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…
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…
