A guide for the average homeowner explains how to maintain a healthy and beautiful yard without devoting excessive time to its care, with chapters that cover watering and fertilizing, trees and shrubs, flowers, vegetables, and environmental concerns.
Yardening: The Non-Gardener’s Guide to Creating a Beautiful Landscape by Jeff and Liz Ball (MacMillan 1991) (635). Too rudimentary for one with any active interest in gardening, Yardening is more like a guide book for those for whom gardening is a chore. There is a good section on composting. My rating: 6.5/10, finished 8/2013.