Yard & Garden Owners Manual: Your Complete Guide to the Care and Upkeep of Everything Outdoors

by Better Homes and Gardens (Editor)

A gardening guide designed for all types of gardeners offers readers advice on how to create and care for a wide variety of landscapes, decks and patios, and gardens, as well as lawns, accompanied by more than three hundred photographs, step-by-step instructions, and helpful gardening tips. 40,000 first printing.

Genres: Gardening, Plants, Reference

384 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2004

About the author

Better Homes and Gardens is the fourth best selling magazine in the United States. Better Homes and Gardens focuses on interests regarding homes, cooking, gardening, crafts, healthy living, decorating, and entertaining. The magazine is published 12 times per year by the Meredith Corporation. It was founded in 1922 by Edwin Meredith, who had previously been the United States Secretary of Agriculture under Woodrow Wilson.

Better Homes and Gardens is one of the "Seven Sisters", a group of women's service magazines.

Reviews

[Cat · Rating 4 out of 5]

When you know you don't know what you don't know it's sometimes hard to find the right questions to ask. This book is a great place to start! It covers types of tools and how to use them; lawn, tree, and shrub care; vines and ground covers; flower and harvest gardening; soil and composting; water features; caring for garden structures; animal and insect pests; plus lots of resources. It's well written and easy to understand.

[Melissa · Rating 3 out of 5]

This book was good for a novice yard and garden owner.

It gave a lot of basic information covering a wide range of topics for your yard. I did read through it just to see what was said on each topic, I know some of it was spring dreaming or I would have put it down and moved onto something deeper in yard care. It only took a few nights to go through the whole book. Makes me want to get my hands back in the soil asap... as soon as spring arrives. I already knew what planting I wanted to do and where in the yard this year, but it was good to have a reference and just read up on yardwork. I enjoyed it more since I know this season is on it's way.

[Linda · Rating 3 out of 5]

Good general info