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5 Steps to Grow & Build a Perfect Lawn -- With Free Time to Spare Each spring, millions of homeowners spend too much of their cherished weekends trying to maintain a lush, green lawn. But sun and rain also bring lawn-choking weeds and voracious bugs. Here are five tips to keep you lawn healthy. |
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July 8, 2009 |
5 Tips for a Greener, Healthier Lawn You can learn more details about fertilizers, watering, and testing your soil. |
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Lawn Care Techniques Keeping your lawn looking good isn't as hard as you may think. |
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Simple Lawn Care Routine Streamline your lawn-care routine for better turf with less work |
U.S. CPSC
July 21, 2004 |
Shivvers Manufacturing Recall of Blower Blades for the Jazee and Jazee One Grass Collection Systems The ends of the blades on these Country Clipper riding mowers can break off and become projectiles, leaving the mower deck at a high rate of speed. The recalled blades can break because "slots" in the blade cause metal fatigue. |
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August 2007
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11 Ways to Save Water, Time, and Money on Your Landscape Advice for conserving water, time, and money on your yard and garden. |
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May 2005
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Green Pastures Not all lawns that are in bad shape need to be replaced. A well-executed restoration plan can bring all but the worst turf back to life. |
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7 Fall Lawn Care Tips to Do Right Now Take note of these things your turf needs before the onset of winter. |
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Lawn Mower Savvy What you need to know before buying a new mower |
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January 23, 2002 |
Black & Decker Recall to Repair Cordless Electric Lawn Mowers The clips holding the control cable to the handle may be missing, which could cause the blade control device to fail and keep the mower blade running when it should stop. If the blade control device fails, consumers could suffer serious injuries... |
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How to Choose the Right Knife for Drywall, Paint and Putty A roadmap for choosing the right implement |
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Grass to Go Want a fantastic lawn? Sod it. Here's what you need to know to get the job done right. |
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Pro Tips for Painting Trim Harriette Martins, brand manager of Benjamin Moore, let us in on a few pro secrets about painting trim that will come in handy for your next project. |
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6 Weeks To a Perfect Lawn Once it's started on improved soil, grass needs very little care to look crisp, green, cool and inviting. |
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Top 10 Gardening Tools For Men Whether you're moving in to your first new home, or like to signal to all the women in your neighborhood that your grass is always greener, here are the Top Ten Must-Have Garden Tools. |
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A Fresh Coat of Paint A good paint job protects the outside of your house like a thin, waterproof raincoat. |
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Gardening Hand Tools 101 A small investment in the right tools will pay big dividends in making your gardening easier. |
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Gone to (hydro) Seed The author gives you the low down on the newest way to grow grass. |
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Plugging and Sprigging a Lawn A how-to guide for planting warm-season grasses. |
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A Gardener's Guide to Frost How to predict when it's coming and what to do about it... |
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Outdoor Living Guide: Making The Cut Why walk the mower when you can ride? |
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Green Acres How to break your lawn's addition to synthetic fertilizers, pesticides, and herbicides. |
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Before You Buy: Reel Mower When you're walking behind the right model, giving the lawn a haircut can be one of life's little pleasures |
Popular Mechanics
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New Walk-Behind Lawnowers: Abusive Lab Test The growth of exurbs means that more guys have more grass to cut. The question is: What kind of mower to buy? A summer-long test looks at speed, ease of use and a price tag of less than $2500 in lawn mowers. |
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Robert Kourik |
Gardening Fact or Fallacy? Though plants, soils and weather conditions are always evolving, it seems as if some gardening practices become embedded like fossils. |
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Best Lawnmowers of the Year: Comparison Test Years of testing have taught us that any lawn machine can cut grass under ideal conditions. |
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September 3, 2008
Jeff Beneke |
15 MacGyver Tricks to Rethink Razor Blades Around the House The disposable razor blade can do more than just tame your five-o'clock shadow. From painting to cooking, here's how to creatively reinterpret single-edge blades enough times to make them a must-have in any toolbox. |
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Cultivating the Garden A little work now will save you tons of time and trouble later in the season. |
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Reining in Water Use Ground rules for creating a lush yard that doesn't squander the available supply of H2O. |
U.S. CPSC
September 14, 2011 |
John Deere Recalls Lawn Tractors Due to Laceration Hazard Hardware used to hold the mower blade brake assemblies on the mower decks can break. This can cause the mower blades to spin longer than normal after the operator turns off the power, posing a laceration hazard. |
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Deborah Baldwin |
Use Shape Tape to Create a Punchy Planter Before putting down your container plants' roots, dress up their pots |
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April 25, 2008 |
CPSC, Kyodo America Recall LawnBott Lawn Mowers Due to Laceration Hazard The cutting blades continue to rotate when the mower is lifted from the ground, and the spacing on the side of the lawn mower could allow room for a consumer's foot to go beyond the shield. Both instances pose a serious laceration hazard to consumers. |
This Old House
September 2007
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Fall Groundwork "This is prime time to prep your yard for the next growing season," says our landscape contractor. |
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March 2008 |
Fiskars Garden Multi-Tool Brings Leatherman Convergence to Your Plants Sharpen your gardening tools. |
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Norm Abram |
Norm's Notebook: How To Use a Handsaw A master carpenter offers advice about using handsaws. |
| National Gardening |
Lawns 101 Much has been said about whether or not Americans should rethink their passion for the home lawn. If you determine that a grass lawn makes sense for your yard, planting the right variety of grass at the right time of year will go a long way in making yours a healthy, easy-care lawn. |
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Troubleshoot Your Turf Surefire solutions that'll turn a thin, patchy, or weedy lawn into a barefoot-worthy expanse of green. |
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Pain in the Grass Tired of mowing the lawn, the author settles on getting a goat. |
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November 25, 2008 |
5 Outdoor Tips for Garden and Yard Tools The pros know it's often the simplest household item that can make an existing tool work better -- or substitute in a pinch for a more expensive piece of equipment you might only use once in a lifetime. |
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Install a new lawn If your lawn suffers from acute soil compaction, rampant weed problems, heavy thatch or organic matter deficiencies, you may want to remove the existing weeds and grass and start anew. |
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November 2002
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Autumn Lawn Care Tips to put your lawn to bed for the season. |
| National Gardening |
Lawn Grass Having a beautiful lawn is a lot easier if you choose the right type of grass for your situation. |
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