Doncaster man with Britain's best lawn shares tips for keeping your grass looking good

Stuart Grindle, 81, from Tickhill, won the coveted prize in 2017, revealing that he cut his grass twice a day, three times a week, watering it for four hours each day.

And Stuart has revealed his secrets to maintaining perfectly healthy grass - but warns that it is extremely tricky to do so.

He says that it's not as simple as watering grass in hot weather and hoping for the best after giving it a cut.

Fortunately for green-fingered Britons, Stuart has shared his most effective ways for keeping grass in top condition with summer fast approaching.

Speaking to The Daily Star, he said: “You don't want to be overcutting at this time because all you'll do is stress the lawn out and you'll just get wear patches where you turn the mower.”

Stuart, who lives with his wife Anna, 80, continued by warning gardeners to be more flexible when it comes to their mowing schedules, noting that many people will have a specific day each week when they cut their lawn.

He added that cutting the grass when it is too wet could be more damaging in the long-term, urging fellow gardeners to resist the temptation and wait until a later period once the grass has dried slightly.

On the flip side, the award-winning lawn keeper said that, if you have no other option but to mow the grass when it is soggy and wet, the lawnmower you use should be raised to a height of 25 to 30mm.

Fortunately for gardeners who are struggling to contend with high quantities of moss - which can grow heavily in damp conditions - Stuart shared another useful tip of his own.

He said: “Moss is a problem this time of year. But it's easily got rid of, all you need is to go to your local market gardeners and get a little box of iron sulphate, and it will tell you how to dilute that.”

Once you have scarified the moss, broken it off and over-fed it with the iron sulphate solution, the gardening expert said that it will take mere hours for the moss to be killed off.