Jerry Baker's All-American Lawns: 1,776 Super Solutions to Grow, Repair, and Maintain the...

Learn how to grow perfectly green and gorgeous grass without toxic chemicals and expensive lawn care treatments using methods in this compendium of thousands of lawn care tips, tricks, and tonics. Say goodbye to weeds, disease, and bare spots with these simple yet effective homemade remedies for improving the lawn, such as using beer, baby shampoo, and ammonia to energize soil, green-up turf, and wipe out weeds. Practical problem solvers include techniques that will keep grass alive during a drought, a treatment that is deadly to bugs but harmless to everything else, and a four season routine for growing the greenest grass year round while special features—“Blue Plate Special” tonics, “From the Mailbag,” and “Jerry Baker’s Secrets”—provide additional information and answers.

Jerry Baker is the author of more than 50 books, including Jerry Baker’s Backyard Bird Feeding Bonanza, Jerry Baker’s Flower Garden Problem Solver, and Jerry Baker’s Great Green Book of Garden Secrets, and his gardening specials have been widely televised on PBS. He lives in New Hudson, Michigan.