On 23/05/15 23:45, Tom Raider wrote:
Can anyone advise me on lawn edgings? I want to have a neat edge to my lawn
and am thinking about using the corrugated or straight rolls of thin coloured
plastic. There are several makes. Is it as easy as digging a slit about 4
inches deep along the line of the edge and just inserting the required length
and then back-filling with soil? I expect the cheaper ones to fade after a
few years but I’m not overly bothered by that. I’ve seen the metal ones
but they are quite expensive, though may be more rigid and easier to bang in
with a mallet. One disadvantage I can see is that the lawn close to the
edging will have to be cut with shears, or carefully with a strimmer, so as
not to chew up the edging.

At one end of the plastic market Poundstretcher do £2 for 8 metres, and at
the other B&Q is doing £15 for 1.5 metres.

I was in the same position as you a couple of years ago. It seems the
choice is between cheap and temporary, or expensive and permanent. I
used the corrugated green plastic bought in an end-of-season B&Q sale.

It is easy to put in using a lawn edger or spade to cut a slit. The
mower will eventually cut bits of it. It is a bit more resistant to the
strimmer, but that will get it in the end, too. The other thing is that
the damn crows seem to enjoy trying to pull it up!

I think that using harder material is fine for the lawn, but might do
some damage to the mower blades. You might also find that you use a lot
more strimmer line than you did before, as when that hits the hard
edging it gives rather than the edging.

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Jeff