Gardening

Yes every once in a while the blades do need to be sharpened. You can buy a kit for about 30 bucks from Scotts. I stopped using my reel, I have a very small piece of lawn, last year. It just got to be too time consuming. We are converting more and more of the property into edibles. I needed more time to tend to that project.
So long story short we purchased an eletric mower, battery run. The Worx mower. Looks like a toy when you get it out of the box, but cuts awesomely. It's just 14 inches (deck measurement) but no pushing thru the grass. Lots easier.

Here's a link to the mower. It won't do exactly what a gas mower will but it's very quite and very easy to use. This will be my second year with it. Now I have the ease of a gas mower and a clearer conscience about the environment as I did with the reel.

https://www.worx.com/en-US/24V_mower_wg782.aspx

Hope this helps. Do some homework, you may be able to get a better price from some online dealers.