Beware what you wish for! For the past two months I have been wishing for the spring to arrive. I want sunshine and warmth. I want flowers in the garden and blossom on the trees. Well yesterday I saw a pair of bullfinches nibbling the buds on my neighbour's fruit trees. I saw the fresh green shoots emerging from my shallot sets. I felt brave enough to plant out my sunflower seedlings....AND THEN....then I saw the grass. In places it had begun to tower menacingly over my border edgings. For the first time this year it was beginning to take on that lush, thick, resistant look that I knew so well and dreaded so much. Spring has sprung alright, but with it has ...  Read the complete review

We only have a small lawn in our back garden, and an even tinier front lawn, so when our electric mower shuffled off it's mortal coil a few years ago, we decided to get a push along mower instead, is this would be a lot more practical in our circumstances. We always used to hate having to plug the old one in, trailing the wire through the gap in the door, letting all manner of creepy crawlies in the house, just to mow a small scrap of lawn! A push mower is a lot more practical for us, as we can just grab it out of the shed, whizz over the lawn, put it back and the job is done! Or even better, con one of the kids into thinking it is a toy, and get them ...  Read the complete review

The grass is always greener. I spent a couple of years living in a fabulous city apartment and wasted many a summer afternoon bemoaning my lack of garden. Now living in quasi-suburbia (3 miles up the road), and having acquired a house with gardens, plural, and lawns, plural, all I can think is that I didn't appreciate the good old days when lawn mowing never featured on my weekend To Do list. I bought this lawn mower the week after I moved into my house in 2007, based on a complex calculation of which one to get whereby I picked the cheapest one in Argos, at about £35, and I'm pleased to say it has lasted reasonably well. This is a push-mower, which, in a fit ...  Read the complete review