Pushmowers are useless. They only work if you have a patch of grass 10ft by 10ft and the grass never grows. I can recall tolerating one in Australia which just wouldn't cut cooch. We have one here in Arizona and it does not work either. We end up weed-whacking the grass first and then using the push mower. It is simpler and more efficient to use an electric mower for small plots. The back and forth over the same blade of grass fifty times wears thin very quickly. (more)