You don't have a product problem. You have a what-and-when problem.
The Lawn Counsel writes two books. The Lawn Book is a lawn calendar written for your community — each edition tells you exactly what your lawn needs, and the week it needs it. The Garden Book is a complete garden program built for your home — your exact beds, your exact species. Both run on the signals that actually decide timing: soil temperature, growth stage, and pest pressure, not the month on the calendar.
Find your community's editionThe Lawn Book is $49 an edition — one flat price, paid once. The Garden Book is $295, all-in. Both delivered by email.
Tending beds as well as a lawn? The Garden Book covers everything planted around it.
Two books, one yard
The Lawn Book
The lawn's year, written for your community — its grass, its soil, its timing. Month-by-month Do and Skip lists, the pre-emergent and winterizer windows set by soil temperature, and every treatment named by the ingredient that matters.
The Garden Book
Everything planted around the lawn: a complete program built from the exact species in your beds — feeding, pruning, and care timing, species by species. Delivered as a bound printed book, with a printable black-and-white PDF for each month and your annuals. Not made for your neighborhood. Made for your home.
The year turns on triggers — not on dates
Spring pre-emergent goes down as soil holds at 55° — not on a date.
Feeding waits for the lawn to wake up and prove it — never for a date on the fridge.
Fall's five-day rule fires the pre-emergent and the last feeds of the year.
The exact triggers differ by grass — Bermuda and St. Augustine run on different clocks. That's why there is no single Houston calendar here. There are editions. The Garden Book runs on the same discipline — its timing keys to bloom cycles, freeze risk, and pest pressure in your own beds.
Choose your community's edition
Every edition is written for one community at a time — its grass, its soil, its COA rules, its canopy. Pick yours.
The Highlands
The Lawn Book — The Highlands. A full-sun Bermuda program for a community that mandates it — the three triggers, twelve months of Do and Skip lists, and the printed Garage Sheet for the wall.
Kingwood
The Lawn Book — Kingwood. Written for established lawns under the Livable Forest canopy — the shade program, the village-and-section rules, and a year that never asks you to scalp a runner.
Your Neighborhood
Editions are written one community at a time, and the request list decides which comes next. Tell us where you live — when enough neighbors ask, your neighborhood is next.
What's inside every Lawn Book edition
Twelve months, each with its Do list, its Skip list, and room for your own notes. Sprinkler wisdom, freeze playbook, spreader calibration, and every treatment named by the ingredient that matters — no brand-name guessing.
Working outdoors instead? The Garage Sheet puts your edition's year on one page for the garage wall.
More value for less money
The subscription services ship you products chosen somewhere else. We sell the part that was actually valuable all along — the advice — written for your grass, your soil, and your street in The Lawn Book, and for your exact beds and species in The Garden Book. It holds for both books:
| What you get | The Lawn Counsel | Subscription product services |
|---|---|---|
| A plan written for your community — and, in The Garden Book, for your exact species | ✓ | ✗One national program, tuned by ZIP code |
| Timing set by soil temperature and how your plants actually behave — not fixed dates | ✓ | ✗Ships on their schedule |
| Garden beds covered too, species by species | ✓ | ✗Lawn products only |
| Every treatment named by the ingredient that matters — you choose the brand | ✓ | ✗Their brand, in their box, or nothing |
| An honest Skip list — what not to do, and when not to do it | ✓ | ✗Every shipment has to be worth shipping |
| One price, paid once — no subscription, nothing to renew | ✓ | ✗$150–$400 a year, every year |
| They do the shopping and ship products to your door | ✗ | ✓ |
That last row is the one box we don't check — we don't go to the store for you. But who goes to the store for this stuff anymore? You order it online and it lands on your porch. What you can't order online is someone who knows your grass and your beds telling you exactly what to do, and the week to do it. Same advice — if not better — for less money.
Get the 55° Rule, free
Get the 55° Rule, free. The one-page rule that starts the lawn year, in your inbox — plus a note from us when the trigger fires.