Garden

[Scooby Doo]

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@PA Mom-mom wrote:

@Mom2Dogs  We just use a manual edger. If you want a straight line using a manual edger, use a can of spray paint or whatever those people use on the soccer fields. We use white spray paint. 

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Either that or put up a string line to follow.

[Nightowlz]

DH edges our yard with the weedeater. He's always used the weedeater. I don't know he does it but it looks good. That's what he's doing right now. Getting it done before the rain moves in. 

DH uses the weedeater first then mows. He won't just mow. He says it needs both every week.

[Mom2Dogs]

@Nightowlz  I cannot hold the weed eater and do and good job (it is  to heavy) and I want a bit of a clean edge INTO the ground as well.

[Foxxee]

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@Mom2Dogs wrote:

@Foxxee   Yes, that is what I am looking for and also do not want such a thin edge.  Our garage is SMALL, another tool of  much size is an issue to store.

How many times a season do you use the tool?

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@Mom2Dogs 

Every week or two.  You really need to do it this much so it looks nice and straight.  Grass grows so quickly.  Also, weeds like to grow in there, too.  

However, it's so easy.  You just follow the edging that's already there.  

[Zhills]

Yes, Weeds grow in there too!  I have found that it just creates another problem. 

Grass grows to the driveway and is "edged" every mowing.  NO weeds!

[Foxxee]

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@Scooby Doo wrote:

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@Foxxee wrote:

From your description may not fit the following edger.  I tried to it manually.  No thanks, anymore.  

BLACK+DECKER

7.5 in. 12 Amp Corded Electric 2-in-1 Lawn Edger & Trencher

It uses a blade, not a trimmer string.   

At first dirt will be very compacted and a bit difficult to remove.  Push trimmer back and forth to loosen the dirt.  Once it is removed, this is very easy to use.  

Only downfall is the edge is very thin because the blade is thin, it is on mine.  I learned to move the blade out from the space the blade made against the sidewalk previously about 1/2 inch, but it requires holding it very steady to get it perfectly straight.  It took some practice, but I got it.  

You might have to move the blade out several times to get the width you want.  

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I had one of those.  Turned out to be useless and I gave it away.  The blade is not deep and it won't cut through hard soil.  I have clay soil so it didn't work.

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@Scooby Doo 

That's too bad.  It really works well for me, but it does take patience and practice at first.  Then, it's a breeze.  

I have clay soil too.  It was difficult the first time getting through the grass and soil, but moving the blade back and forth is the way to get through.  It takes some time and patience at first.  

I guess it depends on how your sidewalk is in relation to the ground.  If the ground is too much lower, it might not go deeply enough.  My ground is even with the sidewalk and driveway.  

[Lilysmom1]

@Mom2Dogs Edging is such an awful job isn't?  We have almost two acres.  It is a lot of work.  We invested in concrete curbing in the front flower beds.  It was expensive but I really love it.  In my yard, there are three different kinds of edging...I far prefer the concrete.  The installer actuall quoted us a good price to do the backyard but I declined because the septic field is there and the prospect of potentially having to dig it up made me decide to leave it alone.  The concrete is the easiest to maintain.  LM

wedge stone below

Rubber bordering

concrete

[Fressa]

You might want to consider a battery operated edger. We've had good luck with that option. I forgot to mention the WORX line of products that we also have in our garage. I have battery version of a trimer and love it. 

[Alsace Gal]

I've tried all the edgers mentioned, too hard to use.

The best edger I found- I hired a gentleman to edge. 
He shows up every two weeks, does a great job. 

[ScrapHappy]

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@Mom2Dogs wrote:

I want to have our yard edged....both sides of the driveway, around the landscape beds in the front and in the back yard along the walkway as well as a very slightly winding path way that has bricks along the edge.

I was looking for a tool to do it manually, which I prefer to do myself, but I cannot find the tool that I need, and possibly it does not exist.

The next option is to have a lawn company come in and do it for me.

The question is....will I have to have this done more than 1 time per season?

The edging tools that I found do not have a 'guide' for the width of the edge I want to clean up I would have to guess to keep my line even, the idea is to be as even as possible.  Also I have brick in the back yard and the depth of the tools is also to deep and if I go to deep, I may end up messing with the bricks that are in place.

thanks for any advice.

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I don't think a lawn company will come out to do just the edging.  At least in my experience.  They want to do it all or nothing.  My husband and I used to do our own lawn at our old house.  He did the mowing, I did the edging.  Didn't get the best edger.  It was that stupid string stuff and had to be plugged in.  Every 5 minutes the string had to fixed.  Took forever.  We have a lawn company now but they are always increasing the price.  We don't think we need our yard done every week but they won't do every other week.  No one will in my area.  So we've been thinking about doing it ourselves again.  I've been looking at edgers on line, reading reviews, videos, etc.  I think the gas ones are the best.  Those are what the lawn people use.  You just push it along the ground but they're heavy.  They make battery powered ones now that are lighter.  I think you need something like what I described.  I can't imagine doing all that trimming manually with a shovel like piece of equipment.