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.

--
Chris Green )

4 inch softwood fence posts cost about 80p a foot, not sure about brick
costs, but this can be quite good. They can be lifted and treated annually
to ensure durability.
Neil

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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.

--
Chris Green )

gastropod wrote:
4 inch softwood fence posts cost about 80p a foot, not sure about brick
costs, but this can be quite good. They can be lifted and treated annually
to ensure durability.
Neil

That's quite a good idea, I have some treated 4"x2" (or thereabouts)
fencing timber unused at the moment so I could try that for starters.

For the more rustic look (!) I also have some felled Leylandii trunks
which we kept because they were so straight. Having used some already
to mark out a manège I know they survive remarkably well on/in the
ground.

Thanks for your suggestion.

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Chris Green )

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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.
Chris Green )


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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.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

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? :-)

--
Chris Green )

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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.
--
Kay Easton

Edward's earthworm page:
http://www.scarboro.demon.co.uk/edward/index.htm

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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.

I'd second that. At my last garden we completely surrounded the veg
garden perimeter with a path made of 2x2 concrete slabs (free, 2nd hand)
and it made a huge difference to the weeding. Advertise locally and
you're sure to find someone who's getting their driveway re-done with
natty paviours and is desperate to have the slabs taken away.

Janet.

Janet Baraclough wrote:
The message
from Kay Easton contains these words:

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.

I'd second that. At my last garden we completely surrounded the veg
garden perimeter with a path made of 2x2 concrete slabs (free, 2nd hand)
and it made a huge difference to the weeding. Advertise locally and
you're sure to find someone who's getting their driveway re-done with
natty paviours and is desperate to have the slabs taken away.

Yes, slabs wouldn't be bad I suppose, I must ask around to see if, as
you say, anyone has any going free for the taking away.

--
Chris Green )