How to get stripes in your lawn when cutting the grass

As a professional gardener, where possible, I always stripe my customer’s lawns when mowing the grass. In the UK especially, it would be expected to get these stripes when paying for a gardener, but is it really that hard to do? The answer is of course not! Anyone can do it with ease providing that…

How to lay a patio in your garden

I’ve been meaning to write this post for a while, but with so much to write about, where do I start? Laying a patio looks easy right? I mean it’s essentially just laying slabs as level as possible right? But there really is so much more to it…But that’s not to say that you can’t…

How to dig post holes through tree roots with pictures

As a landscape gardener, I install garden fences all the time, in fact, I pretty much rely on fencing jobs to see me through the Winter months when the need for gardening is not high on one’s priority list, but old garden fences tend to collapse in the cold and windy months and therefore in…