The longer days mean that many of us are dusting off our gardening tools - but when is it time to cut the grass for the first time this spring? An expert reveals all ...

Healthy lawns are work, and even more work to maintain them in a way that doesn’t harm lakes and rivers. Traditional lawns are often made of Kentucky bluegrass, a hardy grass that can ...

Ornamental grasses add gentle muted colors, vertical accents, and graceful movement to a landscape. And though they're ...

Monty wrote: "The grass will need mowing in March but do not cut it too short. Just give it a light trim for the rest of this month. This will encourage good root growth and as a result the grass will ...

An Arduino controls the beam scanning, very slowly, burning the grass in its sights. But with a range limited to around eight feet best case, sitting in one spot just isn’t going to cut it.

When placed on a (slowly) moving platform this could cut the lawn in a matter of days, whereas low-tech rapidly spinning blades would need at least a couple of minutes. Obviously the answer is to ...