Take the cover off your petrol mower’s air filter before the next cut and hold the element up against a bright sky. If almost no light comes through the pleats, the engine has been running rich for hours and you…
STIGA is one of those mower brands people buy on a shop assistant’s word without ever working out which model actually fits their garden. The range runs from a tidy little cordless machine for a courtyard lawn to ride-on tractors…
When a heatwave sends your lawn brown and dormant, the grass stops growing and the mower goes quiet for weeks. That idle stretch does more harm to a petrol engine than most people realise, and the damage happens out of…
If your cut has looked ragged lately and the grass tips brown a day after mowing, dry summer conditions have almost certainly taken the edge off your blade sooner than the calendar says they should. A blade that sailed through…
The spring loaded bar you hold against the handle of a walk behind mower is the single most important safety part on the machine. Let it go and the blade stops, on most mowers within three seconds. That bar has…
A ride-on mower is one of the most satisfying garden investments you will ever make, and one of the easiest to get wrong. The market spans from around £1,500/$1,890 for a small lawn tractor to over £10,000/$12,600 for a zero-turn…
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…
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…
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…
If you want the deep, crisp stripes of a bowling green or a cricket square on your own lawn, no rotary mower will get you there. That finish comes from a cylinder mower, and Allett has built its name making…
