xavier wrote:
a page about British lawns,
where it said you could only achieve that green carpet by trimming it
with a Royal Enfield cylinder mower (from memory, it could have been
another manufacturer).

The tale is told of an american visitor asking the groundsman at an Oxford
college how the beautiful lawn was achieved.
"you need to roll it four times a year, spike it with a hollow tine aerator
in the spring, seed immediately wherever you take out a weed, and cut it
properly"
"what do you mean properly?" asked the American.
" a really sharp mower set to 3/8 of an inch"
"how often?"
" twice per week...."
"is that all?"
"...for 350 years."