Lawn Mowing How you approach mowing very much depends on recent weather conditions. If the lawn’s looking dry and parched following heat and a dearth of rain, we suggest setting your mower’s blade-position high in order to avoid further stressing the grass. If the weather’s been warm but wet, you can lower the blade for […]

Introduction On the 6th of May 2023, Charles III will be crowned King of the UK and 14 Commonwealth Realms at Westminster Abbey in London; a hugely significant event for the country. To celebrate the occasion, many UK residents will host street parties and back-garden get-togethers. If you’re a homeowner with a substantial outdoor space, […]

With low-pressure system after low-pressure system sweeping the country and causing widespread wind-based havoc recently, many of us have suffered serious damage to our outdoor spaces, and are faced with fallen trees, flattened fences and branch-strewn lawns. Hence, the autumn clear-up is well underway! Here at MowDirect, we want to help to ensure garden machinery […]

Nothing beats the taste of fresh home-grown vegetables! If you don’t have your own plot, now’s the time to start preparing one; if you do have one, now’s the time to get it ready for cold-weather crops, or to put it to bed for winter. In this MowBlog edition, we provide some basic soil-preparation advice, […]

The Christmas and New Year festivities are out of the way and we’re back to arguably the most depressing month of the year. However, there’s no time to be moping around, as your garden needs you! So what’s on the to-do list for January? Plan your vegetable crop rotations To get the most out of […]

While you might feel as though there is little to do in the garden itself around this time of year, overwinter and into January is an ideal time to plan ahead for the coming months when it comes to what you want to grow for your home vegetable garden. This particularly rings true when it […]

I don’t know what it is but I feel postitive and excited today. As if the wind has changed and something good is in the air. Perhaps it’s the sunshine (more than one hour a day, hooray) the lovely and chilled weekend I just had or the green and colours starting to spread already, like […]

Like the old Barbara Dickson  Song (penned by the great Alan Tarney) ‘January – February’,  the months always seem to turn around so quickly and one minute you are sitting, thermostat cranked to the max, curled up in your armchair, sipping warming soup and watching the eternal loop of ‘Friends’ on Comedy Central and the […]

As everyone who has eyes can see, it’s now proper Autumn. Any hope of an Indian summer has vanished like teenagers when there’s washing up to do.  And as everyone also knows, it’s been very dry. This unique combination of the expected and the unexpected (for me at least, I always expect it to be […]

Funny the way verges and hedgerows and scrubby areas keep growing in the heat but lawns merely get browned off. When it’s baking hot it’s best to leave the lawn and not trim it – grass has an amazing way of coming back to life as soon as it gets a soaking and the temperatures […]