Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1989213 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.

Customer Reviews

Well done!
*A Man's Turf* is well put together and masterfully edited. I appreciate a book that not only looks good--most books published today do--but that is also well crafted. After all, it's the words that count, and all the words are there and in the proper sequence in this book. Thank you, Mr. Schultz, and thank you Clarkson Potter!

I hope that it is the beginning of many more in the series.
Wow! Every thing you wanted to know about your lawn and then some. Warren Schultz has made it easy for the man who only has the weekend and then thenmaybe an hour or two to get rid of mold, fungus and unsightly weeds. It is loaded with information for the casual grassologist, but it is written in a user friendly, humorous fashion. Everyone should find a place for this book on their must read list.