The Florida Lawn Handbook: An Environmental Approach to Care and Maintenance of Your Lawn, Second

by Robert J. Black and Kathleen C. Ruppert

Book Overview

This eco-friendly guide shows how to take care of and maintain lawns in Florida. Written by turfgrass experts, this edition contains lawn management information, including approved pesticide and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813016436
• ISBN13: 9780813016436
• Release Date: February 1998
• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 8.5" x 11.0"

Customer Reviews

Every Florida Homeowner Should Own This Book

All around me, I see people spending a FORTUNE in time, money and effort "maintaining" their lawns, and it doesn't appear that they've done as much as read a pamphlet, book or web site on lawn maintenance. They water at the wrong time. They fertilize too much. They cut their grass too low or too often.EVERY FLORIDA HOMEOWNER SHOULD OWN AND READ THIS BOOK! The lawn is a large investment, and this is a small price to pay to take care of it. This is the bible for Florida lawnowners.This book is very complete. There are chapters on planting, water, fertilizing, insects and disease. And there is a chapter (or two!) on each common variety of Florida turf grass. This book is written by Florida university researchers and agricultural extension agents, so is the most authoritative reference there is.I have two main complaints, although these problems are often interlinked. First, the chapters are written by different authors. As a result, there is some inconsistency in advice and writing style, and many topics are repeated. The second is that it can be a little technical. This could be remedied with an introductory chapter with pictures and definitions of the terminology used in the book. The authors assume that you know what the different parts of the grass plant are. As a new homeowner, I didn't even know what thach was.I am going to use the info from this book and from the St. John's River Water Management District web site to write an article for my homeowner's association newsletter. Perhaps the neighbors will quit wasting water watering the mailbox in the evening from which I have to retrieve my mail.