It can be an alarming sight when you fire up your mower and instead of running smoothly, it starts billowing smoke – especially if it starts sputtering and stalling too. While it’s understandable that your immediate reaction may be to panic, very often the source of a smoking lawn mower or engine is an innocuous…
Mowing the lawn regularly is an essential part of any gardener’s annual lawn care routine. Along with a proper watering and fertilization schedule, regular lawn mowing can help to keep your grass looking clean, green, and healthy. With that said, overzealous mowing can lead to the grass being cut too short, which then leaves your…
Whether you’re in the middle of a rainy season, or you just live in an area that naturally sees a lot of rainfall throughout the year, it can be difficult to know how to best fit your mowing schedule around the unfavourable weather conditions. While it isn’t ideal, it is possible for you to mow…
Of all the options available, laying sod is the quickest and often the most reliable way to getting a new lawn full of thick green grass. It might seem like a big job, but with the right tools, preparation, and installation method, any amateur gardener can DIY their way from rolls of unlaid sod to…
The sun is out, your grass is long and dry, and all the conditions are perfect for a day of mowing the lawn – only to find that your lawn mower starts then dies shortly after, or doesn’t start at all. This can be a frustrating discovery, and there are a number of different potential…
Whether you’re reseeding to revive an existing lawn, or trying to grow a brand new lawn from scratch, growing grass is a delicate process that requires meticulous attention to detail. One of the most important elements of this process is knowing when and for how long you should water your lawn. Newly planted grass seed…
If you’ve just set down some new sod and you’re excitedly watching it take root and settle into a lawn, you might be wondering how soon you can take a mower over it and start cutting the blades short and even. A lot of people wait longer than they need to; you might be surprised…
Anyone who has just laid down new sod will be standing back, looking at the results, and wondering how soon they need to be adding fertilizer. After all, if you’re adding sod to your garden, the chances are that you want quick (but beautiful) results. Caring for your sod properly will soon turn it into…
If you’re looking at the lawn and thinking about how it needs cutting yet again, you might start yourself on a path of wondering how tall can grass grow (and when to cut your lawn). For anyone who has wondered, different grasses grow to very different heights – and this is a huge family. For…
