Built on university extension research
Most lawn advice is written for someone else's lawn.
Timing is regional and biology is species specific. A feeding calendar written for Ohio bluegrass will quietly damage St. Augustine in Florida. TurfPlaybook is twenty-five guides written for the grass you actually have, in the place you actually live.
55°F
Soil, not calendar
Crabgrass germinates when soil holds near 55°F. Miss it by ten days and the barrier is decorative.
6 weeks
Before first frost
The nitrogen cutoff that decides whether warm season turf takes winter damage.
15/ft²
The float test
Chinch bug damage looks exactly like drought. Watering it makes the problem worse.
10%
Clover coverage
Past this threshold, fixed nitrogen sustains the grass and the fertilizer program ends.
Four numbers from four different books. This is the level the whole catalog is written at.
Why these are different
Precision is the product.
Free lawn content is abundant and mostly interchangeable, because it is written to rank in search rather than to be followed in a yard. These guides are built to be worked from, on the right week.
Anchored in extension research
Content is drawn from published university turfgrass research, the land grant extension programs that actually study this. Where the research is uncertain or varies by region, the books say so instead of inventing confidence.
Written for your grass and your region
Separate books for bermuda, St. Augustine, zoysia, Kentucky bluegrass and tall fescue. Separate calendars for five climate regions. The advice contradicts itself across books, because the correct answer does.
Honest about what does not work
Some problems have no good homeowner solution. Some products underperform their marketing. The books name those cases rather than selling hope, because a guide you cannot trust on the hard parts is not useful on the easy ones.
Designed to be printed and used
Every book includes two print ready reference sheets: an annual calendar, a diagnostic chart, or a field test card. The kind of thing that ends up taped inside a garage cabinet.
A lawn calendar is only useful if it was written for your grass. Bermuda wants its heaviest feeding in July. Tall fescue wants nothing in July and everything in September.
Follow the wrong one and you spend a season working hard against your own lawn, which is the most common way good effort produces a bad result.
From The Transition Zone Lawn Calendar
The catalog
Five series. Twenty-five guides.
Organized the way the problem actually divides: by where you live, what you are growing, what is going wrong, and what you want the lawn to cost you.
01
Regional Lawn Calendars
Month by month programs for the Transition Zone, the North, the Southeast and Gulf, Texas and the Southern Plains, and the Pacific Northwest, including the local rules that national advice never mentions.
5 guides
02
Grass Type Playbooks
Complete annual systems for bermudagrass, St. Augustine, zoysia, Kentucky bluegrass and tall fescue. Mowing, feeding, watering, weeds, pests and renovation for one species at a time.
5 guides
03
The Diagnosis Series
Identify before you spend. A master diagnostic system plus dedicated field guides to weeds, disease, insects and soil problems, built around tests you can run with things from your kitchen.
5 guides
04
The Lawn Business Series
For anyone running or starting a mowing business: launch, pricing and estimating, local marketing, operations and scaling, and equipment buying, with the industry benchmarks and the honest math.
5 guides
05
The Low Input Lawn Series
Clover conversion, native and no mow lawns, drought proofing and water rebates, organic lawn care, and the synthesis: a decent lawn on about two hours a month.
5 guides
Inside a guide
Around 50 pages. Nothing padded.
Each one is built the same way, so once you have read one you know where to find things in the rest.
THE SPINE
Nine or ten chapters
From identification through to a month by month calendar, each opening with what the chapter decides and why it matters.
THE ANCHORS
The moments that matter
Every book names the handful of decisions that carry the year: the pre-emergent window, the nitrogen cutoff, the September renovation.
THE VISUALS
Original diagrams
Soil temperature gauges, mowing height rulers, diagnostic flowcharts and seasonal arcs, drawn for the book rather than bought as stock.
THE MARGINS
Rules, cautions, moments
Three kinds of callout used consistently: the thing that is always true, the thing that will hurt you, and the date you cannot miss.
THE ANSWERS
A twenty question FAQ
The questions people actually ask, answered directly, with a chapter reference when you want the full version.
THE BONUSES
Two printable sheets
An annual calendar and a field card, formatted to print on one page and survive a season on a garage wall.
Pricing
Buy one guide, one series, or the whole shelf.
Most people need one book. The bundles exist because some problems cross several.
Single guide
$29
One complete guide with both printable bonus sheets. The right choice if you know what you are dealing with.
- Full PDF, around 50 pages
- Two print ready reference sheets
- Free updates to that edition
Series bundle
$89
All five guides in one series. Works out cheaper than three bought separately.
- Five complete guides
- Ten printable reference sheets
- Free updates across the series
Complete catalog
$199
All twenty five guides across every series, for anyone who would rather have the whole reference shelf.
- Twenty five complete guides
- Fifty printable reference sheets
- Free updates to everything
Prices in US dollars. Payment and delivery handled by Lemon Squeezy, our merchant of record.
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