Using landscape edging around the perimeter of your garden is both aesthetic and practical. The edging gives a defined and visually pleasing boarder for your garden and also helps keep grass and weeds from your surrounding lawn from creeping into your vegetable garden.
Here’s a quick guide to installing your own landscape edging:
1. Remove any weeds or roots from your garden that may get in the way of your edging.
2. Loosen your garden’s soil and dig a 6-inch deep trench around the perimeter of your vegetable garden.
3. Set the landscape edging into the trench and trim to fit the length of the trench, if needed. A serrated bread knife works well.
4. If your garden is longer than one roll of landscape edging use the provided connectors to piece together multiple rolls of edging.
5. Use the provided stakes to secure your edging into the ground.
6. Fill in your trench with the soil you dug up until only the top third of the edging is visible above the ground.
7. Tamp down on the loose soil with your foot to secure the edging. Give the soil around the edging a good watering to further compact the soil.
And that’s how to install landscape edging around your garden. It’s a quick, afternoon project but it will make a big difference to the look of your vegetable garden.
Join us next time when we reveal organic ways to get rid of unwanted garden pests.
Until then—go plant something tasty!
