Walk through any allotment, golf club workshop or older suburban garage and there is a good chance you will see a Honda lawn mower from the 1990s or early 2000s, still cutting grass every Saturday. The grip is faded, the…
If patches of your lawn have turned a sickly yellow this month and the grass lifts away like a loose rug when you tug it, you almost certainly have grubs feeding on the roots underneath. The two culprits in late…
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…
