Turn almost any mower on its side after a season of use and you will find a thick, hard crust of dried grass packed into the underside of the deck, often a centimetre or more deep around the blade and…
A good used mower is one of the best value buys in the whole garden. A quality machine that cost several hundred when new can change hands for less than a third of that a few years later, and with…
A mulching blade is not simply a sharper version of the blade your mower came with. It is a different shape designed to do a different job. Where a standard blade flings clippings out of the deck and into a…
For a home garden, the John Deere machine you actually want is a ride-on from the 100 Series or the X300 Select Series, not the commercial walk-behind mowers that share the same green and yellow badge. Those walk-behinds, with their…
A petrol mower that will not start after months in the shed almost always has one of five faults, and you can fix most of them in half an hour with cheap parts. Work through them in order of likelihood:…
The stripes you admire on sports pitches and show gardens are not cut at different heights and they are not a different grass. They are an optical illusion created by light bouncing off grass blades bent in alternating directions. That…
A robot mower is no longer a novelty for large estates. In 2026 you can buy a capable model for the price of a good petrol mower, and the price you pay buys three things in particular: how it finds…
Greenworks builds one of the widest cordless mower ranges on the market, and the secret to buying well is matching the battery voltage to the size of your lawn rather than chasing the biggest number. For most small to medium…
When a mower starts playing up, the question is rarely whether it can be fixed. Almost anything can be fixed. The real question is whether the fix is worth more than the machine. A useful rule keeps most of these…
If your mower leaves a thin ribbon of standing grass behind every pass, the fix is almost always cheaper and simpler than buying a new machine. In most cases the cause is a blunt or worn blade, a deck that…
