Easy Lawns

Author : Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Publisher : Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1889538124

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Easy Lawns by Brooklyn Botanic Garden Pdf

It is possible, even easy, to have a beautiful lawn without hours of mowing, watering, fertilizing, weeding, and reseeding -- think native! This easy-to-read, full-color guide will help anyone select the perfect grass for their environment. Native grasses are easier to care for than traditional high-maintenance grasses, and they help restore biodiversity because they don't disturb the surrounding natural habitat. Best of all, native grasses create a beautiful lawn. This guide offers everything readers need to know to choose, buy, plant, and maintain native lawns in any region: East, Northeast, Southeast, Florida, California, Colorado, high desert landscapes, and dry sites across the country.

Author : Barbara W. Ellis
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0395813697

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Safe & Easy Lawn Care by Barbara W. Ellis Pdf

Resource added for the Landscape Horticulture Technician program 100014.

Author : Owen Wormser
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-02
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780998862378

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Lawns into Meadows by Owen Wormser Pdf

In Lawns Into Meadows, landscape designer Owen Wormser makes a case for the power and generosity of meadows. In a world where lawns have wreaked havoc on our natural ecosystems, meadows offer a compelling solution. They establish wildlife and pollinator habitats. They’re low-maintenance and low-cost. They have a built-in resilience that helps them weather climate extremes, and they can draw down and store far more carbon dioxide than any manicured lawn. They’re also beautiful, all year round. Owen describes how to plant an organic meadow that’s right for your site, whether it’s a yard, community garden, or tired city lot. He shares advice on preparing your plot, coming up with the right design, and planting—all without using synthetic chemicals. He passes along tips on building support in neighborhoods where a tidy lawn is the standard. Owen also profiles twenty-one starter grasses and flowers for beginning meadow-makers, and offers guidance on how to grow each one. To illuminate the many joys of meadow-building, Owen draws on his own stories, including how growing up off the grid in northern Maine, with no electricity or plumbing, prepared him for his work. The book, part how-to guide and part memoir, is for environmentalists and climate activists, gardeners and non-gardeners alike. Lawns Into Meadows is part of Stone Pier Press’s Citizen Gardening series, which teaches readers how to grow food and garden in ways that are good for the planet.

Author : DK
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9780756699253

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Simple Steps to Success: Lawns and Groundcover by DK Pdf

Using a combination of easily accessible information and inspiring photographs, the Simple Steps series promotes gardening as a real pleasure rather than a back-breaking chore. In Lawns and Groundcover, you'll find a one-stop guide to creating and maintaining beautiful lawns, meadows, or beds of groundcover.

Author : Better Homes and Gardens
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 162 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2012-04-11
Category : House & Home
ISBN : 9780544187832

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Quick & Easy Curb Appeal by Better Homes and Gardens Pdf

Expert tips to spruce up the front of any home Anyone who buys or sells a home knows that, when it comes to real estate, books are judged by their covers. Creating curb appeal is a key way to accomplish preserving and protecting the value of what is most likely to be a family's biggest single investment. Unlike most books that focus on projects to enhance a home's backyard, Quick & Easy Curb Appeal focuses on projects that help make the front of the house more attractive. Pulls together information from Better Homes and Gardens' rich library of content Projects for tackling walkways, driveways, porches, and more Ten must-dos for re-selling a home from real estate pros Part inspiration and ideas, part resource guide, and part home maintenance reference, this book arms readers with everything they need to let their home give its guests a great first impression.

Author : Nick Christians,Ashton Ritchie
Publisher : Meredith Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0696212706

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Scotts Lawns by Nick Christians,Ashton Ritchie Pdf

A guide to lawn care provides tips, techniques, and advice for an attractive yard, covering such topics as mowing, weeding, fertilizing, and getting rid of pests.

Author : Virginia Jenkins
Publisher : Smithsonian Institution
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 1994-04-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781560984061

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The Lawn by Virginia Jenkins Pdf

Lawns now blanket thirty million acres of the United States, but until the late nineteenth century few Americans had any desire for a front lawn, much less access to seeds for growing one. In her comprehensive history of this uniquely American obsession, Virginia Scott Jenkins traces the origin of the front lawn aesthetic, the development of the lawn-care industry, its environmental impact, and modern as well as historic alternatives to lawn mania.

