Expert Garden Tool Reviews & Advice for UK Gardeners
There’s a particular kind of Sunday-morning dread that comes with a petrol mower that won’t start. You yank the cord, you swear a bit, a neighbour twitches their curtains, and twenty minutes later you’re still standing in a cloud of two-stroke fumes with an unmown lawn to show for it. This is roughly the point … Read more
If you’ve ever wrestled a petrol mower out of a cramped garden shed on a drizzly Saturday morning — coaxing it to life with that dispiriting pull-cord ritual, breathing in fumes, and generally questioning your life choices — then the appeal of a Greenworks cordless lawn mower needs very little explanation. Quiet, clean, and genuinely … Read more
If you’ve been wrestling with a petrol mower — draining it for winter, cleaning the carburettor, and trying to start it on a damp April morning with the energy of a thousand frustrated pulls — you’ll understand why the EGO cordless lawn mower has rather taken British gardens by storm. In 2026, EGO Power+ remains … Read more
There’s a quiet revolution happening in British gardens. Not dramatic, not especially fast — it’s been creeping along for a few years now — but by 2026, it’s essentially complete. The petrol mower, that temperamental, noise-making, fuel-reeking institution of the British weekend, is losing ground to cordless battery mowers at a pace that would have … Read more
There’s a particular British ritual that plays out every spring weekend. The sound of a mower spluttering to life somewhere down the street, followed by a string of colourful language, a trip to the petrol station, and thirty minutes of delay before a single blade of grass gets cut. Sound familiar? The good news is … Read more
There’s a persistent myth in British garden circles that a decent cordless lawn mower costs the same as a short city break. It doesn’t. Not anymore. The budget battery mower market has quietly grown up, and in 2026 you can pick up a genuinely capable machine for well under two hundred quid — battery and … Read more
Let’s be honest. If you’ve spent any time wrestling with a petrol mower on a drizzly Saturday morning — yanking the cord until your shoulder protests, breathing in fumes, waiting for an engine that last ran in September to remember what it’s for — you’ve already earned the right to switch. A cordless lawn mower … Read more
There’s a particular kind of quiet satisfaction in a freshly mown lawn — the neat stripes, the smell of cut grass, the cup of tea you feel you’ve properly earned. For many older gardeners in Britain, the garden isn’t just a hobby. It’s a connection to something vital. A reason to get outside. A source … Read more
Let’s be honest. If your garden has a slope — even a modest one — and you’ve tried tackling it with a standard wheeled mower, you already know the drill. One foot uphill, one foot lower, the mower dragging sideways, clippings flying everywhere, and by the time you’re done, your lower back is filing a … Read more
There’s a particular kind of British guilt that creeps in around the third week of May, when the lawn has gone from “needs a trim” to “small meadow” and you still haven’t bought a mower. Good news: you don’t need to remortgage anything to fix it. A genuinely capable lawn mower under £200 will happily … Read more