"A Menzies" wrote
We have moved into a newly built house, and we are doing the garden from
scratch. It is only 14 ft by 25 ft, very heavy clay soil, which was
completely waterlogged in the winter, and now has cracks 1'' wide.
We are putting in a garden path and seating area, basically slate
chippings with strategically placed paving stones. We want to use the log
roll as edging to hold the slate in place. What is the best way to anchor
this, bearing in mind I will be digging on the 'border side' to improve
the soil, and put in plants? I don't want the edging falling over etc.
We have had 2 different sets of advice, one to concrete in the log roll
all the way around the edge, the other to use fixing posts about every 3
ft. One edge will be straight, the other will be curved. Anyone any
experience of putting this in? What worked, didn't work, for you?
Thanks for any replies

I use it to edge a bank next to my pond on which is a path, a couple of
decades on I'm on my second lot of log roll the first having rotted. In view
of some problems I had experienced with the first roll, this time I cut up
some old compost plastic sacks and stapled that behind the log roll to
separate it from the damp earth and also no earth can now be washed out
through the little gaps. Hammered in posts about every 3ft and wired the
roll supporting wires to them so it doesn't show.

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Regards
Bob
In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London