So... do teeny tiny lawn mowers actully exist?

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We have a really small patio garden (approx 8' x 10') and I would love to have some grass for DS to play on, but we don't have room for a lawn mower.

I've done a google search, but can't find anything - do really small lawnmowers (that you can keep in a cupboard) exist, or is this wishful thinking on my part?

any other suggestions for useable garden very gratefully received.

I have a hand push lawnmower that I got from a local garden centre for about £30. Something like this.

We've got a tiny lawn and just use an old fashioned push along. I love doing it, very theraputic.

MollieO's link would do the job well and doesnt take up heaps of room - I think they have similar in Home Bargains atm if you have one near you

HTH

we have one like mollies suggestion, perfect for the smaller lawn, and yes fits in a cupboard! good luck.

cool - i would LOVE a mowbot/robomow but sadly have more important things to spend £800 on

needs to be uber tiny - i'e' fit in a kitchen cupoard type space.

Not asking a lot here, am i

a strimmer? we used to strim our whole (small) lawn with that, cos a mower would have been RIDICULOUS on such a small patch. you need to be fairly even handed to get an even lawn, but it worked for us

sounds good. think i was overestimating with the size... i can just about lie down on it

The thread title made me think of pontipines They have a very neat lawn...

A lot of my neighbours have those pushalong ones and they do a lovely job, and are small... My neighbours seem to have ones without the collector on the back which reduces the size quite a bit too.

Hi. I have done this - put tiny lawn in tiny courtyard garden so tinies (can you see a theme here!) can play on blanket and have paddling pool out etc and looks nice and green from my window. We have small push along which agree is nice and therapeutic to push up and down (for less than 5 mins as is so small ) BUT you do need grass box or you will mow for 5 mins then rake and sweep for ages (and also tiny lawn is tiny patch of mud in no time unfortunately as each individual bit gets too much wear compared to larger area - don't regret it though as has been nice for the children). Good luck! (someone I know cuts her small lawn with shears, and I have been known to edge mine with kitchen scissors while no one is looking)

You could do a wildflower lawn (not meadow - too high) which would be very pretty and is very low maintenance - once it is established it will only need to be cut once a year or so with a strimmer, mower or shears which you might be able to borrow from someone else as you'd need it so infrequently

wildflower lawn seeds

Try hand lawnmowers like the one here
www.mowerexpress.co.uk/acatalog/Mower_Express_Hand_Mowers-_Hand_Lawnmowers.html, it looks compact and can go in a cupboard.
Not too expensive either..

Remove the grass and replace with astroturf or similar. Tiny lawns are a pain in the behind and best dispensed with.

My BIL cut's his small patch of lawn with sisscors. Mind you he has OCD.

Can you borrow one from a neighbour? We used to live in a row of four houses with tiny front lawns. Only a couple of us had mowers and we'd take it in turns and do all the lawns at once. Made you feel all neighbourly and wholesome when it was your turn to mow.

I've posted a thread about this before, and had almost identical responses (we have exactly the same problem)

We now have decking

Is this kind of thing a possibility? Trouble with them is having somewhere safe to store them I guess.

Another thing we thought of was getting one of those garden benches with storage underneath, and get a small hand mower that would fit inside there (along with any other garden tools/pots etc)

Wow. OLD thread!