It’s not difficult to fix your lawn if it looks patchy, weedy or uneven. Here’s how you do it.

If your lawn edges have taken a pounding over the winter months, spring is the ideal time to re-restablish neat boundaries.

The best time to use a cultivator on your garden or allotment soil is autumn or spring, depending on the type of soil in your area. Autumn, before the rain and snow soak the ground, is better for clay soils.