Leave Me a Lawn: Lawn Care for Tired Gardeners: 7 (Easy-Growing Gardening)

Many of you like to spend your Saturday evenings rolling around your lawn on your 327-horsepower John Deere Lawninator enjoying the evening breeze while you mow and maybe ruminating about the philosophical problems of the ages and even solving some of them while you work. And when youre done you can look across the work of art that is your green shiny lawn with the geometrically perfect lawnmower stripes and say See what I hath wrought! And thats cool too. Raising a lawn has its challenges just as everything else does. Youll see yards everywhere with rough spots uneven or with bare patches. Or as happened to some unfortunate homeowners while we were having a drought somebody threw a still-burning cigarette out a car window and started a fire that burned its way across several yards before it was extinguished. So remember: Maybe your lawn doesnt look the best right now but things could always be worse.A lot of folks who are juggling kids work household maintenance and side jobs dont exactly have all the time in the world to sit down and study the fine points of lawn maintenance. I totally get that. This is why my lawn is a wreck. Also chickens.So Im making this book short and sweet and I hope reader-friendly though occasionally Ill throw a little science your way. Because its SCIENCE.Im going to lay out the best ways to make a great lawn without having to buy hundreds of dollars worth of chemicals and supplies. Ill talk about how to add fertility to the soil how to water to keep the grass growing up and the water bill down and how to keep your lawn mower serviced and working. And well pick up a lot of other helpful tips along the way.