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A renowned landscape gardener's guide to less expensive, less water-intensive lawns, whether it's a front yard or a fairway.A lush green lawn is one of the great pleasures of the natural world, whether it's outside your front door or on a majestic fairway at a legendary golf course. But anyone who's tried to grow the perfect lawn the conventional way knows it requires an endless cycle of watering and applying synthetic fertilizers and toxic chemical pesticides that costs a lot of money and kills all the life in the soil, on the surface, and on the grass. Fortunately, there's a better way. Organic lawn care is not only healthier for the environment, it's actually cheaper and less water-intensive, whether you're managing a small yard or acres of turf. In this book, Howard Garrett, the renowned ';Dirt Doctor,' takes you step-by-step through creating and maintaining turf organically. He begins with the soil, showing you how to establish a healthy habitat for grass. Then he discusses a variety of turfgrasses, including Bermudagrass, bluegrass, buffalo grass, fescue, ryegrass, St. Augustine, and zoysia. He explains in detail planting, mowing, watering, fertilizing, composting, and managing weeds and pests. And he offers alternatives to lawn grasses and turf, describing the situations in which they might be your best choice.

Covering Texas and beyond, Plants of the Metroplex is the only Texas book available giving practical landscape advice from a landscape architect's point of view.

Offers advice on growing nearly 150 herbs suited to Texas and South-Western gardens, along with information on each plant's landscape, culinary, medicinal, and other uses. This book contains individual entries that give each herb's common and scientific names and instructions for planting, growing, harvesting, and storing it.

One of Texas's top organic gardening experts presents nearly 400 trees, shrubs, groundcovers and vines, annuals and perennials, and grasses suitable for Southeast Texas, illustrated with 400 color photos.

The first complete, state-of-the-art organic gardening handbook for Texas.

Nationally acclaimed organic gardening expert Howard Garrett offers detailed, proven instructions for designing and managing large-scale landscapes organically.

Texas's top organic gardening experts help you identify and organically control all the most common beneficial and harmful bugs.

In this revised and updated edition of The Dirt Doctor's Guide to Organic Gardening, Howard Garrett uses a question-and-answer format to present a wealth of new information on organic gardening, landscaping, pest control, and natural living.