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DIY Lawn Edging: What Are Your Options if You Do It Yourself?

The actual process of lawn edging — or better, “landscape edging” — can sometimes feel like a chore. However, if you want your lawn to look nice and tidy, it’s a chore that simply must be done. But does it have to be a chore? Lawn or landscape edging products not only help you create those clean lines easier, but can make maintaining them simpler too. Furthermore, if you decide to do it yourself, DIY lawn edging products are available to make it affordable and easy as well. So, what are your options in DIY lawn edging if you decide to do it yourself? Some of the different types of DIY landscape edging options that exist include wood beams or...

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Is Professional Landscape Edging Better Than DIY?

If you are one who takes pride in your lawn and garden, you’re probably no stranger to the idea or concept of landscape edging. Even if you don’t currently have landscape edging in your yard, you’ve likely considered it at some point. If so, you’ve probably wondered… “Is professional landscape edging better than DIY landscape edging? If so, how and why?” Why Use Landscape Edging? Landscape edging makes it significantly easier to keep a clean line between your lawn and flower beds, and even between lawn and hardscape, such as sidewalks and driveways. Landscape edging also helps to keep grass from choking out flowers and flower beds. Even better, all this happens EASIER than if you try to perform these...

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Your Grass Barrier: How to Edge a Yard In Under 3 Hours

When you take pride in your lawn, it can bring you immense joy. In fact, it can seem like nothing looks better than when your lawn is freshly cut and especially, freshly edged too. Unfortunately, many people carry the mistaken impression that edging a lawn — but especially, maintaining a well-edged lawn — can be a lot of hard work. In fact, it can sometimes seem or feel like it’s too much work. But the good news is that isn’t always the case! A freshly edged yard doesn’t have to take a super long time. In fact, it is possible to edge a yard quickly and easily with the secrets below on how to edge a yard in under three...

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Installing Plastic Edging: 5 Little Known Tricks for Easiest Installation

Plastic landscape edging is both practical and inexpensive, making it a great landscape edging option for tons of people wanting to upgrade their landscape. Even better news… installing plastic edging can be quick and easy if you educate yourself on tips and tactics — and do a little prep work — first! Typically, plastic edging comes in kits that provide everything you’ll need for a successful installation. These kits usually include the plastic edging pieces, stakes to provide stability, and connectors to allow your edging to flow seamlessly around your garden bed. Again, the plastic landscape edging process is relatively simple and can be accomplished in just a few hours. To make the process of installing plastic edging even more...

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Landscape Edging "Best Practices": How to Do It Right

Every time you see a beautifully landscaped and edged lawn, do you feel a little green with envy? Wonder how they do it—how they get that clean, sleek, line and maybe even more important (and confusing!) than that… how do they keep it that way over time? It’s no doubt that edging gives a lawn a finished, polished, look. However, it can also serve a functional purpose as well, keeping grass and weeds off of driveways and sidewalks and out of gardens and beds. Because of this dual purpose in terms of the benefits of landscape edging, there can be many different techniques and strategies for landscape edging one can take when creating and maintaining a cleanly manicured, edged, lawn....

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