How to Install Plastic Lawn Edging
Use a sod-cutting spade or tree-planter's dibble to cut the lawn in the desired shape of your flower bed., Remove the sods: Cut the sod into pieces., Dig a trench at the edge of your line: The trench should be as deep as your plastic lawn edging...
Step-by-Step Guide
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Step 1: Use a sod-cutting spade or tree-planter's dibble to cut the lawn in the desired shape of your flower bed.
It is most effective to make the cuts straight downwards (vertical), as this will provide the proper angle for the lawn edging.
Push your spade down below the level of the grass roots (at least 10 inches).
Now, lever the handle of your spade downward to lift up the sod you wish to remove.
This completely loosens all of the grass roots. -
Step 2: Remove the sods: Cut the sod into pieces.
Turn the sods upside down and hit the soil-laden roots with the flat part of your spade to loosen the soil.
Don't cut the roots with the edge of your spade as this will create root cuttings that will grow if left in your flower bed.
Shake out this soil into your flower bed.
Toss the sods in your compost upside down where they can decompose, if you so desire. , For example, if you are using 4-inch deep lawn edging, the trench will be 5 inches deep on the grass side. , The edging will have a natural curl from being wound into a circle for packaging.
Unroll the circle so that the outside of the curl faces your flower bed. , The top of the edging DOES NOT stick above the lawn; it will be almost buried and just visible after you back fill your trench! ,, These are installed horizontally at the base of the lawn edging by hammering them through the edging, just above the reinforcement strip into the soil under the lawn.
They are *not* placed vertically. , The level of the soil should come up to, but not above, the top of the edging.
Adjust the soil height as needed and tamp again. , When you mow the lawn, you can run one wheel on the soil, right over the edging and have no trimming to do. -
Step 3: Dig a trench at the edge of your line: The trench should be as deep as your plastic lawn edging PLUS 2.5 cm.
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Step 4: Unroll your plastic lawn edging and cut to the desired length.
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Step 5: Go against the curl of the edging
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Step 6: slide it into the trench
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Step 7: placing it on the grass side of the trench so that the top of the edging is just level with the base of the growing grass.
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Step 8: Use soil (back fill your trench) to hold the edging in place as you work in sections along the length of your flower bed.
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Step 9: If your desired edge line is wavy
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Step 10: you may need lawn edging stakes to hold the edging in a curve.
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Step 11: Tamp down the backfill immediately adjacent to the edging using your foot sideways (compact the soil).
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Step 12: Know that if the grass tries to invade from the top
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Step 13: just pull it up.
Detailed Guide
It is most effective to make the cuts straight downwards (vertical), as this will provide the proper angle for the lawn edging.
Push your spade down below the level of the grass roots (at least 10 inches).
Now, lever the handle of your spade downward to lift up the sod you wish to remove.
This completely loosens all of the grass roots.
Turn the sods upside down and hit the soil-laden roots with the flat part of your spade to loosen the soil.
Don't cut the roots with the edge of your spade as this will create root cuttings that will grow if left in your flower bed.
Shake out this soil into your flower bed.
Toss the sods in your compost upside down where they can decompose, if you so desire. , For example, if you are using 4-inch deep lawn edging, the trench will be 5 inches deep on the grass side. , The edging will have a natural curl from being wound into a circle for packaging.
Unroll the circle so that the outside of the curl faces your flower bed. , The top of the edging DOES NOT stick above the lawn; it will be almost buried and just visible after you back fill your trench! ,, These are installed horizontally at the base of the lawn edging by hammering them through the edging, just above the reinforcement strip into the soil under the lawn.
They are *not* placed vertically. , The level of the soil should come up to, but not above, the top of the edging.
Adjust the soil height as needed and tamp again. , When you mow the lawn, you can run one wheel on the soil, right over the edging and have no trimming to do.
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