Author : Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Publisher : Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 1889538035

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Easy Compost by Brooklyn Botanic Garden Pdf

Includes information on composting's history; tips on equipment; tips for difficult climes; composting indoors; making humus in small spaces; and using compost in the garden.

Author : Maureen Gilmer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 0890435820

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Easy Lawn and Garden Care by Maureen Gilmer Pdf

This year-round primer of do-it-yourself landscape maintenance offers home owners the information they need to beautify their outdoor environment easily and economically while enhancing the value of their property. Packed with sensible advice and gardening methods, easy-to-follow directions, and illustrations for mastering the essentials.

Author : Chris Hastings
Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2000-10-01
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781461733188

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Southern Lawns by Chris Hastings Pdf

Son of renowned horticulturist Don Hastings, Chris Hastings presents his readers with step-by-step instructions for year-round care of lawns from Virginia to Texas.

Author : H. C. Flores
Publisher : Chelsea Green Publishing
Page : 354 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781933392073

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Food Not Lawns by H. C. Flores Pdf

Combines practical wisdom on ecological design and community-building with a fresh, green perspective on an age-old subject. Activist and urban gardener Heather Flores shares her nine-step permaculture design to help farmsteaders and city dwellers alike build fertile soil, promote biodiversity, and increase natural habitat in their own "paradise gardens." This joyful lifestyle manual inspires readers to apply the principles of the paradise garden--simplicity, resourcefulness, creativity, mindfulness, and community--to all aspects of life. Plant "guerrilla gardens" in barren intersections and medians; organize community meals; start a street theater troupe or host a local art swap; free your kitchen from refrigeration and enjoy truly fresh, nourishing foods from your own plot of land; work with children to create garden play spaces. Flores cares passionately about the damaged state of our environment and our throwaway society. Here, she shows us how to reclaim the earth, one garden at a time.--From publisher description.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 582 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1877
Category : Gardening
ISBN : OSU:32435029344868

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The Villa Gardener by Anonim Pdf

Author : Paul N. Voykin
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Lawns
ISBN : UOM:39015005846137

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A Perfect Lawn the Easy Way by Paul N. Voykin Pdf

A March to November guide to the care of lawns by a country club golf superintendent who brings a bright touch and apt quotation to instruction in common sense lawn care.

Author : Pam Penick
Publisher : Ten Speed Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-02-12
Category : Gardening
ISBN : 9781607743156

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Lawn Gone! by Pam Penick Pdf

A colorful guide covering the basics of replacing a traditional lawn with a wide variety of easy-care, no-mow, drought-tolerant, money-saving options that will appeal to today's busy, eco-conscious homeowner. Americans pour 300 million gallons of gas and 1 billion hours every year into mowing their lawns, not to mention 70 million pounds of pesticides and $40 billion for lawn upkeep. No Wonder the anti-lawn movement is thriving, as today's eco-conscious consumers realize that their traditional lawns are water-hogging, chemical-ridden, maintenance-intensive burdens. Lawn Gone!, from award-winning gardening blogger Pam Penick, is the first basic introduction to low-water, easy-care lawn alternatives for beginning gardeners, written in a friendly style with an approachable package. It covers all the available time-saving options: alternative grasses, ground cover plants, artificial turf, hardscaping, mulch, and more. In addition, it includes step-by-step lawn-removal methods, strategies for dealing with neighbors and homeowner associations, and how to minimize your lawn if you're not ready to go all the way.

Author : Michael Brower,Warren Leon
Publisher : Harmony
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2009-11-04
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9780307427021

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The Consumer's Guide to Effective Environmental Choices by Michael Brower,Warren Leon Pdf

From one of the most prestigious nonprofit organizations devoted to environmental issues comes a clear, practical, and rational overview of the relationship between consumers and the environment. Paper or plastic? Bus or car? Old house or new? Cloth diapers or disposables? Some choices have a huge impact on the environment; others are of negligible importance. To those of us who care about our quality of life and what is happening to the earth, this is a vastly important issue. In these pages, the Union of Concerned Scientists help inform consumers about everyday decisions that significantly affect the environment. For example, a few major decisions--such as the choice of a house or vehicle--have such a disproportionately large affect on the environment that minor environmental infractions shrink by comparison. This book identifies the 4 Most Significant Consumer-Related Environmental Problems, the 7 Most Damaging Spending Categories, 11 Priority Actions, and 7 Rules for Responsible Consumption. Learn what you can do to have a truly significant impact on our world from the people who are at the forefront of scientific research.