Edging lends a crisp, clean, finished look to a flower bed. It also keeps the lawn from migrating into the bed and mulch from migrating out.

She unwinds the twine and stretches it between the two pegs when edging a straight bed. Curved beds have to be edged by eye. The edging tool Cindy uses is a half-moon shape on a long handle.

When it comes to landscaping, simplicity equals good design and low maintenance. Low maintenance landscapes are designed so that every shrub, tree and flower-bed will all have definite functions ...

Not everyone agrees on the "right" way to prepare a new bed for plants, but I like the age-old method of stripping off the grass, loosening the soil and improving it with compost. Here' s a ...

Another popular edging is the ‘natural’ border. It’s easy as 1, 2, 3, seriously! First, take a shovel or half-moon edger and push it about 6 inches in the ground. Move the shovel down creating your ...

Creating borders or garden edging establishes a defined space and gives your garden a more complete look. Use edging to make the space stand out or to create a garden bed for your pollinator garden, ...

Carefully spray those or use an edger from time to time. Soon, weeds too will be appearing in flower beds. Keep them at bay with a thick application of mulch, 2-3″ is ideal.

Drawing the lines on flower beds Edging: Many items — shells, tiles, bricks, old bottles, even bones — can mark the borders between flowers, the lawn and other garden components.

Although I am right handed and automatically place my right foot on the edging tool, it is equally balanced for using either your left or right foot, although I wouldn't recommend using both feet ...

She added that she believes the Colesworthys' flower bed edging is set in cement. Gould said the commission's handbook was amended around 1991 to specifically list Belgian block as inappropriate.