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Cylinder mower stripes are the alternating light and dark bands you see on cricket squares and country-house lawns. A roller bends the grass one way on one pass and the opposite way on the next. The scissor-action cut of a cylinder mower leaves clean leaf tips, so the contrast looks crisp rather than ragged. Here’s … Read more
Small lawns have a funny way of making big demands. Your patch might be barely larger than a generous rug, yet it still has awkward corners, a washing line, three plant pots you keep meaning to move, and a shed with roughly the floor space of a phone box. Buy the wrong lawn mower for … Read more
There’s a sound a petrol engine makes when it catches on the second pull: a throaty cough, then a steady burble. For a certain kind of gardener, that’s Saturday morning. Cordless mowers have grown up fast. Yet petrol lawn mowers still hold one stubborn advantage. When the grass is long, the ground is lumpy and … Read more
It’s a dry Saturday in early autumn, the grass has gone feral after a soggy fortnight, and next door’s petrol mower is clearing its throat like a pensioner at a bus stop. You plug in, squeeze a lever and get on with it. No fuel can, no pull-cord, no battery giving up at the one-third … Read more
A petrol vs electric lawn mower comparison weighs a fuel-burning engine (raw power, long run times, more servicing) against a motor fed by a mains cable or a rechargeable battery (quieter, lighter, far simpler to look after). The right choice depends less on brand loyalty than on your lawn size, terrain, storage space and tolerance … Read more
What are robotic lawn mowers? They are battery-powered, autonomous cutting machines that mow on a schedule, return to a charging dock by themselves and leave fine clippings to feed the turf. Boundary is set by a buried or pegged wire, or increasingly by satellite, camera and LiDAR mapping. Picture a Saturday morning with no pull-cord, … Read more
There’s a particular kind of dread that comes with dragging a petrol mower out of the shed after it’s sat untouched since October — the flooded carburettor, the three-pull-cord tantrum, the fuel can you’re fairly sure has gone stale. Cordless lawn mowers exist precisely to make that ritual disappear. A cordless lawn mower is a … Read more
Somewhere between “cottage garden with a postage-stamp lawn” and “field you need a tractor for” sits the plot most of us actually own — and finding the right mower for average garden use turns out to be trickier than the marketing suggests. Manufacturers love to shout about mowers built for “any lawn,” which usually means … Read more
There’s a particular kind of dread that sets in every April when the grass suddenly remembers it’s alive and starts growing like it’s got somewhere to be. If your mower died over winter — or you’ve never actually owned one and have been borrowing your neighbour’s out of quiet desperation — you’re probably staring down … Read more
A cloche tunnel for vegetables is a low, hooped cover of polythene, fleece or fine mesh that sits over a bed or row. It traps warmth, breaks the wind and keeps pests out. That means warmer soil for early sowing, sheltered seedlings, and harvests that start sooner and finish later than open ground allows. British … Read more