Most homeowners in Western countries and especially in the U.S have a sort of special emotional relationship with their lawns.  For many of us, warmer weather that is approaching means that we will spend more time outdoors engaging in different activities, including gardening. So people living in big urban centers will start working on their terrace gardens. Homeowners, on another hand, will take care of their lawn and turn on their landscaping equipment. 

That said, we also thought that one day, when we become homeowners, our lawn will speak of our values. Hence, after learning that our family is going to expand we got a loan and bought a little house in the suburb.

And of course, since we lived in the city all our lives, we didn’t know anything about lawn care. In all honesty, we didn’t have much knowledge even about gardening either. But one thing we knew – our garden must be beautiful. So we went out, bought all the equipment we deemed necessary, and got to work. Most of the things worked just fine, and we were doing okay planting flowers, trimming shrubs, etc. However, it seemed that we had trouble with our lawnmower.  Each time we trimmed the grass, it looked like it would be better that we didn’t touch anything in the first place. We were a bit ashamed, to tell the truth. It literally looked like someone whose haircut was done by a hairstylist apprentice without a day of training.

So naturally we started wondering “What’s teh problem?”, “What we’re doing wrong?”. After all, we had no idea that trimming the grass would be so challenging. The idea that we bought the wrong machine, did cross our minds for a second, but then we dismissed it. One day, we had our friend Joel come over, and we started talking about this lawn problem. “But it is ridiculous to think that it’s about the mower, isn’t it? All mowers are the same, aren’t they?”! He was puzzled, and said, “Emmm… no. They are not the same. You have to get the one that will work for your turf”. This in turn puzzled us.

So we decided to spend the evening investigating Joel’s claim. As it turns out, he was right. There is a reason why there are so many lawn mowers – they all work for a specific lawn. So after about a month of deeper investigation and discussions with experts from lawn care services, we finally found the lawn mower that works splendidly for our green carpet. This experience made us realize that there are other people in similar situations and could use our support. Thus we decided to share with you all our knowledge about how to choose the best lawn mower.