A robot mower will keep a lawn cut to a consistent height without you touching it, but the right model depends almost entirely on one decision: how it knows where the edge of your lawn is. The three approaches on…
A sharp mower blade cuts grass; a blunt one tears it. You can restore a dull rotary blade to a clean edge at home in about twenty minutes with a £10 (about $13) mill file or an angle grinder, and…
Every time you bag up your grass clippings and wheel them to the compost heap, you are throwing away the cheapest lawn feed you will ever own. Leaving finely chopped clippings on the lawn, a practice turf scientists call grasscycling,…
The dark and light bands that turn an ordinary lawn into a striped sports field look like the work of two different shades of grass, but they are nothing of the sort. Every blade is exactly the same colour. The…
Almost every mower has a lever marked with numbers, usually one to five or one to seven, and almost everyone assumes a higher number means a taller cut. That part is true, but the numbers themselves tell you nothing useful…
The single biggest decision when you buy a walk-behind mower is not the brand or the engine. It is whether the back of the machine rolls on two wheels or on one full-width roller. A rear roller gives you the…
If your lawn shows two faint parallel tracks after every mow, or worse, soft grooves you can feel through your shoes, the mower wheels are pressing into ground that is too soft to carry their weight. Summer is the worst…
If your mower started on the first or second pull last autumn and now refuses to fire at all, the fuel sitting in the tank is the most likely reason, not the engine. Modern standard unleaded contains up to 10…
If a petrol mower drags on the pull cord, fires then dies, runs rough or chews through more fuel than it used to, the spark plug is the cheapest part to suspect first. A new plug costs only a few…
Ryobi has built its cordless mowers around one idea: a single battery that powers everything you own. If you are weighing one up, the most useful starting point is to match the deck width and battery size to your lawn,…
