Lawn care, read on its published figures
The square metres are an assumption,
and the cutting width is the only part that was measured.
Mowers on petrol, on batteries, on a cable and on their own — then the scarifier, the blower, the pump and the timer, and the blades, catchers, hoses, seed and feed bought every season after. Compared on the lines that decide whether a purchase was worth making: what cutting width a machine really has, whether a battery is in the box, which robot boundary the garden can take, and what a sprinkler covers at your pressure. Priced on the Amazon store in your own country.
- Categories covered
- 46
- Products reviewed
- 95
- Accessories & spares
- 229
Every family, from the mower to the blade that fits it
Start from the job the lawn is asking for
12 families bought once and kept for years on end, 34 that wear out, run out and get bought again. Each hub compares one family and opens with a direct answer to “which one should I buy?”, followed by the published specification most often misread when buying it.
- Petrol mowers Width, engine, and whether the wheels drive themselves
- Battery mowers The platform decides more than the machine does
- Electric mowers Unlimited runtime, and a cable to think about
- Cylinder mowers A scissor cut, on a lawn small enough to deserve it
- Robot mowers The boundary is the purchase, not the blade
- Scarifiers Two cylinders in one machine, and only one of them scarifies
- Leaf blowers Air speed moves a leaf, air volume moves a pile
- Tillers Working width and working depth, and they pull against each other
- Lawn sweepers Brushes and a hopper — pushed, or towed behind a tractor
- Garden shredders A roller is quiet and slow; blades are fast and loud
- Garden pumps Flow is quoted at zero height, and the garden is not at zero height
- Water timers One tap, one or several zones — and a battery that must not die
- Mower blades Length, bore, and the model list that makes both mean something
- Scarifier blades Fixed knives or sprung tines — two cylinders, one machine
- Robot blades Three grams of steel, sold thirty at a time
- Boundary wire The part that fails is the joint, not the wire
- Robot garages A roof over the base station, in wood or in metal
- Grass catchers A bag, a frame, and a model number that has to match
- Mower air filters Foam or paper, and an engine number rather than a mower number
- Mower wheels Diameter, bore, and whether the bearing is a bearing
- Mower covers Waterproof is easy; breathable and fixed down is the hard part
- Mulching kits A plug that blocks the chute, and sometimes a different blade
- Lawn aerators Hollow tines pull a core; spikes just make a hole
- Lawn rollers Sold empty — water or sand decides what it weighs
- Garden hoses Layers and pressure, not colour
- Hose reels A trolley, a wall drum, or a box that rewinds itself
- Hose connectors One system, two diameters, and the washer that decides
- Sprinklers Square, circular or pulsing — the shape is the choice
- Drip irrigation A system, not a product — and the starter set is the decision
- Spray guns Patterns you will use, and a lock for the one you use most
- Pressure sprayers The tool a liquid feed is actually applied with
- Rain barrels Volume is easy; the diverter and the tap are the purchase
- Spreaders Drop or broadcast — one is accurate, the other is fast
- Lawn seed Coverage per kilo, and which grasses are actually in the bag
- Lawn fertiliser Three numbers on the bag, and the fourth is the release
- Moss killers Iron blackens moss in days; it does not fix why it was there
- Lawn soil Topdressing, not potting compost
- Soil testers A probe that reads a colour, or a chemical test that reads a number
- Lawn edging The line between grass and bed, held by something
- Artificial grass Pile height and weight per square metre — the rest is colour
- Lawn shears Blades that turn, so the wrist does not have to
- Garden rakes A fan for leaves, a bar for soil — and one that adjusts
- Weeders Getting the taproot out, standing up
- Weed burners Gas, a piezo, and a flame that wilts rather than burns
- Wheelbarrows Litres and kilograms, and a tyre that has to hold air
- Garden gloves The coating decides the job, and the size decides everything
How this site works
What this site holds itself to on every page
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Ranked on what makers print, never on what a sale pays
Commission has no say in where anything ranks. When the mid-priced mower is the sensible buy because its blade and its catcher are sold by three suppliers, the page says so plainly — and when a dearer machine earns its cost because the maker publishes the battery it was measured with, the page explains exactly that.
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The deciding figure, in whatever unit its maker chose
A cutting width given in centimetres rather than by adjective; a stated area kept beside the assumption it rests on, or beside the note that none was published; a runtime kept beside the battery it was measured with, and the word that says whether that battery is in the box; a guaranteed noise level named as the one the directive requires, not as the one heard at the handle. Each appears in the maker’s unit with its source named. A figure no maker published is marked as missing, never filled in.
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Sent to the Amazon store that can really ship it
A press opens the same reference on the Amazon store for wherever you are reading, priced in your own currency. Where a model has no offer on that store — and freight makes a mower stocked, shipped and priced very differently from one market to the next — the page says so instead of sending you to a listing that has gone.