Traditional Lawn Edging
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Lawn Care -- Traditional Lawn Edging Traditional Lawn edging is all about tidiness. Not only does it look excellent when done well but it is practical too. Having a distinct boundary between a lawn and a border or a path makes lawn care easier and helps prevent grass invading borders and paths too. In fact, when using a cylinder mower like mine it is the only sensible way to enable mowing right up to (and over) the lawn edge without risking damage to the strike plate and blades of the mower. The traditional method for creating a lawn edge involves simply cutting the turf with a garden spade or special edging iron either by following a guide wire or simply using eye measurement. Due to damage from heavy rainfall and winter erosion I chose to install EverEdge, the flexible steel lawn edging system from the UK and the results, I think, speak for themselves. The Spear & Jackson edging shears I use to maintain the edges were my grandfathers and have certainly hundreds of edging miles on their clock. They have been sharpened many times and still cut wonderfully well. In use for well over 60 years they have cut garden edges in the English counties of Oxfordshire and Essex and during the last decade under my ownership in the Norwegian counties of Møre og Romsdal and Hordaland!
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yeah sorry I groom my entire 5 acre lawn I have no time for by hand. it takes 6 hours to edge tge 41 garden beds along the path and outer line
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You guys need to appreciate that it's giving you entertainment.
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what kind of mower is that? Or the name of it?
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Nice video! Are there many tecnhiniques in lawn edging?
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Hi, great video!
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wow.....aint no way in hell Im gonna use over sized scissors to trim my 1/2 acre of grass. I just grab a weed whacker and rip it up!
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Hi Chris, I was wondering if these 'steel' edge are kids friendly and presumably it would rust over time? i.e. would they cut themselves if they had accidentally slipped on it?
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Very instructive. Good text.
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Thank you Judy. I have never seen or heard of another pair of edging shears in Norway. I'm not sure exactly how old they are but I suspect my grandfather bought then in the early 1950's. I really enjoy using them. Good luck with your Alliums!
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What an honor to have something of your Fathers to use in your own garden.Once again, its beautiful! I loved your Alliums video so much, ordered my own bulbs.Planning to plant them in a day or two.Thanks for sharing.
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