Re: Sawdust, now lawn edge
- Subject: Re: Sawdust, now lawn edge
- From: M* T*
- Date: Sat, 18 May 2002 00:40:39 -0400
Thanks, Claire...just emerging from another bout of massive
deadlines:-) Email so backed up I'll never catch up with the old
messages...
Well, think you have a good point. I've not found a way to keep
edges nice other than good old manual labor periodically. Once in
a blue moon, when my border edge with what passes for lawn gets on my
nerves sufficiently, I go around and re- trench the trench that I use
as a separation. I have more problems with border groundcover
getting into grass than vice versa...but, then, I have little actual
grass in my "lawn":) Grass does not like shade.
I've always thought that if I did have a real lawn and border, best
thing would be about an 18" wide flagstone edging set so it was at
soil line - below top of grass. That would give the border plants
something to flop on and the lawn mower wheel something to ride on,
but bet it would still need some hand tending in the long run. In my
case, it's all speculation as doubt I would ever have a real lawn and
know I'd never get that 18" flagstone edge if I did:-)
Marge Talt, zone 7 Maryland
mtalt@hort.net
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> From: ECPep@aol.com
>
> Nice to see you Marge. I think I will ask if anyone really, really
truly,
> has an edge idea that keeps the garden and lawn separate. Overtime
we have
> put down brick, dug trenched edging, used all kinds of stuff.
Still, a
> gardener and a tool is necessary in the end. I watched two guys in
Kew
> Gardens do it with a propane torch and and an edger that then
defined the
> line. There is now a propane torch/edger combination. We have,
and use with
> fear and trepidation, a weed whacker to clean up the edges.
Sometimes the
> plants disappear at the same time. Also this splendid tool starts
only when
> it feels like it or when the magician appears and sprays it with
interesting
> stuff that makes your eyes water.
>
> What is wanted is a garden area and a lawn area and the easy
possibility of
> driving the lawn mower around and having an edge appear that looks
good.
>
> Claire Peplowski
> NYS z4
>
>
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