Lawnmower Safety and Young Children

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Each year in the summer, some truly awful injuries happen in back gardens throughout the country where children have been hurt in accidents with powered lawnmowers. So whether you have an electric or a petrol lawnmower, you need to take extra care as the number of injuries to children in the USA alone, is estimated to be about 20,000 each year. Whilst most accidents with a petrol lawnmower seem to be associated with ride on mowers, they occur with petrol and electric walk behind models too. The following tips are intended to be helpful in preventing similar injuries from...

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A Guide to Mulching Your Lawn

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There are occasions when you should not mulch your lawn.  For example, your lawn may have been allowed to grow much longer than usual on occasion, perhaps because work or family commitments have prevented you from getting the grass cut when it should have been.  In addition, wet weather sometimes persists in the summer months, necessitating cutting the grass whilst it is wet.  Under these circumstances, it is unwise to use the resulting clippings as a lawn mulch, they will be much better used as compost as wet clippings will be unevenly distributed and will form clumps which may...

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