Scotts Lawns: Your Guide to a Beautiful Yard

Guide for my son as he manages many yards for our family.

The hardest part of the rating was deciding between 4 stars and 5 stars. This book covers a lot of ground: fertilizing, pest control, diseases, different types of grass, mowing. The description of different grass species is nice, the trouble shooting guide for pests and fungi is even better. All in all it's an excellent primer, but you'll want to supplement it with more specific information on particular topics of interest.I found the references to cool-season and warm-season grasses a little confusing, especially for St. Augustinegrass. That grass is described near the end of the book as an adaptation: a cool-season grass found in the southern US. (The book earlier states the southern US is the home to warm-season grasses, while cool-season grasses are found in the northern US). Before that, I was surprised to find that I only need to mow my lawn in the summer, not the spring or fall (because I live in the southern US, and therefore have a warm-season grass). If that description is accurate, summer is 8 or 9 months long, and the other seasons only last about 1 month each. Other refrerences on the internet call St. Augustinegrass a warm-season grass, so I'm still not sure which it is, but I guess I can tell when it needs to be mowed without looking in a book.

As a first time lawn owner for an 18 year old lawn, I looked at this book and one other one which I think was called "The lawncare bible". My perception was that the "bible" was much more in depth and technical than I wanted to know. The "Scotts Lawns: Your Guide..." proved an easy and fast read - but with plenty of pictures to also make it fun to read. This book covered all the basics I needed to know about making my troubled lawn look much better. It also showed all the weed problems (which I had a few) and the solutions to fix them. I now know almost all of the simple "secrets" that make for a great looking lawn. Hint: Its all about the basics, of which this book makes vividly clear and easy to follow.

We decided to do our lawn ourselves.This book is helping us understand what we need to do.

Received and helpful.

Item came in good time and was in very good condition

Not a lot better than common knowledge or logic. If you know basic lawn maintenance you really don’t need this book. It’s a great starter book for the 23 yo first time home buyer. I expected more.

We bought a brand new house last year with an acre of land and had no idea how to take care of the freshly laid lawn. A year of trial and error and the lawn is covered in weeds and missing patches. I just started reading this book and am already very impressed. It has simple steps and is written so clearly that I, someone who killed a lawn, feel comfortable starting over. If you want an easy to follow book with wonderful hints this is your book. I cannot wait to start fixing our lawn!