Lawn mowing

Keeping your garden and lawn in great condition is influenced on how frequently you mow it. This in itself will be determined by a range of factors from the weather, the season, and the type of garden you are creating. Not everyone aspires to a lawn looking like a billiard table

Therefore, before pushing your lawn mower out of the garage, have a wander around the garden. Firstly the lawn should be dry, and therefore the weather should be dry. In any case, garden work in the rain is a miserable experience. Give the dew time to dry away before you start. If your up early and ready to start, you could always start to use this time to clear and garden debris from your lawn. Stones and mole hills will not do your lawn mower any good at all, particularly if you are about to it the once over with a cylinder lawn mower.

Cutting around the edge of the lawn a couple of times will allow you to turn the lawn mower more easily. Then cut in parallel lines. If you are using a cylinder lawn mower, this will give you the stripes. If your using a rotary or hover, it will help you avoid missing bits.

Some older, larger lawn mowers have flaps at the side of the blade rather than gathering the cuttings. More strategic lawn mowing is required here in order to keep the cuttings in several ridges up and down the lawn for raking up. Splitting the lawn into two halves for example, and mowing in an oblong shape will allow you to finish with two ridges of grass cuttings. If this seems too tricky, you could of course upgrade to a newer lawn mower with grass collector.

If your garden is actually circular, or you have a circular lawn in an irregular shaped garden, you could always cut in one continuous spiral. However, before you embark on this you should be aware that it can be extremely difficult to keep the perfect circle.

High quality lawns can be cut quite closely. To retain the perfect pile you should bring the lawn mower out perhaps twice a week in the summer. In the height of summer you could cut to a height of as little as 6mm. However, during spring and late summer, you should cut the lawn higher, perhaps not much below 20mm.