10 Best lawnmowers for keeping your garden tidy

With summer comes the desire to be outdoors, naturally you’ll find yourself in your garden a bit more and while there, you may also find that you need to cut the lawn if it’s a bit overgrown. It does take a bit of work to maintain a clean and healthy garden but you could say that it starts with trimmed and tidy grass.

So, if you have an older, worn lawnmower and are looking for a new one or just want to upgrade to something better, this is the list for you.

This Bosch lawnmower is an Amazon edition, with a standard lawnmower body as well as an additional blade. It has three cutting height settings, of 20, 40 and 60mm for precise and accurate cutting.

Also, at just 9kg, it’s relatively easy to pack up and carry around.

 

This Einhell lawnmower is cordless—so great for easy maneuverability around a garden. It’s powered by a rechargeable lithium-ion battery and a brushless motor, with five different cutting height settings to take on small or large lawns up to 200 square metres.

 

The Flymo SimpliGlide 330 is a slightly smaller unit compared to a standard Bosch or Hyundai mower, allowing it to also fold flat for easy storage. It has a ten-metre cable length for effective use around a garden and is powered by a 1700 watt motor.

The SimplGlide also drops grass cuttings back onto the lawn, which acts as a natural fertiliser.

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Conversely, this Hyundai electric rotary lawnmower is a smartly large machine, with a rear roller for creating a striped lawn and a 30-litre grass box for storing a day’s hard work of mowing.

It has a wide cutting width of 38cm, for effective and quick mowing, accompanied by a ten-metre cable for flexibly getting around a garden.

 

The Webb classic has been voted as best buy in BBC’s Gardeners’ world magazine is a traditional looking lawnmower, with an elongated design to fit its large 35-litre grass collection bag.

The machine also comes in two other skews, with 1600w and 1800w of power respectively,

 

The Bosch Rotak is a great all-purpose corded mower that’s good for getting the job done, with a 31-litre grass box that will require less emptying.

It’s also easy to handle and steer around the garden, weighing just 6.8kg.

 

This lawnmower made from sturdy metal is light and easy to move around, combining a cutting width of 36cm with an 1800w motor. There is slightly less grass storage (26 litres) with this unit but it features a transparent box for showing you when to empty it.

The mower also has an ambidextrous handle allowing you to use it with either hand.

 

Coming in a hyper-green colour, this battery-powered mower has height-cutting settings ranging from 25-65mm for your ideal choice of grass length. The machine features an ergonomic handle with five height settings to accommodate different people and a collapsible grass bag, for easy storage.

 

Another battery-powered lawnmower, this unit has a 30-litre grass collection bag, along with a rear roller for producing a classic striped finish to a lawn.

 

This Black + Decker lawnmower is compact and easy to move around the garden for efficient grass cutting. It has an electric rotary mower, which is great for smaller gardens and lawns up to 250 square metres.

Also included is a 250w strimmer for cutting dense grass and hedge trimming, which comes with a cable management system to avoid pulled and tangled cords.

 

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