If patches of your lawn are yellowing and thinning, the turf feels loose underfoot, and birds have started tearing at the grass at dawn, the cause may be living an inch below the surface. Leatherjackets are the grey-brown grubs of…
If your lawn is the first in the street to fade to straw the moment the rain stops, the soil underneath is almost certainly sandy, and no amount of extra watering alone will fix it. Sandy soil drains so fast…
If you only change one thing about watering this summer, change the clock. Watering between 4am and 9am puts almost all the water into the soil where the roots can use it, while watering at midday throws much of it…
A mower at £120/$150 and a mower at £600/$750 will both cut grass on the day you buy them. The difference is what happens over the years that follow, and where the extra money goes is not a mystery. You…
If you want the dark and light banding you see on a cricket square or a formal park lawn, the single feature that delivers it is a rear roller, and Hayter has built its reputation on rotary mowers that carry…
While ordinary lawns turn brown in the first dry spell, a lawn with micro-clover mixed through it tends to stay green, and it does so on roughly a quarter less water and little or no feeding. Micro-clover is a small-leaved…
Liquid seaweed is one of the few lawn products that earns its place in summer, when a heavy granular feed would do more harm than good. It is not a fertiliser in the usual sense, and that is precisely why…
A family lawn has a hard life. It takes football boots, paddling pools, dog claws, garden furniture, and the constant traffic of people crossing the same line to the back gate. The grass seed that makes a fine ornamental lawn…
If you have stood in a garden centre looking at a row of Mountfield mowers wondering why one costs £185 and another nearly twice that, the short answer is power source, propulsion, and lawn size. Mountfield has built its name…
When a hot, dry spell is forecast, most people do one of two things with the mower, and both are usually a mistake. Some carry on cutting at the same low setting they used in spring, scalping the grass just…
