Expert Garden Tool Reviews & Advice for UK Gardeners
Somewhere between the garden centre aisle and your own back lawn, a genuinely annoying question is waiting for you: self-propelled vs push lawn mower — which one actually deserves your money? A self-propelled mower is a lawn mower with a drive system that moves the wheels forward on its own, so you steer and guide … Read more
If you’ve ever wrestled a push mower up a bank and watched it roll straight back down onto your shins, you already know why a self-propelled lawn mower for slopes isn’t a luxury — it’s basic self-preservation. A self-propelled lawn mower for slopes is a mower whose engine or motor drives the wheels rather than … Read more
There’s a very particular kind of exhaustion that comes from wrestling a heavy push mower up a sloped lawn on a warm Saturday morning, and if you’ve felt it, you already know why you’re here. A self-propelled petrol lawn mower does the walking for you — the wheels drive themselves, so you’re steering rather than … Read more
There’s a particular kind of dread that sets in around April, when the grass starts growing faster than you can keep up with it and your old push mower suddenly feels like it weighs as much as a small car. If that sounds familiar, a self-propelled lawn mower might be the single best upgrade you … Read more
Stand in any UK garden centre car park on a Saturday morning and you’ll spot the divide instantly: one shed owner is hauling out a clattering old cylinder mower with a satisfied grin, while their neighbour is untangling forty metres of orange extension cable before they’ve cut a single blade of grass. That’s the push … Read more
A push lawn mower is a fuel-free, motorless mower you move by hand, using either a spinning cylinder of blades (a reel mower) or, less commonly, an unpowered rotary blade, to cut grass through simple mechanical motion. No plug, no petrol, no charging cable — just you, the handle, and a lawn that needs taming. … Read more
Stand in any UK garden centre car park on a Saturday morning and you’ll hear the same argument playing out between couples: hover or wheeled? It sounds like a small decision. It isn’t. Get it wrong and you’ll spend the next five summers either wrestling a heavy machine across a lumpy lawn or watching a … Read more
Somewhere between “gentle incline” and “please send help” sits the average British back garden, and if yours tips, dips, or drops away towards a fence line, you already know that a normal mower just doesn’t cut it — literally. A hover mower for slopes solves a very specific problem: it floats on a cushion of … Read more
Somewhere between the wheeled rotary mower gathering cobwebs in your shed and the robot mower your neighbour won’t stop talking about, there’s a strange little orange machine that just… floats. That’s the appeal of a hover mower in a nutshell, and if you’ve landed here, you’re probably trying to work out whether one deserves a … Read more
A cylinder mower for stripes is a push or self-propelled lawnmower with a rotating, scissor-action blade cylinder and a rear roller that presses the grass flat as it passes, creating the light-and-dark banded effect seen on cricket pitches and bowling greens. If you’ve ever driven past a garden with those crisp, alternating bands and wondered … Read more