Edging a lawn

[ButternutSquash]

Not sure where to post this one. Anyway, I completely renovated my lawn - rotavated, reseeded - and have edged it using an edging spade, creating a trench between the lawn, and beds i.e. decorative plants, fruit and veg, and herbs. No doubt the vertical edge will eventually be colonised with plants.

What do people here do? How do they keep it clear?

Does anyone use lawn edging such as Everedge? I installed some Everedge round a side bed as a trial. I found it easy to install, although I had to remove a large flint that bent a spike. The alternative of bricks laid on sand takes much longer to install. I am thinking of doing all beds with it, since I want an easy maintenance garden, well, apart from me veggies. I don't mind cutting the lawn, but I hate using shears to trim a lawn edge.

[Bigmallly]

Put some timber planks on their edge. Dig out narrow channels to sit the timber in to the height you require.

[WendyC]

I edge with edging shears and run the hoe round if needed. Rarely takes long.

[Martin H]

When I still had a lawn I did the same as Wendy. I would re-cut a clean edge every spring while attending to any bare patches.

[ButternutSquash]

Thanks all.

I edge with edging shears and run the hoe round if needed. Rarely takes long.

I have sixty metres or so to edge, add that to the lawn mowing, veg patch maintenance, hedge cutting and shredding, it all adds up.

[ButternutSquash]

Put some timber planks on their edge. Dig out narrow channels to sit the timber in to the height you require.

It certainly is one approach, and can look quite good

[dim]

Lawn Edging | Landscape Edging | Rite-Edge

not the cheapest, but the best IMHO

[Martin H]

If you do edge it, make sure the top of the edging is level with the ground so that you can run your mower over it without interruption or damage.

[Greenleaves]

My Grandads lawn had grassed edges, I have no idea how it is done but many a person admired it. But being an ex RSM he treated his lawn like he did his parade square.

[WendyC]

Thanks all.



I have sixty metres or so to edge, add that to the lawn mowing, veg patch maintenance, hedge cutting and shredding, it all adds up.

Can't help you with lack of time! Takes about 10 minutes if that to go round my allotment plot which has a perimeter of approximately 32m.