If you are choosing between a zero-turn mower and a lawn tractor, the decision comes down to three things: how big and how flat your ground is, how many obstacles you mow around, and whether you want the machine to…
If you have noticed coarse, fast growing blades pushing above the rest of your lawn this summer, paler and broader than the grass around them, you are almost certainly looking at couch grass. The practical takeaway is this: couch grass…
Microclover adds something a pure grass lawn cannot give itself: a built-in nitrogen supply. Mixed through the turf at a light rate of about 1 to 2g per square metre, roughly a quarter to a half pound per 1,000 square…
A robot mower will keep a lawn cut to a consistent height without you touching it, but the right model depends almost entirely on one decision: how it knows where the edge of your lawn is. The three approaches on…
A sharp mower blade cuts grass; a blunt one tears it. You can restore a dull rotary blade to a clean edge at home in about twenty minutes with a £10 (about $13) mill file or an angle grinder, and…
Brown patch can turn a healthy lawn into rings of dead grass in the time it takes for one warm, humid night to pass. If you are seeing roughly circular brown areas, sometimes with a darker grey ring around the…
If patches of your lawn lift away like a loose carpet, or birds and animals have started tearing at the turf overnight, the cause is almost certainly chafer grubs feeding on the roots below. The fastest reliable fix is a…
Every time you bag up your grass clippings and wheel them to the compost heap, you are throwing away the cheapest lawn feed you will ever own. Leaving finely chopped clippings on the lawn, a practice turf scientists call grasscycling,…
You mow the lawn, it looks neat, and within a day a haze of pale, wispy stalks has risen back above the surface as if you never cut it. The mower seems to flatten them and miss them every time.…
The dark and light bands that turn an ordinary lawn into a striped sports field look like the work of two different shades of grass, but they are nothing of the sort. Every blade is exactly the same colour. The…
