Mieres - MY BEST GRASS : basic and practical lawn care manual

MY BEST

GRASS

Basic and Practical Lawn Care Manual

Francisco Paco Mieres

Copyright 2015 by Francisco Paco Mieres.

http://www.mybestgrass.com/

ISBN: Softcover 978-1-5065-0242-7

Ebook 978-1-5065-0243-4

All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the copyright owner.

The views expressed in this work are solely those of the author and do not necessarily reflect the views of the publisher, and the publisher hereby disclaims any responsibility for them.

Rev date: 04/28/2015

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Contents

Chapter
History of the grass in the United States

Chapter
Benefits of having a good grass

Chapter
In that area we live?

Chapter
How is your soil ?

Chapter
We have an annual work plan?

Chapter
March 20 / April 20 - Early Spring
Scene Alfa

Captulo
Abril / Junio 20 Tarda Primavera
Escena Beta

Captulo
Junio / Septiembre 21 Verano
Escena Gamma

Chapter
September 22 Start of Fall
Scene - Delta

Chapter 1
December 21/22 Start of Winter
Scene Epsilon

Chapter 1
Seeding - Re-seeding and sod

Chapter 1
Grass seed - a good choice for planting

Chapter 1
Things to consider (Tips) and final Resume
|Everything that is good for the lawn and garden will be for our environment

There should be no more beautiful thing to witness in a house, a building, a mansion, a castle or a sports field that green and pure grass without weeds, and where we can see children playing, older people enjoying a beautiful day and athletes trying to show their qualities and skills in their game

A healthy and cared grass undoubtedly besides transform and beautify natural and landscape environments also increases the value of the properties.

For example periodic surveys conducted by input suppliers for landscaping prove that well maintained green areas could reach an average value of up to 16%. These surveys are always similar although _ are made to different countries.

This indicates the benefits of maintaining good grass and the disadvantages of not doing a good maintenance is the same.

This leads us to think and evaluate the increasing importance of green spaces and landscape construction projects either a big property as a simple house or apartment building

This is simply a fact of reality but there are more benefits that will detail throughout this manual

With this small manual try to transmit to anyone who wanted my experiences of many years working as an associate at the retail industry in companies related to lawn care who I thank them for being involved in this beautiful subject that is the gardening. Thanks to these great corporations I managed to turn a hobby into a profession.

Another objective I intend with this manual is to help in my humble knowledge and experience to all those homeowners that or for economic reasons or just for the fun of it, they themselves are responsible for the care of your grass and are always worried looking information to make their lawn looks beautiful and healthy. It is also my intention to help some really professional landscapers who we have exchanged opinions and experiences which many of them are developed in this manual, but also for those who do not have much experience yet but with work, dedication and desire they will make super-professional in the short time.

I really love when after my day off or after my vacation I return to work at the store and my coworkers commented me that there were customers who asked for me because they wanted to know when returning or they want to know which is my schedule for next week

I feel that I am important to them. With this I do not mean that my coworkers can not advise, even better than me, but It is good for me, is the best reward I can get: Being a trusted source for the care of their lawn.

Imagine being able to be present through this manual and to transmit my knowledge with the same simplicity and passion that I do in the store. It would be the maximum for me.

Also important is transmit that all the time are emerging products of different types (organic, ecological, good for our pets, etc) and must be willing to want to receive all this important information for our benefit or for the benefit of our customers.

That phrase that often heard always was like this . Sometimes is invalid because all the things change, and we must be informed.

Every day we are learning and also the big companies are more interested in us, or to keep our fidelity to that company or for the customer service all controlled by the famous Voice of Customer (VOC)

In the modern business world, the companies do not compete only for the quality of the products (which we assume are good and similar) or prices (which should not have many differences because production costs should be similar) but the battle is in the dispute for the customer service. May be this is the big difference between the companies.

Today in the modern marketing, we, the customers are the most important value for those companies and we must use it to our advantage.

We must also learn to use new technologies such as social networks where much of that information can comment with other people interested in the subject and own sources of information

Another objective that I would love to achieve the simplicity or easy to use . Is to say that what is expressed in this manual be understood by greatest number of people. This manual is intended to convey knowledge and experiences. Today we have a lot of information, we can even integrate forums and exchange views with others and thus grow in our knowledge

From now on all these important details begin the process of caring for our grass will help us to evaluate be it our property if we are the owners of the house or to evaluate our work if we are professional in gardening.

Chapter 1
History of the grass in the United States

Obviously all efforts in this manual and all its pretensions are helping people who buy it to have a healthy grass and enjoy it.

So lets start with a little history.It is always important to understand our present and project into the future.

While the origins of something similar to what we now know as grass or turf we can locate in medieval times, (S. XIV - XV century) in northern Europe, nobody could imagine the volume of business which today represents grass care.

While today any common citizen can have a beautiful home with grass in the front and background of your property in those days this was a privilege of top European aristocracy in their magnificent properties their employees kept up with hard work and with basic tools like the scythe and helped by cattle grazing were able to maintain a carefully grass.

That was the beginning of what would become the modern garden.

It was not until the XVII and XVIII century, the gardens and well maintained were able to maintain, became social recreation areas and enjoy as a seal of high social status and began to take special care and attention to large extensions of grasslands embellishing the existing structures.

With this push came the first landscapers who embellished even more, not only around the houses but also to the public spaces.

In America was no exception .No there was always a love story between the grass and the American citizens. In fact, it was not until the industrial revolution that the grass became something important to the majority Americans.