Tips & Traps for Growing and Maintaining the Perfect Lawn

How simple lawn improvements can help increase the value of a home by as much as 15 percent. Every home owner wants a beautiful lawn: thick, healthy grass, carefully manicured to reflect pride of ownership. It's appealing to the eye, and it can increase the value of a property by as much as 15 percent. Not just another home and garden coffee table book, this guide gives you solid solutions and a one-stop resource on how to plan, plant, and maintain a magnificent lawn. Written by an author with more than 15 years in the turfgrass industry and packed with checklists, illustrations, and at-a-glance information, Tips & Traps for Growing and Maintaining the Perfect Lawn covers all the essentials:.

Gardening Basics For Dummies®

You?re now officially out of excuses for not planting the garden of your dreams. Even if you?ve never sowed a seed or pulled a weed, Gardening Basics For Dummies contains everything you need to know about flowers, beds, borders, trees, shrubs, and lawns to create your own private paradise. This friendly and informative guide also covers all of the tools and additives available to make gardening easier. You?ll discover: Clear definitions and descriptions of the different types of plantsTips on choosing the type of garden you wantHow to create a garden planEasy-to-follow instructions for soil preparationAdvice on planting, growing and caring for annuals and perennialsStep-by-step plans for organic and edible gardensPlans for butterfly and children's gardensPacked with helpful tips on controlling pests safely, managing weeds, and correcting common gardening problems, Gardening for Dummies turns your brown thumb green in a hurry.