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Discover our Jim’s Mowing NZ blog articles here – with great ideas, insights, and tips to help you with your garden.

How to Look After Your Garden While You’re Away

Whether it’s a few days up the coast or a few weeks overseas, it can be important to consider what will happen to your garden while you’re away on holiday. We have a couple of tips you can adopt to help ensure your garden is taken care of while you’re off relaxing on holiday!

How to Prepare Your Lawn for the Winter Months

Now is the perfect time to prepare your lawn for the cold months ahead, but just what does that entail? We’ve got a few pointers below that can help you ensure your lawn is at its strongest and healthiest for winter and the months to follow.

What are 4 Plants That Can Grow In Poor Soil

While you could choose to grow plants in pots, or add potting mix and manure to a section of ground, there are some plants that are able to handle poor soil for those who would rather get straight into gardening. We’ve listed four plants that can grow well in poor soil, to help get you started on your gardening journey.

What are Three Hypoallergenic Flowers That Bloom in Spring

In this article we take a look at three hypoallergenic flowers that bloom during the spring. Some of these plants need to be planted in other seasons, meaning it may be preparing for next spring before you’re enjoying their beautiful blooms.

What are the Top Cat-Friendly Plants?

In this article, we take a look at a range of different cat-friendly plants, so you can relax, knowing even the most exploratory taste-testing kitty will be safe. Keep reading to learn a little bit about some non-toxic plants for cats!

How to Identify Different Lawn Diseases

Proper treatment begins with the correct diagnosis. To the untrained eye, lawn diseases like dollar spots, brown patches, and Pythium may look the same. Indeed, these and other diseases may share a few features which makes it doubly difficult to ascertain the specific disease which plagues your lawn. The failure to correctly identify your lawn’s […]

How clean are your gutters?

Many homeowners don’t get their gutters cleaned until there is a noticeable issue. Sadly, that is kind of like waiting to reduce your cholesterol until after you have had a heart attack. Gutters often go overlooked – with so many other things to address, and who likes to climb up ladders unless you have to […]

Got Junk?

Get your yard back and clear out all that rubbish – you will be amazed at just what an impact this will have on the space you gain back to enjoy with friends and family again Without realizing it, many people allow things to start piling up in their yards quite innocently. And yet before […]

Garden Irrigation Maintenance Tips

Planting a garden is one thing, but garden maintenance is ongoing. The planting is merely the beginning of the work – now you have to start staking, watering, mulching and the ongoing schedule of plant and garden care. There is a lot involved in maintaining your garden – which is why more than a few things […]

Fun family friendly garden ideas

Gardening can be exciting for the whole family and it’s great to be able to enjoy some hobbies with your children. There are plenty of great child friendly garden ideas that will keep them interested. Grown Edibles in Your Garden By planting tasty treats that you can later pick and enjoy together, everyone can get […]