ISBN: 978-1-59618-006-2
2006, 20 pages
Author(s): Bette A. Weseman, PCAM^®
Item #: 0062
Retail Price: $25.00
Member Price: $15.00

A good landscape maintenance program is essential to the health and longevity of a community's trees, turf, and shrubs-and its aesthetic value. This concise guide explains how to develop that maintenance program and lists specific practices to apply to trees, turf, and shrubs. Find out how to hire the right contractors and how to delegate to a landscape committee. Includes a grounds maintenance checklist, sample lawn care calendar, sample landscape specifications, and advice for repairing damaged turf. Lists the advantages and disadvantages of staff maintenance and contractor maintenance. Discusses soil conditions, aeration, watering, pruning, fertilization, mulching, disease and pest treatment, and weed control.