Husqvarna is a Swedish brand most people associate with chainsaws and forestry kit, which is partly why their mowers are quietly the most reliable consumer machines on the market. The same factory engineering culture that goes into professional logging tools…
If small, twisted ribbons of mud keep appearing on your lawn overnight, you are looking at wormcasts. They are the surface deposits of a few burrowing earthworm species, and they tend to arrive in concentrated bursts when the soil is…
The Bosch Rotak range has been the quiet workhorse of domestic lawn care for over twenty years. While headlines focus on premium brands at premium prices, a Bosch Rotak owner is usually somewhere in the background, mowing a lawn that…
Most modern rotary mowers offer three cutting modes, three different ways of dealing with the clippings the blade produces. The owner’s manual typically describes each mode in a single sentence and assumes the user will pick. Most people pick whichever…
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…
