Like most things, having the correct tools will make things much easier but you need to make sure you have the right tools for your situation. If you have a large garden and lawn then an electric hover mower would make keeping the lawn properly maintained a daunting prospect, just as a ride on mower would prove very clumsy on a small lawn and probably wouldn’t give as nice a finish as say a small rotary mower with a roller. So it’s important to have the right tools for our own personal needs. There may be other tools you need but these are the tools I consider essential for your regular lawn care.
Mowers
With such a wide variety of mowers available it could be quite confusing to know which one you need. There are only really five types of mower you need to consider and they are:
- Rotary Mower
- Cylinder Mower
- Hover Mower
- For bigger lawns Ride on Mowers
And becoming popular recently
Strimmer
For me a lawn never looks finished until the edges have been trimmed and a strimmer is the perfect tool for the job. Ideally a petrol strimmer or for smaller lawns an electric version will do the job just fine. If you don’t have or can’t get a strimmer then for small gardens long handled lawn sheers will give the same effect as a strimmer would, it may just take you a little longer (there’s no hurry though, gardening should be relaxing after all)
Rakes
For regular lawn care there’s only really two rakes you’ll ever need the first is a wire spring rake for removing moss in the spring and autumn and the second is a plastic fan rake for collecting leaves off of the lawn in the autumn. The fan rakes soft make up means you can rake the lawn without worry of damaging the grass
Garden Fork
A garden fork is one of the most versatile and essentials tools you can have in your garden. Used for punching holes into the lawn to aerate the ground before brushing in a top dressing