How Do You Install Plastic Lawn Edging?
Do you find that it’s getting hard to tell where your lawn ends and your flower beds begin? Plastic lawn edging works well to keep grass out of your landscaping beds. Installation of plastic edging can last for as long as you own your home if it’s done correctly, using high quality materials. Using spray paint, mark a line in the soil along the outside of the landscaping bed to serve as a guide for your spade. Insert the spade straight down into the soil along the marked line and drive it down by placing your foot on the flat edge on top of the spade. Make the trench at least 1 inch deeper than the depth of the plastic edging. Grass roots can grow about 6 inches into to earth, so you’ll need to make sure the trench is deep enough to keep the roots from moving underneath the edging. Continue to make this trench down the entire length of the landscaping bed. Each time the spade is inserted into the ground, move it back and forth to loosen and remove the soil from the trench. Shake the so
