Lawn care, read on its published figures
Find the mower
that suits the lawn you actually have
Mowers on gas, on batteries, on a cord and on their own — then the dethatcher, the blower, the pump and the timer, and the hoses, reels, sprinklers and sprayers around them. Compared on the lines that decide whether a purchase was worth making: what cutting width a machine really has, whether a battery is in the box, which robot fits your yard, and what a listing leaves out. Every product is read on Amazon.com.
- The sections of the site
- 23
- Machines reviewed
- 105
- Accessories & spares
- 50
Every family, from the mower to the blade that fits it
Start from the job the lawn is asking for
12 families bought once and kept for years on end, 11 that wear out, run out and get bought again. Each hub compares one family and opens with a direct answer to “which one should I buy?”, followed by the published specification most often misread when buying it.
- Gas lawn mowers Engine, deck width and which wheels drive
- Battery lawn mowers Voltage is not the number that decides
- Corded electric mowers Light, cheap and tied to an outlet
- Reel mowers No engine, no cord, and very close cuts
- Robot lawn mowers Wire-free navigation, area and slope
- Dethatchers Tines rake out, blades slice in
- Leaf blowers CFM moves leaves, MPH lifts them
- Garden tillers Width, depth and how far you are from an outlet
- Lawn sweepers Pushed or towed, and the size of the bag
- Chipper shredders Branch thickness and the power to feed it
- Garden pumps Flow and head never peak together
- Water timers Clockwork, battery or Wi-Fi
- Lawn aerators Spike length is the figure
- Lawn rollers Filled weight, width and how it moves
- Garden hoses Length, pressure and what the listing leaves out
- Hose reels Retractable, wall crank or cart
- Hose connectors Brass or plastic, with or without a stop
- Sprinklers Oscillating, spike or rotating
- Drip irrigation kits Tubing, emitters and pressure
- Hose nozzles Patterns, lock and fit
- Pump sprayers Tank, wand and seals
- Grass shears For edges a mower cannot reach
- Weeders For a single weed at a time
How LawnVerdict works
What this site holds itself to on every page
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Ranked on what makers print, never on what a sale pays
Commission has no say in where anything ranks. When the cheapest machine is the sensible buy, the page says so, as it does for the $79 SENIX dethatcher. When a dearer one earns its cost, the page explains why.
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The deciding figure, with its source beside it
Deck width in inches, a stated area kept beside the assumption it rests on, and a runtime kept beside the battery it was stated for. When a listing contradicts itself, the review says so. A figure no maker published is marked as missing.
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Read on Amazon.com, with an American offer
Every product here is read on Amazon.com, from a US address. The button opens that listing, and the price beside it is the live one. Products with no American offer are removed from the shelf.
What the money buys
Three levels of spend, and the line between them
The numbers come from the machines reviewed here, not from any market average.
Entry level
$10 – $116
- Machines reviewed
- 35
- Shelves
- 9
Mid range
$117 – $207
- Machines reviewed
- 35
- Shelves
- 10
Upper range
$220 – $2600
- Machines reviewed
- 35
- Shelves
- 10
Which maker builds what
The makers, by part of the garden
50 brands appear in the products published here. The ones below carry the most models.
- LawnMaster8 models · 5 categories
- BLACK+DECKER6 models · 2 categories
- WORX6 models · 4 categories
- Greenworks5 models · 3 categories
- American Lawn Mower4 models · 2 categories
- Orbit4 models · 1 categories
- Segway4 models · 1 categories
- Sun Joe4 models · 2 categories
The live figure beside a product went and asked the shop for it the moment this page opened; any amount written into the text has not moved since the sentence was drafted, and it is the first of the two that counts.