How to create flower bed edging like a pro!
This guide shares how to edge flowerbeds like a pro using one simple garden tool! It's an easy DIY technique that offers instant and outstanding results!
Tools:
- garden hose or rope
Instructions:
How to cut flower bed edges
- Create the shape of your flowerbed with a garden hose or rope.
- Insert a half moon edger into the ground, then cut along your guide. Use the edge of the blade for continuous cuts, like cutting a cake with a knife.
- Remove the chunks of turf, breaking them up into smaller pieces.
- Turn turf pieces over, removing as much soil as possible. Place turf upside down in the compost.
- Using a garden trowel, create a shallow trench along the fresh cut, mounding the soil up towards the flowerbed.
- With garden shears, trim the grass edges horizontally and vertically to create a super crisp edge in both directions. Do not trim the grass on an angle.
- Hand-scoop up the grass clippings.
How to Maintain
- When it's time to mow the lawn, cut as close to the flower bed edge as possible.
- Trim the rest of the uncut grass with hand sheers or a weed trimmer.
- Cut the flower bed edge horizontally and vertically to achieve the sharpest look.
- Recut flower bed edges each spring to maintain.
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