If you laid turf in the last few weeks and the joints have started to open into finger-width gaps, do not assume the turf has failed. Those gaps are almost always a sign that the turves are drying out and…
The single most expensive mistake with a petrol mower is putting the wrong kind of fuel in it, and whether a fuel is right or wrong depends entirely on one thing: does the engine run on two strokes or four?…
Both an underwatered and an overwatered lawn can turn the same dull yellow-green, which is why so many people water a struggling lawn harder and watch it get worse. The two problems need opposite treatments, so before you touch the…
If wasps have started working over your lawn this month, the first thing to know is that most of them are not interested in you at all. They are feeding, hunting or house-hunting, and once you work out which of…
Gtech built its name on cordless simplicity, and its lawn mowers follow the same idea: light, push along machines with a removable battery and no cable to trail across the grass. The range centres on two models, the CLM 2.0…
Turf gives you a green lawn the day it is laid; seed gives you a cheaper lawn with deeper roots, if you are willing to wait a few months for it. That is the trade at the heart of the…
A splash of petrol from the mower, a drip of engine oil, or an overturned handful of lawn feed leaves the same result: a dead, straw coloured patch within days. Move fast and you can save most of the grass.…
The number stamped on a petrol mower’s engine, 125cc, 160cc, 190cc, tells you the engine’s displacement, not how well it cuts. A bigger figure buys more torque for thick grass and slopes, but past a point it only burns more…
Long grass feels harmless, but a lawn left to grow through the hottest weeks of summer becomes a shelter for ticks and fleas and a source of the pollen that sets off hay fever. Cutting your grass to around 7.5cm…
Cutting width sets how many lengths of the lawn you walk. Nothing else on the spec sheet changes that number. Engine size, self-propelled drive, a bigger grass bag: all of those change how pleasant the laps feel. Only the deck…
