Customer Reviews
The Lawn Expert - By: Ryan L. Judd, 28 Aug 2008 
A great book to have with you in the garden, very easy to read & understand & if not a competent gardener than a must have book.
Contains alll the information on Lawns, soils & pests & how to make the perfect growing enviroment that you need to get you through the seasons & will answer any questions that crop up.
I have found this book very easy to use & to help me keep a healthy looking weed free lawnand answers to my problems.
This book doesnt contain in depth knowledge for the proffesional gardener but like I have said a must have collection of books.
Just one book on lawns!! - By: Mr. Martin Lee, 31 Mar 2008 If you are just seeking one book on lawns & their care, buy this one. Although the content in parts is dated the basic techniques are still relevant today. In today's climate of ecology & organics the high use of chemicals is frowned upon but this was not the case when the first edition was written, also the author worked in the chemical industry.
Dr D.G. Hessayon's approach is basic & not flowered, yet is easily understood.
So you thought a lawn was just grass? - By: P. Baylis, 24 Nov 2007 If you want to know how short you should cut your grass in mid-May, as opposed to the end of August, or why nitrogen-rich lawn feed should be avoided in the autumn, then this is the book for you. The author has an amusing style of writing that conjures up images of an ex public-school master obsessed with his lawn. Basicallly, anyone who doesn't have a £1500 Atco Balmoral cylinder mower, a warehouse full of potash, lome & other essential nutrients, & a bowling green for a lawn is a Philistine. Take the chapter (half a page!) devoted to synthetic lawns, for example: "For many gardeners, the idea of using plastic lawn at home is an obscenity" - you've got to love him :-) Even the 'photographs' are those delicious water-paint illustrations I used to see in 1960s Ladybird Learn to Read books as a child. A wealth of information, well worth the selling price.
Totally comprehensive - By: Martin Tallett, 21 Nov 2006 I have had this book for years & read it when I first got it. A first class reference book & "recipe" for a perfect lawn. Has sections on types of grass (how many?) weeds & pests that you get in lawns & a useful section on what to do in each month of the year. Follow this for a few years & you will end up with a beautiful English lawn. But beware you won't be doing anything else its a full time job !
OK, but not for me - By: J. Miles, 09 Apr 2002 
This book doesn't reallly take the approach that I was interested in, in lawn management. The author is very enthusiastic about a perfect lawn at alll costs. Their attitude towards worms is curious - they are a BAD THING & "unfortunately, worm killer is no longer available". The solution to most problems is the addition of chemicals, & then some more chemicals.
