A self-propelled mower is the upgrade that most gardeners realise they should have made years earlier. For anyone cutting more than 200 square metres of lawn, or anything that includes a slope, the difference between pushing a manual mower and…
A lawn that fills up with the same weed year after year is sending you a message about the soil beneath it. Most gardeners react to weeds as if they were random invaders, spraying or pulling without ever asking why…
Crabgrass is the single most frustrating weed in a summer lawn because by the time you see it, you have already missed your best chance to stop it. The plant only becomes visible in July or August, when its long,…
Most lawns die in summer not because of heat but because the people watering them never let the water reach the roots. A daily sprinkle wets the top few millimetres of soil, the surface dries within an hour, and the…
Stand in front of the cordless mower aisle at any large retailer and the marketing tells you that voltage is everything. A 40V mower is twice as good as a 20V mower, an 80V mower is the dream, and as…
You can still buy a lawn roller at any large garden centre. They sit on the shelf next to the mowers, often with a little sign suggesting you roll your lawn in spring to flatten it out and improve the…
Buying a strimmer (or string trimmer, weed eater, whipper-snipper, depending on where you grew up) looks simple until you stand in front of 40 models at a garden centre and discover the cheap one is £35/$45 and the expensive one…
Lawn compaction is the invisible reason a lot of May lawns look tired despite regular feeding and watering. The damage happened slowly through autumn and winter, the lawn coped with it through the cool spring, and then the first warm…
Most lawn advice you read online quietly assumes you know what grass you are growing. Feed at this rate, mow at this height, sow at this depth, treat for this disease. The trouble is that the same instruction will produce…
Buying your first petrol lawn mower is one of those decisions where the wrong choice costs you two or three times more over five years than the right one. The difference between a £150 supermarket special and a £400 entry-level…
