Why Spring Is the Most Important Time for Lawn Care
If you want a thick, green, healthy lawn throughout the year, spring is the season that matters most. What you do in the early months of the growing season sets the foundation for how your grass performs in summer — and how well it copes with next winter. After months of cold weather, heavy rain, […]
How to Fix a Lawn After Winter Damage
Winter can be tough on lawns. Cold temperatures, heavy rain, frost, and reduced sunlight often leave grass looking patchy, compacted, or lifeless. The good news is that most winter lawn damage is easy to fix — and early action will help your lawn recover quickly and grow stronger through spring. Here’s a simple guide on how […]
Leaf Blowers and Garden VacuumsÂ
Garden vacuums are effective addition to your garden toolbox, sucking up any debris, mulching and compressing it, ready to be disposed of with your garden waste or left to decompose in a compost bin to make top quality leaf mould for next spring.
Green, Green Grass of Home
Here are our top tips to keep your grass green this summer, whatever the weather.Â
The most important gardening activity that delivers the best results is mowing. With the correct mowing regime, you can keep your lawn looking good and performing well. Feeding, aerating, scarifying, and mulching are also essential gardening tasks.
How Much Should I Spend on a Lawn Mower?Â
The lawnmower price range is as wide as the choice of the mower itself – push, self-propelled, ride-on, robot and the method of power – push by hand, electric cable, or battery!
What Type of Lawn Mower is Best for Hills?
Three important factors to consider are: how steep is the slope, how big are your hills, and how strong are you? Some mowers weigh 20 or 30kg and need to be held upright due to petrol flooding and take some strength to control.
The Best Lawnmowers for Wet Grass
While many gardeners prefer not to mow when the grass is wet, here in the UK we can’t always rely on dry weather! If we’re subject to a particularly rainy few days, we may just need to get on with it. But many mowers aren’t equipped to handle wet grass, so if you live in […]
Top tips on mowing
The mowing regime is an important part of maintaining a healthy lawn and is usually the main gardening activity between March and October. The cutting height and mowing frequency will depend on the purpose and look you want to achieve, whether it be a close-cut ‘classic’ lawn, those enviable stripes or a longer-grassed wildlife lawn. […]
Sustainable Mowing
Mowing is one of the main tasks of the gardening year, so your lawnmower is an essential piece of kit and must be fit for purpose. There is a huge choice of mowers available from corded electric to petrol but as technology evolves and prices fall, cordless battery mowers and ride-on mowers are very popular choices for […]
Creating a Wildlife-Friendly Garden This Summer
Since covid hit in 2020, lockdown has compelled UK households restricted to home and their local area to interact with their gardens and local outdoor space in new ways. Research through surveys gathered in 2020 demonstrates that people have spent increasingly more time in their own garden or regularly visiting local green spaces. It is […]
How to Prep for Your Post-Pandemic Garden Party
After months of being confined to our social bubbles, from the 17th May we will be able to invite up to 30 family and friends over for a garden party (see gov.uk for guidance). If you are an attentive gardener then the chances are your garden is virtually party-ready, but if you have not managed […]
Top gardening tools that help you reach difficult areas
There is usually a part of our garden that is difficult to maintain, whether it be continuous invasion of brambles or that bit behind the shed that you can’t quite reach. Whatever your problem area is be assured mowers-online have the tool to make your life easier in the garden. Trimming Tall Bushes or Small […]
September is the time to lighten your Spring load
As the last month of Summer ends it is time to get ready for the Autumn months. September is a good month to prepare for Spring giving you a good head start on next year’s growing season. That said, there is still time to enjoy the garden, you can extend your hanging baskets and bedding […]
Getting ready for BBQ season
Barbecue season is upon us and you’re more than likely already getting waft of charred burger from the neighbour’s garden. Maybe you’ve popped out and bought an American-style smoker or perhaps you feel adventurous enough to build a ‘Jamie’ outdoor oven, whichever it is getting the garden ready is a must. Mow and tidy Mow […]
Mowing your lawn over winter
If you would rather not leave your lawn to nature over the winter, it’s ok to give the grass a trim in the colder months. If you’ve already prepared your petrol lawn mower for winter storage, you may want to use an electric mower or push lawn mower at this time of year. Prepare the […]
Mowing on a steep bank
It doesn’t matter if you’re a homeowner or a professional gardener when it comes to mowing on banks. You need the right equipment for the job and this will be a hover mower. You just can’t use conventional 4 wheeled lawnmowers in this setting. Not only are they impractical they would prove to be dangerous. […]