A grass box that clogs halfway across the lawn, leaving a trail of clippings on the ground and a half-empty bag, is one of the most common warm-weather mowing complaints, and it is almost never bad luck. A mower fills…
Worx has built its reputation on cordless tools that cost less than the big garden-machinery names while sharing batteries across an entire range, and its mowers fall into two distinct camps that suit very different gardens. On one side sit…
Makita has built one of the widest cordless mower ranges of any tool brand, stretching from a small 33cm push model for a courtyard up to a self-propelled 48cm machine that will take on a half-acre plot. That breadth is…
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.…
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…
The single rule that prevents most slope mowing accidents is also the one people most often get backwards: if you use a walk-behind mower, cut across the slope, side to side, never straight up and down. If you use a…
The honest answer to whether you should buy a battery or a petrol mower comes down to two things: how big your lawn is and how often you cut it. For most small and medium gardens, a modern battery mower…
Stihl built its name on professional chainsaws, and the same engineering culture runs through its lawn mowers: heavy-duty build, strong batteries, and a price that sits above the supermarket brands. The question for most gardeners is not whether a Stihl…
If you push your mower up and down the garden in the same tramlines every week, you are slowly working against your own lawn. The grass starts to lean, the cut looks worse over time, and on heavier soil you…
