Are you looking at those long blades of grass on your thick lawn and dreading mowing them? Master the cross-cut method. It ...

You become a Master Lawn Mower, in my mind, when you've learned to "lay down a pattern" other than the traditional back-and-forth or Leave It to Beaver style of the 1950s. You know what a pattern is: ...

Grass ready for its first cut of 2016? Before you dust off the mower, read this refresher on giving your lawn an even, well-groomed start to the season. Every yard comes with its own mowing obstacles, ...

The most obvious indicator that your lawn is ready for its final cut is that it starts growing more slowly. This typically occurs in late October to early November, especially in cooler weather. But ...

The regular reader knows I am a lawn-mowing fool. Show me a lawn, and in my mind I automatically map out ways I would mow it so the yard would look suitable, or more so, for a magazine cover. OK, it's ...