Gardening expert Tom Strowlger has shared how a simple lawn edging product can keep gardens looking neat and tidy all year round, while also saving time on maintenance.
Benefits of Lawn Edging
Strowlger, who loves formal garden borders, explains that edging creates a defined space and separation between the lawn and borders containing trees, shrubs, plants, and flowers. The sight of formal borders is common at stately gardens and parks, leaving gardeners dreaming of the same in their own gardens.
A lawn edging product is not just nice on the eye but comes with real garden benefits. It saves time, keeps the lawn looking neat and tidy all year round, and helps to support quilts of mulch. Lawn edging prevents the lawn grass from encroaching into borders and beds, significantly reducing the time spent on maintaining garden beds and borders.
How It Works
The lawn grass also benefits from not having weeds encroaching into it, with the edging acting as a barrier against roots. Edging can also support wood chipping and mulch in beds and borders.
Strowlger has used lawn edging for many years and describes it as one of his favourite garden products. It is easy to create beds and borders which are curved and even circular, not just straight line edging.
Installation Tips
He advises having a kneeling pad, small pieces of rectangular wood, mallet, lawn edging tool, and gloves ready for installing lawn edging. Always follow instructions contained within the packaging when installing.
In next to no time, gardeners can turn their garden borders into a spectacle and save time on maintaining the lawn and borders edges. Last week, Strowlger advised gardeners to plant one specific flower for a "lovely display" next spring.
