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Old 05-06-2007, 06:07 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Edging a path

On 5/6/07 16:35, in article , "Anne
Jackson" wrote:

The message from Broadback contains these words:

I would like to create quite a long gravel path in grass around circular
and oval beds. What would the team recommend to edge them with
economically?


I have several thousand old slates, with which I propose to edge beds,
but want to use them thus |||||| rather than _ _ _ _ _ thus, IYSWIM?
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Isn't the edging - yours or Broadback's - going to make it more fiddly to
weed? Both the gravel and the beds, I mean. Anne, I've seen slates used as
you suggest but arranged more like overlapping teeth! It's very effective
as to appearance and a bit (tiny bit) more of a weed barrier.
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