Mowed six times a week and nurtured for 40 years ...no wonder it’s Britain’s best lawn!

HE cuts the grass six times a week and reckons to have spent 60,000 hours tending his beloved garden.

And for Stuart Grindle, all the effort has paid off after his hallowed turf was named as Britain’s best lawn.

Retired joiner Mr Grindle, 74, ensures the grass retains a carpetlike finish by using the same type of seed that golf courses use for their greens. He also discourages anyone from walking on it, even his family.

Mr Grindle – whose lawn has appeared on Gardeners’ World on BBC 2 – has spent 30 hours a week for the past 40 years tending his garden in Tickhill, Doncaster. His wife Anne, 74, even has to ring a bell when she wants him to come in.

‘The lawn is my pride and joy, I even cut through the winter,’ he said.

He cuts the lawn using his handpush 14-blade 1947 Ransome Certes mower that once belonged to a groundsman at a bowling green.

His prize for winning the national competition, sponsored by gardening firm EGO Power+, included a multi-tool, for trimming and cutting, and a cordless electric mower... but Mr Grindle, pictured with his new mower, insists he will remain loyal to the old hand-push one.