The lawn care industry has spent the last decade convincing homeowners that aeration requires a petrol-powered core aerator, a tow-behind plug machine or at minimum a hired electric model. For lawns over 200m2 (about 2,000 sq ft) that is true…
Most gardeners who want a darker, healthier-looking lawn reach for a nitrogen feed and accept the consequence: a flush of fast growth that needs cutting twice a week for the next month. There is a different option that experienced groundskeepers…
If the top millimetre of every grass blade on your lawn has turned pale yellow or whitish over the past week, the first instinct is usually to reach for a fungicide or a feed. In late May, with growth at…
The mower has done a couple of months of mowing already, the grass is growing faster than it will at any other point in the year, and the first real heatwave of summer is probably within a fortnight. The mower…
Two weeks after sowing, you walk out expecting a haze of green and the soil looks exactly the same as the day you raked the seed in. This is one of the most common gardening frustrations, and almost every time…
Most lawn problems are solved by guessing. The grass looks pale, you add nitrogen. The moss comes back, you spread iron. The grass thins, you overseed. Half the time the guesses work because lawns are forgiving. The other half they…
Flymo gets dismissed too often as a budget brand for people who do not take their lawn seriously. The reality is more interesting. On the kind of awkward garden that wheeled mowers physically cannot handle well, a hover mower is…
Half of every “I think my lawn has a disease” panic turns out to be drought stress. The other half is genuinely fungal, and reaching for the wrong fix wastes weeks of growing season. Before you spend money on a…
Stihl built its reputation on chainsaws, and that engineering culture carries straight into the lawn mower range. Pick up a Stihl mower and the first thing you notice is the weight, balance, and finish of a piece of professional kit,…
Dandelions are the most stubborn weed in any lawn because they evolved to win against grass. The taproot can drive 25cm (10 inches) into the soil, snapping cleanly when you try to pull it out and regenerating from any fragment…
