Lawns kept right through the season

Through the main growing season, roughly April to September, a lawn wants cutting every week or fortnight depending on how you like it and how much rain we have had. West Cumbria grows grass well, so fortnightly is the realistic minimum if you want it to look kept rather than mown. Growth slows in autumn and most gardens want one last tidy before winter.

On a regular cut we normally box the clippings and take them, and where a lawn is large and the grass is short we can mulch it back in, which is better for the lawn and cheaper. For a first cut on grass that has got long there is a lot of material and it always goes. We will agree which one suits your garden at the start.

Yes, and it takes more than one pass. Cutting very long grass straight down to a normal height shocks it and leaves it yellow and thin, so we take the top off, let it recover for a week or two, then bring it down to a proper height. It costs more than a routine cut because of the time and the amount of waste, and after that it goes on a normal round.

Yes, and a fair bit of our work is exactly that, holiday lets and second homes along the coast where the owner is not there to see the grass growing. Grass cut, edges done, hedge kept in shape and the garden looking lived in for the changeover. We can send a photo after each visit if you want to see it.

Weeding, edging and cutting back are all part of what we do, and on a regular round it is easy to add. A lot of gardens go on a grass round and then quietly become a full garden round because it saves ringing two different people for the fence, the hedge and the lawn.