Jerry Baker's Green Grass Magic: Tips, Tricks, and Tonics for Growing the Toe-Ticklinest Turf in Town!

by Jerry Baker

This definitive lawn-care guide provides professional secrets, seasonal tips, and recipes for homemade fertilizers to improve the attractiveness and health of grass from seed to sod. Insider tips include how to avoid the most common mowing blunders, cure yellow grass with Epsom salts, and bug-proof a lawn with mouthwash. A detailed lawn-care calendar offers season-by-season advice on maintaining a thick, green lawn. Do-it-yourself homeowners, green thumbs, and gardening beginners will benefit from the tested, effective strategies for growing hearty grass using safe, inexpensive, natural products.

Genres: Gardening

384 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 2004

Reviews

[William Schram · Rating 3 out of 5]

"Jerry Baker's Green Grass Magic" is a book on lawn care. Baker possesses an exhaustive knowledge of lawns, from the different grass types to the various tools useful in lawn care.

Baker writes in a friendly, conversational style. It gives him a certain aura, like a gardening guru or something.

The book provides many suggestions on using everything at your disposal to give you the best lawn in the neighborhood.

Some of the recipes in the book use Urine, so drink a lot of water.