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Dad Knows™ Mowing and Basic Lawn Maintenance — Ebook Preview

You don’t need a perfect lawn. You need a yard that works — for the kids, for the dog, for a Saturday. · Aaron Byers · 6″ × 9″ PDF + EPUB3, 105 pages, 16 chapters, every chapter ending in a printable Dad Knows quick check, 10 diagrams, 2-level TOC with the owner’s Foreword as entry 1. QA renders from the packaged PDF (2026-09-18).

Dad Knows™ Mowing and Basic Lawn Maintenance ebook cover — navy with amber accents, a walk-behind mower on a striped lawn with grass catcher, handle, and amber sparks

Aaron Byers

A Dad Knows™ Guide · For the kids, not the judges. · © 2026 Dad Knows™

Square version — Gumroad product image (1280×1280)

The square is a re-balanced layout of the same cover, not a crop. It reads clearly at card size (~100 px).

Square cover at card size
Card size (140 px)How it looks in a Gumroad listing thumbnail
Square cover full size
Full size (1280×1280)Upload as the Gumroad product image

Interior pages — QA renders (from the packaged PDF)

Spot-check pages confirm the front-matter order (title → What this book is (no ToC entry) → the owner’s Foreword → copyright → contents), a diagram page, and the closing chapter.

Title page render
Title pageDad Knows™ Mowing and Basic Lawn Maintenance · subtitle · tagline · Aaron Byers
Foreword page render
ForewordThe owner’s real words — the $125 mower, the dull bent blades, the putting green in the blades, the golf-course neighbor (546 words, pp. 4–5, signed “— A Dad Knows™ — AB”)
Copyright page render
CopyrightThe standard four lines (no legal-advice paragraph — this book is a practical guide)
Contents page render
ContentsClickable TOC with real page numbers — Foreword first, then Chapters 1–16 with their subsections (pp. 7–12)
Diagram page render — the four grasses
Diagram pageA full-width 356-DPI diagram with italic caption (Ch 2, the four grasses that belong in Ohio)
Tug test diagram page render
Diagram pageCh 16 — the tug test: rolls like carpet means grubs are cutting the roots
Closing chapter page render
Closing pageCh 16 — the book ends with the printed Dad Knows quick check (p. 105)

All 10 diagrams

The exact 1600×1000 PNGs embedded in the PDF and EPUB (QA’d 234/234 in the diagram review, 2026-09-17).

The four grasses that belong in Ohio
Ch 2The four grasses — tall fescue (deepest roots), bluegrass, perennial ryegrass, fine fescue
The pH window
Ch 3The pH window — 6.0 to 7.0 is where Ohio turf lives; soil test first, don’t guess
Know your mower — labeled walk-behind rotary mower
Ch 4Know your mower — blade and deck, catcher or mulching plug, engine, spark plug, height levers
The one-third rule
Ch 5The one-third rule — never cut off more than one third of the blade at a time
Cut it right — deck-height dial
Ch 5Cut it right — spring 2.5–3 in, summer raised to 3.5–4 in, shade higher still
Grasscycling — the circular flow
Ch 6Grasscycling — clippings feed the soil; bagging hauls away about ¾ of the nitrogen you paid for
Mower safety — the six-panel poster
Ch 9Mower safety — 2,000–4,000 rpm, stop the engine before clearing, no riders ever, slopes, PPE
Water deep, water less
Ch 10Water deep, water less — 1 inch a week if rain doesn’t do it, morning is the time
Feed in the fall — the twelve-month ring
Ch 11Feed in the fall — light spring feeding, the September and November feedings, no summer heat
The tug test
Ch 16The tug test — rolls like carpet means grubs are cutting the roots; holds firm means roots are fine