For those with edging questions

[RRS]

I've noticed that there seems to be some folks that have questions about concrete edging and bed edging. I hope this helps.

This is concrete edging, or the edging being refered to when someone says mowing, trimming, edging trimming.

[RRS]

Better photo of concrete edging

[RRS]

Trimming Concrete

Once the driveway, sidewalk, curb, etc has been edged it is easier to maintain with a trimmer.

[RRS]

Bed Edging

This is bed edging. Everyone has a different method for edging beds. Roy here likes this sidewalk scraper. I prefer a flat shovel. Many on here prefer spades, whatever floats you boat. These beds haven't been edged or mulched since last year by the way.

[RRS]

Trimming Beds

Once the beds have been edged they can be maintained with a trimmer.

[RRS]

[RRS]

This is concrete edging, or the edging being refered to when someone says mowing, trimming, edging trimming.

Mowing, trimming, edging, *blowing.

[hardboiled]

Real Nice! thats something that can help improve this sight, more pictures to explain technique. Not that it needs improvement, mind you.
Some folks are just more visual and can learn something from being shown easier than told. I like your approach in addressing the questions and hope others follow suit. Nice looking beds.

[RRS]

Thanks hardboiled. Like I mentioned these beds and the driveway haven't been touched since last year. This is a regular customer of mine, and we are actually out there working on a retaining wall project, but I figured I'd snap a couple of photos to show here. The grass is still dormant as you can see. Hopefully nobody will critique the beds or edging too much. We'll be mulching them in the next week or so, and maybe I'll post so pics of that as well.

[steve-o]

what kind of edger do you use and those pictures are very helpfull.......

[floridalawncare]

hey rrs. ever use an "edger" to make that edge in your flower beds?

[Bikehigh]

So, what method would you recomend to edge a flagstone walkway, cut into a lawn? I don't want to damage the flagstone with a gas powered edger. I'm assuming I'll need to do it manually.



What's everyone's take on that edger, BTW?

[Phillip Baker]

Is that a step edger? Put in place and then step and cut. And is the gas edger in the first picture a split shaft Echo? Looks like the one I had a couple of yrs ago..I use my gas powered on driveways curbs etc....i use a flat shovel on pavestone and flag stone to cut it in appox 2-3 inches out from the stone itself then I maintain that with my weedeater inverted like in the picture. By the way nice pictures this will help alot of new guys with technics, that they dont understand when explained in words alone.

[Bikehigh]

Is that a step edger? Put in place and then step and cut. And is the gas edger in the first picture a split shaft Echo? Looks like the one I had a couple of yrs ago..I use my gas powered on driveways curbs etc....i use a flat shovel on pavestone and flag stone to cut it in appox 2-3 inches out from the stone itself then I maintain that with my weedeater inverted like in the picture. By the way nice pictures this will help alot of new guys with technics, that they dont understand when explained in words alone.

2 to 3 inches of edge is never going to cut it on the lawn I picked up. It's meticulous. It's gonna have to be edged every time it needs doing, to get a nice sharp edge.

[Phillip Baker]

Bikehigh, mabey you misunderstood I use the power edger on every job every time we mow It comes off the trailor at everyjob along with the mowers and weedeaters, when i said 2-3 inches I meant the space between the grass and flag stone or pave stone is 2 -3 inches from the grass edge. on flower beds with no lawn edging or landscape timbers or rock we always cut the edge with the weedeater like in the fourth picture with the weedeater head upside down this easier because the blade will dig in and mess up your cut if it has no solid edge to run agianst....does that make sense........I wish I had a picture now...