How much storage space do you have and where is it?

Hand and electric machines can be stored in the house if there is nowhere else dry, but petrol-engined machines (and the petrol can) must be stored in an outbuilding. Alternatively, store the mower outside beneath a special cover (eg made by Bosmere), but only if there is no risk of theft.

Most, but not all, mowers have folding handles to save on space. Grass collectors take up space too and the rigid types can take up as much room as the mower, although they can often be balanced on top of the machine, out of the way.