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Better Homes and Gardens:
Step-by-Step Yard Care

by the Better Homes and Gardens Editors

0696210312
167 pages; softcover

This handy, affordable volume tells you everything you need to know to take care of your lawn, trees, shrubs, vines and groundcovers.

Project Features:

• Full-color step-by step photos illustrate more than 30 yard-care techniques in an easy-to-follow format. The pictures clearly show what to do and the text tells you how to do it.
  
  
• Each technique is accompanied by a list of tools and other supplies necessary to accomplish the task.
  
  
• More than 100 helpful tip boxes privide essential information at a glance.
  
  
• Each project has an overview section that covers additional information about the project.
  

This book is organized by plant groups -- from lawns and lawn alternatives (groundcovers and vines) to trees and shrubs. It shows how to grow and maintain them--from planting to pruning. There is also a section on the tools you will need to make yard care easier.