Lawn care

Resources

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• UC Guide to Healthy Lawns is a comprehensive, interactive source for all lawn management information to grow a lawn using little or no pesticides.
  
  
• The UC ANR Catalog and UC IPM offer many free downloadable publications about lawns and lawn care including
  
  
  • Managing Lawns on Heavy Soils (PDF) (ANR 7227)
    
    
  • Managing Turfgrasses during Drought (PDF) (ANR 8395)
    
    
  • Lawn Diseases: Prevention and Management (PDF) (PN 7497)

Search the catalog for "turf" or "lawn" to see all the available publications.

• Interested in learning about water-efficient turf grasses or lawn alternatives?  Read about the Turf Demonstration Project conducted by Sacramento County Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor Chuck Ingels.
  
  
• Lawn Removal Methods will help you go beyond lawn to a more water-efficient garden. (GN 161)
  
  
• Video: Maintaining a Weed-Free Lawn (3:15 min.) - UCCE Master Gardeners of Sacramento County

ANR = free publication from the UC Agriculture and Natural Resources Catalog
PN = free publication from UC Integrated Pest Management
EHN = Environmental Horticulture Notes from the UCCE Master Gardeners of Sacramento County
GN = Garden Notes from the UCCE Master Gardeners of Sacramento County

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