Gtech built its name on cordless simplicity, and its lawn mowers follow the same idea: light, push along machines with a removable battery and no cable to trail across the grass. The range centres on two models, the CLM 2.0…
Turf gives you a green lawn the day it is laid; seed gives you a cheaper lawn with deeper roots, if you are willing to wait a few months for it. That is the trade at the heart of the…
A splash of petrol from the mower, a drip of engine oil, or an overturned handful of lawn feed leaves the same result: a dead, straw coloured patch within days. Move fast and you can save most of the grass.…
The number stamped on a petrol mower’s engine, 125cc, 160cc, 190cc, tells you the engine’s displacement, not how well it cuts. A bigger figure buys more torque for thick grass and slopes, but past a point it only burns more…
Long grass feels harmless, but a lawn left to grow through the hottest weeks of summer becomes a shelter for ticks and fleas and a source of the pollen that sets off hay fever. Cutting your grass to around 7.5cm…
Cutting width sets how many lengths of the lawn you walk. Nothing else on the spec sheet changes that number. Engine size, self-propelled drive, a bigger grass bag: all of those change how pleasant the laps feel. Only the deck…
Test the soil before you buy another bag of lawn feed. A lawn sitting at pH 5.0 can be fed four times a year and still look starved, as the nutrients you paid for stay chemically locked in the ground…
If irregular yellow-bronze patches have spread through your lawn this month, the fix is almost certainly a bag of nitrogen and a higher mower setting, not a hosepipe and not a fungicide. Anthracnose, caused by the fungus Colletotrichum cereale, is…
Take the cover off your petrol mower’s air filter before the next cut and hold the element up against a bright sky. If almost no light comes through the pleats, the engine has been running rich for hours and you…
Raise the mower to at least 6cm (about 2.5 inches), stop feeding, keep off the grass and let it turn brown. A well established lawn on a normal loam will sit out three to four weeks of complete drought in…
