The deep, sharp stripes on a bowling green or a cricket square do not come from a normal rotary mower. They come from a cylinder mower with a heavy rear roller, and Atco has built that kind of machine for…
Two lawns sit side by side in the same dry July. One browns off in a week. The other stays green for a month without a drop of extra water. The difference is almost entirely underground, in how deep the…
Buy a mower, a trimmer and a blower from three different brands and you end up with three chargers, three battery shapes and a shed full of packs that only fit one tool each. Buy all three from a single…
Small dark spots on your grass blades in warm, muggy weather are the opening move of melting out, a fungal disease that can thin a thick lawn to a patchy mess in a fortnight. The spots themselves do limited harm.…
A steel blue tint spreading across your grass is the first thing to read on a hot week, and it shows up days before any brown appears. Catch it here and the lawn recovers in a day or two. Miss…
If patches of your lawn have started to feel spongy, lift like a loose carpet, or get torn up overnight by birds, foxes or badgers hunting for a meal, the cause is almost certainly grubs feeding on the roots below.…
Hyundai has become one of the more common names on the shelf at garden centres and online, and its petrol mowers undercut the older brands while carrying a three-year warranty that most rivals reserve for their premium lines. The range…
When a hot, rainless fortnight turns most lawns the colour of straw, the patches that stay green are almost always tall fescue. It is the most drought-tolerant of the cool-season grasses, and the reason sits underground rather than in the…
A black or bronze ring where the fire pit stood, or a rectangle of yellow under the spot a barbecue sat all afternoon, is one of the fastest ways a summer garden loses its best grass. The heat does the…
A ring of straw coloured grass that widens week by week in July is rarely a watering fault and rarely simple drought. On cool season lawns built from Kentucky bluegrass, annual meadow grass or fine fescue, those spreading circles usually…
