For a small, flat lawn of fine grass, a manual push reel mower can give a cleaner cut than a powered rotary costing three times as much, with no petrol, no battery, no cord, and almost no maintenance. The catch…
If pale, broad-leaved tufts are standing proud of an otherwise fine lawn within a day or two of mowing, you are looking at coarse grass invading your sward. The reason it suddenly stands out in summer is that these tougher…
A single water butt fed from a downpipe can capture hundreds of litres from one heavy shower, and that stored water is free, untreated, and ready for the driest weeks of summer when the tap is the last place you…
If broad rosettes of oval leaves are pressing themselves flat against your grass and shrugging off every pass of the mower, you are almost certainly dealing with plantain. The quickest fix for a handful of plants is to lever each…
Half a bag of grass seed left over after patching the lawn is worth keeping, because stored properly it will still germinate well next year and the year after. Stored badly, it can be all but dead within a single…
A grass box that clogs halfway across the lawn, leaving a trail of clippings on the ground and a half-empty bag, is one of the most common warm-weather mowing complaints, and it is almost never bad luck. A mower fills…
Worx has built its reputation on cordless tools that cost less than the big garden-machinery names while sharing batteries across an entire range, and its mowers fall into two distinct camps that suit very different gardens. On one side sit…
If small mounds of fine soil shaped like tiny volcanoes have appeared scattered across your lawn, each with a neat hole at the centre, and you have noticed small orange or brown bees flying low over the grass on warm…
If a patch of your lawn has been coated overnight in something that looks like grey ash, yellow scrambled egg, or a frothy beige crust climbing up the grass blades, the short answer is this: it is slime mould, it…
Makita has built one of the widest cordless mower ranges of any tool brand, stretching from a small 33cm push model for a courtyard up to a self-propelled 48cm machine that will take on a half-acre plot. That breadth is…
