Smart Lawn: Care and Management presents a science-based and technology-oriented approach to the establishment, maintenance and sustainable management of lawns and turfgrass systems. The book treats a lawn as an integrated plant–soil–water–equipment system, emphasizing that successful management should begin with site assessment, appropriate turfgrass selection and sound establishment practices rather than routine application of inputs.

The book progresses from the fundamentals of lawn and turf systems, turfgrass biology, adaptation and landscape planning to practical aspects of seasonal lawn management, soil and site preparation, Indian lawn-grass cultivation, mowing, irrigation, nutrition, machinery, automation and safety. It also addresses integrated weed management, insect and disease diagnosis, organic lawn management and sustainable turf practices.

A major strength of the book is its treatment of smart and precision lawn management. It incorporates digital scouting, GIS, remote sensing, drones, soil-moisture sensing, artificial intelligence, digital twins, automated irrigation and decision-support systems. The book emphasizes diagnosis before intervention, appropriate thresholds, calibration before automation, and verification after management actions.

Chapter 1. Lawn and Turf Systems: Scope, Functions, Quality and Terminology

Chapter 2. Turfgrass Biology, Adaptation and Landscape Planning

Chapter 3. India-Focused Seasonal Lawn Calendar

Chapter 4. Soil, Water and Site Preparation for Turfgrass Establishment

Chapter 5. India Lawn Grass: Cultivation and Entrepreneurship Economics

Chapter 6. Lawn Mowing and Turfgrass Management

Chapter 7. Turfgrass Water Management: from Plant–Water Relations to Smart Irrigation

Chapter 8. Soil Fertility, Turf Nutrition and Precision Input Stewardship

Chapter 9. Turf Machinery, Automation, Calibration, Maintenance and Safety

Chapter 10. Weed Ecology and Integrated Weed Management of Lawn and Turfgrasses

Chapter 11. Insects, Mites, Diseases and Integrated Turf Health Protection

Chapter 12. Organic Lawn and Turf Management

Chapter 13. Digital Scouting, GIS, Remote Sensing, AI and Decision Support