Todays post includes advice and tips about mowing your lawn. It contains important and useful tips concerning mower maintenance, mowing patterns, lawn mower operation and mower safety.
Category: Maintenance & How-To
Which lawn mower is the right one for you? Choosing a new lawnmower can be a confusing process. Do you want a petrol or electric model? Do you want to recycle the grass clippings. Do you need electric start? If you have uneven ground or large areas, do you need self propelled? These questions and more are answered in this guide.
Regular mowing makes a lawn dense and attractive. The cutting of grass stimulates the grass plant to form new side-shoots, leaf blades and runners, and weeds are effectively suppressed.
A lawn is not just a lawn!
A wide variety of demands are placed upon turfed areas depending on their use. Different examples include home lawns, park lawn and grass on a sports field. Virtually no other plant is subjected to such high demands as lawn grasses are. They are continuously being stepped on, rolled on, played on, but must nevertheless remain pleasant to the eye.
Stiga’s Multiclip cutting system cuts and re-cuts grass clippings into very fine particles then, using positive air pressure created beneath the cutter deck, pushes the particles right down into the standing grass to wilt and decompose thereby feeding the soil.
Three elements that the soil needs to contain and vital for health plant growth are nitrogen, potassium and phosphorus and are required in large quantities if plants are to grow strong. This means that these plant nutrients must be applied regularly if you are to keep your plants in good health. Compost or manure will supply a proportion of these nutrients but fertilizers will provide the main source.
During the winter months, leaves die off and the wind blows leaves and foliage from trees and bushes onto the lawn. Spring lawn care is extremely important at this time of year and this post hopes to identify some of the tasks you may be facing in the coming months
When it’s time to dig out your grass trimmer from your garden shed you will need to check a few important maintenance issues before you get going.
Hand-sharpening your chainsaw chain can be a bit of a daunting task for the first time, it is essential that you follow this guide to ensure that you sharpen it correctly. A sharp chain is definitely essential for an efficient working saw. This 13 steps how-to-guide will lead you through the process of sharpening your chainsaw chain.
There are many things to consider when choosing a new garden tractor or rider. In this post we try and cover some of the factors that will influence your decision and enable you to buy a suitable garden rider for your needs.