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Lawns
 Websites presented in alphabetical order All About Lawns.com 
 This commercial site covers many topics for growing and maintaining lawns, including mowing, weeding, thatching, watering, fertilizing, plant disease, controlling pet damage, and more. Has a nice section on selecting mowers, trimmers, and edgers. The section on commercial lawn care services is arranged by state, with several lists also for portions of Canada. http://www.allaboutlawns.com/ Topics: Gardening, Plants by Name Last updated Mar 27, 2004 Home Gardening
This site provides "ecologically sound, science-based practices" for gardening and lawn care. Features illustrated growing guides for specific flowers and vegetables, a tutorial on designing flower gardens, lawn care tips and techniques, and fact sheets on gardening techniques, avoiding pests and diseases, and lawns. From Cornell University. http://www.gardening.cornell.edu/homegardening/ Topics: Gardening Last updated May 22, 2007 Home Lawns
This publication presents instructions for growing a home lawn. Though written for Washington state gardeners, the advice is generally useful. Topics include starting (drainage, soils, fertilizer, seeding, grasses to plant), lawn maintenance (fertilizer, lime, mowing, thatch removal, soil aeration, watering), and disease, weed, and insect control. Opens directly into a PDF document. From Washington State University Extension. http://cru.cahe.wsu.edu/CEPublications/eb0482/eb0482.pdf Topics: Gardening Last updated Apr 12, 2006 Lawn Nation: Art and Science of the American Lawn
Companion to a 2008 exhibit in which "[o]ver thirty artists, designers, filmmakers, scientists, and landscape architects consider America's big green carpet." Includes galleries of outdoor and outdoor works (such as time-lapse photography of "Revenge of the Lawn" in which grass grows over a furniture-shaped installation), and links to sites on using less water and fewer chemicals. From the Peggy Notebaert Nature Museum, the museum of the Chicago Academy of Sciences. http://www.naturemuseum.org/lawn/ Topics: Gardening Last updated Jun 9, 2008 The UC Guide to Healthy Lawns
"All you need to know to grow a lawn [in California] using little or no pesticide." Contains illustrated guidelines for identifying and managing different species of turfgrass, preparing a site and planting turf, renovating lawns, lawn care for new and established lawns, and managing pests and diseases. Also includes links to related publications (some only available for a fee). From the Statewide Integrated Pest Management Program (IPM), University of California, Davis. http://www.ipm.ucdavis.edu/TOOLS/TURF/ Topics: Gardening Last updated Aug 9, 2006 Yardcare.com
A good basic lawn care site which includes choosing the right grass; installing and restoring lawns; reducing maintenance, weeds, diseases, and pests; a glossary; and a source list with a few links to other resources. Searchable. http://www.yardcare.com/ Topics: Gardening Last updated Jul 19, 2002 |
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