If you walk into a garden centre this spring, the petrol mower display has shrunk and the Ego stand has doubled in size. That shift is not marketing noise. Ego sells more 56V cordless mowers in domestic outlets than any…
You mow the lawn, step back to admire it, and there they are. Bald, brown patches every few metres where the mower has taken the grass right down to the soil. These scalp marks usually appear on the high points…
Husqvarna is a Swedish brand most people associate with chainsaws and forestry kit, which is partly why their mowers are quietly the most reliable consumer machines on the market. The same factory engineering culture that goes into professional logging tools…
The Bosch Rotak range has been the quiet workhorse of domestic lawn care for over twenty years. While headlines focus on premium brands at premium prices, a Bosch Rotak owner is usually somewhere in the background, mowing a lawn that…
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…
