This Old House landscape contractor Roger Cook creates a clean garden edge. (See below for a shopping list and tools.)
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Full episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwYbN-3g7ss&index=11&list=PLkJADc1qDrr-ZmCu0t_YNmTXHVt80JDyE
How to Build a Raised Garden Bed: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hFGE3plxSSE&list=PLkJADc1qDrr_0NxtmzECiOWkr5de82kXV&index=343
How to Prepare a Raised Garden Bed for Winter: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jhJf4qiN16Q&list=PLkJADc1qDrr_0NxtmzECiOWkr5de82kXV&index=186
How to Keep a Lawn and Garden Beds Separate: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X_pX0k-3des&list=PLkJADc1qDrr_0NxtmzECiOWkr5de82kXV&index=107
Shopping List for How to Edge a Garden Bed:
– Pine-bark mulch, used to cover soil of newly expanded garden bed
Tools for How to Edge a Garden Bed:
– Metal edger, used to cut new edge along garden bed
– Garden rake, for spreading bark mulch
– Shovel, used to dig old grass from new garden bed and to transplant plants
– Wheelbarrow, used to transport bark mulch
– Garden hose, used to establish the outline of the new garden bed
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Thank you for making this video! It is a great help to get the look I want.
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I have that edger tool but have never thought to use it for that purpose..you have saved me a lot of time and effort. I always add compost or a mix of compost and peat to the soil since the sod has been removed. It's just a good time to amend soil even if it is good quality. How did you level that area out? tamping?
lets do this right and lay some nice brick down. raise the beds up behind the brick. then when you trim or edge the grass it won't be flying into the beds. with your method you will spend every weekend pulling dead grass clippings out of there from the string trimmer.
You can use a garden hose to mark your barrier or you can buy a can of marking spray paint
0:35 What kind of moon? Roger, you've been hanging-out with non-New Englanders too long, picking-up their weird accents. For shame!
This won't work with Bermudagrass… it will creep right across into the planting bed. I have to hit the edge with Roundup about every month or two
You recently published this. Why again so soon?