How Do You Brick Edge A Garden?
Brick edging is excellent for keeping grass from growing into a cultivated bed, to add style to your yard or to delineate the beginning of the garden. Well-placed brick edging adds a professional, clean quality to your gardens. Although the process is time consuming, with proper preparation and materials, you can inexpensively brick edge your garden in a weekend. Because you need to complete the project in one sitting, choose a warm, pleasant weekend that you can dedicate to it without interruption. Prepare the bed. Thoroughly weed and clean the garden bed. The edge between the bed and your yard should be clearly delineated. If it isn’t, use a small tiller and shovel to remove the grass or sod from the edge of the garden. Measure the edge. Using the tape measure, determine the length of your garden bed, in inches. Purchase your bricks. Purchase enough bricks, with a few feet of extra, to edge the garden. Take note of the height of the brick. Finish the edge. Using the trowel, create a