King Charles' former gardener Jack Stooks has shared why you should delay mowing your lawn this weekend. With temperatures reaching up to 34 degrees in some parts of the UK, many will be embracing the outdoors.

Should gardening chores, such as mowing the lawn, be a part of the plan however, Jack has shared why you may want to have a rethink. He explained: "You shouldn't be cutting lawns when it's too hot, so if you can get away with cutting lawns, really just don't cut your lawns.

"I know they might look a bit scraggly for a couple weeks but, you know, once you've got the the rain coming down and in, then cut them."

Jack says following this method will make them "green up quite quickly", than if you were "constantly cutting them".

He explained: "If you're constantly cutting them, you know, week after week like the normal cyclical maintenance that you would normally do on lawns, ideally you want to stop that when it's too hot and just allow the grass to to just be.

"Because otherwise, you'd be taking all of the nutrients out of the grass the whole time, and all of moisture in the leaves as well."

Speaking to Reach PLC this week, Jack, who worked at the King's Highgrove House Gardens for over 20 years, said he had left his lawn for "about three weeks".

"So when it rained, the last time it rained down here I then quickly gave it a cut, but again I went a bit higher than I normally would," he added.

"I don't think it matters, you know, having it a little bit longer, and then once you do cut it, it does cut quite quickly off because it's not obviously really going crazy, because it's so hot.

"So you're getting sort of scraggly bits coming up, but it's not like a full mat of grass that you normally would have if it was quite lush and moist."

So how do you get a perfect lawn?

Jack says having a perfect lawn doesn't have to be complicated. He says letting it be "as natural as possible" could actually save you a regular job.

"But if you want to have that perfect green, you know, constant cutting, you've then got to think about cutting it weekly," he added.

Additionally, weekly maintenance could also spark higher water costs.

He continued: "You've got to think about if it's dry, you got to then keep watering it, which will then just incur your costs on all your water bills. If we've then got hosepipe bans, you know that will then cause a whole lot of problems as well. "

To avoid this, Jack suggests: "When it's raining is ideally when you want to start feeding the lawn and you can buy really made lawn feed now, or you can put like a nitrogen fertiliser on it," believed to be a great way to promote lush, green, and healthy grass.