Most homeowners cutting front- and backyards will get plenty of grass-cutting power from a battery-powered mower.

There’s no reason you couldn’t run the mower over the yard to mulch all those twigs and branches — known as ramial wood — which are rich in nutrients your lawn could use.

I have extensive areas of evergreen ground covers (English ivy, periwinkle, and pachysandra) covering areas that were formerly lawn. Now let us consider the possibility of a vegetable garden and a ...