Lawn Care

A striped lawn does not happen by accident. The mower matters. You can feed, water and cut your lawn properly, but if the mower has no rear roller, the stripes will always be limited. For a visible striped finish, you need a mower that bends the grass in opposite directions as you cut. That usually

Choosing the right lawn levelling rake size matters more than most people realise. A wide rake can make top dressing much faster on an open lawn, but it can also feel heavy, awkward and frustrating in a small garden. A compact rake is easier around edges and narrow spaces, but it will take longer if

A large lawn changes the robot mower decision completely. For a small garden, a compact robot mower can make sense if the lawn is simple and you just want to reduce regular mowing. For a large garden, the mower has to do much more. It needs enough battery capacity, reliable navigation, sensible mapping, good traction,

Robot lawn mowers can cope with some unevenness, but they are not magic. A slightly bumpy lawn is usually one thing. A lawn full of ruts, dips, soft edges, raised borders, exposed roots and wet hollows is another. This is where a lot of people get caught out. They look at a robot mower’s slope

Robot lawn mowers used to come with one big catch: boundary wire. You had to lay a cable around the edge of the lawn, peg it down or bury it, run it around obstacles, connect it to the charging station, and hope it did not get cut later by edging tools, animals, aeration, scarifying or

A robot lawn mower can sound like overkill for a small garden. If your lawn only takes ten minutes to cut, do you really need a machine to do it for you? Sometimes, no. But for the right small garden, a robot mower can still make sense. Not because it saves hours every week, but