If you are still mowing your lawn once a week in May, you are already falling behind the grass. In late spring the combination of warming soil, regular rainfall and longer daylight hours pushes most cool-season grasses into their fastest…
A dull mower blade is the single most common reason a lawn looks ragged in summer. It rips the tips of each grass plant instead of slicing them, leaving a frayed, whitish-grey edge that browns within 48 hours and lets…
The first warm, dry weeks of May is usually when anthills appear. One Saturday the lawn is flat, the next morning there are half a dozen small mounds of fine soil between the daisies, and within ten days you have…
Five years ago, recommending a battery mower for anything bigger than a postage stamp lawn was a stretch. Run times were short, cutting power on long grass was patchy, and the price gap against a similar petrol machine was hard…
A striped lawn is not a different kind of grass. It is the same grass you already own, with the leaves laid in alternate directions so they catch sunlight differently. Once you see how the trick works, the cricket-pitch finish…
The lawn feed you apply in the last two weeks of May does more for your garden than any other application of the year. It is what carries the grass through the demanding period from June to mid August, when…
If your lawn has suddenly developed irregular patches of pinkish or pale-tan grass over the past week or two, with thin red threads or tendrils visible on the leaf blades when you look closely, you are almost certainly dealing with…
If your lawn has thin areas or bare patches left over from winter and early spring, the next two weeks are the most important seeding window you will have until autumn. From late May, soil temperatures in temperate climates are…
Walk down any UK street on a warm May evening and you will see at least one neighbour with a hose in their hand, sprinkling the lawn for ten minutes after work. Almost every aspect of what they are doing…
The robot mower used to be the gadget your neighbour with the engineering job bought because he liked machines. In May 2026 it has become the most-asked-about lawn tool at every garden centre in the country, and the reason is…
