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12-05-2003, 09:20 PM

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Kay Easton wrote:
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What do people suggest as the best ways of edging areas used to grow
vegetables?

We have a number of small vegetable plots we are 'developing' in our
garden which has no really natural borders (there's seven acres
altogether!). Currently they are just dug over areas in an area of
mown grass but it'll be much easier to keep them tidy and weed free if
they have edges.

I have put brick edging around one patch (where we're growing
strawberries very successfully) but would like to know of alternatives
that would be easier, cheaper and/or better.

Best alternative is to get rid of the grass between the veg beds! Grass
is an excellent coloniser of bare ground and will happily work its way
through any edging you put there. I'd suggest devoting an area to
'vegetable garden, surrounding the whole thing by a wide path, and
keeping grass well out of the veg garden.

The question still applies, what do I edge the path(s) with? :-)

I can't help you there! I've got bricks, laid sort of diagonally on end
to make a zig-zag top, and gravel paths.
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Kay Easton

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