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Paver base, retaining walls, planting depth, pruning cuts, turf, irrigation spacing, precipitation rate, fertilizer math and job-site safety. Every topic gets its own page: the drawing first, then what you need to remember. 66 illustrated pages.
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These are real pages from the book. The table of contents is the full one: 9 parts and 62 topics.
You're on a practice question about a paver walkway: how many inches of base, how much sand, and in what order? You've laid hundreds of feet of pavers, and now you have to pick A, B, C or D.
The manual covers it in three dense paragraphs: subgrade, aggregate base, bedding course, jointing material. Every word is there, but you can't see a single layer.
In this book the paver cross-section is one page: subgrade, base, 1 inch of sand, pavers, joint sand and edge restraint, drawn layer by layer, with each depth labeled on the side.
Compacting in lifts, the retaining wall base, precipitation rate, fertilizer math and the 811 color code work the same way: each one gets its own page.
You see it, you get it, and you answer without going back to the manual. In the same order you build it on the job.
Exam and job-site math, safety, hardscape, softscape, pruning, turf, irrigation, lighting and equipment, and a final review: 66 pages, all illustrated.
Think of it this way:
You're laying out a new zone. Full-circle heads on a 30 × 30 ft square, 4 GPM each, and you need to know how many inches per hour that zone puts down before you set the controller.
You open the precipitation rate page and see the four heads drawn at the corners, the spacing on each side and the formula worked out right there: 96.3 × 4 ÷ 900, about 0.43 inches per hour.
Same with the paver base, the root flare, the three-cut method, fertilizer math and the 811 colors: each one on its own page.
Landscape Technician Illustrated is 9 parts and 62 topics, all drawn, and it ends with a formula page, ten frequent job mistakes and a test day checklist.
What you see drawn, you don't have to memorize.
How the Exterior test works, reading a plan and its scale, everyday unit conversions, area, square feet to cubic yards and slope in percent: the math you'll use in every other part, worked out once.
Calling 811, the color code, PPE, hearing, heat illness, mowers and trimmers, skid steers, pesticide labels and two-stroke fuel mix.
The paver cross-section, base depth for walkways and driveways, compacting in lifts, screeding, patterns and edge restraint, joint sand, patio slope, retaining walls, geogrid and ordering gravel in tons.
Plant ID, USDA hardiness zones, B&B, container and bare root, planting depth and the root flare, burlap and circling roots, mulch, staking and watering, and soil basics.
The three-cut method, the branch collar and bark ridge, how much to remove, when to prune shrubs and IPM.
Cool-season vs warm-season grasses, mowing height and the one-third rule, sod, seeding, aeration, N-P-K, fertilizer math and weeds.
From the point of connection to the head, backflow, sprays vs rotors, head-to-head coverage, precipitation rate on square and triangular spacing, matched precipitation, wiring, run times and winterizing.
Low-voltage landscape lighting, the daily mower check and small engine basics.
Every formula on one page, ten frequent mistakes on the job and the hands-on test day checklist.
At the end of the book: A formula page with every exam calculation, ten frequent job mistakes and a test day checklist.
Exam-style questions on hardscape, softscape, irrigation and turf, each with the answer and the page that explains it, so you know exactly what to review.
The mistakes crews make most often, from mulch volcanoes to sunken pavers, drawn side by side with the right way to fix them.
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Winter slows the work down. You go through one drawn page at a time and see the math laid over the job you already know.
You review by topic and finish on the formula page: slope, tons, precipitation rate and fertilizer, all in one place.
You keep it printed in the truck and use the pages to show your guys how the base, the planting depth or the cut should look.
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Yes. It's not a beginner's book: it takes what you already do on the job and lays it out in the order and with the math the exam asks for.
From the NALP Technician – Exterior candidate materials, cross-checked with ANSI A300, ANSI Z133, CMHA/ICPI installation guidelines, OSHA, the USDA hardiness zone map and the 811 color code. It covers the core topics plus hardscape, softscape, pruning, turf and irrigation, each in its own part, and ends with a hands-on test day checklist. NALP updates the exam, so confirm the current format and your specialty with NALP before you register.
No. It's an independent illustrated study guide, not affiliated with or endorsed by NALP or any certifying body. It doesn't give you a certificate: the credential only comes from passing NALP's exam. This book helps you study for it.
No. It's study material to review the topics. It doesn't replace training, your company's safety program, local codes or state licensing.
No. They're written for this book, in exam style, and each one points to the page that explains it.
The book and the 2 free books come as PDFs by email, to the address you enter at checkout.
No. It's a one-time payment.
Yes. The PDF prints on regular letter-size paper, so you can keep it in a binder or in the truck.
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