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…
If your lawn looks tired in late May despite regular feeding, watering, and mowing, the answer is probably hiding three inches below the surface. Compacted soil is the most underdiagnosed lawn problem in any garden, and it cannot be fixed…
A self-propelled mower is the upgrade that most gardeners realise they should have made years earlier. For anyone cutting more than 200 square metres of lawn, or anything that includes a slope, the difference between pushing a manual mower and…
