As a professional gardener and nurseryman with over 20 years of experience, I understand how important it is to maintain a lawn properly. This includes scarifying the lawn to remove moss and thatch, aerating the lawn to improve drainage, to choosing the best grass seed for your specific needs. Once I’ve successfully scarified and aerated the lawn, it is time to apply grass seed/overseed or lawn feed (sometimes with a moss killer), and this is…
I have been a professional gardener for over 20 years and, in that time, have seen the quality and affordability of lawnmowers really up their game. Many models are now much more affordable whilst still having premium features, and the build quality of many brands is now much better, with brands like Hyundai (pictured below), Bosch and Worx really upping their game. However, where lawn mowers have really advanced is with cordless lawn mowers with…
Coming from a big family, BBQs were commonplace for me while growing up, so I brought this tradition to my own family. The thing is, my family are all big meat eaters, and the best way to cook mouth-watering succulent meat has to be on a BBQ. If it weren’t for the weather, I’d be out cooking on the BBQ every evening. Being that I live in Manchester, unfortunately, famous for its rainy weather. We…
I’ve been in the gardening game for almost 20 years now. After I left horticultural college after two years, it was off to work at my family’s nursery/garden centre before setting up my own gardening service business. Up until a couple of years ago, I still had a full-time gardening maintenance business, but now that I write reviews like this one which takes a huge amount of time, I did keep a few larger jobs…
Being from a big family, we’ve always had a selection of sun loungers and enjoy spending weekends together over summer at my mum and dads. There can be as many as 14 of us in total includinng the grandkids, for a Sunday dinner or, my personal favourite, a good old BBQ, I recently did a review of the Char-broil gas BBQ here. Anyway back to sun lounger! Luckily my parents have a very large garden,…
