Most modern rotary mowers offer three cutting modes, three different ways of dealing with the clippings the blade produces. The owner’s manual typically describes each mode in a single sentence and assumes the user will pick. Most people pick whichever…
The mower has done a couple of months of mowing already, the grass is growing faster than it will at any other point in the year, and the first real heatwave of summer is probably within a fortnight. The mower…
Flymo gets dismissed too often as a budget brand for people who do not take their lawn seriously. The reality is more interesting. On the kind of awkward garden that wheeled mowers physically cannot handle well, a hover mower is…
Stihl built its reputation on chainsaws, and that engineering culture carries straight into the lawn mower range. Pick up a Stihl mower and the first thing you notice is the weight, balance, and finish of a piece of professional kit,…
A self-propelled mower is the upgrade that most gardeners realise they should have made years earlier. For anyone cutting more than 200 square metres of lawn, or anything that includes a slope, the difference between pushing a manual mower and…
Stand in front of the cordless mower aisle at any large retailer and the marketing tells you that voltage is everything. A 40V mower is twice as good as a 20V mower, an 80V mower is the dream, and as…
Buying a strimmer (or string trimmer, weed eater, whipper-snipper, depending on where you grew up) looks simple until you stand in front of 40 models at a garden centre and discover the cheap one is £35/$45 and the expensive one…
Buying your first petrol lawn mower is one of those decisions where the wrong choice costs you two or three times more over five years than the right one. The difference between a £150 supermarket special and a £400 entry-level…
Look at the lawn outside any cricket ground, bowling green or championship golf course and you are looking at the work of a cylinder mower. Look at almost any domestic garden and you are looking at the work of a…
Most lawn owners bag their clippings out of habit, not because the lawn needs it. The bag fills up, you stop to empty it, walk it to the compost heap or the green waste bin, come back, and repeat the…
