Edging

[emilie]

Hi.... I have a question. What do you use for edging in your flower beds?
I have a chain link fence all around our yard. I am wanting to plant 3 foot moon shaped beds at each pole around the yard. At some point I would hope I would have flowers growing all around the periphery but at this point I feel 5-6 small beds is doable and easy....
I like the look of natural stone- where can I buy this or get it cheaply?
What do you do for borders? Can you show me any pictures?
Step by steps. I am not impressed with what I have done so far and I thought I could get by for now with some cheap plastic ****- and um- NO!!!!!!!!!!:eek:
So my other question is how also would I try to keep them looking somewhat symmetrical? I am wanting each bed to contain a different or a few different flowers.... and I know once the flowers are there it will be better.
Anyhow Im rambing. Please critique!
Em:o

[TastyofHasty]

This is what the people we bought our house from did ... (see pic below) brick look goes pretty good with brick of house ... problem with the way it's shaped is ... you can't mow the grass in between the edged bits with the riding lawnmower ... too narrow a space. One important thing to think about with edging is how you are going to mow along it!

I tried taking rocks I'd dug up when digging my garden & making an edge around the garden with them; it was a BAD idea, 'cause the rocks just made a haven for bermuda grass to grow up and all around 'em, right on the edge of the garden where it could, and did, reach inwards into the garden. Best edge I've found for MY place (which I haven't achieved yet) is ... bare dirt about 1-1/2 feet wide all around the edge of the garden.

[louanne]

is that a chicken?//LOL

[TastyofHasty]

That is a ROOSTER ... Name of BigBoy. (and there's a hen further back in the pic, too.)

[windsng225]

Why don't you just try wood of some kind, maybe some sort of logs. Or how about some river stone? You should just go to a place where they sell stone, marble and so on. They will have many choices, home depot has bags of stone, pebbles to use borders or edging.
joyce

[johno]

Logs are a good choice. I use old cedar fence posts because they don't eat weedeater string as fast as rocks do, and they are plentiful here...

Otherwise, steel edging is a good solutuion, if a little pricey.