Half a bag of grass seed left over after patching the lawn is worth keeping, because stored properly it will still germinate well next year and the year after. Stored badly, it can be all but dead within a single…
A grass box that clogs halfway across the lawn, leaving a trail of clippings on the ground and a half-empty bag, is one of the most common warm-weather mowing complaints, and it is almost never bad luck. A mower fills…
Worx has built its reputation on cordless tools that cost less than the big garden-machinery names while sharing batteries across an entire range, and its mowers fall into two distinct camps that suit very different gardens. On one side sit…
If small mounds of fine soil shaped like tiny volcanoes have appeared scattered across your lawn, each with a neat hole at the centre, and you have noticed small orange or brown bees flying low over the grass on warm…
If a patch of your lawn has been coated overnight in something that looks like grey ash, yellow scrambled egg, or a frothy beige crust climbing up the grass blades, the short answer is this: it is slime mould, it…
Makita has built one of the widest cordless mower ranges of any tool brand, stretching from a small 33cm push model for a courtyard up to a self-propelled 48cm machine that will take on a half-acre plot. That breadth is…
When a dry spell sets in, the brown rarely starts in the middle of the lawn. It creeps in from the edges first, the strips running alongside the path, the driveway and the patio, while the centre of the lawn…
Few garden frustrations are as familiar as a petrol mower that fires up willingly, runs for three or four seconds, then dies as if you had switched it off. Pull again, same result: a brief eager burst followed by silence.…
You feed the lawn expecting an even flush of green, and a week later the grass tells a different story: dark green bands running next to pale yellow ones, or a tartan pattern of stripes that follows the exact path…
The quickest way to know whether your lawn needs water costs nothing and takes about ten seconds. Walk in a straight line across the grass, then turn around and look at your tracks. If the blades spring back upright almost…
