Product Description

Look across the country on any summer Saturday and what do you see? From coast to coast you see millions of men mowing. There also may be some women tending to the turf these days, but the obsession with the lawn is truly a male phenomenon. How green is it? How thick is it? How well-mown and weed-free is it? These are the questions that try men's souls.

In A Man's Turf: The Perfect Lawn, author Warren Schultz delves into history, psychology, and botany to explain the irresistible appeal of the riding mower and freshly cut grass. But as a leading expert on lawn and garden care, he also offers a wealth of practical, hands-on information for growing, mowing, weeding, and watering a better lawn.

Schultz explores how the lawn grew up in America and visits some of the great historical lawns. He examines the machines involved--reel and rotary lawn mowers, weed whackers and water sprinklers--that shape the lawn, and gets down on his knees to look at some amazing grass, highlighting the pros and cons of the many new varieties. Schultz interviews the great turf gurus of golf courses and ballparks and reveals their insiders' tips on lawn care. A Man's Turf also provides a unique guide to lawn-related products, events, and pilgrimages--from a bicycle-powered mower to the finish line of the lawn mower races to a mower museum.

In A Man's Turf: The Perfect Lawn, garden expert Warren Schultz examines the pleasures and pitfalls that await the lawn-obsessed everywhere. He explains how to grow, mow, weed, and water a thicker, greener, healthier lawn, offering insight and a wealth of practical information, along with more than 200 full-color photographs.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3433246 in Books
• Published on: 1999-04
• Original language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• 180 pages

From the Author
The View from My Turf
As I grew up and grew away from home, I began to realize the significant role the lawn played in our family. The lawn was where I learned to ride my bike, where my Dad taught me how to throw a curveball, where the whole family celebrated the Fourth of July, and where I spent hours daydreaming to the sound of the old lawn mower.

As a garden writer, I began writing about lawn care. And this is the book that couldn't be written ten years ago when I wrote "The Chemical Free Lawn." It answers questions that weren't even asked in that book, such as: Who invented the lawn anyway? What's behind our love/hate relationship with that patch of turf? How does it meet our deep-seated needs for domination, safety, play, and territory? And how low should I mow?

A Man's Turf explores the growth of the lawn in America. It tells the tale of the man who invented the mower. It explains how to soup up your Snapper so that you can take the checkered flag at the local lawn mower races. Want to know how to defeat dandelions? It's in here. Looking for a grass variety that needs less mowing and fewer chemical sprays? You'll read all about it in A Man's Turf

Travel with grass breeding pioneers as they pore over parkland and golf greens looking for the next super grass. Find out, once and for all, how groundskeepers stripe the outfield grass at ballparks. And learn what it would take to build and maintain a backyard golf green.

Writing this book changed forever the way I look at the lawn. I think that reading it will do the same for you.