When a dry spell sets in, the brown rarely starts in the middle of the lawn. It creeps in from the edges first, the strips running alongside the path, the driveway and the patio, while the centre of the lawn…
Few garden frustrations are as familiar as a petrol mower that fires up willingly, runs for three or four seconds, then dies as if you had switched it off. Pull again, same result: a brief eager burst followed by silence.…
You feed the lawn expecting an even flush of green, and a week later the grass tells a different story: dark green bands running next to pale yellow ones, or a tartan pattern of stripes that follows the exact path…
The quickest way to know whether your lawn needs water costs nothing and takes about ten seconds. Walk in a straight line across the grass, then turn around and look at your tracks. If the blades spring back upright almost…
Aeration is one of the best things you can do for a tired, compacted lawn, but doing it in the middle of summer is a mistake that can leave the grass worse than before. The reason is timing, not technique.…
A sprinkler timer turns watering from a daily chore you forget into something the lawn does for itself before you are even awake. The whole point is to deliver the right amount of water at the right time of day…
The short answer is that granular feed is for the long, steady base of your lawn programme, and liquid feed is for fast results and fine-tuning. Granular fertiliser releases nutrients slowly over weeks or months, so it builds and holds…
If pale, glossy blades keep shooting up above the rest of your lawn within days of every mow, you are almost certainly looking at nutsedge. It is not a true grass, and that is exactly why it beats your turf…
The first thing to do when your mower starts smoking is to switch it off and look at the colour of the cloud, because the colour is the diagnosis. Blue and white smoke almost always mean oil is being burned…
The air filter is the cheapest part on a petrol mower and the one most likely to kill the engine if you ignore it. A clean filter costs a few pounds and takes minutes to change, yet a neglected one…
