Precast concrete flower bed edging stones are easy to install. Lay out the shape of the bed with a rope or garden hose, then use a flat-blade spade to make a trench.

When you face a flower bed and can’t immediately tell what’s a weed and what’s a flower, ... Curved beds have to be edged by eye. The edging tool Cindy uses is a half-moon shape on a long ...

The idea was to bury them in the ground to provide a guide and barrier between the lawn and flower beds. However, the combination of the different seasons and our soil the plastic never lasted long ...

Then use an edging tool to cut a line around the perimeter. 2.) Strip off the sod in foot-wide sections, using a shovel to get underneath and disconnect the roots.

However, I do like to see a clear divide between the lawn and flower beds, without having long spikes of grass merging the two divides. Once my grass has been mown, it always looks much neater if ...

Good gardeners draw the fine line between flower beds and the rest of the garden in the most ingenious ways. Rocks, conch shells, glazed or terra-cotta tiles, low boxwood hedges, stout planks and s… ...

Clint says to bury the edging at least 3-4" deep so that the underground rhizomes of the grass can't get through. But there are still above-ground stolons/runners that crawl and spread.