands on experience in keeping major league baseball fields green. This experience he has transferred over to home lawns. I fully recommend this book to anyone who owns a lawn. Different from the other books, it stands alone with its insightfulness.
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3: Not what I had hoped for
I wasn't very impressed with this book. I already have the Scotts lawn care book and loved that one. Since this book is by Fenway's greenskeeper, I expected even more detailed and in-depth advice. Instead this book covers the same basic topics in any lawn book with no extra helpful advice. In fact, in many cases the information was not as detailed as other books.
Several of the tips have nothing to do with being a home lawn owner. For example, one tip suggests using a certain enhancing chemical. When I looked up the chemical, it turned out it is only available to professionals and actually costs hundreds of dollars per gallon. How does that help me at home?? In another example tip given, a groundskeeper talks about re-soding after games. Again, I am not sure how that helps me know what to do at home.
I suggest buying the Scotts lawn care book instead of this one. That book is much more of a "bible" than this book is.
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4: ok
I thought this book was going to be a better that what it was. It's pretty much the same book as the Scott's Lawn guide you can get at Home Depot, which is awesome I might add.
Save your c$sh, and get the Scott's Lawn guide book.
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5: Good Grass !!
OK, OK. I'm talking lawn here. Excellent book to use as a reference for your lawn care.
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